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text| Chronicle of Qingmo
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Preface:
Broke Jet Li's hand bone with a punch, kicked Wu Jing out of the distance, and at the age of 45, he also knocked out the Thai boxing king in the ring, which is the most capable star in the history of Chinese movies.
The most shocking thing is that he was weak when he was a child and was raised as a girl by his parents, but at the age of 27, he accidentally won the World Light Middleweight Kickboxing Championship, and his strength directly reached the peak.
First, Billy Zhou went from pampered to world boxing champion
In 1958, Billy Zhou was born in an ordinary family in Canada, and due to her mother's malnutrition during pregnancy, Billy Zhou was diagnosed with frail and sickness at birth, and doctors even recommended an abortion.
But his mother insisted on giving birth to him, and in order to pray for health, he also renamed him "Zhou Health", and he carried too much love from his mother.
Billy Zhou has been extremely thin since childhood, often sick and weak, his parents are very worried about treating him as a pearl in the palm of their hands, taking care of him and letting him spoil, Billy Zhou spent a relaxed but weak childhood and became a weak child.
When he was 11 years old, the Zhou family invited a doctor to give Billy Zhou a physical examination, and the doctor found that Billy Zhou's physical fitness problems were mainly caused by lack of exercise, and he suggested that Billy Zhou go to martial arts and improve his physique through physical training.
At first, Billy Zhou was not interested in martial arts, but under the soft and hard influence of his parents, he reluctantly went to a local martial arts gym to learn boxing.
Through the training week, Billy gradually discovered the joy of sports, boxing not only strengthened his physique, but also strengthened his will quality, and gradually he was no longer the delicate teenager, but grew into a cheerful, optimistic, hard-working youth.
Billy Chow gradually developed a keen interest in boxing, determined to succeed in the sport, he found a senior coach and began professional training.
He worked hard to keep his weight in light class, and at the age of 24, Billy Chow came out on top nationally to win his first lightweight title.
Three years later, Billy Chow proved his strength again, won the light heavyweight championship, and became the first Chinese fighter to win the professional boxing belt, and his story was deeply inspired by the Chinese people, and he became a household name for a while.
At the age of 27, Billy Zhou was faced with a choice, because boxing was still in the mainstream sports at the time and professional boxers lacked sufficient commercial value, Billy Zhou realized that if he wanted to achieve greater development, he had to switch to other fields.
At this time, Billy Zhou noticed that the kung fu film market in Hong Kong was booming, and he decided to use his strength and popularity to open up his popularity from the screen and break into the world in the film industry.
A legend from "pampered" to "boxing" has begun!
2. From ring player to screen kung fu superstar
At this time, Billy Zhou mastered various martial arts techniques, coupled with his talent and intelligence in this area, he soon showed amazing martial arts talent.
Billy Zhou has loved Chinese martial arts movies since he was a child, Bruce Leung and Bruce Lee are his idols to study, Billy Zhou is determined to carry forward his martial arts, so he came to Hong Kong, the center of martial arts film production at that time, trying to enter the film industry.
At first, Billy Zhou was not going well in the film industry, and he participated in two movies, but neither caused much repercussions. Billy Zhou himself knew very well that martial arts attainments alone were not enough, acting skills were equally important, so he began to delve into acting and watch other actors in the filming.
Opportunity appeared at the lowest point, Billy Zhou met the famous director Sammo Hung, Sammo Hung saw Billy Chow's extraordinary martial arts talent and potential at a glance, and took the initiative to invite him to make a guest appearance in his new movie.
Sammo Hung movies have always attached importance to real action scenes, and Billy Chow just met his requirements, so he starred in the kung fu film "Oriental Condor ", directed and starring Sammo Hung.
Sammo Hung can be said to be the noble man of his life, in order to make the ordinary Billy Zhou famous, Sammo Hung made him appear in several works:
In 1988, Billy Zhou starred in the action comedy "Flying Dragon Fierce General" co-directed by Sammo Hung and Yuan Kui, and then participated in the thriller drama "Blood Rose" starring Wang Xiaofeng and Lin Zhengying.
In 1989, Billy Zhou first made a cameo appearance in the action film " Dragons and Phoenixes " directed by Sammo Hung, and then played a martial arts master in the police and bandit film " Senior Sister " starring Roflo and Qian Xiaohao.
In addition, Sammo Hung also introduced Billy Zhou to his junior brother Jackie Chan, and then he participated in the action comedy "Miracle" written and directed by Jackie Chan and starred in the role of a rope factory worker, and finally participated in the action film "Street of Fire" directed by Lu Jian.
In Sammo Hung's films, Billy Zhou gradually accumulated screen experience and improved his performance through competition with other actors. He began to slowly become famous in the film industry, and cooperated with popular martial arts superstars such as Jet Li.
One of the masterpieces is the movie "Jingwu Heroes" with Jet Li, in which Billy Zhou plays the villain Tsuyoshi Fujita, and he and Jet Li have a 10-minute duel scene.
At that time, in order to pursue realism, the two went all out without reservations, and as a result, in one action, Billy Zhou kicked Jet Li directly to the railing with a flying kick, and Jet Li's arm was immediately dislocated, and Jet Li laughed afterwards: "I will never dare to fight with Billy Zhou again in the future."
A similar thing also happened when cooperating with Wu Jing, when Wu Jing was kicked to the ground by Billy Zhou, and then Wu Jing laughed and said that this kick directly kicked him dumbfounded, and he did not dare to be Teacher Zhou's opponent in the future.
In fact, Billy Zhou has been trying to control his strength, but due to the high martial arts, coupled with the pursuit of real action, it is inevitable to hurt other actors, which has also become an obstacle to his development in the film industry.
Despite this, Billy Zhou has always maintained a modest and cautious attitude, going all out every time he plays a villain, and he has enriched the action scenes of countless movies with his unique martial arts style.
It can be said that without Billy Chow, there would be no Hong Kong action movies of that era, he contributed his life's martial arts and acting skills to the movie, and is a real movie kung fu superstar.
Third, regret the curtain call
Billy Zhou, who had no achievements in Wuda's circle, just in time for the rise of Hong Kong film comedies, so Billy Zhou began to cooperate with Stephen Chow.
In fact, we can see from Stephen Chow's movies his desire for kung fu, and he has long expressed his love for Bruce Lee.
Although Stephen Chow's movie is very popular and loved by many people, the supporting characters in the movie were not very popular at that time.
Seeing that Billy Zhou's ability in martial arts is very high, Stephen Chow decided to let him film with him, and after the movie that the two cooperated with was released, it did not cause a big splash, and in desperation, Billy Zhou could only start his old path again.
After returning to the boxing ring, Billy Chow was nearly 40 years old at this time, and he proved his strength with strength, first defeating the former Iranian boxing champion, and then setting a new record and winning the championship after his return to the ring.
In the next few fights, Billy Chow achieved good results, and winning championships was a common thing for him because his achievements in the boxing world were very high.
As he grew older, Billy Zhou no longer stayed in the film industry, and opened a gym to teach boxing, because of physical reasons, although he was married but never had children.
Now in his 60s, Billy Zhou is still very strong, and he often insists on exercise to maintain his body's vitality.
Perhaps for Billy Zhou, he is more suitable for a simpler boxing ring than the intriguing film and television industry, and the ring is where he shines.
After all, when he first entered the film industry, he was subjected to many rumors from the outside world, and now he can guard his family every day and use what he has learned to teach one person after another with dreams.
Epilogue:
Although Billy Zhou has faded from the public eye, the works he left behind still echo in the times, like a star, even if extinguished, the light it emits will be eternally passed down in the universe.