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After graduating from high school, he first became a special actor of Li TV (the predecessor of ATV Asia TV) around 198 1, but he didn't officially join the industry. 1982, he took Tony Leung Chiu Wai (at this time, Tony Leung Chiu Wai was not interested in acting) and signed up for the training class for wireless TV artists at 1 1, and was actually admitted to Tony Leung Chiu Wai. Finally, Stephen Chow entered the night part of the training course. After graduation, he has been a walk-on and has been running for almost ten years. The most familiar one should be Song Bingyi in The Legend of the Condor Heroes. 1983 was the host of the children's program "Space Shuttle 430" for four years. The most classic performance is the unit drama Black and White Zombies. 1987, he volunteered to be transferred to the drama troupe, but first he was arranged to perform in the variety show Happy Tonight, and then he participated in the unit dramas The Edge of Dreams and My Brother's Girlfriend directed by Li Lichi, during which their friendship and tacit understanding began. Only at 1989 did he play the leading role in the drama "Heroes on Earth". In this play, he performed his own unique performance style, which was appreciated by filmmakers and began to perform movies. His illogical and neurotic acting skills have created a "nonsense" culture and become an important part of Hong Kong culture. Therefore, the film starring him broke the box office record and brought another outlet and peak to Hong Kong comedy, but he was not satisfied and moved on. Hong Kong is known as "Oriental Hollywood", with an annual output of hundreds of films, including actors and actresses such as Ganges Sand. However, in the past two decades, the top spot in the box office list has almost always been "every other week". Among the three superstars with the highest box office appeal, Chow Yun Fat and Stephen Chow won many professional awards for their acting skills; Only Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow have the ability to make movies independently, and their works can be crowned with their own names; The films performed are not only full of personal characteristics, but also highly representative of society, and even repeatedly interpreted as a cultural phenomenon. Stephen Chow is the only one. Looking back at the early days of Stephen Chow's film career, it is hard to imagine that this boy will become a superstar who plays an important role in the history of Hong Kong film. He doesn't come from a family of entertainers. He and his four brothers and sisters grew up under the care of a single mother. He is very handsome, his personality is not outstanding, he studies in general, and he doesn't have much money to work. Maybe his relationship with movies is just a crazy worship of Bruce Lee (note: Bruce Lee is Stephen Chow's idol). The first movie he saw in the cinema as a child was starring Bruce Lee. That movie made him feel that there was a fire burning in his heart. After watching several films starring Bruce Lee in succession, he decided to be a martial artist or actor. But when he was young, he wanted to be a kung fu master instead of a movie star. It was not until the end of middle school that he fell in love with popular dramas and popular stars like many of his peers. Influenced by the TV drama craze at that time, he had the desire to be an actor. At that time, he had a good friend named Tony Leung Chiu Wai. They dreamed of being an actor together and made an eight-minute short film together. Stephen Chow became a director and a leading actor, arranged for Tony Leung Chiu Wai to play an evil villain, and dragged him into the artist training class of the wireless TV station. The result is like a dramatic movie plot: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, who accompanied him, went to high school in one fell swoop, while Stephen Chow, who was in high spirits, failed the list.

1982 Spring

It was the spring of 1982, and Stephen Chow was not yet twenty years old. Stubborn personality, abundant desire to perform, and the spirit of not giving up until you reach your goal have been reflected in this young man since then. After many twists and turns, he finally squeezed Stephen Chow's personal atlas (10) into the night part of the artist training class, and embarked on the road of performing arts that he longed for, but his screen career was far from ideal: when Tony Leung Chiu Wai had started to play a supporting role with a name, he could only appear several shots in the same play; When Tony Leung Chiu Wai has been packaged as "General of the Five Tigers", he is still a walk-on in The Legend of the Condor Heroes. He dutifully suggested to the director that "I will stretch out my hand to block it before I die" and was reprimanded: "Hurry up and don't say so much!" ..... When Tony Leung Chiu Wai was transferred from the children's program "Space Shuttle 430" because of his soaring social status, Stephen Chow finally got a chance to replace Tony Leung Chiu Wai as the host of "Space Shuttle 430". However, this Stephen Chow himself is not willing to be only a children's program host. He always has a dream about his acting career, and he always refuses to relax. He tried to write scripts, ponder classic movies, read theories intensively and study acting skills, but he never had a chance to show himself. Even if he gets up the courage to hand in the application form to the film company, he will never see the boss. 1988 One night, while he was killing time in the ballroom, he met Li Xiuxian, the boss of Universal Film Company. After a brief conversation with him, the famous filmmaker gave him a valuable turning point in his acting career: he was invited to play a wandering little brother in his new film "Pioneer of Thunderbolt". Few actors' first films are as skillful as Stephen Chow's performance in Pioneer of Thunderbolt, and there is no sign that he is a newcomer to the screen. This film won him the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and Best Newcomer, which not only attracted the attention of the film industry, but also attracted the TV station to re-examine him and gave him more opportunities to play an important role in the TV series. So, he began to appear in the long TV series "Heroes on Earth" and "He's from Jianghu". In the two plays, he is always so wicked, unexpected and irrelevant, but he still makes people feel kind and lovely, which makes people laugh. Many children and teenagers grow up with him and his works in the process of watching these performances year after year.

