This time, I don't owe Jackie Chan movie tickets

On his 69th birthday, the new film "Dragon Horse Spirit" starring Jackie Chan was released. The film pays tribute to the "dragon and tiger warriors" of the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, and as one of the representatives of this group, Jackie Chan's appearance is more like a retrospective of his career.

Up to now, the film's Douban score is 6.5, and there is a certain word-of-mouth controversy, just like the line that Jackie Chan said to Liu Haocun, who played his daughter, in the movie, "You children don't understand"; And five days after its release, the box office has not yet exceeded 100 million, it seems that the audience really did not understand, and it was also like Liu Hao's response in the film: "Your era has passed." ”

Jackie Chan is not acted

Although Wu Jing said in "Dragon Horse Spirit" that Lao Luo (played by Jackie Chan) has been a stand-in for a lifetime and wants to leave his own shots for such an unsung behind-the-scenes hero, but compared with reality, this setting is not convincing: Jackie Chan's life as an actor is a success.

As Wang Baoqiang said in the movie "One Man's Martial Arts", "Who would have thought that the kung fu of the play is not acted", Jackie Chan is indeed really played.

Entered the Yuanjia class at the age of seven, spent ten years of hard martial arts, experienced the running group waiting for opportunities, while practicing martial arts and being a stand-in "beaten" years, but also as a martial arts and action guidance for action movies, until he became the male protagonist of "New Jing Wumen" (1976), 22-year-old Jackie Chan had the opportunity to be the "next Bruce Lee".

But the film only got more than 400,000 Hong Kong dollars at the box office, did not stir up any splashes, and Jackie Chan also found that he did not want to become Bruce Lee's "stand-in" - he chose to abandon Bruce Lee's acting style, not to be a hero like Bruce Lee, "to be an ordinary person who can cry pain".

Two years later, Jackie Chan integrated comedy into martial arts in "Serpentine Executioner", playing his own characteristics in a different way than Bruce Lee. The film got more than two million at the box office and was already a blockbuster in 1978. In the same year, "Drunken Fist" starring Jackie Chan won more than six million at the box office - the trend of kung fu comedy began, and Jackie Chan also opened his brilliant star path as a martial arts star.

And the status and achievements of the "big brother" are earned by hard work. The famous scene of Jackie Chan that fans talk about is that he personally completed the jump from a 30-meter-tall building with a plaster cast in "Red Fan District", the clock tower jumped to the ground without protective measures in "Plan A", and the "Police Story" held a live lamp and landed on the ground. Tang Jili called an accident during the filming of "Brother Dragon and Tiger" "the top disaster of his career", and it was a brain surgeon in Yugoslavia who was "ranked second in the world at that time" and passed by the hospital to save Jackie Chan when he gave a speech.

There are many lines in "Dragon and Tiger Spirit" to describe the spirit of Jackie Chan, no matter how dangerous the action is, it is "never say no", as long as the shooting starts, there is only "action, jump, hospital", which is desperate for love. It was these desperately determined efforts that made up Jackie Chan's dazzling career: in 1995, "Red Fan" entered Hollywood, breaking the North American foreign language film record at the time with a box office of more than 30 million US dollars, and "Rush Hour" in 1998 was popular again, and made him appear on the cover of Time magazine in the same year, becoming China's second "international action superstar".

When "Red Fan District" was released in the United States, Jackie Chan publicly said: What I want is not special effects, it is real things. But the "real" will also wear out with time, and it is difficult for Jackie Chan, who is now nearly 70 years old, to die as before. "Dragon Horse Spirit" no longer has the previous high-difficulty scenes, and some critics said that even with simple actions, Jackie Chan needs a stand-in.

However, the film has many difficult classic action scenes of Jackie Chan's career, and it is still shocking to watch, which can be compared with Jackie Chan's performance in the film, and it is easy to produce the sigh of "heroic twilight".

At the end of the film, Jackie Chan stops before the last dangerous action without stand-ins and special effects is completed, saying that he can't do this move, "I didn't expect me to say something like this." It seems that this is a more realistic line - Jackie Chan is old, he wants to reconcile with his own life, and he wants to say goodbye to the glorious era he has experienced.

Can't go back

"Our audience can't understand that thing today, so someone has to show them." Before reconciliation, Jackie Chan still struggled in "Dragon Horse Spirit". Maybe it's not that the audience can't understand it, or it's not needed. Jackie Chan himself knows this very well.

In a video interview during the film's promotional period, he once choked up: "The market doesn't need it, and it's useless how good your efforts are." Jackie Chan said that if one day he can go back to the past era, those real action boys will have a chance. But it must be admitted that the era that Jackie Chan missed that made him and a group of martial arts stars shine may never go back.

