Chapter 17 nag

There is always a message in my films.Sometimes the rough cut of the film is shown to investors or distributors, and they will also put forward such opinions: "Can you delete the preaching content?" I will tell everyone very politely every time, and I will seriously Listen, but never change.I have been making movies for decades, and now I can finally make my own decisions. I just want to tell the audience the message I want to convey. Even if you think I am very nagging and preaching, that’s okay. In many movies such as "Glass Bottle" and "Zodiac", it is mentioned that duels should be fair, and that a group of people should not bully one person. These are all for everyone to hear.Even if we have to compete and fight, we have to be fair, not fight like bad boys.I sometimes see on the Internet that ten boys beat a little boy, and a group of little girls beat a little girl. I don't understand why?If you have the ability, you will be one-on-one.

On the day of the premiere of "Heroes of Heaven", all the stars were resting in a VIP theater. I found a strange person. I walked in and out deliberately, and found that person followed me all the time.After a while, I called the security guards at the scene to come over and reminded them to pay attention.Sure enough, that person was not any staff member of the main creator, but mixed in with a group of people. The reason why I noticed him was because he had been secretly taking pictures in the lounge.Finally, the staff politely asked him to delete the video on the phone. I closed the door of the lounge and started training with a room full of agents and assistants. "There are so many staff members in this room, but none of them noticed. It's useless for you to surround the actors all the time. The room is only so big, and a group of people are blocking it. It's not convenient for the main creators to chat and communicate, and it's also not convenient for you. Observe the surrounding situation. What should a good agent and assistant be like? They will always stand in the corner of the room, looking for an angle that can see the overall situation, and see if there is any problem in observing the surrounding environment. Look at my team, they They won’t be around me all the time, but their eyes are always on me, as long as I look at them, they will immediately understand what I need.”

Having said that, let me tell you an interesting incident in the United States many years ago.It was a movie premiere promotion, and I was with an actress.At that time, the itinerary was in a hurry. There were a large group of people following the press conference, watching the film, meeting the audience, interviewing, etc. throughout the process.When the interview was finally over, a group of people got into the RV with me, including my team and the actress.During the whole process, there was always a girl sitting next to me, who was also very well dressed.When we were in the car, we chatted, and she chatted with us, and we ate at a place, and she ate with us, and we took pictures together when we were done, and before we left, she came over and hugged me to say goodbye, and even kissed me .Seeing her leave, I asked the actress, "Why don't you go back with your daughter?" She said, "Ah? She's not my daughter, I thought she was your friend!" I was also stunned, " Ah? No! I thought she was your friend!" Finally, after asking around, I found that no one knew her.She just followed me all the way, took my car, ate my meal, took my photos, even kissed me, and finally left.

There are many actors whose contract stipulates that they work 8 hours a day. When the time comes, no matter whether you finish filming or not, you will leave as soon as you take off the headgear.This rule did not exist before. I used to shoot 15 consecutive day and night shifts. This is something that many people in the film industry know. They work 24 hours a day without food.Later, when I went to the United States, I also learned the American rules.Later, many mainland and Hong Kong actors also automatically learned the American way of working, working 8 hours a day.This is one way to protect entertainers from overtime.

I think whether in the United States or China, there should be no exceptions to the rules, and we must understand the situation at the time.If you don’t stipulate legal working hours, some directors and some crews will go too far, shooting continuously for 24 hours, 36 hours, and shooting all night, so setting the time is also to protect everyone’s rights and interests, but some artists will ask the director when they arrive at the scene It's not good to call it a day, either because you have a date or something else.When there are no rules, the actors will be exhausted, the performance will not be good, and the fight scenes will be easily injured; after having the rules, it is easy to spoil people, so there should be a reasonable space, not only for the director and the crew, but also for the actors.

When I first started filming "New Shaolin Temple", I once asked Director Chen Musheng: "Why do you keep filming other people and not me?" The director said: "Brother, help me, they have to pass the clock (the shooting time is limited, Go when the time comes)." As soon as I heard this, I understood, so I said to him: "It doesn't matter, you shoot them first, and then shoot me after shooting them, and I can help them act, but it's okay if you need to shoot my neck or side face. Come to help you stretch your back, you don’t need to find a substitute, after they finish filming during the day, you can shoot me at night. No matter what the other actors are, when it comes to me, you can shoot slowly, don’t be afraid, I will be there all day Here it is." Chen Musheng was very moved.