1990 gambling saint

1990, after Stephen Chow played a series of younger brothers, thieves, hooligans and villains, the "Gambling Saint" (4 pieces) stills starred in the new film "Gambling Saint" directed by Liu Zhenwei, playing a Jianghu gangster who made a successful result. This film was originally a follow-up to the first year's box office champion "God of Gambling", and it was a low-cost crash film. But with the cooperation of talented directors and talented actors, an amazing spark broke out. Its fascinating plot, exaggerated and funny details, fresh elements that fit the characteristics of the times, and Stephen Chow's unique performance style made a sensation in Hong Kong, with a box office of 465,438+0.32 million, breaking the box office record since Hong Kong opened its port, and Stephen Chow himself won the Oscar for the first time. In the same year, director Jing Wong, who is good at capturing business opportunities, invited Stephen Chow to co-produce the film Gambling Man, which earned 40.3 million yuan at the box office, and tied with Gambling Saint as the champion and runner-up in the box office list. In this short period of six months, Stephen Chow became the most sought-after movie star, and his nickname changed from "Star Boy" to "Star Master". A person's success seems sudden, but there is always a line that can only be found after careful exploration. Stephen Chow waited for many years, and finally he got a movie that could make him give full play, and his role image and personality were very suitable. He has fully released his accumulated artistic exploration, life accumulation, performance skills, personal feelings, ambitions and passions in every shot of every work, which makes him have a distinct Stephen Chow style with different works of different directors, and can make the audience have a high sense of intimacy and identity. Although the film is mixed, it is all branded with his actions. 199 1 Stephen Chow changed the image of a gangster in the past, played an undercover detective in the movie Truant, and then broke the box office record. The other two works also entered the top ten of the box office list. From 65438 to 0992, Stephen Chow occupied seven seats in the top ten box office charts, and the top five were all his works. Moreover, with Judge Death, he won the Best Actor Award at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival, once again breaking the box office record. This year is called "Stephen Chow Year" by the film industry. After 1993 won the box office championship for the fourth time in a row, Stephen Chow was no longer satisfied with joking just to cater to the audience's needs. His works more and more reflect the author's humanistic concern and thinking about life and world ideals. Although many viewers are not used to this tearful way of laughing, and the immature exploration often makes the film look neither fish nor fowl, the level fluctuates, but these efforts also make Stephen Chow gradually realize. 1995, the Moonlight Box of Journey to the West, which was painstakingly created by Stephen Chow and Liu Zhenwei, was released in issue10/kloc-0, and The Fairy of Journey to the West was released in two parts. At that time, the box office response was bleak, but in the following years, with the rampant piracy market and the popularity of the internet, it became popular in the mainland, becoming one of the classic films with the highest evaluation among young audiences in the mainland, and even affected it to some extent. Stephen Chow also walked into the lecture hall of Peking University in the puzzled eyes of Hong Kong people, although he frankly admitted that he knew little about the aura given to him by audiences such as "postmodern deconstructionists". In the late 1990s, Stephen Chow gradually reduced his production and took part in film creation, and was officially listed as producer, screenwriter and director for many times. King of comedy is a work that clearly conveys Stephen Chow's life sentiment. Yin Tianchou's bitter pursuit of movie dreams, his bleak love with Neither of us is Happy-the willow fluttering at the end of the day, and his persistent repetition of "Actually, I am an actor" all make the audience feel more shocked and sad while smiling. This movie made Stephen Chow win the box office title again, and also made the newcomer Cecilia Cheung emerge. However, in the film critics, there are different opinions. Some viewers are disappointed with Stephen Chow, because Stephen Chow, who is relaxed and lively and has no scheming, is obviously unable to come back.

