This year marks the 60th anniversary of Jackie Chan’s career.In 60 years,He has starred in, directed and directed more than 200 films, and every inch of his body has been injured from his hair to his toes.
Shooting "Brother Dragon and Brother Tiger" fell from a tree and had a brain operation. So far, my left ear has hearing impairment. When shooting "never to lose", my lips were punctured and I could see my teeth from people.Shooting "England vs. England" tore the abdominal muscles and the intestines ran out. ……
In that era when technology and equipment were far behind Hollywood, Jackie Chan’s films always maintained the core competitiveness that others did not have, that is-
Wonderful fights and dangerous actions that must be completed by people.
In his latest autobiography, I am Jackie Chan, he said:
"When I was filming, I didn’t think about why I wanted to jump this building and why I wanted to jump that bridge. Even if I knew that jumping would break my hands and feet, I would still jump without hesitation.我就是这样，对每一部戏都用负责任的态度，对任何事情都很认真地去做。”
如今，我们的技术和特效进步了很多，但却总是会问：
为什么现在的动作片不行了？为什么出不了第二个成龙了？
这其中的原因，有时代，有行业，也有演员自己。
又或许，纵然今天的演员同样拼命，但成龙终究只有一个。
就像他《警察故事》主题曲的一句歌词： “用生命做赌注，留下了英雄故事。”
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#01
野孩子
1954年4月7日，成龙出生在香港。
母亲怀了他12个月，一生下来就重11斤半，医生都没见过，此事登上了当地的报纸，文章标题称他为“巨婴”。
于是，父亲给他起了个小名，叫 “阿炮”.
※文中所有配图均来自果麦文化出品的《我是成龙》书中彩页。
小时候，成龙家里条件不好，父母在一个法国领事家里做厨师和帮佣，一家三口挤在十几平方米的小屋里，两张床都摆不下，三个人只能睡上下铺。
At night, Jackie Chan cried and made noise. In order not to disturb his neighbors, his mother took him to the garden in the middle of the night and put him to sleep.
Jackie Chan’s deepest impression of his parents from the time he can remember is his busy figure in the kitchen and laundry room.
His father was very strict with him. When Jackie Chan was four or five years old, he was dragged up by his father to do morning exercises and take a cold bath every morning.
Surrounded by children from rich families, Jackie Chan often stays alone because he doesn’t like to play with poor children like him.
Once, he was bullied by an official’s child and returned his hand. Dad was afraid of losing his job, so he took Jackie Chan to someone’s house to apologize. Jackie Chan was wronged, but he dared not say anything.
At the age of 5, Jackie Chan began to go to school and went down from the top of the mountain to school every day.
His mother gave him money to go home by bus, and he often bought food secretly, so that he could only walk home after school, which took several hours.
Jackie Chan was mischievous, didn’t study and fought. He failed in the first grade. His parents thought that he was not the material for studying, so he dropped out of school.
After dropping out of school, Neighbors asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, and Jackie Chan said he wanted to be a flying man.The neighbor smiled and told him that flying now would hurt him, and he would fly when he grew up.
I thought I was free, but Jackie Chan didn’t expect that a hellish life was about to begin.
#02
Yuanlou
In order to make a living, Jackie Chan’s father found a job as an Australian chef and left Hong Kong.
Considering Jackie Chan’s future, his father sent him to China Theatre Academy and signed Jackie Chan’s "indenture for prostitution" for 10 years.
That year, Jackie Chan was 7 years old.
After his parents left, Jackie Chan hid in bed and cried every night.
When he was homesick, he listened to the tapes sent to him by his parents, but nothing changed except a big cry, and then he simply stopped listening. It’s just that Jackie Chan will feel sad at the sight of other people’s parents coming to see the children on weekends.
Yu Zhanyuan, the master of the Theatre Academy, gave his disciples a stage name with the word "Yuan". Jackie Chan is called "Yuanlou", Senior brother Sammo Hung is called "Yuan Long" and junior brother is called "Yuan Biao".
Life at school is very hard. I get up at 5: 00 in the morning to have breakfast and train until 1: 00 at noon. After lunch, I continue to train until night, sleeping only 6 hours a day.
There is no bed in the sleeping room, but only the floor. The carpet has not been changed for many years, and there are often leftovers, leftovers and other dirty things on it, which have become thicker and thicker in a few years.
In addition to endless training, there are all kinds of corporal punishment, so that Jackie Chan and others dare not even get sick.
At the age of nine, Jackie Chan was ill once, thinking that he could escape the training. Who knows that the master told him to get up and do 300 kicks, and then asked him, "Is he well?" Jackie Chan was so scared that he immediately said, "All right, all right!"
