This question is really difficult to answer!
This may be a matter of opinion, but I personally don't think it can be said that the level is low! At least I believe that at least half of the people in the country have seen the movie "Star Master" and have felt happy from it!
Especially the early works of Xingye or, more accurately, the works starring Xingye himself are very popular!
The only regret and sigh is that the hero is dying and the star is already in full bloom!
In fact, it's not just Master Xing. Those handsome men and beautiful women in Hong Kong movies in the 1990s have led the times for decades. Men are like the Four Heavenly Kings, and women are like Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin and so on! Now they are all old and have become the brand of an era. They can only be sealed in some people's memories and become classics!
In recent years, Master Xing has stopped acting alone, such as The Mermaid and New king of comedy, thus lacking his unique charm and irreplaceable nonsense performance style. What is nonsense? I didn't search either.
Personally, I think it's just a comedy effect caused by the difference between four or six words and the preface.
Stephen Chow in China will definitely leave a deep impression on China film industry!
And the reason why the film level in Stephen Chow is really high? We have a great reason! The most important thing is the improvement of material living standards and people's aesthetic taste. It's not like the time when people were extremely short of spiritual food in the 1990s.
In short, it's not that Stephen Chow's film level is not high, but that we have made progress!
From 1990 to 1992, Stephen Chow made more than 20 comedies in one breath. The throne of the box office king of Hong Kong films, he sat in turn with Fage and Jackie Chan, and others could only watch with envy. At 1992, his salary rose directly from 3 million to 8 million. At that time, Ng Man Tat could only get 500,000 yuan for acting alone. If he cooperated with him, he could get 1 10,000 without bargaining. His films are shown in Hong Kong for five months all the year round.
Soon, Master Xing had a new nickname on the set, called "Taiwanese director". In every film, he not only participated as an actor, but also began to fully participate in behind-the-scenes production and line design.
In an interview in his early years, Master Xing said that when he played Gambling Saint, he basically followed Liu Zhenwei's thinking, and he did whatever Liu Zhenwei asked him to do.
By the time of the death judge, it had not surpassed Du Qifeng's design. Presumably, at that time, Stephen Chow felt that he had just become popular, didn't have such a big voice, and all aspects were still "convergent".
When I was filming Duke of Lushan with Jing Wong, my creative desire was hard to restrain. After all, his acting skills have been affirmed by many parties. Even Lao Yong heard that he was going to play, but he only replied six words: no second thoughts!
In fact, as early as 1992, Xingye started a company called "Trans-Star" and wanted to shoot a work of his own. As a result, the play was suppressed for a long time, so the company had to stop first.
The following year, Hong Kong and the Mainland plan to co-produce a comedy film. Gong Li was specially invited by Hongkong. At that time, Gong Li, who was an academic, didn't know much about Wulitou. Only because of "The Story of Qiu Ju", she got a reward of 200,000 yuan. The Hong Kong company directly offered HK$ 6,543.8+00,000, and Gong Li left with a smile. That year, Zhang Yimou was still with her and said to her, "Let go and learn something different from them."
However, in Tong Pak Hu Dian Qiu Xiang, Gong Li never let it go. She couldn't figure out where the jokes about history were, and she thought Master Xing's performance was too noisy. "Give me back my floating fist" asked her to hit the pig's head, but she refused. Many years later, Gong Li became Gong Huang. When he saw Master Xing again, he regretted it. "What a pity. I didn't understand. I should let go and play with you. "
It is inevitable to be a director yourself.
At the beginning of 1994, Stephen Chow made a small experiment, supervised and starred in "The King of Destruction", and the result was not very satisfactory. However, this did not stop him from becoming strong. After setting up Caixing Film Company with several partners, everyone took out 60 million yuan in one breath, ready to make a tear-jerking love film, and used it to help Caixing shoot the first shot. However, things are unpredictable, but it has become the only work of colorful stars.
This movie is a Chinese odyssey.
