The last article revisited several international action superstars who can be called "martial artists", and many netizens gave me bad reviews, because many of them did not mention, and the highest voice among them was Duff Longer, "Xiaobian, what about Longer? Eaten by you? "In fact, I considered when I wrote that article, indeed because Longel was far from reaching the level of superstar, in that era, the action superstars were always Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Shange Winton and Siegel belonged to the second line, and Longer belonged to the third line.
Maybe Longel's fans are going to spit on me again, but this is a fact, and the criteria for evaluating whether they are superstars are very simple: box office and film remuneration. In a very realistic Hollywood, Longel is paid less than Shange Yunton, but this does not prevent fans from liking him, liking an actor, and more importantly, personality charm, rather than the level of salary.
A Swede, Longel began studying judo and hockey in his hometown at the age of 16 and later began to transfer to karate, initially learning the traditional Japanese "Gang Jutsu", but soon changed to "Extreme Vacuum Hand", winning the 1980 and 1981 European Extreme Vacuum Karate Championships and the 1982 Australian Heavyweight Karate Championship. In the same year he obtained a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983 and is a true master of science.
In 1983, Longer went to audition for the Stallone boxing film Rocky 4, and since then he has given up his studies and boxing career to start breaking into Hollywood. In this boxing movie "Rocky 4", he played a boxing king, which left a deep impression on everyone, and until now everyone still calls him the boxing king in the Stallone movie "Rocky 4".
In 1987, Longer starred in a live-action cartoon movie "Decisive Time and Space War Zone", playing Heyman in the movie, and now young friends are estimated not to know who Heeman is, which is a comic book character that swept the world in the 80s of the last century.
"Give me strength!" I'm Seaman! "Remember? This is the classic line in the cartoon of that year, every time As long as Heeman can't beat the bad guy, this line comes out. The prototype of this cartoon is the film "Conan the Barbarian" played by Schwarzenegger, which was not a success at the time, and later Wu Yusen and Twentieth Century Fox planned to shoot a new version, and even the actor selection was determined nicholas Cage, but in the end it was not resolved for various reasons.
Then he starred in Marvel's anti-hero movie "The Punisher", the Punisher was called "Ten-Level Agent" by S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury, which was also the earliest version of the Punisher, this movie can be regarded as Longer's masterpiece, but this movie is not produced by a large company, so the impact is not high, and the poster seriously copied "Terminator".
This is also where Longer is very embarrassed, and he has not met an influential director and work since he became famous, whether it is the previous Seaman or this "Punisher", which is a shadow of Schwarzenegger.
In 1992, he met his later good friend Shange Yunton, and the two starred in "Reinventing the Warrior", a film with a total of four films, and it was the masterpiece of the two of them, only the second one was not starred in Longer.
The second was co-starred by Shange Winton and famed WCW heavyweight champion William Scott Goldberg, and friends who like wrestling are used to calling him "God of War Goble".
Before a small friend broke the news, at that time in the "Rebuilding Warrior" crew, the two karate champions privately exchanged a bit, and finally Longer won, he repeatedly stressed that "it is said, said, said." In fact, by comparing the data of the two people, it can be found that if the real competition is true, it is certain that Longer won, after all, he is a heavyweight champion, Shange Yunton is a middleweight, on the height of Longgel is 16 centimeters tall, on the weight of Longgel weighs 65 pounds, so I think this little partner's "supposedly" may be true.
In this series of movies, the soldier Luke played by Shange Yunton and the banyan Andrew played by Longel lose their minds on the battlefield, slaughter all the Vietnamese residents in their subordinates and Vietnamese villages, and finally the two are killed together, and later freeze their bodies into machine warriors, who have no emotions and memories, but have superb combat skills and strength. Later, he inadvertently triggered the memories of the two, and finally launched a life-and-death battle.
At that time, the film was innovative and the scene was hot, coupled with the joining of two major action stars, it was very popular that year, and won more than $100 million at the global box office at a cost of 23 million.
