Stephen Chow: How did the poor boy in the slum fight to become the king of comedy?

Stephen Chow is a name that can make a generation of Chinese people feel emotional. It is rare to have such a filmmaker who can live in the memory of almost an entire generation. "The Saint of Gambling", "Truant Dragon", "Journey to the West", "The King of Comedy", etc., none of them do not flow with the laughter and smile of the star master who seems to have nothing to worry about.

He uses exaggerated imagination to break the traditional film's support and maintenance of the halo of the male protagonist; He wrapped the so-called dream in banter and kneaded it into the movie, which made people sigh that the movie could be played like this! But he is lively in the play, but outside the play, he has a lonely and stubborn shadow. <>

The three-year natural disasters from 1959 to 1961 caused thousands of mainlanders to flock to Hong Kong. Stephen Chow grew up in a narrow wooden house. When he was a teenager, he liked to lie in front of the window and watch the market life of the "grassroots class" across the street.

At that time, the life he saw in a poor and running family, but still trying to provide for their families, became an important inspiration for his films. And Stephen Chow's parents' lives are not harmonious. The two always blame, sarcastic, and quarrel with each other, but this kind of discord is very entertaining in Stephen Chow's eyes, as if there are three points to watch in a fight.

Stephen Chow has a different kind of awe and love for his mother. He said that the heroines in his movies, such as Zixia Fairy in "Journey to the West", Liu Piaopiao in "The King of Comedy", and Miss Duan in "Journey to the West", are all like his mother, very beautiful and strong. His later performance of Yin Tianqiu in the movie "The King of Comedy" is very similar to Stephen Chow himself in the early days, stumbling for his dreams, and he must be serious when he is ridiculed as a "dead runner":

Actually, I'm an actor. ”<

In 1982, 20-year-old Stephen Chow finally joined the night department of the TVB Artist Training Class after several ups and downs. A year later, he became a wireless artist. However, his life of "playing tricks" has only just begun.

In order to accumulate experience for his performance, and in order to finally become the protagonist one day, he has run errands, done hygiene, ran tricks, and worked as a children's program host. At the beginning, Stephen Chow was just an inconspicuous actor among thousands of actors, but in 1988 he finally won Li Xiuxian's appreciation and got the opportunity to play the younger brother "Wei Zai" in the movie "Thunderbolt Pioneer". The role of "Wei Zai" won Stephen Chow the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Best New Actor at the Academy Awards.

Stephen Chow has gradually attracted more people's attention. followed by the successive performances of "The Saint of Gambling", and "The Saint of Gambling" came out, and the box office hit 40 million Hong Kong dollars. In the same year, he collaborated with Wang Jing in "The Gambler", which also had a box office of 40 million.

Stephen Chow has become famous since then, and the outside world's name for him has changed from "Xingzai" to "Xingye". <

Through his own efforts, he is now the king of comedy, and he has run tricks before and done a lot of work, and later won the favor of the audience through his witty and humorous laughter.

Stephen Chow was originally a trickster, just like in the play. Stephen Chow is often scolded, it is really difficult to eat, and this is how he looks at other people's cold faces.

It's all by my own efforts, and in the process of growing up, I work very hard.

Stephen Chow has created the king of comedy through the careful shaping of small people, and it is also a process of playing tricks by himself, which is both real and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Stephen Chow is a genius, and the movies he creates are all amazing.

Stephen Chow also started to play the role of a bandit armor, worked hard all the way, and slowly created his own king of comedy.

Why did "The King of Comedy" become a classic, it's like asking me why does the earth revolve around the sun? It's inevitable. When Stephen Chow was filming "The King of Comedy", he deliberately abandoned his martial arts, gave up his usual crazy performance style, and adopted a restrained and shocking realistic performance method to create such a classic.

Who said Stephen Chow doesn't know how to act? Who else could do better than him in this movie? "The King of Comedy" can become a classic, although it is inseparable from the soul of Stephen Chow, but it also depends on a solid script.

