Speaking of the Hong Kong film circle in the 1990s, everyone may have many emotions and classic memories, of which the memory of Stephen Chow's works is the deepest. After Zhou Xingchi exploded for filming "Gamble Saint", the boss Li Xiuxian began to "take advantage of the fire to rob", in order to rub Zhou Xingchi's fame, he cooperated with Huang Baiming's New Art City Company to develop "Love Saint", and invited Zhou Xingchi to star with a salary of 700,000 yuan.
At that time, with zhou Xingchi's fame, 700,000 was definitely not enough, but in order to repay Li Xiuxian's favor, he agreed. But after the filming of this drama, Zhou Xingchi resolutely left Li Xiuxian, what happened during this period? Next, let's walk into the behind-the-scenes story of "Love Saint". At that time, with zhou Xingchi's fame, 700,000 was definitely not enough, but in order to repay Li Xiuxian's favor, he agreed. But after the filming of this drama, Zhou Xingchi resolutely left Li Xiuxian, what happened during this period? Next, let's walk into the behind-the-scenes story of "Love Saint".
As we all know, it is difficult to be famous without any connections in the entertainment industry. Zhou Xingchi at that time was roughly like this, no one praised him can only run the dragon set on the major sets, and the future can be described as a slim. Fortunately, later under the recommendation of Wan Ziliang, he met the first noble person in his life - Li Xiuxian, and cooperated with the film "Thunderbolt Pioneer", with the superb acting skills in the play, Chow Xingchi also won the 25th Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Probably seeing the potential of Stephen Chow, Li Xiuxian signed a contract with Stephen Chow for 10 films for 700,000 yuan, preparing to cultivate him into a superstar. Unfortunately, the day did not go according to people's wishes, and several films were filmed in succession, Zhou Xingchi failed to catch fire, in order not to lose money, Li Xiuxian had to lend Zhou Xingchi out, so as to earn some kickbacks, that is, this wave of operations actually allowed Zhou Xingchi to find his own way out.
After cooperating with Liu Zhenwei in 1990 on "Gamble Saint", Zhou Xingchi became a hot star at that time, and Li Xiuxian was of course moved to see this situation, he wanted to take this opportunity to take advantage of the chase, and after developing the film "Love Saint" with Huang Baiming's New Art City Company, he urgently recalled Zhou Xingchi to play the male lead. Since the release of "Gamble Saint", Zhou Xingchi's film remuneration has also risen, there should have been about five million at that time, but Li Xiuxian did not pay the film remuneration according to the value of Zhou Xingchi, but still paid 700,000 films according to the contract signed before.
The same was true when filming "Descendants of the Dragon" before, but this kind of price-cutting money transaction can be done once, and the number of times there will inevitably be some knots between the two sides, and the result is exactly that, since "Love Saint", the contradiction between the two has completely intensified, and since then, there is no longer an interest contract involved, and it is rumored that the reason for the break-up is because of the remuneration problem.
In addition, when the film was filmed, actor Mao Shunjun also had a bitter word. According to her recollection, there was a scene that required her to fill her breasts, about 100 chest pads, and at first she didn't mind the plot needs after all. But this is also what makes her feel distressed, there was a scene when she fell on the desk The chest pad was full of pens, but because the position of the pen was not right, many people rushed up to help her adjust, especially when the people around her looked at her, making her feel disrespected.
Fortunately, the audience reacted well after the release of the movie, which made her feel a little comforted. In the play, her confrontation with Zhou Xingchi is also a spark, and the idiot female liar she plays not only bears part of the laughter of the whole film, but also once snatched the limelight of Zhou Xingchi.
In addition to Mao Shunjun in the film, there is another beautiful supporting actress Ye Zilin, because of her excellent image, her job in the film is to provide welfare shots to the audience.
At the same time, I don't know if fans and friends have found that the plot structure of "Love Saint" and "Thousand Kings 1991" is similar. At the beginning of "Thousand Kings 1991", Liang Chaowei uses a watch to defraud those office workers who are in a hurry; and the opening scene of "Love Saint" is that Zhou Xingchi pretends to be a stowaway to deceive tourists.
After the opening male protagonist's "personal show", the two films have entered the storyline of two gangs of old people, pretending to be rich and cheating on each other. What's more interesting is that the producers of both films also made cameo appearances in the role of "Master" in their respective works. Huang Baiming played "Wang Shangqian" in "Thousand Kings 1991", while Mai Jia played "Old Mai" in "Love Saint".
Although the plot is surprisingly similar, it does not affect the audience at all, only because the two films express different states. "Thousand Kings 1991" focuses on deception, and the interlocking storyline coupled with the sudden reversal makes the film look exceptionally brilliant; "Love Saint" weakens the deception and deception in the film, and focuses on the comedy funny. Although it does not have the excitement of "A Thousand Kings 1991", the blessing of strong comedic effects makes the film present another flavor.
It has also proved that comedy movies were still popular in that year, and although the plot of "Thousand Kings 1991" was excellent, the comedy effect was insufficient, and the film only received 4.3 million box office after its release. In contrast, the box office of "Love Saint" is much more impressive, coupled with the blessing of box office guarantee Chow Xingchi at that time, "Love Saint" finally won 16.55 million box office, ranking sixteenth in the Hong Kong film box office that year.
Although the box office of "Love Saint" is at the bottom of many works of Stephen Chow, the good looks of the film are undeniable, after the interpretation of Zhou's nonsense style and the background of a bunch of green leaves, "Love Saint" can be described as a high-energy with dense laughter. The drama between Noon Ma and Zhou Xingchi is not only addictive, but the scene where the identities of the two sides are exposed afterwards is even more amazing.
In this film, whether it is the old drama bone Wuma, whose acting skills are pure, or some supporting roles such as the villain Zhang Yaoyang, they all have a powerful spark with Zhou Xingchi. After many years, turning over the film again to watch will still make people clap their hands.