The New Year is coming, a number of cinema movies are rubbing their fists, and the war in the Spring Festival file is about to be ignited again.
A high-profile movie is "Tang Detective 3", which is the story that takes place in Chinatowns everywhere.
And 26 years ago, Jackie Chan's movie about Chinatown also turned out, directly making Jackie Chan a star in the world's attention, this time we will talk about how strong this movie is?
《Red Fan District》
The film is starred by Jackie Chan, with Mei Yanfang, Dong Biao and others as supporting roles, and Mei Jie plays a Chinese widow living alone in the slums of New York.
Mixed-race beauty Ye Fanghua plays Nancy, a speeding party woman, in the film, she participated in the design to frame Jackie Chan, but was moved by Jackie Chan's series of good deeds and eventually fell in love with him.
This is Ye Fanghua's first work into the film industry, and she and Jackie Chan have a kiss scene with a stunning appearance, but the actor's subsequent career development is tepid and there are not too many representative works.
Some familiar faces in today's music scene also participated in the filming, with Zhou Huajian and Du Dewei making cameos in the film, and the shots of the two were only a few seconds.
A group of stars have formed a Chinese classic in the hearts of countless people, let's sit on the time machine and recall its plot.
Ma Hanqiang (Jackie Chan), a police officer, comes to New York, USA, where he went to attend his uncle's wedding (Dong Biao).
Uncle Fei runs a supermarket in New York's Hongfan District, but due to gang nuisance, Uncle Gu transfers the right to operate the supermarket to Yi Ling (Mei Yanfang), who is also Chinese.
Ma Hanqiang, who had planned to live for a while and return to China, inadvertently provoked the flying car gang in the Hongfan District, and the other party repeatedly provoked trouble against Ma Hanqiang, and even affected the supermarket.
However, the Biker Party did not have arrogance for too long, they were involved in a black diamond theft case, and were hunted down by the more powerful mafia.
Ma Hanqiang, who was inadvertently involved in the dispute, "complained with virtue" to help the Biker Party break the siege, and with the assistance of the New York police, Ma Hanqiang pulled out the culprit behind the diamond case.
Considered Jackie Chan's real entry into the Hollywood market, "Red Zone" was seen as a milestone in Jackie Chan's real entry into the Hollywood market, and when the film was released in the United States, it was a treatment that was unique to a non-American film.
The film grossed $32.34 million in the North American market, once a non-local film in the United States.
In fact, this is not the first work of Jackie Chan to hit Hollywood, as early as 1980, "Killer Trench" starring Jackie Chan was released in the United States, but the box office was extremely dismal.
Jackie Chan, who failed to test the waters of Hollywood, concentrated on deepening the Hong Kong showbiz circle, and after those 15 years, he joined hands with Tang Jili, who had established the status of a superstar in the Chinese-speaking circle, to return to Hollywood with a "Red Fan District" and killed a whirlwind of Jackie Chan.
Today, opening this far-reaching "Red Fan District", we can not only see the style of Jackie Chan in the 90s, but also see the scene of him "teaching foreigners to be human" in a foreign country 25 years ago!
01 With action drama "Teach to be human": the variety is dizzying, Hollywood remembers Jackie Chan
The biggest feature of the film is the overwhelming action scenes, compared with the relatively single, routine action scenes in Hollywood at that time, director Tang Jili designed different types of action bridges, and Jackie Chan, who "can fight", restores the essence of action movies with a wonderful fight.
These action scenes are really varied and do not coincide.
First of all, the crisp and sharp fist and foot battle, Jackie Chan's action style with oriental aesthetics does not drag mud and water, and the impact of fist to flesh brings the audience the most direct visual impact, these action scenes are also the basic standard of the film.
Then there is the "posture" that penetrates into the details, Jackie Chan's posture of going downstairs is so handsome, and the 2-story floor is turned over a few seconds after going downstairs, the standard "light as a swallow".
Jackie Chan's characteristic funny action scenes also add weight to the film, and in addition to the tense and exciting high-paced fights, the audience can also see interesting elements.
One move at a time, not only to make you look good, but also to tease you to play.
Those difficult action scenes are even more eye-catching, and the "tense and exciting" flying car scenes in other Hollywood movies are considered pediatrics here.
The difficult action scenes here come one after another, first holding an iron pipe and falling to the ground, and then being dragged by a yacht with only a rope, one extreme action scene after another, playing is exciting.
The most extreme is Jackie Chan's jump in the century in the film, the protagonist Ah Qiang was forced to a high-rise desperate situation by the Flying Car Party, and he flew a jump from the 5th floor to the opposite 4th floor.
It is reported that when filming this scene, Jackie Chan did not choose a stand-in, but went directly to himself, practicing several times in the parking lot, and Jackie Chan directly played with his life without a stand-in and without Weiya.
This jump shocked fans around the world, and it was this jump that made him jump directly into Hollywood.
