Chapter 21 Chapter 19 Stars join in and perform "Fearless" heart-wrenchingly

"Fearless" conveyed Jet Li's understanding of the true meaning of martial arts and inherited a martial arts spirit.In order to create this masterpiece, many stars have also joined: Sun Li, Dong Yong, Michelle Yeoh, etc., including several foreign martial arts masters, movie stars, as well as director Yu Rentai, theme song creator Jay Chou, martial arts instructor Yuan Heping, Working together to perform this film with painstaking efforts, "Fearless" shocked the world and became famous both at home and abroad. "Fearless" not only brings together all Jet Li's hard work and great energy, but also the joining of many stars makes this film a strong lineup and infinite charm.

Director Yu Rentai became famous with "New Midnight Singing", and later developed in Hollywood. His recent film "Freddy vs. Jackson" has topped the North American box office chart; and Yuan Heping has become a guarantee for the success of kung fu movies. What is shown in "Fearless" is the most authentic Kung Fu of hard bridge and hard horse. Yu Rentai, who went to Hollywood from Hong Kong to develop, felt that he had no chance to know Jet Li in Hong Kong. He said: "We haven't seen each other for more than 20 years. When we sat down for the first time, we talked for three hours. He What I said almost made me cry. An international star, when he sat down and met me for the first time, he told me everything in his heart. He said, 'I must make this movie, this movie is very important to me. Because I want to show Chinese martial arts, what is Chinese martial arts, not only for us Chinese, but for people all over the world.'Because I am filming in the United States, and you are also filming in the United States, we know that if we are in It is impossible for American filmmakers to talk about the ideals of our Chinese people and express Chinese martial arts films in the true sense. So this time, I know that it is difficult to have this opportunity for a second time in a lifetime.”

After hearing Jet Li's words, Yu Rentai was very moved. In order to direct "Fearless", he did not hesitate to turn down the Hollywood film contract. Regarding martial arts, Jet Li strongly invited Yuan Heping, China's number one martial artist, to join him as a martial arts instructor for his first work returning to the Chinese film industry. The behind-the-scenes characters of the film are Jet Li's partners for many years-Cui Baozhu, the producer of "Kung Fu", and Jiang Zhiqiang, the producer of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".This set of people is regarded as the strongest combination of Chinese Kung Fu movies this year.

Director Yu Rentai is a very serious person, and even has high requirements for extras.The more than 80 extras that are often used are selected one by one by the crew through photos and self-introduction video tapes sent. The daily salary of each extra is about 150 yuan.At first, the on-site assistant director didn't pay much attention to the extras, and Yu Rentai, who has always been good-tempered, was furious and reprimanded them.After that, before each scene was filmed, the assistant director stepped forward to explain the scene carefully to the extras.Especially when filming the big scenes of the group arena, the executive director also used a tweeter to repeatedly emphasize when to applaud, when to boo, and when to make a surprised sound.

In the first two days of filming, due to rain, Yu Rentai accidentally slipped and fell, and had to wear a white neck brace for the next few days.Yu Rentai, who has filmed many action films in Hong Kong and Hollywood, has never applauded in front of the monitor, but this time he made an exception when filming "Fearless".One day, Jet Li punched the camera. The whole set of punches was very beautiful. The martial arts of Jet Li deeply attracted Yu Rentai. He found that this set of punches played by Jet Li did not need editing and special effects at all. Say hello. The screenwriter of "Fearless" is Wang Bin, who is Zhang Yimou's queen screenwriter. After creating two scripts with "Ambush from Ten Daggers" and "Ambush on Ten Daggers", Wang Bin has been looking for a combination of business and art. Strengthen the exploration of the characters' emotions.Wang Bin said that his cooperation with Jet Li is very tacit, and Jet Li wants to express his own understanding of a person's growth and Chinese martial arts through "Fearless". "The preparation of "Fearless" lasted for two years. In addition to being the leading actor, Jet Li is also an investor in the film. He hopes to make an entertaining action film. For this reason, in addition to showing Chinese Kung Fu, there will also be Muay Thai, Muay Thai, Boxing and other martial arts; he hopes to carry forward the spirit of Chinese martial arts that he agrees with, and Jet Li has expressed more than once that he hopes that the audience will understand that 'violence is not the solution to problems' after watching this film."