Stephen Chow spent three months shooting on location in Yinchuan in order to shoot a Chinese odyssey. At first, the script was not mature at all, and even the names of Supreme Bao and Chunshi Sanniang were directly transferred from another script. After the prototype was taken to Xiying Factory, the leader of Xiying Factory looked big: "What the hell?" If it weren't for the box office appeal of Star Master, Welcome Factory wouldn't want to shoot something they think is so "declining". In particular, the deputy director in charge of art films thinks that this is simply cultural garbage.
Stephen Chow really spent a lot of money on this film, and the soundtrack was Red Sorghum, which Zhao Jiping shot for the old scoundrel. When the script was given to Mr. Zhao, it was also called "A Roar to the East", and the story was in a mess, which made Mr. Zhao puzzled. Zhao personally went to the set and was disgusted to see the intestines of cattle hanging everywhere. After filming the soundtrack, he felt ashamed and didn't want to sign the subtitles.
1995, "A Chinese Odyssey" was released, and the box office in the three places across the Taiwan Strait was a fiasco, with a bad reputation. At that time, it was regarded as a typical failure of Beijing's distribution, with only 200,000 box office in the whole winter vacation. Some cinemas in Hebei watched the last episode of Moonlight Box and didn't broadcast The Wedding of the Great Sage at all. In the end, the box office of Hong Kong and Taiwan added up to less than 50 million, and Caixing Company went bankrupt directly.
From that day on, someone began to say four words to Stephen Chow: Jiang Lang is tired.
After the westward journey, many people felt that Stephen Chow was dying. The following "Ghost Night" and "Amazing Stars" are both regarded as patchwork and uncreative failures. But Stephen Chow didn't give up because of failure. Being an actor can't satisfy his desire for control. He wants more.
1996, Stephen Chow entered the bureau again, and after directing agent provocateur with Gu Dezhao, he and Guo Huiyang formed the "Xinghui" company. Soon after, "Xinghui" launched "Gourmet". At that time, the average Hong Kong film only took 20 working days, and more than 50 "delicious foods" were filmed, and even the script was brewing for nearly half a year. From creativity to scriptwriting to filming, Stephen Chow has built his own film brand in an all-round way.
The poor box office is just an honor.
1999, Stephen Chow is 37 years old.
Looking back on his journey, he began to consciously look for inspiration from the past years and embed memories into movies. It's been eight years since I started my career in the 1980s. Those lonely and confused days mentioned above are naturally worth writing in a movie.
With this mentality, Stephen Chow began to shoot king of comedy, the most important work in his life.
At that time, in Hong Kong, there was a special actor named "cactus", who was obsessed with performance and had always been a walk-on. Just like the original stars, no matter how small the role is, everyone likes to discuss it with the director. When Stephen Chow plays Yin Tianchou, he imitates himself and blends him with his former self. Ng Man Tat's undercover role in the film was originally prepared for Wan Ziliang.
In the mind of Master Xing, from an artistic point of view, he is very supportive of himself, and it is most appropriate for him to play this important role. As a result, Wan Ziliang missed it because the shooting was rescheduled and the staff didn't inform him in time. In a hurry, go to your uncle.
Ng Man Tat has just returned from filming in the mainland, and he caught a cold. He rushed to the set as soon as he landed, and he was completely out of shape. At that time, the "serious perfectionism" of Xingye's filming had fallen to the roots. Although he is an old partner, he refuses to compromise at all. A scene made the tree NG more than 50 times, and Li Lichi couldn't stand it.
During the filming, Jackie Chan filmed "Glass Bottle" next door, so two big coffees made guest appearances in the other crew. Master Xing was dragged away by a dog in a glass bottle, and Jackie Chan played a walk-on to teach Yin Tianchou to be careful. The two of them spent nearly 90 days making movies. The difference is that Jackie Chan took 90 days to shoot a series of difficult action scenes, while Stephen Chow took 90 days to win the best Cecilia Cheung.
At the time of audition, Cecilia Cheung has shown great acting talent. Li Lichi asked her to play a play during the long vacation, with nine pages of lines, but she passed without ng. But to make a feature film, the stress of almost every line and the acting skills of every bridge have to be "set-up". It must be that Master Xing has different feelings for this drama. Li Lichi later recalled: "It was originally a very simple movie, but every shot and every line were filmed, and Stephen Chow would not give up until he reached the extreme."
