A few days ago, the fungus went to see "Chasing the Dragon".
Although Hong Kong Zhen and Wang Jing have been criticized as "bad film professional households", the works created once in a while are really good.
After watching it, Andy Lau's charm value in the heart of the fungus rose several steps, but the most surprising thing in the process of watching the movie was to see a familiar face - Zheng Zeshi, who played Leiluo (Andy Lau's) confidant in it.
Doesn't it look familiar?
Yes, he is the silly fat cat in the childhood tear-jerking drama "Fat Cat Searching for Relatives" (I'm afraid only the post-80s and some post-90s can resonate with bacteria)
About the past life of the "fat cat"
Most people's impression of Zheng Zeshi is that of a fat cat, that stupid but kind and cute retard has earned us a lot of laughter and tears, and the fungus is still impressed by the signature action of shrugging the shoulder of the fat cat.
Most of the mainland audience's initial impression of fat cats comes from "Fat Cats Looking for Relatives", which tells the story of a mentally handicapped young fat cat looking for his relatives.
The fat cat's original name was Tao Nianzu, his father died in a riot in the Nanyang business thirty years ago, and his mother returned to her hometown with five children.
Because she could not raise the child alone, the mother gave all 4 children to others.
Only the eldest son, Tao Nianzu, who was developing a high fever, remained.
As a result, he became mentally handicapped because of this disease, and he later changed his name to a fat cat because of a drowning kitten.
Later, when his mother died, he left his hometown to find the whereabouts of his siblings in order to fulfill his mother's wishes.
One by one, he found his second brother Hua Shijie, who was already the vice president of a hospital.
Gao Wanrong, the third sister of Gao Leng's lawyer
There is also the wayward and beautiful fourth sister Fang Jixiang (at that time, I thought Hao Lei was beautiful)
And the fifth brother who first went astray and deceived his family, and later converted to evil and returned to righteousness
Moreover, in the end, he also opened a fat cat restaurant and realized his wish.
However, in addition to the fat cat in the first part, the fungus's favorite is still the old lady Hua played by Schengova. She is the adoptive mother of the second brother Hua Shijie, although a little stubborn, but the childlike heart is not lost, often with the fat cat can play together.
The success of "Fat Cat Searching for Relatives" led to the sequel, and in 2005, "Fat Cat Search for Relatives Will Be Better Tomorrow".
However, in fact, the image source of "fat cat" spans nearly 20 years, and in these 20 years, Zheng Zeshi has played "fat cat" 6 times.
In 1985, he wrote and directed his own film "Why Me" for the first time.
This film has a strong sense of social responsibility, refracts strong social problems with the encounters of vulnerable people, and creates a mentally handicapped young man "Fat Cat" who is forced to force and social resistance, and did not think that this role would become a classic throughout his decades of acting career.
With the popularity of this role, in 1988, he and Maggie Cheung filmed a sequel to "Fat Cat Wandering", which also had a good response.
In 1997, the success of "Fat Cat" attracted the attention of people in the television industry.
Hong Kong Asia Television took advantage of the opportunity to invite Zheng Zeshi to star in the TV series "Fat Cat Zheng biography". In 1999, he acted in the sequel "Fat Cat 2".
With its round body shape, honest appearance, and cute appearance, it can be said that the fat cat successfully created the trend of "foolish protagonist", and later Guo Jin'an also walked on this road.
Two golden statues of the Emperor of Shadows, unlimited scenery
In 1972, 21-year-old Zheng Zeshi, who had the dream of being an actor, signed up for the actor training class of Longbow Pictures under the opposition of his family, and at the age of 25, he won the overall championship in the "Sound Treasure Set Acting Competition" held by TVB, and signed a contract with TVB to officially become an actor.
At the age of 32, he was nominated for the Best Actor Award at the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards for his outstanding performance in the movie "Lost Marriage Old Bean".
And with "Why Should There Be Me",
He won the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Jury Award, and once became one of the highest paid actors in Hong Kong, up to 400,000 yuan.
