The story of Donnie Yen.

Donnie Yen was born in Guangdong and went to Hongkong at the age of two. He lived there until 1 1 years old, and then went to Boston, Massachusetts. There, Donnie Yen spent his childhood. His mother, Bow Sim Mark, is a world-famous master of martial arts and Taiji, and founded the internationally renowned China Wushu Institute. Therefore, Wushu has become an important factor in Donnie Yen's life. The footsteps of childhood gradually led him to the lonely road of exploration, and the fate of Donnie Yen's life may be doomed from now on. But at first, Donnie Yen studied classical piano and liked Chopin. Music became another source of inspiration in his life. His father, Zhen Yunlong, is the Boston editor of Sing Tao Daily, an international Chinese newspaper. He can play the violin and erhu, which is a China stringed instrument with similar timbre to the violin. His mother can sing soprano. Young Donnie Yen's delicate and keen sense of rhythm was finally integrated into the films he directed, adding temperament and depth to the films. ,

"Music and action are the same expressions of basic human vitality, just like pictures used to decorate the screen."

Almost from the moment her son could walk, Donnie Yen's mother began to train him in the atmosphere of martial arts. Under the cultivation of his mother, Donnie Yen is proficient in China traditional and modern martial arts and Taiji Kung Fu, as well as various internal and external skills. As a teenager living in China, Donnie Yen, like other young people, has seen almost all the kung fu movies he can see. However, unlike others, he has seen the movies of Alexander Fu, Bruce Lee and Jack Chen, which shows that Donnie Yen can accurately imitate the actions he just saw in the movies. Sometimes he even skipped class all day and watched several movies in a row. Donnie Yen's curiosity for martial arts and his rebellious personality made him gradually learn and master many different styles of martial arts. At the same time, he also communicated with friends and went to other schools in order to explore different contents. After feeling the power and power of Wushu, Donnie Yen insisted on exploring the true meaning of Wushu.

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Star road attached?

As a hot-blooded teenager, Donnie Yen is a rebel, rampaging through the notorious violent area "meanstreet". His parents were very worried about this, so they took a roundabout way to turn this little wild horse back-sending him to Beijing to receive two years' training in the famous Beijing Wushu Team. His coach is also Jet Li's coach. Donnie Yen became the first non-mainland student accepted by this school, thus setting a precedent for later international students. Although the training is very tense and harsh, Donnie Yen's pursuit goes far beyond this, so this study time is only a short stay on his exploration road. On his way back to the United States, he stopped in Hongkong and was introduced to the film director Yuan Heping, 1999 The Matrix. ) action guidance. Yuan Heping, the director who paved the way for Jackie Chan with "The Snake Shadow" and "Drunken Boxing", was looking for a kung fu star. After meeting Donnie Yen, Yuan Heping decided that he was the one in his mind, and a new journey began.

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Martial arts all-rounder?

Inspired by idol Bruce Lee, Donnie Yen not only dabbled in many different styles of fighting, but also established his own unique martial arts system. On the screen, Donnie Yen's self-improvement in martial arts is manifested in the combination and assimilation of different martial arts styles. From the early stage of Xiao Tai Chi, his endless body skills are proof. In Tigercage series, Donnie Yen's mastery of western free fighting once again shows his versatility in martial arts. The Iron Monkey is mainly about China's traditional kung fu. Donnie Yen created a vivid and full Huang Qiying with his unforgettable performance, making this film the most influential kung fu film in recent ten years. In this film, he made Hong Quan shine. But interestingly, Donnie Yen said that he didn't really understand Hong Quan, and he attributed his physical and mental skills on the screen to his original martial arts philosophy. During his silver career, Donnie Yen never relaxed or stopped training. Over the years, Donnie Yen has been constantly enriching himself, so his martial arts accomplishment is also constantly improving. It has reached the realm of unity of form and spirit and harmony between man and nature. With the continuous improvement of Donnie Yen's martial arts attainments, Xiaolong's philosophy also means more profound significance to him. As a martial arts expert, Donnie Yen said: I have been practicing martial arts for many years, but I haven't really analyzed and studied martial arts itself. Basically, I agree with Bruce Lee: As human beings, we all have only two arms and two legs, so it is unlikely that there will be many different ways of fighting. But each martial art has its own uniqueness.

