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Bruce Lee, the founder of kung fu films and the founder of cut boxing, is a pioneer of the world martial arts revolution, martial arts martial artist, martial arts philosopher, UFC founder, father of MMA, martial arts master, Chinese martial arts film actor, the first global promoter of Chinese kung fu, Hollywood Chinese actor. On July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee died of "illness" in Hong Kong at the age of 33, and a generation of superstars fell.
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There are countless idols of Bruce Lee, including many Hollywood superstars, including Michael Gar white, Scott Akins, Longell, Tony Ja and so on.
Today, let's talk about bruce Lee who also respects Bruce Lee as a "heavenly man" - Shange Yunton, from a young age, he was a weak and sick child, but because he had an idol as a benchmark, he has since forged ahead along the "wind vane", and finally "counterattacked" to become an international kung fu superstar and a global reputation.
Shange Yunton
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On October 18, 1960, the wife of Belgian man Eugene van Valenberg gave birth to a baby boy for him.
Happy to have a noble son, the couple was very happy, named him "Jean Claude Van Dame" (hereinafter referred to as his Chinese stage name "Shange Winton"), to the surprise of the couple, the child in the process of growing up is actually weak and sick, accompanied by the most in his childhood is the hospital and a variety of auxiliary drugs.
In the 1970s, Bruce Lee's kung fu films were known all over the world, in which he punched like lightning, his legs were like gods, and he played with a double-knuckle stick in one hand. At the age of five or six, Shange Winton fell in love with the small man in the Chinese kung fu film and regarded him as an "idol", dreaming of one day being able to get one or two of them.
Shange Yunton as a child
Seeing that the child was so physically weak, and he liked kung fu movies so much, Shange Yunton's father thought of a way: let the child learn martial arts to improve his physique!
At the age of 11, Shange Yunton began his martial arts career. In the beginning, he was exposed to "Japanese Karate", a martial art that combines "traditional Japanese martial arts" with "Ryukyu martial arts Tang Hand".
Net map Karate
Once, Chinese martial arts flowed into Ryukyu, Japan, and the native Japanese combined the wrestling and throwing skills of Kyushu and Honshu with the Tang hand, and eventually formed the "karate". This martial art includes kicking, punching, wrestling, holding, throwing, locking, twisting, reverse technique, point acupuncture and other techniques, and some genres also bring practice weapons.
After that, Shang Ge Yunton, who fell in love with martial arts, gradually became stronger, and in order to better improve himself, he then learned taekwondo and Muay Thai, and his progress was even faster.
Seeing his son become so strong, Shange Yunton's relatives were very happy, especially Eugene, who was overjoyed by the decision to let his son learn martial arts.
Shange Yunton as a young man
Friends who like martial arts believe that they all know that the biggest difference between taekwondo and Muay Thai is that taekwondo pays attention to the martial spirit of "starting with the ceremony and ending with the ceremony", while Muay Thai tends to be "lethal", which is a must-kill skill, and the result is "either you win, or I lose".
After learning many martial arts schools, Shange Yunton not only understood the true meaning of "learning martial arts and heavy virtues", but also understood the truth that only by being stronger than the enemy can he become a king.
It is reported that at about the age of 15 or 6, Shange Yunton won the "European Professional Karate Association Youth Group Champion", which can be described as "Guangzong Yaozu". Since then, he has defined his dream as "being a martial artist."
At the age of 18, Shange Yunton was already famous in the martial arts world, and he had a very powerful movement, that is, "360 degree bounce kick", with this move to suppress the crowd, the strength is unparalleled.
At the age of 19, in order to get closer to the idol, Shange Winton came to Hong Kong, known as the "Hollywood of the East", determined to become an action actor, but at that time the action movies had been saturated in Hong Kong due to market saturation "not popular", running around for almost a year, he could only look at the real Hollywood, left Hong Kong and moved to Los Angeles, the United States, and settled down.
