Why can't Donnie Yen beat Jet Li? What's the difference between Donnie Yen and Jet Li?

Many people know that Donnie Yen can play, but they don't know that Donnie Yen's mother can play better.

Bow Sim Mark

1963 Donnie Yen was born in a martial arts family in Guangdong.

In the same year, Jet Li was born in Beijing. His parents are standard farmers, and he has no chance to deal with Kung Fu since he was a child. However, he became a "Kung Fu superstar" in China more than ten years later than Donnie Yen. Compared with Jet Li, Donnie Yen was born in a rich family.

Donnie Yen and his parents.

His mother, Bow Sim Mark, is the founder of Taiji Club and founded China Wushu Academy in the United States. The teacher is a famous gossip master, one of the five tigers in the north, and Fu Yonghui, the son of Fu, the founder of Nanjing Central Martial Arts School. He said of Bow Sim Mark:

"An apprentice who learns from me" and "can really be my successor."

In such a family, Donnie Yen's life is doomed to be extraordinary. However, with such an excellent background, why can't we compare with poor boy Jet Li?

1974 1 1 year-old Donnie Yen immigrated to Boston with his parents and began his trip to the United States. Because of the different skin color and language, Donnie Yen suffered a lot in America, and other American children thought he was different. All these have left great trauma to Donnie Yen's mind. He secretly vowed that he must make himself strong and not let others underestimate him. So in such an environment, he gradually developed a competitive personality.

At this time, on the other side of the ocean, Jet Li, who is also 1 1 year old, has won the national championship of children's Wushu routines and went to the United States with the delegation to exchange performances.

Even President Nixon praised him and jokingly asked him, "Little friend, you are really good at kung fu. Will you be my bodyguard when you grow up? "

Jet Li blurted out: "I want to protect one billion people in China, not you alone."

Jet Li's words shocked the Americans. When Donnie Yen saw this scene on TV, he admired it so much that he secretly vowed to practice martial arts and make contributions to the people of China in the future.

In this way, two people who had never been masked began their journey to become China's kung fu superstars.

02 1982, 19-year-old Jet Li became popular all over the country with Shaolin Temple, which gave a shot in the arm to kungfu fans all over the world, making China Wushu a hot topic in the world again.

At the same time, Donnie Yen is still skipping classes and secretly practicing martial arts. Donnie Yen abandoned his studies because he was addicted to martial arts. His father, who had hoped that he would take the music road, was very angry.

A father-son war that has been saved for a long time is on the verge. The two men fought for martial arts, and the youthful Donnie Yen slammed the door.

Donnie Yen, who ran away from home, went to live with her grandmother for several weeks.

Because Donnie Yen knows martial arts, he was recommended by a group of friends to be a security guard in a nightclub. While Jet Li was working hard for his kung fu dream, young Donnie Yen fell into a complicated life. Gang fights and even shootings have occurred from time to time.

In a shooting incident, his friend was shot dead, which was a great blow to Donnie Yen.

From then on, Donnie Yen felt extremely confused and confused about his future, and even questioned whether this was his original choice of martial arts.

Soon after, Bow Sim Mark, as a mother, learned that her son was wandering in the society and deviated from the track of life. She was very disappointed with her son. For the sake of his son's future and safety, Bow Sim Mark can only choose to compromise. So send Donnie Yen to the best martial arts school in China, and let him realize his "Kung Fu dream" in the best environment.

Bow Sim Mark's decision made Donnie Yen and Jet Li have an indissoluble bond.

The school Donnie Yen went to was the Beijing Wushu School where Jet Li had studied. In this way, two people who regarded Bruce Lee as their idol met and became disciples.

At this time, Jet Li was already the man of the hour in the school. He won the all-around champion from 1975 to 1979 with excellent results, and was called "the first martial arts master in China".