Yuan Heping, a martial arts instructor who has worked hard in the film industry for 40 years, is honored as "Eight Master" by industry insiders. "Fearless" is the eighth collaboration between him and Jet Li.Jet Li revealed that Yuan Heping often finds inspiration on the mahjong table. Yuan Heping said: "This is a way to relax, a way to relieve the pressure on the nervous brain." As for why "Eighth Master" has continued to come out with new things for more than 40 years ?Yuan Heping explained: "I also often watch fashion films to absorb nutrition. Fashion films have a lot of sudden movements, which are not as difficult as martial arts films. I can make films with a stronger concept of martial arts, and I can also shoot "Huo Huo". "Yuan Jia" puts so much emphasis on actual fighting, but the difference is that the latter requires actors with much higher martial arts skills, and Jet Li is such an actor."

In the film, Huo Yuanjia's confrontation with martial arts masters from various countries is the climax of the whole film. With more than 20 years of fighting experience, former British heavyweight boxing champion Shanggedi, who has won seven world free fighting gold belts, is the first to join the film crew "Master".In terms of real kung fu, Jet Li is definitely not Shang Gedi's opponent. Yuan Heping, the action director who was in charge of the action scenes at the beginning of the filming, repeatedly called NG. It turned out that Shang Gedi was afraid of hurting Jet Li in a real fight, so Yuan Heping gave the boxing champion a "reassurance pill" , Jet Li, who has many years of shooting experience, definitely knows how to dodge, and the shooting of this scene is getting better.

Since the focus of attack and defense in boxing and Huojia Mizong boxing is on both hands, the shooting effect is long and dull, with more than toughness but not enough dexterity, and the excitement of a scene is greatly reduced.The experienced Yuan Heping then modified his moves on the spot, focusing on Huo Yuanjia's performance on dexterous dodging footwork, coupled with a series of fast attack combinations.In response to Shang Gedi's heavy punch, the whole scene became quite shocking.However, Jet Li abandoned the series of "slapping the mouth" in the actual shooting because he knew that "slapping the mouth" is considered a shame and shame overseas. Yuan Heping replaced it with palms on the back of the head, and the effect remained the same.

In addition to Jet Li, the main roles in "Fearless" are Sun Li and Dong Yong.The businessman Nong Jinsun played by Dong Yong, as Huo Yuanjia's childhood friend, is also the clue figure of the whole film, and Yue Ci played by Sun Li is the key role to help Jet Li regain his faith in life when he encounters major setbacks in his life.In the last scene of the whole film, the soul of Huo Yuanjia, who died in Nong Jinsun's arms, came out of his body and flew to Yueci's side again. Dong Yong, who often plays the policeman in domestic TV dramas, plays Huo Yuanjia's lifelong friend Nong Jinsun in "Huo Yuanjia". Became good friends because he is a genuinely kind person.When talking about his impression of the director and Jet Li, Dong Yong used the words "respect" and "kindness" respectively.He said: "I respect the director very much. The director's health is not good, but he can develop from Hong Kong to the United States. To this day, he still smiles every day. I can't do it, I can't smile every day, I respect him so much. He faces every staff member with a smile on his face every day." As for Jet Li, Dong Yong said: "I originally wanted to describe him as kind, but later I couldn't. He is still young, and finally came up with a word, this The word should be used for women, but I think it is also suitable for him. It is called kindness. His kindness is not simply saying a few words, are you working hard, are you tired, do you want a glass of water, Do you want to sit down for a while? It’s not like this. His kindness is that he has been encouraging all the staff. I think this is the greatest kindness, because I see him smiling and saying hello to all the staff every day. He Use your own body to practice every staff member, more than a thousand staff members bring confidence, and I think this confidence is the greatest kindness.”