The story of The King of Comedy still revolves around the little people: the little people in the community, the little people in society, the little people at work, and the film is not about other people, but about everyone in social life, so the audience was able to achieve such a great spiritual resonance.

is also because of the impeccable acting skills of the actors, whether it is Stephen Chow or Karen Mok, but the most wonderful performance must belong to Cecilia Cheung. Cecilia Cheung gave the most natural and moving performance in this movie. A woman goes from hating to liking a man, in fact, it is the distance of a sentence.

All the factors add up to make this classic.

"The King of Comedy" is Xingye's masterpiece in the hearts of fans, and there is no one. Because people who know enough about Xing Ye will understand many details of this movie. Needless to say, you can feel the sincerity expressed by Stephen Chow through this movie, as well as the mental journey of Xing Ye!

Xing Ye's whole life is spent contributing laughter to fans, and in "The King of Comedy", many jokes come from Xing Ye's real life experience, which is very funny at first glance, and then you may fall into thinking, and the third time you look at it, you may think of Xing Ye's past, and you may remember your past, so you may still cry!

Yin Tianqiu, a young man who loves life and acting, is engaged in a monotonous and unpromising job day after day. Even so, he never gave up his ideal - acting! Did you use to be like him, in a job that had no future but would keep you afloat?

If so, then are you still like Yin Tianqiu and never forget your original intention?

Even if he was repeatedly looked down upon on the set, Yin Tianqiu still seized every opportunity to show himself as much as possible, even if he was looked down upon like a dog! And you, as persistent as he did?

Because of his low self-esteem, he once didn't dare to face his beloved Liu Piaopiao, he didn't believe that he could give her happiness, but in the end he still mustered up the courage and reaped happiness! And you, have you met the person you really like? When there was an obstacle in front of you, did you choose to persevere like him?

In addition to the emotional truth, another major feature of this film is that it is interspersed with the real experience of several stars filming before.

To give an example: Yin Tianqiu suggested to the director whether he could enrich the action and then die, which was the real experience of Stephen Chow in the 83 version of the TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", when he suggested to the executive director that the little soldier he played should do a few actions before dying. Of course, the executive director named Johnny To decisively rejected him!

Stephen Chow perfectly expressed his life experience through the plot of Yin Tianqiu - grievances, sadness, and persistence ......

It is precisely because it expresses a strong sense of truth that "The King of Comedy" is a classic, a comedy that makes you want to cry after watching it, maybe in Xingye's heart, it has never been a comedy!

"The King of Comedy" can be said to be an epoch-making work in Xingye's acting career, changing the usual pure nonsensical style, and using a small person to pursue his acting dream, to interpret the bitterness of pursuing his dream in life.

For the question of why "The King of Comedy" can become a classic, we must first start with Xing Ye himself, because this work tells a lot of stories that Xing Ye himself has experienced, and the character of Yin Tianqiu created in it is the closest to Xing Ye in real life. Xing Ye is widely known because of his nonsensical and funny performance style, which has brought infinite joy to people, but people's understanding of Xing Ye has deviated, Xing Ye, who has been withdrawn since he was a child, likes to be alone and does not like to talk, over time, many people in the circle will think that Xing Ye is impersonal, and even criticize Xing Ye on the Internet, and Xing Ye chooses not to make any reply, just be yourself.

In the film, the dialogues of many scenic spots make people feel bitter after watching it, such as: Uncle Da said that his, you are a puddle of, and your life is cheaper than ants; This is the experience that Xing Ye was looked down upon when he debuted. There is also a classic dialogue with Cecilia Cheung in the film, "If you don't go to work, you can support me if you don't go to work?"

A simple sentence that said that when you are most powerless, you meet the woman who wants to take care of you most for a lifetime, and only you understand the bitterness!

Through this film, Xing Ye used the role of a small person to interpret that being a man must have dreams, no matter how many setbacks you encounter, don't be discouraged, don't give up your dreams, and it is precisely because of this that this film has become a classic!

