Donnie Yen： Jet Li wounded me twice.

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Donnie Yen is the same age as Jet Li, and Jet Li became famous at a young age.

Director Huang Baiming said: "Donnie Yen was unlucky. He played with Jackie Chan and Jet Li for more than 20 years before he became famous."

In 2021, the film Anger Serious Case starring Donnie Yen was released, with a box office of 1.329 billion, becoming the mainland box office champion of Hong Kong films.

The audience watched and marveled that 58-year-old Donnie Yen could still play so well. Some people feel that Jet Li has been away from the film industry for many years.

Donnie Yen was born in Guangzhou in 1963. My father is a scholar, and my mother Bow Sim Mark has been practicing martial arts since childhood.

At the age of two, Donnie Yen came to Hongkong with his father. Donnie Yen’s father likes playing the violin, and Donnie Yen has practiced playing the piano since childhood. When I was a child, Donnie Yen was not strong, and he was often anemic. When walking in the street, he would faint.

Bow Sim Mark is very strict with him, asking him to learn martial arts and sword. Donnie Yen likes to play football barefoot in the corridor. Once the corridor broke glass, and his feet were covered with glass. He asked his mother what to do, but she forbade him to cry and squeezed out the glass pieces.

Bow Sim Mark is good at Changquan and fencing, and has many disciples, so he enjoys a good reputation in the martial arts field. She has high hopes for Donnie Yen and hopes that her son will be her successor.

Every day before dawn at five o’clock, Bow Sim Mark would pull him up to warm up and do various leg press, relaxation and acrobatics. Donnie Yen shouted tired, crying and showing off a word. When he was a little lazy, his mother used wood blade to spank him.

In 1975, Donnie Yen’s father went to the United States as an expatriate editor of Sing Tao Daily, and his family moved to Boston.

From Guangdong to Hong Kong, from Hong Kong to the United States, Donnie Yen has always been an outsider, unable to integrate into the collective. Donnie Yen is lonely in America. His English is not good. He is the only Asian in his class. Walking in the street, someone turned to him and called China.

He desperately wanted to be strong and prove it to others. At the age of 11, he began to practice wing chun’s sticky hands with his classmates. After arriving in the United States, Donnie Yen practiced harder. He watched several films of Bruce Lee for more than 1000 times, and then followed suit. In the martial arts school, a black man bullied him. He could even kick each other in the face, and the other side didn’t have time to dodge.

Gradually, everyone who came to the martial arts school to practice martial arts called him "Bruce Lee".

While Donnie Yen was still practicing martial arts, Jet Li was already a minor celebrity.

He is the same age as Donnie Yen. At the age of eight, he was attracted by the sports coach and entered Beijing Shichahai Sports School to learn martial arts.

In 1971, "Ping-Pong Diplomacy", the state held a table tennis competition to welcome American teams to visit China. Jet Li was chosen as the representative to perform martial arts on the field. This is Jet Li’s first official performance. He is very nervous and his palms are full of sweat. We can’t make any mistakes, because our motherland is expecting our perfect performance.

After the performance, Zhou Enlai met him in the Great Hall of the People.

In 1974, 11-year-old Jet Li took part in the junior group competition of the National Wushu Competition, winning three championships in succession. "Wulin" magazine commented: "Li Zhengdong (Jet Li) has a solid and comprehensive technique, and he has made great efforts in fighting knives, guns, sticks, swords and fists, especially knives and fists, which have reached a superb level."

In the same year, Jet Li followed the China delegation to visit the United States and performed for the President in front of the White House. After the performance, President Nixon took a group photo with him: "Kid, your kung fu is impressive. Will you be my bodyguard when you grow up?"

Jet Li clear voice replied: "No, I want to protect hundreds of millions of people in China!"

The scene was silent. Nixon was embarrassed. Fortunately, Kissinger stepped forward to clear the air: "My God, at an early age, you are already talking like a diplomat!"

In 1978, 15-year-old Donnie Yen came to Beijing Shichahai Sports School to learn martial arts and became Jet Li’s younger brother.

