In 1961, when Jackie Chan, who was 7-year-old , entered the Chinese Theatre Academy to study "martial arts", , Jet Li and Donnie Yen on the other side, had not yet come to this world.
During the ten years from 1961 to 1971, Jackie Chan (Yuanlou), who was "a little late in the field", was always scolded and corporal punishment by his senior brother (Sambo Hung), and it was common to not have enough to eat.
Therefore, Jackie Chan, who has been in the circle since he was young, also understands the hardship of life earlier than the other two. Perhaps it is this feeling of hardship that has been followed for too long. Jackie Chan’s early works are basically unsmiling. , Seriously afraid of people.
In 1976, Jackie Chan, who had been "boiled" for five years, finally took the lead role.
In the past few years, Jet Li has won various martial arts competitions continuously, and in 1975 he won the all-around champion of the national martial arts routine competition for the second time, and Yen Zidan began his career in learning various fighting routines in the United States. Although separated by thousands of miles, two teenagers of the same age, either because of life or love, have embarked on the road of "martial arts" separately.
In 1979, Jet Li participated in the competition for the last time and won five National Games gold medals , but his scarred body forced the 16-year-old Jet Li to start a premature retirement life.
, but less than a year after retiring, Jet Li, who had not had time to find an iron job, was inexplicably selected to make a movie, and then it became popular. On Weibo and Toutiao, the self-media has not yet been born, or even TV. In the era when computers were not popular, it was far from spreading across the country as easily as it is now, but Jet Li did it. The movie
is "Shaolin Temple" that makes us hear calluses in our ears.
So far, Jet Li has completed his career in a movie, and with this movie, the limelight has overshadowed Jackie Chan, who has already made 10 movies.
Jackie Chan did not become popular after he became the protagonist in 1976! The reason why
is not popular is very simple: Jackie Chan is not handsome; the old-fashioned action movie Jackie Chan is no better than the predecessors Wang Yu;
helplessly broke the jar, Jackie Chan played the advantage of big nose and small eyes. After successively playing comedy styles in "Snake Shaped Hand" and "Drunken Boxing", coupled with the number of martial arts that do not follow the routine, Jackie Chan became popular for a time, and the box office of the two movies was nearly 10 million.
and Jet Li is different. His debut is the pinnacle, and his debut style is unique. He was unprecedented at the time, and now it seems that most of them will be no one. Jet Li's elegant, neat, and handsome head, become a new style of martial arts. The key bargaining chip to defeat the old-school martial arts.
When Jackie Chan and Jet Li started the fire, on the other side, Donnie Yen was still keen on apprenticeships, worshipping the docks, and participating in various martial arts competitions. When it comes to the background and family circumstances of Donnie Yen’s teenage life, Jet Li and Jackie Chan couldn’t keep up. .
But it didn't take long. In 1984, Donnie Yen came out and starred in "Laughing Tai Chi" . The director was the Eighth Master (Yuan Heping) who had popularized Jackie Chan and had supported Jet Li.
Then, like a brother-in-law, Donnie Yen, played, acted, and took vacations. For more than ten years, he played a lot of film and television dramas, but he didn't make much splash, until 1993 "Iron Monkey" and "Su Qi" "Children" let the audience remember this young man, the habit of daring to fight hard, fast and cruel to the extreme, has also become Yen Zidan's unique style.
and in 1993, Jet Li and Jackie Chan were already "Masters" . The former had already filmed two "Huang Feihong" and one "Linghu Chong", while the latter had already filmed "Police Story" in the third part. .
This time, it was Donnie Yen's turn to shoot the horse and couldn't catch up with the other two, but fortunately, Donnie Yen was really hard enough to practice kung fu. Although the fame did not explode, the film appointments continued, which can be considered a steady rise.
plus Donnie Yen, walked a clever way, and realized the "curve chase".
After Jet Li reached the peak in China, he opened his legs for the first time in 1998 and entered the North American market. He filmed "Lethal Weapon 4". Jackie Chan, who debuted many years earlier than Jet Li, also filmed abroad in 1998. The blockbuster "Rush Hour".
is fate? Or a coincidence? In this way, the Hong Kong movie "Martial Arts Gemini" joined forces to break into the West.
But Donnie Yen, who was too late than them, completed his "Western debut" in 1999. Although he was not a leading role, he was more "forced". He served as the action director of "Code Cougar" .
It is said that this is the producer of "Code Cougar" who flew to Hong Kong himself. After watching a bunch of Hong Kong martial arts movies, he chose Donnie Yen, so Donnie Yen didn’t fight for his father. What he was fighting was actually strength, or " Types of martial arts".
After all, Westerners pay attention to fighting, jiu-jitsu, boxing and other varieties, in the circle of the year, it is true that only Yen Zidan fits most. So
made their debut with three people who had their own early and late debuts, but in this way, at the end of the 20th century, they successively made their name in the West.
was in a trance for another 20 years, Jet Li had been out of shadow for many years, Jackie Chan’s word-of-mouth " gradually collapsed " for many years, Yen Zidan just completed his Wing Chun fight with "Ip Man 4" .
Although there will be works of Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen in the future, the works that these people have taken in those years are no longer likely to be reproduced, because the old people not only have them, but also a group of audiences like us. There will be new idols, new styles and new fans in the future, but those will no longer belong to the three of them and us.
(text/big baby)
