Fat cats are funny.

In the entertainment circle, a person's figure and face are their facades.

A while ago, Cao Jun made several hot searches for "Actor in Place 2", and some netizens commented that his face value was too positive and his height was not enough, so it was difficult for him to develop well in the entertainment circle.

Even, there is more than one such comment.

Although I feel helpless, it seems irrefutable.

Yan value is justice, which seems to be used thoroughly. Even in the early film and television circles, there were such scenes, but they were not all the same.

In the film history of Hong Kong, there are many film emperors, but there is no image at all. Only one winner is the fattest.

This is Zheng Zeshi.

Perhaps, calling him "fat cat" will impress everyone more.

0 1, when I was young, I had a dream, but I was dismissed as vanity.

In the early 1950s, there was a female star who made her debut at the age of three. She has influenced countless people with her own star path and is their idol.

The child star's name is Feng Baobao.

In terms of age, he is about three years younger than Zheng Zeshi, the hero of this article.

The highest state of idolization is to become a star when following idols, or to become as good as idols or even better.

As a fan of Feng Baobao, Zheng Zeshi also has the same star dream as his idol.

Zheng Zeshi didn't grow very fat.

In fact, even when I was a child, my family was poor, I couldn't eat well, I couldn't sleep well, and I had to help take care of my siblings. He has never lost weight.

Living in a slum, his dream seems naive and illusory.

He thought that as long as he became a star, eating and drinking would not be a problem.

In the fourth grade, Zheng Zeshi wrote his dream of "I want to be a star" for the first time in his composition book.

At that time, Zheng Zeshi was chubby, plain and a little dark. His family is very poor, and even the place where he lives is built on the top floor with a stick that his father broke off from the fruit wooden box.

Without face value, good figure and family support, his star dream became "vanity" in the eyes of teachers.

The composition was torn to pieces.

He can feel inferior, but he still feels that the teacher is right and he is really "useless".

The eldest son's heartfelt sense of responsibility invaded him at an early age, and it is most important to support himself and his family. Reading is a bit redundant in front of food and clothing.

Therefore, when he was in junior high school, he resolutely dropped out of school to work.

Zheng Zeshi has been a man of great ideas and opinions since he was a teenager.

He dropped out of school and went to work without hesitation. He also has his own ideas.

He understands that working is temporary, and it is true to learn a skill and settle down.

To this end, after tossing in the restaurant for less than half a year, he tried to learn jewelry processing in a jewelry store. At least, this technology is skilled and well paid, which can ensure that the food and clothing of a family is not a problem.

1972, the famous director Zhang Che organized the first training course for longbow film actors. Of course, at this time, Zhang Che has not been out of town, and the Longbow movie has not been officially named.

Therefore, it may be more appropriate to call this actor training class Zhang Jiaban.

Zheng Zeshi 2 1 this year.

After five or six years as an apprentice in the jewelry processing industry, he has never forgotten that "dream" in his childhood.

Despite his own opposition, he was admitted to an actor training class in Zhang Che and started a serious walk-on.

This was his first attempt at this dream, and it ended in just four months.

Four months later, Zhang Che took his Zhang Jiaban to Taiwan Province Province to expand his territory.

"Director Zhang Che is going to Taiwan Province for development. If I follow him, I will become a martial artist. I didn't want to do this, so I didn't go. "

This is the closest he has come to his dream in 20 years.

However, his star dream is still there.

Zheng Zeshi, 25, decided to make one last effort for his dream.

Despite his family's opposition, he still wanted his family's support, so he begged his mother for a year and promised not to do it this time and never dream again.

Probably, it was this persistence and hard work that gave him the opportunity.

This time, in the acting competition, he cut through the thorns all the way and got the wireless contract in the name of the champion. .

Since then, Zheng Zeshi has officially become a member of the entertainment circle.

In 2002, the blockbuster Fat Cat created a miracle for the disabled.

From 65438 to 0977, Wang Mingquan and Chow Yun Fat co-starred in a family drama "The Day Changed".

