In 1999, Xingye wrote and directed the Lunar New Year film "The King of Comedy", and finally won the Hong Kong film box office championship of the same year with 29.84 million Hong Kong dollars. A big reason why many people like this film is that in addition to the "star effect", the struggle experience of the protagonist Yin Tianqiu can let every audience see their own shadow, especially after the advent of "The King of New Comedy", which reflects the irreplaceable classic status of this film in the works of Star Ye. Now that 21 years have passed, where are the supporting characters in the film? Let's take a look.
1. Wu Mengda: Undercover policeman
The character played by Wu Mengda in the film is a crew member on weekdays, but in fact, he is undercover by the police, and finally he and Yin Tianqiu bravely broke the bandit group together and successfully completed the "most wonderful scene". We all know that the role was originally played by Wan Ziliang, and later changed to Uncle Da's emergency firefighting, and finally he interpreted this character who was not tailor-made for himself with superb acting skills. I think Uncle Da should not need too much introduction, the media even called him and Shi Banyu the "right and left arm" of Xingye, which shows that the cooperation between the two has reached the point where "thinking of Xingye will associate with Uncle Da". I look forward to the surprise he can bring us again in the next "Money Empire 2" and "Golden Armor".
2. Lin Zishan: Hong Ye
The little gangster "Hong Ye" in the film is played by Lin Zishan, who was selected by Xingye because of the scar left by the cecum surgery on his stomach when he participated in the audition of "The King of Comedy", and this interview experience was finally made up into a paragraph and put into the movie. After filming this film, Lin Zishan signed an acting contract with Xinghui, during which he also starred in films such as Three or Five Groups, Half a Cigarette, Hongxing Big Flying Brother and so on, continuing the film and television image of the little, but also led to the drama road being fixed for a time. Later, under the introduction of master Huang Zihua, Lin Zishan entered the development of TVB and found a new breakthrough in his acting career. Nowadays, he not only does not worry about the contract, runs his own chain of ice rooms, but also immediately becomes a father, which can be said to be a double harvest of career love.
3. Tian Qiwen: Hong Ye followed the class
One of Hong Ye's followers, played by Tian Qiwen, left a deep impression on countless audiences with his exaggerated painful expression after his feet were squashed in the play, and he re-enacted this performance in "The King of New Comedy" 20 years later. Tian Qiwen is widely known for his many times as "Golden Green Leaf" in Xingye movies, and he was also one of the most important behind-the-scenes heroes of Xinghui Company, and he made great contributions to "Xinghui" in the film industry. Although he eventually parted ways with Xingye, the two maintained a very good relationship, and now he is a director of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Film Awards and a well-known producer, like Mak Siu-fai's upcoming new film "Prosecutorial Storm", Tian Qiwen is the executive producer.
4. Zheng Wenhui: Hong Ye followed the class "Cone Hui"
Hong Ye's performance of another follower, Cone Hui, is also very outstanding, he is clearly a high-achieving student graduated from the Department of Economics with a baby's face, but he has to pretend to collect protection fees, so a strong sense of contrast constitutes the laughing point of the corner. Its actor Zheng Wenhui is a disciple of director Li Lizhi, and later joined Xinghui Company to become a contract screenwriter, like "Ten Brothers", "Wrong People's Children", "Luck a Dragon", including the screenwriting work of "The King of Comedy" has his important participation, but soon, he parted ways with Xingye, the specific reason is unknown. In recent years, Zheng Wenhui has moved his acting career to the mainland, but since leaving Xingye, his performance in both acting and screenwriting is not outstanding, and I don't know if Xingye will find him back to continue to cooperate in the future.
5. Lee Shau Kee: Ground Snake Ki Ge
The actor who plays the head snake Kiko in the film believes that many people will not feel strange, he is one of the "four evil people" Lee Shau Kee. When he was young, Lee Shau Kee was a veritable jianghu person, and later reformed to become a film planner and producer, because of his special experience, so many jianghu films in the 1990s liked to hire him as a consultant, and the jianghu characters he had created on the screen were even more evaluated as "authentic performances". Just last June, Li Zhaogen died of liver cancer at the age of 69.
6. Eight two gold: sloppy guests
The most important scene in the film is that Liu Piaopiao encounters a guest who is sloppy and full of bugs, and the role is played by YaejiJin. Eight two gold is one of the most distinctive ugly stars in the Chinese film industry, in the early years, he showed his image as a gangster in film and television dramas, and was later selected by Xingye, and has since become one of the diamond green leaves in his films, in addition to this King of Comedy, he also made a cameo appearance in A Dragon of Luck, wu Liushou, the leader of the real person who does not show his face, as well as the bodyguard Deaf Five in King of a Thousand Kings 2000 and the funny little in God Eater. Don't look at the eight two gold almost never played the main role, but in recent years he has made a lot of money through various commercial performances, and he has also funded movies to support his son Ye Xiaoting.
