What's a better way to leave?
Like Bruce Lee, when he left at a young age, he became a, if it was me, for example, shooting "Zodiac" jumping off a volcano to die, which is also a kind of the most beautiful end.
-- Jackie Chan "not yet grown up, but old".
On December 20th, 2012, after several failed transformations one after another, the original Dragon's Zodiac was released after a 3-year absence.
Once released, it caused an unprecedented craze, and ultimately cut down the box office to 881 million.
In today's world, this 880 million dollars may not be amazing, after all, in the rapid development of the present, a small-budget love can break 800 million dollars.
But you have to realize that was nine years ago.
At that time, "Zodiac" fought another box office predator, the two almost dominated 70% of the cinema's scheduling rate, however, in this lion's mouth to snatch the meat to eat, but still hit 880 million, to create Jackie Chan in the mainland another new record.
That box office powerhouse is none other than Lost in Thailand, which opened China's billion-dollar box office era.
There is an old adage that says, in any game, people remember only one. Jackie Chan is a good example.
Even if "Zodiac" was just short of entering the 1 billion gate, even if this box office breakthrough Jackie Chan, but in that key node of reclamation, the only one remembered as the winner is Xu Zheng.
Of course, "Zodiac" is a victory worth cheering for all Dragon fans.
In addition to box office success, the action comedy also brought fans a long time ago, and satisfaction, and for Jackie Chan in the publicity period repeatedly emphasized that this is the last of their own life, people did not care, right as an understanding of the "topic of the hype".
But surprisingly, Jackie was serious.
After the Zodiac, Jackie Chan's work has gone downhill, with dramatically fewer fights and a more comical style of painting, even with newcomers, except for a British Agent, which has been less than stellar in the last few years, and I'm not even sure I'd want to click on Jackie Chan's recent work.
What happened?
It all started with Zodiac.
The Zodiac
It was a trip to Australia to find my mom and dad, and when the sun was going down, I was lying on the kitchen counter moping, and my dad was preparing dinner, and he slowly turned to me and asked:
"Son, I'm already 60 years old, but I can still cook, and I can make a living by cooking. , you're only 20 now, will you still be able to fight when you're 60?
Fang Daolong said to Jackie Chan in the late 70s.
Shooting "Zodiac", Jackie Chan from 57 years old to 58.
That is Jackie Chan's 100th, the whole story idea took 7 years, shooting with less than 2 years, in order to this Jackie Chan painstakingly, at the expense of $ 300 million investment to create, when Sammo Hung, Er Dongsheng in order to reduce costs also proposed to use a green screen to shoot the scenery play, and Jackie Chan insisted! The first time I saw a movie, I was able to see the whole movie, and I was able to see the whole movie.
Shooting a wind tunnel, it is really a wind tunnel in the local.
Volcano shooting, really go to Vanuatu to find an active volcano.
The whole process of filming just travel costs a few million, so much trouble just because Jackie Chan wanted to shoot a real "Dragon's".
What exactly is a Dragon?
According to the words of Jackie Chan, is everything to really, to really scene, really fight, really situation, Jackie Chan manipulated nearly 60 years old body to the French Chantilly Chateau hanging weiya, at the foot of the volcano to play high-pressure catapults, highway running roller skating suit, action scenes completely reduce the year.
At the same time for the audience is responsible for, close to sixty is still fighting for his life, Jackie Chan, is also practicing for their own splendor.
One: the budding of the intention to retire
In fact, Jackie Chan has long birthed a plan to retire, in the shooting of "Zodiac", the idea is particularly strong.
He often thought, with his own contemporaries action actors, including Schwarzenegger, Stallone, etc., has long been shooting gunfighting films, action amplitude is small, the effect is also there, is a kind of action actor's **** with the retreat.
And he was in his forties when he had the idea of transition, every time he returned to the hotel that kind of drilling pain has been reminding him of the increasingly collapsing physical condition, and he did not want to one day fans to see Jackie Chan dying but also to shoot a fight scene, scolding their own poor.
So from the 2008 word-of-mouth failure of the "King of Kung Fu" began, Jackie Chan has filmed "Shinjuku", "Kung Fu Dream", "G.I. Joe" and so on, we can see that Jackie Chan's work on the action scene began to reduce, but in the depth of the plot more refined.
As he said himself, he's trying to transform.
But Jackie Chan doesn't want to upset his fans, just like the full of loneliness in "Who Am I?" in Rotterdam with a leap of faith, he also always motivate himself, still can blog a little bit, still can fight a little bit.
Said defying the old or not, said to give themselves a result also, so there is this "Zodiac".
The film was originally called "Plan 3", the first two were Yugoslavia crashed the back of the head of the "Dragon and Tiger Brothers", the other is a cracked sternum "Plan", each of which is dangerous, each of which is wonderful, choose the title and subject matter, Jackie Chan is determined to go back to the year's courage.
But with the end of the shoot, he finally accepted the reality.
Two: Jackie Chan is getting old
There was one scene in the filming process that he remembers vividly.
The story is about Jackie Chan to go through a frame to figure out an actor, tried several times the effect is not very satisfactory, the result is that once just started to swing, the wire breaks, Jackie Chan embracing the frame should fall.
At that time, the frame was framed by Jackie Chan, which means that he had a very high portion of the frame under his waist, and when Jackie Chan fell, his waist was knocked right on the frame.
That strength, said waist was swung a stick are not too much.
At that time, the entire crew was terrified, assisted Jackie Chan up to check the physical condition, the same group of Zhang Lanxin recalled, turned Jackie Chan's back, waist is blood.
After a simple bandage and rest, Jackie still insisted on finishing the scene.
Woe is not alone, immediately after Jackie Chan was bitten by a dog on the shooting site, since childhood, the sky is not afraid of the ground, only afraid of him, but also to suffer four shots of rabies vaccine.
