Chapter 22 I will be afraid too
I've always been terrified of needles.I have nothing to be afraid of except for injections. I am not afraid of snakes, cockroaches, and mice, but I am afraid when I see a needle. I want to insert the needle into the meat and push a tube of liquid into it.As soon as the nurse came over with the needle, I felt weak all over.
Once when I was filming "Fist of the Boxer" in Taiwan, I fell and was bleeding all the time.Everyone sent me to the hospital, and the doctor said I needed a tetanus shot.I asked if I could not fight, and everyone said no.I remember that the hospital bed was very small, the kind with rollers, so I took off my pants and lay there waiting.When the nurse came over, I was scared when I saw the needle, so I lay on the bed and pushed the bed and ran. The nurse was a girl, so I kept chasing after her. Later, everyone helped her stop me. I started yelling as soon as I got in.Many people around heard it and came to see it, and found that it was me who was yelling because of the injection, and they all thought it was funny.
Every time I get an injection, I run as long as I can.Sometimes I have to endure other pains to avoid injections, and even then I am willing.
When I was filming "Drunken Master" in Hong Kong, I broke the corner of my eye and opened a crack.When I went to the hospital, they said I needed stitches, but I said I didn’t want stitches, so I asked someone to cover the wound with a large medical tape, and then I went back to the set to continue filming.As a result, while patting, blood flowed out again.Wu Siyuan took me to the hospital again.The doctor said to need stitches.I asked if there was any other way besides stitches, and the doctor said there was only one way, which was to open the wound and seal every broken capillary with electricity, and I said that was it.The doctor reminded me that it was more painful than stitches, and I said it was fine.While waiting for the electricity, I would tremble in pain when the electricity was applied, but I just didn't want to sew stitches.
Once I was going to have my teeth pulled out, but because I was afraid of injections, I didn’t let me take anesthesia. Later, the pain made me scratch marks on other people’s chairs. People thought I was crazy, so I had to pretend there was nothing wrong.Another time on the set, I injured my eye again during filming, and the corner of the eye was opened. The doctor said that I needed stitches this time.I don't know if it's because the stitching process is slow or because the amount of anesthetic is low. In short, the anesthetic has worn off and I'm starting to feel pain, and there are still seven or eight stitches left.The doctor said that he could give me an injection of anesthesia, but I said no, just finish the stitches.I also think it's better to bear the pain than to inject another tube of fluid.Unfortunately, I was bitten by a dog while filming "The Chinese Zodiac" and had to receive five shots of rabies vaccine in a row!
When Bruce Lee was alive, I used to film with him, and he even said a few words to me, praising me for my good moves and my courage.
The Golden Harvest Company at that time was originally a mass grave, and many people liked to talk about what kind of supernatural things happened here, full of nonsense.Later, Bruce Lee passed away in the middle of filming, and no one dared to enter his lounge in Golden Harvest Company.I was like, no one wants it, so I want that lounge.The "Bruce Lee" nameplate at the door of that room was replaced with "Jackie Chan".
At that time, I often edited films in the company. One day it was very late and I was very tired after editing the film, so I was too lazy to go home and just wanted to sleep in the company.Everyone said, don't sleep here, it's haunted.I said, I want to see how it is haunted.
When I was sleeping, I suddenly heard a crackling sound outside. I thought it was the wood expanding with heat and contracting with cold, exploding.After a while, there was another rattling sound upstairs, and I said it was a mouse.After a while, there was another sound with a fast rhythm. I said it was a cat catching a mouse.As long as I can find a reasonable explanation for myself, there is nothing terrible about it.
Suddenly, right at my door, thump, thud, like someone knocking on the door.
Now I can't explain it, why?Why is there a knock on the door?
No, I have to check it out!If there is a ghost, then I want to talk to him.
In order to strengthen my courage, I opened the door and yelled "Hello" at the same time!When I opened it, it turned out to be a dog. When it heard me yelling, it ran away in fright.Only then did I realize that the entire corridor is covered with concrete floors, and only my door has a small rug. The dog sleeps on the rug to keep warm. When it feels itchy, it scratches, and when it scratches, it hits the door. , which sounds like a knock on the door.
