Karmic acquaintance
"Actually, for me, making two of his films is better than making a hundred films outside."
In a certain interview program, Chen Guokun once said such a sentence. As we all know, in the eight years that he signed a contract with Star Ye, he only starred in two of each other's movies.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this is a very "loss-making" business, but for Chen Guokun, there is a different understanding.
After saying that Chen Guokun also explained that when filming with Zhou Xingchi, the most important thing was not the problem of film remuneration or drama, but that he would do his best to talk to the actor about acting problems;
So this is not to understand with loss or loss, and during the time when he followed Zhou Xingchi to shoot, he benefited a lot.
Finally, Chen Guokun also said from the bottom of his heart: "I really thank Zhou Xingchi, he is my Bole"
Chen Guokun really began to be noticed by everyone, it was a "Shaolin Football" by Xingye in 2001, which was released in Hong Kong, which instantly amazed countless audiences and successfully achieved a box office performance of more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars.
Chen Guokun, who plays the "fourth brother of the goalkeeper", looks like a yellow coat in the film, which is too similar to the late kung fu superstar Bruce Lee, so everyone can't help but look at it twice.
As we all know, Bruce Lee is an idol of Stephen Chow, so Chen Guokun can meet him and successfully show his skills in the movie, and also has a great relationship with Bruce Lee.
In 1996, as a hardcore Fan of Bruce Lee, Chen Guokun and a group of fan friends founded a "Bruce Lee Club of Hong Kong" in Hong Kong. And Zhou Xingchi, who was already worth a lot of money at that time, donated money to make a bronze statue of Bruce Lee for this Bruce Lee Club.
Later, when the bronze statue was exhibited, people were still taking photos with Bruce Lee at first, but after seeing Chen Guokun, they said they wanted to take pictures with him.
Because Chen Guokun was also wearing Bruce Lee's iconic yellow jumpsuit, coupled with his similar cheeks, everyone sighed.
After this matter was known to Zhou Xingchi, he was instantly interested in Chen Guokun's true appearance, but the first meeting was missed because of Chen Guokun's drunken lateness.
But Zhou Xingchi was not angry, and then invited him to coach a dance he had written for himself, and the two met face to face once.
The first time Zhou Xingchi saw Chen Guokun, he lamented that his appearance was extremely similar to Bruce Lee, and he naturally loved Wu and Wu, who regarded Bruce Lee as an idol, and invited Chen Guokun to participate in the "Shaolin Football" that was being filmed.
However, at the beginning, the role that Zhou Xingchi arranged for Chen Guokun was just a bad role of beating himself with a stick. But when he saw the final presentation effect, Zhou Xingchi hesitated, because he was too much like Bruce Lee, how could "Bruce Lee" play the bad guy?
So Zhou Xingchi arranged Chen Guokun as a "goalkeeper", which has since achieved a wonderful plot in the movie, and also pushed Chen Guokun in front of the public.
It can be said that Zhou Xingchi is Chen Guokun's Bole, and then he successfully signed a contract with Xingye's company, which is eight years of time.
Since then, Chen Guokun has starred in Stephen Chow's movie "Kung Fu" as a villain with a big back, which has impressed many audiences and successfully spread across the river.
Although he has only filmed these two scenes, Chen Guokun does not regret it at all, which is enough to see that he really knows how to be grateful.
In fact, Chen Guokun not only has a similar appearance to Bruce Lee, but even the dropout experience is exactly the same as Bruce Lee.
A "little dragon" who has done twenty lines
Since the age of five or six, Chen Guokun has admired Bruce Lee who is highly skilled in kung fu in movies, so even the book given to him by his father is "Introduction to Taekwondo", and the first film he watched was Bruce Lee's "Jingwumen".
As Chen Guokun grew up, the people around him were surprised to find that he looked more and more like the late Bruce Lee, and even his mother was extremely surprised when she saw her son's appearance.
Since then, his relatives and friends around him will call him "Xiaolong", perhaps also influenced by Bruce Lee, Chen Guokun has loved to "experience" various lives since he was a child, and use himself to feel other ways of life.
To this end, he wasted his school time secretly going outside to work, and gradually liked the feeling of part-time work, after which Chen Guokun and his father expressed his desire to drop out of school and plan to go out to work.
