"There is always love in isolation" is known as "The Night Banquet of the New Giants", which was originally full of expectations, but the storyline is messy, wasting a luxurious lineup, which makes people lament the serious decline in director Gu Dezhao's skill.
Once upon a time, "Tang Niu" Gu Dezhao was talented, the founder of "Xiao Qiang", and he felt sorry for Tang Bohu;
As a director, there are such masterpieces as "Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair", "Dumb Guy Baishou", and "Glass Bottle".
In particular, "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair" still remembers many plots, such as the four masters in Gu Long's novel, the emperor's harem beauty three thousand, the various strange inventions of zero zero hair, Yuan Xinyi's black and white impermanence, etc.;
The classic line does not need to be said more: Husband, are you hungry, I cook bowl noodles for you to eat? Every time you hide in the same place, I'm afraid you won't find me. My surname is Qin, and my single name is a word.
01, to wear intestines and Tang Bohu
The time turned back to 1995, that year Xingye opened a company, Liu Zhenwei and he filmed "Journey to the West", the result was a fiasco at the mainland box office, until it was constantly deconstructed later, and it was only then that he was able to be canonized.
Box office failure, Liu Zhenwei consciously sorry for the buddies, used all his strength, tailored for it "Night of the Soul", perhaps too advanced, so only sold 16.28 million Hong Kong dollars, did not achieve the expected effect.
Disheartened, Liu Zhenwei ran to Canada, while Xingye went back to continue to cooperate with Yongsheng and partner with Wang Jing, so there was "Hundred Variable Star Jun" and "Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair".
Wang Jing's cooperation with Yongsheng at that time was also slowly decreasing, so he did not serve as a director, but only served as the screenwriter of "Hundred Variable Star Jun" and the producer of "Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair".
Zhou Xingchi has previously been a famous director in "Domestic 007", so "Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair" and Gu Dezhao co-directed, and the fate of the two should start from 92 "Family Has a Happy Event";
At that time, he was Gao Zhisen's apprentice, participated in the creation of the script, and became friends with Zhou Xingchi;
Subsequently, he cooperated with "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" and "The King of Destruction", not only as a screenwriter, but also created the classic role of "pair piercing intestines".
In 1995, under the promotion of Du Qifeng, Gu Dezhao directed "Dumb Guy Bai Shou", which became famous in one fell swoop, and the next year he was co-directed by Yongsheng and co-directed "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair", which is also his best work so far.
Subsequently, he cooperated with Xingye in "God Eater", participated in "Counting Dead Grass", "Luck a Dragon", "Shaolin Football", and wrote the screenplay of "Yangtze River Seven".
Over the years, many former partners have more or less scolded Zhou Xingchi, but Gu Dezhao has always supported Xingye: whether in public or private, we are very happy to cooperate, until now we are good friends.
"Big Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair" is a costume version of "Domestic 007", there was a period when I thought this movie was very scary.
The film is co-produced by Yongsheng and the Xiaoxiang Film Studio in the mainland, don't underestimate this mainland film studio, but people have filmed "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Xiangxi Bandits", "That Man That Mountain that Dog".
Released on February 16, 1996, "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair" sold 36.05 million, ranking third in the annual box office list, the top two being "Police Story 4" and "God Eater".
The story of the film is derived from the 1959 Cantonese film "The Lion's Roar", which continues the usual nonsense style of Stephen Chow's films, and is a classic costume comedy that can be recorded in film history.
02, the four masters and emperors
The film begins with high energy, the four masters decisively battle the top of the Forbidden Purple, Lu Xiaofeng, Ye Gucheng, Hua Manlou and Ximen Chuixue in Gu Long's novel, which is not a gentleman.
Initially, Gu Dezhao and Zhou Xingchi considered inviting Liu Songren Huang Yuanshen Zheng Shaoqiu Huang Yuncai to recreate the classic roles of that year, but because of the schedule and film remuneration, they were unsuccessful.
They even considered letting Xiang Huaqiang play Ximen Chuixue, but fortunately, "Dragon Five" was witty and knew that he was not suitable for ancient costumes, and politely refused.
Since they could not invite the classics, they simply played a prank, so there were four masters of Wen Jun, Huang Yifei, Chen Jianyun and Huang Zhiqiang, who made a move, shocked the world and cried ghosts, turning decay into magic, and the effect was surprisingly good.
In the film and television drama, everyone envies the emperor and sits on the harem beauty of three thousand, but the emperor in "Zero Zero Hair" has a bitterness that cannot be said, and he wants to be destroyed by three thousand "like flowers", and inexplicably feels sorry for the emperor for three seconds.
In fact, the deconstruction in the movie is not unreasonable, most of the emperors in history who marry wives cannot make their own decisions, but more is to balance the forces of all parties.
Initially, the investors wanted Xu Jinjiang to play the role of emperor because they did not know Zhang Daming and did not know whether he would be able to play the role.
It turns out that Zhang Daming has a certain talent in comedy, and in the face of the harem beauty who is "like a wolf and a tiger", his tears and the expression of pity are amazing.
03, the way husband and wife get along
In the past, Liu Jialing gave people the impression of being more domineering, but in "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair", she is a small woman's posture, with a worldly atmosphere, she will be jealous, will be spoiled, will be vain, but at the same time the most real state.
