Jackie Chan's Fortune-telling Movie _ Jackie Chan's Fortune-telling Movie

I have worked as a concrete mixer, a cook who cuts vegetables and divides vegetables. I have no money, no place to live, and even cried for my ugly appearance, and lost the opportunity to perform. The bumpy road that Kung Fu actor Jackie Chan has gone through is bitter. Behind the superstar's aura is an unknown history of blood and tears.

Jackie Chan was born in a hospital in Hong Kong on April 7th, 1954.

Jackie chan was different before he was born. He stubbornly stayed in his mother's body for two more months. He is a typical "super mature child". When he was born, he weighed 6 kilograms. Because he couldn't afford the hospitalization fee and caesarean section fee 1500 Hong Kong dollars, his parents almost gave him to the midwife Thomas. Thanks to the timely help of a fellow villager, Jackie Chan and her son were brought home.

Jackie Chan's parents are both from Shandong. They came to Hong Kong 0/2 years ago. Both parents work in the American Consulate in Hong Kong. His father is a cook and his mother is a domestic helper. His family is not very good. Dragon was almost 30 years old when he was born. Before Jackie Chan, they had a girl, but she was married to a fellow villager in the mainland shortly after her birth.

Jackie Chan's father is called Chen Zhiping. When I was a child, Jackie Chan's name was not Jackie Chan, but Chen Gangsheng, which means to commemorate his birth in Hongkong. Jackie Chan was a later stage name. Xiaogang looks like his father, especially his big nose, which is like a mold. Xiaogang students never get sick and have a pair of active legs and hands. Hong Kong students have been studying "Xiao Hong Quan" with their fathers since they were three years old. Hong Kong students seem to be born with "martial arts". My father knows everything, but he is often injured. After practicing kung fu every night, my mother always scrubs her son's wound with warm water, and disinfects it with salt water if there is no iodine.

At the age of five, Hong Kong students entered Nanhua Primary School. He is not interested in reading and often buys snacks from his mother's fare and breakfast. His father called him a "delicious ghost". Nanhua Primary School is full of children from China, while nearby Aoshen Primary School is dominated by "little foreign devils". They think that children in China should be tools for their games. Two groups of students often fight after school. Hong Kong students learned "Little Red Boxing" from their fathers when they were children. They fought against foreign children and were invincible. Even if two or three people go together, they will be beaten on the ground by Hong Kong students. Hong Kong students are notoriously aggressive. The headmaster of a foreign school found a head teacher of a Hong Kong student and told him the story that foreign students were often beaten by Hong Kong students, hoping that the teacher could educate this terrible naughty student. The teacher was very helpless, so he went to Chen Zhiping and asked him to strictly control himself and not to make trouble.

Because Hong Kong students are "delicious" and "eager to learn", their academic performance is very poor. I failed two subjects in the final exam of the first day of next school year and was ordered to repeat the grade by the school. So, he took up his schoolbag again and went to the first grade. However, no matter how teachers and parents care about him, Jackie Chan remains the same and his studies have not improved, so that the first place has become the highest academic qualification in his life.

After Jackie Chan became a big star, he joked many times that his reading career was "reading, and reading is in the first grade".

Parents frown when they see that their son is not the material for reading, but they can't think of a good way to improve the situation. Mrs. Chen discussed with her husband: "I think Hong Kong students are active and playful, and they are good at martial arts. It is better to let him learn martial arts. "

One day after studying with Yu Zhanyuan, my father took Jackie Chan to visit a martial arts school.

This school was founded by Yu Zhanyuan, a martial artist of Peking Opera (later renamed China Theatre Academy). He recruited disciples in Hong Kong, mainly to teach martial arts. He and Jackie Chan's father are good friends. When I came to the Theatre Academy, I saw a row of students with shaved heads standing against the wall, all aged around 10. Yu Zhanyuan, in his fifties, wore a double-breasted Tang suit and patrolled back and forth with a whip in his hand. As soon as he saw which posture was wrong or he was deliberately lazy, he whipped the whip.

