Text | Cai Xiaoma
In Jackie Chan’s 43-year film career, he has supported many younger generations, such as Wu Yanzu and Nicholas Tse in "New Police Story" to break through themselves, "Baby Project" to help Gu Tianle transform, and "Private Junior" to director Ding Sheng.
Although there has not been a "successor to Jackie Chan" so far, this has not dampened Jackie Chan’s interest in finding a successor.
So we saw Huang Zitao and Wang Continental in "Flying Tiger" in 16, Li Zhiting and Zhang Yixing in "Kung Fu Yoga" in 17, and then Yang Yang and Allen in "Pioneer", which was delayed until this year.
Did you find it? It’s all a match of two male students.
One focuses on action scenes, the other is responsible for making a fool of himself, and the two together are the most typical Jackie Chan style.
This was the magic weapon that he had used for 40 years in the world, and it was also the wealth he wanted to pass on.
The other side of the world is that netizens don’t buy it.
In their eyes, Jackie Chan’s image on the Chinese Internet is "duang" and shoddy webgame advertisements. It is a "money-making movie" that is not as good as one. It is an earthy man who has no way to teach his son and has no way to stop him. Many people even express doubts about his status as a "big brother", thinking that "Jackie Chan is an acrobat, he knows a fart movie."
Just like the attribute of the Chinese Internet – forgetfulness.
More idols than idols
If you go back in time to Japan 40 years ago, you will see a different look of Jackie Chan.
In the eyes of the Japanese, he is not a reckless man who can only fight. On the contrary, he is a little fresh meat with a jade tree facing the wind and refreshing sunshine.
Even if we don’t talk about kung fu, Jackie Chan’s appearance when he was young was also crushing compared to today’s little fresh meat.
In the 1980s, when CDs first appeared, Jackie Chan was invited to publish CDs in Japan and broke into the top ten of the annual best-selling list in one fell swoop, relying on neither singing skills nor popularity – but it is very different from the current small fresh meat.
And the backless sweater known as the "virgin killer" that was popular a few years ago, the eldest brother had already worn it for photos many years ago.
Not only is she not a mother, but she is also very masculine.
Even through the black silk fishing net see-through outfit, the strong muscles are eye-catching, but they still can’t cover up the heroism and youth between the eyebrows.
In the era when the Japanese male god was still a solemn and strong man like Takakura Jian, a handsome, cute and energetic kung fu boy suddenly emerged, and he had the super combat power of a strong man who could flip the house with a rag. How could it not be fascinating.
This also led to two Japanese female movie fans committing suicide because they saw the fake news of Jackie Chan’s marriage. In that era of underdeveloped information, the eldest brother had such terrible influence.
In Japan, Jackie Chan is regarded as an idol by stars such as Takuya Kimura and Naoto Takenaka, and is used as a prototype and material library by avid fans Akira Toriyama to draw the world’s highest-selling manga "Dragon Ball".
Such a big brother is obviously an idol among idols, how can he now become what some netizens call "acrobatics"?
The director of the Academy Award for Best Picture doesn’t understand movies?
As for the thought that Jackie Chan can only fight and doesn’t understand the film industry, it’s even more funny.
As early as 1979, Jackie Chan wrote, directed and starred in "Laughing Fist". At that time, he had only acted in three films: "Sword Flower and Firestorm Jiangnan", "Serpentine Diao Hand" and "Drunken Fist". "Laughing Fist" won the annual box office championship in Hong Kong that year. The action design has been better than "Drunken Fist", full of new ideas, and initially demonstrated the subtle use of the environment and utensils that will be invincible in the future.
In this film, Big Brother also made his women’s clothing debut, just like Chunli Cosplay in "City Hunter" many years later.
Jackie Chan has written, directed and starred in a total of 16 films, among which "Plan A", "Police Story" and "Miracle" are all classics with good reputation at the box office, and "Major Crime Squad" and "Revolution of 1911" prove that Jackie Chan can also control film genres other than action comedy.
Among them, "Police Story" won the best film at the 5th Academy Awards, "Red Fan District" won the best action design at the 15th Academy Awards, and "Major Crime Squad" was the best actor who won the Golden Horse Award for Jackie Chan, all of which proved that Jackie Chan is a film all-rounder.
After becoming famous in the Chinese world, Jackie Chan tried to introduce his style to the world.
In 1995, with the "Red Fan District" in North America to win $32 million at the box office, successfully entered Hollywood, and then shot in Hollywood, "Rush Hour", "Shanghai Noon" and other action movies, combined with Hollywood’s advanced film industry system, while maximizing the retention of Jackie Chan action comedy style, won a considerable box office in the world.