In the past, the prosperity of kung fu films ignited the enthusiasm of the whole people, and it would be broadcast non-stop on TV: "Learn martial arts, come to XX Wenwu School!" "According to the growth experience of the stars, learning martial arts seems to be a promising path, children watch film and television works since childhood with kung fu dreams, a large number of parents also hold the hope of cultivating the next Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Nowadays, sending children to martial arts schools has become one of the "confusing behaviors" in the eyes of the public, such schools seem to be only disciplined violently in disorder, and negative news related to "cultural and martial arts schools" has also emerged endlessly, and some netizens ridiculed: Jet Li does not dare to go to the current martial arts school.

Kung fu movies are not the mainstream genre in the market, but often used as an element, combined with "comedy" or even "love" and "family", just like "Dragon Horse Spirit". With less content supply, young audiences will not be able to accept the influence of martial arts and action charm from movies, and they will no longer be interested in this genre - audience demand affects the supply of film content, and action movies will become less ——— word martial artist, and they will fall behind.

Unlike other genres, comedy and action movies are too easy to be influenced by actors, and in the previous article of Poison Eyes, it was pointed out that "Bruce Lee movies", "Jackie Chan movies", "Sammo Hung movies", "Jet Li movies" can become the distinguishing labels of different movies, and the identity of kung fu stars is infinitely close to the author of the film. The problem is that when these people get old, no new kung fu stars are born.

The reason is simple, with the development of film industry technology, special effects and protection means during filming no longer require actors to gamble with their lives on the completion of an action. At the closing ceremony of the 5th Jackie Chan International Action Film Week, Jackie Chan also had to sigh that CG technology had robbed many action actors' jobs: "In the past, the actions must have been done by real people, but now many of them use computers, and almost anything can be done." Computer fictional CG characters can also make very beautiful movements, even more powerful than our real actions. ”

In the past, the cultivation of stars was difficult and low in substitution, and they relied on solid moves and hard work to become stars, but now they first become stars and then temporarily learn to shoot scenes through the blessing of various external means, and kung fu superstars like Jackie Chan can no longer appear.

In 2016, Jackie Chan won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, which is both a recognition of his career and an end - even Hollywood knows that Jackie Chan cannot surpass his achievements on the road to stardom. Jackie Chan and the group of people he represents are just outdated.

"I don't owe Jackie Chan movie tickets anymore"

"Ryoma Spirit" is very much like a movie born only for feelings.

As an action movie, its fight scenes are not much brilliant, and judging from the word-of-mouth evaluation, the audience does not get much refreshment from the action scenes; Of course, it is not a pure action movie, the emotional line between father and daughter is scribbled, and disputes and reconciliations are like rushing to complete tasks and advance the plot; Even the values conveyed seem old-fashioned, Liu Haocun wants to help his father win the lawsuit, or rely on men (boyfriend, Guo Qilin), except crying and repeatedly emphasizing that Jackie Chan is "old".

Some netizens commented on Jackie Chan and "Dragon Horse Spirit": Remembering that the media used to like marketing "we owe Jackie Chan a movie ticket" and "we owe Stephen Chow a movie ticket", I want to say that the audience never owes them, these people have obtained too much from the Chinese film industry and audiences.

"If you really love movies and respect the audience, be cautious about every work you make in your later years, instead of thinking about how to sell the cruel kidnapping feelings."

In recent years, the reputation of movies starring Jackie Chan is indeed not good, "Pioneer" Douban score 4.4, detective Pu Songling 3.8, are all hard films, little by little consume the audience's feelings for the word "Jackie Chan". And now it is not necessary to use an action movie "Dragon Horse Spirit" with an action scene that is not wonderful to remember his past career.

With Jackie Chan's status in the film industry and the works left behind, the audience will miss him, and there are a large number of mixed cuts of his personal works on Station B, and young people's evaluation of Jackie Chan is still very high; Since 2016, the "Jackie Chan Film Plan A" initiated by Jackie Chan has been providing support and assistance to young filmmakers in creation and production, and mentioning "Jackie Chan Big Brother" in public is always with respect and gratitude.

The "old age" of an actor who really played his beautiful career, there can be no more bad films born to dissolve the audience's feelings for him - it is understandable that filmmakers pay tribute to themselves in the way of movies, but only the feelings of the consumer audience remain.

Fortunately, the audience's feelings for Jackie Chan are still valid. After the screening of "Dragon Horse Spirit", we heard the male audience next to us say to their children: "Do you remember a lot of Jackie Chan's young performances in it?" I've seen all those films. ”