200 1 shaolin soccer

200 1 After two years of painstaking production, Stephen Chow released the first truly "Stephen Chow's Works" shaolin soccer. The more mature interpretation, deeper connotation, the fresh combination of football and kung fu, and the rare large-scale production in Hong Kong local films all make it the most concerned work in China film industry. At that time, the Hong Kong film market, which was facing a life-and-death crisis, set off a film frenzy, setting a miracle record of more than 6,654,380+million box office. It seems that the Hong Kong film industry didn't realize until now that it decided to give a statement to this talented superstar who broke the Hong Kong box office record four times, won the annual box office championship six times, ranked twenty-nine works in the top ten blockbuster movies of the year, and was nominated for the performance award of the Academy Awards eight times but never won the prize. At this year's Hong Kong Film Awards, "shaolin soccer" won 14 nominations and finally won 7 awards. Stephen Chow made four appearances and won the Best Film Award, Best Director Award, Best Actor Award and Outstanding Young Director Award, which became a miracle in the history of the Academy Awards. Zhang Minyi, an award-winning guest and a senior official of the Hong Kong Government, said a meaningful sentence when giving Stephen Chow the award: "I am very happy to award this award to you, because you have made many Hong Kong people laugh when they are unhappy."

Kung fu in 2004

Two years after the Kung Fu stills (65,438+02), Stephen Chow was dormant again until his new work Kung Fu was released in 2004. This time, instead of focusing on individual performances, he devoted himself more to teamwork and the overall creation of the film, which made the film more profound and powerful, and broke through the barriers of Hong Kong culture more obviously, full of reverence and compassion for human nature. Kung fu is popular not only in the Chinese world, but also in overseas markets. Once released, it broke the record of China films, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan Province Province and Hong Kong. At the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards held the following year, Kung Fu won an unprecedented nomination of 16. Although Stephen Chow himself was defeated in the competition for best director and best actor, he succeeded in winning Kung Fu as the most important award for the best film of the year. Even Dong Shengyi, who won the best director at that time, said that he thought the best director was Stephen Chow. Unfortunately, the judging system is different, and Master Xing missed this award.

Changjiang No.7 in 2008

On June 30th, 2008, No.7 Yangtze River was released, which was Stephen Chow's painstaking work for three years after Kung Fu in 2004. Han Sanping and Stephen Chow, the bosses of China Film Group, were the chief producers. In addition, Stephen Chow is the producer, producer, screenwriter, director and starring of the film. Inspired by the Shenzhou manned spaceship, this film is divided into three parts: science fiction, comedy and warmth. From the first work 20 years ago to the Yangtze River No.7 today, Stephen Chow, the most popular "alien" in Hong Kong's film circle, sublimated the "nonsense" film that was originally just a spark in Hong Kong into a cultural phenomenon. Now, Stephen Chow comes back with warm fatherly love and laughter, and once again uses "Changjiang No.7" to explain his film spirit with tears in his laughter-simplicity, laughter and moving. No.7 Stills of the Yangtze River (1 1) If the film industry in China has devoted its life to the big screen, Stephen Chow can definitely be regarded as one of them. He seems to have no other hobbies except filming, and he doesn't talk much in his daily life. He often turned against each other because of his stubbornness or harshness at work, and all his feelings ended in failure. However, as an excellent filmmaker, what can be more important than a successful work for the audience? Maybe it is difficult to make a breakthrough in his later works. Maybe he is old and has lost his glory, but countless people in this world have enjoyed his glory. Countless people will recall shuttle, sovereign treasure, prosperous wealth, Xiao Qiang, laughter, laughter and dreams over and over again in the yellowing years. The time spent with Stephen Chow is a time full of laughter.

20 10 to establish "interstellar adventure 139"

On June 5438+1October1day, 2009, Xingye held a press conference in Guangzhou, announcing the establishment of official website, the only individual in mainland China, "Xingye Adventure 139". Master Xing released his latest news about film and television to share his personal life through "Star Adventure 139", and established a fan circle, a film circle, a sports circle, a fun circle and a world circle to share his thoughts.

20 1 1 Stephen Chow

Tai Chi is being filmed and is expected to be released in the second half of 20 1 1.