In the end, king of comedy won the box office title of 1999. It's been six years since Tang Bohu Dianchou Township won the championship at a distance of 1993, and Stephen Chow has once again topped the box office of Hong Kong films.
But Stephen Chow wants more than the box office.
And the affirmation of the Hall of Honor.
Unfortunately, just as the Hong Kong Academy Awards have been reluctant to recognize the acting skills of Master Xing for many years, king of comedy was only nominated for the Best Newcomer Award in the end, which made Stephen Chow feel sad.
But this is just the beginning, not the end.
The reversal of the world is full of mystery.
In the days when Master Xing was going to pick up the golden man, a large number of mainland CAMs emerged. /kloc-around 0/997, A Chinese Odyssey began to spread wildly on the campus of Peking University, and a cam—— was actually sold to 30 yuan. By 1998, hundreds of cards can be sold a day. With the popularity of the Internet, the plot, lines and tragic connotation of A Chinese Odyssey began to become a hot topic for countless young people, and a large number of websites related to it also appeared.
As Master Xing himself said in Tang Bohu Lighting Chou-heung, the ups and downs of life come too fast, which is really exciting. At that time, king of comedy failed to win any awards at major film awards ceremonies in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but in the minds of mainland students, Stephen Chow has been hailed as "the master of postmodern deconstruction".
After that, many people collected his works and analyzed his comedies, because he was not fascinated by the performance style affirmed by the Academy Awards. He recited lines from one movie to another and was willing to pay for his various peripheral goods. People are crazy about Stephen Chow, obsessed with every comedy scene he creates, just like the poor boy in the village in the pigpen, and spare no effort to be infatuated with Bruce Lee.
Twenty-eight years later, from "Tangshan Mobile" to "king of comedy", fate seems to be a wonderful cycle.
Stephen Chow finally paid tribute to Bruce Lee in his own way.
Best Actor once a year, Stephen Chow Centennial.
He became king of comedy in people's minds.
200 1 Against the background of the depressed film market in Hong Kong, the box office of shaolin soccer reached more than 63 million Hong Kong dollars, breaking the record again. At that year's Oscar ceremony, Stephen Chow finally became the biggest winner, winning seven awards in one breath, even a very special "Young Director Award". As far as the actual situation is concerned, Stephen Chow at that time did not need to use these awards to prove himself.
A lot of information about him has been cut off.
Regarding movies, to be honest, the works since Kung Fu are hard to say, regardless of sincerity or standard. Especially when he is no longer an actor, he feels it's a long story …
It is said that in private, Master Xing is a very boring person. When there is no movie, people can hardly see the news about him. Even Ling Baoer will be unhappy when he comes out for an interview. For a long time, all the fragmented lace related to him can't let the audience see his true face. There are few forks here, so it is not easy to judge what kind of person Master Xing is. Although I have been a fan of him for many years, I have brushed his countless movies and interviews, but I always feel that no one knows his true inner world.
As Stephen Chow said to Tang Niu in "The God of Food":
"Let you guess, then I am not a god of food!"
Time flies, 20 years have passed. Looking back along the slope of time, even those who can't guess, some things are certain. Stephen Chow before 1999 became king of comedy in the eyes of a generation, not only because of talent and talent, but also because of love.
I think the most important thing is that even in the darkest and loneliest moment, he didn't extinguish his hope.
Just like the dialogue between Yin Tian, Chou He and Liu Piao Piao in king of comedy:
"Look, it's dark ahead and you can't see anything."
"No, it will be beautiful after dawn."
Of all things, hope is the most beautiful.
20 19, please hold it firmly in your hand.
I'm only gonna ask you once. I think these movies, dark war and infernal affairs, should be recognized as absolutely good movies. You can't exaggerate them. Ok, I want to ask you, how many times can you watch these recognized movies, and how many new details can you find each time you watch them? All I know is that after watching his movies for so many years, I still can't get tired of watching them, and I can find new jokes every time. How can his films be praised? I don't think we can praise them too much, because no one dares to say that his works must be better than his, let alone surpass them.