The young man who once dared to jump off the 21st floor has reached the age of ears in a blink of an eye. After all, the wheels of the times have not stopped for Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan who can fight is old.
His punches have slowed down, his legs have become softer, and his box office appeal has declined at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Recently, he made a cameo appearance in "The Climber", which caused many viewers to be moved. But this is only in recent years, his rare shining moment.
Two months ago, when "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes into the World" created a miracle in the box office of Chinese animation movies, the movie "Mystery of Dragon Card" starring Jackie Chan and Schwarzenegger was quietly released.
, an investment of 300 million yuan, a super-produced Kung Fu movie, scored 3.6 points on Douban, and finally only won 18.23 million yuan in the box office, which is less than one percent of the former.
. In February of this year, during the Spring Festival movie box office competition, the movie "Detective Pu Songling" starring Jackie Chan also hit the street at the box office.
has more than 40,000 netizens on Douban who gave a score of no higher than 2 stars, and the final score was 3.8. If
traces forward along the timeline, Jackie Chan’s last movie that won both the market and the word of mouth was the "Zodiac" seven years ago.
At that time, he played "the last fight for life" in the propaganda. In the
movie, he led a dozen celebrities such as Liao Fan and Yao Xingtong across 5 continents, through rainforests, jumping volcanoes, cliffs and seas, and fought back a box office score of 840 million, with a Douban score of 6.6.
The young man who once dared to jump off the 21st floor grew old in a blink of an eye. After all, the wheels of the times did not stop for Jackie Chan.
He is 65 years old this year and has not been a big brother for many years.
Jackie Chan had a lot of "desired" moments when he was young. It was this "desired" moment that made him a well-deserved big brother in the golden age of kung fu movies.
In 1983, the film "Plan A" was prepared for production. Jackie Chan, who has become famous and won the Hong Kong box office champion, still designed a dangerous move for himself. After a series of street chases,
climbed up to 15 meters high. The top of the bell tower, and then jumped off in the chase, after being blocked by two canopies, fell to the ground. After the plan of
was determined, his junior and brother Yuen Biao asked him timidly: "Are you sure you can?" Jackie Chan said with a confident look: "No problem." The sandbags were dropped from the top of the bell tower. After the sandbag fell to the ground through the two-layer cloth tent, it burst instantly, and sand particles flew all over the ground. Jackie Chan was dumbfounded.
Jackie Chan hesitated for 6 days in this scene because of the fear in his heart. He failed to shoot 3 times and was rescued by the staff. On the seventh day of
, Jackie Chan standing by the clock tower was still struggling. It happened that his big brother Sammo Hung was passing by, and when he saw Jackie Chan was afraid to yell at him: "When are you going to wait? Are you still filming?" Simply jumped down. After the body tore the two layers of cloth canopy, before he had time to make a cushioning action, his neck fell heavily to the ground and fainted. After
was rescued, Jackie Chan found out that he was not dead. After applying ice to his neck for a while, he ran to the front to watch his movements on the monitor, and felt that the impact of the landing was not enough.
, despite the opposition, he walked up to the clock tower again and jumped again without hesitation. After the movie
was released, Jackie Chan's jump was a huge success.
also from this time on, Jackie Chan created the most important label of his film career-personally performing extremely dangerous stunts.
And that action broke his nose and his neck hurt for 2 years.
Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan
Two years later, the old injury happened. In the movie "Police Story", he challenged the more difficult stunt shots-after a chase by
, he jumped out from the sky and caught the colorful lights in the middle of the lobby. The pillars slide to the ground, pass through the glass-structured house, and fall on the marble floor. On the day of the shooting of
, it started raining in Hong Kong. The staff told him that he could stop the action. Once the lights leak, Jackie Chan will undoubtedly die.
But in the face of the waiting of hundreds of people on the scene and the expensive shooting costs, Jackie Chan shouted "Die or die" and jumped out. As
was falling, his feet clamped the iron pillar, and sparks from the bulbs being pulled around splashed. His hands are hot first, then painful, thenThen came general anesthesia. After
fell to the ground, Jackie Chan completely lost his mind. Like crazy, he grabbed a martial artist from a married class and beat him until he begged for mercy. He turned around and screamed at the sky. Behind
are Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Jackie Chan's agent, makeup artist, and almost everyone in the married class are crying.
slowly recovered, seeing what happened, Jackie Chan hid his face and wept.
killed him with a blushing eye, and did not notice the blood on his face, the broken glass all over his body, and the second-degree burns and the hands that turned out. The thrilling stunt lens of
made Jackie Chan a success, allowing him to grow from a Hong Kong movie martial arts stand-in to a Hong Kong martial arts brother. But he still did not relax his demands.