This TV series made Chow Yun Fat a master of wireless.

Zheng Zeshi, who has just signed a contract, has just started his walk-on career.

I have to say that Zheng Zeshi is much smoother than most actors.

Some actors, who have been a walk-on for ten or eight years, may not see themselves as the leading role.

Of course, the luck we see is actually his efforts behind every minute.

Others are resting, he is thinking about the script, others are eating and drinking, and he is honing his acting skills.

Zheng Zeshi is very fat and seems to have his own simple and honest attributes. Because his body was "unqualified", at first, there was not much chance to belong to Zheng Zeshi.

Fortunately, he looks happy and humorous, and seems to coincide with him.

It is said that when he was the fattest, as soon as he got into a taxi, the car had to bump a few times and suddenly "live" into a comedy gesture.

To this end, when wireless is planning his play, the first thing is to make him a long-term guest appearance in Bangbang.

The host of this program is Chow Yun Fat.

Chow Yun Fat, the master, is in charge of hosting and Zheng Zeshi is in charge of joking.

They also come from the bottom. Although they have different positions in the circle, they have an inexplicable feeling of mutual appreciation.

Zheng Zeshi, in particular, as a fat man, was born with a sense of joy. He looked relaxed.

When having lunch, Chow Yun Fat always likes to bring Zheng Zeshi: "Fatty, let's have dinner together!" " "

If you eat too much, you will have more communication and study.

Zheng Zeshi is very clever. He is like a sponge. Squeeze, you can always find room to continue learning knowledge.

Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared.

From 1976 to 1979, in just three years, he has skipped a walk-on hurdle and started starring in TV series.

The first TV series is called Four Eyes Detective, and Lv Liangwei plays a private detective.

With his comic temperament and superb acting skills, Zheng Zeshi made a fat detective vivid, true and natural.

Therefore, Zheng Zeshi successfully broke into the audience's field of vision. Of course, this is a small area.

But for Zheng Zeshi, who is good at seizing opportunities, this is enough.

With the blessing of being a guest of long-term funny programs and the foreshadowing of the TV series Four Eyes Detective, he has his own unique comedy characteristics.

From 65438 to 0980, Zheng Zeshi successfully entered the film circle.

It took less than a year to transition from a TV actor to a film actor.

The next two years will be the peak of Zheng Zeshi, and the best time for him to show his talents.

1984, Zheng Zeshi directed and starred in the film "Lost Wife", and Zheng Zeshi partnered with Ceng Zhiwei. The two actors had their own comedies, which added a lot of laughter to the film.

In the film, he played a timid divorced father, which was vividly interpreted by him.

Zheng Zeshi was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for the first time, and the word "hot" finally fell on him.

He became one of the most important comedians in Hong Kong film industry at that time.

Subsequently, Zheng Zeshi turned his attention to the subjects of the low-level nobody and the disabled.

Together with Huang Baiming, he planned and adapted a new film "Why Me", trying to create a mentally retarded young protagonist-"Fat Cat" in the film.

With the script, the next step is preparation.

Zheng Zeshi, a versatile screenwriter, director and star actor, undertakes most of the creative content of Fat Cat.

Of course, he also enlisted the help of his old partner, Chow Yun Fat, to improve the "face value" of the film.

In order to build a "fat cat", Zheng Zeshi visited the Hong Kong Social Welfare Department many times.

Understand the psychological and physical characteristics of people with mental retardation, shoot a lot of information films and try to figure it out repeatedly. It took three months to study and practice before shooting.

"Fat cat" is a naive child, but because of physical defects, it has been at the bottom of society, suffering from social discrimination and oppression.

Fat cats are fat, and their simple faces are not aggressive, but they may not be accommodated by reality.

He came to no good end.

But it directly hit the hearts of the audience and made countless audiences feel the same. I feel sad for the fate of the "fat cat" and feel powerless for the reality of society.

Zheng Zeshi also won the Best Actor Award and Jury Award in the 5th Academy Awards for "Why Me", and was ridiculed by the media as "the fattest cinematographer".

