851. The importance of new training
In the entertainment industry, love and you are complicated, and they are linked to each other.
can't purely blame Xiao Xianrou, nor can you simply blame the capitalists, don't talk about it, let's talk about action movie actors.
Today's era is different from before, and there are many reasons why children practice martial arts in the past, and people in the family are reassured. The most important point is that at that time, the work was assigned by packages, and if you didn't do a good job in practicing martial arts, the family could find a way to arrange a worker's job or something, which was not too difficult. But now it's different, the employment pressure is so great, the competition is so fierce, I don't dare to say that I will be admitted to a good school if I study hard, and how many parents dare to let their children waste time learning martial arts?
And what can you do if you learn it? Can you definitely be a star if you learn it? Impossible, martial arts stars also need to be good-looking, even harlequins, so they have to be ugly and distinctive. Among the martial arts stars, one of the more significant examples is Mr. Zhao Wenzhuo. It's not handsome, it's not ugly, it's just featureless. How do you think his acting skills are? Do you have a solid foundation in martial arts? That's for sure. But he can't live, Huang Feihong series has also acted, and he achieved Uncle Lian Jie's super IP back then, and when it is his turn, it will be a bit lukewarm.
There is no praise or disparagement here, just a matter of facts.
The entertainment industry is like this, either you are good-looking, or you are ugly and peculiar, and you have no characteristics, even if you can become popular, it is a matter of a short time.
Therefore, when the external factors begin to change, parents do not have any confidence in letting their children learn martial arts, become martial arts stars, or something. In this case, the entire industry is naturally getting worse, after all, China's action movies are still different from Western-style action movies. In Western action movies, find a few boxing or sanda masters, who are good-looking, can also be served. Dwayne Johnson, for example, is a good example.
As for domestic action movies, actors are more required to have a foundation in martial arts and dance, be sensitive enough, and the flexibility of the body must be enough, and at the same time, they must not be too soft, and they must show a sense of strength.
In short, it is a very troublesome thing, parents do not support, the industry is sluggish, and it is difficult for children to endure hardship if they are not supervised.
Zhou Fangyuan hopes to use this film week to give all martial arts filmmakers a new way out, so that this market can have a little vitality, so that martial arts stars like Uncle Long and Uncle Lian Jie can have successors. Of course, such a broad goal for the sophomore year is not something that can be achieved in a day or two, so take your time.
In addition, in fact, domestic action movies, to a certain extent, should also absorb some Western advantages.
For example, Western action movies focus on a sense of punching to the flesh, while domestic action movies pay more attention to elegant, beautiful, and gorgeous...... You can't say which is better, you can only say that in the Chinese cultural environment, we are used to the domestic style. But the advantage of foreign styles is that the first is real enough, and the second is actually to reduce the difficulty of actor reserves.
Let's use Johnson as an example.
Johnson's father and grandfather were both award-winning celebrities in the world of professional wrestling. When he was in his early twenties, Johnson moved to Pennsylvania and began to focus on American football. He joined the University of Miami American football team while at the University of Miami and won his first national championship in 1991. He went on to compete in the '92 and '95 National Championships, and ended his American football career in '95 against the University of Nebraska for the FedEx Orange Bowl.
Johnson started playing in the World Professional Wrestling League at the age of 26, he was born in '72, and when he was 26, he should have been in '98. By 2000, his autobiography, "The Rock Says That," was on the New York Times bestseller list, and his National Professional Wrestling Highlights CD featured songs from collaborations with other artists, including Grammy Award-winning Wyclef Jean. It's fair to say that he's a natural wrestler, having won six WWE titles, two continental titles, three WWE doubles titles, and a 2000 Clash Royale winner.
However, what no one expected was that he, who had already reached the top in the wrestling circle, suddenly switched to the film industry.
In 01, he starred in his first film "The Return of the Mummy", playing the Egyptian Scorpion King. In 02, he starred in the action movie "Scorpion King" and continued to play the role of Scorpion King.