Donnie Yen, who grew up in the United States, suddenly came to China. He felt very strange. When practicing martial arts, he was inexplicably hungry, and he often had to squeeze buses, which was extremely painful for Donnie Yen, whose family was well-off. After two years of tempering, all the aura still hangs over the eldest brother Jet Li. Desperate, Donnie Yen had the idea of giving up, so he bought a plane ticket and flew back to the United States.

Just when I bought a plane ticket in Donnie Yen and transferred to Hong Kong, I suddenly received a notice from my mother that Yuan Heping, the great director who had just become popular in Southeast Asia because of directing Snake Carver and Drunken Boxing, wanted to see Donnie Yen.

Wooping Yuen

After receiving the notice, Donnie Yen was very confused. He is a nobody at all. How could he be invited to meet by the director? In this way, Donnie Yen went to see Yuan Heping with doubts. After Donnie Yen got to know Yuan Heping, known as the "Eight Lords", he realized that Jackie Chan, who had starred in Snake-shaped Diao Hands and Drunken Boxing, had signed a contract with Jiahe Film Company, and Yuan Heping urgently needed an actor with good kung fu and image.

As it happens, Yuan Heping's sister is a student of Donnie Yen's mother, so his mother recommended her son to Yuan Heping, and Donnie Yen was welcomed by a noble person.

Yuan Heping, Donnie Yen.

After layers of interviews, Yuan Heping admired Donnie Yen very much and sent him an invitation. Let him play laughing Tai Chi with his fat sister Shen Dianxia, so Donnie Yen played the first leading role in his life. Donnie Yen worked very hard. He not only showed superb kung fu in the film, but also performed a break dance, imitating Michael Jackson's spacewalk.

"Laughing Tai Chi" Donnie Yen Spacewalk Stills

Just when Donnie Yen fancied that he could become an instant hit, the box office of the film was bleak, even a fraction less than Shaolin Temple, which took away 200 million box office. This film was even called the last traditional kung fu film by the Hong Kong media.

This was a great blow to Donnie Yen, and all the grievances he suffered during filming appeared. Even then, he was disheartened and didn't know what filming was. However, Yuan Heping has been urging him to hold his horses and wait for the opportunity of filming, so that he can practice martial arts according to the arrangement of the crew.

Therefore, Donnie Yen and his teacher Yuan Heping also have great differences.

In this way, Donnie Yen returned to the United States after years of wandering, but something happened later that made Donnie Yen change his mind.

After returning to the United States in 2003, Donnie Yen began to help his mother manage the martial arts school and do odd jobs. I happened to see a documentary about Bruce Lee on TV on my way to work. Donnie Yen, who has been unwilling, rekindled his confidence. So I immediately put down my work and prepared to return to Hong Kong.

At this time, Yuan Heping appeared as a martial arts instructor in "Huang Feihong Men Want to Be Self-reliant" directed by Tsui Hark. So he let bygones be bygones and strongly recommended Donnie Yen to Jet Li's ultimate rival. It was Yuan Heping's suggestion that made this film one of the most wonderful duels in the last century's kung fu film "Biography of Zhen Huan". At the same time, it reminds the audience of Donnie Yen whose kung fu is comparable to that of Jet Li.

Duili

Compared with Jet Li, whom Nixon admired at the age of 8, Donnie Yen is 29 years old. Through this performance, Donnie Yen will soon have a chance to pay tribute to his idol.

1995, HKATV invited Donnie Yen to play Jingwumen, in which he played the leading actor Zhen Chen. He successfully created the image of Zhen Chen with solid skills. He also paid tribute to his idol Bruce Lee in this film. Donnie Yen's performance is no less than that of Zhen Chen played by Jet Li before, and he was even called by the media that Zhen Chen is the most like Bruce Lee.

However, Donnie Yen, who made a small achievement in his career, made a decision that puzzled everyone at this time, that is, he made a film as a director himself. And directed the first film "The Legend of War Wolf".

