Chapter 691
[117] Bruce Lee, Reborn!
Chapter 691 [117] Bruce Lee, Reborn!
"Bruce Lee is neither accepted by the public as a complete American nor as a complete Chinese!"
"As a bridge between China and the West, he introduced Chinese Kung Fu to the world. He is a fighting expert and an iconic performance artist, and has made innovative contributions to both martial arts and action movies!"
"I felt compelled to tell his story: this remarkable and unique man, who had a hunger to belong, a tremendous amount of energy packed into his 135-pound frame, and through tireless hard work, achieved the impossible!"
"..."
At the press conference of "Bruce Lee", Li An introduced the original intention of making this movie.
Except for some American actors who did not come, they will attend the next Hollywood start-up press conference; the actors from Hong Kong and the mainland have all arrived. In addition to Bruce Lee played by Chen Yu, there is also Ip Chun who plays Ip Man, Ip Man's real-life son.
Bruce Lee was a disciple of Wing Chun master Ip Man who was 61 years old. Now Ip Chun is 82 years old, but he looks almost like a 70-year-old. He is vigorous and in good health, so he has no problem acting.
This grandmaster's son is not very good at Wing Chun, but he has appeared in many movies and TV series, almost all of which he played the role of his father.
In 76's "The Legend of Bruce Lee", he had already started his career as an actor.
Now in "Bruce Lee", in addition to playing a role, he also serves as a consultant and martial arts instructor, mainly teaching Chen Yu Wing Chun, Jeet Kune Do and some training methods, such as the wooden man, which he is very good at.
After all, he has opened a martial arts school and has been committed to promoting Wing Chun.
In addition to Ip Man, there is also Zhen Zidan who plays Ip Man's apprentice Zhang Zhuoqing, and Wang Luoyong who plays Bruce Lee's mentor and uncle Shao Ruhai.
Wang Luoyong is also very famous in the United States. He is known as the first Chinese on Broadway. He is a professor at the Massachusetts College of the Arts and has won many best actor awards in American drama and stage plays. However, he is best known for the recently popular The Return of the Condor Heroes, in which he played Guo Jing.
Yes, it’s the one starring Chen Yu and Liu Yifei.
So this time he and Chen Yu are working together for the second time, and the two are very familiar with each other. However, this role was not recommended by Chen Yu, but was chosen by Xiangning Li.
She met Lao Wang when she watched him on Broadway.
These are basically the early starring cast of "Bruce Lee". It's about an hour long and tells about Bruce Lee's experience in school and martial arts.
The film begins with a flashback.
It starts with Bruce Lee's sudden death, and then the 16-year-old Bruce Lee comes on the scene, first winning the boxing championship, and then the cha-cha dance championship.
However, due to an argument with people from the Tsai Li-fo faction on a rooftop on United Road, he injured them in a fight. Afterwards, Bruce Lee's parents discussed the matter and decided to let Bruce Lee go to the United States to study and live.
During this period, Bruce Lee learned Northern martial arts from Shao Ruhai in exchange for teaching him the Cha Cha dance. He then learned Tai Chi, Hung Gar, Cai Li Fot and other boxing styles. With the introduction of his childhood friend Zhang Zhuoqing, he eventually became a disciple of Ip Man and learned Wing Chun!
"Chen Yu, what made you want to shoot Bruce Lee's autobiography?"
A Hong Kong reporter was asking Chen Yu who was sitting there.
Chen Yu looked at Zou Wenhuai who was also attending the press conference, and told him the original intention of filming "Bruce Lee".
The entire opening ceremony was like a press conference and lasted for more than two hours. "Bruce Lee" was successfully launched.
The whole of Hong Kong and even Southeast Asia and the mainland began to broadcast this news.
After all, Chen Yu plays Bruce Lee, which is definitely a huge piece of news.
The media was reporting on the event extensively, but Chen Yu stayed in the crew's practice room, sweating profusely.
Yip Chun-cheng taught him the wooden dummy technique of Wing Chun.
There is also Jeet Kune Do and other things, which Chen Yu will demonstrate in the film.
However, he has a foundation in Kung Fu, and after learning for a few days, he can basically fight well. This is completely different from someone who has never learned any martial arts, so it is completely in time for him to practice after the filming starts.
Because the early scenes of "Bruce Lee" were all literary dramas, it was not until a month later that the few fighting and training scenes in Hong Kong were filmed.
After that, I went to the United States again, which also took about 2 months.
This year's Spring Festival is a whole month later than last year, and it will be on February 2th, so there is plenty of time. Li An arranged a schedule for Chen Yu to finish the filming as much as possible before the Spring Festival.
