Jackie Chan is "thing" again.
Today's hot search: "Jackie Chan made a slip of the tongue and said that he was happy to work with a bad actor".
Although Jackie Chan immediately explained that he was Chinese unskilled, the words he said were like splashed water, and the whole network was looking for which "actor" in the movie should catch this basin of dirty water.
Perhaps this is Jackie Chan's embarrassing status quo.
If you don't make a film, you don't do your job.
After filming, is it stirring up feelings again, or to hold people.
All these noises aside, Sir wants to return to cinema today.
"Jackie Chan is old" is not new.
"Dragon Horse Spirit" is currently 6.4 on Douban, in fact, compared with the 3 and 4 parts of "Pioneer", "Mystery of the Dragon Card" and "Detective Pu Songling" in previous years, it can be regarded as a "sincere work".
However, many viewers have not bought it.
Sir was curious, bought a ticket, and entered.
More with doubts to try to answer:
What else do we expect from Jackie Chan?
And why we still need Jackie Chan to "fight".
01
Don't want to fight anymore
Jackie Chan doesn't know if he's old?
Of course I know.
In the movie "Pioneer", he was chasing robbers in the mall, and instinctively wanted to jump from the fifth floor, when he suddenly rushed out of a security guard to stop him:
Big brother, there's an elevator over there!
Jackie Chan learned to laugh at himself, and earlier, he also learned to be afraid.
In 1997, 43-year-old Jackie Chan said in "Love Under the Stars" that he suffered a slight loss at work because he had no culture.
My father, who used to be a chef, told him, I can still stir-fry at 60, can you still fight at 60?
He thought about it.
Yes, can I continue to play at 60?
Unexpectedly, at the age of 69.
He is also making movies with an output of about 5 a year, and even, there are quite a few action movies.
In "Dragon Horse Spirit", he can still fly off the wall, jump up and down and do anything.
But, when you flip through the tidbits, it's no longer that we see him jumping from a height with a loud shout, but—
The little blue man is behind him, acting as a cushioning aid for him to jump.
The little green man gets off the horse and helps him control the reins.
He is less able to fight, and he is even less likely to fight as hard as before.
"Ryoma Spirit" is candid in this regard.
Lao Luo (played by Jackie Chan) and a horse named Chitu depended on each other on the set of Hengdian for their lives, once as the most awesome dragon and tiger martial artist in Hong Kong movies, but now he can only be reduced to selling art, taking photos, and eating on the set.
The good times did not last long, but their comfortable days, but because the creditor once came to the door, they wanted to take this red rabbit away to settle the debt.
There is no way Lao Luo can only find his daughter who has not been seen for a long time, Xiaobao (played by Liu Haocun), and with her lawyer boyfriend Nai Hua (played by Guo Qilin), help Lao Luo get back the "custody" of Chitu.
Sir doesn't want to turn into the story of Dragon's illegitimate daughter, after all, in this story, the father-daughter relationship line is the most chicken and boring in the entire movie.
Compared with Liu Haocun or Guo Qilin, "Ma" is the second protagonist of the movie.
The red rabbit trained by Lao Luo broke away from the understanding ability and biological instinct of the "horse" and became the last "dragon and tiger martial artist" on the set.
The cooperation of one person and one horse once again brought him the last halo.
He also constantly looks back on the past in this aura.
When Jackie Chan appears as an Indian, a general, a guard of the Western Regions, etc., fans familiar with his movies should soon think of the styling in movies such as "Who I Am", "Mythology" and "The Lion of the General".
It's not enough.
In the movie, Lao Luo said that the reason for his divorce from his wife was because he was standing on a Ferris wheel filming and needed to jump up and grab the rope, but he didn't expect that a missed hand fell down, and he was also in a coma for a long time because of a head injury (reflecting the injury of "Brother Dragon and Tiger"), and also owed a debt.
And this scene on the Ferris wheel, Jackie Chan also has it in "Fuxing Gaozhao".
Although it is not a direct jump from a height, this action is dangerous enough.
Even, to tear up a little more.
When the daughter looked for her father's ID card, she found a USB flash drive in the safe, which contained a clip of the tidbits from the end of Jackie Chan's previous movie.
There are injured tidbits at the end credits of movies such as "Plan A", "Brother Dragon and Tiger", "Police Story 1", "Who Am I", "Red Fan District" and so on.
Xiaobao cried while watching, and asked Lao Luo, "Do you hurt" (Sir thinks this is the most natural part of her acting skills in the movie).
Jackie Chan first laughed and said, "Forgot." ”
Then, I turned my head and looked at these fragments and cried.
I miss it because I know I can't do it.
It's not just physically impossible.
It's even more because Jackie Chan, who wants to jump when he sees the stairs and can win by jumping, can't come back.
02
Had to hit
In CCTV-6's interview with Jackie Chan, there was already such an arrangement:
Let him see clips of his previous injuries.
