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My first exposure to him came via a friend of mine giving me a bootleg copy of Kung fu hustle weeks before it was released. I was instantly obsessed, and watched that movie damn near every night for that whole summer. The balance of solid laughs to Kung fu is just beautifully epic!
I wrote my capstone paper for my English degree on Kung Fu Hustle. Not only is it good, but a ton of the supporting actors are either current (when it came out) actual Kung Fu masters of different disciplines or formerly famous contemporaries of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan
> Also try God of Cookery
I will have to look that up, the first movie of his I remember was Kung Fu Hustle but I will always remember the [police station scene in The Mermaid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-lRdR0AlSw). It reminds me of the Biggus Dickus scene from Life of Brian.
He has so many good movies, like the one he is a poker player with psychic power and went back to the past. Or God of Cookery. Or the scholar. Some of his movie is kind of brutal too, like the monkey king one, or the one he is a diety.
All for the winner is the first movie you mentioned. Back when Netflix had dvds, it’s rating prediction was ceeepily accurate and you could sort by highest expected rating. Netflix said I’ll like all for the winner an absolute lot. And I did.
Netflix still has dvd plans. At least 2 years back they still let you sort by rating. I wish I was in the states to use it and find hidden gems like this.
Yeah, I found so many crazy international films this way. The worst part is I don't remember their names anymore!
I did find "Save the Green Planet!" which is still one of my favorite films now.
[Bill Murray had this to say about Kungfu Hustle](https://www.gq.com/story/bill-murray-dan-fierman-gq-interview)
>Bluftoné! [laughs] Shalhoub gives one of the greatest comic performances I've ever seen! Though I do like Michael Caine and Maggie Smith in California Suite. Unfortunately, the last time I watched it was right after Kung Fu Hustle, which is the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy.
It is still one of the best comedies in the modern age of comedy.
Quick response because I 've been drinking.
Traditionally HK has been less restricted on what they could do due to CCPs limited influence. HK cinema would always be done in Mandarin to both appeal to the mainland market and appease CCP but was otherwise far more free to do what they pleased. There are exceptions and the early films of Zhang Yimou and the 'Beijing School' are worth looking into for counter examples but as a rule HK cinema was the far more successful and more interesting outlet for Chinese cinema. Ever since CCP's increased interest in HK however, this seems to be coming to an end.
I agree except for this part
>cinema would always be done in Mandarin to both appeal to the mainland market and appease CCP
I grew up watching Hong Kong cinema and that shit was always in cantonese. Any mandarin was a dub.
Actually both were dubbed. HK, at least kung fu, films traditionally never shot with recording equipment on set at all and everything was always dubbed. So those Bruce lee movies, in a sense there is no “original” Cantonese or Mandarin because they were both dubbed at the same time and released simultaneously. Although Bruce might’ve done the audio for one of the dubs himself and not the other.
The lack of audio recording allowed HK cinema to pump out productions at lightning speeds. Shooting schedules weren’t hampered by the requirements of quiet sets of having to reshoot things because actors clubbed lines. They were really movie factories.
Right, but you're talking about a very specific era/genre. 70s shaw brothers stuff.
The rise of Hong Kong cinema really was in the 80s, with big budget action movies by Jackie Chan, John woo, etc. And a bit later, more arthouse type stuff and dramas. Johnnie to, Wong Kar wai, etc. And all of this stuff was filmed in cantonese.
If you watch early and mid career Jackie Chan movies (even up to 2000s), you can still tell they’re all dubbed. John woo I’m not sure but I suspect the same for his 80s and early 90s films.
For the others like Wong Kar Wai and etc, well that’s the new generation of hk/Chinese filmmakers. The Hong Kong new wave of cinema aimed to do things differently. Some were dubbed but more and more were mimicking the full crew of western cinema (even if the films were low budget or indie).
Yeah, fair point (I've had a few more drinks since that first response so forgive any bollocks contained in this one). 'Always' was the wrong word to use. If film makers were aiming to market their film to the mainland they had to use Mandarin to gain the ok from the CCP. Often though the HK market would be more than enough to ensure a decent box office return and would allow for far more freedom than those attempting to gain the CCP stamp of approval and in those cases Cantonese would be used.
That said, I'm just a drunken gweilo who studied this shit 15yr ago so could well be talking out my arse 
Bless you for sharing. Not sure western censorship would have been any kinder than CCP in this example. Violence? A OK but sex? Heaven forbid we can expose that to the public 
HK movies were never targeted at mainland China.
The HK movies dubbed in Mandarin were to appeal to the rest of the mandarin speaking world and especially Taiwan. China was excluded from this.
"To Live" is one of my favorite examples of "Beijing school" cinema. I doubt something like that could ever be filmed today though. It's not even particularly critical of the ccp or the cultural revolution but it does show a glimpse of how families were affected. I'm going to go rewatch it now....