7. Dai Long: Young Master Long
In the film, the nightclub guest Young Master Long, who is bent on finding "first love", is played by Dai Long, who is one of the top celebrity chefs in Hong Kong, known as the "God of Food", and the "God of Food" of Xingye in 96 was created based on him. In real life, Xingye is both his disciple and his good friend, and after he invited Dai Long to star in "God Eater", he did not expect to make him addicted to drama, so later, "Luck a Dragon" and "King of Comedy" appeared in Dai Long's figure. However, for Dai Long, acting is just "playing tickets", and his main business is still cooking food and developing and creating food brands.
8. Feng Mian Heng: Liu Piaopiao's first love
In the play, liu piaopiao's first love boyfriend is Feng Mianheng, he is one of the royal screenwriters of Xingye, from this "King of Comedy" to 2013's "Journey to the West", he cooperated with Xingye 5 times, during which he also began to be pushed to the front of the stage, often playing the role of a dressed beast, Sven scum type, such as the leader of the Overlord team in "Shaolin Soccer", the gold-wire glasses man who bullied Ah Xing in "Kung Fu", etc., and his character image in "The King of Comedy" is also a person who looks good on the surface, but is actually a scumbag. Today, Feng Mian heng is still active in front of and behind the scenes, in 2018, Gu Dezhao directed "Undercover Superstar", he is one of the screenwriters, and this year also made a cameo appearance in Zhen Zidan's new film "Fat Dragon Across the River".
9. Li Sijie: Director on set
I believe that many people must remember the studio director with exaggerated body movements in "The King of Comedy", he is Li Sijie. Li Sijie was originally from the second generation of the rich, but he had no intention of family business, more yearned to enter the development of the show business, that year, he was signed up for the "King of Comedy Training Class" and obtained excellent results, so he got the opportunity to perform this film, and later he signed an acting contract with TVb, tried to develop in television, singing, hosting and other fields, and was well known for imitating celebrities talking and singing, and a certain talk show and variety show he hosted also accumulated a lot of fans for him. However, due to the chaos of his private life and the fact that there are more scandals, Li Sijie has also attracted a lot of negative evaluations from the outside world.
10. Yuan Fuhua: Bandit Armor
At the end of the film, one of the members of the gangster gang is played by Yuan Fuhua, and his questioning of "you are not a takeaway" not only scares Xingye and Uncle Da, who are on an undercover mission, out of a cold sweat, but also makes the audience sweat for it, perhaps, this is the so-called "aura-type acting". Yuan Fuhua is actually an old drama bone who has been in the industry for decades, but he has been active in the field of stage drama in the early days, and did not officially join the film circle until the mid-1990s. Years of tempering, so that his acting skills more and more pure, not long ago with "Trish", won the Golden Statue, Golden Horse Double Best Supporting Actor, this year, he also has 4 new works including "Residual Shadow Space" will be met with the audience.
11. Lin Zhongqi: Bandit B
The other gangster character is played by Lin Zhongqi, whose lines are very few, but just a sneering expression is enough to make people shudder. Lin Zhongqi is a senior dragon set actor in Hong Kong films, tall and cold, often plays the role of gangsters and policemen, and has cooperated with wang Jing, Liu Weiqiang, Du Qifeng, Lin Chaoxian and other big directors since the film, but because the scene often flashes by, so many viewers can't call his name, and the villain he created in the 04 version of "New Brother Za" is very brilliant. In 2011, after participating in "Defense Team" directed by Huang Jingfu, Lin Zhongqi gradually faded from the screen.
12. Xu Zhixiong: Takeaway boy
The takeaway boy that appears at the end of the film is only a few tens of seconds of scenes, I believe many people will think that he is very familiar, he is Xu Zhixiong, who once played the "big male" in "God of Food", the classic paragraph is that he knows that his body is skinny, but he is known as "after eating the pee cow pill, the body becomes stronger." Xu Zhixiong is an outsider, once accidentally discovered by Xingye to start acting, and later also played a supporting role in "Baby Project", "Boy's True Colors" and "Keep Talking", but Xu Zhixiong has never intended to use acting to maintain his life, it is said that he is currently engaged in the building materials business in Hong Kong.
13. Chen Baojun: Producer Peter
The role of producer Peter is played by Chen Baojun, who is also the assistant director of "The King of Comedy", in fact, many classic Hong Kong films, Chen Baojun has participated in behind-the-scenes filming, such as "Tracking", "2046", as well as "Fuse" and "Ip Man" The first two parts and so on.
14. Lu Jianqing: Planner
Sitting next to Chen Baojun, with him into the painting is the director Lu Jianqing, when filming "The King of Comedy", he was still just a small assistant director, 13 years later, he and Liang Lemin co-directed the police film "Cold War", and won the 32nd Academy Awards Best Director Award and Best Screenplay Award, since then the fame has risen, and then "Equatorial" and "Cold War 2" have made the two enter the ranks of "most valuable commercial directors" together, and now Lu Jianqing has begun to try to direct films independently, and the new works that have been decided to start shooting are fantasy costume films. Each of the Eight Immortals shows divine powers"