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Martial arts instructor, also known as action direction, is one of the most distinctive positions in Chinese films, specializing in directing the action scenes in film and television works. Later, the Hong Kong Film Awards set up a special award for best action director to recognize the best martial arts instructor of the year.
In the most brilliant golden age of Hong Kong, many outstanding martial arts instructors emerged, such as Han Yingjie, Tang Jia, Liu Jialiang, Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan, Yuan Heping, Yuan Kui, Yuan Bin, Cheng Xiaodong, Dong Wei, and so on.
Among these famous martial artists, Tang Jia and Liu Jialiang debuted earlier and had deeper seniority, and Jackie Chan and his family class won the most awards. However, the person known as the world's first martial finger is Yuan Heping, who is known as the Eighth Master.
It is said that at the earliest, Jet Li called Yuan Heping the world's first martial finger, and Yuan Heping did not care; but then he went to Hollywood, and the reputation of the world's first martial finger was really known to the world.
So, why can Yuan Heping be called the world's first martial finger?
[Yuan Heping] born in Guangzhou in 1945, the family of seven brothers and sisters, he is the eldest, his father Yuan Xiaotian is a famous northern martial artist. Yuan Heping also studied under Yu Zhanyuan, so he and Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan and other seven little blessings, are also brothers in the division, and have a deep relationship.
In the early 1960s, Yuan Heping debuted in the film industry, but ran for 8 years, until 1970, when he was promoted to a martial arts instructor; after 8 years of martial arts instruction, he became a director for the first time in 1978.
Compared with Hong Jinbao, who was a martial arts instructor in his debut 5 years, Hong Jinbao, who established the Hong family class in 12 years, and Jackie Chan, who debuted 5 years as a male protagonist and 8 years as a director, Yuan Heping's growth path is much more tortuous.
More than ten years of dormancy not only cultivated internal skills, but also tempered the heart; so that Yuan Heping knew more about cherishing opportunities and seizing opportunities.
In 1977, Yuan Heping served as the martial arts instructor of the martial arts film "Eagle Claw Iron Cloth Shirt", which was a huge success; so it was reused by director and producer Wu Siyuan, and finally he could be an independent director in the new wuxia film "Snake-shaped Executioner" in 1978.
Debuted 16 years before waiting for the opportunity to be a director for the first time, Yuan Heping naturally cherished 16 points; not only to show what he learned in his life, combined with Jackie Chan's style conditions, designed a series of hard bridge hard horse and witty and interesting martial arts actions, but also invited his father Yuan Xiaotian out to play the role of a snake-shaped door master.
"The Serpentine Trickster" achieved more than 2.7 million Hong Kong box office, which made Wu Siyuan have great confidence in both Yuan Heping and Jackie Chan, so he continued to use the original team to shoot the sequel "Drunken Fist", and also let Yuan Heping participate in the screenwriting.
In the end, "Drunken Fist" achieved an excellent box office of 6.76 million Hong Kong dollars, becoming the runner-up of the annual box office, and was also nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film, making Yuan Heping and Jackie Chan both famous.
After "Drunken Fist", Jackie Chan left Luo Wei Company, joined Jiahe for a sky-high price of 4.8 million, and then gradually grew into the most successful world-class kung fu superstar after Bruce Lee; and won the Best Action Design Award 10 times at the Hong Kong Academy Awards with his own family class, becoming the first Martial Arts Troupe in the Hong Kong film industry.
Yuan Heping did not win the highest honor in the martial arts industry for the first time with his collaboration with Jet Li on "Huang Feihong's Boy Should Strengthen Himself".
In the 15 years in between, Yuan Heping directed more than a dozen films, did more than a dozen martial arts instructions, and participated in more than a dozen films; cooperated with hong jinbao, Yuan Biao, Zhen Zidan, Liang Jiaren and other action stars.
However, except for a few masterpieces such as "Qimen Dunjia", there is no other work that can be compared with the jackie chan films of the same period.
At that time, Yuan Heping already had his own Yuan family class.
At first, Yuan Heping wanted to praise his younger brother Yuan Richu, and then he praised his apprentice Zhen Zidan, but they did not become popular under his own hands, and Yuan Heping "wasted" more than ten years of time.
By the time of "Huang Feihong's Boy When Self-Reliance", Yuan Heping had already debuted for 30 years.
In 1991, when Xu Ke filmed "Huang Feihong's Heroic Ambition", Liu Jialiang was reluctant to do it, and later invited Liu Jiarong, Yuan Xiangren, and Yuan Xinyi to direct three martial arts instructors, but he could not be satisfied. In the end, Yuan Heping rushed to the rescue scene and completed the filming of this "Huang Feihong".
After that, "Huang Feihong's Heroic Ambition" achieved a box office of 29.67 million and won the Academy Award for Best Action Direction, but the martial arts guidance work of "Huang Feihong's Boy When Self-Strengthening" was handed over to Yuan Heping.
With "Huang Feihong's Boy As Self-Reliant", Yuan Heping won the Best Action Direction Award for the first time, and unexpectedly made Zhen Zidan, the apprentice who played the villain, popular.
