Text|Hu Muzhi
In 2019, Jackie Chan is sixty-five. The last time
put him on the hot search, it was no longer his new movie, nor his peachy gossip, but he was accidentally kicked by a young actor when he was singing on stage at an event Foot press. After
was kicked, Jackie Chan's expression went from panic to calm and calm, and it only took less than 3 seconds for the whole journey. Because of this incident, in the writings of many media people, Jackie Chan was described as an old artist with both virtue and art. He seems to have completely forgotten how he was in a shorter time when he was shooting the movie "Who Am I". "Escape from danger" inside.
Regardless of Jackie Chan's willingness to admit it, the era of Jackie Chan is indeed over. The newly-grown post-00s are not as familiar with him as post-80s and post-90s. Even, most people don't know that Jackie Chan also released a new movie called "The Mystery of Dragon Card" in August this year. The cast of
is still strong, with Jackie Chan as the protagonist and Schwarzenegger. In order to present a better 3D effect, 3D camera shooting is also used. But under the hood, it's not just the box office that beats the street, but also word of mouth. The bad script is only one of the reasons, and the more reason may be that Jackie Chan is really old.
Wang Xiaobo once said in "Golden Age": At the age of twenty-one, he thought he would live forever, and nothing would beat me. only later learned that people will get old day by day, their extravagant hopes will disappear day by day, and finally become like a bull that has been hammered.
is as fierce as Jackie Chan, I never thought I would be beaten one day.
Jackie Chan was originally not called Jackie Chan. In the early years, his father Fang Daolong worked under Dai Li. After arriving in Hong Kong, he changed his surname to Chen to seek revenge for the enemy.
Hong Kong Sheng's father is a layman. Because his son was born in Hong Kong, he named him Chen Gangsheng.
is different from other famous families who have moved to Hong Kong. The parents of Hong Kong students have no culture. With the help of former villagers, they found a job in the consulate to wash clothes and cook. When I was a child, the Hong Kong students did not let their parents worry about. They often mingled with the gangsters on the streets, imitating the gangster's justice.
His father saw that he couldn't control him, and was afraid that he would go astray, so he suggested that he went to worship the Peking Opera martial artist Yu Zhanyuan as a teacher. Not long after the Hong Kong student finished his apprenticeship, his father and his mother left him to work in Australia. Before leaving, Hong Kong's father taught his son: I don't care what you are like, but you have to promise me three things. First, you can't join the underworld, second you can't take drugs, and third you can't bet on Pai Gow.
Hong Kong Sheng pretended to nod and promised, before his parents' plane landed in Australia, he started fighting and letting himself go. One day, one of his friends, a friend of his friends, mysteriously found him, and said that he wanted to get him a big ticket, and he took out a stack of white banknotes to show off: "I earned it a week, selling medicine, five thousand Hong Kong dollars."
The Hong Kong student looked at the white banknotes, flipped through his shriveled pockets, and said shyly that he couldn't do it. Hu Peng Gouyou scratched his head, scolded him, and sent him to watch.
The Hong Kong student clutched his slapped head, and was so embarrassed that he wanted to pierce the ground. At that time, he still didn't realize his father's good intentions, but felt that it was really uncomfortable to be looked down upon.
In addition to financial difficulties, Chen Gangsheng's life in the theater is also difficult. At that time, Yuan Long (Sam Po Hong), who was 5 years older than him, had already started to play roles in movies, but he had to get up at 5 o'clock every day for training, and turn off the lights at 12 o'clock in the evening to rest. It seemed that hard days would never be over. From 1961 to 1971, after ten years of studying art, he finally played the role of a "dead" on the set.
In 1972, Jiahe Film Company signed the two films "Big Brother Tangshan" and "Jing Wu Men" with Bruce Lee, who returned to Hong Kong, for US$15,000. Chen Gangsheng, who is accustomed to being a "dead corpse," is also fortunate to have a breakthrough performance in "Jing Wu Men"-he played the stand-in for the character who was kicked by Bruce Lee.
is also a star, but Bruce Lee and Chen Gangsheng’s starting points are quite different. Xiaolong's father, Li Haiquan, is one of the "Four Uglinesses" of Hong Kong Cantonese Opera, a generation of famous actors. Xiaolong's mother, He Aiyu, is a collector of literature and a scholarly family. As soon as the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out, Father Xiaolong took Xiaolongniang overseas. The nickname was to spread Chinese culture. To put it bluntly, it was to avoid war.Chaos. Later, Bruce Lee was born in the United States, and the civil war was still tight. His father named him Li Zhenfan and made a wish for the distant motherland across the Pacific Ocean.