Donnie Yen grew up in Hong Kong, and his Mandarin was poor, so it was difficult to communicate with his classmates. He doesn’t have any friends, so he spends all his time on training. At night, everyone sleeps, and he still works hard in the martial arts hall.

Jet Li is well-known in sports schools, winning five national Wushu all-around championships in succession. But Donnie Yen only met him twice. Once, Jet Li gave martial arts instruction to his younger brothers. They never talked.

After the new wave in Hong Kong in 1979, commercial films rose. Director Zhang Xinyan "borrowed" Jet Li to star in Shaolin Temple.

At that time, the planned economy was still in full swing. Jet Li played the leading role of Jue Yuan in Shaolin Temple, but he earned only 700 yuan for nearly two years-one yuan a day. At that time, Hong Kong people who played dead bodies could get 50 yuan a day. Jet Li is mentally unbalanced, but he dare not say.

In 1982, Shaolin Temple was released, which won HK$ 16.16 million at the box office in Hong Kong, breaking the highest record of kung fu films. On the mainland, it earned 160 million yuan at a fare of 10 cents. Jet Li became popular. In half a year, he received more than a dozen sacks of letters, including apprentices, apprentices, love letters and bloody books.

A Hong Kong director watched Shaolin Temple, admired Jet Li, and gave him a check: "If you sign the contract, you will help me make two films, and this 6 million will be yours."

Jet Li, 19, had never seen so much money before, and told the unit leader cheerfully. Unexpectedly, a cold water poured down, and the leader said, "The money has to be handed over to the unit."

Jet Li resented the adults who controlled himself. He broke his leg in a training session "strangely" and left the unit.

After that, Jet Li starred in three "Shaolin Temple" films in succession and became a well-known movie star.

When Jet Li relied on the Shaolin Temple fire, Donnie Yen also left Shichahai Sports School and returned to Boston. He took part in a martial arts competition in the United States and won the championship in one fell swoop. At the same time, Donnie Yen is planning to enter the film and television circle.

Yuan Heping, the martial arts director’s sister, used to learn from Bow Sim Mark. With this relationship, her mother sent Donnie Yen to make a movie.

In the 1980s, the competition of Hong Kong Kung Fu films was fierce, and the martial arts directors fought each other.

The competition among Hongjiaban, Yuanjiaban and Liujiaban was fierce. Chengjiaban (Jackie Chan) simply jumped off the fifth floor and hit a car, then bounced back to another car.

When Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung successively released the well-received and blockbuster Plan A, Fast Food Car and death tower, Yuan Jiaban had nothing to shoot. Donnie Yen suggested to Yuan Heping: "Their plays can be piled up with money. If we have no money, we will play a personal style."

Yuan Heping asked Donnie Yen to take a look, thinking that his movements were too "modern" and suggested that he imitate Jet Li. Donnie Yen thought, "Imitate what, it’s just fighting anyway." He knocked his opponent to the ground as soon as he came on the stage.

His kung fu is "too hard", and his fists are full of flesh, which has no aesthetic feeling. After watching it, the audience said, "It’s vicious, too bloody." Fans don’t appreciate it. Everyone advised him to change careers, and he said that he would stick to it.

Jing Wong watched Donnie Yen’s film and said, "Donnie Yen will be a superstar after Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li." But Donnie Yen is very inferior: "I really don’t know if I am this lucky superstar."

Donnie Yen and continuous shooting have made seven or eight films, but they are still not as good as a second-line movie. He mainly works as a walk-on in the crew, and the films with leading roles are all small productions directed by Master Yuan Heping.

His salary is low, and he will only think of him when the film is short of funds. He said, "I feel sorry for myself. As long as I can afford the salary, they will go to others."

In 1991, Tsui Hark found Jet Li and invited him to star in the new play Huang Feihong 1.

Tsui Hark not only wants to fight, but also wants him to film the beauty of lions preying on Tibetan antelopes. Jet Li focused and contributed a set of shadowless feet with seven consecutive kicks.

In 1991, the film was released, which earned more than 29 million box office in Hong Kong, and the response was fierce. When Hong Kong people saw Jet Li, they all called him "Master Huang". Jet Li jumped from "Shaolin boy" to "a great master".

