There are so many unknown stories behind Jackie Chan’s statuette
1905 movie network feature When Jackie Chan broke into Hollywood in 1995, he had already missed the golden age of his physical fitness. At that time, he was still flying high-rise buildings. He may not have imagined that two decades later, he only made comedy and action movies. He won the Oscar for lifetime achievement in the United States on November 13, 2016 Beijing time.
On the podium, Jackie Chan smiled at Stallone and said: "Twenty-three years ago, at Stallone’s house, I saw his statuette and couldn’t help but touch and kiss it; today Stallone is here, sitting next to me, I invited him."
Before Jackie Chan, there were only three Asian filmmakers who had won the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement – Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, Indian director Satyajit Rey and Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki, who were 80, 71 and 75 years old respectively. As the first Chinese to win this award, Jackie Chan, 62, is undoubtedly the pride of Chinese cinema and represents the world’s recognition of Chinese and Chinese-language films. "Jackie Chan excels at captivating audiences with dazzling martial arts movements, innovative and stunning works and infinite charm," said the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ award speech.
Life for Shadow
Perhaps some people may ask, why Jackie Chan? Well, let’s start with the first conversation between Jackie Chan and Spielberg.
Jackie Chan, Spielberg, Chen Kexin and other group photos
When Jackie Chan first met Spielberg, he was very nervous and had to ask, how can you make dinosaurs and people appear in the same shot?
It’s easy, just press this, this and this button, Spielberg said. Then he asked Jackie Chan, how can you shoot jumping from this building to that building?
Jackie Chan said, simpler,Boot, jump, hospital…
In the documentary "Jackie Chan’s Stunts", Jackie Chan appeared and personally analyzed how he used blood, sweat and real kung fu to capture the terrifying desperate action scenes on the screen in his many masterpieces
You know, in the Hong Kong martial arts films of the last century, in order to save costs, jumping down did not use air cushions at all, but piled apple boxes together with several layers of mattresses.
Jackie Chan follows his own life-threatening principles in order to create immersive real-life effects. When someone asked him "aren’t you afraid of getting hurt?" Jackie Chan replied: I’m more afraid of deceiving the audience. This is an action movie, who can watch it if it’s fake?
But even though he said that, it didn’t mean that he wasn’t afraid. He was just a mortal, but he didn’t want to live an ordinary life.
And the price of all this is – Jackie Chan’s whole body is broken.
Just when our computer special effects were not as good as those in the West, Jackie Chan used his body and life to change movie shots one by one. This unsurpassed professionalism allowed this action actor, who did not read much, was not hard in the background, and was not good-looking, to take the family class known as the "Flying Tigers" to create a new type of kung fu film – kung fu comedy, also known as "Jackie Chan style" film, which became the box office guarantee of the golden age of Hong Kong films, attracting countless imitators and countless fans around the world.
Group photo of early family class
"He is the one who won the award, I believe he is the one who won the most awards in the world," director Chen Xunqi, Jackie Chan’s 40-year friend, once said of Jackie Chan. But at the same time, Chen Xunqi said that Jackie Chan "does not have a piece of good meat in his body". Indeed, behind Jackie Chan’s honor for all Chinese people, he bears all the scars alone.
As Jackie Chan said on the podium, holding the statuette in his hand: "After 56 years in the film industry, after more than 200 films, and after breaking countless bones, it’s finally mine!"
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