When her husband fell, she suffered with her; her husband lost confidence, she comforted and encouraged; even in the end, when her husband left with others, she only asked: Husband, are you hungry, I cook bowl noodles for you to eat?
When dealing with the relationship between husband and wife, she uses Yi Rou Ke gang, so that her husband has a step down, and when there is contradiction and anger, she always hides in the same place, because she is afraid that her husband will not find herself.
There are also times of love between husband and wife, such as the prosthetic hand of cutting vegetables, sweeping shoes, range hood, remote control Mandarin duck shovel, scratching coordinate plate and other inventions, which are the best witnesses. This is the most moving part of the movie.
Outside the play, Liu Jialing praised Stephen Chow more than once as a very talented actor, and his acting skills are also at the forefront of the Hong Kong film industry.
She once revealed in "Kangxi Coming" that in the scene of eating in the movie, Zhou Xingchi initially asked Liu Jialing to spray rice while eating, while running a nose, but Liu Jialing found it difficult to accept, and discussed with Zhou Xingchi, and did not act.
After many years, she shouted zhou Xingchi in other interviews that she can now act. I don't know if it is the same as Gong Li, regretting that I did not let go of the performance that year.
Also full of praise for Xingye is Li Ruotong in the movie, commenting that Zhou Xingchi is a very talented person, not only an actor, but a real director.
Li Ruotong had become popular in the TV circle with the little dragon girl of "Divine Eagle Man", but said in the movie that he was not afraid of playing ugly and tried his best to cooperate with the director, because he was an actor.
Of course, Xingye did not let Li Ruotong dress ugly, a little mustache dressed instead of stunning everyone, the two danced that section, full of style, wonderful.
04, Zhou Xingchi's counterattack
Recently, Qiu Litao was interviewed and talked about Stephen Chow's comedy, saying that one of the ways he became famous was to show the audience the previous NG acting method, which everyone was happy to accept.
Coincidentally, there were two NG times preserved in "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair", the first of which was that Luo Jiaying was beaten by the Peerless King, paralyzed on the ground, and when the wig fell off, both of them couldn't help but laugh;
The second is the shot of Zhou Xingchi dressed as a woman shaking his head, the hairpin that was originally inserted in the head, and it fell off when it was shaken, and then the next shot, the hairpin is still on the head.
The audience accepted his NG acting method, but the judges did not understand, so they vented in the movie, and still imitated the part of the Academy Awards ceremony, which was talked about.
In the film, he was full of joy, and when he was ready to greet the best actor, he did not expect that it was Ah Fa's father-in-law who won the award.
"You're not bad, but on the surface... The expression is contrived, slightly exaggerated";
"Those are the worldly people's opinions of me, you should not know the goods." 」
This irony can be called a stroke of God, and it is also a strong response of Zhou Xingchi to those so-called judges.
At that time, Xingye may still care about using awards to prove his acting skills, but today, he no longer needs it.
05, a few supporting roles
Pan Hengsheng, the father-in-law of the best actor Ah Fa, is not small, is the top director of photography in Hong Kong, has participated in classic films such as "Journey to the West", "Kung Fu", "Rolling Red Dust" and has commented that Xingye is a person who requires perfection.
Then Ghost Agent Liu Yida, a veteran Hong Kong musician who is cynical in Hong Kong films and unique in music, won the Academy Award for Best Film Score for "Seducing the Monk".
Yuan Xiangren, the wife of King Wuxiang, is more familiar to everyone, and the Hong Kong film beggar professional household, "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er" and "Kung Fu" are impressive.
Yuan Xinyi, the son of King Wuxiang, is the brother of Yuan Heping and Yuan Xiangren, and has portrayed many villains in the movie, such as the bat mage in "Qimen Dunjia".
There are also several directors hidden in the movie, Li Lizhi plays the Guoshi who shoots horses;
Gu Dezhao made a cameo appearance as a jianghu doctor in it;
It is difficult to detect that Ye Weixin plays a prostitute who admires the "qinfu" girl in the film.
"Big Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair" has a precise rhythm, basically the whole process is high-energy, everywhere is a stem, there is funny, there is also warmth.
As we all know, Zhou Xingchi does not like violent scenes, so there is a high-level montage technique in the movie, which intersects the warm clips between the three masters of the Baolong family by KO and Ah Fa, and uses smashing watermelons, tearing chickens, and pinching eggs to dilute the original bloody taste.
Among them, the section of pinching eggs can also be regarded as a tribute to "Eagle Claw Iron Cloth Shirt", and the section where the killer solves the jianghu doctor, the inspiration should come from "Loser Boy", as for the little trick of black and white impermanence of the son of the King of Wuxiang, it is from Yuan Heping's "The Brave Has No Fear".
At the end of the film, Li Li shouted: "Brother Fa is back, we can't live without you!" ”
In 1995, after Zhou Runfa performed "Peace Hotel", he went to Hollywood to develop.
In 2009, Wang Jing's remake of "The Great Inner Secret Detective Spirit Dog" was released, although it sold 103 million at the box office, Douban only had 5.2 points, which was far from the 7.9 points of "Zero Zero Hair".
25 years later, "The Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair" is still an insurmountable mountain. (Author: Amnesia)