On December 12, 2012, the atmosphere in the recording room of "Sonorous Threesome" seemed a little awkward.
Dou Wentao, his eyes flashed with an almost playful light, and asked a tricky question: "Jackie Chan, assuming that time can be turned back, you are the same age as Bruce Lee, who can defeat whom?" ”
The eldest brother, as usual, put on a leisurely look, raised his eyes, and said, "Let him win." People are now legends, how to fight? He paused and continued: "You know what, he and I used to be partners. I'm a double bone, and he's just a single bone, but you know, everyone around him is holding him to heaven, so he's actually a little spoiled now."
The eldest brother coughed lightly, "But you see, my muscles back then were quite good, but I just lacked luck." ”
The hype of the topic is just the beginning.
Soon after, the Hong Kong entertainment industry exploded.
Zheng Peipei was very blunt: "Bruce Lee is real kung fu, we are all pretentious." You mentioned Chen Gangsheng? You mean Jackie Chan? He is also a flower fist embroidered leg, but also a show. ”
Sammo Hung also shared a past story: "The only one who can really fight, I have met in my life, is Bruce Lee." Bruce Lee is the only true master I've ever seen. That day, I was a little unconvinced and wanted to try it with him, but the result? He smiled, "I know I should be honest." ”
Chen Huimin said: "I think there is only one kung fu superstar, his name is Bruce Lee, in Hong Kong, my punches are the fastest, but his legs are the fastest, so they are all called "Bruce Lee's legs, Chen Wai Min's punches", but if you really let me compare kung fu with him, then his kung fu is really better than me."
Jackie Chan is a good old man, he also wants to learn kung fu, he used to be acrobatics, what about kung fu? It's a movie martial arts, it's a hodgepodge."
In Hong Kong, no matter how accomplished it is,
It is always Bruce Lee who stands on the altar.
When people talk about Bruce Lee,
It will be said that he is the god of kung fu, agile and fantastic.
When people talk about Jackie Chan,
Let's just say that he is the kung fu hero of comedy, funny and funny, and his body that can stumble without getting hurt.
The eldest brother is actually unconvinced, he is unwilling.
Over the years,
Big brother has always lived in the shadow of "Bruce Lee",
Jackie Chan's eldest brother was very poor when he was a child.
My parents ran a small restaurant. Say "restaurant", which is the kind of place you may not even look at when you pass by.
The eldest brother's parents are not the kind of businessmen who can get rich overnight, but ordinary people who work hard all day long, but this ordinary couple took out all their savings for the future of their children and bought the "apartment" in San Po Kong.
In a place like Hong Kong, where the apartment is small, the walls are mottled, the floor creaks, and I prefer to call it an "apartment" or a "pigeon cage". But for Jackie Chan, that "pigeon cage" was his palace.
Because before that, he was huddled with his parents on a bunk bed, and later he was in a dormitory with a group of snoring kings in a class at the theater. That kind of environment, not the kind of excitement you think, is more of squeezing and endless numbness.
The "apartment" in San Po Kong is the first time that Jackie Chan has his own private space, but for him, it is already paradise.
In that "paradise", Jackie Chan began his path of martial arts.
Jackie Chan wrote in his autobiography "Jackie Chan: Old Before Growing Up":
"Every morning, I get up early, buy some food, take the bus, and come to Boss Shaw's Shaw set with everyone.
At the time, Shaw was the largest film company with a huge film city and soundtracks. A group of martial arts actors, familiar or unfamiliar, wandered there every day, waiting for the opportunity to come.
The so-called opportunity is nothing more than playing a background character who does not need to show his face, or the role of an extra actor being kicked, beaten, cut, and pumped. Sometimes, the producer also tells us to do some manual work, such as carrying things and so on.
It's not an easy time, but no matter what, as long as we can have work on site, we are very happy."
Jackie Chan spent his days running tricks like this.
