Stephen Chow's winning record-four times-the 37th Asia-Pacific Film Festival, the 2nd Hong Kong Film Critics Association Award, the 1 Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia Award and the 2nd1Hong Kong Film Awards. Stephen Chow's winning record-four times-the 37th Asia-Pacific Film Festival, the 2nd Hong Kong Film Critics Association Award, the 1 Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia Award and the 2nd1Hong Kong Film Awards.
Therefore, when the sky falls, people must first suffer their minds, their bones and muscles, starve their bodies, empty their bodies, and mess around. Therefore, patience has benefited them a lot. Success is not accidental, and no one can succeed casually. Since ancient times, great men have suffered a lot and have never been too handsome. People who have made extraordinary achievements in a certain field will inevitably go through a series of hardships before becoming famous. Whether you can stand loneliness and endure pain and suffering is a prerequisite for success.
Stephen Chow is undoubtedly one of the most influential movie stars in Hong Kong film history. Today, his existence is the guarantee of box office. But his success was not achieved overnight, and he suffered as much as any movie star who thought Hong Kong. Stephen Chow's 25-year career has condensed too many joys and sorrows, among which the bitterness is very understandable.
I. Xingzai: 1982- 1989
"In fact, I am a nobody." Stephen Chow has never denied this. He comes from the bottom of society, so he plays a nobody in the movie. Just because he comes from the bottom of society, he plays a little person like a duck to water.
1On June 22nd, 962, Stephen Chow was born in an ordinary family in Hongkong. His name was given by his mother, Ling Baoer, from Preface to Wang Tengting: "Xiongzhou is foggy, Cai Jun is crazy, and at the turn of Taiwan and summer, the host and guest are all in the southeast."
When Xing Zi was seven years old, his parents divorced. Ling Baoer, the mother, raised three children by herself-elder sister and younger sister Zhou. Like many children from single-parent families, Xing Zi was taciturn since childhood, but he didn't think his childhood was miserable. Star teenagers are not enterprising in reading, and all subjects except Chinese are hovering at the passing line. But he liked watching movies since he was a child and regarded Bruce Lee as an idol. He taught himself Wing Chun, Tai Ji Chuan and so on.
When he graduated from high school, Xing Zi was determined to become an actor, but his mother strongly opposed him. There is a simple reason. His sons do not like to talk. How can he be an actor? But Xing Zi insisted. He and Tony Leung Chiu Wai attended a training class for wireless artists. However, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, who made the list for the first time, fell out of Sun Shan. Later, with the help of his neighbor Qi Meizhen, he entered the training class-it is worth mentioning that the examiner who let Xingye lose the election was Wang Tianlin, the father of the famous director Jing Wong.
Since then, Xing Zi, like many stars in the initial stage, has started his walk-on career. In 82 years, all the TV dramas he participated in were just a few shots: followers, onlookers, Song Bing, Jia Ding and other extras.
1983 Tony Leung Chiu Wai, who played "The Big Dipper" with Chow Yun Fat, was quickly praised by Wireless Power as one of the five generals. The star who is still a walk-on in this TV series was transferred to TVB children's program group as the host. In the children's programs hosted by the host, Xing Zi often plays the role of trick-or-treating host, which is called a negative teaching material for educating children. He said to educate children not to be like him. However, in hosting the program, Xing Zi is not as gentle and amiable as the traditional children's program host. He likes to show off. He likes to play tricks on children and his companions around him. Once, he even challenged his partner to fight with him.
During the period of 1983- 1987, his good friend Wei Zi made great strides, but Xing Zi's career did not make any progress. However, he didn't muddle along. Good at thinking, he is exploring his own path and improving his acting skills through self-study and observation.
