In 1990, "Gamble Saint", 1991 "Truant Weilong", 1992 "Death Judge", 1993 "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", Zhou Xingchi won the annual box office championship for 4 consecutive years;
In 1994, "Domestic 007", "King of Destruction", "Nine Pin Sesame Officer" lost to Zhou Runfa's "God of Gamblers 2" and Jackie Chan's "Drunken Fist 2", losing the championship throne;
In 1995, Stephen Chow set up his own film company to shoot the upper and lower parts of "Journey to the West", because the concept was too advanced, the audience did not understand, the mainland box office fiasco, the Hong Kong box office was not satisfactory;
Liu Zhenwei felt sorry for the buddies, with the support of Shaw Film Company, tailored "Night of the Returning Soul" for Zhou Xingchi, trying to win back a round, and the result was a second failure;
Night of the Soul sold for only HK$16.28 million in Hong Kong, while the winner of that year, Red Fan District, sold HK$56.91 million in Hong Kong.
The transformation failed, and Zhou Xingchi could only continue to cooperate with Yongsheng and partner with Wang Jing, who was good at catering to the market, which led to "Hundred Variable Stars".
Wang Jing + Stephen Chow was the guarantee of selling in that era, and "The Changing Star King" sold for 35.23 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking third in the 1995 Hong Kong film box office list.
Although Wang Jing only served as a screenwriter and did not sign the director, the film is full of his style;
For example, in the opening chapter, the beauty of the pool serves and bathes, the ice cream falls on the chest of foreign women, the helicopter blows the skirt, the laxative is deceived by Wang Xiaohu, and the wife of the school trustee is thrown off the toilet.
Wang Jing is well versed in the psychology of the audience, he knows that if he wants the audience to laugh, he must make Zhou Xingchi laugh, and in the case of tight time and heavy tasks, he can also make a movie with dense laughter and a big brain hole, which is not easy.
01、 Plagiarism or tribute?
This film mixes elements such as science fiction, comedy, love, and action, and imitates many movies, just like a "hodgepodge", so it has also been criticized by many people.
"Hundred Variable Star Jun" is known as the Hong Kong version of "Strange In Disguise", and the movie poster of that year also played: the words "Strange In Disguise" were also played on the film's computer stunt challenge.
The character settings of the two films are similar to the bridges, but the performance methods are completely different, and Jim Carrey is relatively more exaggerated;
And Zhou Xingchi's sense of rhythm is invincible, the sense of rhythm is crazy, less than enough to make everyone laugh.
In addition to "Stranger in Disguise", the film also imitates many other Hollywood movies;
For example, the part where Zhou Xingxing and Sun Jiajun dance, the shape, dance posture and music are basically a copy of Uma Thurman and John Travolta in "Pulp Fiction";
But in fact, how many people know that Quentin's classic dance is not original, but borrows from the 1963 black-and-white film "Eight and a Half Parts";
Xu Jinjiang dissected corpses in human studies courses and Zhou Xingxing's night detective professor underground research room, which are similar to the horror movie "Jumping Corpses";
Imitating Cameron's "Terminator" villain robot shape, while the ironclad Veyron is also another term of "Robocop";
Xu Jinjiang's crazy professorial style is very similar to Dr. Brown in "Back to the Future";
In addition, Wang Jing did not let go of "Truant Weilong" and her own "TrickSter Expert".
As for imitating classic movies, Wang Jing also has self-deprecation in the movie, after Zhou Xingchi drove the principal crazy, Liang Yongqi asked them why they were crazy?
Stephen Chow said: Hollywood movies have seen too much, no way, Hong Kong films are too bad!
Hong Kong movies have always liked to follow the trend, after the local genre of movies became popular, the follow-up works immediately flocked to it, that year's "Mr. Zombie", "Hero Essence", "God of Gamblers", "Huang Feihong", etc., not to mention Western films.
Wang Jing and Stephen Chow are more powerful, "Hundred Variable Stars" borrows so many movies, but they can be innovatively integrated into a comedy with Hong Kong characteristics.
The short board has become a strength, and the works of others are reinterpreted into their own style in minutes, which is the performance ability of Stephen Chow;
Later, Wang Jing and Zhou Xingchi parted ways, and no matter how many movies he joined, it was difficult to get praise.