Since then, no one in the college has dared to get sick.
However, it is precisely because of the strict training that Jackie Chan can only learn Kung Fu seriously and dare not be sloppy, which also enables him to lay a solid basic skill.
Master Yu Zhanyuan was born in Liyuan, so he often took his disciples out to perform.
Although they are young, Jackie Chan’s kung fu is solid and unambiguous. They can play all kinds of martial arts, such as kicking and somersaults, and have never made any mistakes on the stage.
When I was eating in a restaurant, someone suggested to Master Yu Zhanyuan, "It is better to arrange a group of people to go to the restaurant to perform Peking Opera."
As soon as the master heard that it was ok, he chose seven people from all the people as a performance team and named them. "seven little blessings", Jackie Chan is one of them.
Before each performance of Seven Xiaofu, the master will hit each person with three rattan poles backstage to remind them to take it seriously.
This trick is very useful. Every time after the fight, Seven Xiaofu puts his nerves on edge and performs hard on the stage.
In this way, Qi Xiaofu gradually became a little famous.
At that time, all martial artists in the Hong Kong film industry knew Yu Zhanyuan, so Jackie Chan and others had the opportunity to participate in film performances very early.
Although it’s just a walk-on for body double, it’s also a rare exercise.
But this day didn’t last long. Yuan Long, the elder brother, was the first to leave school because he broke his leg.
Before he left, he said to his younger brother in a big brother’s tone:
“The era of traditional Chinese opera is coming to an end, and movies are the real cause in the future! Come to me when I mix up something in the future! "
Jackie Chan also feels that after studying for 10 years, only the studio has a chance to display it.
So, at the age of 17, Jackie Chan also left the Theatre Academy.
According to the rules, it is necessary to get 10 times of rattan on the day of starting school. Jackie Chan knelt there with a bench and said to the master, "Master, I’m leaving."
The master came over and touched his head: "Oh,no."
After hitting three heads, Jackie Chan turned and left school.
Many years later, Jackie Chan, who is already an international superstar, received a phone call when he was filming "Who am I" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Master passed away.
Hearing this news, Jackie Chan decided to temporarily add a scene of jumping off the Rotterdam building.
Later, this shot was awarded by Guinness World Records. "The most dangerous stunt shot in film history"Go down in history.
People asked him, "Why did you add that scene?"
Jackie Chan said: "I want to dedicate this jump to the master."
#03
Dragon and tiger warrior
As Sammo Hung said, after that, Hong Kong movies flourished, and many people devoted themselves to movies.
Jackie Chan also began to be a walk-on in martial arts.
He is waiting for the phone every day. He is in the toilet. As soon as the phone rings, he flies to answer it.
"hey! 6 o’clock on Monday! "
"Roger that!"
Once you miss it, a job opportunity is gone.
He and a group of martial artists hang around the studio every day, waiting to be extras with all kinds of human flesh backgrounds or being beaten, and sometimes he is called to do some manual work to help move things.
At that time, the martial arts can be done at a certain level. "Dragon and Tiger Martial Master"Not only is it famous, but it also makes more money. This was also Jackie Chan’s goal at that time.
Therefore, he is very serious on the set, always thinking about acting, observing the work of the crew, and slowly discovering the knowledge that others have not discovered.
For example, playing a dead body, many people are inexperienced, and the director will hold his breath as soon as he shouts to turn it on. As a result, when he really starts, he will soon be unable to hold back, so he is cursed by the director.
But Jackie Chan is different. Every time he waits for the camera to sweep over, he begins to hold his breath.
After going back and forth several times, the director remembered him: "The man died well! Next time you need to die, call him. He will die very well. "
Someone laughed at him. What’s the use of playing a dead body so seriously? But Jackie Chan felt that the opportunity came little by little.
But his seriousness has not been recognized.
When the parents of their first girlfriend heard about Jackie Chan’s career, they insisted that he break up with his daughter: "A martial art will never make a difference. Don’t touch my daughter. "
No matter how hard and dangerous the studio is, it is not as bad as this sentence for Jackie Chan. For the first time, he realized the cruelty of reality and felt that his self-esteem was severely trampled.
He smashed all the furniture and began to think about the future: "Maybe before that, I didn’t dare to get ahead, but after that, I knew I had only one way to go in the future."
Jackie Chan worked even harder after his lovelorn love. He devoted all his energy and physical strength to his work. Arrive at the set the earliest every day, finish work at the latest, and strive to do difficult and dangerous moves: "I want to prove myself with actions that others can’t finish."
