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"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

In today's film industry, the few remaining Chinese-speaking action superstars have been crawling for decades, but for the media of good things, they always like to gossip about your retirement dates, and you can see a lot of them when you search them:

said that Jet Li's last action film was 2006's "Huo Yuanjia"

"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

said that Donnie Yen's last action film was 2019's "Ip Man 4"

"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

The former kung fu emperor Jet Li has indeed faded out of the film industry due to physical and other reasons, but Donnie Yen is undoubtedly more and more courageous, diligent in filming, and seems to be just in his old age.

What about Jackie Chan? Jackie Chan, born on April 7, 1954, is now nearly 70 years old, and it has been 60 years since he debuted in the industry.

Looking over the old calendar, in 2012, there was news that "Zodiac" released that year was Jackie Chan's last action movie.

"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

In fact, similar news is quite opportunistic, although it is the last one, but it is an "action movie". This is a question of how to define an action movie. Can it be said that only fists to the flesh and martial arts as the focus are considered action movies? Although I don't know if this is an extension of what the actors said at that time, or the publicity party created it for the sake of gimmicks, it is an indisputable fact that similar rumors have been frequently slapped in the face.

"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

At least, look at Jackie Chan, since "Zodiac", he has successively shot a number of films of different genres and styles, some focusing on performance, some fierce and fierce, and some returning to the dexterity of flickering. Today, Jackie Chan in the popular film "Dragon Horse Spirit" is still very capable of fighting, still very resistant, although not as brave as back then, but for people of this age, it is really rare.

"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

The film "Dragon Horse Spirit" is not only a feature movie, but also a big-screen work that pays tribute to the dragon and tiger warriors behind the scenes, and shoots scenes through various sets in the film. Being able to see many classic action scenes of Jackie Chan over the years, as well as too many scenes of injuries during the filming process, not only allows the audience to review his life and death struggle in this half of his life, but also gives the film a strong fan style, and tribute elements can really be seen everywhere.

"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

The most impressive thing about the whole film is the sentence in his dialogue with Wu Jing that "it's easy to jump down, it's hard to walk down." A desperate dragon and tiger martial artist, from never giving up to learning to give up, has changed not only the inability to grow older, but more importantly, learning to reconcile with the world, this core view is full of Zen.

"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

The title of "Dragon Horse Spirit" is very allegorical, dragon, of course, refers to Jackie Chan, horse, must be the red rabbit horse raised by Jackie Chan in the film, and "Dragon Horse Spirit" is an auspicious idiom that we commonly use, metaphor for people's vigorous spirit and appearance. Therefore, for this film, there are dragons and horses, director Yang Zi's Jackie Chan feelings, and there are tributes to Jackie Chan's classic works and extraordinary experiences throughout the film, which is indeed enough, and the scenes of Liu Haocun and Guo Qilin can be less, and cameo embellishments are good.

"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

Jackie Chan is not only an action superstar, but also an excellent actor, and in "Dragon Horse Spirit", there are also many emotional scenes displayed. For many years, Jackie Chan seems to have been balancing the relationship between action and performance, and looking at his recent works, from "Shinjuku Incident" to "Soldier" to "British Showdown", it has indeed created many impressive characters for fans.

"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

This time's "Dragon Horse Spirit" is more like a review and summary of Jackie Chan's performance career, so the role is more authentic to Jackie Chan, and there are too many hot actors in the film lineup, which also adds too many surprises to the movie.

"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

The film has been released for 13 days so far, with a box office of 170 million, if not counting the zero premiere of "Slam Dunk", it is actually ranked first in today's box office list, and the current box office of "Dragon Horse Spirit" has also exceeded the total mainland box office of the previous work "Detective Pu Songling".

"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

This number, more embarrassing, say more, not more, say less, after all, many of Jackie Chan's works in the mainland are often 508 million, "Kung Fu Yoga" has also won 1.7 billion box office, but it is also true that Jackie Chan also has many works in the mainland but not more than 100 million, the worst such as 20.82 million in 2019, 18.3 million in 2004 "New Police Story", 3 million in 2000 "Shanghai Noon"...

"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

Although the release dates and markets are very different and not comparable, Zhan Taifeng still doesn't understand a little, why did Jackie Chan, who has always killed in the New Year file, choose such a cold schedule this time? Wouldn't it be better if you put the New Year stall? Of course, choosing to release such a movie that pays tribute to Jackie Chan's action career on April 7, the significance of the gift is greater than the box office value, and it is understandable.

"Dragon Horse Spirit": Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?

Therefore, he asked: "Jackie Chan is old, can he still fight?" And the old question: "Lian Po is old, can you still eat?" No matter how you answer, the truth is just as uplifting. Now, I only look forward to Jackie Chan's next work to shine again, which is what this Chinese actor who has won numerous awards for most of his life, deserves.

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