月度归档 2024年7月16日

Time Editorial Department | Hidden Drink

Heal life with movies.

Today is Xingchi Zhou’s 60th birthday. I wish Xingye a happy birthday!

Born in the slums, "walk-on" entered the industry, from "I am an actor" to retreating into the background to become a director.

From Xingzai to Xingye, more than 30 years of film, and more than 50 films starring or directing, Stephen Chow has brought many classic works to fans, as well as countless touching and laughing.

Regarding the screen image of Lord Xing, it has been reviewed too many times.

Today, Time Lord wants to change his perspective and tell 15 short stories about him.

Perhaps there is something in it that you don’t know.

01

"Fa Xiao" Leung Chaowei

Stephen Chow and Tony Leung, the two superstars of Hong Kong’s film industry, are actually "young children".

Their birthdays were only five days apart, and they first met because Tony Leung’s classmate was dating Stephen Chow’s sister, and they both went to work as light bulbs.

In 1982, they went to the Hong Kong TVB artiste training class together. As a result, Tony Leung, who accompanied him, was selected, but Stephen Chow fell into the sun. Thanks to Qi Meizhen’s support, he was admitted to the night class.

As a classmate, Wu Zhenyu once said that the teacher most often praised Tony Leung in class.

But every time they stood in line, Stephen Chow and Tony Leung refused to stand in the first row because the person in front was the shortest.

Unexpectedly, they achieved the highest level of success later.

02

Watch the fight

If the essence of comedy is tragedy, then Stephen Chow, who is the best at comedy, has long realized this truth.

In his childhood, his parents often quarreled and even fought over some trivial matters.

Childhood Stephen Chow with his mother and sisters

The other children stayed far away, but Zhou Xingchi was the opposite. He regarded the noise of his parents as a funny little theater.

Every time his parents quarreled, he watched with relish.

When his parents divorced at the age of 7, he became more and more taciturn, and began to like to lie on the window and watch the people coming and going in the streets downstairs, observing the neighborhoods and the city.

He could even lie on the window for a day without speaking.

Loneliness and bystanders have since become the base color of Zhou Xingchi’s life.

03

walk-on

When the students in the artist training class had started filming one after another, Stephen Chow was still working as a children’s program host on the radio station.

The poignant story of the perennial walk-on was written into many of his later films.

In the 1983 edition of "The Legend of the Condor Hero", Zhou Xingchi’s role is "Song Bingyi" and a prisoner. There is a scene where he is going to be caught to practice Jiuyin White Bone Claw for Mei Chaofeng.

He also asked at the time: "Assistant director, can I block it with my hands and then die?" The assistant director’s reaction can be referenced from "King of Comedy".

For Zhou Xingchi, he still can’t forget the feeling of walking around: "Wait, wait, wait endlessly, wait year after year, wait one second a day."

This feeling of hope in times of despair is hidden in the back of Yin Tianchou shouting "hard work" at the sea.

04

A dog?

In 1988, Li ******* invited Zhou Xingchi to star in "Pioneer of Thunder", which won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor for Xingye, his true film debut.

Li ******* is his Bole, but the two are not angry.

There is a scene in "Ji Gong" where the words "Li Xiuyuan, I want ****" are painted on the wall.

Ji Gong’s real name is Li Xiuyuan, but it was extended to some people to understand that this is Zhou Xingchi using the movie to mock Li *******.

Zhou Xingchi pursues perfection, and keeps reshooting if he is not satisfied with a shot.

This made Li *******, who had long been used to efficient shooting, disdain him, and even scold him, "Acting is not hard work, why are you working hard like a dog?"

Sound familiar? Isn’t this the classic line of the ending of "Journey to the West": "He looks like a dog".

05

Nonsensical bud

When it comes to Zhou Xingchi’s movies, the key word that cannot be avoided must be "nonsense".

Back then, Zhou Xingchi went to play tricks when he had time. During this period, he met Li Lichi, the director who later cooperated the most.

An actor who loves to come up with ideas meets a director who loves to change the script on the spot, and the two hit it off immediately.

