(Tang Jili directed the classic action of "Police Story 3: Super Police".) ）
He is a stuntman, he created the box office myth of the Jackie Chan movies in the 90s, he is the "pretty boy director" with countless scandals, and he is the famous Hong Kong action director Tang Jili.
First, Tang Jili's stand-in, dragon suit and miscellaneous career.
Tang Jili was born on April 7, 1960 in Hong Kong, China, his father Tang Huanting graduated from Shanghai Music College, and his mother is a Guangdong native.
He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and has practiced mantis fist, shape meaning boxing, Wing Chun boxing and other fists.
(Wing Chun, swift and compact, attacking bravely.) ）
Tang Jili finished junior high school in Hong Kong, in 1977, he was admitted to McDonnell College (public high school) in Canada to study, after graduating from high school, he wanted to study medicine, but Canadian medical science did not accept foreign students, so he returned to Hong Kong.
Because of his interest in opera. At the end of 1979, he was introduced to Liu Jialiang by his brother-in-law Shao's martial arts star Luo Lie, and followed Liu Jialiang's disciples Yu YuanWen and Hou Yaozong as his teachers, and entered the show business circle with martial arts.
(Luo Lie, Wang Yu, Zheng Lei.) ）
After entering the industry, Tang Jili, who already had a foundation in martial arts, learned Hong Quan with Yu Yuanwen, and later learned Dacheng Boxing with Lu Xiudong, the president of the Hong Kong Jingwu Association.
For nine years thereafter, Tang Jili worked at various film and television companies in Hong Kong, doing almost everything: martial arts actors, martial arts stand-ins, field notes, assistant directors, producers and screenwriters.
(Tang Jili, who is about twenty years old, is thin, so he often works as a stand-in for actresses.) ）
During this period, he also served as a stand-in for stars such as Chow Yun Fat, Maggie Cheung, Zhong Chuhong, and Zhang Guorong.
(Zhang Guorong's stand-in in "Heroes 2" is Tang Jili, in which zhang Guorong does most of the dangerous actions.) ）
After becoming famous, Tang Jili recalled this period of time: "I also came from the actor, as an actor every day wearing dirty costumes, clothes and sweat stains and sweat smell, every day filming is disgusting"
"Ten years of drinking ice is difficult to cool and hot blood"; nearly a decade of doubles, dragon sets and miscellaneous careers, so that Tang Jili, who has not entered the film school, is familiar with all aspects of the film, he is good at learning and thinking, laying the foundation for the future "blockbuster".
Second, from martial arts instructor to director.
After nearly a decade of polishing, in 1988, at the age of 28, Tang Jili became the executive director and martial arts director of "Angel Action 2: Fire Phoenix Wild Dragon" and "Angel Action 3: Witch Doom".
(Stills from Angel Action 2: Fire Phoenix Dragon Fang Zhongxin.) ）
(Li Saifeng vs. Big Island by Gali.) ）
"Thirty and Standing", in 1990, Tang Jili self-organized the company to shoot the adventure film "Magic Domain Flying Dragon", the first independent director, concurrently as a producer, screenwriter, director of multiple positions, the film was released in 1991, the box office of nearly 10 million, attracted the attention of film critics and producers.
(Starring Li Zhi and Fan Shaohuang, "The Flying Dragon" is Fan Shaohuang's first film to play a leading role.) ）
Third, Tang Jili's peak moment - to create the box office myth of Jackie Chan movies in the 1990s.
Some people have done statistics, as of 2016, the total global box office of Jackie Chan movies has exceeded 20 billion, Jackie Chan broke into Hollywood, won the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award, and its success is indispensable to the credit of Tang Jili.
Someone once said: "Only Tang Jili can tap the potential of Jackie Chan." The number of Tang Jili movies is not much, but the movies starring Jackie Chan account for almost half.
(Hong Kong 1990s film box office,)
a, due to the success of "Magic Wyvern", in 1991, Jiahe Company invited Tang Jili to direct the action blockbuster "Police Story 3 Super Police" with an investment of 80 million Hong Kong dollars, which sold well at the box office, breaking the box office records in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, with a box office of 16.2 million US dollars in North America, Jackie Chan also won the film emperor (Golden Horse Film Emperor) for the first time with the film, and Tang Jili was nominated for best action director.
("Police Story 3 Super Cop" starred Yang Ziqiong and Jackie Chan.) ）
b, in 1994 as the director and action director of "Red Fan District", released in January 1995, the same box office and word-of-mouth win-win, Hong Kong films entered the mainland for the first time to obtain more than 35 million yuan at the box office, and opened the concept of New Year films, in the United States to obtain a box office of 32.34 million US dollars, breaking the record of the highest-grossing Chinese film in the United States.
Tang Jili won best action director at the 15th Hong Kong Film Awards with Jackie Chan for this film.
(Classic stills of "Red Fan District")
(Stills from "Red Fan District")
c. In 1995, he collaborated with Jackie Chan again to choreograph "Police Story 4: Simple Mission" tang Jili won the 33rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards Best Action Director and the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Action Director.
(Stills from "Simple Mission")
Fourth, enter Hollywood and go north to the mainland.
A, in 1996, he entered Hollywood, filmed "Mr. Off the Line", and in 1998, he directed and supervised the CBS company TV series "Over the River Dragon".
("Mr. Off the Line")
b, Tang Jili adopted the production method of Hollywood films for the first time in China, spending $12 million to shoot the action film "Thunder X-Men" co-starring actors from China's three sides of the Straits and Japan, the United States and Europe.
In order to shoot the momentum of "Thunder X-Men", Aaron Kwok and Fujiwara Kika did not use stand-ins to perform difficult actions in person, resulting in injuries one after another: Aaron Kwok's ribs were injured, and Fujiwara Norika's lower leg was fractured.
(Wang Lihong's film debut.) ）
c, went north to the mainland to shoot a series of works: "Ambition", "Male Talent and Female Appearance", "Izumi Hibiscus", "Jingzhong Yue Fei" (producer), "Kung Fu Yoga" (general director), "The Legend of Heavenly Tears: Phoenix Matchless" (producer and producer). ）
("Jingzhong Yue Fei")
(Stills from Kung Fu Yoga.) ）
(Stills from "The Phoenix of the Legend of Tears.") ）
Fifth, "pretty boy director" has a lot of scandals.
Tang Jili married in 1985 and divorced in 1995.
Tang Jili and Actresses such as Fujiwara Shizuka, Lin Xinru, and Lan Yan have all passed on gossip.
(Lin Xin how Tang Jili.) ）
In 2000, Tang Jili and Lin Xinru were rumored for filming the movie "Thunder X-Men". In 2008, Lin Xinru admitted to participating in Luo Zhixiang's TV video that he and Tang Jili broke up friendly on the 2008 Tanabata Festival.
(Stills from the movie "Myth")
As an action director from the Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts, Tang Jili's action style has always been based on the difficult actions of the hard bridge hard horse, winning in the fast pace, many branches, tense and exciting, pleasing to the eye, especially the action design is varied, taking the hard bridge hard horse, fist to flesh kung fu route, but also pay attention to the aesthetic and humorous elements, fierce and not violent, moving and not bloody.