But did you know that life sometimes seems like an absurd drama, full of black humor. You're standing in the center of the stage, watching the kid on your left trying to climb to the top, while the guy on your right seems to have been born to stand at the top of the mountain.
As we all high-fived Jackie Chan's start and efforts, Bruce Lee seemed to be there, waving and smiling at us. It's not that Jackie Chan's efforts aren't worthy of respect, but there are always people in this world who seem to be born destined to win.
If most people squeeze into the Hong Kong film industry,
Bruce Lee walked in almost on the red carpet.
Bruce Lee's godmother is the wife of Hong Kong's first martial arts superstar Cao Dahua, You know, when your family has such a film relationship, the charm of "I want to fight the world by myself" is a little weak, in fact, you don't need to rely on yourself.
So while most of the 9-year-olds were still playing in the mud, 9-year-old Bruce Lee had already had intimate contact with the big screen.
9-year-old Bruce Lee starred in his first movie "Fine Road".
The whole of Hong Kong is praising the 9-year-old future child star.
However, Bruce Lee did not stay in Hong Kong as usual, he went all the way to the United States and started his business in the United States.
The days in the United States are bitter,
Especially when you're halfway around the world trying to secure a spot in a so-called "free country," only to find that the racist wall there is higher than the wall of your own home.
It's ridiculous, isn't it?
When Bruce Lee realized that the so-called "free city" was actually a hypocrite, he chose to go home and return to Hong Kong.
Bruce Lee, who had become famous in Hollywood, recommended himself to the "Run Run Shaw Boss" of the largest Shaw film in Hong Kong at that time, and proposed to Run Run Shaw that he would be paid 10,000 US dollars for 1 film.
After hearing Bruce Lee's offer, Boss Shao said to the people around him: "Isn't this kid filming a supporting role in the United States?" Dare to charge such a high price for me? Then, he held out two fingers and said, "I'll only give you two thousand dollars." ”
If this were to be changed to other actors, he would have agreed long ago, but the proud Bruce Lee refused. On the one hand, he knows his worth, on the other hand, Bruce Lee has connections in Hong Kong, not to mention - Bruce Lee is not short of money at all,
He doesn't need to bend his waist for five bucket meters.
After not negotiating cooperation with Shaw Films, Bruce Lee changed hands and cooperated with Jiahe, who had just been established and had been suppressing Shaw.
In 1971, 31-year-old Bruce Lee starred in "Brother Tangshan", which directly broke the Hong Kong box office record in less than three weeks of release,
Reached HK$3.2 million.
Bruce Lee's film "hit" the spark of the moment amazed Hong Kong people, and later shocked Americans for a while.
Only Shaw movies probably regret it like swallowing a fly.
Bruce Lee, their former "flattened object", turned around and cooperated with the seemingly "small fighting" Jiahe company, what happened?
A grand occasion of "dragon play and phoenix" was staged.
Shaw's movie can only watch with gritted teeth on the side, and I am afraid that he is silently thinking in his heart: "I missed it, it's really a big mistake." ”
Run Run Shaw's boss later wrote in his memoirs that when he saw "Brother Tangshan" break the box office record, he felt that the HK$3.2 million was like a sneering face, hit on the face, and the biggest mistake in his life was to miss Bruce Lee.
1972 was such an extraordinary year for the Hong Kong film industry. Bruce Lee, the "kid" who was once regarded as a third- and fourth-tier star in Hollywood, became the uncrowned king of the Hong Kong film industry again with "Jing Wumen" this year.
This year, 18-year-old Jackie Chan also entered "Jingwumen" as a stuntman under Sammo Hung's recommendation. At that time, most people didn't know who Jackie Chan was, so Bruce Lee really didn't have any feelings at all.
In the fight, Bruce Lee kicked Jackie Chan out more than 10 meters, breaking the record for the farthest fall in the history of Hong Kong kung fu films.