Dong Yong has always appeared as a policeman in film and television dramas, and he feels particularly tough.But this time in "Fearless", it appears as a literary play.Dong Yong said that Director Yuan designed such a beautiful martial arts action, but he didn't do it when others did it. It is indeed a pity, but his characters themselves are literati. Although there is no martial arts part, his help to Huo Yuanjia Better than any beautiful move, this one should have no regrets, just start from the character. In this movie, the image of Dong Yong is a big breakthrough.He shaved his head for the first time, made himself very fat, and wore gold-rimmed glasses. From the outside, he was a literati, a businessman, and a businessman who opened a restaurant, the largest restaurant in Tianjin.Nong Jinsun, played by Dong Yong, and Huo Yuanjia grew up together. He was rich, much richer than Huo Yuanjia, and was finally ruined by Huo Yuanjia.Although they quarreled, their relationship recovered quickly in the end. Although they quarreled, Huo Yuanjia still asked Nong Jinsun to borrow money, because he was going to Shanghai to fight and wanted to set up a Jingwu club, but Nong Jinsun sold all the business He went to Shanghai to open the Jingwu Club with him, but it was a pity that Huo Yuanjia was killed by the Japanese in the end.

Dong Yong said that "Fearless" added more spiritual things, some self-improvement things, including some things accumulated by Jet Li's own life.Why do Dong Yong and Sun Li play the main roles in this play? It is a person's life from birth to death. He may encounter some ups and downs. At this time, he needs a friend. How can he support him? How a woman carried him on her shoulders had something to do with some of his own. "How should a person live in this life, the reason for how to do it, how he treats the people around him, his family, including himself, at every stage, no matter whether he is in a difficult period or in a prosperous period, how to treat himself Repaying family members, repaying friends and repaying the society, these things permeate more." This is Dong Yong's understanding of "Fearless". Another heroine in "Fearless" who attracted the audience's attention is Sun Li, who has an eye-catching performance in the movie.Yue Ci, played by Sun Li, is a rural blind girl who has an important emotional scene with Huo Yuanjia.At that time, Huo Yuanjia was depressed after the death of his mother and daughter. For a while, he hid in a farmhouse in the countryside. Yueci broke into Huo Yuanjia's life. As the most tender part in this film, Sun Li believes that her appearance is the buffer zone before and after Huo Yuanjia's transformation, and the green and tranquil atmosphere always appears in the scenes with her.Sun Li is looking forward to her first image on the big screen. The reason why she chose "Fearless" is entirely because Jet Li gave her a chance to be a vase in a Kung Fu movie. When it came time to read the script, I hadn’t actually seen the whole story, but the blind female character itself moved me, because she is not a vase in the film, but a character that can be savored and explored. So I rejected many movies Finally, I finally found my first screen role.” As for her choice of screen roles in the future, Sun Li replied that the sixth sense was a big factor when choosing scripts, “I usually choose the things I like the first time. Maybe in the future With the rich experience, my vision of choice will become better and better." Director Yu Rentai acted as a reporter and asked Sun Li who played the blind girl Yueci in "Fearless": "Can we chat about the film? Neutralize Huo Yuanjia's cooking." Sun Li replied: "The director designed this way to tell everyone that although blind people have bad eyesight, they hope that the society will treat him as a normal person, and others can do it. They can also do it. This is also the voice of the blind, and it is also a feeling I got when I experienced life. Thinking about this spirit of self-improvement, it is also reflected in myself, so I feel very honored to cooperate with Jet Li. " Sun Li will play Yueci, a simple and visually impaired rural girl in her debut film.In the director's words, "Sun Li's eyes are very clean, and her pure and simple temperament fits very well with the characters in the play."In order to find the feeling of a real blind girl, just before the "May 1st" long holiday, just after the filming of the TV series, Sun Li devoted himself to the intensive study in a school for the blind in Shanghai without stopping, as if life in a military school was as orderly as it was back then. At the beginning, the students couldn't believe that the big star Sun Li really came among them, took classes and played games with them, but