Video: Jackie Chan: "They do not undertake to insure me for fear of going broke"
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On films with Jackie Chan more than one generation of viewers has grown up. The charming and charismatic actor almost always performed the most difficult stunts on his own. Sometimes there was no living space on it due to the injuries received. Insurance companies refuse to insure the actor for fear of going broke. Coming from a poor family, Jackie Chan has come a long way to worldwide recognition.
On April 7, 1954, a boy Fang Xing Long was born into a poor Chinese family. The child was born weighing 5, 5 kg, so his mother called him "Pao Pao" for a long time, which means "cannonball". The parents of the future actor worked as a cook and maid at the French embassy in Hong Kong.
When Fang Xing Long was seven years old, his parents went to Australia in search of a better life, and their son left in a boarding school. It was there that the actor received the nickname Big Nose, because once the teacher, in the heat of rage, broke the bridge of the student's nose with a cane. Fang Xing Long, who eventually took the pseudonym Jackie Chan, attended classes at the Beijing Opera School in Hong Kong. In parallel with this, he was engaged in kung fu.
For the first time, the boy starred in a movie at the age of 8. At first, it was a scene in the crowd, and then he was entrusted with the role of the main character's son. Since adolescence, Jackie Chan, who had excellent plasticity, acrobatic skills and was engaged in martial arts, worked a lot as a stuntman. However, this was not enough for him. Jackie dreamed of an acting career.
Since the mid-1970s, Chan has been involved not only in extras, but also entrusted with more significant roles. A real breakthrough in the actor's career was the film "The Snake in the Shadow of the Eagle" (1978). The director of the film allowed Jackie to stage the stunts himself. The film turned out to be a comedy genre with many scenes of street fights. In fact, with his work, Jackie Chan laid the foundation for the development of a new cinematic genre, combining humor with the demonstration of martial arts.
In the 1980s, Jackie Chan tried more than once to achieve popularity not only in his homeland, but also in America. Then in the United States, almost all Asian actors performing combat stunts were compared to Bruce Lee. Jackie Chan wanted to find his own niche, and not become one of the many imitators of the famous actor. If Bruce Lee played the roles of serious and stingy fighters, then Jackie Chan chose the role of such a good-natured guy. With his creativity, he tried to prove that he is "an actor who knows how to fight, and not a fighter who knows how to play."
Perhaps the main feature that distinguishes the actor from colleagues is that he almost always performed stunts without understudies. Jackie Chan once said: "There is no fear, there are no understudies, there is no equal either." But do not think that the actor performed stunts, playfully. In 1986, while working on the film "Armor of God," Chan suffered a severe head injury after falling from a tree. After several fractures of the right ankle, the actor is forced to land on his left leg during any jumps. Insurance companies in the world have blacklisted Jackie Chan, no one risks insuring an actor who receives an incredible number of injuries.
Jackie Chan can be called a perfectionist. He entered the Guinness Book of Records as an actor who spent 2 days of filming and 1600 takes for a 3-second scene.
Jackie Chan is not only an actor, but also a singer. He has released 20 albums with his compositions. In some films, his soundtracks sound.
Today Jackie Chan is 63 years old, but he is still full of strength and energy. Chan continues to act in films, creates his own cinema, he still has many plans that the actor is going to realize.
Another mature actor who continues to delight fans with his work is Harrison Ford. He is already 74 years old, but films with Harrison Ford are still drive, action and adrenaline.
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