Jet Li's last Kung Fu movie "Huo Yuanjia" finally got his wish and I felt a little disappointed overall.
After so many years of fighting and killing, Jet Li began to show his old state. Is Jet Li who has no kung fu still Jet Li? Perhaps, on the movie screen in the future, Jet Li will no longer wield knives and guns to seek justice everywhere. He will be an old farmer curled up at the entrance of the village smoking a tobacco pouch, a simple and honest laid-off worker, a white-collar worker, and a gang boss. . . . . . But he won't do some beautiful somersaults, stomping one foot in the other's face in the air.
I watched "Shaolin Temple" since I was a child. At that time, Jet Li's somersaults were not dealt with in slow motion, and every move and style were all orthodox martial arts. As soon as the film was released, the Chinese went crazy. The city that night must be an empty city. Everyone went to the cinema. Those who couldn’t get in climbed the high walls and trees outside the cinema. Those who couldn’t climb up sat at the door and cried. What to do, just to watch this young man do some somersaults. In those days, there were too few somersaults like him in the movies.
Strike while the iron is hot and somersault Jet Li went on to star in films such as "Shaolin Boy", "Chinese Hero", "North and South Shaolin", "Shaolin Haideng Master", etc. The first batch of fans he cultivated became popular, and they praised each other about Li Lianjie. Those near-perfect somersaults of the hero. Jet Li also began to play some historical figures who really existed but were beautified infinitely by people's memory.
After a somersault, Jet Li went to Hong Kong to pan for gold. The audience in the same place became accustomed to the fighting, love-hate relationship and sorrow of Hong Kong TV series. When we saw Jet Li again, he had already shown a small face in Hong Kong movies and turned a few somersaults. It's inspiring, the mainland has passed, and there is a movie there.
Accompanying Jet Li somersaults for many years, we remember those wonderful tossing and twisting or twists in the movie for a few weeks and a half. He became a mischievous Fang Shiyu, and became the embodiment of justice Huang Feihong. Those, it was Jet Li who was fighting. Li Lianjie was also unceremonious, and devoted himself to Nanyue culture to play a good kung fu hero who resisted foreign education and opposed discrimination in the local cultural circle. The self-confidence he created that was neither humble nor arrogant radiated from the Guangdong area, purifying all Chinese living beings. And the most memorable are those famous somersaults he turned.
In 1988, Jet Li starred in three films: "Shaolin Haideng Master", "Dragon in the End of the World" and "Oriental Dragon". For him, the theme of this kind of small monk's great achievements began to enter a dead end, and it was difficult for the next "Dragon Traveling the World" to make a breakthrough.
In 1991, Jet Li, who was a little unaccustomed in the Hong Kong performing arts circle, met Tsui Hark, and Xu Hark invited him to participate in his film "Swordsman: The Undefeated in the East". "Invincible in the East" was a success, but it made Brigitte Lin's second spring, pushing Jet Li into an awkward outhouse. From then on, sister Qingxia began to frantically play some neutral and beautiful roles that were neither male nor female, disturbing the audience's hormone secretion, and became popular; while Jet Li was extremely depressed and confessed that he was a waste who was hung up by Weiya in the film. , unable to exert effort. Li Yingxiong was so disgusted by that set of visual martial arts that he immediately announced that he would never act in such kung fu films again. "Eastern Invincible" made Jet Li lose himself and gave up those magic weapons to make a living - somersaults. In "Eastern Invincible", everyone is turning over, but they just vacate, throw swords, and the effect of fists and swords wherever they go. But it's TNT-level, and a whole tumult is made up of countless post-editing edits. Li Lianjie was like a trapped beast in a cage, holding back tightly.
