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When it comes to Hollywood's veteran action stars, who do you think of?
It is estimated that many people will think of Stallone and Schwarzenegger first, but looking at this recent group photo, it may once again evoke the memories of some people.
In this group photo of Jackie Chan, Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan, and "Aquaman" actor Jason Momma, there is an old tough guy who has not been seen for a long time: Shange Winton. (The blue-clad man on the far right)
The tough guy who once broke into Hollywood with his powerful fist and foot kung fu and was once popular all over the world, has a wrinkled face, and on October 18 this year, he celebrated his 59th birthday.
(Shanger Winton of yesteryear)
This year, the 73-year-old Stallone starred in "First Blood 5: The Last Blood" was released, and the 72-year-old Schwarzenegger's "Terminator 6: Dark Fate" returned, compared to the two seventy-year-old tough guys, Shange Winton, who is not yet 60 years old, is in a much more awkward situation.
Shange Winton represents the more real and cruel side of Hollywood: after a while, it is difficult to turn over.
Once, how red was Shange Winton?
In 1995, in the second season of the classic American drama "Friends", he played himself: a handsome and sexy action superstar, who let the two heroines Rachel and Monica compete for him in the play.
At that time, those who could appear in the cameo in "Friends" were all superstars with great weight, and the two heroines could be arranged to turn their faces for him in the play, which showed the fame and influence of Shangge Winton that year.
How old has Shange Winton been today?
Today's young people, almost rarely know him, just under the former group photo of Shange Winton and these two heroines, someone asks: Is this man really a big star?
The time of Shange Winton is far away.
In 1993, Hong Kong director Wu Yusen went to Hollywood in the United States to develop, and cooperated with Shange Winton in his first hollywood film "The Ultimate Target".
Wu Yusen's violent aesthetic of Hong Kong films, and Shang ge Yunton, who is physically fit and has a kung fu background, have a wonderful chemical reaction on the big screen.
The film's annual box office in the United States exceeded $30 million that year, enabling Wu Yusen to successfully break into the mainstream Hollywood commercial film market, and also made Shange Winton one of Hollywood's first-line action stars at that time.
In 1994, Shange Winton hit the iron while it was hot and launched "Space-Time SWAT".
Since then, he has also cooperated with two other Hong Kong directors, Lin Lingdong and Xu Ke, to shoot "Extreme Adventure" and "K.O. Thunder Strike".
In that year, his beautiful kicks and horses that showed his strong skills swept the world and became one of the tough guy representatives. In that era, Shange Yunton's Western action movies had their place.
Born on October 18, 1960, Shange Winton is a Belgian who was frail as a child, but inadvertently watched Chinese kung fu films and fell in love with Chinese martial arts and Bruce Lee. After that, his father decided to let him learn martial arts and keep fit.
The super leg skills he showed in the film came from the hard work of his youth, Shange Winton is a person who really has martial arts skills, defeating the world's second largest karate player in 1980, winning the middleweight championship of the European Professional Karate League, and winning a bodybuilding champion.
After that, Shange Winton decided to go to the United States to pursue his dream of stardom, so he sold his gym, which was a good business at the time, and moved to Los Angeles, where he had only $7,000. As a result, after 5 years, there was no improvement, during which he had to do a lot of low-income jobs in order to make ends meet, such as drivers, pizza delivery workers, coaches, theater security guards, etc.
In 1984, he played a small villain role in the low-budget film "Blood Game", in which he used his own trick: kicking the opponent's head during a 360-degree rotation, such a real kung fu immediately attracted hollywood attention at the time.
In 1986, he made a low-budget film, Blood Point, which was revived after two years of shelving, and as a result, the studio re-edited and produced the film. Finally, at the repeated request of Shange Winton, the difficult film was finally released, miraculously breaking the box office record in the Spring of 1988 in the United States, and finally earning about $30 million at the box office, making him famous in one fell swoop.
(Bruce Lee is Shange Winton's idol)
Shange Winton is best known for his powerful horse.
This difficult action, which has become his classic symbol on the big screen, has been imitated for so many years.
It was also this classic action that, after many years, played an important role in attracting his attention again: in 2013, an advertisement shot by Shange Winton for a truck was circulated on the Internet, and he made a difficult one-word horse between two moving trucks! Breathtaking.
However, Shange Winton went downhill after experiencing the popularity of the 1990s.
The film has repeatedly had a poor reputation, the performance is no longer innovative, and with the emergence of new stars, he was quickly abandoned by the market and became a male star.
In 2008, Shange Winton combined his film and television experience and then created it, releasing a semi-autobiographical film "I Am Shange Winton", the English title JCVD is the acronym for Shange Winton's name JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME.
In this film, Shange Winton makes self-deprecating and ironic about his identity as an action movie star.
In the film, he played the "Shange Winton" career stagnation, had to return from the bustling United States to Belgium, he thought he could live a peaceful life, but faced tax problems, and also staged a lawsuit with his wife for custody of his son, and more embarrassingly, in the face of the slump of the action movie, he was also involved in a bank robbery.
The bitterness of various male stars has been presented in the film, which was also selected for the 2008 Time Magazine Best Picture.
There is an impressive line in the film: You win, I lose.
But movies with kung fu will still have something to do with him, for example, "Kung Fu Panda".
In 2011, he voiced Meteor Crocodile Hero in Kung Fu Panda 2, and in 2016, he continued to voice the character in Kung Fu Panda 3.
In 2012, Shange Winton and a group of old tough guys around the world appeared in stallone-led movie "Daredevil 2" and also played against Stallone.
That muscle is still very admirable, but they are really old, and the publicity of the premiere of the movie together is not only exciting, but also emotional.
Honest and old, can you still eat?
For Shange Winton, he was only in his fifties, and of course he could still play.
In 1994, Shange Yunton came to China with the movie "Eagle Road" to participate in the Shanghai International Film Festival, he talked about his cooperation with Wu Yusen and Xu Ke, he was extremely nostalgic, and also offered to hope that they could find themselves again.
However, he did not wait for these two big directors, waited for Dapeng. In 2015, the former Hollywood superstar appeared in Dapeng's movie "Pancake Man", once again posing as a classic one-word horse.
This scene is both a classic reproduction and a silent announcement of its own past in Hollywood.
What is rare is that despite his past, Shange Yunton is still filming with his old bottom.
The most recent one is this year's "Iron Fist Weilong", the previous year's "Deep Sea Prison Break" starring him was also introduced to the Chinese mainland, but unfortunately the reputation is also very poor.
Like most star-second generations, Shange Winton's son Chris Winton has entered the film and television industry, and he looks very similar to his father, but there are no other works worth mentioning except for occasional cameos in movies starring his father.
Fate is wonderful, it can make a Belgian kid become a Hollywood superstar that year, or it can make him feel lost again after the explosion.
Still, looking at the recent group photo, Shange Winton hasn't been completely forgotten.
(Young Shange Winton)
(Shange Winton in Prison Break)
Stallone and Schwarzenegger both hit their 70s, he's only 59, and looking at the muscles that are maintaining well, it's no problem to play for a few more years.
Man, always have to fight that breath, Shange Winton is obviously not old.
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