Because they lived not far away, they often met at the tea restaurant to discuss the script, feeling like they were "in love".

Wu Mengda, Luo Huijuan and Lan Jieying in "Hero of the World" have all passed away

In 1989’s "Heroes of the World", Wu Mengda, Zhou Xingchi and Li Lichi became the "Iron Triangle".

It is often three people who come up with a new joke on the spot and suddenly burst into laughter, causing the staff next to them to look puzzled.

They have already consciously added jokes during the filming process.

There was only one joke in the original script, but after a live rehearsal, they would turn one joke into two, three or even four – with the polish of the live screenwriters, this is the germ of "nonsense".

06

add play

Zhou Xingchi loves to add drama. When he understands the director’s meaning, he will immediately perform the director’s idea better.

When filming "Su Qier, the champion of martial arts," there was a scene to show the scene where Su Chaharcan, played by Stephen Chow, was raided.

Director Chen Jiashang once said, "I told Ah Xing that he needed a lonely shot, so he stood in front of the camera and looked at it, then walked over and sat on a big smoking bed. Without thinking about it, he started singing Nanyin."

The director was stunned at the time, "It turns out that the most lonely thing is not beating his heart and lungs, not crying, but his singing, his voice is a little mournful."

"As he sang, I watched through the camera, and I thought I saw a genius actor. He was really the best, and I still think he is the best."

07

From Xingzai to Xingye

In 1992, Zhou Xingchi was only 30 years old, but no one in the Hong Kong film industry was called "Xingzai", renamed "Xingye".

That year, Stephen Chow made a total of seven films, and he starred in all the top five films in the Hong Kong box office that year. It was unprecedented and had not been seen since. This year was known as the "Year of Stephen Chow".

In fact, in 1990, in the movie "Gambling Saints" that made Zhou Xingchi shine, Wu Junru’s A Ping had been renamed "Lord Xing" in the movie, which could be said to be a prophecy of God.

From then on, the Hong Kong film industry began to have the saying of "double Monday", and the three of them became the golden signs of the box office.

08

Smoke and mustard

When Stephen Chow was filming "King of Comedy", he asked Cecilia Cheung to audition.

Seeing that she was only eighteen, Lord Xing gave her a pen and pretended to be a cigarette to see how she felt about smoking.

Cecilia Cheung said, "Why should I take a fake pen, just take a real cigarette! I already smoke!"

It was this detail that moved Zhou Xingchi and made him feel that Liu Piaopiao was the role of Cecilia Cheung.

But when it was time to shoot, Lord Xing was not so polite.

After the scene of eating mustard and crying bitterly, Cecilia Cheung went to the bathroom and vomited eight times.

In 1998, the "King of Comedy" and "Glass Bottle" crew happened to rent the same place in Hong Kong to film.

The actors of the two film crews often eat and drink together.

Everyone proposed that the two leading actors, Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan, make cameos in each other’s plays.

Therefore, there are these two classic shots that are difficult to reproduce.

09

Eight beer bottles.

Huang Yifei played the senior brother in "Shaolin Football", filming the scene of Tietou Gong. In order to pursue the effect, Zhou Xingchi exploded eight glass bottles on his head.

It was said to be a prop bottle, but his head was already hematoma.

Zhou Xingchi has been dissatisfied and asked if there are still beer bottles. Even the prop master couldn’t bear it and lied that there were no beer bottles.

Afterwards, the prop master quietly told Huang Yifei that there were actually four more bottles.

This story also became some kind of evidence that Zhou Xingchi was a "tyrant on the set".

I still remember the two singing "Shaolin Kung Fu is good" on the stage, and Lord Xing couldn’t hold back halfway through and laughed three times. Originally, he didn’t plan to use this set of shots, but later because it was too funny, he put it in after making up the editing.

10

Idol Bruce Lee

When his mother took him to the cinema to watch "Tangshan Big Brother", Zhou Xingchi, who was less than 10 years old, was completely obsessed with Bruce Lee.

He loved his childhood idol for decades, and even changed the direction of his life.

