Jackie Chan will also grow old?
In March this year, when he attended a business event in Sichuan, his beard and hair were all white, and the photo became a hot topic. The emotion contained in this hot search is: Jackie Chan, who flies to the sky and escapes from the earth, and is omnipotent, is he old?
It was not until today, April 7, on his 70th birthday, that he explained, "That is the movie I am currently shooting, and it requires the look of white hair and white beard."
In March of this year, Jackie Chan became a hot topic because of his "old age"
Since his stage name "Yuan Lou" appeared in the movie "Seven Overlords of Jiangnan" in 1962, Jackie Chan has filmed more than 200 movies and became the first A Chinese who won an Oscar for lifetime achievement. He is still making new films. In the blockbuster "Legend" to be released this year, AI technology will recreate a young Jackie Chan.
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During the peak period of Hong Kong movies, all the "bi-weekly celebrities" came from the grassroots. Chow Yun-fat, who is one year younger than Jackie Chan, dropped out of school at the age of seventeen to help support his family and worked as a shoe shiner and porter; Chow Sing-chi was born in a slum in Kowloon and grew up in a single-parent family. As for Jackie Chan, he was born in a wealthy manor on the top of Victoria Peak, but Jackie Chan's parents were not the owners of the mansion, but the cooks and maids. Jackie Chan, whose real name is Chen Gangsheng, was almost taken away for adoption by the doctor who performed the surgery because he had no money to pay for a caesarean section.
When he was a child, his neighbor asked him: What will he do when he grows up? Chen Gangsheng replied: I want to be a trapeze artist, "the kind of flying that is very high."
Because of his naughty temper and naughty fights, he repeated the first grade. So in 1960, his parents sent him to the Chinese Drama Academy in Mirador Building, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, where he studied Peking Opera under Yu Zhanyuan. Many years later, Jackie Chan was considered to play the role of Duan Xiaolou in Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine" because his personal experience was exactly the same.
When he left school at the age of 17, Jackie Chan took his senior brother Sammo Hung's "Yuanlong" as his stage name, and started from the lowest level of martial arts on the set, often playing dead bodies. One time on the set, two heroes were fighting in the rain, and in the background were a group of dead bodies covered with knives lying on the ground. Due to the cold weather and being soaked in water, many people could not hold their breath. As a result, the knives everywhere were shaking up and down, and the director was so angry that he cursed. And Chen Yuanlong was spotted by the director because he "died most seriously". Many years later, when he guest-starred in Stephen Chow's "The King of Comedy", he completely restored his experience that year.
Martial Arts was close to the bottom of the contempt chain of film production. At that time, Jackie Chan only wanted to be a stable martial artist. He worked for Liang Xiaolong's uncle Liang Shaosong, and worked hard to help Xu Xiaoming's brother Xu Erniu clean the car. He only hoped that these martial arts instructors could give the young man Chen Yuanlong a job. The father of his first love resolutely opposed the relationship between the two, "A martial artist will have no future. Don't touch my daughter."
In 1971, Chen Yuanlong appeared in Bruce Lee's "Fist of Fury" and "Enter the Dragon" The former was kicked out of the window as a stand-in, and the latter was beaten by Bruce Lee's hair. Jackie Chan, who has established his martial arts skills, starts working hard to become a martial arts instructor, and his salary will be much higher. Even though he worked everything, life was still difficult. Chen Yuanlong once went to Australia and worked as a bricklayer on construction sites during the day, and then worked a second job in a restaurant at night. This way, he earned almost US$1,000 a month.
Jackie Chan, who acted as Bruce Lee's
In 1976, agent Chen Ziqiang called Chen Yuanlong and invited him to star in director Luo Wei's new film "Fist of Fury" as the leading actor, but the monthly salary and the remuneration for each movie were only 3,000 Hong Kong dollars, equivalent to $400. After hesitating for a few seconds, Chen Yuanlong decided to return to Hong Kong, and writer Pan Liudai chose a new stage name "Jackie Chan" for him.
As a result, "Fist of Fury" was a mess at the box office. The voice actors sat together and discussed, "Why do you want to find this person? He's still a Jackie Chan. How can he be so popular with a big nose and small eyes? A waste of money!"
Seven times in a row! Everything was a mess, and Jackie Chan earned himself the title of "box office poison".
Then suddenly things clicked.In 1978, Wu Siyuan asked Luo Wei to borrow Jackie Chan to shoot "Snake". Fellow senior brother Yuan Heping was promoted from martial arts to director for the first time and asked Jackie Chan to shoot. As a result, the head-to-head real kung fu and humorous action design were a great success. The box office was more than 2.7 million yuan. In the same year, "Drunken Master", which was also a kung fu comedy, became popular again, breaking the record in Korean film history. At the same time, Jackie Chan also failed to succeed because of comedy kung fu movies. In 1979, his first director's "The Strange Move" was another success. Compared with the box office of hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars for each of the previous films, the box office of Jackie Chan's movies began to be in the millions.
Jackie Chan, who became rich overnight, bought seven watches with the most diamonds and the most expensive prices in a famous watch store, and wore one every day. Wang Sicong and others will never be able to understand the joy and pleasure of turning over. After
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became famous, Jackie Chan chose to sign a contract with Jiahe, and thus adopted Jackie Chan as his English name. The reason why he finally chose Jiahe, Jackie Chan later recalled, was because He Guanchang said to him: "I think the current movies are far from developing your potential. I hope to help you find and establish your own style...find the true Belongs to Jackie Chan’s style.”