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2 Road to Warriors-Resume of Donnie Yen, an international action superstar

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Screen breakthrough?

Yuan Heping appreciates Donnie Yen's extraordinary physical qualities and skills, and their series of films have taken Hong Kong action movies into a new direction. Before the first starring film "Little Taiji", Yuan Heping gave full play to Donnie Yen's martial arts talent in "Daoshu 2". Donnie Yen plays Yuan Heping's brother and actor Kaohsiung's body body double in the film, which is peerless, and the actions that others can't match are perfectly displayed on the screen. In the immature youth of 19, Donnie Yen starred for the first time. This film is Little Taiji, one of the last traditional kung fu films. The final decisive battle at the end of the film is the climax of the whole film. Later, Donnie Yen starred in other works of Yuan Heping. As a martial artist and actor, his progress in two aspects is obvious to all. Rival in Love (1985) is a light comedy adapted from the popular break dance craze at that time. Donnie Yen's performance in this film is brisk, agile and witty, and at the same time, he shows his comic talent. TigerCage series is a collection of action films about city police and bandits. The fighting is fierce and quick, and each film has raised the intensity of the previous work to the extreme. Until now, the audience is still arguing about which one is their favorite. In the special police killing dragons (1989), Donnie Yen introduced his friends, talented martial artists MichaelWoods and StephanBerwick into the film, and their fighting combined taekwondo footwork, western boxing and traditional China kung fu. Among the direct witnesses, Donnie Yen also introduced his friend JohnSalvitti. Donnie Yen ingeniously designed a very realistic fighting scene, which can most regrettably reflect the profound martial arts skills of both opponents. In Money Laundering (1990), based on his own progress and extensive study of fighting art, he created his own unique and modern fighting action. Many people think that the wild and fierce fighting in this movie is definitely the best in the history of action movies.

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Kung Fu Long?

Costume Kung Fu movies range from Tsui Hark's work "Men should strive for self-improvement" to Hong Kong Kung Fu movies. Tsui Hark wants to find Jet Li, who starred in the first Huang Feihong film, an extreme opponent with superb martial arts. He chose Donnie Yen. In fact, the two action scenes in which Donnie Yen and Jet Li participated have become unparalleled classics in kung fu movies. In both plays, Donnie Yen gave full play to his talents and designed a brand-new action-creatively using a soaked cloth as a weapon. Donnie Yen's outstanding performance in this film was greatly appreciated, which earned him the nomination of 1992 Hong Kong Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This film also established Donnie Yen as a kung fu movie superstar. Later, he starred in a series of well-received works, such as meteor butterfly sword with Yang Ziqiong, Xinlongmen Inn with Maggie Cheung (remake of Hu Jinquan's classic film), and Beloved Iron Monkey, in which he played Huang Qiying, the father of young Huang Feihong. In Iron Monkey, Donnie Yen performed the famous stunning shadowless foot in the scene with the Shaolin renegade monk. This is the most far-reaching kung fu movie scene in the last decade. In tigercage series, Donnie Yen's martial arts skills revealed by many famous scholars have been easily reproduced in costume kungfu movies, which fully shows that he is an omnipotent martial arts generalist.

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Artistic sense?

However, Donnie Yen is not satisfied with just performing in front of the camera, and his exploration has a new goal. Donnie Yen is very grateful to Yuan Heping for his exploration and cultivation, and also cherishes what he learned from other directors. Donnie Yen is quick-thinking and quick to accept knowledge. He is also a meticulous observer. His curiosity, intuition and artistic sense helped him a lot. He began to develop his own unique aesthetic philosophy and style, and applied it to the screen-from action guidance, lens positioning, related technical work to composition and editing. The combination of dazzling editing techniques with stretching close-up techniques and over-the-shoulder shooting, with the help of deconstructed segmented action scenes, shows intense scenes and melodious lyrical music, which is the symbol of today's Donnie Yen films. However, in Donnie Yen's early works, we can get a glimpse of his original rhythmic skills. By 1994, Donnie Yen had been a martial arts director in many films, including Wing Chun (in which he co-starred with Yang Ziqiong again).

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Create your own machine?