Because I am a director myself, I know the hard work of the director, so I don't put any pressure on the director.Actors who have never been directors may not realize this.When the time came, the agent and assistant came to remind him, "It's over, it's overtime..." They took the actor away, either to sleep in the RV, or to catch up with other work. Then one day when I was on set, I deliberately asked in front of many actors, why didn't you shoot me?The director just laughed.I just deliberately said in front of everyone, it’s okay, I have a lot of time, others don’t have time, you shoot them first, I’m not in a hurry.

I am both a director and an actor, so it is very clear that the director is the most tiring on the set, and the actors are the most comfortable.Arrive late and leave early, eat the best, sit in a chair, 4 make-up, 6 hair, 8 assistants, 12 bodyguards, a group of people will serve you.Now our showbiz is competing for ostentation every day, no matter who comes out, they will follow a lot of people, everyone is more than anyone else.Sister Duo is always the only one when I go out to work. Once I saw Jaycee Jaycee followed four people, and I scolded him: "Your father only has one assistant, why do you bring so many people?" He also only has one assistant now.

Look at some domestic actors who come out now, and they are always surrounded by seven or eight people, and they don't know what those people are doing.It turned out that there was a time when Fan Bingbing appeared with a lot of people, and I squeezed her once: "Wow, just looking at this scene, I knew that the big star Fan Bingbing was here!" He waved to the people around him, "Go away, or the elder brother will scold me again." Actually, what is there to compare it to?Those who pay attention to these things and compare them are all people without confidence.When I was young, I tried wearing hats, masks, glasses, but I was still recognized, and I felt silly and boring.What are you doing?Later, I just went out like this no matter where I went, and people would not do anything to you.No matter whether I go to a high-end place or a difficult place, I always dress the same, and there are so few people around me.

Now when I see these juniors around me, I appreciate those who can be regarded as friends, so I will teach them, and I will not teach them if I don’t like them.I like young people who are hardworking and talented, and I will nag some things to them. I once said to them: "Remember, any interview is the first interview." This is also my own experience. I used to try not to take it seriously, but I regretted it later.At that time, I had just arrived in the United States to make a movie. The way Hollywood worked, there were dozens of interviews in a row, and each media only had 5 minutes or 10 minutes.The big media will give a little longer, and the small ones will give a little less.The reporters are also very disciplined when they visit. When the last one is visiting, the next one is already preparing for the next one. When the time is up, the staff will remind them, they will stand up, say thank you, pack up their things and leave. It doesn't mean that you have to ask a few more questions, and then the next reporter. This is the Western working style.At most, I made 79 interviews a day.