Sun Li's unique hearty laughter confirmed everything, which made the students very happy.Some students asked Sun Li for advice on whether they could touch her face with their hands. Sun Li, who has always shown a strong image on the screen, cried at this time, because she was moved and pleased: "Actually, there is a bright light in the hearts of blind people." They are not alone in this world.” Sun Li told the reporter that she was lucky enough to catch up with the spring outing organized by the school. She noticed that when the students got on and off the bus, the first person led the group, and the students behind put their hands on the shoulders of the predecessors. Or hold the hands behind, so that the team is not easy to be loose and chaotic. "At the beginning, when I saw that the students were inconvenient to move, I subconsciously helped them, but I didn't want to be a waste of help, because all the students in the school for the blind emphasized 'self-reliance'. It gave me a better understanding of the mind of the blind." After a few days of getting along harmoniously, Sun Li has been able to recognize simple Braille characters, and her eyes and actions have the characteristics of a blind person.But because the Yueci played by him is not completely blind, but has severe visual impairment, it is very difficult to accurately grasp the sense of proportion in shaping the characters to see objects.For this reason, the teacher of the school for the blind specially arranged for a visually impaired student of similar age to give careful guidance, and took Sun Li to the student dormitory to experience the daily life, such as how to arrange toothbrushes, towels, and where is the most convenient place to hang clothes, etc. Sun Li was greatly benefited and moved. Sun Li said that she not only wanted to create a good image of Yueci, but also lived up to the guidance given to her by the school for the blind.As an ambassador for many public welfare activities, she hopes to contribute to the construction of schools for the blind in the future. In the film, Sun Li and Jet Li have an emotional scene.In this regard, Sun Li thinks this is reasonable. If it is just a fighting scene, it is completely fighting, it is a bit too monotonous, and the audience will feel that it is all fighting, and there is no feeling of slowing down.But in addition to fighting, there are also some emotional parts in this drama, so the whole fighting scene will have a different feeling than the previous fighting scenes. Apart from fighting, there is still emotion.The integration of film play and emotion makes this play more humane. There is a scene where Sun Li and Jet Li are in the water. Originally, as long as the water level is not very high, the director asked them to stand in the water so that they were waist-deep.At this moment, Jet Li talked about the tsunami that day he was in the Maldives. He said the water, because there were a lot of news, but he didn’t know if it was true or not. When he said that day, he felt a little scared standing in the water. If the water is here that day, if another wave hits him, the consequences will be unimaginable, but then the tide ebbs, and he can escape in one fell swoop.After hearing this, Sun Li felt that Jet Li had always done good deeds and accumulated good deeds, so that he would be saved that day. There is a scene in which Sun Li wants to teach Jet Li, who knows nothing about farming, how to plant seedlings. Sun Li lands barefoot on the field and prepares to bury her position for filming. She walks on the slippery soil and staggers, step by step, approaching Jet Li who is waiting in the farmland. Jet Li also showed a gentleman's demeanor, and took the initiative to support Sun Li to bury her seat.At first, I took a few Takes and all went well.Suddenly, Sun Li felt that something was moving in the soil, and it was moving towards her. She showed a frightened look, was in a mess, kept screaming, and hugged Jet Li tightly in desperation.Jet Li hurriedly led Sun Li away from the scene, allowing her to sit aside and rest.The staff went deep into the farmland and found many blood-sucking worms active in the field. Fortunately, they did not hurt them this time. Although Sun Li was not attacked by blood-sucking insects, Sun Li was disabled by the hot weather.Due to the extremely hot weather at that time, the temperature hovered around 45 degrees every day. Wearing a dark blue costume, Sun Li kept bending over to plant rice seedlings, sweating constantly, and the hard work was unbearable.Suddenly Sun Li was a little unsteady, her body was thrown backwards, and she almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Jet Li who was at the side was good, and immediately helped her up. The doctor checked and