Flying is the flying of Xiao Li flying knife, and the knife is the knife of Xiao Li flying knife. 《Domestic Lingling Paint》
["Domestic Lingling Paint": Zhou Xingchi served as a director for the first time and cooperated with Luo Jiaying for the first time]
It is circulating on the Internet that 1994 was a magical year for world cinema, and the classic movies of the world's film industry blew up. As the comedy backbone of Hong Kong films, Stephen Chow produced three films in this year, "Domestic Ling Ling Lacquer", "The King of Destruction" and "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", all of which are classics passed down from generation to generation.

1994 was an important turning point for the Hong Kong film industry. In the past, Hong Kong films mainly relied on the Taiwan market to make a lot of money, especially many film investments also came from Taiwan Province. However, from this year onwards, Taiwanese film companies began to withdraw their funds from Hong Kong films en masse; after the production of Hong Kong films reached a historical peak in 1993, it began to decrease year by year from 1994, and there was no chance of regaining its glory.
As a result, the Hong Kong film industry began to reflect collectively in 1994. The past follow-the-trend, piracy and shoddy production have seriously hurt the quality and reputation of Hong Kong films, and destroyed the market foundation of Hong Kong films.
The three giants of the Hong Kong film industry have double Monday, Chow Sing Chi Chow Yun Fat Jackie Chan has launched classic works in this year; Chow Yun Fat is "God of Gamblers 2", the Hong Kong box office champion, the first blockbuster over 50 million Hong Kong dollars; Jackie Chan is "Drunken Fist 2", the runner-up of the Hong Kong box office, the champion of Taiwan's box office Chinese films, box office over NT$120 million.
Stephen Chow's works, the best performance is "Domestic Lingling Paint" 37.52 million Hong Kong dollars, only ranked 3rd; but all three of his works have entered the top 10 of the annual box office, each of which has exceeded 30 million at the box office, with a total box office of more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars. Such achievements are also remarkable.
The director of "Domestic Ling Ling Lacquer" is Chow Sing Chi and Lee Li Zhi, starring Chow Sing Chi, Yuen Wing Yee, Luo Jiaying and Huang Jinjiang, yongsheng Xiang Huaqiang xiang Huasheng brothers, released in Hong Kong, China on September 17, 1994.
"Domestic Lingling Paint" foreign name "from china with love/from beijing with love", other translations include "Lingling Paint Vs Golden Gunner", "Domestic 007", "Domestic Zero Zero Paint".
Stephen Chow's film career can be divided into three stages, the first stage is a comedian, the second stage is self-directed and self-acting, and the third stage is comedy director. "Domestic Lingling Paint" is the transformation work of Zhou Xingchi to start the second stage of his film career.
It can be directly seen from the title that this is a film that parodies the Hollywood blockbuster 007, focusing on "domestic".
As early as 1982, there were classic films in Hong Kong that imitated 007, which was the box office champion "Best Partner" that year. "Best Partner" bought the copyright and fully absorbed the high-tech elements of the 007 blockbuster, which was the largest investment in Hong Kong in the 80s.
With Hollywood-level large-scale productions and local comedy elements, the "Best Partner" series achieved amazing box office results, the first three of which broke the Hong Kong box office record and directly brought Hong Kong films into the HK$20 million era.
Stephen Chow's "Domestic Lingling Paint" is just the opposite of the Hollywood production route of "Best Partner", it is a small-cost boutique.
The authentic 007 agent is a dashing and handsome British gentleman-type spy, and the weapons and equipment used are cutting-edge high-tech products. The Lingling Paint in "Domestic Lingling Paint" is a local artillery agent who attaches great importance to the image on the surface, hides a whisker and a wind pipe all over his body, and actually has no taste in dressing.
There are also some relatively high-tech weapons in the movie "Domestic Lingling Paint", but the male protagonist Lingling Paint is completely unused, or even not used. But one of his ancestral Xuan Iron Pig Killing Knives had super lethality, and even the invincible golden gun of the great villain Golden Gun could not penetrate.
The core of the authentic 007 movie is foreign and cutting-edge high-tech, while the core of "Domestic Lingling Paint" is the earthy and traditional Chinese martial arts power. This is the true connotation of the word "domestic" in "Domestic Lingling Paint".
Originally, 007 and Bond girl rolling sheets is a very romantic thing, but the result is that "Domestic LingLing Paint" arranged for Zhou Xingchi and Yuan Yongyi to fight directly under the pork table, which is really too earth cannon!
It is also this design that is the opposite of 007, coupled with Stephen Chow's peak comedy performance, that obtains the best comedic effect.
