Stephen Chow: After all my tragedies, you call me king of comedy.

It is said that if you don't listen to Jonathan Lee's music when you are young, you will be confused for many years. Actually, Stephen Chow is the same for us.

Since childhood, Stephen Chow has brought us endless laughter. His films have accompanied many people to have an unforgettable and wonderful time.

In my impression, he has always been a pistachio, an immortal myth.

However, when I saw his white hair in the video, I realized that he was no longer a handsome boy in front of the screen.

When we were young, we only regarded his movies as nonsense jokes and giggled at the screen.

When we are a little older, we regard his films as inspirational films, and always feel that the little people in them have their own shadows.

But now, when we reach a certain age and look back, we can really understand the inner world of king of comedy.

No, maybe not king of comedy. Perhaps, as Stephen Chow himself said, "Actually, I am an actor and a tragic actor".

From 65438 to 0999, Stephen Chow directed and starred in king of comedy, which was his transition from an actor to a director and an autobiographical film. Many scenes in the film want to express Stephen Chow's mental journey as an actor, and also reflect his own life intentionally or unintentionally. We might as well play back the film, find these bridges and get to know our star master in depth.

This is the picture at the beginning of the film.

I can't remember how many times I watched king of comedy.

Just like I don't know how many times I mentioned Stephen Chow.

I love him, his Sue, his, his Baolong star, his.

But I love his Yin Tianchou more.

The first scene of the film is Yin Tianchou shouting at the sea: Work hard, struggle.

These two words ran through his life, and were rejected by the director again and again, and tried again and again.

An ordinary neighborhood welfare administrator is so ordinary that he can't be found again when he is thrown into the crowd. But he had an actor's dream and made unremitting efforts for it. However, it seems that his career as an actor is not smooth. No matter how he ponders his acting skills and takes every opportunity seriously, he will always be an unremarkable bit player and a failed bit player.

Yin Tianchou was driven out of the set by the director and Du Fu Er (Karen Mok), because he died many times but didn't die, which slowed down the filming progress. However, outside the set, he wanted to eat a box lunch, but he was stopped and insulted by the venue manager (Ng Man Tat). The attendant threw his share to the dog by the wall, and the more he scolded, the worse he got: "Shit, you are a beach shit, and your life is cheaper than ants!" " "

I force a smile on my face.

Turn around, but I can't laugh anymore.

Tears began to swirl in her eyes.

Back to the neighborhood welfare association, looking at all kinds of boring people who pass the time, Yin Tianchou, who lost the opportunity to perform, was naturally bored. Moreover, he kept calling Aunt Xia of the crew, begging to give him another chance, but he was ruthlessly rejected by the phone again and again.

Simple single bed, shabby toilet pool, Yin Tianchou looked at the idol posted on the wall, and then looked at himself in the mirror on the wall. He asked in his heart, can I still be like them?

There is a great contrast between the ambition to be a big actor and the gloomy reality, which is particularly ironic.

At the age of 9, Stephen Chow saw Big Brother in Tangshan. His blood was boiling and his blood was bursting. He immediately made up his mind to become a kung fu movie star like Bruce Lee. Since then, "practicing martial arts" has occupied most of his time, practicing iron sand palms in fried soybeans, and even whimsically wanting to "start classes and accept apprentices" at school.

After graduating from high school, he worked in a teahouse and a factory. Although people around him repeatedly opposed and laughed at his dream, Stephen Chow persisted in this insistence. Later, he got to know Tony Leung Chiu Wai and encouraged him to apply for TVB's performance training class. As a result, Tony Leung Chiu Wai took the exam once, but unfortunately he failed. Later, I took the exam twice and the results were exactly the same. Finally, I had to propose a relationship before I entered the night shift. After becoming famous, Stephen Chow once laughed at himself for his bad life and lack of talent. In fact, this kind of self-mockery is also reflected in king of comedy.

At that time, Stephen Chow's "king of comedy" and Jackie Chan's "Glass Bottle" started shooting in Saigon at the same time, making guest appearances in each other's films. Jackie Chan plays a walk-on actor who is praised and appreciated by the director in king of comedy. When Yin Tianchou learned that he had never studied acting, he sincerely praised his talent.

And at the end of the movie, Yin Tianchou also said this sentence:

After the training, Tony Leung Chiu Wai Star Road was smooth sailing, and invitations kept coming. Wei Xiaobao in Duke of Lushan became an instant hit, and Stephen Chow was arranged as the host of the children's program Space Shuttle 430. In the program, he wore a silver spacesuit and played the 169 generation black zombie. This is far from my own ideal.

So after hosting the show, I went to find a walk-on role whenever I had the chance, and I broke my mouth just to get a chance to play a dead body. However, even if he is a dead body, he has to be different from others. The director doesn't ask, but tries to figure out the details himself. In 1983' s Legend of the Condor Heroes, he played Song Bingyi. According to the setting, he should be killed by Mei Chaofeng, clean and tidy. But before the performance, Stephen Chow found an assistant director. "Can I block it with my hand and die next time?" The assistant director glanced at him and refused, "Don't waste our time."

All this, and how similar Yin Tianchou.

In the middle part of the movie, Ye Hong, the underworld, wants to fight, but his grandmother stops him and pleads. Yin Tianchou comforted grandma that Ye Hong didn't want to fight, but wanted to make a movie, which made grandma very happy. After Grandma left, Yin Tianchou said a meaningful sentence: "Your grandmother raised you, she is the real hero, you are not."