In 04, he participated in the filming of the small-budget production film "Megatron Bafang". In 10 years, he starred in the movie "Tooth Fairy" on the screen, playing an ice hockey player, nicknamed "Tooth Fairy", and on July 13, he joined "Fast and Furious 5" to play the legendary police officer, and then through the "Fast and Furious" series of movies, he won fans around the world.
In 11 years, he returned to the big ring of the Wrestling Mania Tournament and starred in "Fast and Furious 5" and was released in China.
In 12 years, he starred in "Adventure in the Center of the Earth 2: The Mysterious Island", playing the role of Hank, the stepfather of the protagonist Sean. In the same year, he starred in the ancient Greek film "Hercules" as the ancient Greek Hercules. In 13, the starring "Pay and Gain" was released in North America, the film is based on a true story and directed by Michael Bay. Subsequently, the starring "Special Forces 2: Total Counterattack" was also released in North America in April. In May, he joined HBO's new drama navigation episode, which is a new drama about the survival state and life of athletes. In July, the magazine Forbes announced the annual earnings list of Hollywood actors, and Dwayne Johnson ranked fifth. In August, the starring "Fast and Furious 6" was released in China, and he once again played Hobbs, an agent of the US Security Service.
Dwayne Johnson is the best example, he has never had a martial arts career, but people can act in action movies, and that big guy and that muscle happen to be the routines that foreigners like. And now, with the exchanges at home and abroad over the years, the tastes of domestic audiences are actually changing. Action movies are no longer completely confined to the Oriental-style romantic martial arts, Western-style fist and foot collisions, everyone can watch it very happily, but on the contrary, there are very few such muscular male movie stars in China, and it is rare to have a slightly better figure, most of them are the kind of ordinary people with a good figure, that is, they are slimmer and look better in clothes, but they are not exercised, but dieted.
The same goes for Jason Statham, who was not originally a showbiz person.
In his early years, he studied Wing Chun, Karate and Taekwondo. In 1992, Jason Statham represented Great Britain at the 12th World Diving Championships as an athlete on the British national diving team, finishing 12th. In 1998, Jason entered the showbiz by starring in Guy Ritchie's crime film "Two Big Smoking Guns".
Jason Statham was born in the United Kingdom on July 26, 1967. He was the second son of a singer and tailor, and his parents later turned behind the black market. Jason Statham grew up with his parents as a child, and he was in charge of the art business of the "street theater" on the streets of Oxford, London, which was actually an illegal private transaction.
In middle school, he played for the high school football team. In 1990, Jason Statham was discovered by his agent while practicing at the "National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace" in London, after which he became a model for British fashion houses, starred in several commercials, and photographed for print media. He played for the British national diving team for 12 years, and in 1992, Jason Statham represented Great Britain at the World Diving Championships, finishing 12th.
From 1993 to 1994, he also danced in the music video for The Shamen's song "Comin' On" and Erasure's song "Run to the Sun". It wasn't until 1998 that British director Guy Ritchie chose Jason Statham as one of the leading actors in his movie "Two Big Smoking Guns", and then he entered the showbiz.
In 2000, Jason Statham collaborated with Guy Ritchie again on the movie "Kidnapping and Robbery". The film grossed more than $80 million, and since then, Jason has also played a supporting role in Hollywood movies in the United States many times.
In 02, Luc Besson created the "Death Express" series for him. In May 2003, he played Handsome Rob in the movie "Stealing the Day". In 05, Jason Statham starred in the movie "Revolver", in which he played a professional gambler who is caught in a dilemma between the tricks of fate and the persecution of underworld characters. In August, he starred in "Death Express 2", and Jason Statham played the role of "courier" Frank Martin in the film.
In 06, Jason Statham starred in the movie "Rage on the Heart" and played a killer who was tired of his career as a killer. In '08, Jason Statham starred in the action thriller Death Speeder directed by Paul Anderson. The film is a remake of "Death Run 2000" starring Stallone in 1975. The film is set in New York in 2020, in a futuristic post-industrial barren city, where Jason plays the master of surviving in such a harsh environment. In the same year, he also starred in "The Expendables" directed by Sylvester Stallone.