After 17 years, the two famous karate champions in the film industry have joined forces again to shoot the plot of "Reinventing the Warrior 3: Rebirth" is still a good and evil, Longer is still the first character in the role Ofdrew, the time of this part is 2009, obviously this type of action film in this period has sunset, so the reputation is very poor.
By 2012's "Reinvented Warrior 4: Day of Reckoning," Longel showed very little face, a work that Arkins paid homage to idol Shange Winton.
Scott Akins is the first male protagonist of this film, and all kinds of fight scenes are completed by him, after all, these two are already old.
In the middle of the way, the character played by Longer is killed by the male protagonist played by Arkins, and the final showdown is between the monk Andg Winton. This action scene is not very exciting, but it is relatively bloody, it is a typical B-grade film, the storyline is something, there is no such thing, Shange Yunton and Longer's later works are almost like this, not only the plot is not good, and even the fight scenes are quite confusing.
The only big-budget movies that starred during this time were the "Daredevil" series, with Lunger playing Gunner Jensen, one of Stallone's death squad members.
In this period, he is obviously much older, the person is a sniper, no longer a boxer in the young and crazy period, there is an "interaction" between the film and the yin and yang played by Jet Li, did not see him show his skills, or surrendered the yin and yang through the height and weight advantage, the action in the film is the young Jason Steinson.
In "Daredevil 2" there is a bomb scene, Longer also took his high education to open shabu, the heavyweight karate champion of the tangtang generation, became a funny bearer, the master of chemistry made bombs, haha, too funny.
The "Daredevil" series is completely a tribute to the action movies of the 1980s and 1990s, and thus brings together a large number of action movie superstars, including many veteran stars who have not been seen on the screen for a long time, for me as a 90s action movie lover, this kind of movie as long as Stallone continues to organize people to shoot, I will continue to watch, the plot is completely unimportant, as long as you can see these people in the movie, you are satisfied, watching is a memory.
In 2018, he starred in the DC movie "Aquaman", played King Nereus in the film, seriously, when I watched this movie in the cinema, I didn't recognize him at all, or Wrote this article to sort out the information only to find out, before this type of movie I never watched, because I was obsessed with old-school tough guy action movies, but since "The Matrix", "X-Men", "Avengers", I also began to like to watch these types with the change of the times, especially like "Captain America 2" This kind of action occupies most of my dishes, and I always like action movies more than super British movies.
In fact, looking back on Longer's film career, he has a good look, but unfortunately there has not been a big-name director like Schwarzenegger met James Cameron, so it has always maintained a semi-red and black state, and the representative work starring him alone is only "The Punisher", a film that is not very successful. If he has a better chance, he can have his own series of movies, and the curry position may be juxtaposed with some other action superstars, such as the "Die Hard" series, the "Terminator" series, the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, these superstars are all series of works represented by themselves, and "Rebuilding Warriors" can only be regarded as Shange Winton's series of works strictly speaking.
In 2018, Stallone wrote "Rocky 8", aka "Quiddi: Heroes Rise Again". It can also be regarded as Stallone and Longer's tribute to the "Rocky 4" of that year, the two became coaches, and the boxers were replaced by young actors.
Watching this movie is very surging inside, especially The look in Longel's eyes, I can't help but think of a narration from the "Absolute Superstar" Henry special issue of "Football in the World" when he retired, and it is also appropriate to describe Longer here.
This used to be the boxing ring he was most familiar with, and now it was the one he was most unfamiliar with. The 61-year-old Longer squatted there, looking at the past with affectionate eyes, all of which were the shadows of his own 26-year-old. Countless matches, 2 European karate champions, 1 Australian karate champion, when the fireworks rise, the era of action movies that once belonged to Longel will not pass away with the years, but will only be remembered often in the drift of the years.
This document is for all fans who love Duff Langel.