Bruce Lee, Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan, Zhen Zidan, Yuan Hua, Jet Li, Yuan Heping, these glittering names, I think many people are familiar with it, right? These kung fu superstars were the ones who occupied half of the martial arts action movie market.
However, there is a powerful actor, his kung fu is not inferior to Bruce Lee, Zhen Zidan and he have to bow to the inferior person, presumably see his photo, many people who have soaked in the video hall, will suddenly realize, Oh! It was him!
But most people can't remember his name, right? This actor who makes people feel that his face is not familiar, he is the Hong Kong star who later became famous in Hollywood, Qiu Yunbo.
Born in Hong Kong on July 17, 1960, Qiu Yunbo moved to the United States with his family for a period of time at the age of 11, so he spent his entire adolescence abroad.
At that time, many people in overseas Chinese circles liked to watch Bruce Lee's movies, and under such an environmental influence, Qiu Yunbo not only admired Bruce Lee, but also developed a strong interest in martial arts.
Many boys, when they were young, liked some fist and foot kung fu and longed to become the big brother of the legend in the jianghu, however, some people quickly forgot this impulsive idea after they grew up, but Qiu Yunbo put this wish into action.
At the age of 19, Qiu Yunbo was no longer a little boy who was restricted by his parents everywhere, so he began to attack his dreams according to his favorite living method.
That year, when he was still studying at the University of California, he used his extracurricular time to enroll in a martial arts class, but most of the foreign instructors in the American martial arts class taught the students some karate kung fu.
This was a far cry from the Chinese martial arts that Qiu Yunbo wanted to learn, so he quickly quit the martial arts class.
After leaving the martial arts class, Qiu Yunbo officially began to contact Chinese martial arts, and in just one year, he practiced a strong Chinese kung fu.
In 1982, he returned to China to participate in the National Wushu Competition, and at the age of 22, he won the championship in one fell swoop.
The returnee Qiu Yunbo's emergence in the martial arts world soon made him a topic of attention at that time.
Qiu Yunbo's idol was Bruce Lee, and at that time he also cut a hairstyle that was very similar to that of the idol, so at that time, he was also given a nicknamed "Bruce Lee of Rebirth" by the media.
At that time, martial arts films were very popular with the audience, so many top executives of film and television production companies were closely watching the newcomers emerging in the martial arts world, finding good seedlings that could be cultivated, and soon taking them into their service.
Qiu Yunbo, who bore the aura of a national martial arts champion, soon entered the show business circle, working as a martial arts actor since 1989 and playing roles in martial arts films until 2013.
A person really loves a thing, will do it for a long time, and will not give up easily, but although the dream is perfect, the reality is always very helpless.
When Qiu Yunbo entered the kung fu film market, he caught up with the last train, and when he was young, he saw those kung fu superstars, in the glorious era of the world of light and shadow, but when it was his turn to enter, the action movie market had already entered the era of division.
Qiu Yunbo has no connections, no background, only a body of kung fu, so in many films, he can only be a supporting role, although there are many scenes, in fact, he is just a martial artist running a dragon suit.
Every actor who enters the show business circle has his own stage name, like Jackie Chan's real name there are two, one is the real name Chen Gangsheng with his mother's surname, and the other is the real name taken from his father's surname, called Fang Shilong.
Bruce Lee's real name is Li Zhenfan, And Dillon's real name is Tan Furong, so Qiu Yunbo is no exception, and his stage name is Wei Long.
Unfortunately, Qiu Yunbo, who has no life with the same dragon and wants to rely on a body of kung fu to make a name for himself in the film and television circle, although his strength is not bad, his looks are also passed, but his luck is always a little worse.
Just as the so-called lost millimeter is a thousand miles, Qiu Yunbo has played a supporting role in the Hong Kong circle for ten years, and he can't mix his head.
Qiu Yunbo's first film was "One Brother", in which he partnered with Ren Dahua and Wan Ziliang, but he wanted to be a brother, but he was only a supporting role in the film.
He played a thug in the film "Supreme Supreme" starring Andy Lau and Tan Yonglin, and in the movie "Dragon tiger new wind" starring Zheng Zeshi and Liu Qingyun, he played Ye Kuan.
In these films, he plays supporting roles such as thugs and bodyguards.
In 1990, he starred with Zhen Zidan in the movie "Money Laundering", which had a wonderful fight scene.