Jackie Chan was fascinated with his mouth half open. The young student looked a little scared when he was beaten. The father next to him squinted at his son and thought, boy, you see how hard it is to practice. If you don't study hard, I will send you here to suffer! Who knows, my son was not afraid at all. He proposed to come here to learn martial arts on the spot and boasted that he had already "held the top" and would never be whipped again. After that, Jackie Chan often went to the Drama Academy, others practiced, and he also practiced nearby. Under the son's repeated entreaties, the parents let go. From then on, Jackie Chan began to participate in the trial reading in Yu Zhanyuan Theatre Academy.

Soon, the American consular couple in Hong Kong ended their terms and were reassigned to Australia. They hope Jackie Chan's father can go with them. Jackie Chan's father agreed because of the friendship between master and servant established for many years. Before going to Australia, parents solemnly entrusted their son to Yu Zhanyuan. Since then, Jackie Chan has become a "full-time" student. Before his father went to Australia, he signed a 10-year contract with Yu Zhanyuan, so Chen Gangsheng began ten years of drama school life.

Yu Zhanyuan has a special position in Hong Kong entertainment circle. He moved to Hong Kong in the late 1940s. He studied Beijing opera and martial arts when he was in the mainland, but he was not famous. Even after he came to Hong Kong, he didn't make any achievements in stage performance. His daughter's fame is much greater than his (his daughter's name is Yu Suqiu, and she is the chief martial arts actress in the era of Cantonese fragments). Yu Zhanyuan's main achievement is that he created Seven Little Blessings, which established his status as a star gardener. The so-called "seven little happiness" refers to seven people who got the best grades in Yu Zhanyuan Theatre Academy and later made great achievements in the entertainment circle in Hong Kong, including the great disciple Sammo Hung, followed by Yuan Kui, Yuan Wah, Long Yuan, Yuan Jun, Yuan De and Yuan Biao. The fourth Long Yuan is Jackie Chan.

Of these seven people, Sammo Hung was the first to become famous. Although his later acting achievements were not as good as Jackie Chan's, his career development was broader than Jackie Chan's, and the other six people also had their own destinies.

Jackie Chan shaved his head at the age of 8 and formally took Yu Zhanyuan as his teacher. Every morning, brothers and sisters practice in circles on the rooftop, holding the gyro, and Hong Kong students perform along. Others stand upside down for 30 minutes before stopping. After standing for half a minute, he ran away and danced alone. He thinks this kind of life is very comfortable. However, on the sixth day, Hong Kong students accidentally dropped a walnut on the ground and reached for it in the refrigerator. As a result, he was accused of "playing with electricity" in front of Master. It turned out that the place where he picked up walnuts was the power plug. Master nodded and said it was time for the children to "break fast". So he told the Hong Kong students to kneel down and beat them six times with cane whips, while the brothers and sisters stood by and snickered gleefully.

This is the rule of drama academy, and every freshman has to go through a "fast break". As long as you "break fast", Master can punish people who don't practice hard at will, and sometimes don't give them food.

The daily life in drama school is to practice, eat and sleep. One day, Master told Hong Kong Saint to tie a horse stance just look, put out his hands, put a 20-Jin tripod in his hand, and then burn incense in it. The master is holding a cane whip beside him. Hong Kong's trembling legs were covered with sweat and stars, and nose and saliva flowed side by side until the incense was burned out.

Leg pulling is also a basic skill that must be practiced. The Hong Kong student was dying, so Master called three brothers. One helped him lift his legs, and the other two held his shoulders and pushed hard, pulling the Hong Kong student's legs into a vertical line and sticking them on the wall. Hong Kong's medial thigh ligament was in severe pain, so I couldn't help crying and tears welled up in my eyes.

