In Stephen Chow's movies, the helplessness of ordinary people has always been revealed. For example, the extra actor Yin Tienchou in "The King of Comedy" will devote everything to a classic line; In "My Son", Su Can lost all his martial arts skills and begged to make a living; in "Kung Fu", the protagonist did immoral things against his own will, but nothing happened; in "Yangtze River No. 7", the loving father worked at the construction site; in "The Nine-Pin Sesame Official" "In which Bao Longxing went through all kinds of hardships and went to Beijing to sue...
Although Stephen Chow's movies are comedies, many of them take joy in suffering, which truly illustrates that the core of comedy is misfortune.
Moreover, the current style of China's film and television industry is skewed. Film and television dramas have always loved to show the daily life of the rich behind the glitz, which can better complement Stephen Chow's movies that are close to the people and have a pyrotechnic atmosphere.
In fact, the movie "Kung Fu" is a movie that further brought Stephen Chow's life. First of all, in terms of characters
In the movie, the actor who plays the role of "Landlord" is named Yuan Qiu. She is a rare female martial artist in the industry, and has also starred in the 007 series of movies. But before participating in "Kung Fu", she didn't have much fame.
However, after Stephen Chow had sketched out the role, he had already determined that she must participate in the role. Therefore, after Stephen Chow's repeated invitations, she decided to be invincible after retiring for many years. In fact, Stephen Chow's perseverance is right, and Yuen Qiu is indeed a good actor worthy of making him "visit the thatched cottage three times".
The name of the "tailor" in the play also has a lot of origin. His name is Zhao Zhiling, and his father is the direct disciple of Lin Shirong (Pork Wing), so he can also be regarded as Lin Shirong's successor. The disciple of the famous Huang Feihong.
He is the leading Hongquan master in today's society. The international Zhao Chiling Hongquan Club he created has more than 200,000 disciples around the world and is also very famous abroad. And the "tailor" he plays in the play, his intelligence and talent also happen to be the Hong family's iron fist. Secondly, the martial arts director
There are two martial arts directors in this movie, they are Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo-Ping. Needless to say, Sammo Hung calls out "Brother" even when Jackie Chan sees him, and Yuen Woo-Ping is also known as "the best martial artist in the world", so both of them are famous.
Basically speaking, only one martial arts instructor with such basic skills is enough. How could there be two others? This also stems from Stephen Chow's strict attitude toward this work. But this does not mean that Sammo Hung's working ability is not good. Sammo Hung has been immersed in kung fu movies for many years, and his martial arts skills are definitely top-notch.
However, Stephen Chow and Sammo Hung are both very stubborn people. The two of them often disagreed on the set. Stephen Chow wanted to create his own style in filming, and Sammo Hung, as a giant in the film industry, of course also He could not tolerate others to guide him, so his attitude toward different movie styles led to the two going their separate ways.
In this film, all the fighting scenes before the three masters separated for a PK were filmed by Sammo Hung, and everything after that was directed by Yuan Heping. This incident also proves how demanding Xing Ye is on every detail of this work. The King of Kung Fu?
In addition, the name of this film is "Kung Fu", and the costume of the star in the film is also full of tribute to his idol "The King of Kung Fu" Bruce Lee, including other Some of the characters also have a slight connection with Bruce Lee.
Yuan Hua, who played the role of "Charterer" in the play, once served as Bruce Lee's stuntman. Chen Guokun, who played the boss of the Ax Gang, looked very similar to Bruce Lee. Ding Xiaolong, who played the gold medal thug, was Bruce Lee's fourth. Passed down from generation to generation, many of them are related to Bruce Lee.
At the beginning of the release of "Kung Fu", many people were still immersed in the serious and exciting world of the martial arts world of Jin Daxia. Some unscrupulous kung fu worlds could only be tried to improve. As those people grew up, they discovered that life was not only inseparable from passion but also comedy.
As the older generation of artists retire or drift away, in the current information environment, Chinese fast food movies have become the protagonists. There are very few such deep movies. It can be said that it is unprecedented and unparalleled.
We grew up watching Mr. Xing’s movies. The funny and exaggerated image of Mr. Xing was deeply engraved in our minds while laughing and scolding. Zhou’s unscrupulous style has also become A symbol of Stephen Chow's life.
In that year, Kung Fu was released. Although it was also the growth history of ordinary people, it was still clearly felt that this movie was different from previous purely funny and humorous movies. The movie would never be the same again. It was for the sake of being funny and deliberately pretending to be cute. We saw that Mr. Xing showed us the dream-chasing process of ordinary people who also have big dreams.
With Master Xing’s gold medal effect and the super genius imagination of the unscrupulous master, everyone hopes to have a large number of Zhou classics like "Kung Fu"