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After Jet Li released his last Hong Kong film" "The King of Killers" in 1998, he went to the United States alone to develop, vowing to show his ambitions in Hollywood.
That year, he participated in Mel Gibson's "Deadly Weapon 4", playing a gangster villain in the film, but the newcomers who "just entered the circle" did not have too good treatment, not only the film remuneration was very low, the role was still small, and there were many grievances during filming, and the end of the film had to be abused very badly before receiving the bento.
But the film also made a good start for Jet Li's development in Hollywood.
Two years later, he finally waited for the first Hollywood movie he starred in, "Deadly Romeo", produced by Time Warner, and the title and story also came from Shakespeare's love book "Romeo and Juliet".
This is also the only love film that Jet Li has starred in since the film, and it can be seen from the poster that it is very different from his previous drama action movies.
But what is different from the norm is not only the film type, but also the setting of this Romeo love in the film is also extremely "strange".
In our imagination, Romeo and Juliet should be like this...
Or something like this...
But we never expected it to be like this.
You read that right, the "Juliet" here is the African American singer Arya Dana Howden, nicknamed "Black Pearl", is 100% black, and Jet Li's "yellow and black combination" is also very rare in world movies, and also counts as the precedent of "Roju Love".
The reason why Jet Li made such a big "sacrifice" is because this is a B-grade film for the black community, but after all, it is the first Hollywood film to play the male lead, and it has to be accepted under weighing.
However, the film still specially tailored a large number of fight action scenes for him, and the combination of Chinese kung fu and black rap music is really distinctive.
The story revolves around the gang fight between white, African and Chinese in Oakland, California.
Jet Li's "Romeo" Sun Han and Arya's "Juliet" Trish OuDai, played by Arya, are the sons and daughters of the two gang bosses of African descent and Chinese descent, respectively.
Sun Han originally served a sentence in a prison in Hong Kong, and when he heard the news that his brother Sun Bao in Oakland had been killed, he was so distraught that he punched several prison guards with three punches and two feet, and successfully escaped from the prison and returned to the United States.
After arriving at the port, Sun Han very coincidentally met the Afro-Descendant gang boss Essek OuDai's Qianjin Trish. Under the director's arrangement, sun han and Cui Qian both raised their eyebrows a few times, and then they instantly looked at each other.
Sun Han returned home and saw his father Sun Chu, and Sun Chu's adopted son, Kai, who was in love with Sun Han, this man was tall and powerful, and Kong Wu's powerful handsome brother could see at a glance that it must be the final boss.
Kai appeared earlier than Sun Han, and just appeared on the first show of kung fu, do not know that he is the male protagonist. After Sun Han saw Kai, he couldn't help but have a discussion with him.
After attending the funeral of his brother Sun Bao, Sun Han began to investigate the cause of Sun Bao's death.
He checked the landline phone at Sun Bao's home and found that the last number was to call the clothing store run by Trish, so he found Trish.
It turned out that Sun Bao had been on the phone with Trish's brother Nick, and the two of them should have some kind of connection, so Trish decided to help Sun Han find out the truth.
Of course, it is not so much an investigation as it is a drag, a romance film! You know.
As soon as the two have free time, they date and communicate with each other, and gradually develop feelings.
But jet Li even if he takes over this kind of strange love film has a "bottom line", the bottom line is that there can be no intimate scenes, so we see that Sun Han in the film is still Jet Li's usual shy image, until the end of the movie to come to such a hug.
So you can't be intimate, how to express "love", and how to make black girls fall in love with themselves? Of course, this will use his magic weapon- Kung Fu.
In the passages where Sun Han and Trixi are together in the film, it is inevitable that there will be several martial arts fights, and the opponents are Essec's men.
These martial arts battles are very distinctive, such as when she came out of Trixi's house, she fought another hand-to-hand battle with several big men in the narrow space of the staircase. This section also uses the straps that we usually use to tie the hands and feet of the enemy.
