Huang Yifei, who was popular with Zhou Xingchi, finished the scene of smashing the wine bottle on his head, and publicly announced that he had broken off relations with Xingye one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

On April 21, 2002, the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony was held as scheduled at the Grand Theatre of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. When the host Zeng Zhiwei presented the best film of the year award, Zhao Xueying, the owner of Huanyu, who was sitting on the stage, almost cried bitterly.

Huang Yifei, who was popular with Zhou Xingchi, finished the scene of smashing the wine bottle on his head, and publicly announced that he had broken off relations with Xingye one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

In the face of the starlight in the audience, she first hugged her husband Lin Xiaoming, and then said emotionally:

"Everybody thought we were stupid, but it turned out we did it right!"

And the host Zeng Zhiwei saw that the situation was not good, and quickly grabbed the microphone to interrupt her speech, because Xiang Huaqiang, the boss of Yongsheng Pictures, was sitting under the stage with a look of displeasure at the moment...

On 22 June 2006, a match in Group C of the World Cup at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, was about to be played at the stadium.

Just as the players of the Ivory Coast and Serbia and Montenegro national teams were warming up before the match, a group of Chinese dressed in warrior uniforms suddenly appeared on the big screen of the Allianz stadium, and the MV clip of them rushing to play football on the green field.

Seeing such a picture, Chinese fans who are 7,000 kilometers away are very excited, after all, the World Cup seems to be a sad dream that can never be reached for Chinese football and fans. How can the presence of Chinese football on a stage like the World Cup not bring tears to people's eyes?

At this time, Xingye, who was sitting in front of the TV, also felt uneasy, and what was playing on the big screen was a movie he had made five years ago. It is such a movie that makes Star Ye go from the poor area of Kowloon in Hong Kong to the world.

Coincidentally, this day also happened to be his 44th birthday...

This movie that makes the lady of the world cry bitterly and let Xingye go from Hong Kong to the world is exactly the "Shaolin Football" we are going to talk about today.

Behind the scenes of the Interpretation of Hong Kong films, tribute to the classics passed down from generation to generation, hello everyone, I am Dousha...

Let's turn the pointer of memory back to the night of April 16, 2000, when the 19th Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony was held at the Hongshikan Stadium in Hong Kong.

When the award guests Wu Junru, Liu Jialing and Faye Wong announced that the winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor was Andy Lau, Hua Tsai, dressed in a pure white dress and blonde hair on the top of his head, was very excited.

He thanked the fans who had supported him for so many years, and then said emotionally:

"I haven't won an award in film in so many years, and I'm used to not winning an award."

But Hua Tsai never expected that it was such a heartfelt thank you that deeply stung Zhou Xingchi, who was sitting under the stage.

Looking at the infinite scenery of Hua Tsai on the stage, Xingye at this time felt doubts and disappointments that he had never felt before. In the past 1999, With "The King of Comedy", Star Ye ascended to the throne of the king of the box office after a gap of six years.

But such a film that carries its honor and dreams has never been recognized by the Academy Awards judges. What worries Xingye even more is that this year's Hong Kong film market has long since ceased to be brilliant. Instead, Hollywood blockbusters continue to encroach on the local box office market.

Xingye, who has never accepted defeat in his bones, decided to motivate himself with a large-scale film that combines Chinese Shaolin martial arts and football, but also to inspire the confidence of local film practitioners.

Just as Star Ye was about to put his genius idea into the camera, the next thing that happened made him almost give up, this film that later caused a sensation around the world...

From 1988, when he was discovered and appreciated by Li Xiuxian to shoot "Thunderbolt Pioneer", to 1993, when Stephen Chow officially established his own Color Star Film Company, in this long 5 years, Xingye jumped from an obscure poor boy to the king of comedy that shook the entire Xiangjiang River.

Whether it is in Li Xiuxian's Universal Pictures or In Xiang Huaqiang's Yongsheng Company, as long as it is a movie starring Xingye, it can basically make investors earn a lot of money.