Bruce Lee's kick back then really gave Jackie Chan a "special" enlightenment education, and Jackie Chan at that time
"Really, this is making a movie, not playing with life!"
In 1972, the shot of the stuntman flying like a rattle became a hot topic. The Hong Kong film industry is guessing which "brave" is willing to be kicked by Bruce Lee like this.
Jackie Chan, at that time, he seemed to get nothing except rib pain and record-breaking "flight miles".
After all, Bruce Lee was a martial arts superstar of that era, and in Bruce Lee's eyes, Jackie Chan was just a small role in martial arts, like a drop in thousands of raindrops, and Bruce Lee didn't care who he kicked and who he hit.
However, it is precisely because of Bruce Lee's kick that later changed the fate of many people like the "butterfly effect".
In 1973, Hollywood giant Warner approached Bruce Lee in the hope of cooperating with him on "Dragon and Tiger Fight", and promised that the film would be released simultaneously around the world.
This is the first step of Hong Kong cinema towards Western cinema,
It is also Bruce Lee's first step to truly go international.
Because it was the "first time", the entire Hong Kong martial arts industry came to help the field, Sammo Hung got the opportunity to fight Bruce Lee, and the Jackie Chan who was kicked by Bruce Lee and flew more than 10 meters, he also got the "opportunity" to be beaten by Bruce Lee again in the second half.
During the shooting, due to a mistake in cooperation, Jackie Chan was accidentally hit by Bruce Lee, and hit the point.
However, everyone can see that Bruce Lee did not control his moves. When that fist actually smashed on Jackie Chan's abdomen, the set suddenly fell into silence.
Only Jackie Chan's muffled snort penetrated the entire air.
A trace of panic flashed in Bruce Lee's eyes, and he quickly walked to Jackie Chan, apologizing to Jackie Chan with a little guilt in his eyes, and asked the director to arrange more scenes for Jackie Chan.
In this way, because of "Dragon and Tiger Fight", Bruce Lee remembered Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan, also because of this play, really began to emerge in the circle, and began to become famous in the circle.
I don't know if it's a fate or a coincidence.
On the afternoon of June 1973, Bruce Lee went to bowling in the Four Seas Bowling, and just happened to meet Jackie Chan who was sweating and having fun, and Jackie Chan who was still a little restrained when he saw Bruce Lee, because Bruce Lee appeared, and there were many onlookers,
Bruce Lee didn't speak much during the whole process, he just sat on the side, didn't move, didn't play, just quietly looked at Jackie Chan.
Bruce Lee's eyes are like looking at a successor who will take over his "martial arts banner" in the future. Others say that this may be a premonition that he is about to leave this world, that Jackie Chan will become a symbol of the next era.
However, these evil claims are all anecdotal.
Before leaving, Jackie Chan went to see him off.
After Bruce Lee got into the taxi, he suddenly opened the door again and gave Jackie Chan a very meaningful look.
This was the last time Jackie Chan saw Bruce Lee.
Years later, when Jackie Chan became "Jackie Chan's big brother," Hong Kong entertainment journalists recalled the meeting and wrote: "I'm sure that in the spring of 1973, during their long eye contact, the two exchanged many unspoken words. I seem to see the transition of two eras. At that moment, time seemed to stop.
Until now, I don't know the meaning of Bruce Lee's look. Is it a farewell? Is it a blessing? Or is it a transmission?"
A month later, on July 20, 1973.
Bruce Lee died suddenly during his performance in "Game of Death". 4 days later, "Dragon and Tiger Fight" was released in Hong Kong, and 1 month later, it was released worldwide, and Bruce Lee became a world superstar.
And he himself died on the eve of the explosion.
Bruce Lee is gone, but he left behind a great era. Jackie Chan took over this banner and ushered in a new era.
However, this new era will have to wait another five years.
Because Bruce Lee left too suddenly, Hong Kong kung fu films went straight back 5 years. Going to the center of the world, the Hong Kong film industry that lost Bruce Lee is like a body that has lost its soul.