found out that Sun Li suffered from heatstroke due to working in the hot weather.Taking into account the health of the actors, the director ordered the filming to be stopped, and continued filming only after Sun Li got a full rest. The crew of "Fearless" are mostly from Hong Kong, and most of them are from Hong Kong. They all speak Cantonese, which Sun Li can't understand. Sometimes after the director finished speaking, she would watch Jet Li, and Jet Li would translate for her. Regarding the cooperation with Jet Li, Sun Li said frankly that she felt quite a lot of pressure at the beginning, "I felt very nervous before the filming started, and I was afraid that it would be difficult to communicate with an international superstar like Jet Li. But later I found that he is a very friendly person. The only regret is that there is no drama. But Jet Li doesn't like me to recite the lines, he always wants me to use more actions to express the characters, which may be related to his desire to create a film that can be seen by the whole world. You know about the movie." In addition to work, Sun Li also praised Jet Li's personality, saying that he is a person who does things first, and he is very kind to everyone on the shooting scene, even the field workers are no exception.In addition, if he finds cigarette butts on the ground at the shooting site, he will pick them up.If you see someone throwing rubbish into the water, you will yell at them and clean up the rubbish.Sun Li feels that filming with Jet Li this time is more about learning a lot of qualities in life. In terms of cast, it can be said that there is a gathering of stars and a strong alliance.After the Japanese actors Murashido and Masato Harada joined, two more Chinese actors joined the "Fearless" crew at the last moment. One participated in the filming of "The Matrix III" and played the role of Huo Yuanjia's father this time. Zou Zhaolong, one is Michelle Yeoh, who has been paid more and more in Hollywood recently. Speaking of the prophet warrior in "The Matrix III", everyone is familiar with it.Chou Zhaolong, who successfully broke into Hollywood with his kung fu and became the only Chinese actor in "The Matrix III", came to Shanghai this time to make a guest appearance in the film "Fearless".Zou Zhaolong regards the role he played as a challenge to him. "At the beginning, the director asked me to play another role, but after reading the script, I fell in love with the role of Horndi. I think I can play this role better, and it is a big challenge for me." Zou Zhaolong Said: "This is the fifth time I have worked with Jet Li. I have played his opponents in the past, but this time it is not. This role is not only good at martial arts, but also has cultural connotations and a lot of inner drama." Speaking of Jet Li, Zou Zhaolong praised, "Among all kung fu stars, only Jet Li is a true martial arts champion." In his eyes, Jet Li was very strict when filming, and he was rarely seen smiling. The only time he saw him joking was When playing mahjong with him more than ten years ago.Zou Zhaolong also joked that since he hadn't worked with Jet Li for nearly ten years, and Jet Li also believed in Buddhism, when he first met him in Shanghai this time, he almost regarded him as a "Buddha statue". Zou Zhaolong began to receive Chinese martial arts training at the age of five, and has acted in more than 30 films, including "The Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai" and "Letter to Dad", which he collaborated with Jet Li. The villain in the film has won the hearts of the people. In 1999, in order to make a breakthrough in his career, Zou Zhaolong resolutely went to the United States to develop and further study acting. ) series in the second and third episodes, in which he plays the role of the guardian angel and has many wonderful fights. Accustomed to the English pronunciation of Hollywood, Zou Zhaolong, who had just arrived on the set of "Fearless", felt a little bored.The film needs to be recorded at the same time, and Mandarin pronunciation has become a big problem.So I found a friend with a pure accent, recorded his sentence with a voice recorder, and then read it one by one, and finally passed the first level.The second level is boxing.Zou Zhaolong learned Nanquan when he debuted, but Huojiaquan in "Huo Yuanjia" is based on Northern Quan. The time of "long" is replaced by "short", so that it does not show its flaws in the filming. Michelle Yeoh plays a Chinese martial arts athlete here. She actively works for Chinese martial arts to become an Olympic sport in the film, and this leads to the legend of Huo Yuanjia.Although it belongs to the nature of a guest appearance, this kind of interpretation of "on-camera narration" is the first time for Michelle