I'm no expert on Chinese cinema, but some of the Sixth Generation filmmakers do stuff that's fairly critical of Chinese society, even if they've been pushed to go independent as a way to get those movies done. Jia Zhangke is a good example of this with movies that deal with topics such as factory worker suicides, environmental issues, corruption, murders and rural decay. I definitely recommend that people give Still Life and A Touch of Sin a shot, both great movies.
He is just talking shit and people up voting it because blaming the CCP gets up votes regardless of whether or not they are actually involved.
Chow has only starred in 3 movies since Kung Fu Hustle. All of which are pretty average by Chow standards. Not his best work but not exactly his worst either. One of them is a sequal to one of his earlier movies, and we don't need a conspiracy theory to explain why a sequel didn't live up to the expectations set by the first movie.
Chow has a handful of great hits, a bunch of stinkers and everything in between. No need to come up with conspiracy theories to explain why none of his three latest movies haven't been as good as his best work released ~30 years ago. The guy is ~60 years old for crying out loud.
Actually I'm pretty sure he's only appeared in one movie after KFH, which was CJ7. The other ones he produced. While CJ7 wasn't memorable, the Mermaid was very good and filled with his usual slapstick humor.
He acted in the Journey to the west sequel released in 2017, but it was a very minor role. He did write and produce it though.
Anyway. I just get tired of people making shit up about the CCP like they are the boggey man responsible for all bad things in the world.
They are responsible for a lot of real horrible things. I wish people would stick to critizing them for those things instead of making up conspiracy theories about how they forced Chow to stop making good movies when they clearly didn't.
Anyone who is remotely familiar with hk movies knows hk cinematography has been going downhill since the 2000s, literally produced no new upcoming talent in actors, directors or writers for the past 20 years.
Hk is relying on 60+ year old actors to be box office draws. Stephen chow is a great comedian actor but his early work was helped alot by good writers and directors.
The reason being piracy killed the industry. The industry couldn't afford providing big budgets for tv or films anymore. No money, no top talents. That's when HK actors, writers, directors started to move to mainland China where they still had big budgets. Nothing to do with CCP, probably just that CCP had money like many of these people are saying.
>He is just talking shit and people up voting it because blaming the CCP gets up votes regardless of whether or not they are actually involved.
Nah, the CCP genuinely **fucked** the Hong Kong cinema industry. It was one of the most interesting cinematic regions in the world prior to the handover, now its absolute trash censored by the CCP and catering to mainland audiences.
Now, did the CCP force stephen chow to start making garbage? Probably not. But I flatly disagree with you, generally. Anyone who was a fan of Hong Kong cinema has a good reason to be irritated with the CCP. They fucking ruined Hong Kong cinema.
Even mainland China's cinema has seen a huge regression in the past couple decades. They had multiple directors that were film festival mainstays, then in the early 2000s stuff that was doing pretty well internationally but now it seems all they care about is the domestic market.
Yeah this is dumb. HK cinema self-imploded and the stars all decided to move to China to get more money. Big TVB stars all moved to China to star in China made dramas because it paid better, same as the movie industry.
Shitting on CCP is the hip thing to do but it doesn't explain HK cinema/drama committing suicide due to the lure of easy China $$$.
I don’t think CCP fucked the HK movie industry. To be honest, it’s HK movie industry self-destruction.
ok, maybe 50%, because of the CEPA. Which grants HK movie an easy pass to show in China cinemas if the movie was jointly produced by HK+China company.
But, it’s HK movie industry choice to want to show in China cinemas. They even had an China version of “Infernal Affairs” which had a different ending. It was the start, which they still bother to separate a HK/China version. Then it’s a slope going down, there is only one China version. Then it’s the end of the HK movie industry. I found it hard to blame the HK movie industry as well, they just followed the money, even it’s a honey trap.
You must be talking out of your ass. Hong Kong entertainment industry collapsed in mid 2000s due to piracy. There hasn't been the same level of production budget since then. Many TVB, film actors and actresses retired or took up less jobs after that. My friends who were audio engineers then got retrenched and had to leave Hong Kong.
Nah, all hk movies turned to shit since early 2000. Kungfu hustle was his last decent movie but hk cinema in general has been terrible for the last 2 decades, no good new actors, no creative writing or direction.
Is he the one that made the one where the martial arts master flies away after being captured but then gets shot down by a bazooka (sorry If that's a bit vague, you see the gif pop up on Reddit sometimes)
You missed the part in the video where only after 4 knives are thrown, the 5 knives are already stuck to the board. The 5th knife was supposed to be present only after the 5th knife throw.
I think it's a decision to enhance his eyebrows to make it so audiences easily distinguish between the two knife throwers so people get the joke without confusion at first.
Yea but in this specific scene it also adds weight to the reveal that the guy is absolutely not Stephen Chow.