If it really doesn't work, just postpone it until after the New Year. Chen Yu will be in the United States by then anyway.
He has to promote the premiere of "Invisible Mission: Impossible", and the filming of "The Dark Knight" will start in March and continue until June or July.
Chen Yu will basically be in the United States for the next year.
In addition to this movie, Chen Yu plans to direct another work next year, "The Grand Budapest Hotel", and his schedule for next year is full again.
As for the year after next, Chen Yu has not started making arrangements yet.
In principle, he will reward himself for directing a film every year in the future, and as for Hollywood, apart from investing himself, he will only take on series films for the time being.
That is, "Fast and Furious" and "Invisible Bourne". For the others, I either don't have time or I'm not interested.
With so many projects on hand, Chen Yu has enough to spend in 2-3 years!
If the market response to "The Dark Knight" is good, he will be able to become one of the most famous movie stars in the world.
This will be the highlight of next year and the year after.
He was originally very optimistic about "Insubordination", but he doesn't know whether the movie will be affected by the character of the Joker. He can only wait and see after it is released.
In any case, during the period before the release of "The Dark Knight", Chen Yu's reputation in North America would not be very good, but his traffic and popularity were increasing day by day with such abuse. At present, he is basically as famous as Jackie Chan in the world.
The disc market is also selling well.
Whether this vicious fermentation of word-of-mouth is good or bad can only be verified when "Invisible Bourne" is released.
At present, he is receiving a lot of negative reviews in North America and Europe.
It's all caused by the character of the Joker.
……
Crackling!
Chen Yu was in the training room, pounding the wooden man quickly. Ye Zhun, who was watching from behind, sighed a little.
They also practiced together and had some foundation in Kung Fu. Chen Yu's fighting was much better looking than Zhen Zidan's next to him.
And it's coherent and smooth.
As for Chen Yu's back, Ye Zhun vaguely had some illusions.
It was like a distant figure, practicing Wing Chun's standing posture.
However, although Bruce Lee was Ip Man's apprentice, Ip Chun had never actually met him. Ip Chun only went to Hong Kong in 1965, and by then Bruce Lee had already moved to the United States.
So Ye Zhun actually learned about Bruce Lee through newspapers and the media.
But he definitely knows more than the ordinary audience. Looking at Chen Yu like this, he smiled at Li An beside him and said, "I thought Chen Yu was just famous, but I didn't expect him to be so skilled, and... he looks very similar!"
"right?"
"I also feel like I'm getting closer and closer to Bruce Lee!"
Li An was actually very satisfied with Chen Yu's image.
In order to cater to Bruce Lee's body shape, he now maintains a very low body fat percentage. So even the muscles on his back look scary, with many twists and turns there, exactly like Bruce Lee's back in the movie.
If you wear a vest and put on some makeup, it basically looks like Bruce Lee is alive.
This is the shape of a good actor.
On the other hand, Zhen Zidan next to him is undoubtedly much worse. It’s not that Zhen Zidan is not good at fighting or his skills are not as good as Chen Yu, but it feels like his temperament.
He is more of an external image.
Chen Yu has merged his inner self with Bruce Lee, and now everything he says and does is basically like Bruce Lee, including his walk, smile, etc. This is of course learned from the information film.
Zhen Zidan relied on makeup to become Zhang Zhuoqing.
Apart from the performance and the role, Zhen Zidan's striking was not as good as Chen Yu's.
His Wing Chun is very straightforward, while Chen Yu has a kind of magnanimity in it, which means he not only fights, but also has his own understanding.
Bruce Lee also has this characteristic.
Even when Bruce Lee was only 16 years old, he would think before fighting and would not fight blindly.
clap clap!
After fighting for more than half an hour, Ye Zhun clapped his hands and said, "Let's take a break!"
"You just need to practice the wooden man pole every day. You need to practice Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do well later on!"
Ye Zhun looked at Chen Yu.
Chen Yu smiled at him. He still respected the grandmaster's son very much, even though he had done a lot of weird things in his past life.
There are a lot of bad things.
But who can blame him because his father is Ip Man?
For example, he pocketed the copyright fees for Ip Man's movies, had disputes with Ip Man's other son, and even convened a meeting to kick Bruce Lee's childhood friend Zhang Zhuoqing out of the federation of Ip Man's disciples.
Zhang Zhuoqing, played by Zhen Zidan, has a very important role in "Bruce Lee". Even when he went to the United States, he still had a plot.
Unlike Ip Man and others, which only have scenes set in Hong Kong.
Zhang Zhuoqing is still alive in real life. He is in his 60s and is the same age as Bruce Lee.
Shannon Lee specifically asked him for the film and television copyrights.