Tumbling is an event that Hong Kong students both like and fear. The neat movements of brothers and sisters fascinated Hong Kong students, and with their help, Hong Kong students were able to stand on their heads. On one occasion, Master asked Hong Kong students to do three somersaults. After the Hong Kong student completed three somersaults, Master suddenly ordered him to turn around and catch the back somersault. Hong Kong students didn't expect Master to give an order suddenly, and their thoughts were blocked. He started late and didn't dance hard enough. He hit his head hard on the ground and fainted for a while, so he couldn't get up. At this time, a loud roar startled Hong Kong students: "Get up and turn over 20 groups again!" " "Hong Kong students really want to be killed, but I hope it won't come true in the end. Master's cane whip rained down on his ass again. In order not to let his brothers and sisters see the joke, Hong Kong students stood up slowly and mustered all their strength to complete 20 sets of flowing movements. When he sat down to rest, Hong Kong students found that his head didn't hurt at all.

Father Chen Zhiping went to Australia for two years to earn some money, and then went back to Hong Kong to visit his wife and son. I am very happy to see the tall and strong Hong Kong students in the Theatre Academy. The main purpose of his return to Hong Kong is to persuade his wife to go to Australia with him. Mrs. Chen is worried that she has gone to Australia, and Hong Kong students are left unattended in Hong Kong. Chen Zhiping said that he intends to make Hong Kong students the adopted sons of Master Yu Zhanyuan. Master Yu Zhanyuan readily agreed, and immediately sent a gold necklace to Hong Kong students. When Hong Kong students aged 10 saw the plane carrying their parents hiding in the clouds, tears burst out involuntarily. This is the first time Jackie Chan cried so sadly without being beaten.

Members of "Seven Little Happiness" often have the opportunity to borrow guests to perform. When the audience reacts enthusiastically, they will drum up a few somersaults in one breath. Due to the popularity of costume swords and martial arts films in the film industry, they are sometimes invited to make movies. Hong Kong students have excellent grades and are deeply loved by Master.

18 years old, my father returned to Hong Kong from Australia. The ten-year contract of Hong Kong students in drama school has expired, and Chen Zhiping wants to take his son home. Hong Kong students knelt in front of Master, unable to speak, and tears blurred their vision.

Master said, "Let's go and be a good person in the future. When the road is difficult, think about how difficult it is to practice. "

Hong Kong has gone with his father.

Jackie Chan's hard training in drama school for ten years laid a solid foundation for his later development. After leaving the Theatre Academy, Jackie Chan insisted on developing into the film circle. During his time in drama school, he played several children's roles. For example, in the Hong Kong movie Qin Xianglian, it was he who played Qin Xianglian's son Dong Ge. In addition, he also played a role in the movie "Butterfly Lovers". But Jackie Chan's film career was not smooth.

When he first entered the film circle, Jackie Chan was just a handyman in the film factory, helping to get props and adjust the lights. He earns a day's work every day, and sometimes works as a body double and a walk-on for big stars. During this period, he met Chen Ziqiang, deputy general manager of Guotai Film Company. Chen Ziqiang helped him when he was in financial difficulties and helped him become a martial arts coach.

In the early 1970s, a Kung Fu movie storm broke out in Bruce Lee, and Hong Kong filmmakers followed suit. 1972, a man named Zhu Mu founded Dida Film Company in Hongkong. He found Jackie Chan and wanted to promote Jackie Chan as the first martial arts star of Dida Company. For Jackie Chan, who is 18 years old, it's like sleeping with a pillow, so he signed the contract gladly. At the same time, actors such as Wang Qing and Lin Xiu signed contracts with Dida Company.

In July this year, Dida Company launched its pioneering work "Stand out from the crowd", in which Jackie Chan played a supporting role. However, the film was not successful, and the box office income was less than HK$ 654.38 million. As early as a few years ago, the box office of Zhang Che, a famous Hong Kong director, exceeded HK$1000000. The year before last, Bruce Lee's "Tangshan Big Brother" grossed more than HK$ 3 million. In Hong Kong at that time, if a film sold for less than HK$ 500,000, the cost could not be recovered. "indomitable spirit" obviously lost money.