It can almost be said that those turbulent five years were the "lost time" of Hong Kong cinema.
And for Jackie Chan, who was originally ready to go, fate also began to play with it. Those former glory and expectations, such as bubble bursting, because of the industry downturn, Bruce Lee quickly disappeared from the film industry, and turned to the kitchen and scent to work as a cook.
And the strategy of Hong Kong films, like an out-of-focus camera, has never been in focus. They try to get back their lost souls, try to copy, reinvent, and recreate a "new" Bruce Lee.
These numerous "little Bruce Lee" have emerged, but without exception, they are all imitators, all shallow copies.
Bruce Lee's shadow has become an insurmountable gap, and those rookies in the film industry can only wander in it, trying to find their own piece of the sky, but they have never found themselves.
All of them are playing the shadow of "Bruce Lee", and every move is Bruce Lee, living in the shadow of "Bruce Lee".
Throughout history, people have always been accustomed to contrast, accustomed to labels, accustomed to shaping the "second". And at that specific moment, Jackie Chan also became a symbol of struggling under the "shadow of Bruce Lee", and became a person living in the shadows.
His name "Jackie Chan" was also the name that the company changed to him in order to "create a second Bruce Lee".
Until five years later, a person who really had the ability to challenge this shadow reappeared on the Hong Kong film stage -
That person is Jackie Chan in the shadows.
In March 1978, Jackie Chan wore a cloak and performed a martial arts battle with Wu Siyuan and Yuan Heping in "Serpentine Killer", which earned an astonishing box office of 2.7 million Hong Kong dollars. This number ranked eighth at the box office that year.
However, just 7 months later, these three martial arts masters teamed up again and presented "Drunken Fist". At the same time, the box office figure also jumped like Bruce Lee, reaching 6.7 million Hong Kong dollars, second only to Xu Guanwen's work "Deed of Sale".
For a time, Jackie Chan's reputation was skyrocketing, and the limelight of kung fu comedies was close to ancient costume martial arts. At the age of 24, it was originally the beginning of his life, but for Jackie Chan, he was already on the cusp of the limelight that year.
At that time, he was just a small martial artist of Jiahe, accompanied by danger, and fought for that meager salary. But now, he has doubled his worth and has become a new star that Jiahe focuses on cultivating.
One million Hong Kong dollars, for Jackie Chan at that time, was simply astronomical. The apartment in Hong Kong is only tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, but he has millions. However, this is just the beginning, with the popularity of "Drunken Fist", his value has also skyrocketed,
From 2.4 million all the way to 4.8 million. At this time, Jiahe's two bosses, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang, predicted to him like two prophets: "Young man, you definitely have the potential to become another Chinese superstar after Bruce Lee to conquer the world." ”
This kind of promise seems to be shrouded in a veil of mystery, and Jackie Chan was moved and believed. As a result, his cooperation with Jiahe was like a fate in the dark, and the prologue began.
With the help of Jiahe's big tree, Jackie Chan is like a crazy creeper, climbing step by step. In just two years, this "lifeless" man built his own temple - the family class.
At that time, Hong Kong was full of martial arts, like fish and meat in the meat market, which could be chosen by anyone. But the reason why the Chengjia class survived was because Jackie Chan, the "lifeless" master, was in it.
Hong Kong's martial arts world can be said to be an all-encompassing curly world. Today you fight on the roof, tomorrow you challenge the bridge leap.
Danger has become a catalyst for their survival.
Playing with their lives has become their daily routine.
In such a cyclone,
Jackie Chan exchanged every broken bone for his own glory.
If Bruce Lee is concerned, if his unfinished life line can continue, he will also create his own martial arts legend. But completely different from Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee's martial arts will be more realistic and more street-style.
Jackie Chan is not a great inner master, his skills come from the roots of Peking Opera and an almost desperate ruthlessness.