Artist evaluation

King-Tan Yuen said of Stephen Chow: "Stephen Chow is a genius in making movies. Even though I have been performing for many years, I often can't keep up with him. Grasp the acting skills very accurately. " Liu Zhenwei: "Some people say he is dictatorial, but I don't think that's enough. As a director, everyone including me has a certain desire for control, which is subjective. In fact, not only directors, but also actors should have them. Maybe he will ask the co-director why he let him do that. He asked just to get you to tell his acting thoughts. This is a very clever actor. If the director thinks such an actor is troublesome, he should think about who is wrong. Of course, both parties may need to review and the communication methods may need to be changed. " Nick Cheung said: "As far as works are concerned, Stephen Chow does have some dictatorships, but I think Stephen Chow is a genius. Making comedies also needs such dictatorship, especially movies like Stephen Chow's, which needs him to do. After all, he has that talent and his ability is enough to control movies, so his opinion is naturally in a strong position. If I were a director and made such a comedy, I would be like him. " Commenting on the best actor in Hong Kong films over the years, Huang Qiusheng said, "What is the angle of this question? Jackie Chan talks about the spirit of Hong Kong and Stephen Chow talks about creativity. " Wu Zhenyu: Foreign comedians, such as Jim Carrey, really can't compare with Stephen Chow. Stephen Chow's performance is funnier than Jim Carrey's, because at least he has many inner things, or rhythms. Stephen Chow's exercises have a strong sense of rhythm and are accurate.

Edit this paragraph style

According to the style, the film can be divided into four stages, and the box office results of his films in these four stages are also obviously different.

Exploration period

This is mainly the stage before Stephen Chow's debut, from 1988' s "Pioneer of Thunderbolt" to 1990' s "Gambling Saint", although Stephen Chow had participated in the actor training class before and then participated in the TV series "Legend of the Condor Heroes" (he also asked the director "Can you block it with your hand?" Let Mei Chaofeng kill me again ") and the popular entertainment program" Space Shuttle 430 ",which hosted the program, were appreciated by Li Xiuxian and entered the film circle. But in the first two or three years, they didn't get a good play, just played the role of some small people, even the protagonist, and didn't get much response. During this period, Stephen Chow participated in or starred in 13 films, among which the best box office was Chili Curry, which was released on May 24th, 1990, with a box office of15.78 million Hong Kong dollars. In fact, this movie already has many comedy elements.

Wulitou period

"Wulitou" comes from Cantonese, which means that everything a person says or does is incomprehensible and has no focus, but it is not unreasonable. This nonsense culture is just in line with the mentality of Hong Kong people who feel the political situation at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s from the perspective of bystanders (Hong Kong people generally refer to this period as "post-80s" or "pre-90s"). Coupled with the identity anxiety on the eve of the reunification, the secularization of comedy films developed in the late 1980s also revealed that "the power center that once placed hope no longer (dared) to trust, was cynical and evaded, and unconsciously entered the boring door. As a result, Stephen Chow-style nonsense films became very popular, and Stephen Chow's films began to climb to the top of the annual box office and runner-up, starting with Sincere and Funny Gamblers directed by Jing Wong. Because of its high popularity, Gamblers released in August of 1990 became the annual champion with a score of HK$ 41330,000.1830,000. After that, Stephen Chow's films won the championship for three consecutive years from 199 1 to 1993. He starred in the top five box office of 1992, namely, Death Judge, Happy Family, Duke of Lushan, No.1 Martial Arts Scholar Su and Deer.

transition period

The period from 1994 to 1999 can be said to be the transformation stage of Stephen Chow, and only one king of comedy became the annual champion at the box office on 1999. During this period, Stephen Chow was not only satisfied with his past nonsense creation, but also tried to incorporate more drama and even tragedy elements into his films, so as to make his films more diversified. But the audience may be more familiar with his nonsense image, but they are somewhat unfamiliar with his tragedy or drama performance. What's more, since the mid-1990s, the decline of Hong Kong films has become increasingly obvious. Although king of comedy won the box office, its performance was less than HK$ 30 million. However, during this period, Stephen Chow has taken up the post of director, which makes his comedy talent and creative talent better combined (which also lays a good foundation for Stephen Chow's independent director in the new century, with record box office and word of mouth). For example, he participated in the director's "Domestic Lingling Paint", which was very restrained in both performance and style, and incorporated some elements of black humor, which was contrary to the style of "doing whatever it takes, doing whatever it takes". Although his films "A Chinese Odyssey" and "king of comedy" can't reproduce the box office glory of that year, they have left a good reputation.