Anyone who knows Stephen Chow's birth knows that he is thanking his mother here.

Stephen Chow's mother is Ling Bao Er. After her husband cheated on her and her mother divorced, her three children were raised by her mother alone. At the peak, she worked three jobs a day. Although remarriage may be mentally and economically dependent, the strong star mother never thought like this, "My character just can't give up."

I think Master Xing's personality has something to do with his childhood, although on the whole, he had a happy childhood.

1962, he was born in an ordinary family in Hong Kong.

At the age of seven, my parents divorced. After the divorce, Ling Baoer, the mother, dragged her three sisters and shouldered the burden of the whole family.

However, this inarticulate and inarticulate personality should not cause one or two misunderstandings in his life.

The most touching line in king of comedy is probably Yin Tianchou's "I support you" to Liu Piaopiao (Cecilia Cheung).

At first, she pretended that nothing had happened. After taking a taxi with Yin Tianchou's "The Cultivation of Actors", she finally burst into tears.

Three simple words made Liu Piaopiao, who had suffered emotional trauma, fall in love with him.

The feelings of two little people are not earth-shattering, but they touch the softest place in our hearts in a subtle way.

In reality, Master Xing is not so good at expressing love.

At the age of 28, Stephen Chow finally fell in love. This woman is Luo Huijuan, an actress who is also in TVB. Her name is Juanmei. 1990, Stephen Chow performed 1 1 drama. At that time, he was still in love with Juanmei and was as busy as a bee. Juanmei knows him very well and knows that he is "a very painful person" and will always work hard. Be patient with him, because when you talk to him, he doesn't seem to hear you and ignore you. In fact, he is absorbed in something.

After they broke up, Juanmei once said that she couldn't understand why she was infatuated with Stephen Chow and wanted to marry him and have children, but Stephen Chow regarded her as a mental derangement. Therefore, Stephen Chow owes Juanmei, which he admits.

Later, Stephen Chow and Athena Chu also had an affair. But from beginning to end, Athena Chu always gushed in front of the media, while Stephen Chow kept his mouth shut and basically said nothing. Later, they broke up, and Athena Chu made a lot of trouble. At first, she said it was a good reunion, and it was her who proposed the breakup. Stephen Chow also saved many times, but she didn't agree. By 1996, things had faded, and Athena Chu suddenly came out and changed his tune and lambasted Stephen Chow. Once again, the media swarmed in. Stephen Chow was banned by the media that year. After the last straw, he said five words: "Athena Chu is not stupid enough."

Perhaps, because of this, Stephen Chow's portrayal of Yin Tianchou in king of comedy is a small expression of his regret and helplessness.

After several decades in the business, Stephen Chow rarely quarreled with people in the media and didn't like to respond to negative news, so many people thought that Stephen Chow was acquiescing in those negative news. Some people say that Stephen Chow is "low in emotional intelligence" and doesn't understand the way of the world, so he offended many people.

However, Stephen Chow put it this way: "I am shy. Some people usually speak loudly, hoping that someone will notice him. I'm not like that. I usually like to listen to others. I like listening to loud people best. If you give me a script to perform once, I can get into the play and act like a character in the play, but I usually can't. I think I like acting. "

Yes, Stephen Chow cares most about his movies.

In king of comedy, Yin Tianchou's attitude towards work is very strict and serious. In addition to repeatedly discussing the details of a walk-on role with the director, he also taught Liu Piaopiao how to play a student girl and how to play a "underworld". Although it seems ridiculous to others, Yin Tianchou really devoted himself to teaching people how to be a qualified "actor".

An extra is also an actor:

When he took the script he studied all night to see the producer and the crew's planner, Yin Tianchou put forward his own views on this movie role that will "play":

Yin Tianchou is a down-to-earth person, so is Stephen Chow.

Actors who have worked with Stephen Chow all say that he is a "tyrant" who pursues perfection. He is too eager to make a good film, so he is particularly serious and rigorous, but "too serious" will cause others' disgust.

Sammo Hung has always regarded himself as a big brother in Hong Kong, but when Stephen Chow was filming, no matter the big brother or the younger brother, perfection came first. At that time, Sammo Hung was the martial arts action director of Kung Fu. After the crew finished filming a fighting film, Sammo Hung filmed three, which was ok, but Stephen Chow wanted to shoot another one. Sammo Hung immediately got angry and thought that Stephen Chow had not given him face in front of so many people.

1992 TOP 10 In the box office of Hong Kong movies, seven films were shot by Stephen Chow, and the top five films were monopolized by Stephen Chow.

In these films, most of the funny plots were invented by Stephen Chow himself. Sometimes it costs far more than an ordinary actor to temporarily change the script or even arrange lighting art when shooting. Teresa Mo, a Hong Kong actress who worked with him, said, "Stephen Chow is a strange person. In the past, we all wanted to do our duty as actors, but he didn't. I was playing with him, and he asked for a script change all day. Now I understand why he did that. He only thinks about how to do good tricks. We people often care about interpersonal relationships, but he ignores them. "

The supporting roles in Stephen Chow's films are excellent, but in other films, many of their roles become less noticeable and unforgettable. Are they going backwards? I don't think so. Probably because other directors only chose the best "10 times", while Stephen Chow chose the best "100 times".