In "Gambling Saint", Zhou Xingchi used two toilet stoppers to make a nunchaku, and in "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier", the remnant weapons were combined into a nunchaku.

The rehearsals in "King of Comedy" are modeled after Bruce Lee’s "Jingwu Gate," and "Kung Fu" also has a plot to pay tribute to Bruce Lee.

The greatest tribute is, of course, the 2001 Shaolin Football.

When Stephen Chow won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Director for this film, the first person to express his gratitude was Bruce Lee.

11

Iron sand palm

When he was young, Zhou Xingchi not only liked to lie down at the window and watch people, but also liked to go to the bookstore to read some martial arts books and practice kung fu in his spare time.

He even cooked the beans and stuck his hands in them to practice "iron sand palm".

But he still considered it carefully, and usually only practiced with his left hand. He was afraid of any accidents, and he could use his right hand.

The "Iron Sand Palm" scene was added to "Lord of Destruction." Wu Mengda said that "it was refined in three days, and it cost 600." He also claimed that he and Bruce Lee were brothers.

In fact, in order to learn kung fu, Zhou Xingchi really worshipped Bruce Lee’s senior brother Huang Chunliang as his teacher, so Bruce Lee was Zhou Xingchi’s senior uncle, and the two were considered the same family.

Yuan Bin, one of the "Seven Xiaofu", once teased at the wine table, "If you really talk about martial arts, Donnie Yen can’t beat Zhou Xingchi."

12

Canned abalone

In those years, Zhou Xingchi was dazzling, and Wu Mengda was the most appropriate "golden right foot" by his side.

In the 1990s, they often bought a box of canned abalone to eat after filming, which cost more than 100 Hong Kong dollars and contained only two pieces.

Wu Mengda always gave the big one to Zhou Xingchi.

The last movie they worked on was "Shaolin Football", and since then, "will you work with Xingye again" has been one of the topics that Uncle Da has been asked repeatedly.

Every time, Wu Mengda always answered with certainty.

"As long as I don’t die and he hasn’t retired, we will still cooperate."

Now that Uncle Da has passed away, he can only sigh.

13

Peking University Lecture

Twenty years ago, Zhou Xingchi was invited to give a speech at Peking University, and a student asked him to recreate the classic line of "Love You 10,000 Years" in "Journey to the West".

The shy Zhou Xingchi was a little reluctant, "Now? Here?"

The students kept heckling, but Lord Xing had no choice but to speak, "There was a sincere love that was placed in front of me, but I didn’t cherish it…"

But only halfway through, he lowered his head and smiled. Maybe he forgot the words, but the moment he stopped, the students in the audience connected the second half of the lines in unison, memorizing them backwards.

After the release of "Journey to the West", it was criticized a lot, and the box office was dismal. After being promoted by campus and netizens, it was regarded as a classic.

Interestingly, many years later, "Journey to the West" was re-screened twice in the mainland. Everyone said that "I went to the theater to give Xingye a movie ticket", but Xingye didn’t get a penny when it was rescreened.

The film was jointly produced by the Hong Kong Color Star Company and the Xi’an Film Studio, and the Color Star Company was co-produced by Stephen Chow and Yang Guohui.

After Caixing went bankrupt in 1996, it sold the copyright to Star Media, and has had no relationship with Stephen Chow ever since.

14

A toothpick

It has been rumored in the industry that when Stephen Chow was a director, he even had to worry about dropping a toothpick on the ground.

Chai Jing asked Zhou Xingchi for verification, and Lord Xing subconsciously denied it, "Is there? Who said this? Nonsense!"

Chai Jing quickly smoothed the scene, "He was going to praise you."

He instantly revealed a childlike smile, "That’s good! Yes, I’m that serious!"

In fact, in this famous interview, Xing Ye’s state is not very good.

After the interview, he always felt a little guilty, and even took the initiative to contact Chai Jing 20 days later, hoping to harvest again.

Hence the classic "I’m out of luck, 10,000 years is indeed too long."

