Plachia Pinkyao's Boxer series made Tony Jia a success and made him thailand's first action actor to break into Hollywood. Toni Jia has a deep kung fu foundation and excellent physical fitness, he can easily jump over the 1.5 meters high and 2 meters wide car, complete the super difficult air turn and insist on not hanging Weia. 2015's "Kill the Wolf 2" made Tony Jia popular again in China, and in "Kill the Wolf, The Wolf" tony Jia was only a special performance, but in just a few minutes of playing, it was still crazy and cool, and it was fierce. Some fans also regretted that Tony Jia, who appeared in the film not long after, quickly received a bento, and some viewers said that if they could give him a little more drama, it would be good.
Speaking of Tony Jia, I can't help but think of another "fierce man" in Southeast Asian countries - the action movie actor Iko Uas from Indonesia. Iko Uas is known as the "Indonesian version of ToniJa" because he is often compared to Tony Ja's action aesthetics, and many face blind people confuse the two. Like Tony Jay, Iko Uas began practicing martial arts at the age of 10 and studied the Malaysian martial arts self-defense "Ban Kasula", so in his film and television drama works, you can enjoy his fighting moves without any superfluous embellishment, pursuing a streamlined and efficient retreat.
Iko Uas's kung fu is about actualism, not just for performance, put a picture and let you feel the lightning speed of Uais's fist.
In 2007, at the age of 24, Iko Uas was photographed by British-Indonesian director Gareth Evans for his first film, The Warrior. However, due to the imperfect preparation of the film in all aspects, it did not open up the popularity of Ico Uas.
What really made Ico Uas famous in the international film world was the "Raid" series that Gareth Evans later tailored for him. To make the film, Ico Uas underwent months of rigorous training — to make the fight scenes in the film appear realistic and percussive, while minimizing the damage to the actors.
In the Raid series, Ico Uas's opponent is not a small character. He was played against Indonesian martial artist Masahiko Ruian and Bankasula Grandmaster Rahman. Masahiko Ruian is also the martial arts instructor for the entire Raid series, and he put a lot of thought into the design of the film's action scenes. In particular, the scene at the end of the first part, 1V2, is the most impressive. It is said that shooting three people fighting is far more complicated than shooting two people fighting, because the final effect must not appear messy, but also have a sense of layering and organization, which has extremely high requirements for the director's scheduling ability, the actor's position and the intensity of the action.
The success of "Raid" made Ico Uas a rising star in the world film industry, so "Raid 2" had already been bought in North America before it was filmed. This is unprecedented in the history of Indonesian cinema.
Raid 2: Mob is a film made by the original team of Raiders. What many people remember vividly is the scene of the prison riot and the bus breakout in the film, which requires close cooperation between the extras and the long shots, but for Uais, it is just a piece of cake.
At the end of Raid 2, Ico Uas not only has to show the audience the art of knifeplay, but also has to fight hammer beauty and baseball bat man alone. In the 1v2 action scenes of Raid 2, the director reinforces the importance of weapons such as knives, hammers, and baseball bats to the outcome of the battle, and the action arrangement is more complex.
Ico Aius's excellent action style doomed him to be difficult without fire. In addition to his successive appearances in "Tai Chi Man" directed by Keanu Reeves, the action movie "Headshot" with a similar style to "Raid" and the Hollywood blockbuster "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", his next new film is "Triple Threat" with Chen Hu and Tony Jia. The film also includes action stars such as Scott Arkinson, Michael Gar White and Thai actress Jajay Yanin, but the audience is more eagerly awaiting whether Uas and Tony Jay have a confrontation in the film, even if it is just a few simple moves.
Iko Aius is 34 years old, whether it is physical fitness, or the ability to control the action, is in the peak and golden age of an action actor, I believe he still has a very broad space for development in the future. As the birthplace of "Asian action movies", will China become another stop for Iko Uas to rest his feet?
As far as Chinese action movies are concerned, it not only has a mature shooting system, but also has enough room for development in the local film market, and the movie viewing group is also very large, which is reflected in the box office performance of Chinese action movies in recent years. "Wolf Warrior 2" box office has broken 5.2 billion, "Kill the Wolf 2" box office of 560 million, "Kill the Wolf Wolf" in the week of release, the box office has moved to 400 million, fully able to be self-sufficient, so it does not rule out the possibility of Iko Aius going to China in the future.
Wu Jing and Iko Aius at "Jackie Chan Action Movie Week"
Bruce Lee once famously said before his death: "Life is a process of continuous connection." You must break the shell that is isolated from the outside world, and to come out of it and look for it is to be in direct contact with the outside world, and I will neither blindly follow you nor influence you. "Taking its essence, removing its dross, and not resting on its laurels is exactly the spirit of Bruce Lee's "Truncated Boxing". Martial arts theories like Bruce Lee's have been learned from Western countries. Bruce Lee's philosophy also applies to Chinese kung fu films – Chinese kung fu films should not be self-contained in the long run, but in diversity and integration.
In time, if you can put Zhen Zidan, Wu Jing, Wu Fan, Toni Jia and Iko Uas together in one movie, then for action movie fans like this author, they will feel that there are no regrets in this life.