Everyone should be familiar with Jet Li, who grew up watching his movies. Look at him from a teenager to an international superstar. Jet Li had many good opportunities in his acting career, but he also lost two good opportunities. One is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon directed by Ang Lee. Jet Li chose not to show up because he wanted to be with his wife. The second time was the matrix. The popularity and success of the two films are obvious to all, and I feel sorry for Jet Li.
But Jet Li is also lucky. Even though he missed these two good opportunities, he still met his own lucky movie. I filmed Shaolin Temple, and I first appeared in front of the national audience. Everyone also remembered a stubborn and naive teenager. Jet Li's performance slowly reached a peak, but at this time he decided to March into Hollywood. Hollywood is not very welcoming to Asian faces, and the development of Jet Li is not very smooth.
At the lowest point of his career and mood, director Tsui Hark extended an olive branch to him. 1990, Jet Li returned to China to shoot Huang Feihong, which made Jet Li reach the peak of his career again. He became famous after filming "Huang Feihong" and directly stayed in Hongkong to continue filming. During this period, I also brought some very good movies, such as the legendary swordsman, Five Ancestors of New Shaolin, etc.
But in the third part of Huang Feihong, it suddenly became Chiu Man-Cheuk. As we all know, it is not easy to change the protagonist in an ordinary series of movies. Because the audience has a stereotype of the protagonist, rashly changing the protagonist will lead to a decline in the box office. There is speculation that Jet Li and Tsui Hark have fallen out. In fact, the reason is also very simple, because of a past event.
At the time of filming, Jet Li's fame had soared, because he fell out with his old club, Jiahe, over the issue of film pay. Indeed, in the case of popularity at that time, the star's pay rose with his own worth. What's more, Jet Li has been playing difficult martial arts dramas, and he is particularly demanding on his body. Because of this, Jet Li finally failed to sign the third part of Tsui Hark's Huang Feihong.
When shooting, I had to switch to starring Chiu Man-Cheuk. Both of them are five stars, and Chiu Man-Cheuk's performance is not bad. But what is lacking is the heroism of Jet Li's Huang Feihong. It may also be because of past friction that the cooperation between Tsui Hark and Jet Li has been unhappy.
So in the next few years, no one saw Jet Li and Tsui Hark's movies on the big screen. Until 2002, Tsui Hark invited Jet Li to shoot flying swords of dragon gate again. Perhaps I think that Jet Li is the protagonist in my mind, so Director Tsui Hark also pretends not to remember the previous unpleasantness.
Jet Li is hope in the past, after all, two people are not young. It's not about people, it's about things. With their passion for movies, the two joined hands again, which was a happy ending. Anyway, I hope Jet Li and Tsui Hark can bring you better works in the future! what do you think?