15

filmmaker

In 2013, "Journey to the West to Conquer Demons" sold well at the box office, and the Shanghai Film Festival Organizing Committee issued an invitation to Zhou Xingchi, hoping that he would appear at the film festival. Unsurprisingly, he refused.

The organizing committee said that even if they did not participate, they would also like to provide a personal introduction.

At that time, three versions of the introduction were prepared for him: one focused on the actor’s career, one focused on the director’s performance, and one focused on the box office results, waiting for Zhou Xingchi to decide.

At that time, he didn’t reply for a long time, and everyone waited very anxiously until he finally called and said to use "filmmaker".

These five words, which were weightless, accurately summed up his understanding of himself.

Compared with the past, the Chow films of the past ten years have undergone tremendous changes.

He stopped acting, audiences thought he was "not as funny as before," and critics said he was "frying cold rice."

No one owes Star a movie ticket anymore.

After all, even he himself said: "No one owes me movie tickets, I owe the audience."

60-Year-old Stephen Chow has gray hair and may not be young anymore, but his love for movies has not changed.

1905 movie network news A few days ago, the film held an event and attended. Wu Lei revealed that his idol was Hu Ge, causing the other party to blush on the spot and causing the audience to laugh.

In the producer-directed film, Hu Ge plays the eulogy editor for "giving away the last journey", and he has many opposite scenes with Wu Lei’s Little Yin. When asked about his relationship with Hu Ge in the play and growing up together outside the play, Wu Lei said that he has always regarded Hu Ge as an idol, but now that he has grown up, he is embarrassed to express it, and hopes to cooperate with "different characters in the future."

Hearing Wu Lei’s words, Hu Ge blushed shyly and said with a smile that he had "sweated", letting everyone see the cute side of Hu Ge.

　　The ninth meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Deepening Reform reviewed and approved many important documents, among which the "Plan for the Establishment of the National Science and Technology Ethics Committee" was passed at the top. This shows that the central government regards the construction of science and technology ethics as an indispensable and important part of promoting the national science and technology innovation system. The purpose of establishing the National Science and Technology Ethics Committee is to improve institutional norms, improve governance mechanisms, strengthen ethical supervision, refine relevant laws and regulations and ethical review rules, and standardize various scientific research activities.

　　Ethics of science and technology is the product of reason

　　Ethics of science and technology is a code of thought and behavior for the relationship between man and society, man and nature, and man and man in scientific and technological innovation and scientific research activities. It not only involves ethics in scientific research, nor is it only for scientific researchers to abide by scientific and technological ethics, but also includes ethics in the application of scientific and technological achievements. For example, consent terms for mobile app downloads and informed consent for hospital treatment. If the evolution of human civilization is regarded as a never-ending journey, the driving force for human beings to move towards a higher civilization is technology and innovation. However, motivation alone is not enough. It must also be able to identify the direction. Ethics of science and technology is a navigator that guides science and technology to benefit mankind.

　　The ethics of science and technology is the product of reason. The most fundamental reason is to require that scientific and technological innovation and achievements can only benefit or maximize the benefit of people, organisms and the environment, and not harm people, damage organisms and the environment. Even if it will inevitably damage people and things to varying degrees – such as the side effects of drugs, such side effects must be reduced to a minimum or even zero. In terms of specific ethical rules, we should also choose the greater of the two benefits and the lesser of the two evils.

　　Science and technology ethics originated in human life, and today there are more and more updated content. Therefore, it is urgent to establish a national science and technology ethics committee to meet the many challenges brought about by today’s scientific and technological innovation. More and more detailed science and technology ethics are needed to regulate scientific research behavior and the use of scientific research results.

　　Science and technology ethics need to be predictive and exploratory

　　However, proposing and following the ethics of science and technology is not only beneficial to everyone, but also beneficial to the ecology and the environment. Otherwise, it will lead to disaster and failure for everyone, and may even destroy human society. Hawking talked many times during his lifetime that artificial intelligence may destroy human beings. Although human beings are rational and thus gave birth to the ethics of science and technology, human beings also have some irrational thoughts and actions, which has led to some irrational behaviors that violate the ethics of science and technology in history, and even animal and anti-human behaviors. Today, such dangers have not been eliminated.

