One could say successful, but with slight regrets.
Success refers to his career.
He created many myths of Chinese movies, developed his own unique style of acting, and was a miracle worker.
His films, whose theme is like a "tearful laugh" (Gogol), are about the sad and happy lives of the little people, and about the stories of ordinary people.
From the early years of the "Runaway", "King of Comedy" to "The Deer and the Tripod", "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Begir", "Tong Pak Fu Point Qiuxiang", "Seven Sesame Officers" to "The Greatest Journey to the West", "Kung Fu", "Shaolin Soccer", and so on.
One by one, he has created a screen classic with his signature laugh and quirky behavior that is uniquely his own.
I particularly liked his performance in Tang Pak Fu (唐伯虎点秋香)', where he played Painting On (唐伯虎), who is both dashing, talented and cynical, but has a traditional righteousness in his bones that is so heartwarming to watch."Kung Fu" is also regarded as his peak work, his interpretation of the little man, the surface of vanity, but the inner cowardice; want to do bad people can not do, can not do, and can not get down; want to be good people, but not the ability to lack of courage.
But after a lot of grinding, he finally practiced the "Rulai Divine Palm", and achieved a generation of masters and legends.
In Shaolin Soccer, he and Wu Mengda's golden combination, more to the audience to bring the visual impact, which is the most hilarious is everyone jumping "Michael Jackson" dance.
In fact, everyone has a talent for dancing and wants to be a dancer.
Now, when I see an older woman dancing in the square, I think of this classic clip.
His autobiographical "King of Comedy" is a reaction to his own upbringing.What can the little guy do when it comes to difficulties and challenges? What can they do? They can only be optimistic and self-deprecating, which is the source of his "Chou-style laughter" and "Chou-style humor".
In short, it's about the common man, about the struggles of the little man in society.
This kind of "grassroots plot" is the soul of Stephen Chow's movies, and it is also the reason why the people like them.
In fact, regret is only the common man's view of him.
Genius is never alone. Because, he is too unique, he has reached the artistic realm and the height of life, no one seems to understand, and no one can really enter his heart.
If we were to write a history of modern Chinese cinema, Stephen Chow would be one of the names that could not be bypassed.
Stephen Chow was born in 1962 in a poor neighborhood of Hong Kong. I believe that when it comes to Stephen Chow's movies, everyone will think of his nonsensical and funny style. But in fact, in life he is a person who does not smile, which also has to do with his upbringing. Very little is known about his father from the internet. His mother was a very strong girl, a little girl who traveled from Guangdong to Hong Kong to make a living, and later befriended a Shanghai immigrant who was also Stephen Chow's father. They were both travelers from a foreign land and did not let the relationship be cherished. Later, the two did not get along, and later divorced, with custody of the children going to Ling Bao'er. This childhood experience also created his more withdrawn character.
Stephen Chow made his first screen debut in 1988 with "The Wind Catchers".
So far, it has been 31 years since the movie. Looking back on these 31 years, Stephen Chow has brought us endless happiness and countless masterpieces. I believe a lot of friends after the 90s have seen movies about Stephen Chow, and even a lot of people take Stephen Chow as their idol. Of course, many friends after the 80s or the 70s have also seen movies about Stephen Chow to a greater or lesser extent, his movies are not only witty and humorous, but also convey a kind of spirit and quality to the people in the movies all the time, . I didn't realize this when I was a kid, but now that I'm looking back at Stephen Chow's movies, I'm finding that I'm able to get a lot of different things out of them.
Stephen Chow's influence is not only in movies, but also in pop culture, and some scholars even call him the "Stephen Chow phenomenon".
His movies are full of golden phrases. Because of him, we call the dog "Wang Cai", because of him, we call the cockroach "Xiao Qiang", because of him, we know what it means to "lie down and also get shot", because of him, we know what it means to "lie down and also get shot", because of him, we know what it means to "lie down and also get shot". Because of him, we know what is called "lying down and getting shot", because of him, we know "if you don't have a dream, what's the difference between that and a salted fish?" Too much too much, each of us can say a few lines from Stephen Chow's movies, which is called influence, allowing you to apply his lines to your life in a subtle way.
How hard it is to watch his movies actually understand quite a bit. Movies are like life, and what life is like has some expression in the movie, which is something we can all see. We all know that Stephen Chow grew up in poverty, life is not good at all, grew up working is actually not really smooth, because he is not very like, but in order to live no way. By the time he started as an actor, he could only run some dragon-set, not getting attention, and suffered a lot of blank stares and ridicule. All the heartaches from childhood to adulthood are hidden in his heart, but the good thing is that he did not give up and insisted on his own path to come over. In order to achieve the best effect, he kept changing his lines and reshooting, he also knew that it would offend a lot of people, but he still did that. So he wasn't that well liked in the movie world. But he ignored all that and just focused on making his own movie.
Putting his heartbreaking dissatisfaction inside his movies makes people cry. He does almost everything for his movies, and you can tell how hard it is to do that.
Stephen Chow is an iconic figure in Chinese cinema, and is known as the Chaplin of China.
This title is well deserved. Borrowing a common saying as a conclusion, "a year a movie emperor, a hundred years of Stephen Chow".
As director Wong Jing said, "The people who can really make comedy are precisely the pessimistic ones". The people in these movies are also the same people who used to be Stephen Chow, who experienced the breakup of his family, the hardship of survival, and the coolness of human feelings. He was still that kid in the poor neighborhood of Hong Kong, looking at the multitudes of people walking through the streets, fantasizing that he was Bruce Lee, and dreaming of stardom. He has a mansion to entertain his friends, but others can walk into his house, but not his heart.
A more important point is the personal effort of Star, who had dreams of acting since he was a child.
Had pulled Tony Leung together to apply for the Hong Kong radio class, with the intention of applying for the examination of the Star failed to test, no intention to enter the line of Tony Leung first into the line. The first in the broken dream, so that the movie of Master Star can let people feel the characters face the difficulties of life, psychological repression, and ultimately release from it to get a huge psychological pleasure.
Career is successful, the only regret is personal feelings. We can't say too much about the stars. We can't say too much about celebrities.