There is no king of comedy in China! Zhou Xingchi's wool was about to be bald
China's comedy industry does not have a "king of comedy" award.
But in the minds of the audience, the attribution of the "king of comedy" is actually the man.
Although the man has not produced as much as he did at his peak in recent years, this does not hinder his position in the minds of the audience.
He is Zhou Xingchi.
Over the years of the movies starring Zhou Xingchi, basically none of them can be regarded as really bad films.
Even if the box office of "Journey to the West" released in Hong Kong that year was double-hit at the box office, it became a generation of love classic movies after being introduced to the mainland and after being interpreted and sought after by Peking University students.
However, in recent years, Zhou Xingchi's reputation has been affected to a certain extent.
In other words, it is those who "pay tribute" to Stephen Chow, and the successive "Chow Star Chi-style movies without Chou Starring Star Chi" have affected the reputation of "Chow Sing Chi".
Just like the bad books of "Jin Yong's new works" will affect the books of "[Jin Yong's] new works".
The first is the supporting actors who have starred in "Stephen Chow Movie".
Like "Thin Turtle" Huang Yishan, "Fire Cloud Evil God" Liang Xiaolong, "CharterEd Gong" Yuanhua and so on.
Originally, they had their own development and achievements in the golden age of Hong Kong films, but with the development of the new era, they were a bit overdone.
And Stephen Chow re-excavated them and played a role in the movie, allowing them to reinvent the second spring of their profession.
Moreover, this "spring" continues to this day.
Like "Fire Cloud Evil God's Shura Mask", "Laughing Forest Football" and so on.
Unfortunately, these movies are all edge balls playing "Stephen Chow", in fact, they are all imitations of "nonsense" of "Chow Sing Chi movie nonsense style".
Of course, people should eat just right, which everyone can understand.
But these supporting characters do not have a trace of gratitude.
When Xiang Taifa bombarded Zhou Xingchi's character for not being good, these supporting characters were silent, and some even stood up to accuse Zhou Xingchi.
Like the "Fire Cloud Evil God" stood up and accused Zhou Xingchi of "eating kickbacks, speculators" and so on.
Zhou Xingchi's decline in word of mouth in recent years is not unrelated to the behavior of these people, after all, the three people have become tigers.
In addition to the behavior of these supporting roles, Zhou Xingchi's reputation has slipped, in fact, it is also related to "the major claims to be Zhou Xingchi's successor".
As a comedy master with high popularity and national popularity, the traffic is naturally not bad.
Especially in the past few years, Zhou Xingchi's creative energy has not been as vigorous as his peak period, so the "successor of Zhou Xingchi" naturally came into being.
Like Xu Zheng, Huang Bo, and Shen Teng, they were once called "Zhou Xingchi's successors".
But obviously, these people have their own style and achievements in comedy, which is far from Stephen Chow's nonsense style.
Therefore, they will become the "only Xu Zheng", "the only Huang Bo", "the only Shen Teng", and will not become the "successor of Zhou Xingchi".
But they don't look up to the title, but there are many people staring at this title.
For example, Lu Zhengyu and other unknown "Zhou Xingchi successors".
Although the title of "Zhou Xingchi's successor" is very intimidating, in fact, the level of these successors is not as high as that of "Zhou Xingchi's off-duty".
Like Lu Zhengyu's "Peerless Master", "Peerless Master Of Lu Xiaoyu" and other works, the audience who has seen it has revealed the expression of the subway grandfather.
What the hell is this shooting?
Not to mention that there are other successors who have made "The Counterfeit President of the Dragon Set King" (imitating "The King of Comedy"), "The Legend of Wu Shu" (rubbing "Journey to the West"), "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er's Heavenly Descending Oracle" (which movie this title looks like I don't need to say more) and so on.
These film marketing slogans, shouted louder than the other, but are all "posture without reality".
They are all in the name of Zhou Xingchi, just bad money - because the audience has feelings and feelings for the name of Zhou Xingchi, or directly say IP.
When this kind of wolf thing is staged more often, although it has nothing to do with Zhou Xingchi himself in essence, there will always be "bad money affecting good money".
In particular, in recent years, Stephen Chow's films, although the box office is still strong.
But there is still a voice: Stephen Chow is old, we no longer owe Stephen Chow a movie ticket and so on.
Especially in recent years, the word of mouth of movies:
"Yangtze River No. 7" Douban score 7.0, "Mermaid" is only 6.7, "The King of New Comedy" Douban score is only 5.7, .
Compared with "King of Comedy" 8.8 in Stephen Chow's golden age, "Kung Fu" 8.7 has already slipped in word of mouth.
Some people have also asked, why do Stephen Chow's films in recent years have some feeling of fried cold rice?
It is essentially related to Stephen Chow and the entire comedy market.
The first is the comedy market, because the audience watches more comedies, and naturally resists the works of the same routine.
In Shen Teng's words, the audience's threshold is slowly increasing, and the more comedy is done, the more difficult it is to do.
Therefore, Shen Teng has slowly begun to transform from comedy to other genres in recent years.
Has Stephen Chow's nonsense changed?
Judging from the routine of "The King of New Comedy", it is a copy of "The King of Comedy", although it is suspected of fried cold rice, but it also shows that Zhou Xingchi's skill has not declined.
It is the audience that changes, the threshold of the audience's comedy increases, and the evaluation of works of the same level will naturally be different.
Together with each comedy guru, it can be said that it is a specific product of a specific era.
Stephen Chow's nonsense comedy was born and became famous in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s.
At that time, Hong Kong's rapid economic development can be said to be an era in which opportunities and wealth coexisted.
However, the small people under the big era are divided into a state of fragmentation, and the big era is like a wheel paving the golden age of Hong Kong, but under the wheel rolling are the small people who are crushed into mud.
Zhou Xingchi was born in Si and grew up in Si, and naturally has a deep feeling for this situation, so in his nonsense, in fact, it is more of a daydream of a small person, and there is no lack of kindness and courage and so on.
But when Zhou Xingchi became famous and had a financial status, he naturally stayed away from this living environment.
Therefore, the film made naturally has a feeling of "saying sorry for the new word".
This is not to deny Stephen Chow's achievements in comedy films, but on the contrary, it is a myth created by Stephen Chow himself in his own time.
Just like the songs released by Jay Chou today, they can't reach the achievements of the peak period.
They are all the pinnacles of the field in their own time.
Therefore, there will be no "successor of Stephen Chow", and there will be no next Stephen Chow.
Even the current Zhou Xingchi is not the "Zhou Xingchi" in our impression.
Star Master, really old.