However, no one can imagine that Fat Cat will become an IP that lasts for 20 years, and many people have been redeveloping this IP one after another.

Zheng Zeshi never imagined that his "Fat Cat" would become a classic character that no one could surpass.

In his acting career, he played the role of fat cat seven times.

03, down and out for many years, come back is lean.

With the aura of "Fat Cat" and Best Actor, Zheng Zeshi's acting career once reached its peak.

But everything has an unchangeable truth of ups and downs.

After Why Have Me, Zheng Zeshi took Maggie Cheung and others to make a sequel, which was not as good as the first one, but it was the beginning of this IP development track.

After that, he began to change his image one after another and tried to shoot different types of characters, especially villains.

In the 1990s, Hong Kong's film and television industry developed rapidly, but declined rapidly.

199 1 year, Jiahe and Film Co., Ltd. * * filmed a lean film "Cripple Hao", which was known as the godfather of the Hong Kong version.

This is a Hong Kong gangster biopic, and the main characters in the film all have specific character prototypes.

With the historical background and the true nature of his biography, Zheng Zeshi established his position in Hong Kong-made hero films through the realistic role of "Fat Cat".

Two years later, Zheng Zeshi tried to start his own business.

He almost copied the movie "Legend of the Heroes after the Robbery" made by the lame Hao in the box office mode, which pulled him into the trough of his life.

The film itself lost money, the company was poorly managed, and friends who started a business together ran away with money. All the mess was left to Zheng Zeshi to clean up, so that his debt reached nearly 100 million yuan.

The entertainment circle has always been poor, and there are even fewer gifts in the snow.

Even he himself can't help but sigh: "There are no real friends in the entertainment circle".

"It was really painful during that time, that is, I sold everything except my relatives, parents and children."

In those years, he was heavily in debt, and when he was in trouble, he suffered. He became an actor, but when he went to film, he was taken advantage of the opportunity to lower his price and filmed all the films, and countless doors were closed to him.

Helpless, he took his family to live in a slum and began a ten-year poverty-stricken life.

He came from a slum, and after a short period of glory, he returned to the slum. Years later, with the help of Andy Lau, he returned to the peak of acting again.

Like the cycle of fate, ups and downs.

Zheng Zeshi's decline, in fact, he is not familiar with Andy Lau, no one would have thought of, but he stood up and gave Zheng Zeshi a hand.

Andy Lau introduced Zheng Zeshi to the drama contract and introduced him as the producer and producer of his own film.

For many years after that, we can see that in Andy Lau's films, there are basically Zheng Zeshi, whether as an actor or as a behind-the-scenes figure.

1996 played a junior policeman who was desperate for life in Three Injured Policemen, and won the trophy of the Oscar winner again.

How much does this trophy weigh today?

First, prove that he started again after falling from the peak. This year's Oscar nominations for best actor are luxurious.

Nominees include Jackie Chan, Leslie Cheung, Liming, Wang Minde, Liu Qingyun and Zheng Zeshi.

And he defeated these powerful assistants and proved his acting skills again.

Secondly, it was this restart that reminded ATV of the IP of Fat Cat, which also led to the re-creation of Fat Cat.

Previously, Fat Cat only declined in Hong Kong, but ATV's Fat Cat entered the mainland market, and Zheng Zeshi was well known to the national audience because of Fat Cat.

After nearly ten years of suffering, Zheng Zeshi turned over.

I paid off my debts, fulfilled my promise to my family when I moved to the slum, and didn't give up my dream of continuing acting.

Nowadays, Zheng Zeshi, who is over 70 years old, can hardly return to the glory of that year, but he has also become a very special existence in the whole domestic entertainment circle.

He is fat and has a bad image, but he tells everyone over and over again with his own experience and acting skills that he can control simple comedies and farce, and he can also play vicious villains. He can build a "fat cat" IP, or he can have an addiction with police robbers.

The ups and downs of Zheng Zeshi's life are like an inspirational drama, with hard steps and lucky flowers.