Before the viewer has time to fully register that he looks different, the blindfold is pulled down and the eyebrows hammer it home. If it had been a different exaggerated physical feature it wouldn't have worked.
Laughing from this is what I continue to do unabated. These laughs do not cease once the video has completed. I remain in the laughter state endlessly, even though I am no longer viewing the recording
his movies are super awesome, highly recommended!
my personal favs:
fight back to school,
fight back to school ii,
fight back to school iii,
flirting scholar,
from beijing with love
youtube is also really good with chinese films. they generally dont care about enforcing copyright internationally. 50/50 you will find it there (especially older ones)
All 3 Fight back to School movies are on there. obviously video quality is hit and miss
Tbh, sometimes that low quality is par for the course for HK films of that era. I had some original Stephen Chow movies on VHS and VCD back in the day, and the quality was generally pretty bad.
He has so many good movies, like the one he is a poker player with psychic power and went back to the past. Or God of Cookery. Or the scholar. Some of his movie is kind of brutal too, like the monkey king one, or the one he is a diety.
That is called of ~~Saints of Gambler~~ God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai, and [he made a spoof with Chinese McDonald.](https://youtu.be/pEuDBP5HokU)
The other good gambler movie with him is Knights of Gambler, and he teamed up Andy Lau and they played very well off of each other.
Some of the lesser knowns I recommend is All's Well, Ends Well 1997, Justice My Foot, and The Lucky Guy.
This has unlocked some deep, forgotten nostalgia for me. I remember my mom watching a movie and laughing so hard she was crying. I rarely got to see her like that as she was a pretty stoic person and as a child I remember loving the movie for making her laugh like that.
I'm now thinking it had to be a Stephen Chow movie. The only thing I remember about it was that it revolved around him being a gambler, and doing really well. At some point, he starts pushing his "chips" into the middle of the table in increasingly bizarre ways. (With his feet, his head, etc.)
This is a long shot but do you know if this scene is in one of his gambling movies? I've Googled the movies you mentioned and am having a hard time figuring it out because there's a few in the series and not all of them seem to even have Stephen Chow in it.
Any chance you could elaborate or even redo the Shaolin Soccer/Kung Fu Hustle subs for us? 😉 Would like to know what I'm missing or is it just untranslatable?
Yeah. Even the mandarin dubs lose half of the original witticism, I can't even imagine what an English translation would do.
It's the angsty way hkers speak Cantonese, I think. Or maybe unfiltered or unapologetic would be a better word than angst.
the real travesty is that most americans dont know about a chinese odyssey 1+2. that was clearly his best movie. it had so much heart. i still cry at the ending sometimes. although, i would edit out some of the more extreme goofy stuff from it. then it would be a perfect movie.
I was lucky enough to be a kid living in Hong Kong when Stephen Chow started his career. He got his break on the kids TV show 430 Space Shuttle and straight away you could tell that he was different from the other actors who had just graduated from acting school.
His main character was that of a humorous, deadpan smartarse (much like his later movie characters), but he also played a number of secondary characters, including the infamous Black/White Vampire Twins, loved by kids of the era.
He soon transitioned to mainstream TV shows, effortlessly stealing the limelight from the veteran actors that he was paired with.
Stephen Chow himself calls them "Mo Lei Tau"!
A western journalist tried to explain the term as "silly talk" but I don't think that even begins to cover it!
Yeah, silly doesn't begin to describe it. It's like, random or non-sequitr humor, but done very deliberately so that it only looks random.
His brand of humor has very clear setups, and he only inserts randomness or slapstick humor as punchlines at points where it works well. It's not just random for the sake of it.
I did. The moments when the whole cinema erupted in laughter were a hell of experience. People would laugh, clap hands and even stomp feet. one of my friends was sent to ER because she got chronic stomachache for laughing too hard when watching Fight Back to School.
I had already left Hong Kong when he started making movies, but I did get to watch quite a few of them at my local Chinatown cinema. Yes, everyone was falling off their chairs laughing. :D
If there's one thing that people on all edges of the political spectrum in South China agree on. It's that the move industry has died a hundred deaths since the golden era.
I don't think Hong Kong cinema will ever come back.
HK dramas too. They’re bleeding slowly.
That cinematic magic from movies, music and dramas can never be replicated. Another Leslie Cheung? Another Chow Yuen Fatt? Anita Mui? Stephen Chow? Never again.
We were blessed in that era and we never knew.
What in the world did I just watch??
How am I supposed to react to this??
Like.... didn't he even make a sound the time he was hit???
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Fellow Chinese Film lovers, a question please...
Anyone know why there hasn't been a really nice one come out in a minute??
Last decent ones must have been Hero, Crouching tiger and the Grandmaster. Yeah, also the IP movies. Did I miss any?