In the second film "Men Be Strong", Tsui Hark asked Donnie Yen to play the villain and put pressure on Jet Li.

For the sake of film and television effect, Tsui Hark asked Jet Li to do his utmost to interrupt the pillar in front of Donnie Yen. Jet Li made a full-scale effort with a bamboo pole, but he missed the post and accidentally interrupted Donnie Yen’s brow bone. Donnie Yen covered her head and took three steps back. When she raised her hand, she was bleeding like a column. She was sent to the hospital for six stitches.

Donnie Yen described: "Jet Li is really fast, he is fast, and I want to be faster. If you are a beat slower, all the lights say, come again, and NG will be ugly. I don’t want to lose. "

"Men Be Self-reliant" continued the popularity and reputation of the first film, with a box office of over 30 million. In 1993, Donnie Yen was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor in the Academy Award for his character Nalan Yuanshu.

At that time, Hong Kong films emphasized literature over martial arts, and Donnie Yen didn’t win the prize. He said, "All the actors and heroines were sitting in the middle of the stage, and our group, martial arts directors and martial arts actors were sitting next to them."

After Donnie Yen and Jet Li took the stage, the stage began to pick up, but Chiu Man-Cheuk didn’t want to steal the show.

Chiu Man-Cheuk Donnie Yen Jr. was nine years old, but he made his debut early. When he was still in school, he was pulled out by the martial arts school to play the role of "Fang Shiyu" and played the role of nine prefects. After Jet Li broke up with Jiahe, Chiu Man-Cheuk also took the role of Huang Feihong. His eyebrows are sharp and his eyes are sharp, and he plays beautifully. Tsui Hark praised him: "Chiu Man-Cheuk can’t repeat a hundred moves."

Some viewers even said: "Although Jet Li Zhuyu is in the forefront, Chiu Man-Cheuk is more like a grandmaster."

Jackie Chan even named the surname and commented: "In the mid-1990 s, Hong Kong movies, a Jason Wu and a Chiu Man-Cheuk, I think they should be my successors and Jet Li." There is no mention of Donnie Yen in the same year as Jet Li.

In the mid-1990s, Jet Li left Jiahe Film and Television to set up Zhengdong Film Company.

Zhengdong Film has successively released many films, such as Fang Shiyu, Zhongnanhai Bodyguard, Jingwu Hero, etc., which are well received and well received. Fang Shiyu, the Kung Fu Emperor, made a box office of 30 million yuan, which was even more popular than Huang Feihong. After the film was finished, Jet Li became the Kung Fu Emperor.

During this period, almost all the martial arts films were made by Jet Li and Jackie Chan, who were a Kung Fu emperor and a super policeman, and the films were constantly being made.

In contrast, Donnie Yen is still tepid.

After Jet Li quarreled with Jiahe, the corner of Zhou Huai ‘an in New Longmen Inn was replaced by Tony Leung Ka Fai. Donnie Yen played the villain Cao Shaoqin, with a long face and dark eyes, leaving a few classic roles in this period. However, his coffee table is low, and he stands in the crew for one day with a sword, and he doesn’t even have a seat.

Since then, Donnie Yen has starred in a series of films, such as "The Iron Horse" and "Su Beggar", and started to catch up with Jet Li.

Jet Li played Hong Xiguan and Donnie Yen played Hong Xiguan in the same year; Jet Li finished "Jingwu Zhen Chen", followed by Donnie Yen in Zhen Chen. Donnie Yen plays whatever Jet Li plays. But the audience still likes Jet Li.

In 1996, The Iron Horse of Young Huang Feihong was released, and Donnie Yen played Huang Feihong’s father Huang Qiying. In the film, Donnie Yen offers a set of shadowless feet that are more handsome and kicking more than Huang Feihong. Huang Feihong Jr. in the movie was repeatedly hit on the head by Huang Qiying.

This film has a huge investment, directed by Yuan Heping and written by Tsui Hark. The film wanted to rub off the popularity of Huang Feihong, but it didn’t turn out to be a box office fiasco. In the eyes of Hong Kong people, Jet Li is a great master, and Donnie Yen is just a fan of the great master. The audience doesn’t pay.