Although Chen's father did not stop him, he also clearly told Chen Guokun that if he dropped out of school, his family would not give him a dime from now on, and he would also need to pay living expenses to the family.
At that time, Chen Guokun was full of enthusiasm, and he didn't want to directly nod his head in agreement.
After dropping out of school, Chen Guokun began an endless career of part-time work, such as working as a worker on a construction site, as a bartender, or as a shoe seller, as well as a courier, etc., a variety of more than 20 kinds of work, he almost did all the work at the bottom of Hong Kong.
Of course, Chen Guokun also admitted that if he had been studying, maybe the result would have been better.
However, for these experiences of his own, Chen Guokun has not regretted it, he summed up a life experience for himself: "People must know how to find fun in pain, you can be anti-guest-oriented, turn it into something you like, you can control it on top of him." ”
At the same time, Chen Guokun does not deny that in fact, in those difficult days of part-time work, Bruce Lee is his strong spiritual pillar and has always supported him through many difficult times.
Fortunately, in the end, he survived, and because of his idol in the Hong Kong film industry, he has always missed Bruce Lee in his own way.
While the TV series "The Legend of Bruce Lee" was in preparation, Chen Guokun was invited by Bruce Lee's daughter Li Xiangning to play the role of his father Bruce Lee.
For this reason, Chen Guokun was both excited and excited, and he also did a lot of preparatory work, not only learning boxing for a year before filming, but also visiting Bruce Lee's brother, and actors such as Yuanhua, who had worked with him before, just to understand the truest appearance of Bruce Lee's personality.
When it came time to really start shooting, Chen Guokun did not use a stand-in, and all the martial arts actions were done by himself, so he was repeatedly injured during filming, and even broke the cruciate ligament in his knee.
However, this is nothing for Chen Guokun, after all, he can play his idol, and no matter how much suffering he suffers, he can endure.
And when filming the TV series, there were also things that surprised him.
"Bruce Lee" is the god in his heart
In 2007, when Chen Guokun filmed the footage of Bruce Lee running and exercising on the Golden Gate Bridge in the United States, he was once mistaken for the real Bruce Lee because of his extremely similar appearance and posture.
Subsequently, it also caused quite a stir, the crowd gathered to watch the crew filming, and some people paid tribute to Chen Guokun, and even some people directly gave him a flying kiss and shouted Bruce Lee's English name confession.
When Chen Guokun occasionally walked the streets of the United States, he could be picked up in public by black people and excitedly shout Bruce Lee's name.
These experiences are actually full of honor for Chen Guokun, but in contrast, they are also the heavy pressures that have befallen him.
So after filming "The Legend of Bruce Lee", Chen Guokun felt that he did not perform Bruce Lee's momentum, and out of self-blame, he ran to his tomb in Seattle, directly knelt down and cried bitterly, and apologized to his idol.
In fact, from all these things, we can also see the position of Bruce Lee in Chen Guokun's heart and in the hearts of countless people.
In an interview, when talking about the film representatives of Chinese kung fu are Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee, Chen Guokun immediately expressed his disapproval.
Because in his view, Jackie Chan is a star for foreigners, but Bruce Lee is different, he is simply a "god" like existence.
Chen Guokun also gave an example, for example, when he first filmed "The Legend of Bruce Lee", the Us police originally did not allow them to shoot, but when it came to Bruce Lee, the other party was instantly happy; so when they filmed in the United States, it was almost a green light, and there was no interference from public officials.
In fact, from this, it can also be seen that Bruce Lee's influence is so great, and his status is higher than that of all film and television stars. In such a comparison, Jackie Chan is not so powerful, and the "kung fu" of the two is also a two-level thing.
Therefore, Chen Guokun frankly said: "Jackie Chan is a very famous action actor, but he can't represent the two words of kung fu, and Bruce Lee can." ”
As a kung fu superstar who shocked the world, Bruce Lee's kung fu definitely represents the Chinese film industry.
Although Bruce Lee has been dead for many years, his posture moves have remained in the hearts of fans.
Chen Guokun is undoubtedly lucky, following the footsteps of his idol step by step into the cause he loves, and working hard for it, achieving him now.
He did not "succeed or fail Bruce Lee", but learned from him to overcome the suffering, find the goal, and eventually become a superb acting and well-received actor.
So this face is also the most precious treasure that fate has given him!