With this hard work, Jackie Chan got his wish and became a dragon and tiger martial artist.
It was also in that year that he met his idol Bruce Lee.
In 1971, Bruce Lee returned to Hong Kong, and with the help of two films, Tangshan Big Brother and Jingwumen, a new era of kung fu films was opened.
In "Jingwumen", Jackie Chan plays a wannabe who is beaten by Bruce Lee. He is kicked and fell down hard for fear of losing face in front of idols.
howeverThe craze for kung fu films just started when Bruce Lee died unexpectedly, and Hong Kong kung fu films instantly sank to the bottom.
#04
"The second Bruce Lee"
Jackie Chan, who lost his job, went to his elder brother Sammo Hung for help, but Sammo Hung said, "I can’t even keep my job."
Desperate, Jackie Chan remembered what Cai Lan had said to him: "If you like movies, you have to do it for a long time. When the film industry is at a low ebb, you have to find a way to survive."
So Jackie Chan went to Australia to find his parents.
In Australia, Jackie Chan started as a cement worker. The workmates gave him a foreign name, Jack. Jackie Chan thinks that Jack Chan can’t read smoothly, so he adds a "Y" after Jack, which becomes Jacky Chan, and then slowly becomes Jackie Chan.
At 5 o’clock every morning, Jackie Chan gets up and goes to the construction site to move bricks, mix mud and push a wheelbarrow.
In the evening, he often suffers from insomnia, thinking of his dreams and looking at the present situation, he feels very sad.
In order to paralyze himself, he found another job as a waiter in a restaurant. He built a house on the construction site during the day, worked in a restaurant at night, turned around like a machine, and fell asleep when he got home.
Mother saw his sadness: "Son, what you are doing now is not what you want to do, nor what you should do."
In a word, Jackie Chan couldn’t stand it any longer: "It took me 10 years to learn kung fu, but now it’s useless, as if I had learned it for nothing, and I don’t know what I should do …"
Fortunately, he didn’t give up his dream. Every night after work, he would play sandbags and practice boxing, dumbbells, push-ups and sit-ups …
Until one day, Jackie Chan received a phone call from Hong Kong, saying that director Luo Wei was going to make a new Jingwumen:
"We’d like to invite you to be the leading actor, with a small salary of only HK$ 3,000."
Luo Wei is the director who personally won the popularity of Bruce Lee. He has filmed such works as Jingwumen and Tangshan Big Brother, and it is his first time as a leading actor. Jackie Chan immediately agreed.
As for whether HK$ 3,000 is enough to live, what should I do if the movie fails? I never had time to think about it.
He just wants to fight for himself again.
In 1976, Jackie Chan returned to Hong Kong to film New Jingwumen.
However, at that time, all the directors of Kung Fu films in Hong Kong wanted to create a second Bruce Lee, and Luo Wei was no exception.
The male host of "New Jingwumen" is bent on revenge, cold-blooded, angry and inhuman. Jackie Chan doesn’t like this role very much and feels that it is not suitable for him, so he plays it very painfully.
The actor who voiced him also laughed at him behind his back: "Is this person still Jackie Chan?" Adult. Big nose and small eyes, how can they be red? Waste of money! "
Jackie Chan cried while listening. He didn’t want to be the second Bruce Lee.
In this way, one, two, and several consecutive films were dismal at the box office, and Jackie Chan became a success. "box office poison".
#05
Jackie Chan
Just when Jackie Chan was most depressed, a boss named Wu Siyuan found him.
At that time, Wu Siyuan boldly used Yuan Heping, who was still doing martial arts instruction, to make a play for Jackie Chan.
Wu Siyuan asked Jackie Chan: If you were allowed to make a movie that was completely dominated by yourself, what would you like to make? "
Jackie chan didn’t answer at that time, but thought for a moment, he said:
"Now everyone wants to make a second Bruce Lee, but he is already a myth, and no one can surpass him. Bruce Lee is God and Superman in the eyes of the audience, so I will be an ordinary person.
I hope to play the little people, who also have many shortcomings and helplessness. They can’t do everything, let alone be heroes or heroes.
Bruce Lee kicked his leg high, so I kicked it lower. When Bruce Lee fights, he uses a roar to show his imposing manner, so when I fight, I use a face to show how painful I am … "
After listening, Wu Siyuan said happily: "We are going to make such a movie!"
With the real kung fu of hard bridge and hard horse, and humorous action design, Jackie Chan gave full play to his specialty in this play, and the audience was excited and happy. This is-
Snake-shaped tricky hand.
After the release of Snake-shaped Diao Hands, it immediately caused a sensation throughout Hong Kong, affecting Japan and Southeast Asia, and its achievements caught up with Bruce Lee’s works.
