More than ten people in the autumn of 2021, Wu Jing starred in "Chosin Lake" set a record at the box office, breaking through the 5 billion mark, close to challenging Wu Jing's own "Wolf Warrior 2" (5.69 billion) film history record, but also let Wu Jing starring in the total box office of the film, breaking through the 23 billion mark.
When attending the "Jackie Chan Action Movie Week" event, even Jackie Chan's big brother joked to Wu Jing in person: "I have only raised more than 20 billion yuan at the box office in decades, and he has 20 billion in 4 plays."
Wu Jing is also a person in his 40s, and when he heard this, he was so shy that he almost turned around and hid... Iron-blooded tough guys also have such a "cute" and "childish" side, which makes people can't help but be funny.
Of course, Jackie Chan's big brother ridiculed Wu Jing, which was more of a joke to encourage the younger generations. Over the past 40 years, Jackie Chan has been recognized as the world's number one superstar in the Chinese film industry, not only with a very personal kung fu film, achieving more than 3.5 billion US dollars (equivalent to 25 billion yuan at the then exchange rate), but also won numerous personal honors such as awards:
Golden Rooster Film Emperor, twice Golden Horse Film Emperor, Academy Award for Best Director (Police Story)
People's Choice Awards: Most Popular Action Star Award; Lifetime Achievement Award at the Indian Film Festival (International A Category); Outstanding Contribution Award at the Shanghai Film Festival (International A Category);
He was eventually crowned the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Oscars, and since then, together with Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki, he has entered the list of the greatest filmmakers in Asia.
Compared with the awards, Jackie Chan's more brilliant achievement is to achieve a long-lasting global box office performance for decades, far ahead of all Chinese filmmakers.
You know, the film industry has always followed the cruel law of the market, who decides on business and box office, who occupies the mainstream of the film industry, who does not comply, who will be eliminated by the market, this is the eternal, universal truth.
Therefore, even the French film industry, the highest holy place of literary and artistic cinema, has been losing in the face of Hollywood commercial blockbusters in recent decades. Europe's three major film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival, have all given up their artistic reticence in recent years and are trying to please Hollywood superstars. This is the essence of the film industry, business is king, box office is king.
Therefore, with its huge box office appeal, and even the most brilliant time, Jackie Chan once successfully broke into Hollywood, joined the "20 million US dollars of film remuneration superstar club", can assume the hollywood A-class blockbuster starring, but also let him in the past few decades, has been recognized as the world's first business card of Chinese films, there is no one.
In the golden age of Hong Kong films, Jackie Chan's kung fu film output, the influence of Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, and even into the American market, became another business card of oriental films after Bruce Lee, filmed a number of Hollywood A-class masterpieces of the male lead, 30 years ago won the global box office at the exchange rate at that time, more than 10 billion,
And the whole Hong Kong film is also regarded as a veritable "Oriental Hollywood".
However, the deliberate Hollywood capital predators have invited Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, Wu Yusen and many other outstanding Hong Kong filmmakers in order to absorb the essence of their film action one by one and use them in their own industrialized films.
Subsequently, Hollywood used the large-scale production of industrial assembly lines and the absolute crushing advantage of the small-scale peasant economy and handicraft industry to forcefully invade the traditional markets of Hong Kong films, and completely buried the international market prospects of Hong Kong-style kung fu films and gunfight films with its backhand, and even in the Hong Kong Island main port market, the vast majority of Hong Kong films were also beaten to the ground.
At that time, only Jackie Chan's real knives and guns, fist-to-flesh films could barely compete with the endless Hollywood special effects blockbusters, but in the end it was difficult to support alone.
At the turn of the century, from the return of Hong Kong to the motherland in 1997 to China's accession to the WTO, with the gradual opening and vigorous development of the mainland film market, Jackie Chan resolutely took the lead in going north, and shifted the focus of his entire career to the mainland, and finally became the first Hong Kong filmmaker to win the Chinese Golden Rooster Award for Film Emperor with "New Police Story".
His bold words: "There is no longer any Hong Kong film, just a kind of movie, called "Chinese film"! How clear the position, how loud! Although he has since offended many old friends in the Hong Kong film industry, he has clearly expressed his pride and feelings as a great Chinese filmmaker.
When Jackie Chan received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Academy Awards, he said to the world: "China, she has made me, my motherland, as a Chinese, I am proud. 】
How can such a dignified and upright Chinese filmmaker as Jackie Chan, such a great Chinese filmmaker who stands tall in the sky, and those Hong Kong filmmakers who still cling to the island and cling to the cripple and lack thereof, understand?
