Let's look at a statistic:
1988 "Pioneer of Thunder" as Ah Boy
1988 "Wind Catcher (Heroes' Tears)" as Ah Xing
1988 "Best Son-in-law" as Lai Pudian (Lai Puding)
1989 "Dragon in the End of the World" (Dragon Dominates the World)" as A You
in 1989's "The Righteous Heroes", as Xingzai in
1989's "Rogue Chapo (male and female, from Jianghu)"
, as Xianzai in 1990's "Hopeful Jackie Chan", as Shi Jinshui
in 1990 " A manga "Crossing the World" as A Xing
1990's "Dragon and Phoenix Teahouse" Garbage Chi
1990 "Wind and Rain Together" as Zhang Lang
1990 "Curry Chili" as Zhao Wenqiang (Zhao Zai, Chili)
1990 "The Thief A Xing" "As A Xing
1990 "Senior Brother Hits Ghosts" As A Xing
1990 "The Gambler" As Zuo Songxing
1990 "Invincible Lucky Star" As Lucky Star
1990 "The Last Big Brother in Jianghu (Sunset Warrior)" As A Xing
1990 "Gambler" as Xing Tsai (Axing)
1991 "Tricky Expert (Tricky Expert)" as Gu Jing (Taiwan translation: Hu Zhen)
1991 "Dragon Descendants" as Zhou Xiaolong
1991 "Wealthy Night Banquet" " as Zhou Xingchi
in 1991 "New Jingwumen 1991" as Liu Jing
1991 "Fucking Dragon" as Zhou Xingxing
1991 "Gambler 2 Shanghai Beach Gambling Saint" as Zhou Xingzu
1991 "Love Saint" as Cheng Sheng
1992 "Cartoon Dragon (Modern Martial Saint)" as Liu Jing
1992 "Family Affair" as Chang Huan
1992's "Fighting Dragon 2" As Zhou Xingxing
1992 "Dead Officer (Dragon Breaks the Heaven Pass)" as Song Shijie
1992 "New Lu Ding Ji" as Wei Xiaobao
1992 "Deer Ding Ji 2 Dragon" Teach" as Wei Xiaobao
in 1992 "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier" as Su Chaharcan
in 1993 "Fighting Dragon 3: The Dragon Celebrates the Year of the Rooster (Playing Out of School Power Dragon 3 Seventh Sense to Catch the God of Wealth)" as Zhou Xingxing
in 1993 "Tang Bohu" "Dianqiuxiang" as Tang Bohu (Hua'an)
1993 "Jigong" as Dragon Subduing Arhat (Jidi)
1994 "King of Destruction" as He Jinyin
1994 "Nine Pin Sesame Official White Bread Blue Sky" as Bao Longxing
1994 "Domestic Ling" Ling Qi (Ling Ling Qi vs. The Golden Gun)" decorated with Ling Ling Qi
's 1995 "Journey to the West: The First Hundred and First Time Moonlight Treasure Box (Monkey King's Journey to the East)" decorated with Supreme Treasure's
1995 "Journey to the West Finale" The Cinderella (Monkey King Journey to the West)" decorated with Supreme Treasure
1995 "Return to Soul Night (Ghost Expert)" decorated with Leon
1995 "Variety Star King (Variety King Kong)" decorated with Li Zexing (Li Shouxing)
1996 Year "Da Nei Detective Zero Zero Hair (Lu Ding the Great)" decorated with zero zero hair
1996 "God of Cookery" as Stephen Chou
's 1997 "97 Family Happenings", as Lao Gong's
1997 "Dead Grass (Top Scholar)", as Chen Mengji's
1998 "One-stop Luck", as He Jinshui's
1999 "Fortune" The King of Comedy" as Yin Tianqiu
1999 "Glass Bottle" as patrol police officer
1999 "King of Kings 2000" as Huang Shihu
2001 "Shaolin Soccer" as the fifth brother King Kong Legs
in 2004 "Kung Fu" as star
2008 " Changjiang No. 7 (now released on 08/1/31 Spring Festival schedule)
2008 "Kung Fu 2" (in production)
2008 "Dragon Ball" (in production)
As far as I know, the king of comedy in 1999 can be said to be Stephen Chow It's the first movie since it was created. I believe that everyone's favorite, or the favorite of most star fans, are concentrated before this movie. Many netizens say that this movie is the beginning of Stephen Chow's transformation. I don't think this sentence is accurate. Obviously, this movie is the beginning of Stephen Chow's own filmmaking as a director, or we can say that the real Stephen Chow movie has just begun!