Zhou Xingchi and Li Lizhi have been cooperating since the time of TVB, and they know and are very familiar with each other. However, Li Lizhi is the least powerful of all the directors zhou Xingchi has cooperated with, and many shooting opinions have to listen to Zhou Xingchi.
In 1993's "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", Wang Jing pointed out that the actual leader was Zhou Xingchi, and Li Lizhi did not have this skill. Later, in 2010, Li Lizhi's independently directed "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang 2" failed miserably, which seemed to verify Wang Jing's statement.
In this "Domestic Lingling Paint", Zhou Xingchi is one of the directors, one of the screenwriters, and even more the male protagonist, and the real leader is indeed him.
Previous works by Li Lizhi, such as "The Legend of Huang Feihong's Laughter" and "The Iron Fist of the Five Tigers of Guangdong Invincible Sun Yat-sen", the jokes are very dense, and the bridge design is quite bold and quite nonsensical.
However, Li Lizhi also has the common problem of Hong Kong directors, that is, he likes to reuse some classic bridges. In "Domestic Lingling Paint", it is mainly copied and imitated the classic fragments of some famous movies; of course, his localization transformation can also become a classic under the interpretation of Zhou Xingchi.
For example, Chow's hair-combing shot before he set out is a parody of Wong Kar-wai's "The Legend of Ah Fei".
The biggest difference between Li Lizhi and Zhou Xingchi in directing is that Li Lizhi does not have the kind of excellence of Zhou Xingchi, let alone the connotation pursuit of Zhou Xingchi; and Zhou Xingchi does not have the kind of bad taste that Li Li holds for the sake of funny, and the metaphor with strong tendency. For example, the bridge section where Ling Lingqi was shot at the end.
In this bridge section, Li Lizhi also made his screen debut, cameoing in the iron leg floating on the water, and finally being blown up by the rocket. [In fact, Zhou Xingchi is also bad taste, such as liking to use ugly and very special supporting roles, and so on.] 】
Only in the time of "Domestic Lingling Paint", Zhou Xingchi's style was not yet formed, with a lot of style characteristics of Li Lizhi and Liu Zhenwei.
For example, Da Vinci pleaded with Ling Lingqi to call him his full name Da Vinci, and Ling Lingqi immediately replied, "Okay, Vinci!" ", just quite Liu Zhenwei.
Also because of their mutual familiarity and trust, and the similarity and compatibility of styles, Zhou Xingchi completed his directorial debut through "Domestic Lingling Paint" and achieved excellent results.
Luo Jiaying once said in an interview: I can't afford to buy a house after singing Cantonese opera for 40 years, I have been making movies for two years, and I have bought two apartments.
Luo Jiaying became popular in the film circle, relying on the 1994 "Domestic LingLing Paint", who played the role of Da Vinci overnight fame, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the first time, becoming a gold medal comedy supporting actor in the Hong Kong film industry. [Luo Jiaying's first film was Jackie Chan's "Major Crime Unit", playing a kidnapped real estate developer.] 】
So, in 1994's "God of Gamblers 2", Luo Jiaying played the role of Da Vinci again. This time, however, he became a latent agent in Taiwan Province, numbered 173173173.
In "Domestic Lingling Paint" without Wu Mengda, Luo Jiaying perfectly completed the task of partnering with Zhou Xingchi. Since then, Luo Jiaying has also become a "royal supporting role" in Stephen Chow's films.
For the first time, Luo Jiaying was suspicious of the young Zhou Xingchi, after all, the people who had sung the drama for decades were somewhat proud of the artist, but they were soon impressed by Zhou Xingchi's pursuit of perfection.
In the authentic 007 movie, Luo Jiaying's corresponding character is Dr. Q, a scientist specializing in the development of cutting-edge spy weapons for 007. Luo Jiaying himself also thought so when he took over the role, and as a result, when filming, he learned that this Da Vinci was studied, and the comedic effect came out immediately.
Although Stephen Chow has high requirements for the film, the shooting process is still full of joy, and old artists such as Luo Jiaying will often laugh, and as a result, some laugh scene shots have also been put into the main film by Stephen Chow, achieving a different kind of classic.
After the release of "Domestic Lingling Paint" that year, Luo Jiaying followed Zhou Xingchi to the Great Northwest to shoot "Journey to the West", shaping a peak Tang Sanzang.
Then, films such as "Great Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair", "God Eater", "Counting Dead Grass", "King of a Thousand Kings 2000" and other films have Luo Jiaying's figure. A generation of Chow Sing Chi film golden supporting roles, thus born.