In 1980, in the European Professional Karate League, Shange Weunton played against the world's second largest karate player, and won the "middleweight championship" after taking the opponent lightly, this year, he was only 20 years old.
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At that time, he was the "male god" in people's minds, which made thousands of young girls confused. It is reported that because of having a perfect muscle, he also won the crown in a men's bodybuilding competition.
From a frail, skinny teenager to a muscular macho man who is as strong as a tiger to a karate champion, no one can appreciate the hardships that Shange Winton has experienced.
After winning the "Bodybuilding Championship", Shange Yunton's popularity increased significantly, and with the "fire" momentum, he opened a gym in Brussels, and the business was very good. Because his childhood dream was to become a Bruce Lee-like film and television superstar, he did not last long, he transferred the gym at a low price, and since then he has embarked on a dream-building journey in Hollywood.
In fact, as early as 1980, Shange Yunton participated in a French action film called "RevBarara", but the response was mediocre and did not make much waves.
In 1981, Shangerwynton came to the United States with his work The Muscles From Brussels, but the film was not an immediate success. The reason is simple, an unknown little person, if you want to break out of the world in the star-studded Hollywood, it is as difficult as ascending to the sky!
When he first moved to Los Angeles, Shange Yunton was poor to only 7,000 US dollars, and surviving in such a bustling city was undoubtedly a drop in the bucket. For five years, in order to continue to pursue his dreams, he had to do some low-level work, working as a driver, buying pizza, working as a security guard in the theater, working as a personal fitness instructor... Seventy-two lines, he even did seventy-three lines!
If you want to be an actor in the United States, English is a stepping stone, but Shange Winton can only speak French and Flemish, in order to learn English well, he can only work while studying, no matter how tired he is during the day, he still insists on attending English cram school at night. At the same time, we also do not forget to find opportunities to contact the show business circle, and are ready to fight as sharply as possible.
Maxima is often present, but Bole is not often there!
By chance, at a restaurant run by Mrs. Chuck Norris, Shange Winton met his "Bole" Chuck Norris. At Chuck's recommendation, he found a dragon suit role in the 1984 war film "Missing in Action" (Chinese "Vietnam War Pioneer"), and although the role was unremarkable and did not receive any attention, he was also very happy and grateful to Chuck.
Vietnam Veterans movie poster
In the same year, in the low-budget film "Blood Game", Shange Yunton finally found a villain role.
It is an action film directed by the well-known Hong Kong director Yuan Kui, starring The American young martial arts champion Curt McKenny. The story tells the story of a Los Angeles karate teenager who leaves his hometown to Come to Seattle, inspired by Bruce Lee's spirit, then practices boxing hard, and finally takes revenge on snow shame and defeats the Russian freestyle karate champion Ivan.
In this film, Shange Yunton kicked the opponent's head with the iconic "360-degree rotation", showing a strong artistic expression in addition to his super martial arts skills. It is precisely because of his excellent performance in this film that it has attracted the attention of the Hollywood film and television circles to him.
Blood Game movie poster
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Along the way, even if it is full of thorns, Shange Yunton is not indomitable and forges ahead. Finally, he had the opportunity to prove himself. It was also a chance that he met a producer at Cannon Pictures, who knew the truth that "the opportunity must not be lost", and he fully demonstrated to the producer the superb kung fu he had practiced for many years, so he was highly appreciated by the other party.
On the recommendation of the producer, in 1988, the 28-year-old Shange Windon finally got the opportunity to play the lead role.
In The $1.5 million budget action film Blood Point, which was shot in Hong Kong, he played Frank, a kung fu master, who competed in an illegal secret boxing match from Kowloon, Hong Kong, hoping to become the first Westerner to win the event. However, after winning the first victory, Frank found himself troubled by more than just thinking about winning the championship, the intelligence bureau agents asked him to withdraw from the game, and the opponent was even more frantic to ask for his life. To do this, he must fight for his life in a boxing match without any rules...
