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How strong was Jet Li at his peak?
On February 28, 2003, an action movie "Deadly Cradle" starring Chinese began to be released in Hollywood theaters in the United States, with a box office of 17 million in the first week, and directly won the first place in the North American box office list.
The earth-shattering jump in the film not only shook all foreign audiences, but also made Jet Li's worth directly exceed 100 million, and the beginning of all this started 5 years ago.
Wonderful is not only in front of the stage, Nengchen only talks about big things, hello everyone, I am Nengchen. In 1998, Jet Li, who entered Hollywood for the first time, played a villain role with only 5 minutes of action scenes in "Lethal Weapon 4", although he did not play the starring role, but he strengthened the limelight of the protagonist, and this film also made Joe Silver, who was the producer of the "Matrix" trilogy, "Die Hard" and "Lethal Weapon" series of films, noticed this Hollywood newcomer.
Lethal Weapon 4 poster
Since then, the success of "Dragon's Kiss" and "Hero" has made the producer firm in the idea of cooperating with Jet Li, so there is such a movie "Deadly Cradle" that integrates Eastern martial arts and Western street culture.
In terms of treatment, the producer was even more sincere, directly offered a salary of 100 million yuan, and followed Jet Li's suggestion and invited Yuan Kui, who has cooperated with him many times, to serve as a martial arts instructor.
In fact, the choice of the villain in the film is also provided by Jet Li, because before that, Jet Li had launched a "survey to fans on the website who most want to see who fights me on the big screen", and in the end most people's answers are - Mark Da Cascous, and interestingly, Mark, who began to Xi martial arts at the age of 4, was already a die-hard fan of Jet Li 17 years ago, and his favorite Jet Li movie is "Shaolin Temple".
And Jet Li in this film is not the only fan of him, speaking of which I have to mention that Jet Li in the film has a classic famous scene of 15 hits, in fact, the original design of this fight was to let Jet Li fight with four or five people in an iron cage, but the producer wanted to increase the difficulty, so he increased the number to 15, which stumped the stunt director of this film, because it is not easy to find 15 opponents who are evenly matched with Jet Li.
In desperation, they had to launch an interview with the whole country and select 15 masters from a group of kung fu masters, and in fact, among the 15 people finally selected, 3 of them used to be the ultimate fighting champions.
In desperation, Lao Li began to explain to them offstage: "As for the movies, they are all fake, and they have been filmed many times." In the end, when he learned that these people were his fans and came to participate because they liked his movies, the stone in his heart fell, but because this group of professional players would not pretend, and in order to show the cruelty and reality of the fights in "Deadly Cradle", Jet Li always completed all the fight scenes himself, and basically did not use Veya to shoot, so when the camera began to turn, they were already bloody.
And there is another detail in the movie, I don't know if you have noticed, that is, the character played by Jet Li has always fought with one hand, creating a good reputation, in fact, this can be regarded as Jet Li's improvisation.
Because when the movie started, Yuan Kui completed the action design, but Jet Li found that his left hand was useless in this series of fast movements, so he simply put his left hand in his pocket and only used his right hand to fight, but he didn't expect the camera, but the former director liked it very much, and directly used this as Su's signature style, only when he was ready to kill, Su would use both hands.
Although the plot is unreasonable in some places, Jet Li in the film interprets the fast, accurate, ruthless and various painful techniques, which is still enjoyable to watch.
Finally, as of March 3, 2003, "Deadly Cradle" with a first-week box office of $17 million, directly ranked first at the North American box office for two consecutive weeks, Daredevil kicked off the championship, and finally won the global box office of $110 million, you know, this is only Jet Li's fifth film in Hollywood, he has already received a salary of 100 million yuan, and a box office appeal of 110 million US dollars.