The box office of this movie was not satisfactory, and even Donnie Yen lost money. It can be said that there are no underwear left, so some people say that in order to make money, Donnie Yen took a underwear advertisement that has been criticized so far.

These put Donnie Yen under endless pressure, so he began to smoke to relieve his inner pain. Donnie Yen, who has been competitive since childhood, is unwilling to accept his failure. He kept trying and directed Killing and Killing, Dancing and Code-named Puma. ...

But none of them are ideal. Maybe God doesn't want Donnie Yen to be a director, otherwise the person who can really play Ip Man in the future may not see him.

In 2008, 45-year-old Donnie Yen starred in the film Ip Man. However, this movie really made Donnie Yen popular. In the past 10 years, Donnie Yen made 18 plays, but only IP Man can make the audience remember who he is.

How red is IP Man? At that time, it not only attracted the love of a group of young people in China, but even spread abroad, which really brought Wing Chun to an international perspective. So far, when people mention IP Man, they will think of Donnie Yen and Wing Chun. Ip Man even became an indelible mark of Donnie Yen.

Donnie Yen suddenly became angry. The following year, he won the Best Actor Award at the Beijing University Student Film Festival. Then, IP Man 2, ip man 3 and IP Man 4.

Ip Man made Donnie Yen, and Donnie Yen also made Ip Man.

However, while Donnie Yen was enjoying the fruits of hard work, unexpected disasters came quietly.

04 20 12, Chiu Man-Cheuk, a 40-year-old new martial arts expert, was found to be at odds with his predecessor, Donnie Yen. Even Chiu Man-Cheuk said in an interview that Donnie Yen played big cards and didn't respect martial arts.

Is Donnie Yen really arrogant because of the fire in recent years and his position in the film and television circle? Just when Chiu Man-Cheuk revealed that Donnie Yen had resigned from his "special status" because he played a big name, Donnie Yen, especially the head of the crew, responded. The fact is not what Chiu Man-Cheuk said.

However, both sides hold their own words. Who is lying?

Finally, I learned that Tan Bin, the director and screenwriter, wanted to make more money through incitement. In the constant voice of Chiu Man-Cheuk, he kept blasting Donnie Yen's black material, which led to the escalation of the incident and made Donnie Yen and Chiu Man-Cheuk misunderstand each other, almost "incompatible".

Out of the oil pan into the fire pit.

Before Donnie Yen shook hands with Chiu Man-Cheuk, Donnie Yen's ex-wife Liang Jingci accused Donnie Yen of being an incompetent father, regardless of his son's life or death.

It turned out that 18-year-old son was really hospitalized because of pneumothorax. Liang Jingci called and cried for him to visit, but Donnie Yen refused on the grounds of work.

Later, it was discovered that Donnie Yen not only didn't visit, but also went diving and having fun with his present wife and children. This subverts Donnie Yen's image as a good father in the eyes of netizens.

Although Donnie Yen later denied to the media that he was not a cold-blooded father, he also told the media: "Frankly speaking, I am very busy myself, and I don't often see them in Hong Kong, but many times several children will be together, and their brothers have deep feelings. This is just what I don't say. "

Although Donnie Yen tried his best to save his image, his reputation was still greatly affected. Fortunately, in the end, he proved himself to people with his own strength.

Donnie Yen continued his career as a kung fu star, such as One Man's Wulin, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2, Iceman Series, Extreme Agent Series and Chasing Mulan, each of which became more and more exciting.

Moreover, in 2009, he voluntarily gave up his American citizenship and changed back to his China citizenship, becoming a tinkling and decent China person. Even recently, 58-year-old Donnie Yen was invited to star in the American blockbuster "Fast Track 4".

Rush after 4 o'clock

Donnie Yen finally proved his ability to the world and realized his childhood dream. No matter where he comes from, he is still a late bloomer.

There is no denying that today, Donnie Yen has made great achievements with a pair of fists.

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