The following year, Dida released another film, Policewoman. Jackie Chan still plays a supporting role, but the box office is still less than HK$ 300,000. Dida company lost money continuously, so it couldn't support it and had to close down.

When the company broke up, Jackie Chan had nothing to do for a while and was in a daze for a while. One day, he felt it necessary to check his "net worth", searched every corner of the room and found 800 copper coins with a face value of 1 yuan. Bored, he went to find someone to gamble on Pai Jiu, and most of them lost.

Almost penniless, blessed by heaven, he was suddenly hired by Regal Company and became a martial arts actor in the company's film Thieves Beat Thieves.

1In the autumn of 972, Li Hanxiang, the ace director of Shaw Film Company, prepared to start shooting "A Full Moon in a Golden Bottle", which was adapted from the classic novel "Jin Ping Mei". Li Hanxiang asked Jackie Chan to play Brother Yun in the film. Although Yun Ge is a supporting actor, he is the leading role in the film, and his scenes are quite heavy. In this film, Jackie Chan initially showed the potential quality and performance style of his wit and humor.

After the release of "The Golden Bottle is Beautiful", Jackie Chan began to be concerned. 1In June, 973, Wei Huifeng directed the film "Little Tiger in Guangdong" and invited Jackie Chan to star in it. This is the first time Jackie Chan has played a leading role in a movie. Who knows that after the film was finished, it was never released, and even the reason was unclear, which greatly affected Jackie Chan's mood. Then, Jackie Chan made two more films, "Flowers are Flying in Spring" and "Shaolin Gate", both of which were supporting roles. It is worth pointing out that in "Flowers in the City", Jackie Chan and Milan, the porn star known as "the flesh bomb" at that time, performed a sex scene in bed. In the film, he is topless, in bed in Milan, kisses and hugs, performing a love affair between men and women. Today, people still use these things to stimulate Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan said that he didn't leave any impression on it. Of course, after he became famous, he refused to shoot sex scenes again. At that time, these two films did not bring any good influence to Jackie Chan. He seems to feel depressed and depressed. Finally, he decided to bid farewell to the film industry and go to Australia.

/kloc-in the autumn of 0/975, Jackie Chan came to his parents in Australia and soon found a job in a construction site in Canberra-mixing and transporting concrete. Although his parents work in the American Embassy in Australia, they don't have their own house because of their humble status. Jackie Chan was allowed to put a small bed in the attic of the embassy as his shelter.

In order to increase some income, Jackie Chan not only worked hard during the day, but also got a job at night, working in a restaurant run by his father and friends, responsible for dividing and cutting vegetables. He is more studious, and when there are few customers, he goes to the bar to watch the bartender mix drinks. Later, he seems to have learned the craft of mixing wine. Time flies, and nearly a year has passed in an instant.

Chen Ziqiang Matchmaking1One morning in the spring of 976, Jackie Chan was still sleeping in the attic, and his mother woke him up and said that there was a phone call for him in Hong Kong. Jackie Chan picked up the phone in dismay. It was Chen Ziqiang.

Chen Ziqiang said on the phone that Cathay Pacific Film Company decided to make a new Jingwumen, starring Jackie Chan, and asked Jackie Chan if he was interested. Jackie Chan was ecstatic and readily agreed.

It is necessary to talk about Chen Ziqiang here.

Chen Ziqiang is a famous "gold medal manager". In his heyday, he had many big-name stars, such as Jackie Chan, Cherie Chung, Zheng Yuling, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung and Joey Wong. Many new artists are proud of signing him as their agent. Although he is not a star, he is more beautiful than a star and earns less money than a star. It has been listed in the list of the top ten artists in Hong Kong by magazines, earning millions of Hong Kong dollars every year. Chen Ziqiang, an overseas Chinese in Malaysia, was also down and out in his early years. It is said that Chen Ziqiang did well in school when he was a child. At that time, local doctors were very popular, so parents wanted their children to become doctors when they grew up, and Chen Ziqiang's parents were no exception. However, before entering the university, Chen Ziqiang indulged in partying and dancing all day, neglecting his studies. As a result, he failed to enter medical school. Later, he had to choose agricultural science. Malaysia is an agricultural country. Chen Ziqiang thinks that studying agricultural science will have a good development opportunity. His major is agricultural economy. It happened that the government donated scholarships to agricultural graduates to go to Hawaii for further study, and Chen Ziqiang went to Hawaii after receiving the scholarships. I didn't know it was really hard until I entered the agricultural science department. I not only had to grow vegetables, but also sent cows, treated pigs and guarded rubber plantations, which was no different from farmers. After returning from Hawaii, he worked in the Ministry of Agriculture of Malaysia for three years, which became more and more boring.