1987, a few years later, Xing Zi, who had been keeping a low profile, entered the repertory theatre. The first TV series he took on was called Life's Journey. In the process of filming, he got the support of the red man Wan Ziliang at that time, and they forged a deep friendship-later they re-established their friendship in He Comes from Jianghu. Later 1992, Wan Ziliang married Tian Niu, and Stephen Chow returned to Wan Ziliang as the best man. The bridesmaid was Mei Xiaohui, the star's early screen partner. At the same time, Xing Zi's wonderful performance in this TV series attracted the attention of director Li Xiuxian, which laid the foundation for him to enter the film circle in the future.
1988, Xingzai's career finally ushered in the dawn. He played a more important role in the metropolis of TVB. He played an extremely bad traitor. He caught the attention of Ceng Lizhen, a famous producer of TVB. He gave him a chance to play "Pisces" and a leading role.
In the same year, Star Kid was directed by Li Xiuxian, who took over the first film, Pioneer of Thunderbolt, and won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Hong Kong Academy Awards. In the interview, Stephen Chow said that the people he was most grateful to in his life were Wan Ziliang and Li Xiuxian, who gave him the opportunity to appear in the camera. Since then, the star child has gradually become popular. This success earned him the appreciation of TVB and allowed him to take over an important film "Heroes on Earth". In this TV series, he began to show his unique "nonsense" funny talent-exaggerated movements and funny language made the audience initially accept his performance style.
Second, Brother Xing: 1990- 1998
Before the 1990s, the funny movies in the Hong Kong film market were always owned by the Xu Shi brothers, and it was difficult for others to get a piece of the action. But in the 1990s, the appearance of Stephen Chow made the Hong Kong audience shine-funny movies can still be made like this. Exaggerated expressions, funny actions and "nonsense" language make Stephen Chow's films unique and unique. So the stars of the 80' s have now become brother xing.
1990, Star Boy finally got his first influential film: Gambling Saint. Although the acting of this film starring Ng Man Tat is still very rough, the lineup is not huge. However, its appearance opened the eyes of Hong Kong audiences, winning the first box office in Hong Kong with 465,438+0,326,654,38+056. Star boy finally became a star brother and was recognized by the Hong Kong audience.
In the same year, Brother Xing and Andy jointly launched Gambling Saint 2, Gambling Man. In the play, Brother Xing completely overshadowed Andy's performance. His performance style is more mature than that of a gambler, and his cooperation with his lifelong partner Ng Man Tat is becoming more and more mature. Compared with The Gambler, The Gambler's Stephen Chow language art has been greatly improved. He began to create a unique language art that only he could interpret.
199 1, Brother Xing once again joined hands to launch "Unique Skills Expert". In the same year, Brother Xing also released five other influential films: Descendants of the Dragon, New Jingwumen 199 1, Playing truant with the Dragon, Gambler 2 Gambling on the Beach and Lover. Among them, "Truant Veyron" won the box office title in Hong Kong with HK$ 43,829,449. The success of this film has set off a campus film frenzy in the Hong Kong film market, from which many films with campus life as the theme have been derived. This film also established Brother Xing's position in students' minds. In movies, as a student, he did things that school students dare not do: playing truant, playing truant, cheating, hitting teachers and even beating them ... This year, Stephen Chow monopolized three of the top ten most popular movies in Hong Kong.
1992 is the most brilliant year in Stephen Chow's 25-year acting career. This year, he created a miracle and monopolized the top five of the top ten blockbuster movies in Hong Kong. They are the first box office "Death Judge", 49,884,734 Hong Kong dollars; The second happy family is HK$ 48,992,188; Duke of Sanlu Mountain, 40,862,831HK$; The fourth "Wu Zhuangyuan Su" is HK$ 37,565,438+04,995, and the fifth "Lu 2 Dragon Religion" is HK$ 36,583,964. The triumph of box office will reach the peak of Star Brother's career, and the Hong Kong audience fully recognizes king of comedy, who brings them joy and laughter. With the wonderful performance of Death Judge, Brother Xing won the Best Actor Award at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
In the 1980s, Tony Leung Chiu Wai played Wei Xiaobao, which was actually very good. However, after the appearance of Stephen Chow film version of Wei Xiaobao, people have forgotten Tony Leung Chiu Wai's Wei Xiaobao. Even Jin Yong, the author of Duke of Lushan, faxed a piece of paper to the film company after reading it, which said, "Don't be the second person." In the future, I'm afraid no one can take Stephen Chow's place.