　　During World War II, the Nazi German and Japanese troops experimented with living people (captives), which not only violated the ethics of science and technology, but also committed crimes against humanity and humanity. Although some scientific data and principles have been obtained from human live experiments, scientific research based on harming people and destroying life is absolutely unacceptable to human society. Therefore, the Nuremberg Trials after World War II produced the Nuremberg Code (1946). In 1975, the 29th World Medical Congress revised the Helsinki Declaration to improve and supplement the Nuremberg Code. In 1982, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Council of Medical Scientific Organizations (CIOMS) jointly issued the International Guidelines for Human Biomedical Research, which explained the Helsinki Declaration in detail. Then in 1993, WHO and CIOMS jointly published the International Guidelines on Ethics and Human Research and the International Guidelines on Ethics in Human Research. In 2002, WHO and CIOMS revised and developed the International Code of Ethics for Biomedical Research Involving People, which proposed 21 guidelines to be followed.

　　This is one of the most detailed and important scientific and technological ethics in human society so far, embodying the principles of informed consent, life value, and benefit and no harm in bioethics. When scientific and technological innovation has become the most important activity of human beings today, and human beings need scientific and technological innovation to quickly and effectively promote the development of human civilization to a higher stage, there are a lot of new categories, new contents, and new progress in scientific and technological ethics. Human genome and gene editing, artificial life and synthetic life, artificial intelligence, 5G technology, robots, brain-computer interfaces, facial recognition, nanotechnology, assisted reproductive technology, precision medicine, etc., are all new areas of scientific and technological innovation and scientific research and development today, and they are also related to the well-being of all people. However, on the other hand, it may also harm people, and even lead humans to disaster and destruction. In this way, the navigation and normative role of scientific and technological ethics is extremely important and significant.

　　Therefore, science and technology ethics need to be prescient and exploratory. When a research or an industry develops to a certain scale and extent, it must be regulated by appropriate science and technology ethics.

　　In line with the establishment of a national science and technology ethics committee in our country, the ethics professional committee of the Chinese artificial intelligence society is also planning to establish and formulate various ethical norms for artificial intelligence in different industries, such as intelligent driving norms, data ethics norms, smart medical ethics norms, intelligent manufacturing norms, and robot norms for helping the elderly.

　　At the same time, due to the irrationality and profit-seeking nature of human beings, people may not only violate existing ethical principles when conducting scientific and technological innovation activities and scientific research, but also because when new ethical principles have not yet been established, there is a borderline between the old and the new, with and without regulations, resulting in scientific research that violates human ethics or is highly controversial, as well as the improper use of scientific research results.

　　It is urgent to establish a new ethics of science and technology

　　Although human beings believe that all scientific research and innovation are for the benefit of society, scientific exploration is largely in a state of unknown or even ignorance, and people do not know what consequences and latent risks such exploration and results will have when applied to human society and the natural world.

　　Due to limited knowledge and lack of understanding in scientific research, it is possible to break through the original ethical norms and form new ethical gaps, which requires national authorities to identify and judge the potential risks and consequences of scientific and technological exploration and application. It is also very important and urgent to establish new scientific and technological ethics involving specific disciplines and categories.

　　This is currently the case in a highly risky study involving cutting-edge research. For example, some researchers believe that the CCR5 gene is an accomplice in causing people to be infected with HIV, so they have knocked out the gene in newborns in an experiment to prevent AIDS forever.

　　The original intention of this scientific research may be positive. However, due to the lax ethical review, there is a huge risk in this research, which may not only violate the four existing principles of bioethics – favor, respect, fairness and mutual assistance, but also has a greater practical risk. Knocking out the CCR5 gene can prevent AIDS, but its immune function, anti-cancer function and other beneficial functions will also disappear completely. This is actually due to the lack of understanding of the comprehensive uses of the CCR5 gene. This also shows how important and urgent it is to establish a national science and technology ethics committee and formulate ethical norms for various disciplines and multidisciplinary research and application of results. (Zhang Tiankan)