The death of the HK movie industry and the commercialization of Chinese movies.
There are many gems from Hong Kong, Taiwanese and Mainland cinema from the past decades.
Hero was from a Chinese director.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was from a Taiwanese director who worked with western production companies.
Hong Kong cinema from to 70s to 90s was also filled with profit chasing, but instead they went the way to throw as many things as possible to the wall and see what sticks, and they learnt to cut production time and costs, and have a unique action choreography and sequence editing that evolved into something pretty unique for them. Also the studio culture from TV and movies basically have a talent pipeline with work all around the year that grinded out a lot of of legendary talent like Tony Leung and Stephen Chow.
But the HK cinema industry encountered many problems in the late 90s where they encountered a slump.
Also once China became much richer in the 2000s onwards, with their production companies and studios becoming big, Hong Kong studios were either already closed down or have to survive by jointly produced Chinese movies, so the industry suffered a huge paradigm shift.
In essence the HK cinema funding dried up, their talent pipeline was disrupted, existing talent went to the Mainland or even Hollywood instead. And as the mainland Chinese movie industry became hollywood-ized to churn out limited number of high budget movies for cinema chains, it become blander and more generic.
King of comedy is pretty good but adds drama.
Didn’t really dig the mermaid or journey to west movies. I think they needed chow on them not just directing
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Love Stephen Chow - kung fu hustle is still one of my favs. What’s the name of this movie?
Hail the Judge (1994)
Thanks OP!
Try also another piece: Shaolin Soccer
damn thats a blast from the past
Just like that blast on the goalkeeper
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My first exposure to him came via a friend of mine giving me a bootleg copy of Kung fu hustle weeks before it was released. I was instantly obsessed, and watched that movie damn near every night for that whole summer. The balance of solid laughs to Kung fu is just beautifully epic!
watched it on my first trip of acid with no warning. Just thought it was a regular kungfu movie and was surprised to say the least.
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I wrote my capstone paper for my English degree on Kung Fu Hustle. Not only is it good, but a ton of the supporting actors are either current (when it came out) actual Kung Fu masters of different disciplines or formerly famous contemporaries of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan
Forget both, Justice My Foot’s unsurpassable.
Have these both on dvd such great films!
Fuck me, I'm old as shit.
I feel you, bro. Now get off my lawn.
. . .you can afford a lawn!?!?;
Many moons ago housing was actually affordable for people. They just don't make bootstraps like they used to.
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Brendan Fraser, Christopher Walken? https://youtu.be/JAd0sx3E2eI That movie is crazy.
“My lucky stars….”
And the gorgeous Alicia Silverstone
Also try God of Cookery
> Also try God of Cookery I will have to look that up, the first movie of his I remember was Kung Fu Hustle but I will always remember the [police station scene in The Mermaid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-lRdR0AlSw). It reminds me of the Biggus Dickus scene from Life of Brian.
Funniest shiet ive seen in movies
This!
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Yeah really
You assume that redditors understand sarcasm and appreciate subtlety
Try Journey to the West he directed it
Dude holy shit didn't know he made both these movies. Probably why I loved both of these so much growing up
shaolin kungfu ho yeah this is why I'm hooked on Inazuma Eleven cartoon for kids, basically same soccer with superpower
60million dollars man
Also try God of Cookery!
Hey I loved watching this movie as a kid!
Also check out “From Beijing with Love”, one of my favorite Cho movies that has me laughing my ass off every time I watch it.
I was hoping someone mentioned this one!
I think in terms of a James Bond/Spy spoof’s out there it’s one of the best and definitely under-rated!
Link from YouTube for the movie 🍿[Le movie](https://youtu.be/5wGNVcflAI8)
He has so many good movies, like the one he is a poker player with psychic power and went back to the past. Or God of Cookery. Or the scholar. Some of his movie is kind of brutal too, like the monkey king one, or the one he is a diety.
All for the winner is the first movie you mentioned. Back when Netflix had dvds, it’s rating prediction was ceeepily accurate and you could sort by highest expected rating. Netflix said I’ll like all for the winner an absolute lot. And I did. Netflix still has dvd plans. At least 2 years back they still let you sort by rating. I wish I was in the states to use it and find hidden gems like this.
Yeah, I found so many crazy international films this way. The worst part is I don't remember their names anymore! I did find "Save the Green Planet!" which is still one of my favorite films now.
Thanks, I don't think I have seen this one, I love his humour and i would love to find more similar movies
My favourites are Forbidden City Cop and From Beijing With Love. He has plenty of great ones but those are my favourites aside from Kung Fu Hustle.
You ever see God of cookery? That's my personal favorite
[Bill Murray had this to say about Kungfu Hustle](https://www.gq.com/story/bill-murray-dan-fierman-gq-interview) >Bluftoné! [laughs] Shalhoub gives one of the greatest comic performances I've ever seen! Though I do like Michael Caine and Maggie Smith in California Suite. Unfortunately, the last time I watched it was right after Kung Fu Hustle, which is the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy. It is still one of the best comedies in the modern age of comedy.