You see, many things have to be determined by myself. If I didn’t open the door to see, I would think about it and be afraid, then I would tell people the next day that there are really ghosts and it’s scary.But now that I have solved the puzzle, I will sleep there in the future, no matter how loud it is, I will not be afraid anymore.
When I was filming a movie with Tang Jili, it was in the snow mountain.At that time, I just started using that kind of mobile phone. When the work was over, I drove him down the mountain on a snowmobile, and found that the mobile phone had fallen off and could not be found.I said let's go back and look for it, mainly because I like to drive that motorcycle, I think it's fun and bold, so the two of them drove back.As a result, I couldn't find it all the way, but it suddenly became dark, and I couldn't see anything around, only snow mountains.At that time, I was only wearing an ordinary long-sleeved shirt, without a coat, and when the car was about to go up the mountain, we couldn’t get up, and we both had to get down to push the car. There was heavy snow flying around, and we couldn’t tell the difference between the south, the east, and the north. , It's scary, and I'm still scared when I think about it now.I was so nervous and afraid, while looking for the way, fortunately, I suddenly found a telephone pole on the side of the road, so I continued walking along that road, and saw the light of a lighthouse in the distance, continued walking, and saw the crew , and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
We were in Johannesburg, Africa.
First, I drove for 10 hours to see the location. After watching the location, I will go to Cape Town.While waiting for the plane, we chatted about the script in a hotel, and we talked about "Who Am I".While chatting, I suddenly saw a dark sky outside the window, followed by a violent wind and thunderstorm.There was also a power outage in the hotel.At this time, my producer Barbie said, it's time, let's go to the airport.I looked out the window like this, and said, I don't want to fly in this kind of weather.I want to drive.She said it would take 12 hours to drive.I said 12 hours is 12 hours.
She was not too happy. "Then you want us to fly over and wait for you over there first." I saw her displeased look. It was true that many people in the production team had just finished work at that time, so they chatted with me about the script again. Everyone was very tired, so I hesitated. After a while, I thought, forget it.Then go to the plane.
When I arrived at the airport, I found that it was a very small plane with only a dozen seats, one on each side. Everyone was just full, and everyone was next to each other.Although it was dark on the ground, the blue sky and white clouds outside the window were beautiful after flying. On a sunny day, I just admired the scenery outside the window.When I flew near Cape Town, I saw the famous Table mountain (Table Mountain). The top of the mountain was as flat as a table.At this time, the radio on the plane said that Table mountain is on our left. How about this mountain? I just listened to this introduction and looked down.
All of a sudden, everyone rose up, and everyone in the plane except me was screaming. It turned out that the plane was falling rapidly!
Fortunately, the seat belt was fastened, and it felt like the plane was falling.I turned my head and stared at Barbie and said, if I die today, I will never let you go!Then I looked at the situation outside the window, and the others were already screaming and didn't know what to do.I said to myself, if I fall today, I have to watch how I fall.
When the ground was already visible, the plane suddenly stopped falling.The driver slowly pulled it up again.It was later said that the false alarm was caused by a strong airflow over the Table mountain.That was the scariest time I've ever been on a plane, thinking I was going to die.There is clearly a blue sky, white clouds and a big sun in midair, how could such a thing happen.
There is a hanging ring in my house all the time, and I use it to practice when I have nothing to do.
It turned out that when I was young, I would go up as soon as I grabbed it, and it was easy to do a few movements casually.When you hang it up, stretch your waist and relax it, the rings will rattle.Later, when I got home one time, I grabbed the ring and wanted to climb up, but I couldn't get up.Ka hung there for three minutes, and even the workers at home couldn't lift me up.I couldn't climb down myself, anyway, I was stuck there in a very strange posture, and finally almost fell down.At that time, I thought, time really is not forgiving.I have suffered too many injuries filming, and now my body has begun to protest.It turns out that I can train until I tie my cuffs and open them again, and the sweat will flow down like water.There are many knee and ankle injuries now, and I can no longer exercise as vigorously as in the past.
