Author: Quasimodo
If you interview any stranger randomly on the street: Who was the first martial arts superstar you thought of?
Nine out of ten will answer: Jackie Chan.
Indeed, over the years, Jackie Chan has acted in classic movies such as "Red Fan District", "City Hunter" and "Plan A".
Many dangerous action scenes are completed by himself, never using a stand-in, so everyone in the industry respects him as a "big brother".
And this is also the reason why it has been loved by audiences for many years.
But recently, a domestic up master published an article entitled "Jackie Chan, a person who deceived the world, and finally cheated the Oscars".
The author of the article claims to be "the first person to uncover the lies of Jackie Chan's stand-in".
In the text, the author is all the various action movies that Jackie Chan is looking for a stand-in, scolding the other party for being a liar.
The question of whether Jackie Chan uses a stand-in has actually been discussed on the Internet.
Here may be an answer.
Jackie Chan, a liar?
In the classic Hong Kong film "Plan A", Ma Rulong, played by Jackie Chan, fell directly from the bell tower to the ground in order to avoid the pursuit of bad people.
After getting up, he grinned and endured the pain while joking with his friends: "There is really gravity in this world!" ”
When I saw this place as a child, I thought it was very enjoyable and funny, but now it seems that jumping from the third floor is playing with my life.
This has also become one of Jackie Chan's classic shots.
But it's not easy to come by.
Jackie Chan stood in the bell tower 7 times, 7 times did not dare to jump down.
Later, the master brother Hong Jinbao couldn't look at it and directly scolded:
"Do you tm jump or not?" The whole crew is waiting for you! ”
He gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and jumped down.
And in order to have a better visual effect, I also jumped three times.
One of them was done by a Martian stand-in for a core member of the family start-up class.
He was holding 5,000 pieces, standing on the bell tower already with weak legs, and as soon as the hand holding the hour hand was released, he directly fainted.
(Mars, formerly known as Jiang Rongfa, joined the family class in the 80s)
Yes, there is actually a class of martial arts superstars behind jackie Chan.
Even not only him, but also many of the martial arts superstars we are familiar with have their own exclusive stand-ins.
Zeng Zhiwei once publicly packed tickets: almost every action actor has used a stand-in.
Therefore, it can be concluded that Jackie Chan's use of a stand-in is true, but it is obviously a big joke to say that he is a liar.
After all, sometimes injuries or in order to have a better shot, you need to shoot the same action repeatedly, and you need more actors to make up for it.
And all this comes from the content of the documentary "Dragon tiger martial artist".
The title of the film is also their special title - Dragon and Tiger Martial Master.
Originally originating from Cantonese opera, this has become an indispensable and important job in the Hong Kong film industry.
(Jackie Chan also worked as a stand-in for Bruce Lee's opponent)
Dragon Tiger Martial Artists are just a group of small people, not dazzling, but with one punch and one kick to win a brilliant era for kung fu movies.
How beautiful was it then?
In 1971, Bruce Lee's first kung fu film in Hong Kong, "Big Brother Tangshan", was released for less than 3 weeks, breaking the box office record for all Chinese-language films in Southeast Asia.
The English dictionary of the time also included the word "KongFu".
In many foreign film and television dramas, there will also be clips paying tribute to "Plan A" Jackie Chan jumping the bell tower.
(Anime: Crayon Shin-chan)
What did kung fu films of the 70s and 80s have such a big impact?
Without him, the real kung fu of fist to flesh.
"If you don't shoot to death, shoot in death" is their truest portrayal.
They fight for their lives against Hollywood
How desperate is the Dragon tiger martial artist?
Hui Yinghong, a "hit girl", recalled that no insurance company was willing to insure the martial artists at that time.
"Because we're doing high-risk actions, the insurance company doesn't think we're a long-term partner." It was only later that it was slowly bought, but the price would be particularly high."
The only thing that can guarantee their future life is the "big brother" in the team system. They would pat their chests and promise the martial artist, "Break your arm and leg, and I'll raise you for the rest of your life!" ”
(In the middle is Hui Yinghong)
It was an era of extreme "inner volume".
As Zhen Zidan said, "In order to show that you are the best in the kung fu world, you will do a lot of stupid things." ”
When one martial artist dares to jump from the third floor, the other martial artist not only jumps down, but also tries to bounce onto the moving car...
In "Provincial Hong Kong Flag Soldier", Yuan Wu of the "Hongjiaban" is asked to fall from the five-storey building of the mall to the ice rink below.
This cold and hard ice surface does not make any buffers.
In order for the camera to be more "painful", he must also fall to the ground first.
Qian Jiale was the youngest of them all.
In "The Heart of the Dragon", he has a jumping scene, And Qian Jiale has to jump from the third floor to the cloth roof on the second floor, and then jump from the roof to the moving car.
The first real shot was fine, but when he reshooted the second shot, he jumped over his head, missed the tent that should have been used as a buffer, and fell to the ground.
Go straight to the hospital.
There's also a more thrilling scene.
Eight martial artists were asked to jump down from the seventh floor together, accompanied by a real explosion.