It is worth mentioning that in the plot, Qiu Yunbo's face is full of murderous spirit, a strong muscle, a set of clean fist and foot kung fu, if it is not a plot restriction, his set of rapid and sharp kung fu, Zhen Zidan may not be able to catch.
Whether it is in strength or speed, Zhen Zidan cannot compete with him.
However, the audience can only remember his face, but never his name.
During his 10 years in the Hong Kong film industry, he shot nearly 20 film and television works, but none of them could be mastered.
Disheartened, he began to re-examine the platform he was attached to, and he finally found that he was in the hong Kong circle, and he could never have a day out.
So he left Hong Kong and returned to the United States, where he grew up as a teenager, when Hollywood was also engaged in Chinese kung fu films, and it was very necessary and welcoming for talents like Qiu Yunbo to join.
Therefore, Qiu Yunbo, who was like a fish in the water, finally found a platform that could make himself shine, and through shooting several acclaimed and popular movies, he began to mix with the wind and water, and he walked in the clouds.
As we all know, Hollywood's attitude towards Asian actors is not friendly, but for strong actors, it will still give some opportunities for development.
Because of this, Qiu Yunbo, with a strong Chinese kung fu, stunned four seats, suppressed a group of karate Western masters, and broke out of a sky of his own in Hollywood.
He first played a supporting role in the movie "The King of Fighting", and after a beautiful fist and foot kung fu display, the director realized that he had condescended as a supporting role, so in "The King of Fighting 2", he became the protagonist.
This promotion change means that he has gained a firm foothold in Hollywood, and after that, he has participated in many Hollywood action movies such as "Life and Death Fight" and "Street Fighter".
The movie "Street Fighter" is based on the game, the biggest highlight of the whole movie is not the plot, the special effects and production level at that time was already the most eye-catching place of that era.
In addition, Qiu Yunbo's live-action Kombat staged in the film has also made countless audiences addicted.
Of course, from the current point of view, it may not be brilliant, but in that era, the film's sophisticated production has already hung up on the same type of film, and once this film was released, it achieved good box office results.
If domestic audiences have seen the "Death Bike" series of movies, they will be familiar with Qiu Yunbo's face, and he and Jason Statham will play a very heavy supporting role in the movie.
At that time, he played a high-caliber student at MIT, a young man named 14K, who was quite flattering, not only handsome, but also his equipment was quite stylish.
In this movie, the 14K car is a 1998 Porsche, well-equipped weapons, with a sense of handsome déjà vu.
Because he has a lot of research on martial arts movements, the director also trusts him, and in addition to letting him play a role in the film, he also has him work as an action director.
In those years in Hollywood, his foreign counterparts also gave him a nickname "Resurrection Bruce Lee"!
In 2003, Qiu Yunbo directed a movie "Red Pants: The Life of Hong Kong Stunt Boys", perhaps many people do not know what red pants mean, in fact, this synonym in action movies, refers to martial arts stunts.
This kind of stuntman, their main job is to help the actors, solve those more difficult action scenes, their work is very hard and dangerous.
The reason why Qiu Yunbo made such a genre film is that there is a feeling, in order to commemorate the bumpy past he experienced in those years that were once unknown in the Hong Kong circle.
In 2013, after Qiu Yunbo finished filming "Death Speeding Car 3", he turned his work to the background, mainly studying the work of martial arts instruction.
The success of his career allowed him to quickly harvest love, and after he married his lover Annie Deng, he gradually entered a semi-reclusive state.
In 2016, Yuan Heping wanted to make a sister version of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Sword of the Dark Nether", when he thought of Qiu Yunbo, the winner who had won two national martial arts competitions, the same award that Bruce Lee had won.
When Yuan Heping found him, he calmly refused, and the reason given made Yuan Heping unable to refute it, he said that he wanted to leave time for his family, and he wanted to do a good job behind the scenes of the movie, and the thing of acting on stage would not be done again.
Rejecting the drama of the big director Yuan Heping means giving up the good opportunity to compete for fame and profit for people in the entertainment industry, so why did Qiu Yunbo do this?
It turned out that when he was young, he put too much time into his career, but ignored the feelings of his family, as he grew older, he realized that work can not replace life, a good life can make people feel the meaning of living, so Qiu Yunbo left more time for his family.
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