It's been a while since the last time he said he was going to shoot the women's football version of "Shaolin Football", and after saying that he wanted to choose actors, there was no sound in the project, and there has been action again recently.
He changed the name of "Shaolin Women's Football" to "Women's Football" and officially opened the actor selection.
The selection conditions are also very simple, and in the Taiwan media report, the 5 elements are listed:
The first element is to be talented.
In fact, in detail, it probably means that you have a sense of camera, have a talent for acting, can communicate well with the director, and can play efficiently with other actors.
The second element is physical fitness.
This is not difficult to understand, if you want to make a football movie, there must be physical confrontations such as kicking and running, if your physical fitness is not good, you don't want Stephen Chow to use a lot of stand-ins.
Former women's football team Zhao Lina.
The third is to be of good character.
As soon as this condition came out, it was obvious that Stephen Chow didn't want the movie to be a moth because of the "collapse of the actor's house", and it was more likely that he planned to continue long-term cooperation with the other party after filming this movie.
The fourth is the cliché of beautiful nature.
As an actor to make a movie, you really need to look good, of course, the most important element in this element is probably "natural".
With the rapid development of science and technology, it is inevitable that there will be cases of beauty through plastic surgery, but this kind of face usually affects the look and feel of the movie.
is like Zhang Yimou once said: no need to have plastic surgery.
Article 5 There is no restriction on nationality.
Needless to say, all the conditions are relaxed.
Finally, a key word was pressed, and it needed to be "amateur".
I don't know what kind of actors will be selected in the end?
After many years, after the "New King of Comedy" directed by him in 2019 was not bought by the audience and felt that he was eating his old book, this time he continued the IP of "Shaolin Football" to make a movieIf he hits the street again, his reputation may plummet.
Looking back 23 years ago, the 39-year-old won the annual box office champion in Hong Kong with this movie, and won the Academy Award for Best Director and a number of actor awards the following year.
With this adaptation, will the 62-year-old create brilliance again?
He is a filmmaker who was born in a poor family and has worked hard step by step to get to where he is nowput on the cloak of comedy for his own painful experience, leaving a classic, and bringing endless joy to the public.
Now, he has a good life, will it be difficult to continue the classics?
It is said that "The King of Comedy" directed by Stephen Chow is his semi-autobiographical film, and he used to be the actor who couldn't find a role.
That's why he was able to make this movie so successful later.
And in "The New King of Comedy", he seems to have added years of perception and gave the protagonist a beautiful and fantastical independent protagonist ending, and it is this that makes the film full of controversy.
Because, many of the good things in this movie are too abrupt and not the same as his life.
There is a sentence like this in the "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng":
Xiongzhou fog column, Juncai Xingchi, Taihuang pillow Yi summer turn, guests and hosts enjoy the beauty of the southeast.This is the origin of his name, and his mother named him from it probably because of the idea of "hoping for his son to become a dragon". However, the family is poor, and his parents really don't give him much, and since he was a child, his family often quarreled over such trivial things as firewood, rice, oil and salt, and finally his parents divorced.
His mother grew up with his sisters, sisters and him, and the hardships can be imagined.
When he was in middle school, he began to work part-time outside the home, and he admired Bruce Lee very much, so he took the 300 yuan he had saved from his work-study program to Wong Chun-leung to learn Wing Chun.
He wanted to become a big star like Bruce Lee, so when he was looking for a part-time job, he began to see if there were any actors.
At the age of 18, he was finally signed as a special actor for a TV station, taking his first steps as an actor.
For seven years, from the age of 18 to 26, he spent almost all of his time in the dark.
The past 7 years have been the days when he has no food to eat, and he can only go to auditions in major crews every day, and it is also the day when he told himself again and again not to give up and persist in his efforts.
During this period, he went to apply for the wireless artist training class, but he didn't get in, so he could only let him go to the night training class of wireless artists under the introduction of his peers.
After 7 years of running TV dramas, he was finally able to pass the audition for a movie, although he is still an unimportant role, but his dedication and love for acting have been appreciated by director Li Xiuxian.
Then he had the opportunity to play a supporting role in "Thunderbolt Pioneer"**It was this opportunity that allowed him to win the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor, and finally Salted Fish turned over and became a named actor.
After being recognized, he did not show pride, but continued to work hard, which gave him the opportunity to play the leading role in "The Saint of Gambling" in 1990.
This role made him an instant hit in Hong Kong, and the movie also broke the box office record in Hong Kong.
At the age of 28, after 10 years of crawling and rolling on the road of an actor, he finally really had a bright future.
His 10-year career as an actor has given him a deep experience in actingAfter becoming a household name as an actor, he began to make movies.
At the age of 32, his first film "Domestic Lingling Paint" directed and acted in was released, and the box office went straight to the third place in Hong Kong's annual box officeIn one fell swoop, he proved his strength.
At the age of 34, he directed and starred in the movie "Ouchi Secret Agent Zero Hair" again, which was a great success.
Then he directed and starred in "God of Food" was also released at the end of the year, and in addition to the box office, the film also entered the Venice International Film Festival and became an observation film.
At the age of 37, he directed and starred in "The King of Comedy", a film that brought him to the pinnacle of his life, not only won the annual box office champion in Hong Kong, but his unique style was also remembered by the audience.
His personal status in the film industry has become an unshakable existence.
At the age of 39, he directed and acted in "Shaolin Football".
What surprised him even more than the previous "King of Comedy" was that this movie won him a number of awards, both in terms of acting skills and directing level, which were widely recognized by the industry and beyond.
At the age of 42, he directed and acted in "Kung Fu" again.
This film not only won him the Academy Awards, Golden Horse Awards for Best Film, but was also nominated for the Golden Globe Awards.
Personally, he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director again with this film.
also brought out his first "star girl" Huang Shengyi.
At the age of 46, he reappeared in the rivers and lakes and directed and acted in "Yangtze River No. 7", whose novel theme made him once again praised by the audience.
"Star Girl" Xu Jiao, under his support, has a different life.
At the age of 51, he released a work he was going to retire to the background, "Journey to the West: Conquering Demons", and then took a three-year break.
At the age of 54, he filmed "Mermaid" again with "Star Girl" Zhang Yuqi and Lin Yuna to fight in the film industry again, but this time his works began to polarize word-of-mouth.
At the age of 57, the "New King of Comedy" directed by him was released, and the audience questioned him "whether Jiang Lang is talented"?
Now 62 years old, he is ready to "go on the expedition" again.
If you can't shoot excellent works this time, I'm afraid you will be complained about by the audience.
Looking back on Stephen Chow's life, he started making movies at the age of 18, and now he is 62 years old, and he is still running on the road of movies.
Now unmarried, he can be said to have dedicated his life to his career.
I wonder if the final movie "Women's Football" can deliver a satisfactory answer to the audience?
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