02 Teach people with values: Jackie Chan's "righteousness" flutters in Hongfan District
Before the "Red Zone" fire, the most classic Chinese image in Hollywood was undoubtedly Bruce Lee, and his phrase "Be water, my friend" was widely disseminated in North America.
He transmitted the traditional Chinese concept of "good as water" to blonde foreigners, an export of Eastern values to the Western world.
Jackie Chan followed bruce Lee's footsteps and hit the Hollywood market with oriental values.
The story is set in the Bronx district of New York, one of the highest crime rates in the United States, and is known as the Red Fan District because of the concentration of bullies. Greed and lust breed evil here, and the dirt in these cities is left to jackie chan to educate.
The film first reflects the spirit of mutual help and mutual assistance of chinese people.
In the plot, Ma Hanqiang, played by Jackie Chan, when he saw Mei Yanfang being harassed by small, he beat the other party back with one pick and four, and the numerical disadvantage did not change his righteous heart.
In the face of Ye Fanghua being "violated" by bandits, although this is the other party acting, Jackie Chan still saw the danger and went straight up, which made him beaten bloody, but he did not regret it.
In the face of Ye Fanghua, who framed himself, Jackie Chan still helped his disabled brother and worked hard to maintain Ye Fanghua's image in front of his brother.
In the face of the Biker Party that has forced himself into a dead state, Jackie Chan also righteously helped when he saw the other party being chased and killed by the mafia, and eventually turned enemies into friends with the other party.
Then there is the promotion of a positive attitude towards life, and at no time should you fall into temptation. In the film, Jackie Chan's preaching to the Biker Party is impressive, and also deepens the core of the film:
Are you all happy to stay in this dark place and spend the rest of your life fighting? Why do you demean yourself so much? Why become the scum that people hate? I hope that the next time we meet, instead of you hitting me and I hitting you, we will have tea together.
In this "Red Fan District", Jackie Chan takes over the mantle of Bruce Lee and conveys the light of the Chinese to foreigners with a righteous posture.
03 Teach people with a "life-threatening attitude": Jackie Chan was the superhero of that era
Many action movies in Hollywood are presented with some action scenes plus special effects, but the appearance of Jackie Chan has broken their inherent cognition, and it turns out that some people are so "stupid" that the action scenes are all played really.
The big director Spielberg once asked Jackie Chan how to complete the classic pick of "Red Fan District", to which Jackie Chan directly stunned him with 11 words of response: boot, jump, start shooting, stop, send to the hospital.
Under the conciseness of words, it makes people feel Jackie Chan's almost crazy and desperate attitude, which is unique in the show business circle at that time and even now.
It is worth mentioning that in the last 7 days of the filming cycle of the "Red Fan District" crew, Jackie Chan actually had a fractured right leg, and he insisted on completing the shooting with a plaster cast.
In the scene where the protagonist is dragged by a yacht in the film, Jackie Chan is actually dragging a wounded leg to force the shooting.
After many years of interviews, when Jackie Chan responded to this experience, he once lightly mentioned that when his ankle was fractured at that time, he saw that the ankle and the instep were misaligned, and he just pressed the bone back, put a plaster cast on it and continued shooting.
Such a desperate attitude caused the host to exclaim in surprise, and also let us remember the unknown hardships behind the kung fu superstar.
Jackie Chan's life-threatening movie is far more than a "Red Fan District", he was beaten to unconsciousness when filming "Shaolin Gate", spelled to the pelvic dislocation when filming "Police Story", suffered a brain injury during the filming of "Brother Dragon and Tiger Brother", and had to undergo skull surgery.
The injury did not stop Jackie Chan, but constantly challenged the limit.
When filming "Who I Am", the move across the 45-degree slope of the Rotterdam Building shocked the world, and in the filming of "The Flying Eagle Project", Jackie Chan tried to fly a hot air balloon from the mountain, and this shot did not even have an insurance company willing to accept the insurance policy...
Jackie Chan gave the world a "shock education" with his bare hands and fists, and the action scenes can be played without special effects.
Today, Jackie Chan is a world-renowned kung fu superstar, and the Oscar awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.
Looking back on his brilliant career, "Red Fan District" is undoubtedly a benchmark work.
For Jackie Chan, "Red Fan District" allowed him to really break into the Hollywood market, his name officially occupied a place in the European and American markets, and then the "Tuxedo" and "Rush Hour" series he took over in Hollywood could sell more than 100 million at the box office.
After the big sale of "Red Fan District", the American New Line Film Company even bought some old film rights of Jackie Chan in the 90s, and in the 4 years after the release of "Red Fan District", 7 of Jackie Chan's past movies were released in the United States, each of which exceeded 10 million US dollars at the box office.
For the world, the global film circle remembers the name of "Jackie Chan", this action superstar from the East, who played a sky in Hollywood and drew a strong stroke in film history.
For us as movie fans, Jackie Chan presents us with wonderful action movies with desperate struggles, standing on the world stage, he speaks for the Chinese and becomes our pride.
In that era when there were no special effects and no superheroes, Jackie Chan was not only our superhero, but also the "god" in the Chinese film industry!
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