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Wu Jing is currently the "king of the box office" in the mainland film market.
He starred in and participated in three films, "Wolf Warrior 2" (No. 1, 5.639 billion), "The Wandering Earth" (No. 3, 4.618 billion), and "My Motherland and Me" (No. 8, 3.146 billion) all ranked in the top 10 of the total box office of mainland films.
Many people therefore say that Wu Jinghui will "choose the play", in fact, he debuted in 1995, and in these more than 20 years, he has not taken a detour.
In 2005, after participating in "Kill the Wolf", Wu Jing stayed in Hong Kong for a period of time to shoot, participating in films such as "Twin Thieves", "The True Colors of Boys", "Winning the Marshal" and so on, and also saw the warmth and coldness of the Hong Kong film circle.
During this period, Wu Jing, who has always been a tough guy, also had a time when he couldn't hold back.
Wu Jing once said:
"There are some experiences in Hong Kong that I really can't say, some things are too dark."
In 2006, director Luo Shouyao created the film "Black Fist" based on Wu Jing's experience in Hong Kong.
In an interview, Wu Jing commented on the film, which is a true portrayal of my experience.
The movie now seems too cold, with only more than 4,000 reviews on Douban and a score of only 6.9.
Because the storyline is too dark and depressing, when it was introduced to the mainland, the original 106-minute movie was re-edited into an 87-minute mainland version, and the title of the film was changed to "Fist of Life and Death".
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The story is too dark
The film tells the story of Gao Gang (played by Wu Jing), a national martial arts champion, who accompanied a Peking Opera troupe to Hong Kong to perform, and the underworld Hao Qiang (played by Zhang Zhaohui), who is engaged in organizing underground black boxing competitions, knows his fame and wants to invite him to fight black boxing with heavy money.
Gao Gang has a simple personality and a simple mind, and at first he refused haoqiang's invitation.
However, the same group's cunning Tian Li (played by Yang Aijin) is Gao Gang's favorite object, she feels that this is an opportunity to make a fortune, so she secretly colludes with Hao Qiang, using Gao Gang's trust and good feelings to persuade him to play a black boxing match.
There are not many boxers under Hao Qiang, they are all scum with less than 5 combat effectiveness, Gao Gang won consecutive battles at the beginning, earned a lot of money, gradually became more generous, and his life improved.
He began to look forward to the future and wanted to become Jet Li's second, which was also Wu Jing's dream as Jet Li's disciple.
But as he got deeper and deeper into the circle, his opponents became more and more powerful.
Hao Qiang originally joined hands with a person named Hui Shao to engage in black fist, and later cooperated with another underworld big brother, Chen Xin, to make a three-hit-three comparison.
Takaoka takes two pig teammates to the three fierce generals under the hard bar Chen novice Wei Long (played by An Zhijie), Japanese Boy (played by Kenji Tanigaki), and Killer K (played by Paul Smith).
As a result, the two teammates were quickly beaten down, and Gao Gang could not fight three times, and in the end, although he won almost, he was also beaten with scars and covered in blood.
Chen Xin was not willing to fail, and spent a lot of money to invite K1 champion Tian mo jing (played by Shi Xingyu) to fight with Gao Gang.
This time, the strength of the two sides is very different, most people buy Tianmojing to win, Gao Gang can't afford to lose, and his appearance fee has risen to 2.1 million.
Tempted by huge interests, Gao Gang desperately fought with the Heavenly Demon Jing to the death.
He did everything in his power, not only using cruel means to win the boxing match, but also severely injuring Tianmojing. After this battle, Gao Gang became famous in the underworld, and no one dared to challenge him anymore.
But people can't always win for a lifetime, and when everyone buys you to win, your boss can't make money.
Hao Qiang and Hui Shao arrange a rookie-level opponent for Gao Gang, who is a bowl street bully Jin Maofei (played by Hong Tianming) with one enemy and ten in the Ganglan Street gangster youth weapon fight, this time if Gao Gang loses to Jin Maofei, they can earn a full pot.
So Hao Qiang used Tian Li to blackmail Gao Gang into submission, asking him to deliberately lose the boxing match with the Golden Retriever.
For Tian Li's safety, Gao Gang had to obey, he deliberately kicked and broke his leg in a boxing match, and finally fell in front of The Golden Retriever. This broken leg not only lost the game, but also ended Gao Gang's black boxing career, which was actually a relief for him.
Gao Gang lay on the hospital bed looking at the numbers on the passbook, looking forward to the future life with Tian Li, he seemed to be immersed in his own luck, but did not notice the change in Tian Li's heart.
The more he treats Tian Li, the more Tian Li feels guilty, and finally she can't stand the self-blame in her heart and ends her life by jumping off the building.
Gao Gang could not face Tian Li's death, and he believed that Hao Qiang and Hui Shao had killed Tian Li, so he dragged his leg to avenge them before his leg wound had healed.
In the end, he killed Hui Shao, but when he was about to kill Hao Qiang, he died under the guns of the police who rushed to arrive.
At the end of the movie, Tian Li's body has been shedding tears non-stop, and it seems that after death, she is still full of regret and wants to dry the tears of her life.
This is the guilt that she did not cherish the high post when she was alive, and also regretted her foolish blind pursuit of money and interests.
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The mainland version was cut by 19 minutes, and the ending of the film was different from the original version
In fact, if you have watched the movies "Caged People", "Blood In Search of Plums", and "Mai Luren", you can more deeply feel the pressure of life faced by the bottom of Hong Kong society.
