In 1966, Wu Siyuan entered the Choreography and Directing Department of the Southland Experimental Theater Troupe of Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.
After graduation, he naturally entered shaw film studios and did a field note, screenwriter, assistant director, executive director....
In 1973, Wu Siyuan founded Siyuan Film Company, although it is not a difficult business, but it can only be decent.
Until, of course, met a man, a twist took place.
First face:
In 1978, Wu Siyuan met Jackie Chan and started Jackie Chan to shoot "Snake-like Executioner".
Jackie Chan is on fire, and his martial arts moves and humorous and playful comedic style refresh the aesthetically weary audience.
Wu Siyuan also successfully turned around with "Snake-like Executioner", creating a box office of 2.7 million.
In the same year, the famous Hong Kong martial arts director and kung fu film director Yuan Heping found Jackie Chan and invited him to star in "Drunken Fist".
For the first time, Jackie Chan changed,
This change changed his ending.
Jackie Chan began to intentionally add some funny comedic elements in "Drunken Fist". For example: Huang Feihong flirts with his cousin, beats the evil boy in anger, eats white food, Laughs when fighting with the iron-headed....
Compared with previous martial arts films and kung fu films, Yuan Heping and Jackie Chan's "Drunken Fist" is more relaxed, winning the love of a large number of audiences and opening up the era of Jackie Chan's "kung fu comedy".
Jackie Chan's "kung fu comedy" was on fire, film companies rushed to come, they all wanted to sign Jackie Chan, and finally Jiahe Film Company, which was quite prestigious in the Hong Kong film industry, did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hire Jackie Chan.
Jiahe's interest in Jackie Chan is no less than that of "Bruce Lee".
At that time, the reason why Jiahe was able to kill the Shaw film with only one hand covering the sky was because of the cooperation with "Bruce Lee", and Bruce Lee's starring "Big Brother Tangshan", "Jingwumen" and "Raptor Across the River" created amazing box office revenue for Jiahe.
But Bruce Lee's "untimely death" disappointed Jiahe's ambitions, and they had to postpone their entry into the overseas film market and hired Xu Guanwen, who achieved each other.
Xu Guanwen's "Ghost Horse Double Star" broke the box office list created by Bruce Lee in the past, and Jiahe promised to give all the available film resources for the next four years to the Xu brothers in order to keep Xu Guanwen.
From 1974 to 1978, Hui Guanwen created countless box office myths, giving Jiahe the capital and courage to "chase deer in the Central Plains", but Jiahe Company, which is well versed in the narrow pattern of Hong Kong's local film market, has never changed its covetousness for overseas markets.
In order to continue to open up the international market, Jiahe gave Xu Guanwen film resources at the same time, and at the same time spent a lot of money to invite Jackie Chan to help Jackie Chan become the most internationally influential new generation of Chinese film kung fu superstars.
In order to keep Jackie Chan, Jiahe also prescribed: give money, give people, give freedom the temptation price code. They let Jackie Chan direct and make movies himself, and they were responsible for helping Jackie Chan distribute and solve financial troubles.
Jackie Chan agreed, so Jiahe began to "market" Jackie Chan.
The internal mainstream opinion of Jiahe is to regard Jackie Chan as "Bruce Lee's successor", in fact, most of the later media also called Jackie Chan that way, but Jiahe's boss Zou Wenhua disagreed.
Zou Wenhuai believes that the "kung fu film" boom set off by "Bruce Lee films" overseas is persistent, but Bruce Lee is Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan is Jackie Chan, and the "genre" of Chinese kung fu films is the film that really has appeal and cross-cultural influence.
Therefore, Zou Wenhuai ordered that no one should interfere with Jackie Chan's filming, and all the creative freedom was given to Jackie Chan. After "Drunken Fist", he starred in "Eight Steps of snake crane", "Fist Essence" and "Dragon Fist", and the performance was still somewhat traditional and old-fashioned kung fu movies.
Jackie Chan in trial and error affirmed the unique style of "kung fu" and "humor", and he also became the most potential commercial actor in the overseas market in Hong Kong films after Bruce Lee.
In the 1980s, Jackie Chan cinema declined for the first time.
The reason for this decline is that the impact and impact of the "New Wave" of Hong Kong cinema are related to the impact, and at the end of the 1970s, martial arts films and kung fu films gradually fell into aesthetic fatigue, and even the emergence of Jackie Chan could only temporarily change a new round of film innovation.
In the mid-1980s, martial arts cinema went into complete decline.
Jackie Chan also began to think about innovation, he did not give up the identity image of the past "Kung Fu Kid" for the sake of innovation, he put his thinking about "Kung Fu Kid" into his new screen image.
The screen image of the second face is exactly the "urban police image".
Jackie Chan personally created the "Plan A" series and the "Police Story" series of Hong Kong film IP empire. He blends the traditional kung fu genre with hollywood's cop model.
Although in "Plan A" and "Police Story", the sudden gunfights and explosion scenes are beautiful, but the most inseparable thing about Jackie Chan's movies is the flexibility and chivalry shown by a modern urban law enforcement hero played by Jackie Chan himself.
To some extent, under the interpretation of "urban police", Jackie Chan has made his films have more and more audiences, which has promoted the modern sense and fashion sense of Jackie Chan's film brand, and also expanded the audience of the film.