He explained to the host with a smile on his face, "This is jumping into the glacier at minus 30 degrees", "This is entering the hospital at six o'clock in the morning", "There was no Wia just now".
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He doesn't shy away from talking about how he fought on the set back then:
Spit blood and eat breakfast and continue to work, breaking feet in the morning, starting in the afternoon, breaking hands on the spot, starting on the spot.
Even Spielberg admired him and asked Jackie Chan, how did you jump from one building to another?
"It's simple, turn on, jump, send to the hospital. （action，jump，hospital）。 ”
This phrase is also used in "Ryoma Spirit".
Every inch of the body has been injured.
The most serious time, filming "Brother Dragon and Tiger Brother" in Yugoslavia, fell to the back of his head and landed, his first reaction was back pain, but suddenly a lot of blood gushed out of his ears.
Jackie Chan was sent to the local small hospital, and the doctor said that he would have brain surgery soon, but the local medical environment was not so good doctors, and he could only find the best brain doctor in the world.
After several twists and turns, I heard that the doctor was lecturing around the world, and no one knew where he was.
The situation was urgent, and Jackie Chan was lying on the hospital bed and couldn't figure out the situation, only knew that someone asked him to do the operation, and he agreed, and he could only agree.
When he woke up, Zeng Zhiwei and Alan Tam were at the bedside and said to him: "Wang Baegg, do you know how lucky you are? The Swiss doctor who operated on you! He happened to be lecturing in Yugoslavia, and it was he who helped you with the surgery! ”
After this accident, he also had hearing problems, too sharp sounds could not be heard, too deep voices could not be heard.
He said, "If I were to die, I would have died many times, and you see our companions, a Viara, dead, jumping a crippled for life." ”
After entering the industry to become a dragon and tiger martial artist, he went from a small martial arts to a big martial arts line, and finally became a generation of stars, Jackie Chan can be said to be a result of his physical body.
In his autobiography "I Am Jackie Chan", when it comes to filming, the "scrap rate" of the dragon and tiger martial artist is extremely high, like in "Police Story":
There are a lot of very dangerous stunt shots in this movie. At that time, everyone was very open-minded, the scene was ready for a stretcher, even the car door was open at any time, and one of the injured people on the scene was carried down, immediately sent away, and the next one was on top.
One of them fell from the second floor and smashed into the glass, and the whole glass shattered. The first Wuxing jumped down, broke his hand, and carried it away. One more down, the head is broken, carry away. Seeing this situation, I changed my clothes and went to fall by myself, jumped down with a 'bang', and also carried to the hospital to vomit blood.....
Who created this "death squad" spirit?
Let's not talk about the stubbornness in the bones of the dragon.
Look at the big picture:
Hong Kong films can't do Hollywood, from production to content, they can't escape the shackles of less time and less investment.
Hong Kong films must be able to come out, and in terms of genre, it is to follow the old road of martial arts and kung fu films.
Therefore, Jackie Chan's movies are studying to use the cheapest cost to shoot the best pictures.
When revealing his special effects, he used a special "stool" as an example.
In order to capture the effect of kicking the stool and falling apart, he sawed the stool open, tied it with fishing line, and sprinkled it with some white powder, and when the opponent kicked the stool, he loosened the fishing line and the powder scattered, creating a sense of strength.
Why is it so troublesome?
Poor.
Hanging Weiya too.
Sometimes WIA's steel wire is particularly thin, and professional staff must tie knots to ensure continuity. The protective belt that Jackie Chan brought back from the United States was less than 2 US dollars.
In the face of "poverty", life is natural, not life.
In order to look good, Jackie Chan studied how to play beautifully.
In order to stimulate, Jackie Chan and the Chengjia class can only think about how to "play with their lives".
It can be said that under the deformed aesthetic at that time, the threshold of the audience was getting higher and higher under the constant stimulation of action movies.
Jumping the bell tower? Seen it.
Then the next hot air balloon jump.
If you see the hot air balloon, then jump in the building next time.
Otherwise, the audience won't buy it.
Jackie Chan, the jump from "Plan A", although it became his "true" label in the future, but it also put him on the road that he had to work hard.
In "No Defense Tonight", Jackie Chan also said that if you want to be an actor in a literary film, it is good to act in some literary dramas.
However, the company does not buy it.
Jackie Chan doesn't play, if he doesn't come really, how can there be a box office?
When he took "Zodiac" to "Threesome", he told Dou Wentao that he also wanted to make movies like Iron Man and Spider-Man.
However, the capital does not buy it.
"I also thought, give me so much money, no one asks." As soon as you look at Jackie Chan, you have to be really, not really don't watch it. ”
This year, Jackie Chan was 58 years old and still scarred.
In "Zodiac", he collapses on the gravel floor, turns and knocks his head, and his eyes are bloodshot.
On the set, the frame where Jackie Chan was sitting suddenly fell and fell on the floor, and he couldn't move.
Only expressions of pain and moans.
And this time:
It seems that even the audience is not buying it.
