North America is full of summer blockbusters, and the competition is very fierce, this is the most precious schedule in North America, and almost all of the most exciting entertainment movies of the year will be released in the summer.

In the summer of 2009, there were also blockbusters, including superhero series, agent series, and animated movies, and the competition was very cruel!

And in this fierce competition, "Ip Man" broke out of the encirclement!

"Ip Man" was a huge success in North America, earning $6 million in one week of release, which is not a lot compared to those blockbusters, but it is very, very remarkable that a Chinese-language film can achieve such a box office in such a short period of time!

And the reputation of "Ip Man" in North America is very good!

Rotten Tomatoes has a freshness rating of 86 percent, and the popcorn index is also 84 percent!

And it's not just a few people who rate!

In another world, there are often Chinese-language movies with high freshness on Rotten Tomatoes, such as the movie of White Pigeon Wu, only to find out in the end that there are only two people who evaluate it, who is this so fooling? It's very embarrassing!!!!!!

In North America, there are thousands of people who evaluate "Ip Man", of course, most of them are Chinese, but there are also many white or black!

It's also very impressive to look at those comments!

"He really deserves to be Bruce Lee's master!"

"Sure enough, kung fu movies should still be starring Chinese and directed by Chinese!"

"A generation of grandmaster Ip Man, worthy of his name!"

"Xu Qian is so handsome!"

"That Chinese man is very good at fighting!"

"This is the real Chinese kung fu!"

"I like to watch this kind of movie, exciting, tense, intense, fist-to-flesh, and unfathomable!"

"Niu Cha, very Niu Cha, this is my favorite Chinese movie, there is no one!"

"Is Wing Chun so powerful? I thought that the most powerful thing in China is Tai Chi Nun, and I want to learn Wing Chun too!"

"In the future, in addition to Brother Long, there will be another favorite Chinese star!"

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The reason why "Ip Man" can achieve great success is, of course, that it is stained with the light of Bruce Lee, although Bruce Lee has passed away for many years, his influence has never retreated!

It can be said that Bruce Lee caught up with a very, very good era, he is a super genius character, who happened to be born in that special era!

The films he shot were the kind of violent beatings of "island people" and catharsis of their inner feelings, which just stimulated the hearts of all the semi-colonial and semi-feudal people who were bullied by the Fascists!

He portrayed the image of a warm, kind, brave and unafraid Chinese on the screen, and his heroism impressed the whole world. Although he beat the Japanese invaders in the movie, to this day, Bruce Lee is still revered by the Japanese as the "Sage of Martial Arts"!

He became a symbol of "rebellion"!

So he can become a god!

And the reason why "Ip Man" can be successful is that there are some philosophical ideas contained in it!

Many foreigners are not interested in Chinese philosophical thoughts, but it depends on how you use them?

The reason why Bruce Lee's movies were so popular at the beginning was that they contained some mysterious philosophical ideas, which confused foreigners for a while!

"Maturity refers to the deepest consciousness of the self, not to be a captive of ideas. ”

"If you want to break through yourself, you need to know your own self-awareness. ”

"I am moving, I am moving at all, I am like the moon on the waves, but I am only moving in the reflection of the moon, and the moon is not moving at all. Therefore, the true meaning is not "what am I doing" but "what I am", "realization" in the depths of my heart, and "what is in the depths of my heart". ”

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It can be said that Bruce Lee really played Chinese philosophy out of the flowers!

Of course, Bruce Lee's philosophy is not a flicker, not a big flicker like Jack Ma!

Bruce Lee's philosophy is empirical!

Bruce Lee used his own practice to constantly revise his philosophy

and ultimately validate their philosophy with their own success.

It is foolish to only immerse oneself in hard work without knowing that one has mastered theories, and it is vain to be willing to talk about theories without disdainful devotion to practical work.

Most of the philosophers of the past dynasties talked on paper and replaced practice with utopia, so their doctrines were biased and fallacious, and future generations would inevitably go astray when reading them. Although Lao Tzu's doctrine is regarded as the secret art of the emperor, he himself has never been called king, so his views are many unrealistic; although Nietzsche put forward the theory of "superman", he himself has no superhuman deeds, and future generations do not know how to become superman.

Bruce Lee, on the other hand, is different, he attaches equal importance to theory and practice, unlike other philosophers, he takes martial arts as his real career, unlike other martial artists, he uses philosophy as a theoretical weapon to study martial arts, he studies philosophy in order to develop his career, and at the same time validates his philosophy in the process of developing his career.

He used philosophy to guide martial arts, and then used martial arts to perfect philosophy, his success in martial arts depends on his understanding of philosophy, and his achievements in philosophy are also inseparable from his own martial arts practice.

In the end, Bruce Lee's brilliant success in his career in turn became the best commentary on his philosophy.

And Bruce Lee's philosophical opposites are unified!

Historically, philosophical schools have often been at odds with each other. For example, Nietzsche and Lao Tzu, the former is uninhibited and advocates individuality, while the latter is feminine and quiet, advocating passivity and inaction, which can be described as two extremes in the history of philosophy. However, these two seemingly incompatible philosophical views have been harmoniously unified and perfectly embodied in Bruce Lee. This cannot but be said to be a miracle.

Bruce Lee is undoubtedly a master who is good at taking the strengths of all families.

He wholeheartedly sought truth, broke the boundaries of various schools, absorbed the essence of various philosophical ideas from ancient and modern China and foreign countries, discarded their mistakes, and broke through their limitations: he conformed to the law and made positive progress, his personality was publicized and respected science, and he sought wisdom and entered the WTO to start a business.

In the end, Bruce Lee broke through the shackles of form and strived to be free and uninhibited, taking the impossible as the law and the infinite as the limited.

And the idea of Confucian "benevolence" in "Ip Man" is also unfathomable, just like the "philosophy of water" expounded by Bruce Lee in the movie!"

"Empty your mind, transparent, amorphous, like water, if you put water in a cup, it becomes the shape of a cup, you put water in a bottle, it becomes the shape of a bottle, you put water in a teacup, it becomes the shape of a teacup, water can flow softly, it can be hard to condense, like water, my friend. ”

This kind of unfathomable thinking, although foreigners don't know about it, but it feels so good!

This also proves that traditional Chinese ideas cannot be applied to movies, nor can they not be used, the key depends on how you use them and in what way?

In the eyes of smart people, everything is the law!

And in the eyes of stupid people, no matter how you go, it's a dead end!

Secondly, the most important reason why "Ip Man" can succeed is because of Warner's distribution ability, without Warner's promotion, "Ip Man" is simply a clever woman without rice!