At the age of 37, he fulfilled his wish at the beginning of his acting to "move his family out of the poor house and live in a mansion" and bought a large mansion of 300 square meters in Happy Valley.
After that, he was nominated for Best Actor at previous Academy Awards and Golden Horse Awards, but he always hovered outside the door. Until 1996, he starred in "Three Wounded Policemen", and won the Golden Film Emperor and the Hong Kong Film Golden Bauhinia Award again.
At this point, he reached the peak of his career and became the most capable fat man in Hong Kong.
Tens of millions in debt, encountering the lowest point in life
If you really want to count the peak of his life, it is not the 96 years of taking the double film emperor, but going back to 1993. In the same year, he and his friends co-founded a film and television company, but soon encountered a great decline in Hong Kong films, and a "Legend of the Hero After the Disaster" was lost.
Years of savings were all planted in it, and I also owed 20 million yuan in debt.
All the artists signed by the company asked to be terminated and asked for a salary, including Zhang Weijian.
However, the fungus felt that he was forgivable, because Zhang Weijian was also a teenager who supported the burden of the family alone, and the various grievances were probably only known to the parties.
After bankruptcy, Zheng Zeshi fell into the trough of life, the car, the house were sold, he once said such a sentence : "At that time, except for his wife and children, he could not sell, and everything that could be sold was sold", and even when he was the poorest, he did not even have money to eat a meal.
In order to pay off his debts, he began to take on a lot of dramas, and even put down his body in 1994 and filmed the costume three-level film "Twelve Rooms of the Green Building" with Weng Hong.
He also made various cameos in mainland TV dramas, taking the initiative to contact the director and strive for performance opportunities, just in order to have a few shots.
Poor and poor, fortunately, his wife supported him as always and accompanied him.
His wife is Lin Yanming, 14 years younger than him, the two met because of filming, in 1991, at a family gathering, Zheng Zeshi took a ring that his friend asked him to identify for Lin Yanming to try on, and as a result, he locked up the future Mrs. Zheng.
When he came to the mainland to take over the drama, his wife raised a son and a daughter in Hong Kong. When the debt was paid off 10 years later, Zheng Zeshi chose to return to Hong Kong to accompany his family.
In 2007, he re-purchased two mansions in Hong Kong Happy Valley, let his parents and wife and children move into a new home, and now the family is still happy and happy, it is worth mentioning that at the lowest point of his career, his good friend Andy Lau came out and pulled him up and invited him to be the producer of the new film (you can still love Hua Tsai for ten thousand years!). ）
Zheng Zeshi, who has experienced setbacks, seen the world's hot and cold, and the rules of friendship in the entertainment industry, does not dare to fully trust the relationship of the entertainment industry, but there are still several old friends who have been friends for decades, including Andy Lau, as well as Huang Rihua, Miao Qiaowei and others.
He was summoned to death and cut on the show
As Zheng Zeshi slowly turned back to Hong Kong for development, perhaps it was too long before he appeared in mainland TV dramas, and in 2013, netizens even reported his death.
Rumors are so rampant that the parties have to come out to refute the rumors. In December 2013, he took a copy of the day's newspaper and proved he was alive and well.
However, the influence of this veteran film emperor may indeed be much less than before. This year, he was invited to make a cameo appearance in "Extreme Challenge", but it was cut to nothing, which triggered the bombardment of the show by netizens.
Later, when the director was interviewed, he talked about this matter, but said that "human feelings are human feelings, and work is work."
However, since he wanted to invite the guests over, but now he didn't even give a shot, the fungus still fought for the fat cat that had worked hard for the show.
On the night of the show's launch, he tweeted to help promote it.
You know, his last Weibo is still stuck in November 2016, which shows the importance he attaches to the program. If Liang Chaowei and Zhou Runfa, who are also film emperors, are replaced, will the program team dare to do this?
But as long as the fat cat himself is happy, turn over his previous Weibo, a quiet look:
Filming, getting together with old friends, and enjoying the warmth of family are also very satisfied in the second half of life.