Chapter 242 Legendary Kung Fu Superstar Bruce Lee!

It is really difficult to teach Cheng Long.

When filming "Rush Hour 3", Wu Yuan did not think that Cheng Long's acting was bad.

Because this movie is either fighting or on the way to fight, most of Cheng Long's literary scenes are just bickering with his new partner played by Will Smith.

And using his mouth to make various speculations about the mysterious organization "Kingsman: The Secret Service".

It can be said that the movie "Rush Hour 3" continues the consistent style of Cheng Long's movies, which is humorous jokes + funny and handsome fighting scenes.

When filming this movie, Wu Yuan felt very relaxed.

The martial arts movements are in charge of professional martial arts instructors, and the literary scenes are the type that Cheng Long is best at, and almost most of the shots are passed in one go.

On the contrary, Will Smith, the black Hollywood superstar, is not very adaptable to Cheng-style movies. Even if his acting is good, it took a lot of time to run in, and there were many NGs.

It was only when it came to "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" that the problem was Cheng Long.

It is no wonder that he could not fight anymore and wanted to transform himself but could not. It was not only because his martial arts star personality was deeply rooted in people's hearts, but also because his literary dramas were really not good.

To put it nicely, whatever he played had the flavor of "Cheng Long".

To put it bluntly, no matter what role he played, he looked the same, all of them were himself.

It was really difficult for him to play a man with eyes as vicious as a scorpion and a belly full of conspiracy and intrigue.

What else could he do? Wu Yuan had to continue filming the actors he had chosen himself.

In desperation, he could only teach them step by step and film them repeatedly.

A scene lasted less than ten minutes, but Wu Yuan took five or six days to finish it.

Under his strenuous training, Cheng Long finally gave a performance that satisfied Wu Yuan.

Not to mention how good the performance was, at least it was acceptable and not out of character.

What?

Satisfied with passing?

What else!

Cheng Long is at this level, Wu Yuan was secretly happy that he passed!

After finally getting through this literary drama, the crew returned to the smooth shooting state in the past.

Liu Yifei also started shooting her fighting scenes.

"Xixi, move more neatly!"

"Where is the martial arts instructor, show her again!"

"Yes, kick your feet higher, so that it will be cool!"

The martial arts instructor invited from the Cheng family team was diligently demonstrating to Liu Yifei and adjusting her movements.

Liu Yifei also learned very seriously, with a tight face and eyes staring at the martial arts instructor, afraid of missing a small detail.

She couldn't help but be serious.

The most outstanding part of Wei'er's role is the fighting scenes.

Although in the early stage of the movie, she also represented the Singaporean pirates and participated in the operation to save Captain Jack, and argued with Captain Jack, Barbossa and others whether to summon the King of the Seven Seas to resist Davy Jones together.

But in these literary dramas, she was a supporting role in the group drama, and did not play the main role.

Fighting scenes are different. Although they are also in a melee, she has a lot of individual close-up shots.

Chinese actors' action scenes have always been the most accepted type in Hollywood. Who says China has always produced kung fu superstars?

Liu Yifei's own martial arts skills are indeed good.

She finally practiced in the crew of "The Return of the Condor Heroes", and it was worth the many wires.

As her first official appearance in Hollywood (her cameo in "Night at the Museum" does not count), Liu Yifei took 120% of her strength to play this role well.

This also made Keira, who also had a role in these scenes, feel so novel.

As an actress, she played a weak daughter of the governor. From the first to the third part, she was kidnapped and threatened several times, and there was no serious fighting scene.

When Liu Yifei came, she just beat him up, and danced with a Miao Dao with great power. Any pirate group actor who approached her was not her opponent.

"Crystal is amazing. Are all Chinese actors good at fighting?"

The beautiful English rose seemed to have a little boy in her heart. She watched Liu Yifei and the extras rehearsing fighting scenes eagerly and asked Wu Yuan with great interest: "Is Chinese kung fu difficult to learn?"

"I mean the kind that Bruce Lee learned, called Wing tsun (Wing Chun), right?"

Wu Yuan glanced at Kayla in surprise, "You British people also know Wing Chun?"

"Of course!" Kayla performed a classic move of Bruce Lee on the spot, which is the "Ah Da!" move. In fact, this is the hand-raising style of Wing Chun.

"Bruce Lee's kung fu is also famous in the UK."

This was a little unexpected for Wu Yuan.

He thought that young people in Europe and the United States now no longer knew Bruce Lee. After all, he has been dead for more than 30 years.

Maybe it's because Kayla herself is in the entertainment industry?

He asked uncertainly, "Really? Do many young people in the UK know Bruce Lee?"

This time, it was Kayla who looked at Wu Yuan in surprise, "Of course, Chinese kung fu is very famous in the UK, and the reason for its fame is Bruce Lee."

"Of course, now we have to add Jackie Chan, Jackie is also very famous in the UK now."

"Is that so?" Wu Yuan touched his chin and pondered.

He had greatly overestimated Bruce Lee's influence in the global film industry.

But now he suddenly discovered that Bruce Lee's influence was still higher than he had imagined.

As the first Chinese movie star, the first Chinese Kung Fu superstar, and the film actor who spread the word "Chinese kung fu" around the world, his influence abroad seemed to far exceed the imagination of the Chinese people.

After all, when Bruce Lee was making movies in Hollywood, China was in an unspeakable period of turmoil, and no one would pay attention to a Chinese film actor on the other side of the ocean.