Because of Xiaolong's father half-foot in the "entertainment circle", Xiaolong has many performance opportunities since he was a child, and he can also appear in guest movies every three to five. He is already a famous child star before he reaches adulthood.
Speaking of fighting, Xiaolong is more vigorous than Hong Kong and often forms gangs to bully people. He was classmates with Huang Zhan, who later became one of the "Four Great Talents in Hong Kong", because he bullied Huang Zhan's younger brother, and Huang Zhan asked him to reason and was rubbed back and forth by him on the ground.
Huang Zhan has revealed his talents without the power to bind chickens since then. Seeing that he couldn't beat Bruce Lee, he turned to Wen Gong and released an anecdote - Bruce Lee had only one egg, and he was nicknamed Li Yichun.
But no matter how many eggs Xiaolong has, he can't stop him from making a smooth journey. He first worshipped Ye Wen as his teacher and laid the foundation. When he returned to school in the United States, he opened the "Zhenfan Dojo" by the way and became a famous martial arts master in the United States.
In 1966, Bruce Lee participated in the audition for the Hollywood movie "The Green Hornet". In the audition video, he was wearing a suit, fluent in English, and talkative, with the confidence of a Westerner and the elegance of an Oriental. Compared with Chen Gangsheng, who picked up bulk English again after he rushed to Hollywood a few years later, it seemed that there was more than a language distance.
As the old saying goes, one fate, two luck, three feng shui, four episodes of Yin De, five reading . When Hong Kong students worked hard for his life, Xiaolong had become a child star by relying on his father's contacts. When the Hong Kong student finally touched the set to play the dead body, he was kicked out of the house by the starring dragon.
Life is never fair. A good dragon is not so easy to be content. After playing "The Green Hornet", Xiaolong discovered that although Lao Mei respected him as a kung fu master on the surface, she secretly regarded him as a humble "banana man" (pointing out a Chinese born in the United States).
When his development was extremely difficult, Shaw Brothers suddenly threw an olive branch to him and invited him to return to Hong Kong to make a movie. However, the arrogant Xiaolong started his own career and offered a astronomical price of 10,000 US dollars for the performance (which was relatively expensive at the time). The boss of Shaw Brothers, Run Run Shaw, had never experienced this evil and invited Xiaolong back to Hong Kong, so he gave up.
There is more than Xiaolong who has ambitions, and he rejected Bruce Lee's Shaw Film Company, which is also undergoing a change at this time. Zou Wenhuai, who was once the director of the Shaw Brothers Propaganda Department, took a large number of key personnel away due to inconsistency with Shaw's business philosophy and established Jiahe Film.
Before that, Run Run Run Shaw and Wenhuai Zou were "good friends" who crossed the age gap. Lao Shao not only supported Xiao Zou as the deputy general manager, but also let him oversee the production.
Xiao Zou did not live up to his expectations, and helped Lao Shao create a situation where Shao dominates. But the good times didn't last long, because Lao Shao's little lover Fang Yihua had been blowing "pillow wind" in Lao Shao's ears, saying that Xiao Zou spent a lot of money and would lose the company one day. Uneasy, Lao Shao put his little lover Fang Yihua into the company's financial management. After that, Fang Yihua confronted Xiao Zou everywhere in the company. Xiao Zou felt more and more boring and decided to leave. The
brotherhood is not enough to sleep in the same bed, and a pair of "good friends" also parted ways. However, the self-reliant Xiao Zou is still a "poor ghost". His entire family is only 400,000 Hong Kong dollars. Compared with Shaw Films, which has an annual revenue of nearly 10 million, Xiao Zou, who claims to start a business, is more like a joke.
may have some success as if it was already doomed. In 1971, Singapore’s Cathay Pacific, which was previously regarded as a strong enemy by Shaw Brothers, suddenly announced that it would end its production business in Hong Kong. But Cathay Pacific, which ended its business, handed over its own Yonghua Studio to Zou Wenhuai's management. For a time, Jiahe, which was more like a small workshop, became a big company with an independent studio. Almost at the same time, Jiahe recruited Bruce Lee into his subordinates and produced three popular movies one after another. "Big Brother Tangshan" has a box office of 3.19 million, "Jing Wu Men" has a box office of 4.33 million, and "The Raptors Cross the River" has a box office of 5.3 million. When Bruce Lee became the highly anticipated Kung Fu superstar, Jiahe also made a lot of money behind him.
