Chow Yun-fat was also honoured with the Honorary Doctor of Humanities from Hong Kong Baptist University in recognition of his professional achievements and important contributions to global cinema. This is the third time he has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1999 and an Honorary Postdoctoral Fellowship in Literature by the City University of Hong Kong in 2001. Fa Ge's resignation gives us a review of the growth history of a superstar.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > superstar Chow Yun-fat, filming for subsistence</h1>
A star is a star, and Chow Yun-fat's acceptance of the Baptist University Honorary Doctor of Humanities is also very popular with the personal style of a superstar.
He uses a light-hearted theatrical approach to recount the story of how he came from a poor country boy to a big city.
When I first came to the city, life was poor and the living environment was small.
After signing a TVB debut, he had to go through 9 years of waiting for the day of night filming, and he didn't even have time to see His Mother.
After that, he became popular by filming TV dramas, so he switched to filmmaking, from Hong Kong to Hollywood, from Hollywood to Beijing.
He jokingly said that filming was for subsistence and forced out.
In the end, he did not forget to thank the Hong Kong people for their encouragement, tolerance and love. He thanked this place in Hong Kong more and gave him wisdom and love.
Chow Yun Fat's speech is heavy and light, and there are words in his words, which not only reflect the social outlook and entertainment industry ecology of Hong Kong at that time, but also contain his personal struggle history.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" > shrewd Zhou Runfa, watching after-work movies, sighing free air conditioning</h1>
In Chow Yun-fat's childhood in the 1960s, Hong Kong's economy had not yet taken off.
He and his family came to the city from Lamma Island and lived with more than 30 people in small old tenement buildings.
This kind of living environment was very common in those days. Although the space is small, the neighborhood is very good. This kind of neighborhood relationship has become the subject of film and television dramas, and it has become the movie "72 Tenants".
Today, Chow Yun Fat has already lived in a detached house in Kowloon Tong with his wife, Chan Wai Lin, and has become an inspirational model for the growth of Hong Kong people in that era.
In his speech, he also revealed that he had free time to go to the movies of the rest field in order to enjoy the air conditioning.
Hong Kong's current post-90s generation will not know what the aftermath is.
It was the 1950s and 1960s, and the Hong Kong Cinemas all had "after-work fields" at 5:30 p.m. The audience who sees the newly released work wants to relax, the ticket price is cheaper, and the second round of movies is also released.
The young Zhou Runfa has learned to be meticulous and spend cheap fares to enjoy air conditioning.
At that time, air conditioning was a luxury product, and the general family only used electric fans and could not install air conditioners.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > shoot for 7 days and 7 nights, take a shower in the bathroom, and sleep in the powder room</h1>
The 70s were a turning point in his life. Zhou Runfa enrolled in the third TVB artist training class. After graduating a year later, he began a career of running dragon sets, making set boards without dialogue.
Zhou Runfa said, "From 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. the next day, I have been spending 9 years like this." He also funny pointed out that during those years, he saw his old partner Zheng Yuling more than he saw his mother. It fully reflects the system of filming and broadcasting of television production in that year.
In order to make the series out of the street on time, the TV station is like a factory. The artists and the entire crew work 20 hours a day, often staying up at night.
Zhou Runfa once had 7 days and 7 nights in a row, and he did not sleep for a long time, in order to make a living.
Because Zhou Runfa was willing to fight, the producers were happy to use him, so they filmed one drama after another.
Zhou Runfa told me in a previous visit that because of the long way home, he had a toothpaste toothbrush in his bag. The only one or two hours of rest is available, plus saving money.
He preferred to take a shower in the TV station bathroom, and when he was tired, he would put several chairs together in the TV station powder room and sleep in a bed.
The seniors would not bear to see the situation, and often brought him some home-cooked food to eat. Entertainers who live near TV stations will invite him home to sleep comfortably.
Because he had suffered from the hard days of hellish shooting, after he became popular, he took special care of the staff in the crew, such as props, small workers, lighting engineers, radio receivers, etc.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > for self-help learning foot massage, press Zhang Guorong to sleep</h1>
Exhausted and exhausted, he finally survived hepatitis. Doctors ordered a complete shutdown, a fight for rest, and in order to recover as soon as possible, he looked around for a healthy way to maintain health.
By chance, he met Father Wu Ruoshi.
Wu Ruoshi is the founder of foot massage therapy. He used foot massage to improve Zhou Runfa's physique and health, so that hepatitis quickly healed.
Zhou Runfa was thus fascinated by foot massage, and Wu Ruoshi also had no reservations, passing on his techniques and experience to him.
In order to gain more clinical experience and in the spirit of helping others, although you are a red star, as long as you know that the people around you are sick or in poor health, you will immediately become a foot therapy messenger, and you will crouch down and hold each other's feet and press one acupuncture point after another.
When he was filming with Zhang Guorong, he took the initiative to ask Miao to do a foot massage for Zhang Guorong, which made Zhang Guorong sleep comfortably.
Not only did he press the feet of artists, but he also publicly massaged the soles of his feet for a movie fan, which became a hot topic in the city for a while, and also greatly promoted the efficacy of foot massage.