Most importantly, it set off a new wave of kung fu movies: kung fu and comedy.
Then, on the basis of "Snake-shaped Diao Hands", Jackie Chan joined the scene of making fun with utensils and launched "Drunken Boxing", which not only hit the Asian market, but also broke the box office record of Korean film history.
Jackie Chan went from "box office poison" to "box office panacea" in one fell swoop.
At that time, two major film companies in Hong Kong, Jiahe and Shaw, found Jackie Chan at the same time.
He Guanchang, the boss of Jiahe, said to Jackie Chan:
"Of course, we set up a company to make money, but I assure you that as long as you make a film for Jiahe, you can shoot and make it completely according to your own ideas, and I won’t give you mandatory budget restrictions and production deadlines. You are responsible for filming, and we will take care of the money. "
It was this sentence that made Jackie Chan finally choose Jiahe.
Then, Brother Out, Master Long and Plan A were box office hits.
The era that belongs to Jackie Chan is coming.
There is a scene in Plan A in which Jackie Chan falls to the ground from a five-story clock tower.
When shooting, I don’t know who revealed the news. Everyone knew that Jackie Chan was going to jump off the bell tower and didn’t need body double.
As a result, a large number of people came to the scene to watch.
The more people there were, the less Jackie Chan dared to jump, and he dragged on for six days.
On the seventh day, Sammo Hung saw that Jackie Chan had not jumped yet, and stood downstairs and cursed: "When will you wait?" I have no place to park every day, and I have to walk up. Are you shooting or not? "
Being scolded by the big brother, Jackie Chan came to the fore. Then, a layer of cloth awning cracked, two layers of cloth awning cracked, and Jackie Chan crashed to the ground with a crash. His first thought was: "Not dead".
The success of "Plan A" has a special significance, which is to create the most important label of Jackie Chan’s film career-
Perform extremely dangerous stunts in person, without body double.
Since then, Jackie Chan has been blacklisted by insurance companies all over the world, and no insurance company will underwrite Jackie Chan’s film.
#06
Chen Jiaju
In 1980, Jackie Chan went to Hollywood to develop, but his first work, Kill the Hand Trench, was dismal at the box office.
Five years later, Jiahe set up a branch in the United States, and Jackie Chan broke into Hollywood again.
In a play, Jackie Chan plays a new york policeman. In order to meet the needs of the international market, the director hopes to make Jackie Chan a "tough guy" like Clint Eastwood.
Jackie Chan didn’t want to, but the director insisted on his own ideas, resulting in poor box office and word of mouth.
Back in Hong Kong, Jackie Chan is eager to shoot a film about the police in his own way and prove it to the American director of that film.
Thus, never to lose was born. Everyone remembered the name of a Hong Kong policeman: Chen Jiaju.
In "never to lose" series, Jackie Chan used his deadly high-risk actions to the extreme.
From the top floor, which is six stories high, grab the iron rod covered with colored lights, steel wires and blasting devices and slide down. This action brought him second-degree burns on his hands, blood all over his face and broken sugar glue glass slag all over his body.
When jumping from the rock to the plane, his head was directly scraped by the propeller of the helicopter, and his hat was ground on the spot, which almost killed him. Because it was too dangerous to remake, this mistake was directly put into the feature film.
After falling from the plane into an icy lake at MINUS 15 degrees Celsius, it took more than an hour to soak in it. A nurse accompanying him told him, "If you don’t come up, you will close the play. If you go on like this, you will die."
There is a very popular true story that Jackie Chan chats with Spielberg.
Jackie Chan asked Spielberg, "Like your ET and Jurassic Park, how did you put those people and dinosaurs together and make the special effects so real?"
Spielberg said, "Oh, this is very simple. I just keep pressing all kinds of buttons, that is, button, button." (button, button, button). "
Then Spielberg asked Jackie Chan, "How did you do so many dangerous moves when you were filming, either jumping off the roof or jumping off the canyon?"
Jackie Chan said, "Oh, mine is simpler, that is, rolling, action, jump, cut, hospital." (Start, shoot, jump, cut, hospital). "
#07
Jackie Chan
In 1996, Jackie Chan was invited to be an award-winning guest at the Oscar for the first time.
At the home of his good friend Stallone, Jackie Chan saw the golden statuette and couldn’t put it down. At that time, he silently said to himself, "I want to take one, too."
At the awarding ceremony, he met many international stars for the first time, including Tom Cruise, Nerulas Cage and will smith. Jackie Chan was too nervous to say hello, so he stood at the door by himself.