Blood spots
A work of intense interpretation, Shange Yunton, who had been dormant for many years, originally thought that it would soar from then on, and it had thought that it was "a non-human being". The film was refrigerated for two years due to its poor overall effect. In order to make his work available, he personally re-edited it and whispered to the producers, so that "Blood Point" could be seen again.
To everyone's surprise, once the film was released, the box office performance was as high as 30 million US dollars, and Shange Yunton also tasted the taste of popularity in the international film industry for the first time.
Netmap: Shange Yunton Word Horse
Since then, Shange Winton is no longer the lonely and unknown Hollywood film "outcast", and has become a superstar of the King of Heaven who is superior in everyone's mind.
He continued to star in the action film "Black Hawk", with excellent martial arts skills, making him at ease in the film, coupled with a body of envious tendon meat, is the best candidate for kung fu films. For this reason, he was also known as "Arnold's successor".
Black Hawk movie poster
At the end of the 1980s, as Hong Kong action movies fell to the altar and the financial storm swept the world, the Hollywood film market was also hit.
During this period, Shange Yunton participated in films such as "The Mighty Wind of boxing", "The King of Fighting", "Intercept the Veyron", "Iron Fist Invincible", "Jedi Double Lord" and other movies, but the response was mediocre.
Even so, Shange Winton, who had already experienced hardships, was not discouraged by this, and he knew very well in his heart that he could not give up his previous achievements after lying down for many years.
Under the influence of the "Bruce Lee spirit", in 1992, the never-say-die Shange Yunton and Dufronger co-starred in the science fiction action film "Rebuilding Warrior", novel creativity and hot scenes, coupled with the efforts of the two major stars, the film just released caused a great sensation, and collected more than 100 million US dollars at the proud box office.
Recreate the Warrior movie poster
In the 1993 action film Nowhere to Hide, Shange Yunton was paid $3.5 million.
When it comes to Shange Yunton's masterpiece, veteran action fans believe that they all know the action film "The Ultimate Target" directed by a well-known director in China. In the film, he plays an "unemployed seafarer, Zanth", who is hired by the girl Natasha to find her missing father, and stages a thrilling fight with the mob...
With this film, Shange Winton became one of the most high-profile figures in Hollywood in 93 years.
The Ultimate Target movie poster
Since then, he has starred in films such as "Time and Space SPECIAL Police", "Street Fighter", "Sudden Death" and other films, and his performance is also very prominent.
Acting and excellent directing! In 1996, he also directed and starred in the film Adventure Rider. The following year, he co-starred with basketball star Rodman in "Double Fire".
Shange Yunton 360 degree suspension kick
Perhaps because of the "Chinese complex", in addition to cooperating with Wu Yusen on "Ultimate Target", he also cooperated with Lin Lingdong in "Extreme Adventure", "CopyIng the Killer Demon", "Hell Awakening Dragon", "Hard Break 100% Danger", and cooperated with Xu Ke in "Strike Back" and "Head-on Strike"...
As for the later "Pancake Man", it is thought to be a "stain" in Shange Winton's acting journey.
Movie poster for "Tough 100% Dangerous"
epilogue:
As a Belgian, Shange Yunton has been a frail child since childhood, because of the kung fu superstar Bruce Lee as an idol, he began to practice martial arts from an early age, and then won the "Bodybuilding Championship"! After years of love and hard work in martial arts, he is the founder of the first generation of WKA, winning the Matsutao Ryu Karate World Championship, the Taekwondo Five Generations Ancient Muay Thai Master World Karate Champion, and a European Karate MiddleWeight Champion.
Later, with a stunt, he entered the show business circle with the dream of stardom, but for the superstar-studded Hollywood in the United States, the Belgian guy is undoubtedly a humble "foreigner". Step by step, Shange Yunton has experienced hardships that ordinary people have not expected, but he has always persevered for his acting career, contributed many kung fu feasts to action fans, and finally completed the counterattack, life is like a perfect!
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