The Academy Award supporting actor Shen Wei was critically ill, and Zhou Xingchi played a supporting role in the film he directed before he became popular
Text/A bed of love letters
According to media reports, Shen Wei, a 68-year-old Hong Kong veteran drama bone, is critically ill and is currently being rescued by ICU, while his friends in the circle have visited him and seen that he has been unable to speak in his throat, and his condition does not look optimistic.
Friends who like Hong Kong films should be no stranger to Shen Wei, his figure is as short and chubby as Zeng Zhiwei and Wang Jing, often playing villains in Hong Kong movies, especially known for treacherous villains, gangsters or goons, although they are some small supporting roles, but the acting skills are fascinating, and he is praised by fans as even eye bags are dramas.
Stills from "Provincial Hong Kong Flag Soldier"
According to a bed of love letters, Shen Wei stepped into the film industry in the 70s, like many stars, played a lot of dragon sets without names and lines in the early days, and began to promote supporting roles in the 80s, playing the role of gangster Ah Tai in the movie "Provincial Hong Kong Flag Soldier" directed by Ma Dangxiong to defeat Chu Yuan, and Tai Bao and others won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
When he took the stage to receive the award, he teased himself that the trophy was bought with his life. It turned out that Shen Wei had a scene in the play where he was tied up and burned, when Ma Dangxiong told him that he only needed to be tied to the car, how to expect that when the shooting began, he asked someone to pour gasoline on the car and ignite it, and the sudden situation made Shen Wei feel very frightened, and even almost fainted due to lack of oxygen due to emotional extremes, but it was his real reaction that made this scene very brilliant.
"Provincial Hong Kong Flag Soldier" made Shen Wei open his popularity in the film industry, and since then he has cooperated with big-name film stars such as Zhang Guorong, Andy Lau, Jackie Chan, Zhong Chuhong, Zhou Runfa, etc., and most of them play villains in the play.
Among them, what makes fans hate their teeth is the snake head he played in "Yi gai Yuntian" starring Zhou Runfa and Wang Zuxian, in which he not only bullied Wang Zuxian, but also tattooed a snake head with a snake tattoo on her back, which was finally killed by Brother Fa.
And the village bully Uncle Jin in "Zhongyi Qunying" is also impressive.
Cheng is also a villain, and a defeat is also a villain, because Shen Wei's role is too consistent a thousand times, and his career soon enters a bottleneck, and the sense of existence accumulated by "Provincial Hong Kong Flag Soldier" gradually disappears.
In order to break through his career strength, Shen Wei made three attempts, first taking over a number of large-scale movies, but because of its appearance and unclear role positioning, it failed to stir up any splash in the film world.
Stills from "Little Li Flying Knife"
At the same time, he also turned to the development of the television circle, playing "Grandma" in Guan Lijie's version of "Little Li Flying Knife", and Playing "Ping YiZhi" in Lu Songxian's version of "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", due to too many versions, the role role is limited, and there is no sense of existence.
In 1990, he wrote and directed the gangster film "The Last Big Guy in jianghu" (also known as "Sunset Samurai"), inviting Ke Junxiong, Wu Mengda, Noon Ma, Wu Shaoxiong, Zhou Billy to help, and Zhou Xingchi, who had not yet become popular, played father and son with Ke Junxiong in the play.
The plot of this drama is actually very general, that is, it tells the story of the gangster big brother Fang Uncle Played by Ke Suoxiong, who was released from prison in order to save his daughter and daughter-in-law, and turned against the former jianghu brothers, and finally went to prison again.
However, a bed of love letters feels that the brotherhood, father-daughter love and jianghu love in the play are very touching, especially when Ke Junxiong is arrested again and about to go to the prison car, the daughter's "father", coupled with sad music and the heavy rain of the scene, can be called tear-jerking.
Zhou Xingchi was still very young at that time, the acting skills were not their own faction, and the performance in the play was very plain, it is worth mentioning that Zhou Xingchi, who has become popular five years later, said the line "How to say that I am also a sunset warrior" in "Journey to the West", I don't know if it is a tribute to the film.
After the film was released, it only got 5.5 million, which is not worth mentioning for other directors, but it is already a pretty good result for Shen Wei, who has just transformed.
Shen Wei still played a small supporting role in the movie, played a role for the popular movie star, faded out of the film industry after 2000 to live in Beijing, and occasionally appeared in some mainland online movies, becoming the "old man" forgotten by the audience.
Nowadays, Hong Kong's local movies are in decline, the mainland screen is dominated by small fresh meat, few people pay attention to Shen Wei, who has been in the film industry for 30 years, and he who has rarely made headlines in his life is on the hot search this time because of his critical illness, which makes people feel a little sad.
Finally, pray that he will be able to get through the crisis and turn the tide.