In recent years, the topic of Jet Li’s current situation has never stopped.
, because of several internet crazy pictures and his hyperthyroidism, almost every once in a while, someone speculates that he is old and decayed, and every time it can cause an uproar. More
, saying that Jet Li was paralyzed in bed and seriously ill, many people believed it was true and sighed.
Some time ago, a foreign media broke the news, stating that: “Jet Li has passed away, and the cause of death is unknown.”
For this reason, Jet Li’s friend Xiang Tai couldn’t stand it anymore. He specifically posted a Weibo to dispel the rumors for him, and said he didn’t like it. Some boring media come to talk nonsense. The agent of
also denied that, emphasizing that the photos are a matter of perspective. Jet Li had been suffering from hyperthyroidism for ten years, but the treatment would not be life threatening. The former "Kung Fu Emperor" of
, after stepping down from the film world, has been concerned about the death or not?
What kind of experience does Jet Li, who is now 56 years old, have?
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In 1963, in an ordinary worker's family in Beijing, a child fell to the ground. He was the youngest of the five children in the family. His parents named him Jet Li.
Although the birth of the child makes them happy, it also means that the financial situation of this poor family will be even worse.
Jet Li was two years old and his father died while still babbling.
can't be sad for too long. As a ticket seller with a meager income, the mother took on the lives of these five children.
Jet Li knew what it means to be hardworking at a young age. He never wanted new clothes or schoolbags. He wore old clothes.
When he was in the first grade, he was wearing fat pants that had been rounded by his elder brother and sister. Jet Li was afraid of being laughed at by others, so he could only cover his pocket with his hand to prevent others from seeing that this was a female style.
Maybe this is the dignity of a poor child at that time.
Coincidentally, 8-year-old Jet Li participated in the school martial arts class. Coach Wu Bin took a fancy to his talents and dragged him into the door of martial arts.
The young Jet Li’s views on martial arts and life are ignorant, but Xu is influenced by his mother. He is always well-behaved and can endure hardship in training.
"When I was 8 years old, I had to practice for 8 hours a day. When my feet hurt, the master said that if the feet hurt, practice hands first. Later, if the hands were broken, the master said, one is not afraid of tiredness, and the other is not afraid of death. You are not dead yet. , Continue to practice!" Later Jet Li recalled.
When practicing qigong, Jet Li suddenly fell to the ground and broke his kneecap. When his mother heard the incident, she hurriedly persuaded him to go home, but coach Wu Bin stopped him.
He is reluctant to bear such a good seed.
Jet Li didn't let him down either. He practiced his whirlwind leg immediately after he was injured. After practicing hundreds of times, he was so tired that he could not get up on the ground.
belongs to the edge of the Kung Fu superstar, which has been revealed since his youth.
At the age of 11, Jet Li, with a fever of 39 degrees, participated in the Junior National Wushu Competition and won three consecutive championships, shocking four.
At the age of 12, Jet Li dared to enter the National Games adult group competition, and beat the group to win the championship.
After that, he was the champion almost every time. Once his knees and tibia were bulging, and the back tendons were misaligned. As if it had never happened, he won five gold medals in six events with amazing toughness. What makes him most happy about
is that after winning the championship, he can send the money he earned home to help his family.
And his relationship with movies began in Hong Kong.
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If Jet Li before the age of 17 is a brave little leopard, then Jet Li will gradually become a thoughtful, introverted little lion.
He won many championships, but troubles followed one after another. He found that although he loves martial arts, championships are not something he pursued in his life. He has proved that he has won championships in the past few years, but he can prove that until ten years, twenty Year? The answer to
is impossible. He is always old and the champion is never just alone.
Sometimes striving to win is not the first choice in life, and Huashan is not the peak of martial arts. Under the glory of
's youthful fame, he began to be troubled. He didn't know what else he could do except martial arts.
At this moment, destiny pushed an opportunity for change in front of him.
Hong Kong director Zhang Xinyan approached him to play the monk Jueyuan in "Shaolin Temple".
For many people, Zhang Xinyan may not have a name, but at the time, he created a new era of Chinese martial arts.
In the past, most of the martial arts under the camera were the use of fancy and camera skills, but "Shaolin Temple" was uncharacteristically, letting people really feel the real charm of Chinese martial arts.