Winning or losing does not matter. Another kung fu movie that Tsui Hark arranged for Jet Li in 1991 opened a new chapter in his acting career. In that year, Jet Li was a depressed Linghu Chong and a high-spirited Huang Feihong. Playing Huang Feihong made Jet Li a professional Huang Feihong. After that, Zhao Wenzhuo and others rushed to catch up, but they could only see his lonely back. Jackie Chan also played Huang Feihong, but he took another Jackie Chan avenue, that is, humorous kung fu. With Li Lianjie each has its own merits. In the film, there are not too many flying eaves and walls, lightning and thunder, but there are countless magical somersaults that cannot be replicated.
Then, the Once Upon a Time series began to sell out, one episode after another. In his spare time, Jet Li, who is at ease, has also successfully created heroes such as Fang Shiyu and Zhang Sanfeng. Jet Li wandered among the various characters, unable to extricate himself. People even began to forget his real name, and began to feel more strongly that he was Huang Feihong and Fang Shiyu.
Through films such as "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" and "Letter to Dad", Jet Li began to no longer rely on the heroic images that have existed in people's hearts, and played his own role. Jet Li gave Huang Feihong and Fang Shiyu a second life and won a large number of die-hards, but was trapped by the shells dug out of the tomb and could not move. Sadly, this effort has not received much support and recognition. Those images are too perfect for people to erase from their hearts. In the two films with modern themes, Jet Li's somersaults began to be carried out on the construction site, the living room, and the surrounding walls, but they were not as elegant and romantic as those in the costume dramas. People are still used to seeing Jackie Chan in the tumultuous fights in the modern setting.
In 1994, Jet Li played Chen Zhen in "Heroes of Jingwu", looking for new historical figures again. It is worth mentioning that Jet Li's fights in the modern background of the film are still sharp, and the somersaults are extremely beautiful. In several fights, he successfully used the combination of western free-fighting and traditional Chinese martial arts. The subsequent "Black Man" basically followed this approach, with strong visual effects, and at the same time successfully entered the modern world.
Li Lianjie is a person who likes to set commemorative points in his life, which is easy to cherish in the future. In 1997, before going to Hollywood to seek new development, he performed his last Wong Fei-hung series - "Once Upon a Time in the Western Regions", which is a commemorative work for the success of Hong Kong. There are Huang Feihong, the thirteen aunts who play the role of beauty, and several civilian disciples who will always support and support him. Of course, there are countless out-of-print somersaults. Li Lianjie thanked those who helped him with the "Lion of the Western Regions", the place that helped him.
Jet Li, who went to the United States, acted in "Lethal Weapon 4", "Deadly Romeo", "The Savior", "Dragon's Kiss", etc., and the response in China was mediocre. Doing somersaults and noses with a bunch of Americans always looks a little bit different. Li Yingying began to challenge the villain, playing the heinous villain. However, these challenges are unnecessary. Since it has been difficult to return, why go against the current?
In 2002, uncle Zhang Yimou, who knew nothing about kung fu movies, tossed out an inexplicable movie "Hero" in order to cater to the western fashion in that season. In Jet Li's "Heroes", the assassin was nailed to the gate by ten thousand arrows, but Lao Li's face was not so attractive, it looked a little bumpy. When Jet Li reappeared on the Chinese movie screen, he was too old to break hearts, and his somersaults began to drift away from the pull of the earth.
After the filming of "Heroes", Chinese Lao Li in the United States took over the filming of "About the Multiverse", "Deadly Cradle" and "Danny the Wolf Dog". Careful people can find that many of the films that Lao Li has acted in the United States have different names. is "lethal". For the understanding of oriental martial arts, Hollywood adheres to its own fatal theory, which is completely different from China's self-cultivation and strengthening. No matter how many somersaults Li Lianjie does, foreigners think that he will kill innocent people and hurt living beings.
The somersault turned to "Huo Yuanjia", which has become his kung fu movie masterpiece. Li Lianjie is old, and taking calcium-medium-calcium-high-calcium tablets will not help. He cherishes his body and decides to give up fighting and go behind the scenes.
Those beautiful somersaults are reserved for future generations to recall.
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