On a visit to Singapore, a classmate who worked as a manager in Cathay Pacific Hotel told him that if he was bored, he might as well be his deputy. Chen Ziqiang quit his original job and became the assistant manager of Cathay Pacific Hotel, which laid the foundation for his future attachment to movies.

At that time, Cathay Pacific also operated the film industry. Although Chen Ziqiang knew nothing about movies, he was soon appointed as the deputy general manager of this hotel. The title is not small, but there are not many men, and the office is just a row of iron houses. Later, because Cathay Pacific stopped filming, only three people were left under Chen Ziqiang. At this time, Chen Ziqiang is responsible for purchasing films for Singapore Cathay Pacific Airlines, but he has no final decision. After watching the movie, he wrote a report, and the boss in Singapore decided whether to buy it.

Chen Ziqiang worked as a manager in Hongkong, and the first filmmakers he met were Qin Xianglin and Tan Yili. Later, I met a group of friends and filmed for a while. He had a deep relationship with the famous "Silver Rat Team" at that time and made some money by cooperating with each other. During this period, he married a female secretary who used to work in Guotai Hotel.

Life after marriage has been bad. He has nothing to do all day. As soon as it gets dark, he plays mahjong with a group of friends in the movie circle, such as Qin Xianglin and Tommy Tam. At the worst, he lost his job and his wife divorced him. In order to have a mouth to eat, he wrote cover letters everywhere. But when the other party saw his resume, he was a deputy general manager with a salary of HK$ 8,000 and a car and a house, so he thought that the treatment he might ask was too high and refused one by one. For a time, he was bored and sat at home knitting that kind of basket with flowers.

Finally, I found a temporary job, that is, sitting at the door of the screening room all day to serve the filmmakers who came to see the screening. The monthly salary is 3000 Hong Kong dollars. Recalling that I used to be pushed around, but now I am being bossed around, I naturally have no taste in my heart.

A very accidental opportunity linked the fate of Chen Ziqiang and Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan was still in Australia at that time. When Qin Xianglin got married, he invited Jackie Chan back to attend the wedding reception. As an old friend of Qin Xianglin, Chen Ziqiang also went to the party. This is the first time that Chen Ziqiang and Jackie Chan get together. Since then, the two have kept in touch.

Let's go back.

1976 In the spring, Jackie Chan returned to Hong Kong after receiving a call from Chen Ziqiang. On March 8, he went to Taiwan to star in the film New Jingwumen directed by Luo Wei. From this day on, Jackie Chan officially changed his stage name to "Jackie Chan".

Luo Wei filmed New Jingwumen to win another kung fu star. He once made Bruce Lee a generation of kung fu superstars with movies such as Big Brother in Tangshan and Jingwumen, at least some people think so. Although Bruce Lee later fell out with him, Bruce Lee died suddenly a few years ago, and all grievances have been settled. Luo Wei firmly believes that he has the ability to win Jackie Chan again, making him the second Bruce Lee.

After four months of intense filming, the new Jingwumen was successfully titled. Jackie Chan's name first appeared on the cast list from the martial arts movie New Jingwumen. It is found that Jackie Chan did not simply imitate Bruce Lee, but created another style of martial arts films. He changed the bloody scenes in Bruce Lee Kung Fu films, and integrated martial arts with Beijing Opera moves, car skills, acrobatics and other skills to create a "humorous Kung Fu film" which was both thrilling and full of comedy, and was well received by the audience.

