“The excitement is theirs, I have nothing.” This article is from the WeChat official account:Tenth Screening Room (ID : dsfysweixin) , author: Chai Tchaikovsky, from FIG title: “pioneer” stills
Six days after its release, Vanguard was completely defeated from the National Day competition.
Of course, it was not wronged for its failure. It was my 50 yuan movie ticket that was wronged.
However, for Jackie Chan fans, the combination of Jackie Chan and director Tang Jili still makes people can’t help but go to the theater and be a “catcher”.
Although there is not much discussion about Vanguard in this National Day file, as a Hong Kong movie fan, I still want to talk about this bad movie and the pinnacle era of Hong Kong-style action movies created by Jackie Chan and Tang Keli.
In this age, it’s crazier than you think.
The hero is late and hopeless than you think.
1. Can see, but no need
The process of watching “Vanguard” is a bit like eating five-core mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival—you can eat them, but they don’t have to.
Many people are anxious before reading it, but Jackie ChanWhy play so little?
I didn’t spend money to see young people tickle.
However, the fact is that Jackie Chan is 66 years old this year.
Yu Qing, it’s time to give way to young people, Yu Li, physical conditions don’t allow you to work hard.
So, there was the funniest scene in the whole film-Yang Yang plunged from a tall building, Jackie Chan gave a sigh of relief from behind, the security guard said that there are stairs here, Jackie Chan turned his head and ran.
But this self-deprecation is also the only highlight of the film.
The rest of the time, Jackie Chan has been acting as a housekeeper, either driving or giving directions. The occasional fights are fleeting, which is completely uninteresting.
Director Tang Jili obviously also knows that if Jackie Chan is not allowed to fight in action movies under the banner of Jackie Chan, he will be scolded to death.
So he thought of many ways to remedy the gap caused by Jackie Chan not fighting.
First, he tried to sell national feelings.
This should be from “Wolf Warrior” and “Operation Red Sea” (he mentioned and praised these two movies many times in the interview)Get inspiration. But the national sentiment is obviously incompatible with this film.
In “Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother”, jumping off the cliff, if you didn’t meet the genius doctor by chance, you might have died here…
However, in 1992, Jackie Chan met Tang Jili, and his desperate coefficient suddenly increased.
According to Jackie Chan’s own words: “I don’t take my own life, he doesn’t take mine.”
In “Police Story 3: Super Police”, Tang Jili designed an “unNG” action for Jackie Chan: jump off the 6th floor and grab the helicopter ladder with his bare hands.
There was still no Via at that time, and there were only a few layers of tatami mats under the tall buildings. Many years later, Jackie Chan recalled: “The following fifty or sixty reporters and photographers are waiting for me. You have to jump if you don’t jump.”
So he rushed out and grabbed the ladder firmly.
With this jump, he has been sitting firmly on the throne of Chinese-language action film for 30 years.
The classic action scenes of this movie include not only Jackie Chan’s scenes, but also Michelle Yeoh, who has raised the other half of the sky.
In the film, the shot of Michelle Yeoh riding a motorcycle on the roof of a train is also a classic.
Looking back at these clips after nearly 30 years, I still can’t help but be surprisedSigh:
Are they human? !
However, in a later interview, Tang Jili also revealed some tidbits, which was even more shocking.
We know that an action movie needs the support of a group of martial arts (that is, martial arts actors).
They usually act as stand-ins for action actors on set, helping the actors do some actions, and sometimes they also need to try some dangerous actions for the actors first to ensure that they are safe and feasible before letting the actors on.
▲The action star Zhang Jin was born in Wuxing and has acted as a stand-in for various actresses
At that time, it was Tang Jili himself who tried out the scene of Jackie Chan jumping into a helicopter.
You read that right, for such a dangerous action, the first person to jump was not Jackie Chan, but the director Tang Jili.
Not only that, the epoch-making balcony in “Hong Fan District” has taken a leap-the height of the building is 30 meters, the distance between the two buildings is 8 meters, there is no Via, only the air cushion downstairs-it is also Tang Jili Jackie Chan’s first play.