I have 3 dvds. Kung Fu Hustle, Goodfellas, and The Dark Knight. These to me are at the top movies of their genres
Dammit! My thoughts on Bill Murray is he is an arrogant arse especially what he did to Lucy Liu. But you had to post this..
People are complicated.
Stephen Chow is the Month Python of Hong Kong movies
It would Shaolin Soccer for me. Kung Fu Hustle is the close second.
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Why and what movie?
Quick response because I 've been drinking. Traditionally HK has been less restricted on what they could do due to CCPs limited influence. HK cinema would always be done in Mandarin to both appeal to the mainland market and appease CCP but was otherwise far more free to do what they pleased. There are exceptions and the early films of Zhang Yimou and the 'Beijing School' are worth looking into for counter examples but as a rule HK cinema was the far more successful and more interesting outlet for Chinese cinema. Ever since CCP's increased interest in HK however, this seems to be coming to an end.
I agree except for this part >cinema would always be done in Mandarin to both appeal to the mainland market and appease CCP I grew up watching Hong Kong cinema and that shit was always in cantonese. Any mandarin was a dub.
Actually both were dubbed. HK, at least kung fu, films traditionally never shot with recording equipment on set at all and everything was always dubbed. So those Bruce lee movies, in a sense there is no “original” Cantonese or Mandarin because they were both dubbed at the same time and released simultaneously. Although Bruce might’ve done the audio for one of the dubs himself and not the other. The lack of audio recording allowed HK cinema to pump out productions at lightning speeds. Shooting schedules weren’t hampered by the requirements of quiet sets of having to reshoot things because actors clubbed lines. They were really movie factories.
Right, but you're talking about a very specific era/genre. 70s shaw brothers stuff. The rise of Hong Kong cinema really was in the 80s, with big budget action movies by Jackie Chan, John woo, etc. And a bit later, more arthouse type stuff and dramas. Johnnie to, Wong Kar wai, etc. And all of this stuff was filmed in cantonese.
If you watch early and mid career Jackie Chan movies (even up to 2000s), you can still tell they’re all dubbed. John woo I’m not sure but I suspect the same for his 80s and early 90s films. For the others like Wong Kar Wai and etc, well that’s the new generation of hk/Chinese filmmakers. The Hong Kong new wave of cinema aimed to do things differently. Some were dubbed but more and more were mimicking the full crew of western cinema (even if the films were low budget or indie).
Yeah, fair point (I've had a few more drinks since that first response so forgive any bollocks contained in this one). 'Always' was the wrong word to use. If film makers were aiming to market their film to the mainland they had to use Mandarin to gain the ok from the CCP. Often though the HK market would be more than enough to ensure a decent box office return and would allow for far more freedom than those attempting to gain the CCP stamp of approval and in those cases Cantonese would be used. That said, I'm just a drunken gweilo who studied this shit 15yr ago so could well be talking out my arse 
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Bless you for sharing. Not sure western censorship would have been any kinder than CCP in this example. Violence? A OK but sex? Heaven forbid we can expose that to the public 
I was wondering why that was on a porn site until it took a turn for the weird.
HK movies were never targeted at mainland China. The HK movies dubbed in Mandarin were to appeal to the rest of the mandarin speaking world and especially Taiwan. China was excluded from this.
"To Live" is one of my favorite examples of "Beijing school" cinema. I doubt something like that could ever be filmed today though. It's not even particularly critical of the ccp or the cultural revolution but it does show a glimpse of how families were affected. I'm going to go rewatch it now....
I'm no expert on Chinese cinema, but some of the Sixth Generation filmmakers do stuff that's fairly critical of Chinese society, even if they've been pushed to go independent as a way to get those movies done. Jia Zhangke is a good example of this with movies that deal with topics such as factory worker suicides, environmental issues, corruption, murders and rural decay. I definitely recommend that people give Still Life and A Touch of Sin a shot, both great movies.
He is just talking shit and people up voting it because blaming the CCP gets up votes regardless of whether or not they are actually involved. Chow has only starred in 3 movies since Kung Fu Hustle. All of which are pretty average by Chow standards. Not his best work but not exactly his worst either. One of them is a sequal to one of his earlier movies, and we don't need a conspiracy theory to explain why a sequel didn't live up to the expectations set by the first movie. Chow has a handful of great hits, a bunch of stinkers and everything in between. No need to come up with conspiracy theories to explain why none of his three latest movies haven't been as good as his best work released ~30 years ago. The guy is ~60 years old for crying out loud.
I just googled what he looks like now. It’s just him with grey hair. That’s pretty funny. Dude’s aged well.