And then again shooting volcano fall scene.
The crew found a high-pressure catapult for Jackie Chan to lie on to simulate the moment of the fall, at first in order to protect Jackie Chan, debugging is not very strong, and repeated after a few tries, Jackie Chan in order to pursue the effect of the parameters of the insistence on adjusting the parameters to the larger, pressed the launch button.
Then Jackie hit the side again, resulting in a recurrence of the right eye, shoulder injury.
Of course, this isn't Jackie selling out.
Through the behind-the-scenes documentary of Jackie Chan's look and manner it is not difficult to find out, so that Jackie Chan is frustrated is not the injury, but once a handful of action, and now have to repeatedly have to try several times to be successful, out of the also not beautiful.
Instead of pain, it is helplessness, a kind of helplessness of the body out of control.
At the end of his rope, Jackie Chan almost gritted his teeth to finish this Zodiac.
It is also for this reason that he has been open about his body in many interviews, praying that his fans will forgive him for not being able to do it.
Three: change of mind
Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi in the "reward Lotte Wing old see show" wrote:
body thin with frequent reduction, hair thin crown from the bias, by the matter is also versed in the matter, read people like reading Sichuan.
The story is that although people are old and their bodies have collapsed, they still have the insights and advantages of rich experience and superior experience.
Compared to the body's decline, Jackie Chan's state of mind is growing.
When he was young, Jackie Chan's movie was "one before dinner, one after dinner", what does it mean? 7 a.m. start, he 12 o'clock, after the scene without saying a shot, because the day before drinking a lot of wine eyes swollen face, so do not shoot close-ups, only shoot a distant view.
After filming on 12:30, attempt to eat, eat dinner Jackie Chan ran to a special lounge to sleep, a sleep to sleep to four or five o'clock in the afternoon, woke up with a sleepy face and then shoot a line, and then eat dinner, and so ate dinner, the sky has been darkened, and the crew had to leave work.
And Jackie Chan?
After a day's rest, he took his buddies out for a night on the town.
This is "one before the meal, one after the meal", let more than a hundred waiting for him all day, he shot two plays, the old man chatting about the young man crazy, Jackie Chan feel like a nuisance.
When he got older, he was more interested in behind-the-scenes co-ordination than in front of the screen, when, on the contrary, Jackie Chan changed a person.
For example, he shot the movie again bitter and tired, no complaints, but only to see the construction of the scene, due to the scene does not exhaust fan pandemonium, a few masters nostrils are bubbling when the great anger a.
He is the only one of the most important thing to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of the situation.
He cursed at the person in charge, took Han Sanping, Zhang Hongsen into the scene to respond, even if they pay for the workers to install exhaust fans.
Then again, he would make plans for all.
Where is the place to smoke, where is the place to drink tea, eat to line up, after eating to fold their own bowls and plates, everything has a clear indicator, well organized, Jackie Chan's friends came to visit the class was shocked by the scene in front of him, couldn't help but praise again and again:
Big brother, you're this is!
Finally, Jackie Chan completely "fire", already as a producer, director, starring in a number of roles, he began to mix and art director, photography, house manager, life producer, lighting, music, props, and so on 15 positions, accidentally got the Guinness Book of World Records.
"One of the body in the most people"
Plus Guinness sent the "perform the most stunts of the actor" certification, after shooting "Zodiac", Jackie Chan got two Guinness World Records.
He even learned to watch.
Upon arriving in Vanuatu, what impressed him most was not the scorching volcano, but the steamy atmosphere of life brought about by the withering living conditions there.
He recalled: "When I arrived at the hotel, I met up with everyone, and I saw that everyone was talking to each other about filming, and no one had a cell phone, so the sun was really beating down.
Back to ask, it is because the conditions are too poor no signal, but look at the people in front of the eyes put down the phone face to face conversation, his heart is happy, and even want to let Fann Wong to experience life.
If you pay attention to Jackie Chan's friends will have a rough impression.
In recent years, Jackie Chan has called for environmental protection, advocating the termination of the contract, to devote himself to the public welfare, the entertainment chaos needling, from quietly doing public welfare to the ear, all of this is the point of explosion in the twelve Zodiac only after the beginning of the beginning.
Retreating from the emergence of the body of the debacle, the change of heart, that since childhood advocate Cowboy free spirit of the child, turned into a heart of the world of Confucianism, cliffs, and will not have that a forward-looking screen hero.
Finally, because the cycle is too long by the "Xinhai" robbed the first, into the 101 works, and in the performance of Jackie Chan fighting for his life, but also a few Weiya involved in the action of the clamor of the main, into the fans of the "Jackie Chan is old" of the evidence.
By now, Jackie Chan has kept his promise, and after Zodiac, he has never filmed another big action sequence.
From "Kung Fu Yoga", "Railway Tigers" gradually handed over the baton to newcomers, to "Rush Herald" instead of jumping on the stairs.
In retrospect, what was the significance of Zodiac for moviegoers?
Perhaps it was:
The era of Jackie Chan has quietly come to an end.
Conclusion
But Jackie Chan hasn't left us, he's gone another way.
When he was young, he fought for his life because he was a man of few words, and he could only shock the world by fighting for his life. Now that his body is old, replaced by the popularity of Gossip Girl, his body collapsed, but his voice is louder and broader.
"G.I. Joe" of the family, "Lion" of the anti-war, "Kung Fu Yoga" of the culture, "Desperate Escape" of peace, in fact, each of Jackie Chan's works, can seek his spiritual core.
"I hope that people watch Jackie Chan's, hip to it, and receive a little bit of the message I conveyed, and that's enough."
At the very least, he's still burning himself out for.
Isn't that right?
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