This was followed by a meeting with Essych's men, Mike, on the outskirts, and playing American football with the black men.
Of course, the big men were very violent, first knocking Sun Han down one after another and falling all over his body. Then Sun Han began to fight back, turning the American football game into a fist and foot confrontation.
One of the more sinister and good-looking martial arts fights was when Sun Han was besieged by black brothers, and Sun Han cleverly used a fire hose to subdue the enemy.
After the water pipe was cut, he used the pipe in his hand to play with the rope dart. This is Jet Li's housekeeping skill, and he has spent a lot of effort on these weapons.
After taking turns to show kung fu, Cui Qian naturally fell in love with Sun Han.
With the deepening of the investigation, some mysterious killers appeared and wanted to kill Sun Han to kill him.
When Sun Han saw the faces of these killers, he thought at a glance that they must have something to do with his gang, and it was likely that his father, Sun Chu, had sent them.
At this time, Tracy's brother Nick was also killed, but the truth slowly surfaced.
It turns out that Nick was killed by Essyk's subordinate Mike. Mike already had the idea of killing his boss Essych and replacing him, and in order to clear the way, he killed Nick first.
Later, although Mike shot and killed Isek, he died under Trish's gun, who let him have no protagonist aura protector, and it was so bad!
Sun Han also found out that the cause of death of his younger brother Sun Bao was related to his father Sun Chu.
It turned out that Sun Chu was cooperating with the white gang to sell the reclaimed docks and warehouses to the whites, and because Sun Bao knew too much and threatened to trade, Sun Chu asked his adopted son Kai to kill him.
It is said that tiger poison does not eat children, why there is such a strange plot as a father killing his son in the movie, And Pi Ge can't understand it.
A person like Sun Chu, who is fierce and cheeky, finally swallowed a gun and committed suicide, and this inconsistent plot Pi Ge can't understand even more.
The most exciting part of the film's action scenes, of course, must be a big battle between Sun Han and Kai.
Kai is a very treacherous person, and the most impressive thing is that he put a boiling pot on Sun Han's body, and Sun Han hurriedly used his hands to top it, and his hands were burned by the carbon in the pot, and the scene was extremely tragic.
But in the end, Kai was still killed by Sun Han, although the person was handsome and tall, and he still wanted a bento without the aura of the protagonist.
In addition to the intentions of the fight, the more innovative part of the film is the use of cg special effects to "see through" the tragic situation of the bones on the body of the person in the fight.
Although it is very creative, it is obvious that it is stealing from the "Matrix" released the previous year, and it is not original.
The distortion caused by the heavy use of Weiya also greatly weakens the viewing and fluency of martial arts movements.
These shortcomings are the most reflected by fans, and Jet Li listened to these valuable opinions very carefully. In 2001's "Kiss of the Dragon", he didn't use Weia at all in those fights, and it was rare to shoot a sense of reality.
Although "Fatal Romeo" was released, it suffered from the spit of many fans, and the Douban was only 6.0, but Jet Li was also quite dedicated to filming "Deadly Romeo" that year, and most of the action scenes in the film were played by himself, rather than using a stand-in.
Of course, What Pigo said is "the vast majority", which means that there are several shots that are still useful for doubles.
Not only that, Jet Li also made a cameo appearance in the theme song sung by Arya for the movie, which is the only mv in which Jet Li participated. His friendship with Arya lasted until Arya's death.
Arya is actually a full 16 years younger than Jet Li, and her main business is not acting in movies, but in singing.
"Deadly Romeo" is the first film she starred in, and working with Jet Li is also a rare fate.
Later, she starred in "Vampire Queen", in which she had more amazing performances.
Unfortunately, Arya died prematurely before her Vampire Queen could be released, and she flew out of the Bahamas on August 25, 2001, only to die at the age of 22.
Things are uncertain, and the only thing we can do is cherish the present.
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