Jackie Chan： Chinese filmmakers will soon become better as long as they work hard

　　The Press Center of the Fifth Session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference held a press conference at 14:30 on March 7 (Tuesday). Five members of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Liu Changle, Feng Jicai, Su Shishu, Jackie Chan, Hai Xia, answered questions on promoting Chinese excellent traditional culture, cultivating and practicing socialist core values, flourishing and developing socialist literature and art, vigorously developing advanced socialist culture, and promoting Sino-foreign people-to-people and cultural exchanges.

　　On March 7, the Fifth Session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference held a press conference on "CPPCC members talk about strengthening cultural confidence and telling the Chinese story well". Five members of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Liu Changle, Feng Jicai, Su Shishu, Jackie Chan and Haixia, answered questions on promoting China’s excellent traditional culture, cultivating and practicing socialist core values, flourishing and developing socialist literature and art, vigorously developing advanced socialist culture, and promoting Sino-foreign cultural exchanges. The picture shows Jackie Chan, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, answering questions from reporters. Xinhuanet/China Government Network, Zhai Zihe, photo

　　China Review Agency reporter:Jackie Chan, we know that you won the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement last November and became the first filmmaker in China to receive this honor. I remember that your acceptance speech left a deep impression on me, especially when you mentioned that you are proud to be Chinese. I wonder if you could share with us how you felt at that time. Also, how do you think Chinese films can better go global? Thanks.

　　Jackie Chan:When I received the notification from the Oscars that I would win the Lifetime Achievement Award, first, I felt unconvinced, and second, I felt that I was too young to win this award. However, I also happily accepted it. Because I never thought that I would win this award, because forty years ago we made low-budget vulgar action movies. How could we win the award?! Whether it was the Golden Rooster Award, the Hundred Flowers Award, the Academy Award, or the Oscar, it was too far away. But for every play, at that time, we shot, for example, "Serpentine Tiaoshou" and "Drunk Fist". 250,000, 500,000 finished filming a play, a movie, that is, an empty space, a temple. And there is no plot, it is always what you see me doing, playing for half an hour, there is no plot. I will always shoot some characters that are not suitable for me. In the "Norwegian era" filming "Hero", many girls liked me, and I was surprised. How could girls like me, with big noses and small eyes. I finally made a name for myself, and I learned from Bruce Lee, I was not Bruce Lee at all, so none of them could succeed in that era.

　　I made an action comedy by myself, and I succeeded. I broke out of Asia, thinking it was okay. I flew to the United States for 16 hours, people looked at you, performed a set of boxing, went back, and played another set of kung fu. I can’t speak English, let’s go. My only purpose is to be an international superstar. Then I went to the United States to learn English, and I went to make some movies that were not suitable for me. I shot a young man born in the United States, who can’t speak English. They said you have to learn to beat someone down with one punch, how come you have already kicked 8 kicks, and that person is still standing there. As a result, according to their wishes, I didn’t have the strength to speak. No one watched the movie when it came out, not only did no one watch it in the United States, but no one watched it when I returned to the I gave up on the American market and still bought my own stuff. I continued to shoot some hard-working action movies without stunts or real kung fu. I broke my foot in the morning and started work in the afternoon. Regardless of whether the box office was good or not, I went to shoot with my heart.

　　56 years later, I received a call from Oscar asking me to win this award. I realized that if you insist on doing something, no matter whether anyone sees it or not, no matter whether anyone knows that you shoot with your heart, no matter whether it is all walks of life, one day someone will appreciate you. Today, Oscar came to me, not me. So if you insist on doing one thing, everything will come to you. My movie has been successful in many places. Many people say that you are our Chinese business card, giving me too much pressure. I said, how can I make better Chinese movies? In the process of making movies, I have also matured and grown up. When I was in Africa, all the children followed me. I said, it turns out that my actions can affect so many people. I will be more careful when making movies in the future. In addition to playing, I will also add Chinese culture. When I go to any occasion by myself, I will definitely wear a Tang suit to let people know that I am Chinese. In the last few months, I have to hold a meeting. The bosses of several major companies are waiting for me. My plane is late. I told my assistant if I can have a meeting again tomorrow. He said that everyone is waiting for you. "Rush Hour 4" and "Shanghai Noon" are now going to shoot 3. I said this will not work, that will not work. All of them listen to me, and everyone is OK. My assistant came over, big brother, you are awesome, you are awesome now. I said it’s not my cow, but today’s Chinese market makes me cow. Today, people from all over the world want to come to China to share this share. So, do one thing with your heart, there are 1.4 billion Chinese people, and our filmmakers will soon go better as long as they work hard, because more foreigners will cooperate with us to jointly promote Chinese culture to go global. As long as you work hard, all your dreams will come to you.