03
For whom to fight?
Recall why we used to like to watch Jackie Chan?
On the one hand, it is to play well.
During Lu Yu's interview, she asked him a question, why do you do these high-risk actions?
Jackie Chan thought for a while, "I don't know why. ”
But, then, he gave a metaphorical sentence:
I'm going to fight for face for our entire family class
I'm going to make it for this movie
We're going to be among so many movies for our company
My play is the most profitable
I want my boss to hurt me
Finally, he paused.
I want the best for my films.
Let's talk about one more detail.
In Jackie Chan's styling, he rarely shaves his head, and has had fluffy, flowing hair for many years.
Why?
It's not because of the flowing hair, or because of the movie.
When fighting, the hair will also feel dynamic when punched, and if you want to do slow motion after being beaten, get some water in your hair.
When you throw your fist back, your hair shakes, and the effect is more sensual.
On the other hand, it is outside the "hit":
Jackie Chan used to fight for "us".
"Police Story", he is a police officer who bumps into his boss and breaks the rules; "Who I Am", he is a forgotten person who seeks identity on behalf of Hong Kong people; "Red Fan District", he is a yellow man wandering alone in American neighborhoods; Not to mention that in "Shinjuku Incident", he is the "big brother" of the Japanese Chinese who will stop at nothing to gain a foothold.
Plainly.
The reason why Jackie Chan's role is a "hero" is not only in kung fu punches, but also in identity.
So as he himself said:
Do not be God, but be human.
Because talent will hurt, the audience will see the flesh and blood behind Kung Fu in him.
I'm going to be a man, I'm not going to be a god hero
Jackie Chan deliberately added injury tidbits to the end of the movie, in order to warn the teenagers who watched his movie that behind these violent fights, there will also be pain.
But when the audience looks at these tidbits of him, they will always think "really or not".
And forgot to think about whether he was "in pain" or not.
Even Jackie Chan's father, when Huang Xiao saw Jackie Chan's NG picture, had to pat them on the shoulder and say: This is true, it is true.
So.
Hearing that in recent years he has always said that Jackie Chan sells "feelings", Sir does not agree.
What is Jackie Chan's "feelings"?
Not a hit, but a counterattack after being beaten.
If you really want to talk about "feelings", in recent years, it is probably only the aging and powerless Jackie Chan of "British Showdown", who still tries his best to resist, which can be called the continuation of real feelings.
Others are more just selling the signboard of "Jackie Chan".
Transformation begins with a change of identity.
In the years when the film production was reduced, Jackie Chan's actions outside the play were amplified.
Politically more active, the advice to the entertainment industry is more frequent.
As the saying back then, "there will be no Hong Kong movies in the future, only Chinese movies, only local movies."
It was discussed then, but it doesn't seem wrong today.
But it was this series of actions that put Jackie Chan in the position he once wanted to stay away from.
Like the most common scene in the "Dragon Horse Spirit" promotional material:
Jackie Chan taught Guo Qilin to learn martial arts.
Another knife trick, another zama.
These materials can spread, on the one hand, to see how strong Jackie Chan martial arts are, and old and strong.
On the other hand, it is to see Guo Qilin being abused.
Guo Qilin, who can't learn martial arts, is the protagonist in these videos, and it is also the mainstream of this era.
Jackie Chan who fights a piece of heaven with his fists has become an object of deconstruction.
This is also why, all kinds of nostalgia in "Dragon Horse Spirit", the audience no longer empathizes.
Even if Jackie Chan is "sincere":
When the film was just about to start, he also asked the director to drop directly.
But, when I really rode up the stairs.
He tightened the reins again, stopped the horse, and let himself fall.
With such an act, it means that he said goodbye to the performance of relying on hard work to get applause.
He is a dragon and tiger martial artist of the previous generation.
Chitu is more like this generation of dragon and tiger martial artists.
Today, there are better protective gear and technology to keep them safe.
In the tidbit, Jackie Chan patted the martial artist who was playing against him and said, "I put my arm around him, and I almost landed on the ground just now." ”
But all this is lonely:
It's just that Jackie Chan's loneliness has nothing to do with us.
What really impressed Sir was a line in the movie.
His junior brother and martial commander Yuanwei said to him:
It's easy to jump off, it's hard to walk down.
What do you mean?
It only takes a roar of courage to jump down, but it takes half a lifetime of honor to walk down.
If you don't fight, of course, you can transform, you can go away.
But that's not something Jackie Chan can decide.
Sir believes that Jackie Chan will continue to fight.
Looking at the screening works, there are many scenes, even Hollywood projects like "Rush Hour 4" that was officially announced some time ago.
Go around in circles.
Jackie Chan seems to have embarked on the old road, attacking the broader market as a Chinese.
But this time, the bag of departure is very different.
To paraphrase the line from "Let the Bullets Fly":
It doesn't matter where Jackie Chan fights, for whom he fights, and who he fights.
Jackie Chan is still fighting.
Very important.
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