Since then, Yuan Heping has begun the legend of the world's first martial artist in the second 30 years of his debut.
To be worthy of the world's first martial arts finger, there must be works and awards, and this Yuan Heping has done it. In his second 30 years of debut, he won the Best Action Direction Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards six times.
In 1992's "Double Dragon Society", Yuan Heping cooperated with Jackie Chan again, combining Jackie Chan's action comedy with high-difficulty extreme action;
In 1993, "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" allowed Jet Li to play the most beautiful tai chi on the screen, and also let the villain Qian Xiaohao shine;
In 1993, "Huang Feihong's Iron Chicken Fighting Centipede" made the screen Hongquan master Huang Feihong (Jet Li) play drunken fist, which was also tiger and tiger;
In 1993, "The Iron Horse of Young Huang Feihong" allowed Zhen Zidan to kick out the most beautiful shadowless foot, laying the foundation for the future fame of Hollywood;
In 1994,Jet Li became the omnipotent kung fu dictionary in Yuan Heping's mouth, making Jet Li's best kung fu movie;
In 1994", "Wing Chun", let the apprentice Zhen Zidan play a supporting role, let Yang Ziqiong play Wing Chun;
In 1994, "Kung Fu Kid Breaks through the Love Pass" gave Jet Li's disciple Wu Jing a super high starting point;
In 1997, "Tai Chi Master" made Wu Jing a new generation of Tai Chi masters;
In 1998, "Water Margin" created the most capable domestic martial arts drama;
In the 1998 "Matrix" series, he personally trained Keanu Reeves, who had long hands and feet, and made Chinese kung fu appear in Hollywood science fiction movies;
In 2000's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Zhou Runfa Zhang Ziyi ran through the bamboo forest, showing the most picturesque Chinese martial arts culture;
2003 "Kill Bill" 2-part, through the Hollywood superstar, tribute to Chinese kung fu movies;
2004 "Kung Fu", which perfectly restored the magical martial arts world in Zhou Xingchi's heart;
In 2006, "Huo Yuanjia", Jet Li's last martial arts film, once again showed Jet Li's all-round martial arts;
In 2008, "The King of Kung Fu", Jackie Chan and Jet Li cooperated with the two major kung fu superstars century, and the world's first martial artist was not allowed to do so;
2013 "Generation Grandmaster", Liang Chaowei's Wing Chun, Zhang Ziyi's Bagua Palm, Zhang Zhen's Eight Pole Quan, Zhang Jin's Shape and Intention Fist, all surprise people;
In the last two parts of "Ip Man" in 2015, Yuan Heping and Zhen Zidan once again joined hands to let Wing Chun Guru go to the world.
As a generation of masters in the martial arts guidance world, Yuan Heping is old and senior, and his works have their own styles, such as authentic standard move dismantling, fist-to-flesh combat effects, and so on.
In fact, the biggest feature of Yuan Heping is to keep pace with the times, boldly innovate and continue to learn.
Hong Jinbao added humorous and funny elements to kung fu movies earlier, and it was Yuan Heping who made Jackie Chan a hit, and carried forward kung fu comedy movies as his biggest movie label.
In the first 2 parts of "Ip Man", Hong Jinbao designed the Wing Chun fast fist that is only fast and unbreakable; Yuan Heping carried forward this fast fist in the last 2 parts, which made the knife and stick techniques rarely used in Wing Chun be displayed.
Cheng Xiaodong is the king of Weiya in Hong Kong's martial arts, and Yuan Heping proved through "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" that he can also use Weiya to shoot the most elegant and elegant martial arts;
Cheng Xiaodong posed a 7-person Huashan sword array in "The Undefeated East of the Smiling River and Lake"; Yuan Heping posed an Arhat stick array of dozens of people in "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng".
Even, Yuan Heping once let Zhen Zidan break dance in the movie.
The most precious thing is that Yuan Pingping and such a highly qualified martial artist always dare to meet the challenge, and he does not pick works or people.
As a top martial artist, Yuan Heping can not only make martial arts champions such as Jet Li, Wu Jing and Zhang Jin play grandmaster-level performances; he can also make Zhang Ziyi, Keanu Reeves and so many actors without kung fu foundation in the 98 version of "Water Margin" play like a martial arts master.
Sci-fi action movies like "The Matrix", fantasy martial arts films like "The Legend of Shushan", and computer special effects kung fu movies like "Kung Fu" are a huge challenge for any martial arts director; and when "Kung Fu" was filmed that year, Hong Jinbao and Zhou Xingchi did not have the same concept, and Yuan Heping was a temporary rescue.
Even, Hunan Satellite TV filmed a small part of a martial arts film in the variety show "We Are Coming", and Yuan Heping took it seriously as a work.
Yuan Heping not only trained his apprentice Zhen Zidan to become a new generation of kung fu superstars, but also cultivated a new generation of martial arts instructors, so that the cause of martial arts can be inherited.
In 2001, Yuan Heping won the Professionalism Award at the Hong Kong Academy Awards, which was the first honor in the Hong Kong martial arts industry, and the world's first martial arts finger deserved.