1905 movie network feature No matter how green the vegetation is, there will always be a day when it will fall apart, just as the beauty is easy to grow old, the hero will eventually be unable to escape the twilight. In her sixtieth year, Lin Qingxia has returned to tranquility, writing articles to practice calligraphy, recuperating a state of mind, and her face is also blooming with profound years of brilliance; and in two months, Jackie Chan, who has been called "big brother" by the entire Chinese film industry for decades, will also be 61 years old – also in her sixtieth year, Jackie Chan is still busy holding two sessions, serving as a committee member, killing green wine and then opening a banquet, one play after another never stops; a lifetime of being cautious and setting an example for the entertainment industry, but his son’s lack of worry has become a negative teaching material… Many people are curious, when will this "big brother" who is over sixty years old work hard?
Very ceremonial, Jackie Chan’s movie was released in time for the Chinese New Year. This year’s movie is called. This is a movie with a very grand plan. Jackie Chan’s role in the movie is a peacekeeper with great love. He is stationed at the border, speaks a variety of languages, and cares about the unity of the world. He helps the exiled prisoners build the city wall, and helps the Roman soldiers kill the treasonous prince. He gives an impassioned speech in front of everyone, drinks and sings "Why do heroes need to pull out swords and guns, and coexist as friends"…
If "hero" is a dream, then Jackie Chan has fulfilled this dream again and again in the movie. Unfortunately, the movie itself is also a dream. In such a dream, perhaps Jackie Chan has long been accustomed to his life. He said that he can’t stop. Even if the action scenes have to go to the sky and go to sea to hurt his muscles, even if he has to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation for hundreds of people every day, even if he has to work on the spot, move props, light up lights, touch up makeup, and do chores for the crew for free, he is happy.
Jackie Chan said that leaving the set means losing his freedom: the whole world is watching him, hiding from the camera in every corner, and every unworldly young person has the right to ask him a question he doesn’t want to hear or like to hear. In his world, the set is real and controlled by him, because "the same clothes can be worn for half a year," because he can say what he wants to say. But in front of reporters, he has to perform to promote his image. The clothes have changed from one set to another, and the words have been said over and over again like a wheel. There is nothing new or nutritious.
Huo An, who was raised by General Huo Qubing, could not belong in the conflict between the Hu and the Han, so he could only forge an ideal country without race and war in the sandy Yanmen Pass. The movie is the ideal country in Jackie Chan’s life, and because of this, while he still has the time to interpret all kinds of heroes, he is unwilling and will not leave this ideal country.
In Jackie Chan’s own words, on the day I die, I will really finish – when a hero is late, it is inevitable that he will be a little sad; just like so many grand-sounding principles in "The Master of Heaven", it is a bit difficult to play, but it always reveals the sadness of an old general who still has ambitions and refuses to dissolve his armor and return to the field.
To be fair, although Jackie Chan has been filming movies in recent years, the "most Jackie Chan" one is still directed by him. Whether it is Ding Sheng’s or Li Rengang’s "Heaven Will Hero", Jackie Chan will present a different image in the movie than the Jackie Chan we remember, and this so-called breakthrough requires Jackie Chan to ask different directors to help him complete it. However, even if he is not a director, Jackie Chan will never just be a male lead in his movies. He still has to worry about big things and small things. He has become accustomed to this kind of life over the years.
1905 Movie Network: The story of "Heaven Will Hero" seems to have been noticed by you many years ago.
Jackie Chan: I saw something about the ancient city of Lixuan a long time ago, and I thought it was very interesting. Then one day, the director Ridley Scott told me that they wanted to make a movie about this history, and they wanted to come to China for filming. Let me be a producer. Later, I went back to Hong Kong to chat with Li Rengang. He also mentioned this history and made such a story. I told Li Rengang that I couldn’t violate the rules of the film industry and couldn’t tell you the story of Ridley Scott. If you can do a good script, I will shoot it. At that time, Li Rengang didn’t have the confidence to make a movie of this size, so I went to shoot it. Finally, one day he gave me the script and said he was ready. I saw that it was really good, so let’s shoot it.
1905 Movie Network: Then why not just be the director and shoot it yourself?
Jackie Chan: When people are better than me, I will definitely listen to what they say. It seems that I have been working on "Young Soldier" for 30 years, and I don’t understand it at all. At that time, I also handed the story to Ding Sheng very inadvertently. Six months later, he gave me the script and told me what countries were there in that era, and how the clothes should be. I immediately handed the movie to him and let him shoot it. I trust him. I will have many, many ideas. If I let me shoot each one by myself, I may have just finished it today and stopped. So I have been looking for different directors to help me realize these ideas, so that I can finish all my things very quickly, before I retire and before I die.
1905 Movie Network: Even if you are not a director, you are still a producer. Are you still the one who worries the most at the scene?
Jackie Chan: Of course I have to take care of it! With so many people being dragged to a desert, you have to at least provide them with security so that everyone has the enthusiasm and strength to work. I drank 2,000 tanks of water in five days. Imagine how many people there are!
1905 Movie Network: Have you never thought about the quiet life after you quit the rivers and lakes?
Jackie Chan: Many people drink and celebrate when they finish, but I don’t know. They ask me why are you unhappy, big brother, and I will say, I will start shooting again tomorrow, what is there to be happy about? For so many years, I have been filming continuously, just with different people. I have never finished shooting, and I believe that the day I die is really finished. You see, many directors in the United States have taken their little girlfriends to drive a boat for a seven-day tour. I have never done this kind of thing. " If it weren’t for the two sessions, I would have fulfilled my promise as a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. My "Ordinary People" has already been filmed, and now it has been postponed due to other issues. After March, I will shoot "Kung Fu Yoga" again…
1905 Movie Network: Does this also mean being constantly surrounded by all kinds of good and bad news in the entertainment industry?