In 1997, he went to Rotterdam, the Netherlands to shoot the film "Who Am I". The most ruthless shot involved Jackie Chan jumping from the top of a building and landing along the outer slope of the building without any grasping.
was another thrilling moment. Hundreds of staff members were preparing downstairs and called the doctor in advance.
After all the preparations were ready, Jackie Chan, who was standing at the top of the building, had a heartbeat and his temples were like drumming. With the director's "Action", he jumped into the wind.
rubbed his body violently on the glass, Jackie Chan lost his center of gravity and stood up, then was pulled down by inertia, lying on the floor, luckily, he finally stopped firmly on the edge of the building.
Many years ago, there was a saying in the married class: "We don’t ask why, we either fight or die!" The little
Jackie Chan, with such momentum, became a hot international superstar and was recorded by the Guinness World Records. Daquan was rated as "the actor with the most stunts."
and hidden behind Jackie Chan's "desired life", in fact, has always been his childhood grievance.
At that time, his parents lived abroad all year round. He stayed alone in Hong Kong, China, practicing in opera classes. After experiencing severe beatings by brothers and masters, he was repeatedly rubbed on the ground by fate.
has no choice, no way out. Starting from the road of martial arts coaching, he knows that no matter how hard it is to look back, fighting is the only choice. Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong on April 7, 1954. His father was a cook and his mother was a servant in the wealthy district.
's parents have no culture, so they named Jackie Chan "Chen Gangsheng", which means "a child can be named casually to feed him".
But since Jackie Chan was born, his parents realized that this child was not easy to feed. He weighed 13 kilograms when he was born, and he was published in the local newspaper. The headline of the article called him "giant baby". When
was 6 years old when he was in elementary school, Jackie Chan always teased his classmates and teachers.
At that time, there was a concrete slope near his home. Jackie Chan would always slide down the slope, and finally polished his sneakers to the soles of holes. He went home and was beaten by his mother. After
five times, his parents discovered that Jackie Chan was not for studying, and wanted to help him find another way.
Jackie Chan and his parents
parents sent Jackie Chan to the Hong Kong opera master Yu Zhanyuan's Chinese Opera Academy, hoping that the closed management of food and accommodation can help Jackie Chan converge his stubborn character.
Jackie Chan stayed in the Drama Academy to practice martial arts for a full 10 years thereafter. Life at
Drama Academy is not easy. There is a master on the top and brothers on the bottom. As a brother, he is bullied almost every day.
But it has also been a period of 10 years that has polished out his hard will. When he left the opera school, the 17-year-old Jackie Chan was already a kung fu master at the time.
was young and vigorous at that time, he plunged into the Hong Kong film and television circle, eager to break his own career.
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reality quickly gave him a heavy blow. The small popularity in the theater cannot help him open the door of the Hong Kong film market.
He can only chase the bus with the group performers every day, serving as an extra actor who was hacked and drawn on the set, and sometimes helping the prop team do some physical work. After
slowly got acquainted, he was just a martial arts stand-in, serving as some dangerous moves that the protagonists dared not perform, leaving himself covered with scars.
is 17 years old, at the age when Spring Heart is sprouting. Jackie Chan is on the crew and has met his first love. A few months after the sweet relationship, the relationship was broken up by the other's parents.
When they learned that Jackie Chan's profession was a stuntman, they warned Jackie venomously: "A martial arts, there will be no promise. You don't touch my daughter." The words of
made Jackie the first experience of the cruelty of reality. This kind of trampling on self-esteem is far more lethal than being beaten up by the master at school. When
got home, he smashed the chair at home. After calming down, he told himself that only getting ahead and becoming famous is his only way.
After that, he put aside his usual frolics, went to the set at the earliest every day and finished work at the latest. Jackie Chan was the first to try all the dangerous moves, and he told the other party in advance that it’s not good not to collect money. Once the director wanted to shoot a major scene at the scene, the actors needed to step over the high-altitude balcony railings, flip in the air, land steadily, and start fighting.
Because the balcony was so high, no one dared to try, Jackie Chan stood up. The martial arts instructor shouted to him: "You don't want to die!"
Jackie Chan was not frightened by the danger, and lowered his head and told him:
, "I don't want to be a small person on the set forever. I want to prove myself, even if I fail and fall, at least I tried it."
Finally, after two falls, Jackie Chan completed the action and became famous. The jump of
made him the youngest "dragon martial artist" in Hong Kong at that time. It also helped Jackie Chan open a new door to the movie.
How humble Jackie Chan trampled in his previous life, and how strong his resistance was later.