Soon, "Shaolin Temple" won a box office of more than 100 million with an average ticket price of 1 cent, which set off a wave of martial arts in China. The theme song "Shepherd's Song" echoes in the streets and alleys of
, and the pictorial with Jet Li has become a collection in the box of young men and women.
It is said that at that time, because of Jet Li, he shaved his hair and worshipped in Shaolin Temple. People who wanted to dominate the martial arts almost broke the threshold of Shaolin. The image of
bald monk Shang Jueyuan has become the mark of an era.
Although "Shaolin Temple" made Jet Li an instant hit, the life when filming was not so easy.
At that time, there was a big gap between mainland and Hong Kong actors. Jet Li and other supporting actors were greedy and tired of filming. They could only get 1 yuan a day for the film, while the Hong Kong people who played dead bodies could earn 50 yuan.
For this reason, Zhang Xinyan promised Jet Li to reward him for acting as a dead body for one day if he plays well.
"The average martial artist is mostly reckless, with the spirit of the world, but his martial arts is strong, but there is no vulgarity; he acts righteously, and there is no spirit of the world; he is brave and perseverance, and has no fierce appearance."
This is Zhang Xinyan's to Jet Li Evaluation.
After "Shaolin Temple", the film company wanted to start filming "Shaolin Boy" again, and the profit was not bad, but when it came to the third "North and South Shaolin", the contradiction came.
First is the pay issue. Jet Li was injured all over the filming, his leg was broken, his meniscus was broken, and his cruciate ligament was completely torn.
However, under the economic system at the time, as a national, no matter how famous he was, he could only get paid one dollar.
has a contradiction with the director. At that time, the director was changed from Zhang Xinyan to Liu Jialiang. Xu Shi was not used to the new director’s filming style. Once he waited for several hours under the city wall to prepare for the filming, but the director walked around the city wall. In a circle, it was announced that it would not be filmed today.
Jet Li was angry. After the failure of
"North and South Shaolin", Jet Li directed and acted "Chinese Hero".
but because of his lack of experience, but also because it is difficult for people to get out of the impression of "Shaolin boy", this movie also ended dismal.
He failed again.
The originally high-spirited boy was plunged into the trough by cold water. After that, he disappeared in the rivers and lakes for the first time.
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After Jet Li was frustrated, his wife Huang Qiuyan was pregnant at the time, and the two simply went to the United States, bought a house with a loan, opened a small boxing gym, lived in seclusion, poverty and tranquility, and gave birth to two daughters.
Regarding this affair, I don't know if Jet Li said goodbye to Huang Qiuyan, and after marrying Miss Asia champion Li Zhi, he recalled the past, and I wonder if there is any regret.
In 1991, Jet Li signed a contract with Jiahe Company to star in the "Huang Feihong" series of films, which was a sensation.
Jet Li shed his youthful Shaolin youth and successfully transformed into a steady and upright Huang Feihong. The
boy came out again and is already a master of the generation.
"Huang Feihong" is indeed a masterpiece, and director Tsui Hark added his own views and reflections on China at that time, using the past to satirize the present.
And Jet Li, with his performance, showed Chinese Kungfu to the fullest and "evoked the long-lost spirit of martial arts in Hong Kong."
But it was not very smooth. After the filming of "Huang Feihong", Jet Li and his agent David Luo (Luo Wei's son) turned back.
David Luo relied on his relationship to get Jet Li to sign a contract with Jiahe Company, but he owed his payment when it was due. He also favored the company in case of trouble. Jet Li couldn't bear it, so "Huang Feihong" was half shot and he stopped acting.
Wang Jing once wrote in his autobiography. At that time, Jiahe's attitude towards Jet Li was: "He is a mainland boy, and he is capable of playing him to death."
Jet Li found Cai Ziming and asked him to be his agent. Cai Ziming used to be a gangster in the Netherlands and was a cruel character.
He quickly helped Jet Li to negotiate a contract and continue filming "Once Upon a Time 2".
On the morning of April 16, 1992, Cai Ziming was shot and killed near the Fuyi Film Company. He was shot 9 times in the head and killed on the spot.