In recent years, they have also filmed classic film and television works such as the "Gambler" series, the truant Weilong series, and the "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang". But there is no unbroken feast in the world, with the continuous improvement of Xingye's popularity, and his innate desire to control the film theme and lens, jumping out of the control and shackles of Yongsheng Company, opening his own company and becoming a director, it is already inevitable!

Seeing that the little brother who held it up in his own hand wanted to stand on his own as a big brother, Xiang Huaqiang, as the boss, was naturally not willing. Most importantly, at this time, Xingye has long been the box office guarantee of Hong Kong films, and his departure will cause irreparable losses to the company.

So when Stephen Chow needed a lot of investment to shoot the blockbuster "Shaolin Football", all the Hong Kong investors were hindered by the love of a big guy, and they still did not dare to invest in Xingye Movie when they knew that they would make money!

Seeing that his big dream was about to be shattered, the 40-year-old Star Ye, who was in his prime, began to sprout wisps of white silk above his head...

But as the old saying goes: there is no way out! Just when Xingye was tossing and turning for the predicament in front of him and could not sleep, Lin Xiaoming, the boss of Huanyu Group, stood up under pressure and gave Xingye light and hope in the predicament.

This is also why at the Academy Awards ceremony 2 years later, Lin Xiaoming's wife Zhao Xueying almost cried bitterly. And Star Ye also used the team name of the game at the beginning of the movie to thank the owner of Huanyu for sending charcoal in the snow this time!

After the script conception and investors were finalized, there was only one question left in front of Xingye, that is, who should be invited to act? At this time, the first thing that Xingye thought of was his old partner Uncle Da!

From their first acquaintance in 1989 when they collaborated with Gestapo to today, the golden duo of the Hong Kong film industry has dedicated too many classic roles to movie fans.

Starting from the overnight popularity of "Gamble Saint", the two next made a series of acclaimed and well-received movies such as "Truant Weilong", "Deer DingJi", "Death Judge", "King of Destruction", "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", "God of Food", "King of Comedy", and so on.

The two of them have achieved each other with their unique tacit understanding, and when the Hong Kong film industry ushered in their own "king of comedy", a "golden supporting role" named Wu Mengda also turned out!

The relationship between the two can even be described as intimate, so when Xingye told Uncle Da that he wanted to shoot Shaolin football, the latter agreed without even thinking about it!

In this movie, Star Ye let Uncle Da play a football star who has a good future because of gambling. In an important match, he was framed by Qiang Xiong, played by Xie Xian, resulting in a broken right foot. Since then, the status and life of the two have been reversed, qiangxiong has become a business talent in the football world, while Uncle Da has lived on the street.

In this movie, Wu Mengda put away the hippie faces in previous movies and used his superb acting skills to show the joys and sorrows of the low-level little person to the fullest.

From the bitter smile after being insulted by Xie Xian, to the self-deprecation of walking on the street in a lost soul, such a delicate and stoic performance is not something that anyone in today's film and television circle can do!

But it is regrettable that such a textbook explosion performance can no longer be seen in the movies after Star Ye. The reason is that after filming this Shaolin football, the golden partners of the Hong Kong film industry have no cooperation anymore...

Although the outside world once rumored that the two were not compatible until they died and did not communicate with each other, but later when Uncle Da was confronted with Xu Zhiyuan's question in "Thirteen Invitations", "If you have the opportunity to sit down for a drink again, what do you want to talk to Zhou Xingchi", Uncle Da, who was nearly seventy years old, thought for a moment and then said slowly:

"I want to talk to him about the past!"

Maybe life is like this, there are good memories and regrets, there are past reunions and today's separation. But this regret and separation is not necessarily a bad thing at times, because no one will accompany you to the end.

Such a regret, Dousha believes that in reality, you and I have tasted, friends around us come and go, we have faced the grandeur and frustration of life together, but finally lived to become a passer-by in each other's lives.

And with uncle Da's sudden death, Xingye may remember the past of the world with Uncle Da in the middle of the night. Then feel the part, as the lyrics say

"You left the world, and no one has spoken to me since!"