So far, China's foot massage shops have been opened to foreign countries, and many jobs have been created, and Zhou Runfa has contributed to it.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="58" > big hit, taking care of the new small reporter me</h1>
Zhou Runfa debuted in 1973, and by 1976, he starred in the TV series "Frenzy". In 1980, he became popular with the role of Xu Wenqiang in "Shanghai Beach".
I joined the entertainment weekly reporter this year, and my first task was to be sent to visit this hot and popular celebrity in Hong Kong.
At that time, TVB was located on the radio lane, and journalists could enter and exit at any time with their press cards. To know the artist notice, call the public relations department.
After asking Ming Zhou Run about the announcement, he went straight to the TV station to interview him.
When he arrived, he was just about to change his costume and go out on location.
Time is rushed, I am still inexperienced, I don't know how to be good. Fortunately, he was very friendly, told me that it was okay, and told me to follow him and visit as I went.
We went to the costume room together, and he quickly changed his shirt and pants in front of me, and although he had shorts to base, I was still embarrassed and turned my back to him. He said that as an artist, he has long been accustomed to changing clothes anytime and anywhere, and I don't mind.
Visiting him in the on-site car, he was cooperative. When I got to the location, the visit was not finished, and I stood by and waited. Under the scorching sun, he acted in a thick costume. When it was time to rest, I came to visit. Before the visit was over, I went back to the studio with him to continue filming, and I saw a thrilling scene.
He shoots a scene where he falls to the ground, and he falls the dusty ground without any protective cushions. Onlookers look in the eyes and think about it very painfully. Fortunately, this one director received the goods, and he did not have to fall a second time. He got up without complaining, very professional. This scene made me fully understand the reason for his popularity.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="72" > a dynasty of little brothers, a small horse brother</h1>
At the end of his speech, he mentioned the years of filmmaking.
He pointed out that in 1986, he filmed Wu Yusen's "The True Colors of Heroes", and then spent the next 10 years in the rain of bullets, saying that he used more bullets to shoot than the police.
This remark was both a complaint to the film circle at that time and a tribute to his famous work "The True Colors of Heroes".
The rules of the game in the show business at that time were that as long as a star played a role and achieved box office success, he would be stereotyped.
In Wu Yusen's "The True Colors of Heroes", the roles and scenes of wearing long coats and holding two guns to kill the gangsters have become classics and have achieved unprecedented success.
The "Mark Brother" he played was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and also made him the "Best Actor of the Hong Kong Film Awards". Zhou Yingdi became a box office elixir, and then made two sequels,"Hero's True Colors II" and "Hero's Ben III Sunset Song".
Other filmmakers enjoyed the re-enactment of the imitation, and he repeated the image in many films, even in his first Hollywood film, "The Replacement Killer.", which he had to repeat.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="84" > dreams shatter Hollywood, mourning and change</h1>
Before the overnight popularity of "The True Colors of Heroes", Zhou Runfa was once called "box office poison", and his career went downhill.
The entertainment industry and red top white, "The True Colors of Heroes" are acclaimed, and in the next 20 years, it is Zhou Runfa's world. The film is like a snowflake flying, and there is no rest in three sets of scenes a day.
He confessed that he didn't have the heart to distinguish the role at that time, "I went to the set and put on that costume to play that role."
In 1994, Zhou Runfa enrolled in the University of Southern California in the United States, with the aim of learning English well.
Looking back at the 1990s, many filmmakers in Hong Kong dreamed of Hollywood and hoped to enter the Western film market. Many stars and directors have learned English, and even moved to the United States to live in order to get used to the customs and customs of The State.
Chow Yun Fat resolutely pushed away all Hong Kong film contracts at that time, in addition to preparing for entering Hollywood, but also to add value to himself, and to keep himself away from Hong Kong, put on a long holiday, and recharge well.
But it wasn't until 1998 that he got his wish and took over the first Western film, "Stuntman Killer".
He described: "Not much dialogue, old rules, take a gun." ”
Mark's image is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, to the Hollywood studios who recognize innovation and dare to break through, in order to protect the box office, is not to follow his old drama road?
Zhou Runfa summed up his development in Hollywood with the phrase "mourning and changing". It can be seen that he is not satisfied with his development in Hollywood.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="99" > from speaking ABC to speaking Mandarin, the light of the Chinese shines</h1>
Fortunately, in 1999, director Ang Lee recommended him to shoot "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which turned his career around.
Wu Yusen and Li An can be said to be the nobles of Zhou Runfa.
He joked that his star path was interesting, switching from Cantonese to ABC and then speaking Mandarin.
His Hollywood dreams were shattered, which also made many stars dispel the idea of switching to Hollywood to speak ABC, and directly switched from Cantonese to Mandarin, saving a lot of time and effort.
Zhou Runfa has repeatedly thanked the Hong Kong people for giving him a lot of encouragement, tolerance and care! Thank you to this place in Hong Kong for giving him wisdom and love for him.
We also want to thank Zhou Runfa, who is the light of the Chinese in the film industry and brings you many classic movies, which is endlessly fun!