To put it bluntly, some people laughed at him as an acrobat, but yes! Jackie Chan is the kind of person who dares to challenge life and death and play acrobatics.
He doesn't have so many fancy skills, but he has the courage to say ruthless, and play with his life.
In a parallel universe, if Bruce Lee has not yet entered the back of history, Jackie Chan will also blind our eyes.
Why? Not because his fights are like thunder, but because Jackie Chan is unique in that raging wave of martial arts, integrating comedy elements into kung fu, breaking the old tradition of kung fu movies and creating a new era.
Hollywood in the 90s, that exotic holy place, was not also captured by this Jackie Chan?
Despite his impure English accent, Jackie Chan conquered Hollywood with pure talent and persistence.
In 2017, didn't that little golden villain, the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award, also fall into his hands? This is not just a trophy, but an affirmation of his years of hard work and persistence, and a verification of his love and dedication to film.
The emergence of Jackie Chan broke Hollywood's old concept of Asian faces and gave wings to Chinese filmmakers.
On that day, the prize was in hand, and Jackie Chan was relieved. He is no longer the "little brother" who lives under the huge shadow of "Bruce Lee",
He is Jackie Chan, the superstar who has lit up hope for countless people with his name.
In 2020, when the number "80" not only represented a person's lifespan, but also recorded Bruce Lee's brief but shining presence on the planet, Jackie Chan also seemed to spare himself:
He said: "Bruce Lee is the eternal kung fu master in my mind and the representative of our Chinese kung fu movies. ”
However, when everyone is immersed in that kind of "Bruce Lee VS Jackie Chan" virtual war, Jackie Chan may scratch his head in the corner and think: "Is this really that important?" ”
He is long past the age when he fights others in order to prove himself. Is this comparison really that worthwhile?
After all, he did it, he didn't just become another kind of "dragon", he became the kind of unique and unique "Jackie Chan". If Jackie Chan was still struggling with how to imitate Bruce Lee's "unique skills", he might have become a second-rate martial arts star. Because imitation, in any field, is nothing more than a ragged re-creation, lacking soul.
Everyone needs to find their core, Bruce Lee's philosophy is "suffer, break, leave", what about Jackie Chan? His philosophy is: be yourself, break the rules, and innovate.
Yes, Bruce Lee's kung fu is strong, but technology will always advance and will be surpassed. Jackie Chan's cinematic action may be many times more complex than Bruce Lee, but this is not the standard for comparison.
The real charm is the kind of personality and spirit that goes deep into the marrow, makes people awe, and cannot be copied.
At this point, both "dragons" are irreplaceable legends. Just as you can't carve Michelangelo's David from an ordinary stone, you can't replicate a Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan.
They're the kind of unique beings.
It is a legend that cannot be replicated in every era.
Bruce Lee is not just a symbol of fast legs and fierce fists.
He is a representative of a martial arts philosophy.
His spirit of purity, constant innovation will not go out of style in any era.
Whenever people mention him, they always feel the impact from the inside out, as if every philosophical concept behind Bruce Lee's kung fu is hammering your soul.
Jackie Chan, with a mix of humor and serious style, not only represents the youth memories of a generation, but also influences the cultural trends of an entire generation. Crazy stunts, self-challenge, who dares to say that the establishment is not the master of the movie?
In life, there are too many standards and templates that tell us how to do and how to choose, but the real heroes of life, such as Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, are those who dare to step out of their own roadmap.
They are not satisfied with the path paved by others, but choose to find another way, break the convention, and bravely explore the unknown.
To become a "water-like" being is not to imitate the form of that water, but to have that flowing soul and indomitable will.
This is the real "like water", this is the goal we should pursue. Like water, adapt to every environment, flow in every corner. It is necessary to find your own "blue ocean", and then boldly and bravely explore and practice.
Because in this world, there is no shortage of heroes, what is lacking is only the courage to challenge oneself, so -
「be water，my friend」
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