Yeoh. In the original "Fearless", Michelle Yeoh played an official of the Olympic Committee. The entire Fearless story was drawn out by her narration, and at the end of the film it returned to her narration.The role played by Michelle Yeoh, who appears at the beginning and end of the film, has nothing to do with Huo Yuanjia's own story, and her identity is more similar to a clue character. It is Jet Li's good intentions to make such a design in the script. A related person from the crew revealed to reporters that "Fearless" is the last work of Jet Li's martial arts movie. He has always hoped that Chinese martial arts can become an official part of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Therefore, Michelle Yeoh was specially arranged to play the role of Olympic Committee official to express the long history and profoundness of Chinese martial arts. But at the end of the film, Michelle Yeoh, one of the leading actors, didn't even have a single shot in the whole film.It turned out that after the first copy of "Fearless" was produced, a small-scale trial screening was held. As a result, many people in the industry pointed out that the film was too long and a bit procrastinated. The story of Yuan Jia itself is not closely related.Director Yu Rentai synthesized the opinions of various experts and re-cut the film substantially, including adjusting the narrative structure, reducing the set from 143 minutes to 103 minutes, including all of Michelle Yeoh's scenes and a scene. Heavy action. The "slimming" "Huo Yuan Jia" is 40 minutes shorter than the original version. In addition to the content related to the Olympic theme being removed, a major action scene between Jet Li and Thai boxing champion Bei Cha was also forced to be cut because it affected the rhythm of the film.For this reason, Jet Li apologized to Michelle Yeoh who made a special trip back to Hong Kong to shoot this film. Michelle Yeoh expressed her understanding and hoped to have the opportunity to cooperate with Ajie and Director Yu Rentai again. And in "Fearless", the main actors who played against Jet Li are all veritable "martial arts masters" from various countries.Including Jet Li, the film gathers a total of 6 top "martial arts masters" in the world, namely Jayne Crowder, the British boxing champion and world free fighting gold belt, and Somrak Kam, the Thai boxing champion and Olympic boxing champion. Singh, top Australian wrestler Nathan Jones, Western fencing master Anthony De Longis and German fencing expert Brandon Rea. Jet Li gathers martial arts elites from all over the world, not only to fight against American Hercules, but also to fight with Thai boxing champion Sun Lai.In order to find this group of world masters and perfectly show every detail of the master's fight in the film, director Yu Rentai spent two years looking for action elites from various schools to "fight" with Jet Li. Later, the working team spent another After spending half a year visiting Britain, Thailand and the United States, looking for real sports elites such as Thai boxing champions, top Australian wrestlers, and world kickboxing gold belts, they finally found this "multinational force" as they wished.With such a good elite team, the action director Yuan Heping also worked hard. In the words of him and Yu Rentai: "This time we have 'wrung out' Jet Li." The strong man is tall and burly, but his teeth were knocked out by the dexterous Jet Li during filming. The American Hercules Diaf, who is singled out against Jet Li, is nearly 2.1 meters tall and has an unusually burly figure. His super-developed muscles make his two arms look thicker than ordinary people's thighs, and his shiny bald head looks even more complete. The man is extremely vicious. It is said that this brawny Diaf is a former professional athlete of the American Wrestling Union, and now he is a "special actor" in Hollywood.During filming, every time the extras clapped their hands, Diaf, who was shirtless and wearing only a pair of sports shorts, had to jump onto the stage once. In order to maintain his state, he adjusted the gap of the camera position on the spot, and ran outside the tent to do push-ups. Very dedicated. One of the Thai actors playing the tribal martial arts master is an Olympic boxing champion.In addition, the crew also specially invited 5 Thai actors to play the tribal martial arts masters who clashed with Fearless in the film. Among them, the Thai actor who played the leader Beicha had also won the Olympic boxing championship. The martial arts movements of Thai actors have been specially guided. In addition to the difficult movements designed by him, "Fearless" will also use more than 400 special effects shots. In addition, heroes from all over the world gather to compete.British