When the new wave of traditional Kung Fu movies ended, Donnie Yen turned to television and continued to hone his directing skills in a world full of great pressure. He starred in and directed two excellent TV series Hong Xiguan and Jingwumen. The former tells the story of Hong Xiguan, an upright martial arts master during the Manchu rule of Han nationality in Qing Dynasty. The inspiration for the latter film comes from Bruce Lee's classic of the same name (directed by Luo Wei) 197 1. The story background of Jingwumen is Shanghai occupied by Japan during the Great Depression in 1930s. In addition to Bruce Lee's Zhen Chen, Jackie Chan also played this role in the later stage of Luo Wei, and Jet Li also played this role in Chen Jiashang's Hero of Jason Wu. It's Donnie Yen's turn this time. The 30-episode series filmed by ATV Hong Kong has given Donnie Yen enough space and time to enrich the characters in the series, portray more full and wonderful background stories, and relive the characters and stories depicted in the old classics in the audience's mind through delicate narrative techniques. In this drama, Donnie Yen also retains the plot and image familiar to the audience in Xiaolong's original work. For example, Zhen Chen, dressed as white as snow, went to pay homage to his master's grave; Zhen Chen went to Hongkou Dojo to kick the pavilion and was fearless in the encirclement of Japanese samurai. In the filming process, Donnie Yen not only showed various movements with different styles, but also used all key factors including photography, editing, sound and color effects to create a grand and harmonious background atmosphere for the characters in the play. Romance, entanglement, foreshadowing and drama make Zidan's plot unique and self-defeating. This is the unique Donnie Yen, neither Jackie Chan nor Jet Li. Asian audiences call him Zhen Chen when they see him in the street.

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The road of walking alone?

Although Donnie Yen himself has outstanding martial arts talent, he did not go with the flow and let nature take its course, but still chose a lonely exploration road for himself. From 65438 to 0997, Donnie Yen began his directing career with The Legend of War Wolf. He said that Donnie Yen's primary goal is to deeply move the audience. If you can't do this, everything will be meaningless. This goal is clearly reflected in his films and TV works. Many filmmakers like to make movies with grand scenes, complicated plots and violence. However, Donnie Yen hopes that his works can move his audience. When the film ends, the "sadness, romance and memories" depicted in the play can be written in the audience's mind. The film "Legend of War Wolf" cost less than $500,000, but thanks to its unique style, this film enjoys a wide reputation in Asia, especially in Japan. Donnie Yen became the idol of young Japanese fans. The legend of Wolf Warriors has spread all over the world. The combination of hazy and dreamy scenery and gangster stories, coupled with various styles of martial arts, The Legend of War Wolf is in a sense like an elegy for the heyday of kung fu movies. Donnie Yen plays Wenxuan himself, known as the Wolf Warrior, an old man who used to be a killer, trying to persuade his potential guests to give up killing.

Through flashback, the dusty past flashed across the screen like a lucky photo, and a young man with amnesia only remembered the love waiting for him to die. The experimental lens processing and dynamic rhythm in this film can actually be seen in Donnie Yen's previous TV works. Unlike most producers of Hong Kong Kung Fu films and action films, Donnie Yen did not deliberately distinguish between action performances and plot performances. "Many people ask me how to distinguish between action performance and plot performance," he commented. "In fact, I didn't try to separate them. Wushu is an expression, an expression from the heart to the hands and feet. Like all living things in the universe. A gesture, a smile, or even just walking down the street are all expressions. For me, shooting, editing and music are all about rhythm. It is a part of you. Of course, there are basic technical aspects, but in the final analysis, this is a kind of overall harmony.

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Ballistic kiss?

After finishing The Legend of War Wolf in the quiet rural areas of Hong Kong, Donnie Yen went on to shoot his next film, Killing and Dancing, which took place in the busy streets of Hong Kong itself for 24 hours. His first film, The Legend of War Wolf, is mainly about kung fu, while Killing and Dancing is characterized by a lot of imaginative gunfights in the film, accompanied by Donnie Yen's iconic flying kick and bold editing. The soundtrack of this film was written by Yukie Nishimura, a famous Japanese composer. Yukie Nishimura volunteered to work for Donnie Yen's first film, The Legend of War Wolf. Both films depict a romance on the edge of the line of fire between life and death, and both reflect the free use of the unique perspective of one of the most passionate young directors in Hong Kong. In Dance of Killing, Donnie Yen plays the killer cat, and his love is far from the world. The shooting cost of this film is less than half a million dollars, and the shooting environment is extremely bad. Halfway through the filming, the Asian financial turmoil swept Hong Kong, and many sources of funds in Donnie Yen were interrupted. However, in such a difficult shooting, Donnie Yen still makes this work full of thrills through a series of super dynamic and super active action scenes. At the same time, there are gorgeous shooting techniques and romantic and euphemistic lyricism everywhere in the film. This film not only won unanimous praise from Hong Kong film critics, but also was nominated by Donnie Yen for the Best Young Director Award at the 1998 Fantasy Film Festival in Hokkaido. In addition, Killing and Dancing has also been screened in several international film festivals.

