Zhou Xingchi packed up his personal belongings and put them into a cardboard box.
Then he walked into Deborah's office and said politely: "Lagu, I'm leaving."
Deborah smiled and said: "When will the new play be released?"
"The company is still writing the script!"
"Come on, I will support you when the time comes!"
"Thank you Lagu!"
Zhou Xingchi hugged his things and left the ATV building. Many people greeted him politely and even flatteringly, and he smiled and nodded in response.
After walking out of the ATV building, Zhou Xingchi looked back and felt filled with emotion. He was finally leaving this place.
He has been the host for six years since he hosted ATV's children's program "Awakening Time" in 1982.
Actually, he doesn't like being a host because he is very slow and can't always keep up with others.
Moreover, his personality is very introverted and shy. He is actually very bad at communicating with others.
What is the most important quality to be a host?
Quick adaptability, cheerful and outgoing, and eloquent, which he is not good at.
However, in order to get ahead, he still forced himself to do things he didn't like to do.
Zhou Xingchi was named by his mother, Ling Baoer.
It comes from the "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion" "The misty rows in Xiongzhou, the handsome stars galloping, the Taiwan God rests on the crossroads of Yi and Xia, the guest and host enjoy the beauty of the southeast."
It has great cultural connotation. Ling Baoer is a normal student in mainland China , in that era, he was a highly educated person.
When Zhou Xingchi was a child, Ling Baoer thought there was something wrong with his brain.
Because Zhou Xingchi is taciturn and doesn't like to talk, even when facing his mother, he can't beat her with three sticks.
Ling Baoer was going to the street and said, "Xingzi, do you want to come with me?"
Zhou Xingchi probably shook his head and then stood by the window watching the street scene for two hours.
It is said that these various street scenes were the source of inspiration for Zhou Xingchi’s later comedy creations.
After growing up, Zhou Xingchi was still very slow.
Celebrity girl Zhang Yuqi said: "Master Xing speaks very fast on-screen, but off-screen he speaks very slowly. He speaks and makes decisions very slowly!"
In addition to being very slow, he is also very slow. Very shy, in southern dialect, "afraid of ugliness".
Ling Baoer said: She used to take Zhou Xingchi out to eat. As long as there were outsiders around, Zhou Xingchi would cover his face with the menu and finish the meal like this.
Liu Zhenwei said: Zhou Xingchi is often misunderstood by people for pretending to be a big name and trying to be cool. In fact, he is a person who is very afraid of ugliness. When I was filming "Westward Journey", there was a time when I was finishing work and wanted to discuss a scene with me, so I secretly slipped a note under my hotel room door. In fact, Xingzai is usually afraid of contacting strangers and is not proactive enough, so he is easily misunderstood. "
However, if there is a chance to stand out, he can also become very proactive.
In his own words: "Learn to be very oily and make jokes with others. Spend a liter of saliva to fight for a corpse character. "
"If you give me a script and let me act it once, I can devote myself to it and act like a character in the play, but I can't usually do it. I think I like acting. ”
His person and drama are completely separated!
This is the reason why Zhou Xingchi has been scolded, boycotted and exposed by others after decades in the industry, but he never responded.
Some people say that not responding is because of a guilty conscience!
This is really not because of a guilty conscience. His mother scolded him, and so did he, not to mention everyone else.
He is like this, whether what others say is true or false, he will not respond.
But those people were right, because everyone has their own perspective and stance.
For example, when Liang Xiaolong was filming Zhou Xingchi's scene, he filmed one scene dozens of times, until Liang Xiaolong didn't know how to act.
Then Zhou Xingchi suddenly said, "Mr. Liang, I think your expression at 1 minute and 58 seconds of the ninth take is wrong!"
Wu Cao! Liang Xiaolong had a bad temper and almost went up to hack Zhou Xingchi to death!
Mo Shunjun said: "Zhou Xingchi is a very strange person. In the past, we all thought that we could just do our job well as actors, but he was not. I was acting with him at the time, and he asked to change the script all day long.< br>
Now I understand why he is like that. He only thinks about how to make the scene look good. We people often care about interpersonal relationships and so on, but he ignores these. "
......
Some people say that Zhou Xingchi is ungrateful, so what is going on between him and Lee Xiuxian?
Lee Xiuxian is indeed Zhou Xingchi's benefactor, because he was promoted by Lee Xiuxian, Zhou Xingchi Only then was he able to play an important role in "Pioneer of Thunder" in 1988, and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor in one fell swoop.
After winning the award, Zhou Xingchi had more opportunities and began to move towards the center of the stage step by step. .
Zhou Xingchi once said at the Academy Awards: "I am very grateful to Mr. Li, because he did not give this opportunity to others, but gave it to me. Without Mr. Li, I may be nothing."
So, How did they fall out?
Hong Kong TV personality Fung Mei-kee recalled: "In the film industry, Xing Zai's initial contract was signed with Li Xiuxian's Universal Film Company, and the price was of course very cheap. Later, Xing Zai became very popular, and all the major film companies in Hong Kong I want to sign him, but Xingzi has refused to nod. "
What about Lee Soo Hyun?
After finally catching a money tree, he naturally had to dig hard. He asked Zhou Xingchi to continue making movies for him at a very low price (700,000 per film) to make money.
At that time, the salary offered to Zhou Xingchi by outside film companies was several million per film, or even nearly 10 million per film.
This is exactly the same as the situation between Luo Wei and Chen Long back then. Chen Long could earn Luo Wei millions from one movie, but Luo Wei only paid him a few thousand yuan in salary.
Zhou Xingchi began to avoid Li Xiuxian. Li Xiuxian was unhappy and scolded Zhou Xingchi for being ungrateful.