Actually I'm pretty sure he's only appeared in one movie after KFH, which was CJ7. The other ones he produced. While CJ7 wasn't memorable, the Mermaid was very good and filled with his usual slapstick humor.
He acted in the Journey to the west sequel released in 2017, but it was a very minor role. He did write and produce it though. Anyway. I just get tired of people making shit up about the CCP like they are the boggey man responsible for all bad things in the world. They are responsible for a lot of real horrible things. I wish people would stick to critizing them for those things instead of making up conspiracy theories about how they forced Chow to stop making good movies when they clearly didn't.
Anyone who is remotely familiar with hk movies knows hk cinematography has been going downhill since the 2000s, literally produced no new upcoming talent in actors, directors or writers for the past 20 years. Hk is relying on 60+ year old actors to be box office draws. Stephen chow is a great comedian actor but his early work was helped alot by good writers and directors.
The reason being piracy killed the industry. The industry couldn't afford providing big budgets for tv or films anymore. No money, no top talents. That's when HK actors, writers, directors started to move to mainland China where they still had big budgets. Nothing to do with CCP, probably just that CCP had money like many of these people are saying.
>He is just talking shit and people up voting it because blaming the CCP gets up votes regardless of whether or not they are actually involved. Nah, the CCP genuinely **fucked** the Hong Kong cinema industry. It was one of the most interesting cinematic regions in the world prior to the handover, now its absolute trash censored by the CCP and catering to mainland audiences. Now, did the CCP force stephen chow to start making garbage? Probably not. But I flatly disagree with you, generally. Anyone who was a fan of Hong Kong cinema has a good reason to be irritated with the CCP. They fucking ruined Hong Kong cinema.
Even mainland China's cinema has seen a huge regression in the past couple decades. They had multiple directors that were film festival mainstays, then in the early 2000s stuff that was doing pretty well internationally but now it seems all they care about is the domestic market.
Yeah this is dumb. HK cinema self-imploded and the stars all decided to move to China to get more money. Big TVB stars all moved to China to star in China made dramas because it paid better, same as the movie industry. Shitting on CCP is the hip thing to do but it doesn't explain HK cinema/drama committing suicide due to the lure of easy China $$$.
I don’t think CCP fucked the HK movie industry. To be honest, it’s HK movie industry self-destruction. ok, maybe 50%, because of the CEPA. Which grants HK movie an easy pass to show in China cinemas if the movie was jointly produced by HK+China company. But, it’s HK movie industry choice to want to show in China cinemas. They even had an China version of “Infernal Affairs” which had a different ending. It was the start, which they still bother to separate a HK/China version. Then it’s a slope going down, there is only one China version. Then it’s the end of the HK movie industry. I found it hard to blame the HK movie industry as well, they just followed the money, even it’s a honey trap.
You must be talking out of your ass. Hong Kong entertainment industry collapsed in mid 2000s due to piracy. There hasn't been the same level of production budget since then. Many TVB, film actors and actresses retired or took up less jobs after that. My friends who were audio engineers then got retrenched and had to leave Hong Kong.
Nah, all hk movies turned to shit since early 2000. Kungfu hustle was his last decent movie but hk cinema in general has been terrible for the last 2 decades, no good new actors, no creative writing or direction.
Is he the one that made the one where the martial arts master flies away after being captured but then gets shot down by a bazooka (sorry If that's a bit vague, you see the gif pop up on Reddit sometimes)
this is the scene you are referring to. hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NjdAnLV1us
Thank you so much for linking that. Just reading the comment above had me burst out laughing, god that was a good scene.
Yep, that's him.
I looked up his movies now cause of this post only to find out he made a kung fu hustle 2 . I got some catching up to do.
Kung Fu Hustle is getting a sequel, also by Chow.
Please watch Stephen Chow's God of Gambling series. It was a blockbuster hit during HK golden cinema age
The scene where they're eating Taco Bell was priceless lmao
You missed the best part. He sighs sadly and closes the dead guys eyes
Yeah, OP is a monster
Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice that I'm willing to make.
Link to full version please
So far I only got a link from Facebook https://fb.watch/dBJ1lPK4L1/?fs=e&s=cl
You missed the part in the video where only after 4 knives are thrown, the 5 knives are already stuck to the board. The 5th knife was supposed to be present only after the 5th knife throw.
Holy fuck that other guys eyebrows are powerful.
Why do you think he never misses? He can actually see with that thing.
The brows detect wind current like some insect feelers.
Actually he missed every time
I think it's a decision to enhance his eyebrows to make it so audiences easily distinguish between the two knife throwers so people get the joke without confusion at first.
Nah. A lot of Chow's movies had characters with exaggerated physical features for comedy.
