Wu Yunlong, who played Gao Tian in "Black and White Labyrinth", can be said to be a "familiar face" in Hong Kong movies. He has starred in wang jing's "Fortuna Inn", "Laughing Gong Zhen Wulin", "New Ancient Puzzle Boy" and "Macau Storm" and many other films. Don't look at Wu Yunlong as a "professional supporting role" in Wang Jing's movies, but in real life, he is an excellent martial artist with real talent and practical learning.
Wu Yunlong was born into a martial arts family. Because his father Wu Shaohua ran the Choi Lee Fo Boxing Gym in Chicago, USA, Wu Yunlong was influenced by his father from an early age and began to learn Cai Lee Fo Fist, Hong Fist, etc. In addition, he was also proficient in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Taekwondo, Filipino Wand and so on. He once studied Wing Chun with Ip Man's disciple Wong Chun Leung, and it can be said that Ip Man is an authentic legend, and he is in the same door as the kung fu superstar Bruce Lee.
Later, when Nicholas Tse filmed an action movie, he also invited Wu Yunlong to be his Wing Chun teacher. It can be said that Wu Yunlong's life experience is far more legendary than his role in the movie.
Some people also say that he and Peng Yuyan, who has been red and purple in recent years, have some similarities in appearance, and both belong to the one that "looks thin and undressed".
In 2002, Wu Yunlong returned to Hong Kong from the United States to develop and officially entered the show business circle. Like most of the early experiences of the star-fighting industry, he started from the lowest level of dragon and tiger martial arts. If you don't mention it, you may not remember the figure of Wu Yunlong in several hong Kong blockbuster films of that year, "Raptors", "Thousand Chances Change", "New Police Story", "Boy's True Colors" and "October Siege". However, in these films that are all Uranus superstars, the number of stars can no longer be counted, how can people remember his fleeting face?
As the saying goes, Maxima needs Bole.
After nearly ten years of entering the industry, Wu Yunlong finally met his Bole - Wang Jing. In 2011, Wu Yunlong won the praise of Wang Jingli and began to emerge with several works such as "Priceless Treasure", "Fortuna Inn" and "Brilliant Weapon". Wang Jingli has an unwritten convention in praising newcomers, he will let actors start from supporting roles, and then increase the audience base of actors through high exposure, and then step by step to promote them as protagonists. Like the actress Xu Dongdong, who has guest starred in many of Wang Jing's works, she is about to usher in the work "Sister-in-law" with her as the protagonist. For Wu Yunlong, although Wang Jing's film opened up the situation of his acting career for him, most of them were still literary and opera roles, and did not really show his kung fu strength.
In 2013, Wu Yunlong finally ushered in the opportunity to make him popular. Wang Jing and Huang Jingfu tailored the action movie "Vicious War" for him, and even invited Yuan Baye, the "first martial finger of the Chinese", to design action scenes for this film, wang Jing's ambition to build Wu Yunlong into a new generation of action superstars is very obvious. Although Wu Yunlong plays Ma Yongzhen in the film, he takes the route of "Bruce Lee martial arts fighting". He fully demonstrates his excellent kung fu skills in the film.
At the end, Ma Yongzhen breaks through layers of barriers, and the shape of a Japanese samurai fighting alone unconsciously reminds people of the image of Bruce Lee in "Big Brother Tangshan". In "Laughing Gong Zhen Wulin", Wang Jing also let Wu Yunlong wear a white Zhongshan suit of Chen Zhen in "JingwuMen". It can be seen that Wang Jing wants to make Wu Yunlong the second "Bruce Lee" in the Chinese film industry.
The tone of "Vicious War" is deliberately adjusted to black and white, and a large number of slow motions are used to show Wu Yunlong's fighting action, which can be said to be quite stylized. However, when the film was released in the mainland, it only received 8.03 million yuan at the box office, in this era of high-ranking films and high box office to win people's attention to movies and stars, "Vicious War" of course failed to help Wu Yunlong become a hit in the end.
However, the east side is not bright and the west side is bright, but TVB's "Walled Hero" has become a turning point in Wu Yunlong's acting career. In the film, he plays the Muay Thai master Long Chenghu, who not only has excellent martial arts skills, but also has a loyal and righteous personality, distinguishing between right and wrong, and has countless fans for a while, so that the protagonists Chen Zhanpeng and Yuan Weihao can only obediently stand aside.
Although the reputation and box office of "Vicious War" have suffered a severe cold, Wu Yunlong has also attracted more attention with this film. His friend An Zhijie introduced him to Hollywood director George Noffei and let him play a generation of kung fu superstar Bruce Lee in "Birth of the Dragon".
Wu Yunlong is familiar with Wing Chun, and has many similarities with Bruce Lee's life experience and martial arts training, and is relatively close to Bruce Lee's body shape, so it is reasonable to play the role of Bruce Lee. Unexpectedly, this "Birth of the Dragon" has encountered a wave of bad reviews since the small-scale screening, and some media have commented that this film has "discrimination against yellow people", so it has also caused great controversy.
Although the film has been finalized in the United States, the day of release in China is still far away. This is equivalent to making Wu Yunlong's dream of breaking into the mainland again delayed again. This time, it was really for Wu Yunlong to cry out for injustice.
Wu Yunlong, who has been debuting for 15 years, is still walking tepidly on the road of playing stars, and even being far behind by An Zhijie, who debuted at about the same time, which is related to personal luck, but also related to Wu Yunlong's lack of self-confidence, of course, it is also related to the impression he left on the audience.
Now that the era when an actor can become popular with only one action movie is over, an action actor must be firmly remembered, whether it is a decent or a villain, he must dig out the most suitable performance style for him. Like people remember Wu Jing's fierceness, domineering, and sharpness with "Kill the Wolf", "New Police Story" and "Special Identity" also show an evil and cold side of An Zhijie. Although Wu Yunlong's image temperament is too righteous and not the best candidate for the villain, I believe that with his strength and ability, Wu Yunlong can make more and more weighty kung fu movies in the future.