Two years later, "Rush Hour" exploded and became The only movie in Hollywood starring a Chinese star with a box office of over $200 million.
Since then, Jackie Chan has entered the 20 million-pay club, becoming a Hollywood first-line superstar on par with Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis and Nicolas Cage.
At that time, all action groups in the United States were using Jackie Chan movies as teaching materials.
As long as Jackie Chan goes to the United States to film, the American script has only one sentence in the paragraph of the action play: “let Jackie Chan design”
When everyone goes to Hollywood to shoot action movies, they will take the video of Jackie Chan’s movie to find a competent action team and tell them: “ I want this one-Jackie Chan Style. "
Stallone said: "Whenever there is no inspiration, we will watch Jackie Chan’s videos. We are all learning from Jackie Chan. "
He specially arranged a dialogue in Super Men, and the other party asked him, "How can you fight so well?" Stallone said, "I watch Jackie Chan movies."
In order to invite Jackie Chan to come to the Netherlands to film Who am I, the mayor of Rotterdam not only blocked the whole building, but also used the real army of land, sea and air to cooperate with him.
French castles and gardens with a history of hundreds of years have always been forbidden to outsiders, but they are only open to Jackie Chan, who is allowed to shoot the Chinese Zodiac.
The family class under Jackie Chan is even more open, and it has become one of the best martial arts instructors and action directors all over the world.
In Wolf Warriors, Evil Doesn’t Suppress Righteousness and detective chinatown in China, the action director is a family class;
Wonder Woman and Kingsman’s Twilight abroad, the martial arts instructor or the family class.
When filming "Zodiac", Jackie Chan thought more than once that it would be great if Tong Shou could return to China through the power of movies.
In 2013, the French Pino family announced that they would send rabbit heads and mouse heads back to China.
The reason why Pi Nuo made up his mind to send the two bronze heads back to China was because he saw the film Zodiac when he was flying.
Many years ago, Jackie Chan watched the Oscar ceremony with his parents. His father asked him, "You have won so many film awards all over the world, when will you also win a golden statuette?"
Jackie Chan had to laugh and say, "Dad, I’m just an action comedy …"
Twenty years later, Jackie Chan received a phone call on the set and learned that he had won the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award.
Unbelievable, he asked Cheryl, president of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts, "Why me?"
Cheryl replied:
"When we announced the award criteria for this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award to 50 voters, a director said that if the criteria for this award were like this, wouldn’t that person be Jackie Chan?
Jackie Chan has been in the industry for so many years, directing, acting and directing his own movements. His works have influenced generations and many of us in the same industry. To this day, no one in the whole industry does not know his name.
If the winner must be recognized by the whole world, make outstanding contributions and have a far-reaching impact on the development of the film industry, and work tirelessly for a lifetime, then I think this person is Jackie Chan. "
She went on to say:"The director finished this passage and asked for a week. Everyone had no opinion. 50 people in the audience raised their hands together and Jackie Chan passed it unanimously."
This is the first time in Oscar history that the lifetime achievement award was unanimously passed.
Jackie Chan is the first Chinese to win this award and the youngest winner in the history of this award.
After working for 56 years, making more than 200 films and breaking many bones, Jackie Chan finally owns this golden statuette.
For half a century, the name "Jackie Chan" has always been a myth in people’s eyes, no matter whether they go to any country in the world.
Schwarzenegger, who is also an action superstar, once sincerely envied:
"How many stars are fleeting? They are particularly hot for a certain period of time and then disappear without warning. But Jackie Chan, he has been the protagonist for decades-decades. "
#08
ending
In 2012, Jackie Chan was awarded two Guinness World Records, namely:
"The living actor who expresses the most stunts" and "the filmmaker who holds the most positions in a film".
Today, ten years later, Jackie Chan is 68 years old, still making movies, performing stunts and wearing several hats.
In an era of lying flat, if we can learn anything from Jackie Chan, who is 68 years old, I think it is the words that sound the most vulgar, simple and direct:
Seriously, desperately, and persistently …
Just like Jackie Chan used to work in Australia at the low point.
Every afternoon at 4 o’clock, when he comes home from the construction site, he will pass through a forest where his mother will wait for him.
In order to pretend that he is not tired in front of his mother and let her know that he is happy, every day when he goes to the Woods, no matter how tired or depressed, he will stop to pat the dust off his body, cheer up, whistle, come in and give his mother a big hug.
Years later, Jackie Chan wrote this scene into a song called Ambition is in my chest》, The first sentence of the lyrics is a true portrayal of his mental journey:
"pat the dust on your body and cheer up your tired spirit."
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