No one knew that at the peak of Bruce Lee's life, his life was about to end.
After filming "The Raptors Crossing the River", Xiaolong, who was not reconciled to being a superstar in Hong Kong, wanted to break out of Asia and go international. He then joined hands with Warner America and Golden Harvest to produce "Dragon Fighting" and "Game of Death". But before the film was released, Bruce Lee was exposed to death at the home of Shaw female Ding Pei.
Today, there are still divergent opinions about Bruce Lee's death. But there is no doubt that Bruce Lee has created a Kung Fu era that belongs to him, and laid the foundation for Chinese Kung Fu movies.
Cantonese say: One life, two luck, three feng shui. Also said: is destined for three minutes, seven minutes by hard work.
Hong Kong is not born with Xiaolong, so he has to work harder. He wanted to be a martial arts instructor, so he squatted on the road on the set every day and played "encounters" with a martial arts instructor. The martial arts instructor drove by in a sports car, and suddenly saw the individual screaming out when he was elegantly turning the corner. The martial arts instructor was so scared that he was about to scold his mother, but found that it was a Hong Kong student who played a dead body on the set. After all,
is an acquaintance who has met each other, and the martial arts instructor is not easy to get angry, so he can only pretend to say hello calmly. After two visits, Hong Kong students have become familiar with martial arts instructors a lot. It may be that the martial arts instructor thinks that the movements that Hong Kong students have come out are quite attractive, so he deliberately cultivates him to be a martial artist.
Poor children do not hesitate to become martial arts instructors in Hong Kong who are notoriously fighting in the circle. When instructing actors, he will personally demonstrate how to fall, jump, and beat. After an action scene, the actor was injured and he was also injured.
At that time, because of Bruce Lee's death, Jiahe no longer made martial arts movies, but signed Xu Guanwen and switched to comedy. Luo Wei, the director of "Jing Wu Men", ran into Hong Kong students on the set one day. How do you think that this lean young man will have a lot to do. So he signed him under his own company and wanted to package him as the second Bruce Lee.
For this reason, Rowe also specifically changed his name to Jackie Chan with Hong Kong students. When
signed the Hong Kong students, Luo Wei filmed "Xin Jing Wu Men" and let him do the starring. From a "dead" kicked by Bruce Lee to Aaron Chen Zhen's younger brother, Hong Kong students were very worried, for fear that he would become a bug.
has the senior Xiaolong first. The Hong Kong student who feels "stressed" also deliberately went to learn Wing Chun for a month before the shooting started. From body shape to movement to language, he strives to be like Xiaolong. As a result, the film was shot, wearing the same hairstyle of Xiaolong, shouting howling of the same style of Xiaolong, and doing the same style of action of Xiaolong, encountered word-of-mouth, and it really became a bug.
Although I look back at this movie now, there is nothing wrong with Hong Kong's acting, but Xiaolong's fans do not buy it. Born with a funny face, Hong Kong students always feel awkward to be serious.
is not only awkward for the audience, Hong Kong students are also awkward. Because he deliberately imitated Bruce Lee, he even forgot how he usually talked and walked, and his personality split to almost depression. But Luo Wei didn't intend to let him go, and let him play the "Little Dragon" in "Shaolin Wooden Man Alley" and "Sword Flower Misty Jiangnan". Although Xiaolong at this time is no longer a deliberate imitation of Bruce Lee, the unsmiling martial arts style still makes the Hong Kong students who are used to Pi feel breathless.
But it didn't take long for a Hong Kong student to meet another Bole in his life.
In 1978, director Wu Siyuan approached Luo Wei and borrowed Hong Kong students to film. At this time, Hong Kong students have starred in several movies, and they are still tepid. Luo Wei was worried about how to hold him up. Wu Siyuan borrowed Hong Kong students away, just to relieve his worry.
Previously, Wu Siyuan had already made many kung fu movies such as "Southern Fist and North Leg" and "Eagle Claw Iron Shirt", but they did not cause much disturbance in the market. Because of the enthusiasm of martial arts novelists such as Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yusheng, etc., Hong Kong Kung Fu movies have become crowded for a while. Wu Siyuan knew that if you want kung fu movies to shine, you must avoid homogeneity.
