Chapter 27 my movie attitude

I started making movies when I was 6 and a half years old, and I have been making movies for more than 50 years now.If we talk about starring or directing, there should be about 100 films.If you count from childhood, including martial arts, martial arts, actors, and directors, there may be more than 200 films. To this day, there are still subjects that I want to shoot but have not shot, such as "Fire Fighters", which I have been thinking about for 30 years, but it is always impossible to realize due to various reasons.Another example is the story of Xiang Yu, which has never been filmed.For example, "Little Soldier" was 20 years in the making before it was filmed.I have very high and strict requirements for movies, and this is probably the reason.

Such as "Police Story", "Flying Eagle Project", "Dragon Brothers and Tiger Brothers" and "Zodiac" are my specialty subjects, and they are also my favorite subjects to shoot.I like to shoot some family reunion things, and everyone will be happy after watching it, not the kind where you kill me and I kill him, and everyone insists on revenge.In modern society, everyone is bored every day. Don’t go to the cinema and see some negative things.I hope that after watching Jackie Chan's movie, while laughing and laughing, a little information from me is enough.

I have never spared money when I make movies, anyone who knows me in the film industry knows this. "You must not get a salary for Jackie Chan's film, you must get a monthly salary. After you get your monthly salary, you will get rich and you can buy a house." There is a saying in the Hong Kong film circle, "To make a movie of Jackie Chan, make a movie. You can buy a house", because I always shoot for a long time. "Drunken Master 2", a 10-minute fight scene, we filmed for three and a half months, one shot in two days.No one would do that, only a psycho like me would.

I can also shoot a shot in seven days.This shot is in , showing the living environment of Gui Yalei's character. My idea is to use a long moving shot to go through the room from the first floor to the fourth floor to take a close-up shot. In the middle, you should see rickshaws and people. I ate on the first and second floors, and there were pigeons in the clothes drying place. After going to Gui Yalei's room on the fourth floor, I went to take a close-up, and it was done in one go.When we first set up the stage, the conditions were very limited. The United States has a kind of equipment for setting up the set. When it reaches more than 100 meters, we don’t have the technology like theirs, but we want to have a good effect. Take that platform, and then move to the other side to do it all over again after shooting.

When shooting each scene, I have to meet all my scheduling requirements. The extras on the set are often played by members of the married class, such as rickshaw pullers, peddlers, and passers-by. They are all from the married class. Knows my requirements better than the average extra.In this shot, as soon as I yell to turn it on, the cooking fire will start, and the camera moves all the way up to the second floor, and there are two people eating. At this time, the pigeon flies in and stops inside. Go take another big close-up of the picture on the wall.As a result, it took seven days to shoot this shot before I was satisfied.

Many scenes in it are shot to the end.At that time, I wanted to shoot the scene where Anita Mui was taking pictures, and I needed a person to go up and hang a curtain. An editor in the crew told me, brother, I can’t see the front of the scene anyway. I want to try what filming is. Feel it, play it.I said yes.As a result, he hung up for 26 hours that time.We shot all night.After that time, he said, I never want to film again. In addition, there was a group of girls who worked as accounting clerks in the bank, and they came to visit the class.I asked them if they wanted to try filming and have fun too.They thought it was very fresh and readily agreed, but they just walked around the scene that whole night.After filming, he also said that he would never film again in this life.

In movies, movements and expressions belong to the whole world and are the universal language.Why can my actions go to the whole world today?Because I'm talking to you with my body language, you don't have to read my dialogue, you can see what's going on by looking at my body and my movements.I turned over the table and poured the tea, then straightened the teacup, and made a very hot gesture and expression, which can be clearly seen by the audience, and there is also an element of humor in it. After filming action scenes for several years, my requirement is "no cruel actions, no dirty jokes", no vulgar things.When I first started making movies, the box office was also very good, but once I heard a friend tell me, Jackie, your movie is very good, but I can’t show it to my children because there are some violent things in it, or Some jokes not suitable for children.I was very shocked at the time, and after that, every time I made a movie, I would ask myself, can this movie be watched by Jaycee Jaycee when he was a child?If my children can watch it, so can other people's children, and children all over the world can watch it.