At that time, there was no Weiya, and only foam, cardboard boxes, and torn cotton jackets could be laid on the bottom of the building to prevent the actors from being injured, but the height of the seventh floor was always daunting.
The demolitionist even shivered and the director said, "Or will you press it?"
As soon as the camera was completed, director Hong Jinbao immediately shouted "save people", not "finish the work".
The cost of a Hollywood film is 40 to 50 million US dollars, and the special effects technology is relatively perfect.
However, Hong Kong movies want money and no money, they want technology without technology, they want to compete with Hollywood, they can only "play for their lives".
There were no dangerous actions such as high-altitude jumping, explosions, and broken windows of Weiya, but it was just the daily life of this group of Dragon and Tiger Martial Artists.
Zeng Zhiwei recalled that there were Hollywood crews who went to visit the class and were directly frightened: "So you dare to do it!" Whoever does this action and who dies! ”
It is rumored that there will always be a van at the entrance of the set, the seats are all flat, and people are walking in to shoot, lying down and carrying out, straight to the hospital.
The chengjia class jokingly called the car "white car (ambulance)".
There are also hospitals that have reserved 7 beds for family classes, and they are already familiar with the doctors and nurses enough to joke:
"I'm back."
Everyone is afraid of death.
But they come from poor backgrounds, if they want to change their fate and have the opportunity to get ahead, they must use self-masochism to win honor and self-esteem.
"Stuntmen Never Say No!"
This is a common rule that many Dragon and Tiger martial artists abide by, and it is also an optimistic, enterprising and desperate "Lion Rock Spirit".
(Chengjia Banzhong Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts Division)
Behind the scenery, I want to thank them even more
Once upon a time, there was a popular saying:
"Kung Fu films are the greatest contribution of the Chinese to world cinema."
Seriously.
A generation of legendary star Bruce Lee, with his own kung fu to tell the world: Chinese, not the sick man of East Asia!
This also gives many foreigners the impression that "Chinese can do kung fu".
Hollywood once used Jackie Chan as a prototype to produce the "The Adventures of Jackie Chan" cartoon.
Once it aired that year, it was the top of the American ratings for four consecutive weeks.
Jet Li's portrayal of Huang Feihong, Fang Shiyu and Huo Yuanjia has a unique martial arts atmosphere of Chinese.
There are also Zhen Zidan, Wu Jing, Zhao Wenzhuo, Zhang Jin...
In the era of desperate miracles, they broke into fame and became famous overseas.
However, more Dragon and Tiger martial artists are just silently dedicating their own efforts behind the scenes.
It is precisely because of this that the promotional poster of "Dragon and Tiger Martial Master" made me very moved.
A bandaged, scarred back identifies a body of pain.
He doesn't refer specifically to anyone, but to all the Dragon and Tiger martial artists who have contributed to Hong Kong action movies.
It is Jackie Chan who shot "Brother Dragon and Tiger Brother" with a broken skull;
It is Yang Ziqiong, who was almost paralyzed by a cervical spine injury in "Akin";
It is Lin Zhengying, who filmed the concussion of "Mr. Zombie";
It was Qian Jiale who injured his tail vertebrae in "Fast Food Truck"...
There are many more nameless Dragon and Tiger Martial Masters.
The image also implies that they are always the anonymous person in the camera who can't see his face.
In fact, it is not only their industry, but also some people around us who are silently shining like them.
In July, Henan was in a hurry, a "thousand years have not encountered" heavy rain flood raid, a time the street became a big river, torrential rain poured into the subway, and countless people were trapped in office buildings, campuses, squares and other places...
In the torrential rain and flood, the warriors in camouflage uniforms rushed to the front for the first time to launch a rescue.
Their pant legs were filled with muddy water, and sweat soaked the back of their clothes, and they fought continuously for a long time before they finally initially controlled the danger.
Defending our homeland and saving ordinary people in distress, this group of "unsung heroes" is everywhere, but quietly.
Let's share another story with you.
Not long ago, Pu Saihong, a piggyman at RT-Mart supermarket in Shanghai, won praise from many netizens for his work of "fighting mosquitoes".
Why does a somewhat trivial piece of work attract attention?
Because she has insisted on this small matter for 13 years, she will even study a set of "mosquito soldier books", which have countermeasures for mosquitoes' living habits and range of activities.
In the supermarket where she works, even in the meat, fruit and vegetable areas where insects are most likely to attract insects, a mosquito is seen passing by.
We are touched that in this impetuous era, even if it is a humble job, Pu Saihong is not perfunctory.
She took this trivial matter to the extreme and became an "expert".
There are a lot of people like them —
The intern employee of Haidilao who kept practicing throwing his face in the parking garage in the middle of the night;
During the epidemic, medical staff who work overtime to test nucleic acid for neighbors;
The owner of the breakfast shop who gets up in the early hours of the morning every day to knead the dough and make buns;
……
Throughout all walks of life, in fact, there is a group of their own "Dragon and Tiger Martial Masters", who few people know, but still exert their fighting spirit and make everything perfect.
I believe that ordinary people like you and me, in their posts, also choose to silently stick to it and shine with force.
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