Jackie Chan, who worked hard for his life, was already worth tens of millions in his 20s. He led a group of brothers to set up a "marriage class" and he became the eldest brother.
, an old man who has never studied before, suddenly has ten million worth and wealth and status. He wants to let the world know his success.
At that time, he often let people in the family class take 500,000 cash in their pockets to go to the streets to sweep goods. With a wave of famous watches and famous wines, his family members will buy out the entire store. When
was the most extravagant, he had more than 50 luxury cars alone, and one person occupied all the parking spaces of the film and television company, and even the boss called him "Little Overlord."
is more than just shopping, he started to drink frequently, drunk every day.
was drunk and drove into McLaren and Porsche, and he spilled the money away. At the age of 30, he only spent 16 million Hong Kong dollars on eating and drinking.
At that time, many people in Hong Kong couldn't understand Jackie Chan's swagger and regarded this uneducated person as an upstart. Jackie Chan doesn't mind either. In his heart, he must spend all his money, "because he doesn't know if he can live in this world after the next dangerous move." After Jackie Chan's collection of red wine and wine glasses
became famous, Jackie Chan was faced with more and more temptations. "Girls don't need to be soaked. Girls come around like butterflies, and they can't shake them away."
In 1999, Wu Qili was unmarried and became pregnant first, and gave birth to "Little Dragon Girl" Wu Zhuolin in November of that year. In December, when a full moon wine was placed in the mid-levels mansion, she announced that the child's father was Jackie Chan.
At that time, Jackie Chan and Taiwanese beauty Lin Fengjiao had been married for 16 years, and his son Jaycee Nam was 16 years old. In the face of Wu Qili's small third force, Jackie Chan did not buy it.
Wu Qili, Jackie Chan
In fact, in the past years, Jackie Chan was emotionally wrong more than once.
Jackie Chan just became popular in 1979 and was sent to the United States to study Hollywood film creation. That year, he met Teresa Teng in the United States, and the two soon fell in love.
There are many versions of the story about the two on the Internet. In Jackie Chan's autobiography, he wrote that Teresa Teng wanted to see him after the performance and invited him to a French meal.
Jackie Chan was not very happy. He felt that Teresa Teng was always hypocritical, so he deliberately made a big noise at the table.
This kind of vain noise is actually Jackie Chan's inner self-esteem. After breaking up, he reprimanded himself and said:
"This kind of mentality affected me and Teresa Teng, and it was very unfair to her. Our separation may be the most correct decision, she is too good."
and another version of the story But it is:
Jackie Chan went to Taiwan to film. Lin Fengjiao, known as Taiwan's No. 1 beauty, just announced that she was retiring. She regarded chasing Jackie Chan as the first driving force of her life. Not only did
really catch up, but also became pregnant with Jaycee Chan. Jackie Chan was forced to break up with Teresa Teng.
Jackie Chan and Teresa Teng
Even though their marriage with Lin Fengjiao for decades has never stopped, Jackie Chan's scandal has never stopped.
Fragrant cars, beauty, money, power, 30 years after the success, Jackie Chan enjoys the status of the big brother, squandering everything that he has earned.
But when he was 50 years old, he suddenly understood one thing. This incident made him almost disperse his wealth.
Jackie Chan, his wife Lin Fengjiao, and his son Jaycee Chan's name
one day when he was 50 years old, when he knew the fate of his life, he began to reflect on his past life. In the autobiography of
, he wrote:
"In twenty or thirty years, nine warehouses were filled with priceless collections, but it satisfies the possessiveness of a poor man after he became rich. Now it seems to be rubbish."
Looking back on the past years, he found that greed and desire were rapidly growing in his body. But these substances do not seem to have any positive significance for one's life. After
figured it out, he sold most of his collection and the money was used for charity.
He called on fans all over the world to donate one dollar, and he donated two dollars to set up a charity foundation.
charity performances, taking the lead in donations, and setting up scholarships to support poor college students. From the possession of the former to the voluntary loss of choice, what Jackie Chan has experienced is an unprecedented ease and truth. Jackie Chan expressed his condolences to the disaster area and invested in the construction of a new elementary school
. In the 2010 Yushu earthquake, he mobilized a plane full of supplies the next day and took the staff to fly to the site of the incident. When
left the next day, he found that the plane was going to transport a group of wounded people away, without seats. Jackie Chan took the initiative to lead all the staff off the plane and give up their seats. Jackie Chan occasionally complains. The media pages he sees are always star scandals. If he does charity, he will be described as "boring and serious" by the media.
He was very disappointed:
"It doesn't matter if Andy Lau is married or not. It doesn't matter if Yanzu Wu's wife gave birth or not. If you can, donate more money to those in need." When
was young, he worked hard. Earn money in desperation, want to buy everything, save face and talk about ostentation. After he got older, he wanted to donate everything.