Extremes must be reversed. After the climax, it is bound to go to the low tide. Stephen Chow's film industry, which has gone through the incomparable glory of 1992, began to be underestimated. In the following two years, both the quantity and quality of films produced declined. 1993, Brother Xing only made three films, two of which are the top ten blockbuster films in Hong Kong, namely "Tang Bohu's Light Autumn Fragrance" and "Playing Truant with Weilong 3 Dragon in the Year of the Rooster". However, the box office of the two films is not ideal, the former is only 40 million, and the latter is only 26 million; 1994, Stephen Chow only made three films, all of which entered the top ten blockbusters in Hong Kong, namely Lingling Paint, the third in China, with a box office of HK$ 37.5 million; The sixth "King of Destruction" was HK$ 36.9 million, and the seventh "Jiupin Sesame Officer" was HK$ 30 million.
In "Domestic Lingling Lacquer", Stephen Chow was not willing to perform alone, and he began to develop as a screenwriter and director. However, this film, which is too "nonsense", was banned in Chinese mainland for allegedly smearing the producers of * * *-fortunately, there are other ways to see this film, otherwise it would be a pity.
1995, Stephen Chow released A Chinese Odyssey, which became popular in Chinese mainland. The influence of this film is really hard to estimate. A "big talk" storm set off in China, and a large number of "big talk" fans came into being. The Internet, which has just sprung up in China, has begun to set off an upsurge of learning the classic lines of Stephen Chow's films-some domestic experts and scholars call Stephen Chow's films the representative works of postmodernism. But in Hong Kong, "A Chinese Odyssey" is just a typical nonsense movie of Zhou, and the dismal box office record is the best proof. However, this film won Brother Xing the first government film award after the return of Hong Kong.
From 1996- 1998, he took the lead when his acting skills were excellent, and Stephen Chow began to transition from an actor to a director. During the period of 1996, his two films "The God of Food" and "agent provocateur" ranked among the top ten blockbuster films in Hong Kong. Stephen Chow has been directing and acting since "Gourmet". 1997, Brother Xing only made two films, namely "97 Families with Happy Events" ranked second among the top ten blockbuster films in Hong Kong and "Counting Dead Grass" ranked fourth. 1998, Brother Xing only made a movie, a traveling train, and gave up the leading role for the first time in many years. Since 1997, Hong Kong films have been underestimated. The best proof is that the highest box office records of 1997 and 1998 did not exceed 50 million. 1998, The Good News of nine planets, the 10th box office movie, only earned100000. 1992 The most brilliant film in Hong Kong, Jackie Chan's Super Police, ranked 10th at the box office, earned as much as HK$ 32.6 million.
Second, Master Xing: 1999-2007
1 999, Stephen Chow's first film "king of comedy" was born. Since 1993, it has regained the position of the top ten box office movie champions in Hong Kong for the first time. This film realized the dream of Stephen Chow's screenwriter and director, and won popularity for Cecilia Cheung, who later won the Best Newcomer Award.
In the same year, Stephen Chow and Jing Wong co-produced The King of Thousand Kings 2000. In the film, Stephen Chow takes a back seat and puts aside nonsense, and his in-depth and meticulous comedy performance completely overshadows the protagonist Nick Cheung. The protagonist and supporting actor put the cart before the horse, so it is conceivable that the box office fate of this film is less than 20 million.
