A hero is known only when a teenager practices martial arts.
1On April 26th, 963, Jet Li was born in an ordinary family, ranking fifth, with two sisters and two brothers. His father named him Zheng Dong, because he has a big appetite, and his neighbors like to call him "Little Tiger". Lian Jie was his later stage name. At the age of two, my father died unfortunately, and the whole family depended on my mother's monthly salary of 3 1 yuan and the national extra 10 yuan.
Because he was never full, Jet Li invented a way to eat: "Eat Yuanxiao first, then eat radish. Yuanxiao goes to the stomach, and radish goes to the stomach. As soon as I get up and down, two things toss in my stomach and I am not hungry for a day. "
Jet Li's martial arts study was a complete accident.
197 1 year, Jet Li was in Grade One of Factory Bridge Primary School. During the summer vacation, the teacher took the students to Shichahai Sports School to select the athletes there. As a result, Jet Li was chosen to study martial arts. Although practicing martial arts is hard, it has many benefits: the state manages food and clothing, and it also gives out sportswear for free. From now on, Jet Li doesn't have to wear her sister's old fancy pants. Every time he takes clothes, Jet Li always takes the biggest one, goes home to wear it for his two brothers, and then wears the old one himself.
1974, Jet Li, 1 1 year-old, participated in the junior group competition of the national Wushu competition, won the championship three times in a row and became famous at one fell swoop. Also in this year, he participated in the martial arts performance of China delegation's visit to the United States. Jet Li bought a Swiss watch for his mother with pocket money saved in the United States, and her mother was very happy.
After the martial arts performance at the White House, then US President Nixon said to Jet Li, "Son, your kung fu is impressive. Will you be my bodyguard when you grow up? " Jet Li immediately replied: "No, I want to protect hundreds of millions of people in China!" Jet Li's outstanding diplomatic performance has made him an undisputed "representative of the people of China" and he has been sent to more than 40 countries to perform China Wushu.
Shaolin is famous in China.
By 1979, Jet Li had won the Wushu all-around championship for five years in a row, but at the age of 16, he began to worry about his future. After watching Bruce Lee's movie Jingwumen, Jet Li came up with the idea of making a movie. But he was not selected by the film company that came to the sports school to choose actors. The explanation given by others is that you can't be a star below 1.70 meters.
It is purely accidental that Jet Li can shoot Shaolin Temple. The Hong Kong Yindu organization wants to shoot Shaolin Temple, with the investment of the Japanese Shaolin Boxing League. The director invited the actors from Henan Peking Opera Troupe, but the Japanese thought that the true face of China Wushu had not been photographed, and asked for a replacement. Director Zhang Xinyan replaced Silver. Zhang Xinyan was so impressed with Jet Li that he tailored Shaozhu Temple for him. After the film was released, it was very popular. At that time, in the era of one ticket and ten cents, it set a box office myth of hundreds of millions, and Jet Li became a household name. In half a year, he received more than a dozen sacks of letters. On one occasion, two policemen found him and said that a reactionary had written important information in a letter sent to Jet Li because he liked Shaolin Temple. As a result, it took two policemen five days to finish reading the letter written by the audience to Jet Li.
After "Shaolin Temple" became famous at one fell swoop, Jet Li continued to shoot "Shaolin" series films in Yindu. In the late 1980s, catching up with the upsurge of going abroad, Jet Li immigrated to the United States and started a martial arts school in Los Angeles to make a living.
Hong Kong director Tsui Hark heard that Jet Li had come to the United States and warmly invited him to star in the new play Huang Feihong. Before shooting, Tsui Hark called Jet Li home and showed him a National Geographic documentary about animals. Lions preyed on antelopes and told Jetali a profound truth: "Every movement should have a beautiful picture."
"I used to make movies very hard, but Huang Feihong wasn't. Tsui Hark asked me to fight my opponent. I must think about what the audience is watching and thinking, which is especially helpful for me to make movies later. " Jet Li recalled.
In the movie, Huang Feihong's signature action is "shadowless feet". Usually, in real life, it is impossible for ordinary people to kick seven feet in succession in midair-three feet at most. But Tsui Hark thinks movies are art. When watching movies, the audience gets excited after kicking the third foot, and the audience starts clapping at the fourth foot. Huang Feihong was a great success, which also aroused strong repercussions in the United States, South Korea and Japan. Jet Li became popular again with Fake Kung Fu and became the most appealing actor in Hong Kong, worth 654.38 million Hong Kong dollars+0.6 million Hong Kong dollars. Just when Jet Li's career was booming, he was not interested in his own career because of the contradictions with the brokerage company. At this time, his wife Nina Li Chi proposed to him to go to Hollywood for development.
