Chapter 2 Text: Introduction

After entering the 21st century, in the face of increasingly popular Kung Fu movies, veterans in the American entertainment industry and the media unanimously judged that the era of Chinese sweeping Hollywood is not far away. Indeed, the first person to bring Kung Fu movies to Hollywood was "Kung Fu Emperor" Bruce Lee, but unfortunately he died young and only made four movies.Kung fu movies were short-lived in Hollywood and then fell silent. This situation lasted until 2001. In 2001, director Ang Lee knocked on the door of Hollywood with his "Crouching Tiger, Hidden City", and Kung Fu movies began to be recognized by the American mainstream.With the popularity of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden City", a number of kung fu movies were born one after another, such as Zhang Yimou's and Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu". Among them, the person who best embodies the essence of Chinese Kung Fu is Jet Li.

Because of his pure Chinese Kung Fu, he is called "the new Kung Fu Emperor" by Americans. Jet Li has conquered tens of thousands of American female audiences with Ling Li's boxing skills, shining eyes, handsome face, and natural heroic temperament. He has conquered Hollywood and become their new idol, proclaiming the "Emperor of Kung Fu" The era of Bruce Lee is gone forever. Li Lianjie was born in a poor family in Beijing. When he was young, he wore his older brothers and sisters' old clothes to school all day long, and was ridiculed for it.In order not to be ridiculed by others, eight-year-old Jet Li applied for an amateur sports school. The coach saw his excellent bones and thought he was a genius, so he accepted him.From then on, Jet Li fell in love with Chinese martial arts.

11-year-old Jet Li took part in the national martial arts competition in Xi'an due to illness. His skills surprised everyone and won the first place in the junior group, the all-around first, and the team. The rhythm is bright.In the second year, he participated in the adult competition and won the all-around championship.After that, he was invincible all over the world for five consecutive years.People exclaimed that a martial arts genius came out of Beijing. In 1980, when the Hong Kong Zhongyuan Film Company cast "Shaolin Temple", the director named Li Lianjie to play the protagonist Jueyuan monk.Later, "Shaolin Temple" became popular throughout Asia and set off a "Jet Li craze" in China.A hero comes out of a teenager, Jet Li is only 18 years old at this time.Later, when she was filming the comedy "Shaolin Boy", she began to fall in love and get married with her childhood sweetheart, Huang Qiuyan.

Soon, Jet Li emigrated abroad, and later went to Hong Kong to film, and fell in love with his Asian sister Li Zhi at first sight. After experiencing a period of emotional ups and downs, the two tied the knot. In the early 1990s, Jet Li was photographed by the "ghost" director Tsui Hark, and created the "Huang Feihong" series for him, reorganizing the signature of a generation of masters. At that time, even three-year-old children would gesticulate and say: "Huang Feihong" Come too!" Just when his career was brilliant, his agent was shot dead, and Jet Li was disheartened. At this time, the film wonderman Yang Dengkui offered his help and invested 30 million to let him go back to the mainland to make a film.

In the mid-1990s, he adopted the tactics of wanting to promote before suppressing, plotting to break into Hollywood. He only played for five minutes in "Sky Cannon Four", conquered foreigners with his extraordinary achievements, and was promoted to the leading role in "Savior of the Mundi". "Savior Mundi" is crazy for foreign movie fans.Jet Li established his status as an international superstar. At the turn of the millennium, Zhang Yimou threw a hydrangea, causing a "bumping incident" with different opinions. In 2005, Jet Li's family encountered an Indian tsunami while on vacation. In the fight against the flood, Jet Li showed himself as a hero.

Looking at the life of Jet Li for more than 40 years, it can be summed up with the word "odd".A strange person must have many strange things, and what makes this "weird" lies in his belief in "promoting Chinese martial arts". "Without faith, it is difficult to achieve great things." Jet Li said.