In addition to Uncle Da and Xingye, there is also a long-time old friend who said goodbye to Xingye after filming this movie, and he is Huang Yifei, who plays the master brother in the film.

As a royal supporting role in the Star Ye movie, Huang Yifei has created many classic roles on the screen, and he finally won the Honor award for Best Supporting Actor with this "hand-held panties" performance in "Shaolin Soccer".

In addition to contributing his superb acting skills in the play, the collision between Huang Yifei and Xingye will also burst out a lot of unexpected laughter. For example, 2 people held a Shaolin karaoke song and dance kung fu performance in the bar in order to promote Shaolin Kung Fu. When Xingye and Huang Yifei sang the Shaolin Kung Fu song, the 2 people were obviously laughing. But at that time, the executive director did not shout the card, and the two could only continue to act hard!

Later, when Xingye saw this scene when he edited it into a film, he felt that it was both sad and funny, so he did not delete it, but he did not expect to become a classic clip in the hearts of fans after the release!

Although the laughter on the shooting scene is continuous, what happened next makes Huang Yifei grumble to this day!

It turned out that when filming the scene of smashing the head with a wine bottle in the bar, Zhou Xingchi, in order to make the effect more realistic, had to let people smash more than a dozen wine bottles on Huang Yifei's head.

Although these wine bottles are all sugar glue props, so many wine bottles hit the head, directly causing Huang Yifei to bleed on his head and be injured.

There is a scene in the film where Huang Yifei hugs Xingye's thigh and says, "Please let me have a way to live", and now it seems that it should be his heartfelt words, because when he first filmed this scene, he had been shooting for more than 30 hours continuously!

After experiencing this incident, this "golden supporting role" who had cooperated with Xingye for many years publicly announced in the face of the media that he had broken off relations with Xingye. From Fei Ge to Huang Yifei to "Feed and Feed", Huang Yifei made a conclusion about Xingye's personality with a sentence of "low level of education".

Coupled with the hong Kong film industry's collective boycott of Xingye at that time, Chow Xingchi became the target of everyone for a while, and was even scolded by many people as a "tyrant on the set"!

Later, in an interview with Film Biweek, Stephen Chow said: "The King of Comedy" was made because of emotional frustration, and "Shaolin Football" was made because of career frustration.

He was like the supreme treasure who held up the golden hoop in his hand in the Journey to the West, as long as he wore the golden hoop, he would complete the mission of learning the scriptures from the Western Heavens. And to accomplish such a mission, we must let go of all human feelings in the world. For the Supreme Treasure, learning the Scriptures from the Western Heavens is the consummation of merit; and for Zhou Xingchi, making a good movie is the pursuit of life!

Perhaps many people will criticize Xingye's inhumanity, but who can understand that a young man who has run a dragon set for six years and is hungry and only relies on intestinal powder to fill his hunger, when he sees the life-saving straw of the movie, the only thing he can do is to desperately grasp the panic and helplessness after grasping it!

Maybe we will never know what the character of Star Master is, after all, he is too far away from me. But Dousha knows that people who say bad things about others behind their backs every day must not be much better in character!

In the face of the rumors from the outside world, when have you ever seen this rotten tyrant in everyone's mouth say that no one person has said in the face of the media?

Even when he won the only golden statue in his life with Shaolin football, he still first thanked the late Bruce Lee, and then thanked the people who had helped him like a family treasure.

Thank bruce Lee because he gave Xingye the ideal; thank everyone, because Xingye wants to let the world, let his ideals have a way to live...

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With the investors and cast, this film that carries the dream of Xingye to make Chinese films go to the world is officially launched in the cold wind of Zhuhai, Guangdong!

And what kind of turmoil will Xingye and his "Shaolin Football" encounter before the release? What kind of turmoil and entanglement will he experience with Xiang Huaqiang and his wife? Bean Paste will be explained in detail in the next work...

I'm Dousha, follow me and take you to learn more about the behind-the-scenes story of the Star Ye movie!

Huang Yifei, who was popular with Zhou Xingchi, finished the scene of smashing the wine bottle on his head, and publicly announced that he had broken off relations with Xingye one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

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