Jackie Chan’s style? Jackie Chan himself didn't know what it was at the time, he only knew what it wasn't: it wasn't a continuation of the one-punch-and-knock-down scene in Bruce Lee's movie, it wasn't a "Drunken Master"-style weird master and lazy apprentice routine, and it wasn't a statement about a training scene. In 1980, "Junior", which he directed, wrote, starred in, and acted as an action choreographer, became Jackie Chan's first movie with a box office of over 10 million.
In 1982, in the same "Master Dragon", Jackie Chan achieved one of the signature styles of his movies: environmental action scenes. Unlike Bruce Lee in empty martial arts gyms or open spaces, Jackie Chan style Kung Fu is always presented in a variety of different environments. Various chairs, tables, furniture, tools...all are the performance media of kung fu.
This style runs through a series of films after Jackie Chan. In "Miracle" it is a warehouse, hemp rope, pulleys and rollers, in "Red Zone" it is a sofa, refrigerator, bottle, shopping cart, and in "A Good Man" It's a bucket, a chainsaw and a ladder. In "Twelve Zodiac Signs" it's a coffee table, an umbrella, a microphone and a photo frame... So much so that everyone on earth now knows, "No one can beat Jackie Chan in the furniture city."
After "Master Dragon" , Jackie Chan is another shoulder-to-shoulder "The Suppression of Bandits at Sea". This film, which drew on the plot of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom", was renamed "Plan A" when it was released. The bicycle chase and fight in the film is the most vivid expression of Jackie Chan's "environmental action scene" style. But what is even more landmark is the 15-meter fall from the bell tower. After repeated discussions, it was confirmed that this shot could not be completed through editing and could only be shot in real life.
This scene is not a performance, it is because I really can't catch it.
At this point, Jackie Chan has found his unique and unreplicable label style in his movies: performing extremely dangerous stunts in person without a stuntman. Among the kung fu stars before and after Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee's actual combat kung fu is second to none, Jet Li's martial arts movements are unparalleled and elegant, and Donnie Yen evolved the kung fu in movies into mixed martial arts MMA... But the extreme moves that Jackie Chan can do, these kung fu stars No one can do it.
Starting from "Plan A", the endings of Jackie Chan's movies are a collection of highlights of various failed actions, each one of which looks painful. When asked how he did so many dangerous moves, Jackie Chan replied "rolling, action, jump, cut, hospital. (Start shooting, jump, click, hospital)"
In 2016, Jackie Chan won the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award. Tom Hanks said in his speech, "We are delighted to see Jackie Chan's boundless creativity, his great talent in action performances, and his dedication to this career." Jackie Chan won the award. In his speech, he said, “After 56 years of working in the industry, I have made more than two hundred movies, and I have broken many bones, and finally I have this statuette."
When accepting the award, Jackie Chan was dressed in a Tang suit.
Jackie Chan has been nominated for the Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards ten times. Although he has never won the award, the saying "one actor every year, one Jackie Chan every hundred years" does not seem to be an exaggeration. . His peak as a movie actor will always remain in the movies of the 1980s and 1990s. There will never be another actor who can combine human strength, speed, agility, reaction and body like Jackie Chan. Skills, constantly pushing the limits in one movie after another, without using bloody and violent scenes as the core selling point.
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Everyone likes it, and some people don’t. In Wang Shuo’s eyes, Jackie Chan’s movies are. One of the "four major vulgarities" alongside Jin Yong's novels. Aside from movies, Jackie Chan's personal life is often talked about and criticized. The incident of his illegitimate daughter Wu Zhuolin and his son Jaycee Chan's drug addiction have undoubtedly made him quite embarrassed.
Jackie Chan, who rose from grassroots martial arts to become an international superstar, is certainly not a saint in the eyes of moralists.
In 2018, in the English version of Jackie Chan's autobiography "Never Grow Up", he spoke frankly about his youth. The dark history of gambling, prostitution and cheating caused an uproar. Jackie Chan once responded in an interview, "I'm afraid, so I won't talk about it. "
Every inch of Jackie Chan's body has been injured, and this is the price he paid. Everyone can see the glamorous embrace, but he is so painful that he can't sleep in the middle of the night, but only he knows it. Jackie Chan once regretted it, saying that he regretted that he had not been able to get better in his life. Good at studying, "I believe it may be better now, and I won't make many mistakes." But everyone knows that if Chen Gangsheng was good at studying, there would be no Jackie Chan movies in the world. There are art films with niche tastes and entertainment films with popular tastes. Jackie Chan is the most truly international star among Chinese movie stars so far after Bruce Lee. Jackie Chan's popularity and influence around the world are basically unparalleled. The reason is also very simple: only he can do those actions - he is not dead, which is considered lucky.
Jackie Chan is indeed lucky to have the Shuangwen-style life that fascinates all living beings. He and the golden age of Hong Kong movies have each other. No matter how hard they work, future generations will have to stay away from it. Nowadays, action movies have become outdated, and Jackie Chan, who is 70 years old, can no longer do everything he did back then. However, Jackie Chan has been making movies and directing action movies. Striving for status, he is still doing what he did when he was young.
As he said on his 70th birthday: "It is a blessing to be old. Especially those of us who make action movies, we know how rare this luck is... After sixty-two years in the industry, we are still making movies today, which is worth cherishing. "
Jackie Chan posted his young self on Weibo on his 70th birthday.
Of course, technology is changing with each passing day. The Jackie Chan restored with AI technology in "Legend" was only 27 years old. At that age, he fell from the height of the clock tower. This A fall is like falling to the ground in the movie, but in life it is the peak of life.
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