This person actually played a very crucial role in Bruce Lee's life.
He was also a disciple of Ip Man. He met Bruce Lee, who was the same age as him, at the age of 9 and became close friends with him!
In 1959, after Zhang Zhuoqing left Hong Kong to study in Australia, he never met Bruce Lee again. During this period, Bruce Lee wrote more than 20 letters to Zhang Zhuoqing.
Including the creation of Jeet Kune Do.
The two people have been exchanging letters all the time, and Zhang Zhuoqing himself is doing very well in real life.
Many people know that he had a disciple named Huang Chunliang because of "Ip Man". In fact, after Ip Man fled to Hong Kong, the first disciple he accepted was Zhang Zhuoqing.
If he hadn't advertised everywhere, Ip Man might have starved to death.
But in the end, he was kicked out of the ranks of Ip Man's disciples; the reason was that he brought it upon himself.
He has a conflict of interest with the Ye family. He is the president of the World Wing Chun Kung Fu Association and also serves as the chief coach of the Seventh Fleet of the United States Marine Corps. He is a well-known Wing Chun master overseas.
He has made an indispensable contribution to the global promotion of Wing Chun. It is no exaggeration to say that he is the first person to promote Wing Chun overseas.
First Australia, then the United States, and then Europe, this guy is very famous overseas.
Unfortunately, after separating from Bruce Lee, they met again at his funeral.
This has to be said to be a pity.
"Brother Dan, let's do a push!"
Chen Yu and Zhen Zidan were still practicing hard late at night.
I have to admit that Zhen Zidan cherishes this rare opportunity very much.
Zou Wenhuai and Chen Yu had discussed choosing him. It was not that there were no action stars in the mainland, but if Zhen Zidan became popular with the help of this drama, he could be asked to star in the "Ip Man" series. Chen Yu had already discussed this with Ye Weixing.
What can I say about Zhen Zidan's Ip Man? Actually his acting is okay, mainly because there is no one more suitable than him.
Wu Jing is too young, and many of the others from Hong Kong and Taiwan are older.
In view of this, he is the only one who can play this role.
In fact, it has been proved that Zhen Zidan's Ip Man made a lot of money at the box office, but this time it was Yu Xin who invested.
The next thing Ye Weixing will focus on is the Ye Man Universe.
"Brother Yu, let's practice again tomorrow!"
"I can't bear it anymore!"
Although Zhen Zidan is known as a workaholic, he still feels weak compared to Chen Yu.
This guy has been practicing since the opening ceremony.
He was almost unable to bear it, but Chen Yu was like nothing happened, practicing the Wing Chun routines and Jeet Kune Do fighting styles over and over again.
Zhen Zidan could only sigh that Chen Yu relied on his youth and good physical strength. It would definitely be impossible for him to admit that he was not as good as Chen Yu.
"it is good!"
"Then I'll practice it myself!"
Chen Yu twisted his neck and attacked the wooden man again.
Zhen Zidan shook his head and walked towards the locker room with a towel. The noise outside continued until the early morning before gradually subsiding.
The next day, the filming of "Bruce Lee" officially began.
Zhen Zidan was stunned when he saw Chen Yu walking into the dressing room with a bright look on his face.
This mental state is something that ordinary people can't compare to.
He practices until late at night and can get up so early in the morning, and he can still maintain the critical state. It turns out that not everyone can become Chen Yu.
Just like Cheng Long is a two-bone dragon, this is probably Chen Yu’s talent.
Their spirit is much better than that of ordinary actors.
The two men met each other, Chen Yu smiled at him, and sat there allowing the makeup artist to start making up Bruce Lee to look like a 16-year-old.
In addition to the youthful makeup, the skin color, hairstyle, etc. are obviously in line with that era.
Today's picture shows Bruce Lee when he was in junior high school. Since he was passionate about fighting since he was a child, Brother Edward, the physical education teacher of St. Francis Xavier's College, encouraged him to participate in inter-school boxing competitions and arranged Bruce Lee in the boxing team for training after school every day!
This was Bruce Lee's enlightenment and beginning in martial arts, and it is most appropriate to put it at the beginning.
"Like, so similar!"
"Brother Yu, you really look like Bruce Lee is alive again!"
The makeup artist looked at Chen Yu in the mirror, who was deliberately made to look like Bruce Lee, and was amazed at his own level of skills.
All I can say is that makeup can turn something ugly into something magical, transforming your appearance into something like Bruce Lee.
Chen Yu's immersion in the role and his physical form these days have given this character a soul!
At this moment, the body and soul merged into one, and Bruce Lee seemed to come alive instantly!
(End of this chapter)