By the time people in China paid attention to and knew about Bruce Lee's deeds, he had been dead for a very long time. The Chinese people could not clearly recognize how powerful Bruce Lee's influence was through hearsay.

How high is Bruce Lee's status abroad?

In 1973, "Enter the Dragon" starring Bruce Lee achieved a huge success of 23 million US dollars at the box office as soon as it landed in North America.

This movie is called the greatest Kung Fu movie in history, and it is listed as one of the 25 most important movies in American film history by the US Congress, and is respected by the European and American film industry as one of the films that changed the world.

It was ranked first in the top ten greatest kung fu movies in history by the UK.

In 1973, Marvel created Shang-Chi based on Bruce Lee.

In 1979, the Los Angeles government designated June 8 as Bruce Lee Day.

In 1993, the United States issued dollars to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Bruce Lee's death.

In 1993, the United States produced the movie "The Legend of Bruce Lee" to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Bruce Lee's death.

In 1993, Bruce Lee received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Japan's "Fighting Karate" magazine selected Bruce Lee as one of the top ten martial artists of the 20th century.

In 2003, Hollywood held a Bruce Lee memorial event.

In 2004, Bruce Lee was called the father of MMA by the president of UFC.

In 2004, Bruce Lee was selected as a hero and idol of the 100 greatest people in the 20th century on Earth.

In 2005, Bosnia and Herzegovina built a statue of Bruce Lee to fight racial division.

In 2006, Bruce Lee was listed in the Time Asian Heroes List.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country with many Muslims and complex ethnic composition, Bruce Lee successfully defeated a number of candidates such as the president and Gandhi to become the only bronze statue in Central Park.

After Bruce Lee's death, many countries in Asia, Europe and America spontaneously organized to set up bronze statues for this great Chinese.

The United States has set up a monument for Bruce Lee, and because his fans are too fanatical, almost every teenager in New York has a nunchaku, which leads to frequent street fights.

In the end, the city government had to issue a nunchaku ban, which was not lifted until 2018.

Even in 2018, Arist Abbas, an Afghan, became popular on the Internet for imitating Bruce Lee.

The term "Bruce Lee" has 455 million searches on Google, but only 100 million searches on Baidu.

Both of these network software were born after Bruce Lee's death, but he still contributed a large amount of searches to Google, more than four times that of Baidu in China.

The quality and search volume of news about Bruce Lee far surpass most fighters and artists. Bruce Lee is a figure that cannot be avoided in the history of martial arts and action movies.

Even in the Internet age, the high quality and large number of news about Bruce Lee are jaw-dropping.

In 2023, it will be the 50th anniversary of Bruce Lee's death. "Enter the Dragon" has been restored in 4K and will be re-screened in several cities such as London and Vienna on August 11.

Bruce Lee's popularity and influence in foreign countries are actually far beyond the imagination of most Chinese people.

Everyone knows that he is a well-known kung fu star in Hollywood, but they don't know that he is so famous.

It can be said that before the appearance of Cheng Long and Yao Ming, two Chinese who represent China, Bruce Lee was well-known around the world.

In any street interview, if you ask foreigners who Chinese people you know, 99% of them will blurt out Bruce Lee.

Rubbing his chin, Wu Yuan was thinking seriously.

Speaking of which, the Oscars seem to love biographical films.

"A Beautiful Mind", "The Queen", "Amadeus", "The Last Emperor", "The Theory of Everything", "The Iron Lady", "The Social Network", "The King's Speech" and other films that won the Best Picture and Best Actor/Actress are all biopics.

Moreover, Hollywood biopics are very inclusive, with famous scientists, politicians, historical celebrities, athletes and even big stars as the protagonists.

If there is a chance, Wu Yuan can also make a biographical film based on Bruce Lee to try to hit the Oscar for Best Picture!

Bruce Lee is very famous and influential in Hollywood, and is even considered an important actor who changed the history of Hollywood movies.

The old white people in the Academy will still buy into the biographical film with him as the protagonist.

As long as you are willing to spend some money on public relations, it is not a dream to win the Best Picture.

Moreover, Wu Yuan has a very suitable candidate to play Bruce Lee!

Hong Kong actor Chen Guokun!

He played the fourth Shaolin brother, the ghostly grappling master, and the goalkeeper of the Shaolin team in "Shaolin Soccer".

He was appreciated by Master Xing because he looked like Bruce Lee.

In "Shaolin Soccer", Stephen Chow used this character to pay tribute to Bruce Lee, and there are many scenes imitating Bruce Lee in the movie.

It is also because his appearance and figure are very similar to Bruce Lee.

So when CCTV later made the biographical TV series "The Legend of Bruce Lee", they specially found him to play Bruce Lee, and his performance was simply lifelike!

If there is such an actor with an image, temperament and figure very similar to Bruce Lee to shoot his biographical film, then the film is basically half successful!

The remaining half is nothing more than making Bruce Lee's life reasonably and artistically into a two-hour movie script.

Coincidentally, Wu Yuan still has a little confidence in this regard, and he also hopes to do it very much.

Zuckerberg, who is less than 30 years old, can have his own biographical film "The Social Network", so how can Bruce Lee not have it?

This person has brought Chinese martial arts to the world, changed the status of Chinese people overseas, and changed the image of Chinese people in the hearts of foreigners.

Let the self-righteous foreigners start to take the Chinese seriously and kick the Chinese Kung Fu superstar who has the sign of "Sick Man of East Asia" to pieces.

There must be a biographical film to record his great life!