In 1971, a "Big Brother Tangshan" was born, announcing the birth of Hong Kong Kung Fu movies.
Bruce Lee has become a superstar in the world.
It's a pity that Tian is jealous of talents, and Bruce Lee suddenly passed away after just two years.
When Bruce Lee flicked past like a shooting star, the kung fu movie craze that has already risen has no successors for a while.
At that time, the controversy over "who can become Bruce Lee's second" was raging. In Wang Jing's words,
"the heroes got together for a while. Everyone thought that Bruce Lee was the one who died. All martial arts masters became the protagonists. failure". The director Luo Wei of
put Bao on Chen Gangsheng and invited him to be the protagonist of the movie "New Jing Wu Men".
and named this young man Jackie Chan. Obviously, he wanted him to be the second Bruce Lee.
But Jackie Chan, who plays with the nunchaku, is not at all heroic. The audience of
did not approve of this young man with small eyes and big nose. No matter in terms of temperament or kung fu,
is destined to not replace Bruce Lee. Chinese Kung Fu will surely have no successor.
1976 "Xin Jing Wu Men"
experienced a fiasco at the box office of several movies, Jackie Chan finally understood:
he will never be the second Bruce Lee.
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In 1978, Jackie Chan, who was worrying about the transformation, met Yuan Heping, a lifetime of Bole.
Yuan Heping, known as "The Eighth Master", was the leading martial arts instructor at the time.
"Ba Ye" tailor-made "Snake-Shaped Hand" and "Drunken Fist" for Jackie Chan.
1978 "Drunk Fist"
Today, Mr. Shi Guang will tell you this "Drunk Fist".
"Drunken Boxing" was released, and the producer Wu Siyuan, director Yuan Heping and Jackie Chan's "Iron Triangle" played a big role.
previously they have teamed up to create a kung fu comedy "Snake-Shaped Hand". After
sold at the box office, Taiwanese filmmakers invited them to the local celebration banquet.
Unexpectedly, the various actions of the film maker during the event triggered Wu and Yuan’s inspiration for "Drunken Boxing."
Ba Ye even thought that "Drunk Boxing has a sense of comedy, and that image will look good when filmed! "
, but there must always be a context.
So Baye spent a month and summed up eight mantras from various classic stories:
"Lv Dongbin: Drunk and Lifting a Pot is Powerful", "Tieguai Li: Choosing a Knee and Getting Drunk", "Han Zhong Li: Zuibu Baocheng Douxinding", etc.
In fact, "Drunken Master" is still a traditional kung fu movie to a certain extent, retaining several major elements of traditional kung fu movies:
martial arts high-powered villains appear to kill and create hatred,
protagonist’s original peaceful life is broken, and he begins to work hard. ,
finally fights with the villain to win revenge,
sometimes arranges for the protagonist and the villain to fight once before the decisive battle,
to witness his progress after practice. The action movies of
at that time were very slow, and the movements were very light and weak;
Jackie Chan’s "Drunken Fist" was not fast, and he had to work hard on the moves.
was obviously faster than other movies of that era. A lot, a lot harder.
If you have watched "Snake-Shaped Hand", you will find that Jackie Chan was still a single eyelid at the time. Why did "Drunken Master" become a "double eyelid"?
This is based on the list of Jackie Chan’s injury history, "The corner of his eye was kicked when filming "Drunken Master"...
When Jackie Chan was filming, Huang Zhengli, known as the "King of Leg Skills," kicked in the eye. On the upper and lower part of the eyebrows,
was bloody on the spot, and the diagnosis result was a cracked eye corner.
However, Jackie Chan, who was always afraid of injections, refused to stitch the needle. In the end, he could only stick the wound with medical tape. After
was torn off, the wound turned into a "double eyelid", and in the end he could only open the other eye. "Again.
Therefore, "Drunken Master" is not only Jackie Chan's famous work, but also a "plastic surgery".
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beats, but can't run, plus exaggerated expressions, funny plots, and cheap acting skills.
made "Drunken Fist" released in Hong Kong from October 5 to November 3 of that year, with a box office of 6.76 million Hong Kong dollars, and
broke digitallyThe box office record (5.31 million) of kung fu movies held by Bruce Lee's "Raptor Crossing the River",
eventually ranked second in the box office of the year.
In Taiwan, Wu Siyuan even described the results of "Drunk Master" as "too much profit" and "good is simply outrageous". When
was released in Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea in 1979, it was even worse.
alone in Japan, the film box office reached 1.9 billion yen, ranking 8th among the top ten grossing movies of the year;
in Seoul in the same year, the film has been shown for half a year. The number of
viewers reached 1.42 million, which is equivalent to 4.27 million people in South Korea had watched "Drunken Master" at that time.
broke the local historical record of attendance and maintained it for 11 years. It wasn't until 1990 that
was broken by "Human Ghost Love Is Not Over".
In the end, "Drunken Master" reached more than 22 million US dollars at the global box office that year, which proved what a "sensation" is!
Kung fu movies and comedy movies are perfectly integrated, and he really started to become Jackie Chan. The word
"Jackie Chan" is also a household name.
I am the author Shi Guangjun, thank you for your attention.
