Recently, Jackie Chan publicly praised Wu Jing at the film festival, saying: Wu Jing only used 4 movies to reach the box office of 20 billion, and he used it for many years.
Literally, Jackie Chan highly praised Wu Jing's top appeal as an actor and box office gold-sucking ability, and put Wu Jing in a much higher position than himself, but can this comparison really explain any problems?
Some netizens said that Wu Jing is definitely the box office bearer of the current Chinese film market, and in recent years, a series of films such as "Wolf Warrior", "The Wandering Earth", "King Kong Chuan", "Chosin Lake" and so on, whether it is the main theme theme, or the war theme, or the science fiction theme, each of which is a hit. To some extent, Wu Jing has become synonymous with Chinese films, or rather, he has become a value symbol and spiritual symbol of Chinese films.
Some netizens agree with the above views, but at the same time, the analysis believes that Jackie Chan's "lifting" of Wu Jing is only a kind of modesty and politeness, if we talk about the contribution to the development of Chinese films, as well as its position in film history, then Wu Jing is obviously not comparable to Jackie Chan.
Let's not talk about the box office, let's talk about Jackie Chan's influence on the development of the Chinese film market. Some netizens pointed out that the reason why the Chinese mainland film market has formed today's Spring Festival file and National Day file, Jackie Chan's film is indispensable and can be called the ancestor. Jackie Chan used three works to drive the Spring Festival New Year market, namely "Red Fan District", "Simple Task" and "A Good Man", and used three works to lay the National Day file market, namely "New Police Story", "Myth" and "Baby Plan".
Because Jackie Chan's films have been sold in the Mainland Spring Festival For three consecutive years, it has given rise to mainland film distributors to consciously develop domestic Chinese New Year films. In 1997, "Party A and Party B", as the first person to eat crab in domestic Chinese New Year films, laid the foundation for Feng Xiaogang's position in the domestic Chinese New Year film market. At that time, the distributor also played a communication point for the film market that "see Ge You on New Year's Day, and see Jackie Chan in the New Year".
Jackie Chan's films also have a long list of records that may never be broken.
Some netizens flipped through the information and found that Jackie Chan's movie "Red Fan District" is the first Ever New Year film to be released simultaneously on both sides of the Chinese Strait, and they are all box office champions, and have set a new record, of which the mainland box office is 95 million yuan, the Hong Kong box office is 57 million Hong Kong dollars, and the greater Taipei area is 121 million Taiwan dollars. In addition, "Red Fan District" also broke the box office record of non-Hollywood films in North America, with a box office performance of $32.4 million.
Let's talk about Jackie Chan's other movie "Rush Hour". The film is the first ever film starring a Chinese star and to be in the top 10 grossing films of the year in both China and the United States, with it ranked 7th in North America and 6th in China.
It is particularly worth affirming that "Rush Hour" became the first film to be released in the September slot (cold period) in North America and enter the top ten of the annual box office in North America, breaking Hollywood conventions and setting a record. Only two films have achieved this feat so far, but Joker Returns is exactly 20 years after Rush Hour.
At that time, some people classified "Jin Yong Wuxia", "Qiong Yao Romance", "Four Heavenly Kings" and "Jackie Chan Movies" as "Four Customs". This also fully reflects the important position and far-reaching influence of Jackie Chan films in the cultural life of a generation of Chinese.
Let's talk about the box office. Some netizens pointed out that specific problems should be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. At the end of the last century, China's economy and society were in a stage of rapid development, but compared with today, the capacity of the cultural consumption market at that time was obviously not the same as today, and it was not an order of magnitude at all. So, but from the box office, Wu Jing and Jackie Chan are actually not comparable.
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