Many star fans are indulging in the so-called "Chow Xingchi style", but they ignore that in most of the past movies, Stephen Chow is just an actor. What style can an actor have? It's nothing more than the performance style, but is it only the performance style of Stephen Chow in those movies that the fans reminisce over and over again? How many times have we admired the ingeniousness of the movie's plot, the classic dialogue design, and even the handling of props and the ingenuity of action choreography, unexpected, or "nonsensical"? Think about the movies you admired, after all these elements were removed, can they still make you relish and reminisce? The ghostly conception of Wang Jing and other directors' production team is the foundation, and Stephen Chow's signature performance is the icing on the cake. Only in this way can we create the classic in your eyes and create the "Chow Xingchi style".
We put the phrase "Zhou Xingchi's style" on all aspects of Zhou Xingchi's movies, which has to be said to be the fundamental reason why it is becoming more and more difficult for us to accept Zhou Xingchi's films. We are accustomed to think that the style of the movies that Stephen Chow has acted in is the style of Stephen Chow movies. Let's use a pair of quotation marks to distinguish: "Zhou Xingchi style" refers to the comedy style of the production team of directors such as Wang Jing or Zhou Xingchi's performance style, and Zhou Xingchi's style refers to the style of Zhou Xingchi's own film creation. The difference between the two is obvious. As I said earlier, the real Stephen Chow movies have just begun. In the ten years from 1999 to 2008, Stephen Chow's real directorial career has just begun. And we can see that Stephen Chow does not just want to be another Wang Jing! He has his own ideas, and he is also exploring his own style of film creation. Of course, he can only start a new path from the style he is familiar with.
Our habitual notions confuse him as an actor with him as a film director. So to speak, we deducted from him some of the glory that was not entirely his, and imposed on him some of the blame that should not have been given to him. I think if you are not a fan of Chow Xingchi but really love it, you should see his perseverance and cheer for him! He insisted on blazing a path of his own. But in our confused minds, it's just too much work. Stephen Chow has innocently endured too many negative expectations from fans, and those expectations have become shackles for him now. When we misidentified Wang Jing as Zhou Xingchi again and again, he didn't. He gave up lying in the style created by others and followed the fans to indulge and enjoy things that didn't really belong to him. He actively tried Variety. Don't you think that such Zhou Xingchi is really worthy of our appreciation and love?
I believe that many people will feel desolate after understanding what I want to express. This feeling comes from two aspects.
On the one hand, some people find that what they like is not actually Stephen Chow, but only the "Chow Xingchi style" in the movie. And this style was actually created by several previous directors, but it was named after Stephen Chow's icing on the cake.
On the other hand, when we look back at Stephen Chow's own films, we can't help but feel that he still has a long way to go. Apart from the frequent analysis of pictures, music, dialogue, plot, etc., he also lacks a stable style. Of course, he is still trying and groping. The process from "Zhou Xingchi's style" to Zhou Xingchi's style is naturally arduous and slow.
Friends who just like "Zhou Xingchi's style", it is not so much that Zhou Xingchi disappointed you, but your own expectations and confusion caused this disappointment.
Friends who like Stephen Chow, cheer for his attempt, and hope that the maturity of his directing career will come one day sooner.
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