Stephen Chow
Stephen Chow (Stephen Chow) was born in Hong Kong on June 22, 1962. His ancestral home is Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province. He is a Hong Kong film and television actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and businessman. He graduated from the TVB artist training class .
In 1980, he became a special actor of Li's TV station and entered the showbiz circle. In 1981, he starred in his first TV series "When IQ Maturity ". In 1988, he shifted the focus of his acting career to the big screen, and in the same year he appeared in his film debut " He Who Chases After the Wind ". In 1990, he established his nonsensical performance style with the comedy " My Hero "; in the same year, he gained attention because of his starring comedy action film " All for the Winner " breaking the box office record in Hong Kong. In 1991, he starred in the comedy " Fight Back to School " and broke the box office record in Hong Kong again
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. In 1995, he established his position in the Chinese film scene with the comedy romance " A Chinese Odyssey ". In 1999, the self-directed and self-acted comedy " King of comedy " won the Hong Kong Film Annual Box Office Championship
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In 2002, he won the Best Actor Award and Best Director Award in The 21th Hong Kong Film Awards with the comedy " Shaolin Soccer "
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. In 2003, he became the cover character of American " Time "
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. In 2005, he won the 42nd Golden Horse Awards for Best Director with the comedy action film " Kung Fu Hustle " . In 2008, the self-directed and self-acted sci-fi comedy " Chang Jiang Qi Hao " won the Hong Kong Film Annual Box Office Championship. In 2013, he directed the costume comedy " Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons ", which broke the global box office record for Chinese-language movies with a box office of US$218 million
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. In 2016, he served as the director, screenwriter, and producer of the sci-fi comedy " The Mermaid ", which set a box office record for movies in Mainland China with a box office of more than 3.3 billion yuan
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In addition to his acting career, Stephen Chow also ventured into the business world. Xingwei Co., Ltd. was established in 1989. Established in 1996. In 2010, he served as executive director of BingoGroup Limited
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Character Evaluation
Stephen Chow is one of the iconic figures in the Chinese film industry
and is known as the Charlie Chaplin of China
. In the 1990s, because the movies he starred in repeatedly broke box office records, he, Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat were jointly called " Chow Yun fat ", which means the box office guarantee for Hong Kong movies
. He not only made high achievements in commercial films, but also produced nonsensical comedies with a unique style, and created the " Stephen Chow phenomenon "
. As the spokesperson of the Wulitou culture
, his movie style has become a model for many directors. Stephen Chow's cultural influence is not limited to the film field. Many of his lines have become the classic mantra of a generation.
Stephen Chow is both the heir and the pioneer of traditional comedy
. He expresses the behavior of characters in conflicts and conflicts through language and body movements that have no logical connection on the surface, thus forming a nonsensical way of performance. The movie "All for the Winner" made the audience feel his imaginative comedy concept for the first time
; and "A Chinese Odyssey" made his acting style even more popular
. Stephen Chow never repeats himself
, and his comedic style has also undergone a transformation process from exaggeration to introversion, from funny to warm, from body language expression to entering the character's heart
. He uses the narrative form of comedy to express the tragic theme implication, which not only brings laughter to people, but also arouses reflection from the audience
. After the transition to a director, his talents were released even more
. From the black humor in "Domestic Lingling Paint", to his thinking about life in "The God of Cookery", to the use of special effects in "Shaolin Soccer", he has experienced all-round polishing from film ideas to film technology. From the beginning of "Kung Fu Hustle", his director style is not only more proficient, but also more and more good at mixing different styles of film elements together
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In real life, Stephen Chow is not only introverted
, but also low-key. He doesn't care about the attitude of the world towards him
. Although he is not good at speech and is relatively unfamiliar with the outside world; but he is also a person with rich inner emotions, but this kind of emotion is not easy to express
. He is a very attentive gentleman, and very good at taking care of others ,
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