Other dangerous moves and stunts, such as climbing up from the periphery of a high-rise building, is not a problem for Tang Jili.
Sure enough, he didn’t stop, and flew directly out of the reserve. He fell on the opposite car track and his thigh broke in two.
Fortunately, the injury is not lifelong. After half a year of martial arts with a broken leg, he can jump and jump.
However, Tang Jili couldn’t forget the look in her eyes after the martial artist learned that her husband was hurt.
Since then, Tang Jili has done many dangerous moves himself.
At that time, Tang Jili, Jackie Chan, and a bunch of bloody men behind them, with their vigorous vigor, just turned imagination into reality, turning the impossible into possible, with a limited budget and without protective measures. , Creating one miracle after another.
This kind of spirit can indeed be regarded as a thrilling stroke in the history of Chinese-language action movies.
It can be said that Jackie Chan and Tang Jili, one dared to think, dared to shoot, the other dared to do, dared to act, and the two achieved each other’s achievements. This is the glorious story of film history.
However, with such a high starting point, how can the audience resist cursing the streets in the face of films like Vanguard?
Maybe, more fans just sighed deeply.
But the audience sighed for the hero’s twilight, which seemed more sad than cursing the street.
3. Who will remember this pot?
After watching “Pioneer”, many people are feeling: Jackie Chan is old and can’t touch him, and Tang Jili is also old and he has no imagination.
These are indeed the reasons why Vanguard is not good-looking.
However, has Jackie Chan’s career as an actor irretrievably come to an end as his physical strength fades?
p>As Tang Jili said, there is no reason to ask an old man who is almost 70 years old to work hard.
This sounds sad, but from another perspective, isn’t Jackie Chan always in transition?
Moreover, his transformation work has also been recognized by the public.
Jackie Chan is just no longer desperate, but he can still fight in terms of fighting.
Jackie Chan’s spirit and skill are absolutely perfect for his age.
The last fight of Vanguard with a head rope to defeat an opponent is a typical “on-the-spot”. Jackie Chan is almost easy to come by, still beautiful and interesting.
In the future, as long as you choose the book carefully, with Jackie Chan’s current spirit, maybe he can bring new surprises to the audience.
Secondly, Tang Jili’s philosophy of focusing on martial arts and light literary drama is no longer in his hands.
Throughout Tang Jili’s most important film works, the literary and opera parts are all weak, with almost no characterization and details portrayed at all. The plot is also a novel.(Not even as good as) level, the whole movie is completely supported by action scenes.
And the reason why Tang Jili’s action scenes were so amazing thatUp.
But in the process of searching information and patching, I suddenly remembered another famous action film director in Hong Kong-Chen Musheng who just passed away in August this year.
After reviewing the film that Chen Musheng and Jackie Chan collaborated with, I found that Chen Musheng may be the only Hong Kong action film director who used Jackie Chan right after the new century.
Jackie Chan’s film and television list on Douban shows that after the millennium, only 4 movies starring him have scored higher than 7.0, namely: “New Police Story”, “Baby Project”, “Shinjuku Incident” and “British Showdown” “.
The first two parts are both written by Chen Musheng.
People who have watched “New Police Story” and “Baby Project” can naturally feel that Jackie Chan’s performances in Tang Jili and Chen Musheng’s films are completely different in texture.
In terms of influence, Chen Musheng has always rooted in Hong Kong, so naturally he cannot be the same as Tang Jili.
But as a commercial action film director, his smooth and delicate literary drama has brought new possibilities for Jackie Chan’s actor career.
Moreover, he knows how to use strengths and avoid weaknesses, and he has solved many problems.
For example, in “The New Police Story”, Jackie Chan interprets the image of a lost policeman for the first time, living in a demon and unable to extricate himself;
“Baby Project” even broke Jackie Chan’s frame for himselfRemarks”>
Part of the content reference:
An exclusive interview with Tang Jili from the official account “Director No. 1″——
“Tang Jili: I have tried action scenes for Jackie Chan for almost 30 years, it’s really not that I am winning”
This article is from WeChat official account:Tenth Screening Room (ID: dsfysweixin), author: Chai Tchaikovsky