After dozens of interviews, I kept saying some repetitive things, and the state became worse and worse, and the answers to questions became more and more perfunctory. "Oh, yes..." "Nice..." Especially when you are on some TV shows, you may be tired of talking before, and several guests are sitting together, and the host will give you a question, but you are not willing to say it yourself. Just a few words are always mentioned, please ask others to say it.After work was over, I happily went to eat, but when I went back to watch the replays of those programs, I saw my listless face and hated myself very much. The whole scene was just two words-boring.People even teased me: "You can tell at a glance that he is not used to accepting interviews from me. If only I were a prettier girl." I still remember this sentence, and I feel very embarrassed every time I think about it. I was wrong. No matter how many interviews you have done, the reporter is interviewing you for the first time. You have no reason not to respect their work. They don’t know how many times you have said it before. For them, this is the first time. And it's the first time for the audience watching your interview. If you look like you are dying, then why should people watch you?No matter how attractive you are, you didn't show it through interviews, so I told myself at that time, from now on, every interview will be the first interview.Every reporter asked me a question, and as long as time allowed, I would tell the whole story to others, and the next time another reporter asked the same question, I would tell it again.As public figures, others can disrespect us, but we cannot disrespect others. When I was filming in the United States, Canada, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Japan, I often met young Chinese people outside, including those from the Mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.These young international students look very different. There is a group of people who look like rich children who are not studying abroad at all. An Aberdeen man drives a sports car to pick up a girl on the street. When he sees me, he is very frivolous: "Brother, how is it?" There are also people in the mainland and Taiwan.After studying for a few years, except for the improvement of those things to play, I have not improved in anything else, even my English is not good.I have seen too many children who go to the United States, and in the end, "if you can't speak Chinese, you can't succeed in English."He speaks Cantonese, but he can't speak English very well, and he can't write very well, and he can't read or write Chinese.Including Jaycee Jaycee, everything is learned half and half.I just want to say, even if you learn one thing well, it’s fine! At this time, if I see some foreign students saying that I have to study hard here, it is not easy for my parents to give me so much money to go to school, and I must repay them well when I go back in the future, I will feel very happy and like such motivated young people. .When I went to Harvard to give lectures a few years ago, I met a Chinese girl named Sophia Chang. She was responsible for helping the teachers to welcome us.I heard that her English is really good, and all the work arrangements are also very professional.I asked her how long she had been in the United States. In fact, it was only three years. She could not speak English at all in China, but she worked hard in the United States. Later, she became a student representative of Harvard and the president of the classmate association.When I see such students, I feel admiration and comfort. Why can't there be outstanding young idols in China?Because many of them were not trained since they were young. Everyone had to go to school first, and then came out to learn dancing and singing after graduation. They started learning at the age of 18, and they were in their 20s after finishing school. This is already old for young idols.In Japan and South Korea, people who are over 10 years old practice singing and dancing while studying, and eliminate those who fail, and finally select the 10 best ones to come out and launch them. How can they not be popular? (At this time, Sister Jiao was joking: Yes, he learned Kung Fu at the age of 6, so he came out, otherwise it would be too late.) In this regard, we should learn from the Koreans.Koreans must take Korean Air when they go out, their mobile phones must be Samsung, and their cars must be Hyundai and Daewoo.Few people drive foreign cars.Once I went to Korea and chatted with a producer in their film industry. He took me to a store in Korea that specializes in selling pirated copies. I went in and saw that all pirated movies were foreign, and none of them were Korean movies. .I asked why.He said very naturally that we never pirate movies from our own country.At that time, I thought, can we do the same? I have seen a lot of mineral water that I can't finish drinking on many occasions, and I end up throwing it there, which is very wasteful. My staff and I will write our names on the bottle cap, and take a bottle of water with us until we finish drinking.I can't finish it, the water in the bottle must be used to water the plants, and then the bottle is squashed and thrown into the trash.It turned out that I would do all these things by myself, but later people said I was just for show, so sometimes I handed it over to colleagues around me.When filming "Kung Fu Dream" in the United States, Will Smith's son also learned this trick from me. One thing I feel very proud of is the few concerts I performed at the beginning.When I was in Harbin and Shanghai, I told the audience, please pour out the water you can't drink, water the plants, and take away the garbage around you.After these two times, the organizers came to me and told me, brother, we have never seen any concert in the past, and the venue was so clean after the end.Except for some concert tickets left behind, there is no rubbish. For the next Bird's Nest concert, I specially asked the team to stamp "Jackie Chan" on the tickets, so that everyone felt that the tickets were valuable for collection, so they didn't throw them away.Later they told me that the trash at that concert was at least 70% less than other events.In addition, when I hold a concert, during the early planning, I will ask to try not to use confetti, fireworks and other unfriendly things. Some friends told me that in fact, after outdoor activities in the United Kingdom and the United States, there are also a lot of garbage on the scene, and it is not just like our country.I told them, we can't compare this aspect with developed countries, why?Because their garbage sorting is much better than ours, 70% of their things can be recycled and reused, but we may only have 10-20%.If we can catch up with other people's level, we can also relax a little bit. The environment of the whole society needs everyone to work together.The mobile phone cases I designed are all made of environmentally friendly materials such as rice bran that can be recycled and reused. I always tell the family-building class that I know we are hardworking, but we must respect other people's rules wherever we work. For example, when filming in the mainland, if it is my own