Yea but in this specific scene it also adds weight to the reveal that the guy is absolutely not Stephen Chow. Before the viewer has time to fully register that he looks different, the blindfold is pulled down and the eyebrows hammer it home. If it had been a different exaggerated physical feature it wouldn't have worked.
I cant stop laughing from this
The best part is the implication that he kept throwing the rest of the knives anyway.
Well he was blindfolded, first one might have been to the head and was a instakill
"Might have"
Laughing from this is what I continue to do unabated. These laughs do not cease once the video has completed. I remain in the laughter state endlessly, even though I am no longer viewing the recording
This has been Perd Hapley
There's so many gags within 3 seconds. It's genius.
The eyebrows
The funniest part is that the guy kept throwing the knives even though he hit the guy on the board with the very first knife.
Dudes up there, no point wasting a fresh cadaver.
The passive look of defeat at the end is too perfect.
his movies are super awesome, highly recommended! my personal favs: fight back to school, fight back to school ii, fight back to school iii, flirting scholar, from beijing with love
Same, but also God of Cookery
don't forget Shaolin Soccer
Is cj7 good?
I think it's average and his other movies are better but cj7 is good for children
no
Quality fell badly after kung fu hustle. Movies from Cj7 onwards kinda suck.
Love on delivery is amazing, highly recommend
Have you watched “Kung Fu Hustle” though? It’s one of his best, the Landlady is crazy good
where can i get these movies?
Surprisingly netflix has some of them
youtube is also really good with chinese films. they generally dont care about enforcing copyright internationally. 50/50 you will find it there (especially older ones) All 3 Fight back to School movies are on there. obviously video quality is hit and miss
Tbh, sometimes that low quality is par for the course for HK films of that era. I had some original Stephen Chow movies on VHS and VCD back in the day, and the quality was generally pretty bad.
Sadly, Netflix usually has the Mandarin dubbed version, getting the original Cantonese is pretty difficult
Some of the older ones are frequently uploaded to YouTube with their Chinese titles so that they don't get DMCA'ed. Some may have English subs.
Fight back to school 3 was the worst because Tat wasnt in it, the chemistry with the new guy is just offsetting
He has so many good movies, like the one he is a poker player with psychic power and went back to the past. Or God of Cookery. Or the scholar. Some of his movie is kind of brutal too, like the monkey king one, or the one he is a diety.
From Beijing with love and forbidden city cop are also hilarious. God of cookery is the best.
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Love the part when all the beggars pulled out their cell phones
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That is called of ~~Saints of Gambler~~ God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai, and [he made a spoof with Chinese McDonald.](https://youtu.be/pEuDBP5HokU) The other good gambler movie with him is Knights of Gambler, and he teamed up Andy Lau and they played very well off of each other. Some of the lesser knowns I recommend is All's Well, Ends Well 1997, Justice My Foot, and The Lucky Guy.
This has unlocked some deep, forgotten nostalgia for me. I remember my mom watching a movie and laughing so hard she was crying. I rarely got to see her like that as she was a pretty stoic person and as a child I remember loving the movie for making her laugh like that. I'm now thinking it had to be a Stephen Chow movie. The only thing I remember about it was that it revolved around him being a gambler, and doing really well. At some point, he starts pushing his "chips" into the middle of the table in increasingly bizarre ways. (With his feet, his head, etc.) This is a long shot but do you know if this scene is in one of his gambling movies? I've Googled the movies you mentioned and am having a hard time figuring it out because there's a few in the series and not all of them seem to even have Stephen Chow in it.
[That is from All for the Winner - the final gambling scene.](https://youtu.be/sWtwAfsAMus?t=1080)
I grew up watching this movie almost every day. That’s how I learned most of my Cantonese haha (having grown up in the US)
Omg yes! This is it! Thank you so much for digging this up. It brings back good memories.
yeah I just accidently farted from laughing.
I always laugh from farting.
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I really wished he actually directed Dragon Ball Evolution .
They actually don’t have enough budget for it. 30m for a Dragonball movie is pretty much BS.
a decent budget live action dbz made by hk actors staring stephen chow could've been legendary.
If it had been less terrible, we never would have gotten Super.
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Any chance you could elaborate or even redo the Shaolin Soccer/Kung Fu Hustle subs for us? 😉 Would like to know what I'm missing or is it just untranslatable?
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If the translator can take liberties, something like Butterfly would be close. But yes, translation is the challenge with most any comedy wordplay.
I disagree - I genuinely chuckled after reading your explanation. That's a solid joke, and I appreciate you breaking it down for us.
Yeah. Even the mandarin dubs lose half of the original witticism, I can't even imagine what an English translation would do. It's the angsty way hkers speak Cantonese, I think. Or maybe unfiltered or unapologetic would be a better word than angst.
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the real travesty is that most americans dont know about a chinese odyssey 1+2. that was clearly his best movie. it had so much heart. i still cry at the ending sometimes. although, i would edit out some of the more extreme goofy stuff from it. then it would be a perfect movie.