Even Yuan Heping said, "I have cooperated with so many action actors, and I think Jet Li is really first-class. Because he knows too much martial arts, he knows everything you say, like a kung fu dictionary. He is a rare talent. " But for Donnie Yen, Yuan Heping just said: "He is particularly hard-working and (Kung Fu) is very solid."

In 1996, dissatisfied with the status quo, Donnie Yen began to plan to be a director himself.

Donnie Yen is good at footwork. In order to prove that he can fight, he directed and performed his debut novel "The Legend of War Wolf". The plot of the film was messy, but it was played fiercely from beginning to end, and only 810 thousand was collected in the end. The audience said, "What Donnie Yen made was not a movie, but loneliness."

When making the second film, the capital chain was broken, and no one wanted to invest in him. Donnie Yen borrowed usury and his account was only HK$ 100. There are media reports that Donnie Yen can’t even afford to eat. He was under great pressure, and his heart had a problem. The doctor said that he needed a knife and put something behind his atrium.

Donnie Yen’s career was at a low ebb and his marriage broke up.

After 1996, influenced by Hollywood, Hong Kong action movies declined rapidly, and Jet Li went to Hollywood to make movies. Donnie Yen didn’t want to transform. He said, "There is still a lot of room for action movies."

By the end of 1990s, even Chiu Man-Cheuk, who was later than his debut, became popular, and Donnie Yen had nothing to shoot and returned to the United States. Later, he went to Germany and Japan and became a martial arts director or director.

In 2002, Zhang Yimou made a commercial blockbuster "Hero" and asked Jet Li to play the leading role.

At the shooting scene, the actor who played against Jet Li couldn’t catch up with his tricks at all. Jet Li was angry and asked Zhang Yimou to change people: "My opponent must cooperate with Donnie Yen."

Jet Li brought Donnie Yen from the United States, and they fought each other. Jet Li plays the role of nobody, and Donnie Yen plays the role of the sky. In the film, they have a master duel.

Donnie Yen used a red tassel gun, Jet Li used a sword, Jet Li took a sword, and Donnie Yen used double speed to turn a pike. Donnie Yen was under great pressure. He said, "I really used all my explosive power to meet his swordsmanship. Jet Li was too fast."

Zhang Yimou was not satisfied with the scene of the confrontation between the sky and the nameless, which was filmed for 20 times. For the last time, because the staff who hung Weiya pulled two inches less, Jet Li slammed his sword and just stabbed Donnie Yen on the eyebrow. Jet Li was worried: "Zidan, you are bleeding." When Donnie Yen asked where it was, Jet Li pointed and said, "Old place".

Donnie Yen said with a smile, "It doesn’t matter. Every time I get hurt, the movie will sell like hot cakes. It’s a good start." He had six more stitches.

After the film was finished, the box office won a great victory in North America. Jet Li appeared on the cover of Time magazine and became an international superstar, while Donnie Yen got nothing. The public played the devil’s advocate, saying that he was a match for Jet Li, and Zhang Yimou couldn’t save him. But Donnie Yen said, "I just know what it’s like to make a movie now.".

In 2005, Tsui Hark prepared to make the film Seven Swords, with Donnie Yen as first hero. When filming, other stars will leave the set without any scenes, and Donnie Yen is alone in Tianshan Mountain from beginning to end.

This year, Donnie Yen was 42 years old, and he was still not angry after shooting dozens of works, but he was not discouraged: "Although I have also shot some bad films, my mentality is not bad."

In 2005, Donnie Yen played with Jason Wu in kill the wolf. Jason Wu’s role was originally set to be a shot, and Donnie Yen pleaded with investors: "This wastes Jason Wu’s kung fu."

Donnie Yen added drama to Jason Wu out of his own pocket. In the narrow alley, Donnie Yen took a solid stick and whipped it at Jason Wu. Jason Wu blocked it with his arm, and the stick suddenly broke in two and flew out.

This street fight was filmed all night. Donnie Yen pulled off four sticks. Jason Wu gasped and said, "All the anger is on his face. It really hurts!"

After the film was released, it sold well at the box office, and the 45-second alley play was breathtaking. After watching it, the audience all said, "The fight between the crowbar and the dagger in the alley made kill the wolf the most exciting action movie ever."

