69-year-old Jackie Chan, said the wrong thing!
Recently, Jackie Chan was exposed to the promotion of the movie "Dragon Horse Spirit", saying on stage that he was "very happy to work with such a bad actor", which caused a lot of controversy.
It is reported that the young actors Jackie Chan cooperated with in "Dragon Horse Spirit" are Liu Haocun and Guo Qilin, and Liu Haocun happens to be full of controversy in 95 flowers.
Although Jackie Chan explained afterwards that he was just a momentary slip of the tongue, because his Chinese was not good, please forgive him.
But netizens still feel puzzled how Jackie Chan, as a drama bone who has been in the entertainment industry for many years, can have such a slip of the tongue.
But in fact, Jackie Chan's "slip of the tongue" scale this year is really larger than one, in the "Dragon Horse Spirit" just roadshow, Jackie Chan said a paragraph, he lamented that the situation of action actors is difficult now, find an investor to invest 10 million in an action actor, no one invests, but if you find Yi Yang Qianxi, invest 400 million people to invest, because he has traffic.
This paragraph has caused a lot of controversy, some netizens do not agree with Jackie Chan's statement, but feel that Jackie Chan is a little "small family", and on the surface looks down on the "traffic star" Jackie Chan, in fact, his movies are not lacking Yang Yang, Zhang Yixing and other traffic stars.
Afterwards, Jackie Chan could only come forward to clarify, saying that his words were taken out of context, and what he wanted to say was that if he looked for Yi Yangqianxi, him, or Wu Jing, someone would vote.
The scale of Jackie Chan's "offending people" can be said to be getting bigger and bigger, of course, as a senior in the circle, but also a powerful kung fu superstar, Jackie Chan has his own qualifications to comment on juniors, he also complained about the small fresh meat filming in the circle in his early years, and he was afraid of heavy pampering, scratching his hands and making a fuss, but he won't say the name.
In fact, behind this "offending people" is also the helplessness of him and kung fu movies.
Jackie Chan's new movie "Dragon Horse Spirit" barely broke 100 million in a week of release, and the estimated box office was only 220 million, but the investment of this film is as high as 300 million, it can be said that the box office and word of mouth have swooped.
Jackie Chan worked very the promotion of this movie, whether it was these two "wrong words" or in the early years when he revealed that he had no way to get a closed injection, it may be just to add heat to the movie, but unfortunately there is still no way to save the box office of this movie.
Some of the words Jackie Chan said during the promotion of the movie can also really see his anxiety and helplessness about kung fu movies and himself.
He said that the market no longer needs kung fu actors, it is useless how good your kung fu is, no one will invest in them, and it is only useful to look good.
He sighed that he also wanted to cultivate a second Jackie Chan, but it was difficult, he could not find a successor, and the most terrible thing was not that Jackie Chan was old, but that there would be no Jackie Chan after Jackie Chan.
Some people may think that Jackie Chan should "retire", but in fact, Jackie Chan is not yet willing.
Jackie Chan, who recently won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, is not ready to retire.
Last month, he appeared in good spirits at the Emperor Film Tour, standing in the first row during the group photo, and standing in the first row in addition to the Emperor's boss executives and investors, only Jackie Chan and Koo Tianle are stars, Gu Tianle himself is still the boss, Jackie Chan's status can be seen.
Jackie Chan still has nearly 10 movies to be released in the next few years, some of which are ready to be released after filming, and some of which have not yet started filming, and the co-actors from foreign actors, Hong Kong stars to the mainland, it can be seen that Jackie Chan is still the top in the film industry in terms of resources.
But the results of "Dragon Horse Spirit" this time made Jackie Chan "panicked", and it seemed to let him see the real despair of today's kung fu movie market.
In fact, the despair of "Dragon Horse Spirit" does not let people see the despair of kung fu movies.
Recalling the heyday of kung fu movies, Bruce Lee pioneered kung fu movies, Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Donnie Yen, Zhao Wenzhuo, Wu Jing, Zhang Jin, etc. formed a grand situation of a hundred flowers competing for beauty, and the kind of fist-to-flesh fight scenes are still classics.
It is not easy to become a good kung fu action actor, they almost always have a few years to ten years of practice, and after boring movement training, they can complete the wonderful few seconds on stage.
Jackie Chan is the most "deadly" actor in action movies, in so many years of acting career, Jackie Chan insists on "no dangerous scenes do not shoot", almost never uses a stand-in, and even sometimes does not do protective measures, blood spilling on the set has become a daily routine, and his whole body has left the pain left by filming.
Jackie Chan's admirable performances in the movie are not exaggerated to say that they are "taking life for it".
On the other hand, the soft fighting scenes in many domestic dramas today really make people sigh that the real "kung fu" is really disappearing in film and television works.
The actors who once created the brilliance of kung fu movies are also leaving one by one. 59-year-old Jet Li has not had new works since 2020's "Mulan" and is currently living a leisurely "retirement life" abroad with his wife and daughters.
71-year-old Sammo Hung, who recently won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Asian Film Festival, lamented that he has visited the supermarket in recent years and feels that he has become farther and farther away from the film industry. In fact, he really "can't move" when he needs to use a wheelchair.
Donnie Yen, 59, began to move to Hollywood, and he is still in good shape. The fight scenes in "Furious Case" in 2021 are still enjoyable.
The 49-year-old Wu Jing is the most beautiful director and actor today, and has found the road of "main theme", but he also said that a good box office does not mean a high level.
Zhao Wenzhuo and Zhang Jin fell into an awkward situation, and could only be stuck in some small-production movies or even online movies.
The aura of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in this era does not find a better way out for Zhang Jin to "kung fu movies".
In this way, Jackie Chan is the actor with the best resources so far, and he is still insisting on the previous set of "kung fu movies", but in today's market, I don't know how long Jackie Chan can last?