People are like this, they will get tired after watching for a long time, but if they go too far, people will always think of coming back.
With the wave of commercialization and production recognition the narrative of Jackie Chan films faces increasing self-challenges.
Audiences are looking forward to seeing different Jackie Chan films: he has changed again, and this is his second innovation.
Throughout the 1990s, the narrative scenes and stories of Jackie Chan's films had a global background that spanned borders and crossed borders.
In 1992, "Police Story 3 Super Cop" went to Hong Kong, the mainland and Malaysia.
In 1995, Thunderbolt Fire went to Japan.
1996's "Police Story 4: A Simple Mission" travels to Russia and Australia.
In 1998, "Who Am I" went to South Africa to shoot.
As Jackie Chan's films go to more and more movies, getting farther and farther away, the horizon of story activities is also constantly broadening.
It's also the third face in his film
Since the 1990s, Jackie Chan films have followed Hollywood in terms of production. Jackie Chan Kung Fu films, which were born in Hong Kong, are more closely associated with the world's audiovisual entertainment trends.
Jackie Chan's screen image began to turn to the world in a style that was almost western "007" series of spy movies, and actively promoted the global film of the Jackie Chan film brand.
In the 1990s, the era of double-weekly cheng officially began, but Jackie Chan was obviously not satisfied with this achievement, because he was different from bi-weekly, and there was a family class behind Jackie Chan.
After Jackie Chan's fate changed, he became the kind of person who "one person gets the Tao, and the chicken dog ascends to heaven".
In the late 1990s, Jackie Chan, like many successful Hong Kong filmmakers, went to Hollywood to open up a new film career.
He shot "Rush Hour", "Rush Hour 2", "Dragon Whirlwind" and other films in Hollywood, all of which have good box office, and fans around the world know that there is a "Jackie Chan" in China, but unlike other Hong Kong filmmakers who have left Hollywood.
Jackie Chan has never had a "coffee spot" in Hollywood, he is a "cultural phenomenon" that is a symbol of the important influence of Oriental art culture in the West and even the world.
Because he was not a Chinese-American star or started with Western films, he set records that were difficult for Many Hollywood filmmakers to match at the height of Hollywood's popularity.
But Jackie Chan has never stopped making Chinese films, in the hottest period in Hollywood, he often came to Hong Kong and Hollywood, after filming that film, 20 years ago, it was a Hollywood director who traveled a long way to find Jackie Chan to cooperate; 20 years later, it is still the same.
Jackie Chan did not completely copy the Hollywood production model, but he also brought a new production system to Hollywood - martial arts instruction to become a family class.
A series of difficult problems faced by Shooting in Hong Kong, including flying cars, martial arts, explosions, and action direction, happened to play a lot of roles in Hollywood action film shooting.
In the years when Jackie Chan went to Hollywood, the Chengjia class also accumulated experience with Jackie Chan in overseas blockbusters.
Jackie Chan's family class is different from Hong Jinbao's Hong family class.
The Chengjia class has an entity, they are the Chengjia class has an entity, that is, the Dragon and Tiger Martial Master under Jackie Chan, everyone wears uniforms printed with dragon characters, and the standards are very strict.
Hongjia class, most of the people who have filmed with Hong Jinbao, the people who have been promoted, most of them are actors, so the so-called "Hongjia class" is actually "Hong Jinbao's circle of friends".
Jackie Chan has never deliberately praised the family class, and Jackie Chan has won the entire entertainment circle through the "family class".
The action directors of "Tai 囧" are Qian Jiale and Yi Tianxiong of the Chengjia class.
The action director of "Red Sea Mekong Action" is Huang Weiliang of the family class.
The action director of "Evil Does Not Pressure the Righteous" is He Jun of the Chengjia class.
The action director of "Let the Bullets Fly" is Xue Chunwei of the Chengjia class.
The action director of "Twilight" is Zheng Jizong of the family class.
The action director for Pacific Rim and Ace Agent is Brad Allen of the Family Class.
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In the world film industry, there are many talents in the family class, which has almost ruled half of the world's action movies.
In the entire Chinese entertainment industry, there is no problem in calling "Jackie Chan" a 'big brother', and it is even more no problem to become the spokesperson of China's business card.
Years later, when we look through the history of Chinese films, we will find that the brilliance of Jackie Chan's films has never been just him.
He and his family members continue to learn the world's advanced film production experience, strive to be close to the world's top standards, but do not forget the spiritual foundation and bloodline, showing the modern character of discourse film.
Jackie Chan's dream is the dream of Chinese cinema. In this dream, we as the audience also witnessed the growth of Jackie Chan.
From actor to director to producer and distributor, he is an "all-round" filmmaker. In the past two years, many people have complained that Jackie Chan's movies are not good, and Jackie Chan's movies cannot keep up with the trend of the times.
Yes, but Jackie Chan he is 67 years old, 67 years old Jackie Chan, there is no need to fight so hard, flip through the resume and honors, there is no better actor in China than him, his family class has long been famous all over the world.
But the 67-year-old Jackie Chan is still making movies, and his professionalism is a kind of condensation and portrayal of Hong Kong filmmakers. Whether you like it or not, Jackie Chan is always trying to hand over his film works that connect with the world.
He is the business card of Chinese films and the last flag bearer of Hong Kong films.