boxing champion Jayne Crowder is a prominent heavyweight boxing champion in the United Kingdom. He has won the world kickboxing gold belt seven times.During filming, he hesitated a little in his actions. The director found out through questioning that he was afraid that he would hurt Jet Li.Jet Li hit his chest, which made his fist red and swollen. Thai boxing champion Somrak Kamsingh is 23 years old this year. He once won the 57kg champion at the Atlanta Olympics, becoming Thailand's first Olympic gold medalist and a national hero of Thailand.He played his true colors in the film, challenging Fearless played by Jet Li as a Thai boxing champion. The Australian wrestler is Nathan Jones, a big man from Australia. He is 2 meters tall and weighs more than 150 kilograms. When he was young, he was repeatedly armed and robbed and was sent to prison.It was in prison that he was introduced to weightlifting. In 2002, he successfully won the World Wrestling All-Star Heavyweight Championship.He plays a world wrestling champion from the United States in the film. Western swordsman Anthony de Longis, he is versatile, integrating swordsman, rider, weapon expert, action director, actor, and writer.He got into a big fight with Tom Cruise in Far From Home.In "Fearless", he plays a Spanish swordsman, and his rivalry with Jet Li is one of the main action scenes in the film. The German swordsman is Brandon Leah, who has practiced kung fu well. He just hangs out in Hong Kong action movies and has participated in the performances of "Infernal Affairs", "Youth Tiger" and "Flying Eagle". The image is cool and ruthless, which is the standard image of foreign thugs in Hong Kong films. Many martial arts masters gathered in "Huo Yuanjia" and fought ups and downs with Jet Li, which was simply a visual feast. After inviting world-class martial arts masters, Jet Li was not reconciled, and invited the popular singer Jay Chou to compose the theme song for "Fearless", injecting more vitality into the film. Jet Li's "Huo Yuan Jia" aims to guide and encourage young people to strive for self-improvement, and Jay Chou is the most popular singer among young people today. Jet Li wanted to use his image to bring positive messages to young people, so he wanted to find Jay Chou as a singer. "Fearless" created the theme song. Unexpectedly, Jay Chou, who has regarded Jet Li as an idol since he was a child, immediately agreed after listening to it. Perhaps it was the power bestowed by idols, Jay Chou was full of ideas and inspiration, and he created the title song of the same name in just two days, completing an "impossible task". What's even more commendable is that Jay Chou, who is known as "A Daughter of Music", didn't get a penny for composing and singing the film "Fearless", because Jay Chou said that money is something outside of him, and he only hopes that his creations can reflect Jet Li's ideas , can be recognized and liked by the idol Jet Li. For a long time, Jet Li has been Jay Chou's idol. He likes all the films starring Jet Li, and once fantasized about the soundtrack for his films. The song "Huo Yuanjia" combines the previous Chinese style. In fact, every Jay Chou's previous album has Chinese style songs, such as "Dragon Fist" and "Nunchaku".This time Jay Chou combined the essence of the two songs in "Fearless". Of course, the most important inspiration comes from Jet Li's movies.Meeting Jet Li himself gave Jay Chou great inspiration, and he wrote this song in two days.Then there is a prelude played by drums, flutes and other instruments. If the first part seems to have the shadow of "Nunchaku" and "Dragon Fist", but the next part is completely "amazing" to the ears.A piece of Peking Opera Huadan's vocals with a sense of modern rhythm immediately shocked people, and this "female voice" came from Jay Chou!The falsetto is easy to handle, very special and pleasant to hear, this is also Jay Chou's first attempt at female singing.In the second half of the song, Jet Li also "appeared beautifully", reciting a monologue in a deep voice: "Through competition, we can discover and know our true self...", which fits perfectly with the artistic conception of the song.The chorus part of "Huhohohohohohohoho, the Chinese will never bow their heads, the strongest opponent is themselves." It is also called by fans as a classic that can replace "Hum Ha Ha Xi". When Jet Li and Jay Chou met, Jay Chou also gave Jet Li an autographed record and a DVD of "Initial D". On the disc, it was written: "For my idol, I hope the idol will appreciate it carefully." Jay Chou said This move moved Jet Li greatly. Jet Li's fighting scenes, strong national spirit and enterprising spirit, coupled with the joining of many stars, made this "Fearless" brilliant and had a huge response.