In the past year, Sammo Hung has been affected by foot diseases, which makes traveling inconvenient. Earlier, Sammo Hung himself revealed that he would be admitted to hospital for knee surgery, and the estimated recovery time would take 4 to 6 months. He admitted that he would not stop work because of this. After a day or two of rest after the operation, he will walk around in a wheelchair and go back to the company for a meeting to prepare for a new play.
Although I know that Sammo Hung's health is not serious, it's a little sad to see a generation of forbidden kingdom in a wheelchair. However, as a superstar, Sammo Hung has a lot of people to take care of him, which makes fans feel comforted. But other low-level martial arts are not so lucky.
A few days ago, Jet Li donated 5 million yuan for his death. 20 1 1 An explosion occurred while shooting the death squads. Liu Kun, only 26 years old, was killed in the explosion, but the court only awarded compensation of160,000 yuan. When Jet Li heard about it, he donated 5 million yuan to his family.
What kind of life does Wu Xing lead?
The sixties and eighties of last century was the golden age of kung fu movies, which not only produced superstars such as Jackie Chan, but also cultivated a team of famous martial arts directors. At the earliest time, the people who were born in the martial arts career and participated in the action drama shooting in the film were called "Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts Masters", which is today's martial arts. Jackie Chan's autobiography describes in detail the martial arts life in Hong Kong.
For Xing Wu, wrestling is a common occurrence. Injury, incontinence, muscle atrophy and even death are all risks and costs that this kind of work must bear. In "One Man's Wulin", Chen Desen intends to set Fan Shaohuang's "King of Weapons" as a popular martial arts star. Before confronting the murderous Wang, Wang said a farewell sentence: "Who would have thought that the actors in front of the screen were not performing."
Chen Desen said that since then, he has seen Xing Wu being thrown out and beaten every day. In the 1970s and 1980s, the injury rate of Wuxing was above 50%. It was also popular in home classes that year. "In the hospital, there are always 7 beds reserved for family classes."
In his early years, Hong Kong martial arts dared to fight and knew the skills. In the 1990s, the mainland film market rose, Hong Kong martial arts went north, and the mainland martial arts also gradually developed.
What abilities does a competent martial artist need? To put it simply, eight words: skill, soldier, fist, car, power, fire, substitution and miscellaneous. Refers to martial arts to do stunts, weapons, kung fu design, to be able to fly, hang Weiya, guns, blasting and other difficult movements, but also to be able to double, but also to do chores.
Even in today's era of film special effects, martial arts players still have to master these skills. Therefore, even if you are careful, martial arts players still face various dangers, and accidental casualties still occur from time to time. Wu Yusen's "Red Cliff" crew once caused a tragedy of one death and seven injuries; The crew of the mainland TV series "My Head, My Regiment" also killed a pyrotechnicist.
When Chen Desen's film crew was filming in the Nepalese mountains, a martial arts artist accidentally fell off a camel, revealing the shining bones on his leg. However, because there is only one round-trip transportation once a week, the injured martial artist can only support the wound with white wine and local wild cannabis leaves for a whole week: "Fainting and waking up depend entirely on will."
Doing martial arts, like athletes, has a limited number of years of wrestling, and the "sequelae" caused by long-term injuries have also laid a hidden danger for their retirement. Many martial arts players came out in their teens, but they didn't consider the long term. When they are in their fifties or even thirties, they can't fall down. Some people want to drive a taxi, but they have a broken lumbar spine and can't sit still for three hours. How can they drive a taxi? So the only thing I can do is to be a security guard and administrator in the building.
With the explosive growth of box office geometry in China, the market continues to expand, and a large amount of capital hot money is also pouring in. Although Uncle A has always thought that this imaginary craze will continue to cool down, for the five-star brothers, the status quo does not seem to change. In the case of the collective price increase of the cast, Wu Hang's salary has been relatively reduced. For example, a prop master can get a cast of 12,000 yuan, while Wu Hang can only get 6,000 yuan.
One of the important reasons is the influx of amateurs, which leads to intensified competition within the industry. Except for a few martial arts firms that have stable jobs under the guidance of well-known martial arts, most martial arts firms can only take on the work of contractors. According to a senior martial arts firm, many crews directly outsource the overall work of the martial arts firm to some contractors with resources. In order to take the job, the contractor and the producer will keep the price very low, and sometimes they will be subcontracted by many intermediaries. Some martial arts schools even earn only one-sixth to one-third of the market price.
In Hengdian, the gathering place of amateur martial arts, these people, known as peripheral martial arts, have no protection. If you are injured in filming, the Hengdian Actors Union will not take care of it, the crew will not take care of it, and the team leader will not take care of it. Even if the newcomer 14 hour, he can only get the salary of 70 yuan, and he is doing the most dangerous and tiring work. Although the salary of Wushu is much higher than that of group performance, this insecure life will never be improved if you keep running outside.
Can't you protect yourself without protecting others? Unfortunately, few insurance companies will underwrite it, because ordinary martial arts is a "high-risk job" and it will inevitably hurt. This transaction is not cost-effective.
Even if an insurance company is willing to underwrite it now, it may face the situation that the crew producers "cook whenever they meet people": in order to save money, there are different treatments for the safety and security of stars and ordinary staff from the beginning. In the event of an accident, it is also quite difficult for martial artists to claim compensation.
Jet Li donated 5 million yuan for the death of the double body, which is a personal kindness of Jet Li, but martial arts needs professional norms and more comprehensive protection. What needs to be added is that Hong Kong has an action stunt guild, and it is still so difficult to defend martial arts rights. What if there are no trade unions and relatively fixed organizations in mainland Wushu?
It is urgent to improve the entry threshold and industry safety, but no one has done it before and now. As for the future, I hope there is, but unfortunately it is difficult.