Stephen Chow began to deliberately reduce the number of movies in his thirties. In the next two years, he only made 1 film. That was shot in shaolin soccer at 200 1. This movie, which fans have been waiting for for for a long time, has aroused the audience's appetite, won the top ten box office titles in Hong Kong in one fell swoop, and broke the highest box office record since the opening of Hong Kong, reaching 60.73 million! Although this year is not the most fruitful year for Stephen Chow's box office, it is a year for Stephen Chow's statement to be widely spread. At the 2nd1Hong Kong Film Awards in 2002, shaolin soccer won seven awards including Best Film/Best Director/Best Actor/Best Supporting Actor/Outstanding Young Director/Best Sound Effect/Best Visual Effect at the 2nd1Hong Kong Film Awards-Brother Xing in the 1990s officially became a respected star of the audience.
In 2004, Stephen Chow, who worships Bruce Lee, released his long-awaited movie Kung Fu, which once again dominated the box office in Hong Kong that year and broke his own record of the highest box office since the opening of Hong Kong, reaching 60.73 million! -this is a miracle in the 2 1 century when the Hong Kong film market is increasingly depressed. In 2005, Kung Fu won six awards at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best Film/Best Supporting Actor/Best Editing/Best Action Design/Best Visual Effect/Best Sound Effect.
Stephen Chow became the only "Asian hero" in the 2003 Asian hero election held by Time magazine. Time magazine described him like this: he started from scratch and worked hard to become a wise, determined and persistent comedy star in the expectation of nonsense movies.
Based on the Hong Kong box office from the beginning of 1990 to the end of 1996, the film revenue in Stephen Chow exceeded1040,000. In these seven years, the total box office of Hong Kong films was over 6.7346 billion, and Stephen Chow films accounted for about 15% of the total market. The average box office of movies starring Stephen Chow is HK$ 27.89 million ... It's a miracle. The commercial value of Xingye is unparalleled.
For more than 20 years, from Xingzi to Xingge and then to Xingye. With unremitting efforts and constant changes, Stephen Chow has made her way to success step by step, with no background and no relationship.
In the past twenty years, Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan are undoubtedly the most brilliant individuals in Hong Kong movies. Some people say that Chow Yun Fat won the box office with a gun, Jackie Chan won the box office with his fist and Stephen Chow won the box office with his mouth. Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan each have four films on the list of the top ten blockbuster films in the past 20 years, and the other two films are owned by Andy Lau and Chow Yun Fat.
The top two on the list are Stephen Chow's Kung Fu and shaolin soccer, both of which exceeded 60 million at the box office; The third and fourth places were Jackie Chan's simple task "Never Give Up 4" and "Red Sail Area", with box office receipts of 57.5 million and 56.8 million respectively. The fifth place is Infernal Affairs by Andy Lau Tony Leung Chiu Wai, with 55 million yuan; The sixth place is Chow Yun Fat's "Gambling God 2", with 52.54 million; Seventh and eighth are Stephen Chow's Death Judge and Happy Family, with 502 10000 and 48.99 million respectively. The ninth and tenth places were Jackie Chan's Charlie Hebdo and The Good Man, respectively, with box office around 45.4 million.
Today, there are still different opinions about Stephen Chow's films. Some people regard it as a treasure, while others regard it as dirt. Some people say that Stephen Chow's films are vulgar, while others say that Stephen Chow's films are fresh and refined. Considering the side of the mountain as a mountain peak, everyone's aesthetic view can't be consistent. Fans who watch Stephen Chow movies can be divided into three levels. The first-class fans look at it very shallowly, just laughing for the sake of laughing, and are very satisfied with Master Xing's funny skills; The second level of fans is neither deep nor shallow. They are tired of Master Xing's ridiculous jokes, but they can't see the meaning behind the punchline. The fans on the third floor watched it deeply. Behind Master Xing's crying or laughing, they saw the social significance behind him, and got a * * * sound in their hearts ... Now his new work "Demon Journey to the West" has broken the global box office by 2150,000 US dollars, setting a new record for Chinese movies and becoming the most popular Chinese movie in the world. I'm sure you have heard of it.