I think the reason why Stephen Chow's "The King of Comedy" can become a classic has a lot to do with his early experience. As the saying goes, the impact of a person's early experiences on his life is significant. And in Stephen Chow's body, in fact, it is vividly expressed, so that he can also allude to it in his own works.

The film "The King of Comedy" can be regarded as a movie that everyone can think of when it comes to Stephen Chow, and it is estimated that there are a lot of times for everyone. "The King of Comedy" can become a classic, I think a lot of it is in the emotional changes of the characters. At the beginning of the movie, "Yin Tianqiu" played by Xing Ye was scolded by "Du Juaner" played by Karen Mok because of his strong smile and heartache when he was rejected by Aunt Xia, I think many people can empathize with him.

Stephen Chow can create all the very small characters into a particularly vivid and three-dimensional shape, and let everyone empathize, think about their own experience, think about life, this has actually become a classic, it is already great. "Life is like a play, and drama is like life" is really shown in him.

I feel that most of Stephen Chow's films deduce his life story, his joys and sorrows, his struggle and success, he wants everyone to see a real self, although he pretends to be strong and great on the surface, but deep in his heart also lives an occasional fragile "Stephen Chow" with seven emotions and six desires. This is also one of the reasons why everyone likes to watch his movies, there are laughter and tears, but more importantly, it tells us a lot of truths about life.

And the characters created by Xing Ye are very flesh and blood, he can be very ruffian, occasionally a little bad, but he is a persistent, serious, and kind person. Yin Tianqiu in the play is such an existence. He can be forced to do something very undignified for his livelihood, but he can't bear to see the old lady deceive.

Yin Tianqiu easily resonates with all of us, as if he is telling our own story.

In addition, the efforts of the other leading actors in the play have also made this film. Like Cecilia Cheung, Karen Mok, Wu Mengda, etc., every actor has performed vividly and exquisitely, successfully creating characters with different characteristics, and the classics are well deserved.

"The King of Comedy" is Stephen Chow's transformation from actor to director, unlike his previous nonsensical and funny in movies, in this movie, a lot of material is taken from Stephen Chow's own real experience. Many bits and pieces of Stephen Chow's work and life in his early years were only slightly adapted or even added to the film without any changes. Therefore, this movie is completely an autobiographical film by Stephen Chow.

And it is such an autobiographical narrative that has made this classic a classic, and this movie can also be called the pinnacle of Xingye's movies.

The reason why I say this is because Stephen Chow's "The King of Comedy" filmed by combining his own real experience expresses the two most basic or important life themes of career and love.

He told us through the struggle of the characters in the film: for the cause, we must be persistent and persevere. Although Yin Tianqiu is just a trick, he has never given up his dream, eager to become an excellent actor, eager to become a leading actor.

Even if he was ridiculed and even insulted by the people around him, he resolutely believed in himself: "I am an actor." ”

Dare to talk to the director about a tricky scene, how to fall, how to die, the speed of action, the timing of the control, and how to control the proportions. Dare to take away his own three bento boxes under the saw knife raised by the uncle of the field office like a fierce god. This is all the courage given by such a "I am an actor" recognition.

As for love, he told us about the twists and turns of the hard-working mandarin ducks of Yin Tianqiu and Liu Piaopiao, telling us: If you meet the right person, you must dare to promise. Liu Piaopiao first ridiculed Yin Tianqiu in every way, and then gradually discovered the shining point in him, and fell in love with this "dead runner".

For the first girl who appreciated her acting skills, the first sentence of Yin Tianqiu's confession was not the three words "I love you" that girls were crazy about, but the three words "I raise you" that made Liu Piaopiao cry and tremble. "I raise you" expresses not only a fiery emotion, but also a firm responsibility.

The film is positioned as a romantic comedy, although many of the plots and pictures in the movie still do not deviate from the funny style of Xing Ye. But after we laughed, we couldn't help but feel a bitterness, a pain, and a burst of tears. This is the real skill of Xing Ye, and it is also the core reason why "The King of Comedy" has become a classic that has been handed down to the world.

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