Zhou Xingchi's representative works are countless, each of which can be played, but I think "Hundred Variable Star Jun" is definitely the most unique one in his works, this is called a hodgepodge of films, whoever starred in it may rot the street, but Zhou Xingchi has such magic, turning decay into magic, performing his own style, it can be seen that the king of Chinese comedy is worthy of the name, now let's take a look at it together, known as the "Hundred Variable Star Jun" stewed in chaos.
In the nineties, with the rise of Stephen Chow, officially opened the era of two weeks into a three-legged stand, Zhou Xingchi with superb acting skills, to create one myth after another, of which the combination with Wang Jing is called the guarantee of the box office, but in 95, Zhou Xingchi began to tire of starring, just to make money commercial films, hoping to star in some in-depth works, so he began to do his own boss to open a film company, "Journey to the West" and "Soul Return to night" is the work born at this time.
Zhou Xingchi invested a lot of energy and money in this, but because the concept is too advanced, "Journey to the West" lost all the money, compared with the box office myth created by himself in previous years, Zhou Xingchi felt an unprecedented blow, as a screenwriter Liu Zhenwei in order to help him re-establish confidence, once again wrote the script "Night of the Soul" hoping to save him some losses, but this time the box office is only more than 16 million, which is also the lowest box office work of Zhou Xingchi, for which Liu Zhenwei left Canada with guilt. Zhou Xingchi, who failed in transformation, could only partner with Wang Jing, who was good at catering to the market, so there was "Hundred Variable Star Jun"
The combination of the two won 35 million at the box office, ranking third in the Hong Kong film list, Wang Jing, who is known for his speed in the Hong Kong film industry, this film also took only one month, mixed with the bridge section of a number of classic films, so it was also criticized by many people as a chaotic stew, of which the most obvious imitation style is "Disguised Strange Jie", and even on the movie poster of that year, it was also played out, challenging the words "Strange In Disguise".
Compared with the two movies, the settings and bridges of the characters are similar, and the former one is because he picked up the mask and had the super power of transformation.
The latter is because of a chip, has become a modern version of Sun Wukong with seventy-two changes, but in the way of performance, the two are still very different, Zhou Xingchi cleverly integrated his own understanding, making the pace of the whole movie faster and more crazy, adding a lot of laughter.
In addition, the film also imitates the foreign horror movie "Live Jumping Corpse", at the beginning of the movie, Zhou Xingxing went to listen to his uncle's lecture in order to retaliate against the heroine, and the section of dissecting the human body was the same as the plot in "Living Jumping Corpse", which was also regarded as a horror movie at that time.
However, under the shape of Xu Jinjiang's explosive head, the atmosphere of terror was also weakened a lot, and then Zhou Xingchi visited the professor's basement at night, and was frightened by the hands walking independently and the eyes wandering around, which was almost exactly the same as the original film.
Because it is too scary, it is not released for everyone to see, although it is the same plot, but under the interpretation of Zhou Xingchi, this paragraph has become funny and funny.
As the plot develops, a beautiful woman takes the initiative to send it to the door, for his clumsy rich boy, of course, will not let go of such a good thing, and then they go to the bar to party, the dance on the dance floor, but also pay tribute to the plot of "Pulp Fiction", the clothes are almost exactly the same.
In addition, Wang Jing did not let go of "Truant Weilong" and "Whole Trick Expert", Zhu Yinren did not come to the scene but also made a cameo, and the whole person means of it is an advanced version of "Whole Trick Expert", and I feel bitter for the early star master.
Such a comedy with Wang Jing's directing style has once again achieved good results, but the outside world always calls him the king of bad films
For this reason, he also made a self-deprecation in the film.
From the perspective of justice, although Wang Jing's bad films are many, but there are also many films filmed, the classics created are the heights that many directors can't reach, so it depends on which angle you look at this matter from, his cooperation with Zhou Xingchi, also like the relationship between dumplings and vinegar, is good at turning his shortcomings into strengths, constantly integrating innovation into unique characteristics, so there is no obvious boundary between plagiarism and tribute, for me this film is more like the latter, I've been immersed in the rhythm and story of this film, and he's a successful work.
In addition to the funny plot, the heroine also attracted my attention, and in the early stage, she wore glasses and a mouth of steel teeth, and was completely unconnected with the jade girl Liang Yongqi.
In zhou Xingchi's later works, Karen Mok and Zhao Wei's appearance is also very ugly, and everyone must be curious why he always likes to let beautiful women dress up ugly, is it just to be funny.
According to my speculation, in that era of a hundred flowers, Wang Zuxian Guan Zhilin Zhang Maggie was not a big beauty, and it was naturally difficult for beautiful women to get together, so let them dress up ugly on the one hand for the plot, on the other hand, as long as the ugly woman acted well, she could also harvest unexpected surprises.
Finally, let's talk about the old lady Huang who appeared during the decisive battle, at the end of the film, Zhou Xingchi used all kinds of tricks to fight the robot, but he was blown into coke because of the defeat, in order to avenge him to evolve into the ultimate mode Yang Mother-in-law, the robot was easily taken down, and he dressed up as a woman made people laugh.
Then why is this old woman dressed in yellow so powerful, in fact, he is a role in an advertisement in a Hong Kong supermarket, Mrs. Huang saw the unqualified products to give a difference, representing the authority of the department store industry, this advertisement is played every day is very brainwashed, Zhou Xingchi will reproduce him into the movie, the terrier play very cleverly.
This is probably the magic of Zhou Xingchi, who can transform the things that can be seen everywhere into baggage, so that you can shoot the case, and this performance ability can only be done by him.
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