Kim Carey was born in the same year as Stephen Chow, but the difference is that Kim Carey performed on stage at a very young age, but almost at the same time he and Stephen Chow began film and television performances. The competition in Hollywood can be imagined, and it is conceivable how difficult it is for a newcomer to get ahead.
Therefore, when Stephen Chow became famous for "Gambling Saint", Kim Carey also played a small supporting role at the bottom of Hollywood. In 1994, when Stephen Chow had already done the work of directing, writing and supervising, Kim Carey became famous for "Stranger in Disguise" and "Detective Airplane Head".
There is a question about who imitates whom, and many of Stephen Chow's films have borrowed from classic films from Hong Kong and Hollywood. Two or three of them also borrowed from Kim Carey's.
When filming "Journey to the West" in 1994, Zhou Xingchi could not find the feeling of Sun Wukong, and the director suggested that he could learn from the performance method of Jin Carey in "Stranger in Disguise". However, at that time, Stephen Chow's performance style had become more and more convergent, so Kim Kerry's performance style did not have much impact on Stephen Chow.
Speaking of Stephen Chow and Kim Kerry, Kim Kerry is also one of Stephen Chow's idols. So it is not so much an imitation as a reference, a tribute.
Comedy is the common film language of the world, and it has the same magic as action movies, many comedy movies are through a lot of body language to create jokes, action is better than a thousand words.
Looking at the Chinese film industry, the deserved king of comedy is Stephen Chow. With his usual behavior and thoughts of playing cards out of the ordinary, he pushed the nonsense culture throughout Asia.
Compared to Stephen Chow's large number of comedies, Kim Carey's pure comedy films are relatively small in number. Kim Carey prefers a well-rounded actor. He can play many different roles and has starred in many other types of films.
In fact, there is no one more powerful between Stephen Chow and Kim Kerry, in my opinion, they are just a Western Stephen Chow and an Eastern Kim Carey.