Jackie Chan: In fact, as long as I don’t stop filming. My happiest days are on the set, so free, I can wear the same dress for half a year. What I hate the most is doing publicity and interviews. The clothes are changed several times a day, but the words are the same every day. I have to laugh and take pictures… I don’t do publicity or film, I have nowhere to go, and I don’t know what I should do. I have to be photographed by others when I eat a meal. If I eat with a girl, I must say that I am dating someone, otherwise I will be asked this and that. This is actually really tiring!
I don’t know if it is to avoid the artillery fire about Jaycee Chan’s drug use, Jackie Chan insists on tying up with Lin Peng and Wang Ruoxin in this interview. Jackie Chan said that they are both his wives in the play, and outside the play, they are just two little girls in his eyes. Lin Peng plays a highly skilled Western Regions heroine, and Wang Ruoxin is a gentle and virtuous gentleman in the study. Don’t look at this. Wen Yiwu hugs left and right and looks quite enjoyable. In fact, with the "little girls" filming together, Jackie Chan’s big brother is also from beginning to end.
1905 Movie Network: In the movie, Wang Ruoxin and Lin Peng both have emotional scenes with you, and they are one by one. Isn’t it quite cool?
Jackie Chan: Pretty cool! I originally had a quiet wife (referring to Wang Ruoxin), but this more powerful one (referring to Lin Peng) had to be my wife. I said no.
Lin Peng: Yes, because my ethnic group is more open, I told him that we are polygamous, and I don’t care.
1905 Movie Network: A quiet wife doesn’t have to do action scenes, is it relatively better?
Jackie Chan: Her only action is to run away! But it’s also very hard, holding a child, getting fatter and fatter…
Wang Ruoxin: The child is getting fatter, not me!
Jackie Chan: I am especially afraid that she will drop the child. The ground is covered with wires or something. It will be great to fall!
1905 Movie Network: How did Lin Peng feel about fighting with his eldest brother this time?
Lin Peng: It’s very easy to shoot with him, because it’s always him who gets hurt, and I rarely get hurt. Usually he gets hit by me.
1905 Movie Network: Was it badly beaten?
Jackie Chan: Wow! She whipped you with a whip.
Lin Peng: And you know that the eldest brother doesn’t want to use a substitute, even when he practices with me, he comes to me in person. He pretended to be strong at first and said: You hit me! Just your strength! After the fight, the clothes were all red marks when they were lifted up.
Jackie Chan: Because when she hit, she tiptoed and kept saying, Oh, big brother, do you hurt? I was very angry. I said don’t ask me if it hurts, you should hit me quickly! I also took a stool to teach her how to use the whip, and finally that stool was broken by me.
1905 Movie Network: What was Jackie Chan’s image in the eyes of other actors when he was on the set?
Lin Peng: He is a factory worker at the scene, picking up trash, tying shoelaces for others, and there is no time to rest. He will also help people set up props. If the lights are crooked, he will also reach out to get them. For example, I have a scene where I want to wear a veil and get a lot of sand, and then my eldest brother found a face brush to help me brush, and he also does the work of a makeup artist.
"The Lord of Heaven" tells the story of the Han Dynasty, a golden age of cold weapons. Without the high-tech equipment in "Zodiac", Jackie Chan’s action scenes this time return to simplicity, focusing on hand-to-hand combat, and no longer have to jump from planes and volcanoes. However, fighting on the ground is not easy, but this is the kind of realm Jackie Chan seeks: he will never have superpowers, he will never become Spider-Man, and his only ability is to use his fists and feet to hit a reasonable ending.
1905 Movie Network: This time it is a costume opera, and the action design can actually be more cool. After all, special effects are more popular now.
Jackie Chan: I don’t like flying around in my movies. Frankly speaking, our Asian movies are flying around, you can’t shoot Americans, and you can’t shoot stunts, so we can only shoot real things. So today Jackie Chan’s movies can go out because Jackie Chan is different from their Americans. If Jackie Chan makes it today, who will watch it? "Spider-Man" is too easy to make, isn’t it just a cartoon, just put on a few poses. They don’t like to watch me do this either, so I can only show them real kung fu.
1905 Movie Network: But compared to animation stunts, real kung fu is still much harder.
Jackie Chan: I used to be able to kick four kicks in the air, but now I can’t kick three kicks and they like to watch it. My style of play is reasonable. If I tell you that a girl can beat me, you may not believe it, but I just want to show you why she can beat me. How can I get 40 soldiers to fight 2,000 soldiers, and it is reasonable to shoot, this is my skill Jackie Chan. Now a lot of things in Chinese movies are unreasonable. One person knocks down a large piece, and one kick kills a person. You ask the martial arts instructor to try a dozen. It is strange that he can beat it.
1905 Film Network: In terms of literary drama, is this the big hero route or the small person route?
Jackie Chan: He’s not a great general either. He’s a Hu orphan raised by Huo Qubing. Later, the Han people didn’t believe me, and the Hu people didn’t believe me either. So Huo Qubing put me in the Western Regions to be a peacekeeper on the Silk Road. So I have to speak multiple languages, I can speak terrible English, Arabic, Israeli, Uyghur, all learned on the spot, and my tongue is knotted. Now you ask me to say, I can’t remember a word!