In the same year, Big Brother won the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award, and he was awarded the award by Quentin Tarantino, a fanatical fan of kung fu movies who has expressed his love for Jackie Chan countless times. His award speech today seems to be a deep confession from a fan girl to a love bean.
He said:
"It’s up to me to present Jackie Chan with the Lifetime Achievement Award, and I feel like being invited to present this award is like getting the Lifetime Achievement Award, because honoring my forever hero is like winning an award yourself.
Watching Jackie Chan’s movies can stimulate physical energy more than other performers. Perhaps soon, you will want to become Jackie Chan, and you also want to run and jump out of the window, but only he can do it. You want to defeat 25 people, even if you start unfavorably but finally knock them all down, but only he can do it. Jumping through glass windows, high-rise buildings, and being thrown by buses can be handled with ease.
He is the best producer in history, world famous, and the best action actor since the talking movies. Seriously, if I could become any actor, I would choose to have Jackie Chan’s acting career.
We’re going to play you a short video now to show you what makes this man so amazing!
Look, what I said is true! Without further ado, the greatest actor in the history of movies – Jackie Chan! "
Twenty-one years later, the Oscars also awarded Jackie Chan the Lifetime Achievement Award to his old "Rush Hour" co-star Chris Tucker, an award that only two East Asians had won before: Akira Kurosawa, the "film emperor," and Hayao Miyazaki, the living legend of animation.
The award was given to Jackie Chan, and of course he deserved it. Feng Xiaogang even said that "Brother Jackie Chan won the Oscar, that’s his honor for the Oscar."
"Thank you Hollywood," Jackie Chan said after receiving the Oscar for lifetime achievement. "You taught me a lot over the years and made me a little famous filmmaker."
Well, ordinary and unremarkable Gu Tianle, a little famous Jacky Chen.
You think Jackie Chan is in the first layer, but in fact, the eldest brother is in the atmosphere
Users have only seen Jackie Chan’s endorsement of webpage games, and crazy filming is just for bad money. This is the first layer.
Film critics have seen the decline and lack of successors of the entire Hong Kong kung fu film, which is only the second level.
Only the eldest brother is the man who truly stands in the atmosphere.
The kung fu film has declined, and the one who has been most affected is still the martial artist who relies on this to eat. Jackie Chan’s direct disciple Fan Shaohuang is dedicated to the Internet University; Zhang Jin has made cameo appearances everywhere to play villains, but there is never a play to let everyone remember; Shi Xiaolong is only familiar with Douyin.
However, the eldest brother who raised a whole family behind him was like a subway line that was not noticed. It seemed to be losing money every year, but it actually drove the development of a series of industries and changed the ecological environment of the entire film industry.
Li Zhongzhi Huang Weiliang, who came out of the Chengjia class, jointly served as the martial arts instructor of the "Wolf Warrior" series. The martial fingers of "Operation Red Sea" and "Operation Mekong River" are also Huang Weiliang; the martial fingers of "Evil is Not Pressure" are He Jun, Chengjia class; "Let Bullets Fly" refers to Xue Chunwei, Chengjia class; "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" and "Climber" refer to Wu Yonglun, Chengjia class; "Pacific Rim", "Ace Agent" and "Wonder Woman" refer to Bradley, although he is a white person, he also graduated from Chengjia class.
What Big Brother has been doing these years is actually cultivating good seeds for the Chinese language and even the world film industry. Generations of family members have entered every corner of the film industry, standing behind the scenes, working hard to show their achievements, thinking about their own path, and continuously pumping blood for the survival and development of the action film genre.
Big brother is not in the atmosphere, who is in the atmosphere?
Without the big brother’s protection, I’m afraid it’s not that traditional kung fu movies will decline, but that entire action movies and even dramas with some action elements will stagnate or even go back 20 years.
It is said that a certain female love bean is a beautiful girl once in 4000 years, so with such contributions, I can praise Jackie Chan as a once-in-5000-year kung fu superstar, isn’t it too much?
Big brother will always be your big brother
However, it is a pity that no matter what kind of praise and worship Jackie Chan receives abroad, on the Chinese Internet, it is the evaluation of "nothing new" and "eating old".
It seems that many people have forgotten the contributions he has made, and they have not seen the innovations and attempts he has made in new films today at the age of nearly 70.
He is still the big brother, still wears Tang clothes everywhere, and talks about "I’m Chinese". He also really loves this country and is worried about the big brother of Chinese culture going out.
Looking back, the cute and lively Jackie Chan in "Drunken Fist" has not changed at all in his 43-year film career. He is more like the unaltered teenager than anyone else, with a childlike innocence and curiosity about the world, burning his life.
This man, who was not understood by others, took on more and more responsibilities and moved forward firmly as always.
