A sentence "Chang Wei, you also said that you don't know martial arts?" In recent years, Zou Zhaolong has quickly become popular all over the Internet, successfully found the second spring from the "old age" of martial arts actors, and became a regular on major short video platforms.
This screen encounter, can't help but remind us that Zou Zhaolong's film career is also like this, when the 20-year-old Zou Zhaolong worshiped Hong Jinbao as a teacher, joined the Hong family class, and began his own acting career, at that time, his name was Ni Xing, and he also played a very inconspicuous small role in Lin Zhengying's movie "Ghost Bites Ghost".
Although Zou Zhaolong and Jet Li and others have cooperated later, not only have been recognized by the audience, but also recognized by partners, such as Jet Li said that it is very comfortable to play with Zou Zhaolong, and it is fun to play chess with opponents.
But the reality is often that it can't stand up to thinking, a martial arts actor with acting skills, appearance, real kung fu, and audience popularity, he can't get up, and even once let Hong Jinbao, who constantly introduced resources to Zou Zhaolong, be a little discouraged.
Until 2001, Zou Zhaolong took over the sequel to the Hollywood movie "The Matrix", in which he played a warrior who protected the prophet, wearing a Tang costume, zou Zhaolong's martial arts action was smooth and smooth, impressing European and American audiences. Later, Zou Zhaolong returned to Hong Kong to make films, and only then did he have movies such as "Fuse".
In fact, at that time, with the popularity of "The Matrix", Zou Zhaolong could completely stay abroad to develop, and even if he did nothing, he could get the dividend of "The Matrix" permanently, and even if he died, his son could continue to receive it.
In the face of such good welfare, ordinary people may choose to stay, but Zou Zhaolong resolutely returned to China after a few years in Hollywood, and one of the important reasons is the national integrity of "Chang Wei" Zou Zhaolong. (This article is original by "Sharp Film Review", and reproduction without permission is prohibited!) )
Please note that here we added the word "ChangWei" in front of Zou Zhaolong's name, because after Zou Zhaolong went to Hollywood, foreigners were not stupid, knowing that Zou Zhaolong was known for his villain image on the screen, so at that time, Zou Zhaolong was arranged for the villain role, which made Zou Zhaolong very disgusted.
Because after Zou Zhaolong arrived in Hollywood, he found that the Chinese there had been establishing a very good image of themselves, and they had all done a very successful job, Zou Zhaolong realized that if he showed the image of a fierce villain on the screen with his sharp fist and foot kung fu, it would inevitably destroy everyone's efforts.
Zou Zhaolong said, in the Chinese market in the mainland, if you let me play a villain or something, then there is no problem, it does not matter, because everyone is Chinese, but in Hollywood it is not OK.
At that time, Zou Zhaolong knew very well in his heart that film as an art was indeed noble and cheap, but he absolutely did not allow Hollywood to trample on our nation in the name of fake art, which was the most intolerable thing for Zou Zhaolong, so in the few years he stayed in Hollywood, Zou Zhaolong has been working behind the scenes and refused one opportunity after another.
Now from the era of "The Matrix", 20 years have passed, and there are many actors who cut their heads and want to go abroad to shoot scenes to gild themselves, but few people can remember that Zou Zhaolong, who faced the temptation of huge film remuneration but always adhered to the national integrity, is a person who is really worth learning.