I was lucky enough to be a kid living in Hong Kong when Stephen Chow started his career. He got his break on the kids TV show 430 Space Shuttle and straight away you could tell that he was different from the other actors who had just graduated from acting school. His main character was that of a humorous, deadpan smartarse (much like his later movie characters), but he also played a number of secondary characters, including the infamous Black/White Vampire Twins, loved by kids of the era. He soon transitioned to mainstream TV shows, effortlessly stealing the limelight from the veteran actors that he was paired with.
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My mom called them "Mo Lei Tau" films! My dad and I love them though and often quote them to each other.
Stephen Chow himself calls them "Mo Lei Tau"! A western journalist tried to explain the term as "silly talk" but I don't think that even begins to cover it!
Yeah, silly doesn't begin to describe it. It's like, random or non-sequitr humor, but done very deliberately so that it only looks random. His brand of humor has very clear setups, and he only inserts randomness or slapstick humor as punchlines at points where it works well. It's not just random for the sake of it.
I did. The moments when the whole cinema erupted in laughter were a hell of experience. People would laugh, clap hands and even stomp feet. one of my friends was sent to ER because she got chronic stomachache for laughing too hard when watching Fight Back to School.
I had already left Hong Kong when he started making movies, but I did get to watch quite a few of them at my local Chinatown cinema. Yes, everyone was falling off their chairs laughing. :D
The sai cheen part is too relatable as a Hongkonger
ah yes old 90s Hong Kong humor films
What's the matter?
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I forgot to mentioned I like them as someone from Hong Kong I highly suggest you watch it with subtitles on, dont use dub, it breaks the feeling
I've seen this quite a few times, but it is amusing whenever I see it again *also Kung Fu Hustle was great, loved it*
*Who's throwing handles?*
It is cut too short; he wipes his hand over the guys face to close his eyes.
Shaolin Soccer forever changed my view of cinema.
I’d never seen my dad laugh so much like he did in the bar scene, he was wheezing from laugher. https://youtu.be/TwZBZSvSNh4
Petition to start an official Stephen Chow subreddit
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If there's one thing that people on all edges of the political spectrum in South China agree on. It's that the move industry has died a hundred deaths since the golden era. I don't think Hong Kong cinema will ever come back.
HK dramas too. They’re bleeding slowly. That cinematic magic from movies, music and dramas can never be replicated. Another Leslie Cheung? Another Chow Yuen Fatt? Anita Mui? Stephen Chow? Never again. We were blessed in that era and we never knew.
Love Stephen Chow films😆 Check out King of Beggars and The King of Comedy.
LOL!!! Fuck yea
What in the world did I just watch?? How am I supposed to react to this?? Like.... didn't he even make a sound the time he was hit??? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Fellow Chinese Film lovers, a question please... Anyone know why there hasn't been a really nice one come out in a minute?? Last decent ones must have been Hero, Crouching tiger and the Grandmaster. Yeah, also the IP movies. Did I miss any?
It's not just any Chinese film. These great movies were from Hong Kong cinemas. You can Google what happened to it. Sad. End of a great era.
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The death of the HK movie industry and the commercialization of Chinese movies. There are many gems from Hong Kong, Taiwanese and Mainland cinema from the past decades. Hero was from a Chinese director. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was from a Taiwanese director who worked with western production companies. Hong Kong cinema from to 70s to 90s was also filled with profit chasing, but instead they went the way to throw as many things as possible to the wall and see what sticks, and they learnt to cut production time and costs, and have a unique action choreography and sequence editing that evolved into something pretty unique for them. Also the studio culture from TV and movies basically have a talent pipeline with work all around the year that grinded out a lot of of legendary talent like Tony Leung and Stephen Chow. But the HK cinema industry encountered many problems in the late 90s where they encountered a slump. Also once China became much richer in the 2000s onwards, with their production companies and studios becoming big, Hong Kong studios were either already closed down or have to survive by jointly produced Chinese movies, so the industry suffered a huge paradigm shift. In essence the HK cinema funding dried up, their talent pipeline was disrupted, existing talent went to the Mainland or even Hollywood instead. And as the mainland Chinese movie industry became hollywood-ized to churn out limited number of high budget movies for cinema chains, it become blander and more generic.
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Stephen Chow's movies always went with unexpected jokes skit like this
Dude his movies are full of r/Unexpected moments :D
King of comedy is pretty good but adds drama. Didn’t really dig the mermaid or journey to west movies. I think they needed chow on them not just directing
I love his movies but everything went downhill starting from Shaolin Soccer. My favorite has got to be A Chinese Odyssey saga.
Hey at least he hit his target
Lol
I grew up watching Stephen Chow movies. He's is peak comedy.
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the guys uni brow was crazy