But it is not ideal in terms of box office revenue. After the film was released for seven days, its income was only HK$ 456,000, and its total income could not be compared with that of Jingwumen in Bruce Lee, which exceeded HK$ 5 million. The fact is cruel, Jackie Chan failed to succeed.

Since then, Luo Wei has been bent on winning Jackie Chan. One day at a friend's house, Luo Wei and Gu Long were talking about the copyright of a martial arts novel and wanted to buy it to star Jackie Chan. Gu Long, who is straightforward, openly said in front of Jackie Chan: "He? How can he play my novel? My novel is written for John Chiang and Tommy Tam. " The implication is that Jackie Chan is ugly. Jackie Chan listened without saying a word, while others were not paying attention, quietly hiding in the toilet and crying. As a last resort, Lowe company let Jackie Chan enter the beauty salon and cut off his double eyelids.

In the following two years, Luo Wei asked Jackie Chan to make 65,438+00 films, including Alley with Few Trees and Many People, Two Meteors in the Storm, Swords in the South of the Yangtze River, Eight Steps of Snake Crane, Flying Over the Clouds, Divine Boxing, Boxing Essence, Dragon Boxing and Dragon Tiger Leaping. At this point, although Jackie Chan has considerable influence, it is far from being a big hit, which makes Luo Wei puzzled.

Is it impossible for you or Jackie Chan? It's hard to judge for a while. Just at this time, Hong Kong Philip Burkart Company came to lend Jackie Chan, and Luo Wei took the boat and generously lent Jackie Chan out.

Wu Siyuan, president of Philip Burkart Company, was a "dark horse" in the Hong Kong film industry at that time (he was the chairman of the Hong Kong Film Awards). The person who takes a fancy to Jackie Chan is his director Yuan Heping.

Yuan Heping is a director, he is a martial arts coach, and he is familiar with Peking Opera. His father, Yuan Xiaotian, is a Beijing Opera martial artist in mainland China. It can be said that Yuan Heping discovered the difference between Jackie Chan and ordinary kung fu actors, and the plasticity and value of this difference. He found from Jackie Chan's previous films that Jackie Chan did not have the chilling cold and strong spirit. He believes that Jackie Chan is not suitable to co-star as a tragic hero with rebellious personality, nor is it suitable to co-star as a handsome and exciting positive hero. From Jackie Chan's fighting performance, he found that Jackie Chan has a certain talent for performing comedies. For example, Jackie Chan often inadvertently shows pride when subduing opponents, and his movements are a bit stubborn. He thinks Jackie Chan may be a great success if he plays a comedy role with superb kung fu. In order to achieve this goal, Yuan Heping tailored a play "Snake-shaped Diaoshou" for Jackie Chan, and invited his father Yuan Xiaotian to perform with Jackie Chan. This "humorous martial arts film" was warmly welcomed after its release. "The Snake Carver" was released 15 days, and the box office income reached 2.7 million Hong Kong dollars, which made Jackie Chan famous.

Because of Yuan Heping's insight, Jackie Chan stepped into the smooth road, and at the same time led the martial arts films that had reached the peak in Bruce Lee era to a brand-new road. Since then, humorous martial arts films have become a new genre of "funny films" in Hong Kong.

After The Condor Heroes, Jackie Chan collaborated with Yuan Heping again, starring in the film Drunken Boxing, and performed on the same stage with Yuan Xiaotian. Drunk Boxing is based on the story of Huang Feihong, a Guangdong martial artist in the late Qing Dynasty. Although the story is fictional, contrary to the previous kung fu film mode, it is humorous in a series of thrilling and fierce fights, which makes the audience laugh in horror. Jackie Chan's uniqueness is refreshing and breathtaking. The film was released in Europe, America, Southeast Asia and other places with unprecedented pomp. Jackie Chan's popularity has greatly increased and he has become a star. As a result, Jackie Chan succeeded in breaking a new path for action movies.