In fact, there is no clear line between plagiarism and tribute, and if it is copied badly, it is a crime, and if it is copied well, it can be called a tribute.
02. Who is "Mrs. Huang"?
Without adding chips before, Zhou Xingxing was bullied in various ways, and anyone dared to speak loudly to him.
After installing the chip, various transformations, more powerful than Sun Wukong's seventy-two changes, opened the counterattack mode in the school, spatula, vacuum cleaner, water gun, kitchen knife, egg beater, none of the students disobeyed, the test score whizzed straight up;
Face the previous gang members and turn it directly into a basketball and play with all kinds.
Finally staged a big showdown, family electrical encyclopedia VS killing, war encyclopedia, but can not compare to Mrs. Huang, "she" as soon as she appeared, an X cover, immediately certified unqualified.
Why is "Mrs. Huang so powerful", originally she was an advertising image of a Hong Kong supermarket, representing the authority of the Hong Kong department store industry, this advertisement is more cattle, a dozen is for many years.
03, interesting actors
The film is directed by Ye Weimin and co-starred By Stephen Chow, Wu Mengda, Liang Yongqi, Sun Jiajun and Xu Jinjiang. Liu Weiqiang is the cinematographer, and Lin Dian is the action director (the man in the zebra suit in the film).
Liang Yongqi is the face value of the bearer, at the beginning of the tooth girl is a little cute, and then the ugly duckling transformed into a white swan, stunning the audience, and later the heroine in "First Love This Little Thing" looks like her.
Sun Jiajun, a sexy person, once had a scandal with Zhou Xingchi, and is also the wife of Liang Jiahui in "Black Gold";
Huang Yifei and Zhu Mimi, the master brother of the former in "Shaolin Football", the latter Tang Mu in "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang";
Xu Jinjiang, on the surface is a fierce man, the heart is a small sheep, with the cultivation of an artist, has conquered many beautiful actresses, such as Li Lizhen, Shu Qi, Weng Hong, etc.;
Chen Zhihui, the teacher who kindly advised Zhou Xingxing in the movie, did not expect the villain professional household, and the shengfan of "Ancient Puzzle Boy" was actually a good person, and he was a little unaccustomed to it for a while.
Wen Jun, who played the principal, was a good buddy with Wang Jing and Liu Weiqiang, and later became the chairman of the Academy Awards, and once said that Chow's era had passed.
Song Benzhong, a handsome young man who was caught by Zhou Xingxing for the exam and shaved his head, is a well-known child star in Hong Kong, who has played the young pony of "The Dragon and Tiger Brothers of the Four Families" and the juvenile pheasant in "The Man of the Ancient Puzzle Boy in the Jianghu".
Personally, I think one of his most classic roles is the king of "Three or Five Groups", which is very well interpreted.
Later, he transformed from a child star to a director, and the response of "Anti-Black" directed by him was good, and everyone was looking forward to a sequel.
Of course, we can't forget that Zhou Xingxing's classmate Xiaohu is finally no longer "like a flower", but it is a pity that it is too miserable to be deceived, and Zhou Xingxing is at risk as a classmate, please consider carefully.
04. 2 actors who died
In the movie, Uncle Da is a father who breaks his heart for his son, and the strong father-son relationship is similar to "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er".
Uncle Da just left in February, and now watching his movie with Star Ye, it feels like he's still there from time to time.
The other is Zheng Zu, the villain in the movie, who disappeared in 2013.
He is the lord of the judo department of The Lord of Destruction, Black Bear, with a sentence of "My Armani!" My Armani! "Remembered to this day;
In addition, he has a good performance in films such as "Domestic 007", "The King of Comedy", "A Dragon of Luck", and "The Birth of a Word".
What is a good movie? There is no standard answer. No matter how many years have passed, I still remember the scenes in the movie, and I still laugh when I think of the movie, and I personally think it is a good movie.
It has been 26 years since the premiere of "Hundred Variable Star Jun", and I still clearly remember the strange shower, the crazy kitchen knife, the vacuum cleaner arm and the image of "Old Lady Huang";
In my heart, "The Hundred Variable Stars" is a good movie, a classic worth watching many times. (Author: Zhou Huai'an)