Things are impermanent. This incident caused an uproar. There are all speculations, but in the end there is no truth.
Jet Li himself was in danger. He had to move away from his original address and asked someone to protect him.
The Hong Kong entertainment circle at that time was chaotic.
Later in Jet Li’s interview, the host talked about Cai Ziming, Jet Li replied that he was very grateful to him, because he said to himself at that time: "Remember, everyone wants eggs, not chickens." That's why
, Jet Li decided to set up Zhengdong Film Company by himself, and also named Li Yangzhong in order to be a producer.
This time, he is no longer immature, and his films such as "Fang Shiyu", "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" and "Jing Wu Hero" have been well received.
Among them, "Jing Wu Hero" not only pays tribute to Bruce Lee, but also perfectly implements Bruce Lee's martial arts thoughts, "the impossibility is the law, the infinity is the finite", which is a new height in Hong Kong Kung Fu movies. Someone at
said: "Jet Li accurately and perfectly expresses the Jeet Kune Do spirit in Yuan Heping's heart, and contributes a visual spectacle that cannot be replicated to Kung Fu movies." It must be said that Jet Li occupies a large part of the action movies of
. World.
At the end of the 20th century, the momentum of Hong Kong films gradually declined, Jet Li turned his attention to Hollywood.
He has participated in movies such as "Deadly Weapon 4", "Deadly Romeo", "Dragon's Kiss", which made Hollywood admire him greatly and brought a new wave of martial arts.
And his real martial arts performances and the icing on the cake of traditional Chinese culture, also make Westerners who are accustomed to the fancy and clumsy style of play feel very novel, and more or less changed the original Chinese martial arts in the eyes of Westerners. image of.
In 2005, he returned to Zhengdong and filmed "Fearless". After this film, the "Master of Generation" gradually moved away from the film world.
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People have always wondered where Jet Li, who disappeared from the film world, went, so there are those unreasonable guesses mentioned at the beginning. After all,
has been a "Kung Fu Emperor" for half his life. Although he is no longer young now, his popularity remains unabated.
However, Jet Li did not disappear completely as the public said. Although he is far away from the film world, he is committed to public welfare and is busy with the "One Foundation" charity organization he founded and the promotion of traditional Chinese martial arts.
In his spare time, he also occasionally shoots movies. Once the brilliant people of
disappear from the public eye, they can always arouse people's endless imagination and rumors. In addition to being often "dead", there has been a saying that Jet Li has been obsessed with making "bad movies" in recent years, and some people say that the reason why he makes "bad movies" is because he has money.
What "Legend of White Snake", "Fuji Detective", "Legend of Conferred God", Douban scores are more tragic one by one.
But in fact, "Ocean Paradise" is for the benefit of the public, not for remuneration. "Legend of White Snake" and "Fuji Detective" are for repaying favors, and "Legend of Conferred Gods", which has only a little drama, is also for old love.
So some people say that he can't make good movies when he is old. I don't think it is necessary, but Jet Li doesn't want to make good movies at all.
said in an interview: "Movies are my hobby, let it go, let the chance come, fun, just have fun."
Maybe he used to make movies to create roles and make money, but now he makes movies. , Either for public welfare or loyalty.
is like the movie "Gong Shou Dao" filmed with Jack Ma last year. It is to promote Chinese martial arts and has no money.
and recently took "Mulan", mostly for the famous Hong Kong filmmaker Jiang Zhiqiang who once dragged him out of the quagmire and asked him to make "Fearless".
My friend Xiang Tai once bluntly said that Jet Li is loyal, has many friends and a lot of help.
is a young chivalrous man, making friends with Wudu Xiong.
Xu has experienced a lot, and has been bearish on fame and fortune. Now that he is old, he has retired from his military career, and he is also in a state of affairs.
Some people say that he is becoming a master with "no sword in his hand and no sword in his heart".
I want to come to Jet Li’s life, the first half of which revolves around martial arts and electricIn the second half of the film, he started as a charity. There have been mistakes, persistence, disputes, resilience, and brilliance in his life. Now he is old, but his original intentions remain unchanged.
If time flickers, going back 37 years ago, the monk of Shaolin Temple said, “If you live your life without drinking, can you hold it today?”
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