The Legend of War Wolf, Killing and Dancing, previous TV works and his action design have all won Donnie Yen a reputation: he is a dedicated filmmaker with clear thinking and can show it on the screen. Not only that, he can also bear the pressure of harsh environment; Shoot high-quality works with limited funds. Donnie Yen never uses storyboards. Like John Woo, movies are printed in his mind. As an excellent observer, Donnie Yen said that as soon as he arrived at the set, he could blend in with the scene and decide where to shoot which shot, what angle and how the actors should move. Donnie Yen himself has made continuous progress with infinite enthusiasm for his work.

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Dragonflies for nine days?

1999 Donnie Yen's career has taken a new turn. He became the first China-Hong Kong filmmaker to co-produce a new German TV series. Donnie Yen flew to Berlin and directed "Code Name: Puma". The ratings of the first few episodes of this album are only after 8 o'clock news (and the performance of the latter is gradually accumulated through 30 years of broadcasting history). After this album was a great success, Donnie Yen directed eight new albums.

After signing a contract with DimensionFilms (a branch of Milla Mei Company) for three films, Donnie Yen made the first film for them, Highlander: The Endgame. Donnie Yen played the role of an action director in the film, and was one of the ghosts of both sides in the conflict. Donnie Yen integrated his unique aesthetics and style into the action scenes designed, as well as extreme martial arts in film shooting. In the next two films, Donnie Yen will, as always, stick to this personal characteristic. 200 1 year; Donnie Yen's classic Hong Kong Kung Fu film Iron Monkey was released in the United States. Bring a new audience to his old works. At the same time, Donnie Yen also worked as an action director in the Japanese film "Fu Yao Ji", followed by "Wesley? Snape's movie oscar pistorius 2 (Blade 2: Bloodthirsty). )。 By repairing Yukime, Donnie Yen opened a new world in Japan and introduced his unique style into a Japanese-made film. All the actors and filmmakers were Japanese. Shura Yukime received rave reviews in Japan, so the producer now plans to shoot a Japanese version of Japanese Angel directed by Donnie Yen this summer. Oscar pistorius 2, produced in Hollywood, is a martial arts vampire movie, and Donnie Yen will guest play the snowman, a vampire warrior who is as cold as ice. Then, Chinese mainland director Zhang Yimou directed Hero. In this costume action movie, Donnie Yen and Jet Li will join hands again, and Donnie Yen will play a noble and glorious assassin. Then Donnie Yen will play the villain in Shanghai Knight. Royal Veyron is a sequel to Veyron in the West, and Jackie Chan continues to cooperate with Owen Wilson in this new work.

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Millennium year of China?

Donnie Yen's outstanding skills, talents and experience enabled him to cross the boundary between East and West freely in Hollywood. He can speak fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin. Born in Chinese mainland, he spent his childhood in Hong Kong and his youth in Boston. He has lived in Hong Kong in recent years and is now shuttling between Los Angeles and new york. Donnie Yen gave a new definition of "globalization". The vitality of this city makes Donnie Yen's career flourish, and he has been roaming around the world. Donnie Yen's films reflect his strong personal feelings and the vivid life of the world around him that he carefully observed. For Donnie Yen, the essence of shooting is the flow, the flow of light and shadow, the flow of music, and the flow of sympathy between artists and audiences. He has brought a brand-new style to the world movies of the whole Millennium and his own road to tomorrow.

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Personality: perfectionist

Idol: Bruce Lee

Occupation: director, actor, action director

Debut: Laughing Tai Chi

Family: Father: Zhen Yunlong; Mother: Bow Sim Mark; Sister: Chris Yen Wife: Wang Shishi; Daughter: Molly