Recently, the Hong Kong film industry has begun to "fried cold rice" again!
First of all, Tsui Hark is going to remake "Condor ", he chose Xiao Zhan to play Guo Jing, Zhuang Da Fei to play Huang Rong.
The only similarity between these two casting and the characters is gender.
Xiao Zhan does not have Guo Jing's heroic arrogance, and Zhuang Duffy does not have Huang Rong's spirit and beauty, so as soon as the news was announced, netizens complained.
Secondly, 68-year-old Zhou Yunfa is going to play the "God of Gamblers" on the screen again!
On May 10, the movie "Don't Call Me "God of Gamblers" was officially announced and will meet the audience on June 21, the film was created by the original cast of "Matchless", starring Chow Yun-fat.
The film currently has two selling points, the first is a tribute to Liao Qizhi.
In March 2021, Liao Qizhi died of stomach cancer at the age of 66, two years ago.
Liao Qizhi is a gold-medal green leaf actor of TVB and a youth witness of a generation of audiences, the film is his posthumous work, naturally want to promote him.
The second is Chow Yun-fat, from "God of Gamblers 1, 2", "Gambler", "Macau Vice 1, 2, 3" to "Don't Call Me "God of Gamblers", Chow Yun-fat can be said to eat the role dividend to the extreme.
If it had been 10 years ago, perhaps the audience would have been happy to go to the cinema to give Brother Fa a show.
But after experiencing the devastation of "Macao Vice 1, 2, 3", the attitude of most audiences is: selling feelings, fried cold rice, eating a lifetime of films...
This time, 68-year-old Zhou Yunfa may not be "tolerated" by the world.
Feelings? Business!
To put it bluntly, most of the audience's good impression of Zhou Yunfa comes from childhood feelings.
In that era when Hong Kong films were popular in the mainland, Hong Kong films and Hong Kong stars were so fascinating, and Chow Yun-fat was one of them.
Under the filters of roles such as "Xu Wenqiang" and "Gao Jin", the audience tolerated Zhou Yunfa to shoot "Bulletproof Martial Monk" and "Tongquetai", and tolerate him entering Hollywood to shoot "Spy on the Sea" and "Children of Yellowstone"...
But after he finished filming "Macau Vice 1, 2, 3" one after another, the audience was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and he couldn't bear it anymore!
Even if you make a bad film in the name of "God of Gamblers", Zhou Yunfa also uses this identity to endorse board games, which is too ugly.
The name of the new movie is "Don't Call Me "God of Gamblers", in fact, it is still fried cold rice and selling feelings.
In recent years, there are too many people in the Hong Kong film industry who sell feelings, from Jackie Chan, Tony Leung, Koo Tianle, to Chen Xiaochun and Chen Haomin, the audience is immune to this.
The feelings of middle-aged audiences are almost dispersed, and young audiences may not necessarily buy Zhou Yunfa's account, and the prospects of "Don't Call Me "God of Gamblers" are not optimistic!
Naked donation? Donations?
In addition to selling feelings, the biggest controversy on Chow Yun-fat is "donating 5.6 billion Hong Kong dollars naked".
In 2010, according to media reports, Chow Yun-fat said that he would follow Bill Gates' example and donate 99% of his property for public welfare.
As soon as this matter was reported, it received a lot of attention, and Brother Fa's realization is incredible, it is simply a great benevolent person!
But three years later, that changed.
At the press conference of "Macao Vice", when the reporter asked about the naked donation, Chow Yun-fat was sloppy again, saying that it would be mentioned again after 40 years, and that he had never donated money for disaster relief and public welfare.
When the reporter asked about his net worth, he immediately changed the topic, saying that the money was not here, and the filming was because he was poor, and he couldn't even afford to sit on the bus when he went out, and he had to walk.
Chow Yun-fat is impossible to be poor, this remark caused the dissatisfaction of the majority of netizens, saying that he is a person who sells fame and reputation, and now he regrets it, and Hong Kong senior entertainment reporters also said that they did not hear that Chow Yun-fat had a donation trend.
In fact, whether Zhou Yunfa donated or not, and how much to donate, is his own choice.
If he had said that naked donation was hot-headed, then come forward to clarify, everyone can understand, after all, the money is earned by him, and he has the right to dominate.
In the name of naked donation, it is always not embarrassing, and it is also subject to the "supervision" of the whole society, and doing good things is like doing bad things.
Drama bully?
Zhou Yunfa donated naked or not, it is his own business, after all, this money does not fall into the hands of netizens.
What made him lose his audience popularity was actually the scandal of him "playing big names".
The producer of "Full of Gold Armor in the City" once angrily sprayed Zhou Yunfa, saying that he played a big name during filming, and had to ask the crew to open 7 rooms for him in the International Hotel, and there were different rooms for rest, makeup, drama, and dinner.
Even the crew rented a luxury RV with a daily rent of 20,000 yuan, specifically for Zhou Yunfa to go to the toilet between filming.
The day before the filming of "Red Cliff", Chow Yun-fat announced his resignation, and director John Woo bluntly said: "It was very painful for me at that time."
John Woo spoke generally, and the producer was much more blunt, accusing Chow Yun-fat of requiring the crew to pay him a sky-high salary of $5 million before filming began, and also put forward nearly 100 unreasonable demands, the crew did not agree, and he resigned before filming.
On weekdays, Zhou Yunfa's external image is very simple, wearing more than a dozen slippers and hundreds of clothes, but he is frequently exposed to big names and sky-high salaries, and his image is divided.
And the news that Chow Yun-fa bullied mainland actors such as Li Zhi in the early years was also picked up, making his "good man" face a little unbearable.
Time flies, Hong Kong is declining, and only some middle-aged audiences pay attention to Chow Yun-fat.
Zhou Yunfa brought a lot of joy to the audience, hoping that he would not be 68 years old, "late festival is not guaranteed"!