Donnie Yen won the Best Action Design Award, and Jason Wu also pulled out his feet from comedies and bad plays.

In 2008, director Ye Weixin filmed Ip Man and invited Donnie Yen to play the leading role.

Some colleagues laughed at the film producer: "psycho, why did you sign him?" It’s going to be red early. " Ye Zhun, IP Man’s son, saw Donnie Yen and said, "It’s a far cry from his thin father."

Ye Weixin encouraged him: "In fact, you are good at acting, but you just don’t know how to release the acting cells."

Donnie Yen cherished this opportunity, bought a lot of books to study Ip Man, and even took books to the toilet. In order to lose weight, he only ate vegetables and carbohydrates every day, lost 20 pounds and went to the hospital twice. In the scene with Fan Shaohuang, because he was too weak, he escaped the broadsword cut by the other side, but he was hit in the corner of his eye by the handle of the knife and almost lost his sight.

Donnie Yen’s old illness recurred during filming. He hired three doctors, massage, cupping and acupuncture, but the doctor said that these only treated the symptoms, not the root cause, and the only radical cure was surgery, but there were risks, so he might not be able to exercise flexibly from now on.

Donnie Yen thought after listening: Throwing caution to the wind, the big deal is to transform behind the scenes.

In 2009, "Ip Man" was released, and it became the runner-up at the Hong Kong box office. Donnie Yen was in a mess, and his pay rose from 5 million to 13 million, making him the "king of gold". In 2012, with a revenue of 115 million yuan, Donnie Yen also beat Fan Bingbing and topped the list in forbes china celebrity.

Huang Baiming, the film owner, said: "Donnie Yen’s luck is not good. He played with Jackie Chan and Jet Li for more than 20 years before he became famous."

With the role of IP Man, he was nominated for the first time as the best actor in the Academy Award, and also won the Best Actor Award in the Beijing University Student Film Festival. Donnie Yen said: "This is my first (actor) award … Now that everyone looks up to (me), I must try my best." After giving his acceptance speech, he danced with excitement.

In the 13th China Watch Awards Ceremony in 2009, Ip Man won the best co-production, and the winner was Jet Li. Donnie Yen gathered her clothes, quickly came to the stage and gave him a big hug.

"Ip Man" series made Donnie Yen famous. Once the crew went to Africa for filming, where life was poor and there was no TV, but when the hotel staff saw Donnie Yen, they immediately shouted "IP Man". Donnie Yen was very excited. He said, "Ip Man has promoted Chinese martial arts, but I didn’t expect its influence to be so great."

The leader met Donnie Yen, shook his hand excitedly and said, I have seen your IP Man.

In 2008, Jet Li and Jackie Chan completed the century cooperation and starred in the Hollywood blockbuster forbidden kingdom. Jet Li plays the leading role and is also an investor.

Since then, Jet Li began to reduce production and focus on his own One Foundation public welfare undertakings. The banner of action movies falls on people like Donnie Yen, Jason Wu and Chiu Man-Cheuk.

Hong Kong action movies have been in the doldrums for many years, and many action actors have transformed or given up, but Donnie Yen still insists. Yuan Heping said with emotion: "Donnie Yen never gave up being an actor, so he was the last one to get angry."

In 2016, "ip man 3" was released, and the media called it the three martial arts stars in China, along with Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Donnie Yen left a handprint in TCL China Theater, becoming the second Chinese movie star to leave a handprint after Jackie Chan.

The following year, Donnie Yen won the lifetime achievement actor award and the best actor award in Foshan Kung Fu Film Week. Donnie Yen has become one of the few remaining action stars.

Jackie Chan lamented the Star Fault: "There may be no need for action actors in the future."

In the year when Donnie Yen won the prize, Jason Wu also became the highest-grossing actor in China with Wolf Warriors 2. In order to film Wolf Warriors, he mortgaged his house. He said to Iola, "If you lose, you really have no money. Do you want to get married? Think about it."

"Wolf Warriors" constantly set a new record for China’s film history. Jason Wu panicked and called his senior brother Jet Li. Jet Li told him: "From now on, be a man with your tail between your legs."