studio, everyone is used to quick response. I said move the stage away, and the family team will rush to do it immediately. This is of course a good thing, and it will be very efficient. I like it too. I see everyone working like this.But when you come to the United States or Europe, what people pay attention to is to perform their own duties. You can't interfere with other people's work, that's disrespectful to them.On your own set, you can grab the lighting machine, and I will pick up the camera and shoot as soon as I am in a hurry, and the director of photography will not have any opinions, but when you go to other people's places, you still have to respect them. When we first went abroad to film, we sometimes had conflicts with the local staff, because the family-making class always had a lot of work in their eyes, and they responded quickly when I said something, but this would make foreigners very upset, and even Being scolded by others: "This is my job!" Later, I taught them that they must do as the Romans do, and you should not feel that they are slow or stupid, this is the rule of their game.Maybe people still think that it is a kind of stupid for us to be so diligent. When filming, we were the first crew to have refreshments on set.At that time, some staff members would steal a lot of food while people were not paying attention. This was a necessary process. After a long time, everyone got used to it, and gradually no one took it. When I was filming, it was the first time I tried this in the Mainland, and I saw someone grab a lot of instant coffee and take it away. I want to give everyone time to improve slowly.When I filmed "Zodiac", "Police Story 2013" and "Heroes", no one took them. All the people who came to visit my "Zodiac" said that Big Brother's set is too powerful, and no other crew can be like his crew.There is a place for smoking, there is a place for drinking tea, there is a snack department, and there is a coffee department.I respect people's habit of smoking, but you must not smoke at the scene. I will give you a separate place to smoke.You have to line up when you eat, and you have to line up to set the dishes after eating.Some colleagues came to visit my class, and when they saw it, they would say, "Brother, you are in the army." You have just started a film, if you want to manage like this, the first week must be the hardest.I will stand there to supervise. When placing the dishes, if you place the plate crookedly alone, all the plates below will be crooked, so I will watch everyone there after I finish eating quickly, and they are very self-conscious. . My crew eats very good food, including meals, fruit meals, tea, coffee, water, soda, whatever you want to eat and drink, so if you work in such an environment, you must abide by my rules.After a week, everyone has formed a habit. The cups, plates, dishes, and chopsticks are all arranged very well, and everyone will become more and more convenient. All the extras who came during the filming also learned from it, and we even went to Latvia. When it comes to filming, Latvian filmmakers will follow suit.They were surprised and said: "Wow, so you are all so good at filming in China!" I said: "Yes!" In short, I hope to set an example for the whole industry starting from myself. All colleagues who have been to my studio will learn slowly when they go back, so that our industrial environment will become better and better.So far, I have actually influenced many dramas, and I am very happy. For a while I vomited as soon as I ate, and I didn't know why. I thought I was seriously ill, so I hurried to see a doctor.After the doctor's examination, he told me that you should stop eating fruit after meals.I said, huh?how do you know? He said that all the meat takes two hours to digest, but the fruit digests in a few minutes. If you eat fruit after a meal, the meat you eat is on the bottom of the stomach, and the fruit is on the top.The fruit is digested very quickly and then it doesn't go down, so it starts to ferment, and then it becomes stomach acid, so you throw up.People chew food slowly and digest it relatively quickly, but I eat food wholeheartedly and hardly chew. I swallow a large piece of meat at once, and after it goes down, it slowly dissolves in my stomach. Digest, eat a lot of fruit and then pay the bill and leave. (Director Tang Jili added at the side: Yes, he is a great white shark, swallow it first.) Every time I eat very full, I can't wait to eat it up to the throat, and I will definitely vomit when I stand up.Since then, I have changed to eating fruit before meals, and it is still the same now. In the future, you should also eat "fruits before meals" instead of "consequences after meals". I can't stand people not eating while it's hot.Every time the hot food is served, I don't eat it, I insist on chatting there, and I'm obviously not in a hurry to leave, why don't I finish eating while it's hot, order some tea and chat while drinking? There is another funny thing about this.When I was filming "Drunken Master 2" in Shanghai, there was a martial artist named A Gen next to me. He looked very fierce and had tattoos all over his body. At first glance he looked scary, but he was actually very nice.One day when I was on the set, I suddenly had a craving for xiaolongbao, so I asked him to call and order one for me, and please deliver it hot.As a result, I waited on the set for more than half an hour before the delivery girl came. I also forgot the reason. Anyway, the steamed buns were already cold when I got them. I was very upset, and Agen was very upset. stood nervously by.Then I opened the bag and saw that there was no vinegar in it!I broke down and asked Agen loudly: "Where is the vinegar? I want white vinegar!" He became more nervous when he heard that, and immediately turned his head to chase the lady, shouting loudly: "Fuck! Fuck me! I want white vinegar!" Fuck!" This scared the girl!It turns out that in the Cantonese we speak, the pronunciation of "vinegar" is very similar to "fuck". A's Mandarin is not good at all, and he is nervous, so this kind of joke is made.You imagine a tattooed, hooligan-looking man chasing a girl and shouting like this, that scene... Having said that, by the way, let me tell you another embarrassing thing about Agen.It was also when I was filming "Drunken Master 2", I wanted to fall from the top of the train, and Agen followed me beside me. I wanted to direct the martial artists in the mainland to place sponge mats, some need to be horizontal, and some need to be vertical , I told Ah Gen in Cantonese, let everyone straighten the sponge, the Cantonese pronunciation of the word sounds like "punch a hole", he told all the martial arts, hurry up, you all pierce the sponge !At that time, Hong Kong filmmakers were very authoritative when they came to the mainland to shoot movies, especially in the field of action guidance, we were considered experts, so after the mainland staff received this order, although they all thought it was strange, they still followed it. The hole is probably for the rope to tie the sponge up... When I walked over, I saw that everyone was making holes in the sponge. I asked why, and everyone said that Agen asked us to make holes.I just can't laugh or cry...