For people like Gao Gang and Tian Li who have passed from the mainland, in addition to the pressure of life, they also have to face the problem of how to integrate into this society.
Therefore, it is not surprising that a cunning like Tian Li will use a silly and good man like Gao Gang to achieve the purpose of climbing up.
Unfortunately, the film has too little ink on the character of Tian Li, coupled with the lack of acting skills of the actors themselves, it is impossible to interpret the inner struggle of the characters, and the shaping is too facial, resulting in this character making the audience look very disgusted.
Tian Li is the core character of the movie's story, Gao Gang will become an underground boxer, step by step to the abyss is because of her, and finally died under the gun of the police to avenge her.
The unsuccessful portrayal of this character also leads to the overall presentation of the film as a whole is too depressing, and the motivation of the character lacks rationality.
Hong Kong films in that period were also gradually striving to enter the mainland market.
In order to meet the needs of the mainland market and the censorship system, Hong Kong film companies often follow the traditional practice of exporting to Taiwan in the past, re-processing and deleting films, removing those "forbidden" content, or reshooting special shots from the mainland.
This practice of cutting and cutting was later banned by radio and television, but it was very popular at that time.
"Black Fist" has also undergone secondary processing, not only deleting a large number of plots, but also reversing some plots.
In the mainland version, Gao Gang finally won all his opponents, and Tian Li returned to the countryside and lived happily together.
But this ending was as bland and unreasonable as a bowl of boiled water, which angered the mainland audience and caused a lot of scolding.
The original film is too depressing, the mainland version is not popular, the film is ultimately not flattering on both sides, although Wu Jing is very hard, helpless or failed.
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Wu Jing hit one of the best movies
Although dragged down by the story, with Pigo's more professional vision of action movies, "Black Fist" is indeed the most hard-working one of Wu Jing's career as an actor.
At that time, Thailand's Tony Jia rose with "Boxer", and the action stars in the Hong Kong film circle were eager to try and compete with him, and Wu Jing was one of the best development prospects.
Therefore, in the film, we see that Wu Jing is different from the exaggerated martial arts of "Kung Fu Kid Breaks into Love" and "Tai Chi Grandmaster", but "falls to the ground" and presents the details of martial arts actions in a realistic style.
This style of action also tests the quality of the actor himself, and Wu Jing, who is at his peak, does not need a stand-in, and each action is done by himself, which is really a great challenge for him.
In addition to showing his agile skills and sharp leg technique, there is also an action called Tony Jia, which is to kick the target in the air in the high place.
This very showy "punching foot" originated from taekwondo, starting with Bruce Lee's performance in the movie "Raptors Crossing the River", Jet Li and Tony Jia have kicked successively, this time it is Wu Jing's turn to perform.
Maybe action stars like to use these skills to compare the real, to compare their own ability.
In terms of the completion and beauty of the action, Wu Jing's advantage is that the movement range is large and the form is beautiful; Tony Jia's action is highly completed, the strength is large, and it is more "fierce", and the two have their own strengths and weaknesses.
In the movie, an Zhijie and Shi Xingyu are also gathered to fight two powerful stars, but they are only out to fight, and there is no performance.
An Zhijie was originally a model, and after being discovered by Xu Ke, he has been taking the action star route in the film circle. He is very physically fit, and the confrontation scene with Wu Jing in the film is fully competent, but only a cameo performance.
The confrontation between Shi Xingyu and Wu Jing is the highlight of the film. His character is portrayed as the K1 champion and the strongest opponent, so the duet is more sinister than the previous ones. Shi Xingyu and Wu Jing cooperated tacitly and contributed the best martial arts in the film.
Hong Jinbao's son, Hong Tianming, is also working hard in the film circle, but unfortunately it is still half red.
In the film, he played Gao Gang's last opponent, Golden Retriever Fei, which belonged to a cameo, and the fight scene did not have too many characteristics, and finally won the boxing match inexplicably because of Gao Gang's "water release".
Kenji Tanigaki is The Right and Left Hand of Zhen Zidan, the core figure of the Zhen family class.
Although his martial arts in the film is only a small part, it is impressive, and the Japanese he plays insert the iron nails on the wooden box into the soles of his shoes and gloves, causing Takaoka to hang all over the color, adding a lot of blood to the film.
It was the joint efforts of these action stars that produced one of Wu Jing's best kung fu movies. Several wonderful martial arts shots in the film are still cut into small videos and continuously reprinted on those video websites.
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Wu Jing's changes over the years
Wu Jing's image after "Kill the Wolf" has changed from before, and he has a fierce feature in several Hong Kong films.
Like Gao Gang in this film, he has no room for fierceness in fighting, but in life, he is an extremely simple image, and his love and single-mindedness for Tian Li are very illogical.
Compared with the witty, courageous and righteous lone hero that Jet Li has always portrayed in Hong Kong films, wu Jing's thin role is obviously much worse, which is why he could not reach the height of Jet Li at that time.
Later, the Hong Kong film market gradually declined, and Wu Jing turned to the development of the mainland television circle.
Fortunately, after a few years of groping, he finally made "Wolf Warrior" with military theme characteristics, and later in 2017, he sensationalized the entire Chinese film circle with "Wolf Warrior 2".
Nowadays, Wu Jing is "old", and the beating scenes are not as hard as before, if you want to see Wu Jing's skills at the peak, Pi Ge still recommends watching this "Black Fist".
On the other hand, in Wu Jing's words, since "Black Fist" is a true portrayal of his experience in Hong Kong.
Then let's feel the high-pressure years of the Hong Kong entertainment industry together in this movie.
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