You can never draw well if you follow the gourd and draw the scoop. If you don't find your own way of acting, you will never become a real superstar. The three great Kung Fu superstars, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li, have all established their own characteristics when they were very young. One is a tough guy, one has a comedic style, and the other has graceful and elegant movements, so they are all in By the time he was in his 20s, he had already secured his status as a Kung Fu superstar.
Then Donnie Yen, Wu Jing, Zhao Wenzhuo, etc. successively joined the ranks of kung fu actors, and each of them had a very high starting point. They played leading roles right after their debut, and they also left a very deep impression on the audience. At this time, I thought they would quickly become a new generation of kung fu superstars like Jackie Chan and Jet Li. However, I never thought that the three of them had a very high starting point, and then their subsequent development directly reduced them to supporting roles, ushering in an era of lukewarmness for more than ten years.
Fortunately, after turning 40, Donnie Yen and Wu Jingdu successively found their own acting paths. Donnie Yen rose to the ranks of first-line superstars because of "Ip Man"; Wu Jing became popular abroad with the help of "Wolf Warrior 2", which he directed and starred in.
But only Zhao Wenzhuo is still tepid and still fails to become a real superstar.
After Wu Jing became a first-line superstar with "Wolf Warrior 2", many domestic action actors seemed to have found a way to make themselves popular and make money, that is, to imitate Wu Jing and shoot similar films, including the one that has always been tepid. Zhao Wenzhuo.
In 2021, Zhao Wenzhuo launched the military-themed action movie "Counterattack" that he directed and acted. From the structure to the plot, the film is very similar to Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior 2". However, this film only had the skin of "Wolf Warrior 2" and did not penetrate into the bones. Therefore, it did not have the good fortune of "Wolf Warrior 2" and ended its mission with low box office, low reputation and low reputation.
Seeing that the military-themed action movies that he imitated Wu Jing and directed and acted in not only failed to be successful, but also failed miserably, another kung fu actor imitated Wu Jing and starred in a science fiction film.
In the early years, Yu Rongguang was also very famous in the kung fu movie industry. The villain played by him in "Letter to Dad" was directly "conferred as a god", and is still talked about by the audience today.
But like Zhao Wenzhuo, he has been tepid until now and has failed to become a real superstar.
Maybe it is because he is getting older, or maybe he feels that he may never make any achievements in the Kung Fu movie industry, so like Zhao Wenzhuo, he also learned from Wu Jing and started shooting science fiction movies.
We all know that apart from his own "Wolf Warrior" series, Wu Jing's most popular is the science fiction blockbuster "The Wandering Earth". It is said that the total investment of the film was as high as 350 million yuan, but the final box office exceeded 4.6 billion, ranking fifth on the box office list in Chinese film history. During the 2023 Spring Festival, the sequel to the sci-fi blockbuster "The Wandering Earth 2" also created a high box office of over 4 billion yuan, and the total box office of the two movies combined was close to 10 billion yuan.
Zhao Wenzhuo originally learned from Wu Jing to shoot a military-themed action movie similar to "Wolf Warrior 2" but failed to succeed. Now Yu Rongguang has shot a science fiction movie "The Doomsday Warrior" similar to "The Wandering Earth".
In mid-March this year, "The Doomsday Soldier" began to be broadcast on mainland online video platforms. It is reported that the cost of this film is 15 million yuan. Although it is nothing compared to "The Wandering Earth" and is completely incomparable, it is already considered a big production for an Internet movie. After all, an Internet movie can now Earning tens of millions of yuan at the box office is considered a big profit.
But "The Last Man" is different. The film has been aired for more than a week, and its box office is less than 900,000 yuan.
Another domestic science fiction film, which is very famous but has poor box office and reputation, is "Shanghai Fortress" starring Lu Han.
"Shanghai Fortress" is a theatrical science fiction blockbuster, and the investment is also very huge, reaching 300 million yuan. The final box office of this film was only 123 million yuan, which was undoubtedly a huge loss.
However, it seems to be quite successful in front of Rongguang's "Doomsday Soldier". In addition, I would like to say that as a science fiction film, "The Last Man" has very good special effects, and some parts are shocking, but it is also destined to not be successful.
As I said at the beginning, if actors, especially kung fu actors, want to become superstars, they still have to have their own unique way of acting.