"Money is not the most important thing, it's important to leave something to the world."
Compared with charity, Jackie Chan, as a big brother, is most convinced of love and justice.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Hong Kong entertainment industry was often harassed by the underworld. Jackie Chan took the initiative to stand up for the actors.
He found the magazine and shot a cover-sitting on a chair and shouting to the underworld: You come to me! The
triad really found Jackie Chan. He shot and threatened him at his company. Jackie Chan came forward to confront the triad:
"The triad will also be weak. The more you are afraid of them, the more they bully you; as long as you are not afraid of them, they are afraid of you. !" The blood and friendship of
is not only reflected in the gangster society, but also in patriotism.
After the return of Hong Kong, Jackie Chan made many patriotic films and donated many of his collections to the country for cultural exchanges.
Almost all formal occasions, he wears Tang suits to promote Chinese culture. "I will always wear Tang suits. We are Chinese. We wear our own clothes. We will be strong if we start small things."
A reporter interviewed Jackie Chan once and asked: "What is your biggest responsibility?"
He replied with the four words "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness". Patriotism means loyalty.
frequently mentions patriotism, leading many people on the Internet to question Jackie Chan's show. After several times, Jackie Chan felt wronged. In an interview, when talking about patriotism, he asked: "Should people not be patriotic? Is patriotism a crime? I really don’t understand why the Patriotic Association is scolded. , Then you scold me."
asked a few times, and no one refuted it.
Jackie Chan participated in the Oscar dinner in a Chinese costume
In 1994, Jackie Chan filmed the movie "Red Fan District", in which he jumped up from two buildings about ten meters apart and jumped into the opposite corridor accurately. The jump of
made Jackie Chan jump from China to Hollywood.
's next "Rush Hour" trilogy helped him win a global box office of 830 million U.S. dollars, and Jackie Chan also took advantage of thisAmong the first-line stars of Lywood.
After 65 years of wind and rain, Jackie Chan, who dared to challenge all the impossible, is old.
His body has not been very good. His head was injured during filming and he had undergone brain surgery. His lips were pierced, blood was splashed on the spot, and his teeth were even exposed; he also experienced countless broken hands and broken feet.
He is getting weaker and weaker, his physical strength is declining, his movements become slower, his play shrinks, and even when he is rehearsing on the set, he has to rest after a while and stop to catch his breath. Even if
won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement Award, the young man who was gradually impacted by Hollywood special effects and gun battles, but no longer has the patience to watch him play every move.
Accompanying Jackie Chan's body is getting old and the whole industry. Kung fu movies that emerged from the era of Bruce Lee once firmly controlled the Chinese film market. Jackie Chan, the successor of
, combines kung fu and comedy. "Drunken Fist" and "Snake-Shaped Hand" present the audience with novel, humorous, and exciting sensory effects, which have become mainstream for a while.
With the decline of Hong Kong Kung Fu movies, Jackie Chan, who has failed to transform, has no great influence in his film and television works in recent years.
Even though 3 to 5 movies are released a year, his performance has not achieved good results. It has been a long time since he starred in a movie with a Douban score of more than 7 points.
On the contrary, seeing those young and handsome "Little Fresh Meat" win super-high box office, he also has a dissatisfaction with "Lian quite old and able to eat."
"When we were filming, we couldn't get under the line of fire with minor injuries. Now young actors, with broken fingers in filming, have to yell at the scene. It is a virtue to hold back! Send him 5 words: see when you Finish!"
fell first, but it was his married class. In the torrent of the times, the family squad, once known as the "Wuxing Flying Tigers", gradually disbanded in decline.
Jackie Chan did not lose to his film counterparts, but lost to years.
In 2015, the 61-year-old Jackie Chan published his autobiography, named "I'm Old Before I Grow Up". In the book
, he wrote that as he grows older, he is extremely afraid of such a scene-
himself appeared in a certain film festival, and the video materials that once jumped down from the clock tower, the rooftop, and the skyscraper are behind. Play. And he, tremblingly on crutches, was slowly supported on stage.
He is very afraid that he will grow old. He is afraid that one day the audience will feel disappointed and distressed when they see him fighting on the screen.
, the famous general of World War II, Patton said: "The best place for a soldier is to be killed by the last bullet in the last battle." Jackie Chan also hoped that. He did not want to be cared or ridiculed by the world anymore, preferring to die in a fierce fight on the set.
"For example, he died after jumping into a volcano in the filming of "Chinese Zodiac". This is the most beautiful ending."
is still a big brother, but he is no longer a big brother.