When I was filming "Zodiac", I was injured in an accident.At that time, I wanted to go through a picture frame to kick a person, and I was not satisfied after several consecutive shots. When I took another shot, the steel wire suddenly broke, and my whole body fell vertically from midair to the ground, which was very painful.At that time, I thought my lumbar spine was going to break, and that feeling was horrible.After a long time, I regained my composure, stood up and walked a few steps. It seemed that the problem was not too serious, but there was flesh and blood bruised by the frame on my back. I simply bandaged it and insisted on finishing the scene first.Thinking back to filming for so many years, it is often this small movement that makes mistakes. The bigger and more difficult the movement, the more well-prepared everyone is, and it is less likely to go wrong.
When promoting the film before its release, the reason why I said "Zodiac" was the last film with such a big action was because I felt that I couldn't go on like this, and I didn't want to end up sitting in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.When I was filming "Zodiac", I was almost 60 years old. I was still shooting action movies at this age, and I used doubles in some scenes, so even if you saw it, you would forgive me.
You don't know, after all these years, now the whole body is covered with injuries, and how hard it is every day.Three years ago, the doctor said that my shoulder needs to be operated on, and two nails should be put in, but I haven't done it until now.There are many other places in the body that need to be "fixed", but I always find various excuses and keep procrastinating, always avoiding and not wanting to face it.
I was afraid of going to the hospital for an examination. The injuries on my feet and shoulders have been dragging on and haven't healed.
Recently, my feet hurt a lot. When I returned to Hong Kong this time (July 2013), everyone caught me and told me to take X-rays.I had to surrender.On the day of my appointment with the doctor, the staff came to inform me, so I pretended to be sweeping the floor and tidying up the room. "Brother, I'm ready and we're going." I said very unhappy, "I'm sweeping the floor, don't go!" They said, "Brother, it's more important to go for a physical examination!" I said, "No, It's more important to tidy up the company." Seeing me like this, they had to cancel the appointment and reschedule it for the next day.
The next day, there was no excuse to say no, they kept urging me, so I had to obediently set off.
When I arrived at the hospital, the doctor said that my knees and feet should be treated first, so I was put in a small room. The machine was buzzing, and I had to hold a bell-like thing with one hand and sit on a very crowded chair. , After checking for a while, I fell asleep.Then switch to the other knee.The doctor asked me, will you be tired like this?I said, what's so tiring about sleeping.
Then I had to turn around to take pictures, put something on, and then push me into a cabin.After being pushed in, I opened my eyes, and suddenly my whole body became tense, and I immediately knocked hard on the inner wall of the cabin, "Let me out! Let me out!" As soon as I came out, I said, no, no, I am very scared inside very scared.The doctor said, many people are like this, a little claustrophobic, do you want to take a medicine and an injection, I immediately said "no".
In fact, this fear is due to the injury in "Brother Dragon and Tiger Brother".Since then, every time I enter such a place, I will think of that experience.During the brain surgery in Yugoslavia, the doctor pushed me into a cabin similar to this one. I lay there in a daze, and I really seemed to see a second Jackie Chan walking down slowly, and there was a beam of light underneath. .Although I don't believe in that kind of superstition, but at that moment there was really a beam of light coming from a distance, I really saw a second Jackie Chan floating up and going out, I felt like I was shouting "Don't go , don’t go, don’t go!” Then I was released and I woke up.
After that, go to the hospital for an examination. If the cabin that was pushed into has a lot of space, it will be fine. There is also a bigger cabin where you can even see the outside environment, so you will not be afraid.This time, because I made an appointment for an examination in the old building of the hospital, the equipment is old, just a very narrow cylinder, and the whole person was tightly wrapped in it after entering, and the feeling came back in an instant, really. scared.If you go back to check next time, you must change to a larger cabin.
The results of the previous examination came out, and the doctor said that two ligaments in my ankle were torn, and it was hopeless.The bones inside the knee were also badly worn.I can no longer run anymore, my feet are always sore.