So, in the movie "Snake-Shaped Hand", Wu Siyuan, as a screenwriter, added funny elements to Kung Fu movies for the first time, allowing Hong Kong students to fully release their true temperament on the set, making it funny and selling cute, completely breaking the serious style of previous Kung Fu movies. .
Wu Siyuan bet the right treasure, and Hong Kong students are also right. After filming "Snake Shaped Hand", Hong Kong students really became a dragon.
In the second year that Hong Kong became a dragon, Zhang Xinyan was invited by the mainland to join the crew of "Shaolin Temple". The original starring of "Shaolin Temple" was Wu Gang of Great Wall Company. After Zhang Xinyan joined the group, he overturned the previous script and asked Jet Li, who was studying martial arts at Shichahai Sports School, to star.
Speaking of it, Zhang Xinyan and Jet Li are old acquaintances. In 1972, Zhang Xinyan met Jet Li for the first time when he was filming the documentary "A Thousand Reds" in the Mainland. At that time, Jet Li was only 9 years old, but this 9-year-old Maotou boy was not afraid of people at all. His eyes were like torches and his movements were sharp, which made Zhang Xinyan still remember ten years later.Recalling fresh.
No one can see the hand of the god of destiny. It is hidden in the depths of the universe and moves around, composing sorrows and joys for all beings.
Jet Li, maybe destined to be the child who was favored by luck.
In 1982, "Shaolin Temple" was released. The movie ticket price of 0.1 yuan per piece contributed 140 million box office, and the number of movie viewers exceeded 500 million. At that time, no matter who had a happy event, "Shaolin Temple" should be put on the village head. Because the movie is too popular, there has also been a trend of monks. Many young people walked hundreds of kilometers to Shaolin Temple, claiming to be a monk and learn martial arts. After
"Shaolin Temple", at only 17 years old Jet Li established his position in martial arts movies in one fell swoop. With just one movie, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan have been walked. It took more than ten years to finish the journey.
Looking back on the history of the development of Chinese kung fu movies, Bruce Lee used "real hitting" to realize the modern transformation of kung fu movies; Jackie Chan used "comedy hits" to realize the civilian transformation of kung fu movies; Jet Li used "aesthetic" Fighting" has realized the cultural sublimation of kung fu movies.
In Bruce Lee's movies, the image of the protagonist is often very tragic. They often cherish the lofty nationalist spirit, cynical, and die for ideals and beliefs.
In Jackie Chan's movies, the image of the protagonist of is often quite popular. They are often little people in life, simple and honest, naughty. The initial setting of the role is no longer like the role played by Bruce Lee, with a vigorous body and surpassing superhuman skills. On the contrary, they will be beaten down by the enemy, but they can always "start from being weak and finally strong."
contains not only the life philosophy of "heroes do not ask where they come from" that is similar to Jackie Chan's fame experience, but also has The spirit of "optimism" peculiar to that era.
In Jet Li's movie, the image of the protagonist changes again, often with a chivalrous spirit. In the movie "Hong Xiguan" (1993) starring Jet Li, there is a line like this: "The last sentence of the word forbearance is unbearable, no need to endure."
Jet Li, who grew up by the Confucian cultural outlook, except for the movie In the pursuit of "victory in martial arts", it seems that he wants to convince his opponents to achieve "victory in reason."
Regardless of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li, three kung fu movie stars, their martial arts attainments are high or low. All three actors have made outstanding contributions to the spread of Chinese martial arts around the world.
In 2008, the 54-year-old Jackie Chan also co-starred with the 45-year-old Jet Li in a movie-The King of Kung Fu.
More than thirty years later, the two kung fu superstars are no longer young. The two people who worked together to bring Chinese martial arts movies from fantasy to reality have returned to the "world of heaven" this time, playing with the theme of Xianxia.
Jet Li no longer dared to say that he didn't need to hang WIA, and Jackie Chan no longer dared to say that he didn't need to be a substitute. When Jet Li, who was no longer young, turned his head awkwardly in the movie, and Jackie Chan burst into creases with a smile, the audience realized that the two teenagers who had smashed the film world were really old.
After ten years in 2008, Jackie Chan, who didn’t want to get old, was still “contributing” to bad movies after another. Jet Li, who was frequently rumored and died of a serious illness, went on a variety show every other time. Show, show up in game advertisements. Jackie Chan once envied Bruce Lee's death. He thought it was the best ending for a martial arts star- was destined not to grow old when he left in his best years.
But the god of time is not as good at moving around as the god of fate. Jackie Chan will get old, and so will we.