Since forbidden kingdom, Jet Li has only played the leading role in flying swords of dragon gate and Ocean Paradise. The former is to make up for the regret of Xinlongmen Inn, and the latter is linked to public welfare.

Jet Li fell ill and got farther and farther away from the film industry. Even a photo of "Jet Li is 80 years old" has gone viral on the Internet, in which he has a rickety figure and gray hair.

In 2017, Ma Yun invited Jet Li out of the mountain to promote the martial arts director’s kung fu film "Gong Shou Dao". This short film has assembled more than 10 kung fu masters, including Sammo Hung, Donnie Yen and Wu Jingdu, and the protagonist is Ma Yun. Jet Li plays a sweeping monk in the film, and he stands on the edge of the official poster.

The reporter asked him about this question, and Jet Li said, "What does that matter?"

In 2017, Donnie Yen and Jet Li performed in Mulan at the same time, and the audience expected them to play again. As a result, Donnie Yen played Mulan’s mentor and Jet Li played the emperor, which were basically literary plays.

Jet Li said at an event: "Donnie Yen is 56 years old and still can play. He is a very good action actor." Speaking of himself, he said: "My luck is the best. I played the leading role as soon as I debuted and never fell."

When Mulan finished filming, Donnie Yen took a photo with Jet Li. The essay said: "I am very happy to cooperate with Boss Jie for the fourth time. Although we can’t start shooting on the same day in the same year, we can finish filming on the same day in the same year. Everything is fate. Thanksgiving! "

In the photo, the two men are wearing hats, with obvious wrinkles on their faces, but they are laughing happily.

In August, 2021, the action movie Anger Serious Case starring Donnie Yen Nicholas Tse was released, with a box office of 1.329 billion, becoming the mainland box office champion of Hong Kong films.

The audience watched and sighed with emotion, marveling that Donnie Yen, 58, could still play so well. Some people feel that Jet Li has been away from the film industry for many years.

In the later period of Ip Man series, Donnie Yen gradually focused on literature and drama. In one scene, the martial arts school came to kick the gym, but Ip Man did not take up the challenge. First, he invited the other party to have dinner and dessert, and then he smoked and drank tea.

In order to show the sense of life, Donnie Yen also joined some scenes of being afraid of his wife, and the role of Mrs IP Man was taller than that of Donnie Yen.

Director Ye Weixin praised him: "Donnie Yen (acting) is getting more and more vigorous."

He said: "I have been filming for 37 years, and it was not until more than 20 years later that I began to move on to acting." (Before) I constantly wanted to prove that I was the strongest fighter in the film circle. Wushu made me, but at the same time it restricted me and it was difficult to turn back. "

In "Ip Man 4", IP Man suffers from cancer, his wife dies and his son is scattered, and finally he chooses to return to China to teach his son Kung Fu and live the rest of his life. Off-stage, Donnie Yen returned to his family and insisted on cooking for his wife and daughter.

The reporter asked why there have been fewer and fewer operas in recent years. Donnie Yen said: "Why pursue the strongest universe? Because the foundation is not thick enough and self-confidence is not enough, when you reach a certain level, you will know how to appreciate the so-called strongest, but you will no longer demand it. "

In 2019, when Ip Man 4 ended, Donnie Yen said, "This is my last action movie." A reporter asked: "Donnie Yen, what was your state when you finished filming the last scene of Ip Man 4?"

Donnie Yen’s eyes were empty and he said simply, "I’m relieved."

When I met the role of IP Man, Donnie Yen was 45 years old.

In 2008, a reporter asked him: "Some action stars, like Stallone, are still playing in their fifties, which makes people feel tired. What do you think of this? "

Donnie Yen replied, "Everyone has his own choice. To be a man, you must first have self-knowledge and choose your own path. "

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2. Very quiet distance, Donnie Yen

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4. Jet Li’s Skill and Tao, Southern Weekend.

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6. Dragon and Tiger Martial Master: Without them, there would be no golden age of Hong Kong Kung Fu movies, Sanlian Life Weekly.

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Original title: "Donnie Yen: Jet Li wounded me twice"

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