I fainted twice when I was young.The first time was when I was 17 or 18 years old, when I was filming "Little Tiger in Guangdong" in Macau, and I was the leading actor.At that time, it was filming during the day and gambling at night, and gambling lasted all night.One morning, I had a tuba in the toilet, and after I flushed it, I fell to the ground as soon as I stood up.When people opened the door and came in and found me passed out, I hadn't put on my pants yet.Very embarrassing.
The second time was in the United States. I was 21 or 2 years old. On the eve of the filming of "The Killer", I just finished working out, took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and went to meet two friends for an Italian meal.At that time, I liked to wear "three-piece hair" shirtless, showing my muscles, and felt very proud.When several big men meet, they must order a few glasses of beer first, and then start drinking.After drinking for a while, I said I needed to go to the bathroom.As a result, after standing up and walking halfway, the whole person started to walk diagonally, and then hit the door and fainted.When I woke up, I was leaning on a sofa at the door, one of two friends stepped on the automatic door, and the other was fanning hard to help me breathe.I could see their mouths moving, but couldn't hear anything.
The agent hurriedly called the company to report, and the boss of Jiahe was very nervous, and asked me to have a full body examination immediately.I was escorted to the hospital and had injections and blood draws, which made me afraid too.After the test results came out, the doctor came over and asked me, How old are you? (How old are you?) I said, Twenty one (21 years old).He told me that your cholesterol is at the level of a 38-year-old, which is too high.He asked me what I eat every day, and I said: "Breakfast, humbugger, lunch, humbugger, dinner, humbugger." Because I just arrived in the United States at that time, and I didn't speak English very well, so I only said "burger" when I went to the restaurant every day. , pizza.” He eats fast food and drinks soda for three meals a day.After hearing this, the doctor warned me: "You can't do this anymore, don't eat this again. Your physique is the kind that can be nourished even if you drink water. You can't eat this kind of high-calorie food anymore. It's bad for your health. Very bad.” I’ve since quit that stuff.Over the years, I have eaten fast food and drank carbonated drinks really no more than five times.
On the evening of July 15, 2013, I met Han Sanping, Feng Xiaogang, and Li Rengang for drinks one after another, and I didn’t sleep until 7:00 in the morning.I slept until 12 o'clock and woke up, slept again, and didn't get up until 2 o'clock.
There was a water leak upstairs at my house in Beijing, and the furniture was ruined. I was currently staying in a hotel while it was being repaired.After getting up, I went to the sauna room. I took a bath first. I was supposed to soak for a few minutes before going into the steam bath, but when I was soaking, I saw someone entering the steam bath.I thought, oh, don't let people see me naked, so I should just soak for a while, and I soaked for more than ten minutes.After that person left, I immediately stood up and prepared to go in. As soon as I stood up and wanted to pee, I went to the toilet next to me, went up two steps, and went down two steps.Probably because I got up and walked too fast, I didn't know what was going on after I started peeing.
When I woke up, I found myself lying on the ground, my whole body was cold, very light and very empty.The ears cannot hear anything, and the color of the light is blue.scary.
I slowly recalled, what were I doing just now?It's like dreaming.After waking up a bit, I got up and took a cold shower, and then stood up for a while after taking a shower. Is it hypoglycemia?Is it because of soaking in hot water for too long?Then should I soak in hot water again?want!I went in and soaked for a while, then stood up to see if there was anything wrong, and it was back to normal.
Get out and call the doctor right away.The doctor asked, do you have incontinence?I said no.Are there any cramps?No.He said that you soaked for too long and got up too quickly, all the blood came up, and you went to urinate again, which is called "fainting".Later he told me that it is best for boys to urinate sitting up, as it is the safest and cleanest.Be careful, especially after taking a bath.
This is the third time I've fainted.It was pretty scary in retrospect, and luckily I didn't hit anything when I fell.After this time, when I went back to my room to sleep at night, I lay on the bed wondering if I would not be able to wake up early tomorrow morning.In fact, this is not bad, anyway, I don’t feel like walking, but I feel that if I really fall asleep, I won’t be able to wake up, so I’d better not sleep for now, and just stay awake.very funny.