At this time, Zhou Xingchi was too valuable, and Li Xiuxian knew that he could no longer control it.
So, Li Xiuxian sold Zhou Xingchi's contract directly to Yongsheng.
In other words, Zhou Xingchi still received a salary of 700,000 for filming for Yong Sheng.
And Li Xiuxian made a huge profit from this deal!
... However, it may also be because of all this experience that Zhou Xingchi later opened his own company and signed many actors. Almost everyone turned against him and filed lawsuits, which was very unpleasant.
From this point of view, Zhou Xingchi is not as good as Chen Long.
The experiences of Zhou Xingchi and Chen Long are almost the same, and the approaches of Luo Wei and Li Xiuxian are also very similar.
Of course, Luo Wei is more damn black than Lee Soo Hyun!
The problem with Zhou Xingchi is that he insists on letting others get rained on him once.
In the 1980s, Chen Long partnered with his manager Chen Ziqiang to open a brokerage company. At that time, he signed more than 40 artists, including Maggie Cheung, Chung Chu Hong, Cheng Yuling, Zhang Xueyou... Many big names signed to him .
These artists all share the same manager with Chen Long, Chen Ziqiang.
Jackie Chan and Chen Ziqiang help them get roles, take them to other jobs, take them to various events to increase exposure and topicality, and even help them get international projects.
Everyone followed Chen Long to make a fortune, and the cooperation was very pleasant.
In 1992, gang involvement in the entertainment industry became more serious, and Chen Long was forced to close the company.
But those artists were reluctant to leave, and they all took the initiative to ask Chen Ziqiang, hoping that he could still manage their brokerage business in his personal capacity in the future.
This is why people in the Hong Kong entertainment industry call him Brother Chen Long, because he takes good care of everyone and is really like a big brother.
...
But these are all afterwords from another time and space.
For Yang Ye, Chen Long and Zhou Xingchi are actually very grateful people, and this is enough.
Of course, the premise is that you don’t treat others as slaves and exploit them desperately!
Actually, it’s not like no one has been interested in Yang Ye’s artists in recent years.
However, if we talk head-on, we can't reach an agreement.
Yang Ye is kind, although Yang Ji’s artists cannot receive film contracts from other companies.
But by filming the company's dramas, releasing records, accepting various announcements, endorsements, and going to Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea, and mainland China to perform commercials, people of all ages can earn a lot of money.
And the companies outside are more and more shady than the last. They are all trying to trick people without paying for their lives, and they are not blind.
Please don't move from the front, then you can only use dirty tricks.
When it comes to using tricks, Yang Ye is not a vegetarian.
Yang Ye has a lot of money. He has raised many people in Kowloon Walled City, including provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers.
Looking for trouble with him is tantamount to asking for death.
This is also the reason why Yang Ye requested from China to retain the Kowloon Walled City before Hong Kong's return.
Some people say that you can open a security company. Security companies are useless. They are all in the open and cannot even be equipped with guns.
To deal with black people, be darker than him!
The provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers carrying the "Black Star" suddenly came out of the Kowloon Walled City and asked you if you are afraid?
......
The painting of "The Gambling Saint" has not yet been finished, but the celebration banquet was held first.
Zhou Xingchi drove his newly purchased BMW and brought his mother Ling Baoer to the event in high spirits.
He is a filial son, and he hopes his mother will witness such a glorious moment with him.
How filial is Zhou Xingchi?
In an interview on Phoenix TV, Ling Baoer talked about Zhou Xingchi’s misdeeds as a child.
She said that Zhou Xingchi did not eat well and deliberately threw the chicken legs on the ground. She was very angry and beat Zhou Xingchi.
And Zhou Xingchi finally said the reason why he did what he did:
He found that his mother rarely ate meat, but ordered him to finish the meat, so he deliberately made the meat dirty so that his mother would eat it herself.
But Zhou Xingchi asked Phoenix TV to cut this detail afterwards. He felt that he was too rude.
......
At the celebration banquet, Yang Ye, as the boss, and Zhou Xingchi cut a big cake with 30 million written on it.
Yang Ye said: "This year Xing Zai has made a good start for us. The movie has not been finished yet, 30 million is not the end, and "The Gambler" is only a starting point for Xing Zai.
This year, the company will also carefully create three movies for Xing Zai to carry forward this nonsensical style and keep singing this good show for a whole year! ”
“Wow! ”
Everyone applauded one after another and were very envious!
But there is no way, he is the champion of the Spring Festival stalls as soon as he comes up, you can say whether he is fierce or not, right?
Zhou Xingchi Somewhat shyly, he said: "Thank you to the boss for giving me the opportunity, and thank you to the brothers and sisters in the company for their help. The success of "The Gambler" is inseparable from everyone, and I will definitely work harder in the future!" ”
Yang Ye continued: "Another good news to announce is that the film "Red Sorghum" invested and shot by our company won the Golden Bear Award for Best Film and the Silver Bear Award for Best Actress at the just-concluded West Berlin International Film Festival. .”
“Wow!”
Everyone was amazed, and then burst into warm applause.
Winning two prizes in one battle is so awesome that even Yang Ye didn’t expect it.
Because "Red Sorghum" only won one Golden Bear Award in the original time and space, the current best actress Gong Li appeared out of thin air.
This is the first time a Chinese has won the Best Actress title at the three major European film festivals!
This gold content is too high!
Fuck, fuck, fuck, I’ve really made a lot of money now!
Yang Ye said with high spirits: "In 1987, we created a box office miracle in the global market and achieved brilliant achievements. In 1988, I hope everyone will continue to work hard and continue this glory. We must not only produce To dominate Hong Kong, we must go global. Everyone, drink up this glass!”
Yang Ye raised his glass and drank it with everyone! (End of chapter)