1998, lethal weapon 4 has villains, and Jet Li recommended it to investors. The conversation on the phone was very pleasant. As long as Jet Li plays, the film will pay $654.38 million+00,000. When Jet Li arrived in new york, the price was reduced to 750,000; When he went to audition, the price dropped to 500 thousand. Nina Li Chi was very angry and told him to go back to Hongkong at once. At this time, Jet Li is no longer so arrogant: "You are very awesome at home, but you still have to start from scratch when you go to the United States."
This time, Jet Li not only played a supporting role, but also competed with five other people for this supporting role. The night before the interview, Jet Li was afraid of affecting his wife's sleep. She hid in the bathroom and sat on the toilet reading the script all night. He doesn't know English, so he has people read it in English first, then record it with a tape recorder, add Chinese phonetic notation to the dialogue, and memorize it with headphones.
After Lethal Weapon 4 was released, Jet Li was very popular. At that time, the American media said, "Jet Li was amazed by his skills, and dressed in black, he was even more mysterious, in line with the impression of Westerners on the East. "Warner immediately tailored" Fatal Romeo "for him, starring him, and the role became decent. Chinese subtitles first appeared in the film, and then English original name appeared, which reflected Warner's sincerity and attention to Jet Li. " The premiere of Fatal Romeo reached the second place at the box office, and Jet Li finally took a place in Hollywood, tied with Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, and became a kung fu superstar in the eyes of Americans.
Good as water.
After a great success in Hollywood, Jet Li returned to China and made many wonderful films, such as Hero, Huo Yuanjia, warlords, The Founding of the People's Republic of China, flying swords of dragon gate, etc. The warlords won him the first Oscar for best actor in his life. But this prize came too late for Jet Li. "This award is not important to me at all. I now regard the One Foundation as my life. "
The One Foundation was founded in 2004 after the Indonesian tsunami. At that time, the Jet Li family, who were vacationing in Maldives, were victims of the tsunami, and the seawater did not reach their necks. Fortunately, he escaped from danger, but the experience of passing death deeply shocked him. Jet Li, who survived the robbery, had a new understanding of life, and he began to look at everything around him with a grateful heart.
In April 2007, he set up a non-governmental charity organization "One Foundation" to help people in disasters and difficulties. "I let you use 1 yuan to build 1 school, and you will definitely scold me for being wrong; China has a population of 654.38+03 billion and 500 million mobile phone users. If everyone pays 654.38+0 yuan, how is it possible? " Jet Li once laughed at himself for killing people during the day and helping people at night. After filming forbidden kingdom and Tomb Raider 3, he even turned down all the films in recent years and devoted himself to charity.
Among the most expensive movie stars in China, Jet Li turned down Hollywood blockbusters for charity. Some people say that he was washed away by the tsunami, and his friends advised him to donate tens of millions of dollars to charity. Why bother? Jet Li said, "Bill Gates' donation of 70 billion won't solve all the problems in the world. I want to turn public welfare into a culture and habit. " "As long as it is a person, there is an obligation to give back to society. You can donate 1 yuan, or you can donate a major. For example, doctors can have a free clinic for one hour, and enterprises can donate one thousandth or one thousandth of profits. This is a small effort, but the simplest is the most lasting. From American President Bill Clinton to extras on the set, from entertainment to sports, from CEO to working class, Jet Li spared no effort to "sell" his ideas. Jet Li also changed his character of not talking to actresses in private. Even in the process of filming forbidden kingdom, what was originally a meeting to discuss work turned into a mobilization meeting for permanent volunteers. " The charity I am doing now, it has no film, but it is my life. We stand on the moon and look at the earth. 6.7 billion people are a family. Everyone is a screenwriter and everyone is a director. "
Jet Li said that he thought that China culture could be famous in the world by kung fu, but westerners always said "fight" when they saw themselves, as if China people only knew how to fight, but they didn't know China's culture, tolerance, wisdom and philosophy. To this end, Jet Li once lost in thought.