For the entire Chinese film circle, in the past 40 years, Jackie Chan has also stood at the top of the industry superstar, only because he is a filmmaker who wrote and directed himself, invested in dividends, created his own commercial big IP, won the annual box office for many years, and accumulated a box office of more than tens of billions of filmmakers.
In the past many years, the only person who can compete with the Chinese market is Stephen Chow, who is also unique in his personal comedy.
In the summer of 2016, Jackie Chan's "Jedi Escape" won 889 million box office, the National Day file "Railway Flying Tiger" won 692 million box office, and in the 2017 Spring Festival file, "Kung Fu Yoga" swept 1.75 billion box office, and suppressed the old rival Zhou Xingchi's "Journey to the West", winning the slot championship.
In just half a year, the three films have won a total of 3.3 billion box office, which can be described as "will be the top of the mountain, a panoramic view of the mountains", at this time, who does not boast a sentence "Jackie Chan's big brother sword is not old"?
However, this is also the last glorious moment in the film superstar's 40-year career. At this time, the success of the box office made Jackie Chan hot in the eyes of investors, and a large number of film invitations with uneven quality came pouring in.
In the 2017 National Day file, "British Showdown" 530 million box office, New Year file "Blood of the Machine" 300 million box office,
In the 2019 Spring Festival file, "Detective Pu Songling" had a box office of 160 million, and the summer file "The Mystery of the Dragon Card" only had a box office of 20 million...
In the 2020 National Day file, "Vanguard", although it found its old partner Director Tang Jili, the publicity and production also returned to the most original [Jackie Chan Action Blockbuster], 400 million heavy investment, originally planned to compete in the Spring Festival file in 2020, the producer's ambition is naturally to go to at least 1.5 billion box office.
However, fans entered the theater to see, but found that the film played the sign of Jackie Chan movies, and as a result, Jackie Chan's fight scene was pitiful, Jackie Chan's big brother was old, he couldn't move, and in the film he could only take the elevator downstairs...
A kung fu superstar known for his real gun and no substitute, at the age of 65, should have retired to the pension age, but also to try to find a job for his "family class" old partners, had to work continuously, these facts are known to everyone, it is not incomprehensible.
On the other hand, although this film filmed in Dubai only achieved less than 300 million box office in the end, the local government and the local tycoons in Dubai strongly supported them, and even did not hesitate to lend their priceless golden luxury cars to the film as props.
It can be seen that the influence of Jackie Chan's big brother has undoubtedly influenced generations of film fans around the world. Such a long-term treatment, just ask: Who else?!
The past 40 years of China has been a miracle of rapid development in human history, catching up with the 200-year history of European and American countries. Therefore, first Hong Kong and Taiwan, then Japan and South Korea, and now Europe and the United States, we have long ceased to look up at the country when the door first opened, but naturally looked down on them.
Nowadays, when the mainland filmmakers represented by Wu Jing have gone to "Changjin Lake" with "Wolf Warrior", "Red Sea Action", "Wandering Earth", "Nezha's Devil Boy Descending", and are challenging Hollywood's global hegemony,
Many talented and capable Hong Kong directors, such as Tsui Ke, Chen Kexin, Lam Chao-yin, Liu Weiqiang, etc., have also long been based on the booming mainland film industry. And the mainland-themed films they shoot can't find any "Hong Kong flavor" at all. Hong Kong is only a place of household registration for them.
For example, this time "Chosin Lake" was a great success, and Xu Ke and Lin Chaoxian, two Hong Kong directors who co-directed, also contributed a lot.
Jackie Chan's bold encouragement that "there are no more Hong Kong movies, only Chinese movies" is now becoming a reality step by step!
The back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave, and the generation of talented people in the Jiangshan Generation comes out.
At a time when the mainland film market has flourished and has even become the world's largest film market,
For example, Jia Ling, a sketch actor, shoots a box office of "Li Huanying", which can surpass the box office of countless famous directors such as Feng Xiaogang and all the films in this life.
For example, Jackie Chan has obtained a total of 25 billion box office in countries around the world in the past 40 years, which has long been considered to be a myth that future generations can not hope for.
Wu Jing's achievements in the past five or six years, "Wolf Warrior", "Kill wolf 2", "Wolf Warrior 2", "Wandering Earth", "Chosin Lake", "Climber", "King Kong Chuan", "My Father and I"... Total more than 23 billion box office,
Coupled with the already filmed "Chosin Lake 2: Watergate Bridge" and "The Wandering Earth 2", it will definitely be enough to catch up in the next one or two years.
However, the success of future generations cannot obscure the glory of the predecessors, and everyone has their own era.
From Jackie Chan to Wu Jing, every outstanding filmmaker has written his career into the annals of Chinese film history, and he can also have no regrets and no regrets!
Good luck, come on! Chinese filmmakers who pass on the torch!