After waking up the next morning, I didn't dare to get up all at once. I first slowly did some stretching movements, and then got up slowly to see if there was anything wrong.It’s the same when going to the toilet. I don’t dare to stand up all at once, but I get up slowly to feel it. Are you dizzy?Don't get dizzy, stand up again.
I found that sometimes I really love to be afraid, and I also like to think wildly.Now when I pass a bridge, I will be afraid. Try not to park your car under the bridge. If you can cross it, you should hurry to cross it while the light is green, for fear that the bridge will collapse.When passing through the subsea tunnel, I thought to myself, hurry up, don't get stuck in traffic, and looking at the water around me, I began to imagine what I would do if the water flooded in.If there is a traffic jam, as soon as the car slows down, I will quickly look at the surrounding environment, first to see which place is closest, and whether to go forward or backward when the water comes in.What if I go down into the water, how will I climb up and swim upstream?When staying in a hotel outside, when you get there, first check where the back door is and where the escape door is.I just think about these things all day long, but I'm actually quite afraid of death.
Regarding retirement, I have always wanted to find a good reason and step for myself, and I have always wondered when is the best time to retire.I don't want the audience to see me playing at a very old age one day, and they say across the screen: "Oh, please don't fight! How pathetic!"
Among the action stars in the world, there are not many who are still playing.Many of them are already shooting some machine gun scenes, and this one is relatively easy to shoot, not as difficult as I am now.In fact, I may not be able to persist for another year or two.Over the past ten years, I have been changing. Films such as "Glass Bottle", "Shinjuku Incident", "Kung Fu Dream", "New Police Story" and "Police Story 2013" all hope to let the audience know that I am not just a martial arts actor, but an actor. .I hope I am an actor who can act, not a star who can act, so that my career will be longer.
When I was in my 40s, I already wanted to retire. The audience just saw that I played smartly, but behind this smartness was countless pains.Many people can't understand the pain when going back to take a bath at night, or the pain of being unable to straighten the waist in the morning.I often tell myself that what you do is not done by humans, but every time you feel pain, you forget it.When I stood in the theater and watched the audience applaud and cheer, all these pains were left behind, and instead I told myself, I still need to shoot better and jump higher.
What's the best way to leave?Gone young like Bruce Lee, he became a legend.If it were me, for example, jumping into a volcano and dying while filming "Zodiac", this is also the most beautiful ending. Movie fans all over the world must be crying, and everyone will say that Jackie Chan sacrificed for the movie.This is the best, but I am reluctant, unwilling to die, and unwilling to retire.Sometimes I think, should I disappear suddenly one day, and go on a trip by myself with my bag on the plane?This is also a good way.
Up to now, it is often a feeling of contradiction and fear.I feel that if my body can persist, I will continue to do it, but don’t worry, I will stop in moderation.I will protect myself carefully, and I hope the audience will not be too harsh on me.
I remember going to the United States many years ago, when I saw Fang Zuming, wow, why is it so tall!Long time no see, he grew a lot all of a sudden.Later, every time I saw him, I was afraid and felt very unreal: "So I have a son, and he has grown so big." When he is not by my side, I often feel very relaxed and young by myself .But when I see him, I have to act like my father, and sometimes I have to pretend to be very serious and solemn.Now when I look at him every day, I am even more afraid, because I am afraid that he will get married and have children. Once he gets married and has children, I will become a grandfather.too horrible!
A few nights ago, I couldn't sleep. I thought that if I lived to be 80 years old, I would die in 20 years. I suddenly felt very scared.Thinking that I would be bitten by insects lying on the ground, I thought that I must be cremated in the future.Later, I thought, if Jaycee Jaycee lived to be 80 years old, then 50 years later there would be no him in this world.So cruel.Thinking about it, I felt as if a big fireball had sprung up on my body, burning uncomfortably.I quickly got up and started exercising, but fortunately, I forgot about it as soon as I exercised.
Zu Ming was with his grandfather for a long time when he was a child, and when his grandfather left, he cried so much... Sometimes I would look at the photos of our family portraits, there were parents, Zu Ming and his mother, and I thought, now two One has already left, and I don’t know when the third one will leave...