Another example is Schwarzenegger.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947 in post-war Austria to an ordinary family with a police sergeant. As a child, he was interested in physical fitness and bodybuilding. When he started working out, he collected and read a large number of bodybuilding magazines from which he learned training methods and nutritional guidance. In 1968, Schwarzenegger moved to the United States and received his bachelor's degree from Wisconsin State University.
In 1963, in Graz, Austria, 16-year-old Schwarzenegger participated in a national bodybuilding competition for the first time. In 1966, at the European Bodybuilding Championships in Germany, 19-year-old Arnold won the title of "Mr. Europe". At the age of 20, Schwarzenegger was awarded the title of "Mr. Universe". In 1969, he competed in the "Mr. Olympia" tournament for the first time, and in 1970, he won the title of Mr. Olympia against Cuba's Olivar. Since then, he has been crowned Mr. Olympia seven times in 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1980. In 1983, he joined the international bodybuilding competition as a member of the Mimi nationality, and he won the title of "Mr. Bodybuilder" for the first time.
In 1989 he founded the Arnold Classical. In recognition of his contributions to the sport of bodybuilding, he has been honored and commended by the International Bodybuilding Federation on several occasions.
However, few people did not shoot the first film "Hercules in New York" as early as 1970, two years after Schwarzenegger moved to the United States, but the film was generally not appreciated by the public. In 1977, he starred in the documentary "Iron King Kong", which earned him some popularity. It wasn't until 1982's "Sword of Kings", "Destruction of the World", "Conan the Barbarian" and the 1984 sequel "Conan the Destroyer" that a series of films highlighting the heroes made him gradually rise to prominence.
In 1984, Schwarzenegger starred in the sci-fi action film "The Terminator", in which Schwarzenegger played the role of a superkiller with a human-faced mechanical body, who came from the future world to the modern day to hunt down the mother of the rebel leader, and was a villain with a very prominent image. Some critics commented that this role was simply set up for Schwarzenegger, and he didn't have to "act" at all, and he stood up as a devil's terminator. The aptness of the play made Schwarzenegger popular for his villain role, and he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actor. In the late eighties, Schwarzenegger acted in a total of films: "Commander of the Devil", "Devil Killing", "Devil Arnold", "Ultimate Soldier", "Devil Red Star" and other films, playing superheroes, among which the sci-fi action film "Ultimate Warrior" earned more than 50 million at the box office in the United States.
Of these people, none of them graduated from normal acting schools, and they were all halfway monks.
They did everything in the first place, but they all couldn't do without a good body. A good body also brings them a future and makes their acting career go further and further. Therefore, in this regard, it is really not enough to do it in China, not only to start cultivating from the youth, but also to dig more into the actors in the youth, from all kinds of athletes, as well as fitness experts, select those who are handsome and spiritual.
This time, Uncle Long's movie week has so many major links.
First, it must be the arrival of famous actors from all walks of life, right, a big surprise for the fans, so that the atmosphere of the scene will be hot first. Then there is a short interview session, which is mainly about the celebrities chatting and telling fans something that they don't usually say. Then there is the awards, all of which are awards related to action movies, and this link is the most important. Finally, there is a link, that is, newcomer training, the guests present can be recommended, Uncle Long himself can also dig, and even if the audience is bold, they can also perform on stage.
You don't need any too professional acting skills, but at the very least, you can't have stage fright, you have to have a martial arts level body, it is best to have a martial arts foundation, and most importantly, you have spirituality and can point through.
These are the several purposes of this film week.
On the one hand, it is to strengthen the foundation of action movies among the masses, especially young people, or in other words, young men. Let's not talk about women, it's always the most important thing to love love, and this can't be helped, the genders are different. Men are undoubtedly more receptive to action movies. Strengthen the mass base of action movies, give action movie filmmakers their own festival, and then dig and train newcomers, especially the latter, the film week is just the beginning, and Uncle Long will also have a lot of means in the future, such as opening a school, or online registration or something, in short, everyone is now working together, and all their efforts are in one place, just thinking that they can contribute some of their own strength to domestic action movies.