Watching "Drunken Master" many years later, I think it was not good at that time, why teach people to drink and box?When filming "Drunken Master 2", I changed it to teaching people not to drink alcohol and not to punch.Correcting some of your mistakes will also make you happy.Just like I used to film for making money, now I film for fun, I shoot good scripts, and don’t shoot bad ones.If the script is interesting, it can be filmed with less money. A lot of kung fu movies nowadays are flying around. I won't say that such movies are bad, but I don't know how to make such things, and I can't make them.From the beginning to the present, why are the so-called "Jackie Chan-style movies" different from others?That is, I really shoot everything.My audience all over the world knows this.

When I was young, I was over 50 years old when I was filming "Zodiac", but I still had to do many of the actions myself. In the opening scene of "Zodiac", where you are wearing a pulley jacket under the car, the speed of the car is extremely fast. If you are not careful, if you move in the wrong direction, your hand will be rolled under the wheel and you will be run over.I have to keep following that car at a constant speed, it is very dangerous.Don't you feel scared at this time?It must be scary, but I have been used to filming for so many years. Anyway, as long as someone shouts "Rolling! Action!", I will rush under the car.After the filming, I will be afraid, and I will tell myself that I may have broken my limbs if I was not careful just now, but making a film is a dream, a promise, and I have to be responsible to the audience.

Filming "The Chinese Zodiac", filming scenes all over the world, receiving everyone's support wherever I go, is a reward for my work for so many years.Maybe because I am Jackie Chan, people will say "Welcome Jackie Chan" wherever they see me, so I have to be worthy of their trust.For example, the ancient castle and garden in France have a history of hundreds of years. It is impossible for ordinary people to use it for you, so I said at the beginning that I will try my best to be careful and clean. I know that to film in such a place, more things and materials need to be prepared.Take the smallest thing, for example—adhesive tape.Filming needs to paste things everywhere. There is wallpaper for wallpaper, and wood for wood. Every thing has a special kind of tape. If you use the wrong one, when you take it off in the future, there will be a piece of paper on other people’s things. Yinzi, you have to compensate others for this.I heard that when the production team decided to film in the French castle with a history of hundreds of years, I was in the United States, so I immediately bought a lot of various tapes in the United States, and asked them to bring them to the film crew, so as not to save a lot of staff If you don't understand, you will paste them everywhere, causing trouble for others.These small things also cost a lot of money, and our film industry lags behind Hollywood, which is also reflected in such details.

Some teams in our country also understand these technologies, but almost no production team is willing to spend the money.My crew needs to be so professional, so I will definitely take care of these, and I must spend the money that should be spent. At the beginning of filming, the management team of Gubao will watch on the spot.At the scene, I will demonstrate to everyone how to carefully protect other people's things. I will also demonstrate the use of small things such as tape. That one is for sticking wood, and that one is for sticking wallpaper. The people in the castle said after seeing it : "Oh, so wonderful." After a month, they said: "OK, I trust you." If it is not such a work attitude, how can they agree?When you have experience and professionalism, and you respect others, they will respect you. In fact, no matter whether it is Hollywood or China, there are not many people who spare no expense in filming.Most people invest tens of millions to make a movie, and forget it after the filming is over.Including when I was filming in the United States, I would also ask them a question, do you want to finish the movie according to the number of days, or do you want to make a good movie?Of course they want the latter.So for a better effect, can we shoot for another week?no.This is a major in financial calculations, but I am not like this. As a director and investor, I will always spare no effort to make films, and I must make the best ones, so the real Jackie Chan works can be done at any time. Comparable to foreigners, it also achieved high popularity and box office results.We can't compete with them in movies like "Batman" and "Spiderman", but they can't compete with us in this kind of real action kung fu movies.There are no such movies in Hollywood, where you can be your own director, design your own actions, and go into battle by yourself. There is a little story I often tell you about Spielberg and me.When I saw him for the first time, I was very nervous, thinking that he was a great director, and I didn't know what to talk about.As a result, as soon as the door opened, he came over enthusiastically and called "Wow, Jackie Chan", and then asked me to sign for his son.When I was signing, the two of them naturally didn't speak. I felt that the scene was a little awkward, and my head was spinning rapidly, trying to come up with a topic quickly.After I signed my name, I asked him, like your "ET", "Jurassic Park", how did you achieve those special effects, put those people and dinosaurs together, and make it so real?He said, oh, this is very simple, I just keep pressing various buttons, that is, button, button, button.Then he said, when you were filming, there were so many dangerous actions, such as jumping from the roof or jumping from the canyon, how did you do it?I said, oh, mine is simpler, just Rolling, action, jump, cut, hospital!