Jet Li, the original 60-year-old, is controversial recently, and a generation of kung fu superstars. Why did he also fall behind?
Jet Li is on the hot search again.
One is because of the state.
Not long ago, he just celebrated his 60th birthday. His figure is thin and his skin is flabby. Compared with artists of the same age such as Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu Wai, his facial aging marks are much heavier. Some netizens complained that he "looks like an 80-year-old grandfather".
At the same time, many people said that even the face of Jet Li today is different from before.
The second is because it endorsed a mobile game.
In the official promo, Jet Li appeared in white. Although the momentum is still there and the movements are very clean and neat, it still makes people feel very disobedient. Some people think that he doesn’t match the character setting, and he is so fat that he can’t recognize it at all; Some people also ridiculed him for self-destruction for money and began to shoot "the cover of online games."
Kung fu superstars who were once red and purple have also become a member of the queue of "late festivals are not guaranteed".
However, the controversy over Jet Li did not appear in recent years. Looking back, time may go back more than 30 years.
Leaving his wife for true love, "love rat" has been cursed for decades.
Jet Li’s original wife was his classmate, Huang Qiuyan.
In others’ eyes, they were childhood friends, and Huang Qiuyan, who is two years older than Jet Li, took good care of him. The screen cooperation is also very tacit, and it is really a very suitable couple.
But it was only about four years before and after their marriage and separation.
When filming dragon fight, Jet Li fell in love with Nina Li Chi, who played A Ling in the film. Known as a "beauty", she looks enchanting and glamorous, and her figure is exquisite and proud, which is completely different from Huang Qiuyan, who has a simple atmosphere in her eyebrows and eyes.
Jet Li, who fell in love, loved it so much that she was willing to "give everything, even her life".
At that time, Huang Qiuyan had not only given birth to a daughter for him, but also was about to give birth. In the third year of the second daughter’s birth, their marriage ended.
According to media reports, Jet Li, who felt guilty about his ex-wife, left most of his fortune to the other party. But even so, he was accused of "abandoning his wife and daughter", and he still became the "love rat" referred to by many people.
In Huang Qiuyan and Nina Li Chi, Jet Li showed his love and dislike to the fullest. For that relationship with Huang Qiuyan, he defined it by his ignorance of love at that time.
But for Nina Li Chi, it can be said that it has everything.
Nina Li Chi’s investment failed and she owed tens of millions of dollars, so Jet Li signed a contract with the film company for six films in two years to help her tide over the difficulties. After getting married, I handed over the economic power in my family. In the usual interviews, whenever he mentioned his wife, Jet Li praised her and confessed to Nina Li Chi again and again in front of the camera.
Their love for more than 30 years has changed many people’s views. Jet Li, once dismissed as "love rat", has become a lover in the eyes of many people.
Changing nationality twice, throwing 200 million yuan to build a luxury house and causing controversy.
After Shaolin Temple became famous overnight, Jet Li appeared in several works with similar themes, such as Shaolin Kid and North and South Shaolin.
Later "Huang Feihong Series" and "Fang Shiyu Series" helped him become the "Kung Fu Emperor" in the Chinese film industry.
But crowding out still exists.
Later, in an interview, Jet Li talked about the past, saying that "I was in great pain" at that time, and euphemistically mentioned the accidental death of my friend Cai Ziming. The experience of the latter is also the main reason for his final decision to go to the United States for development.
At that time, because of the influence of Huang Feihong, Fang Shiyu and other roles, Jet Li was already quite famous in Europe and America. Even so, his development after going abroad is still not very smooth. In this case, Jet Li chose to join the United States, and subsequently appeared in many films such as Kiss of the Dragon and Fatal Romeo.
In 2009, some media reported that Jet Li became a Singaporean citizen and spent nearly 100 million yuan to buy a mansion for his daughter. Soon after, it was revealed that his Shanghai mansion had been completed, with a total area of 5,369.87 square meters and a cost of 200 million.
Jet Li’s public image was further damaged by "showing off his wealth" and changing his nationality. Even if it was later reported that he joined Singapore citizenship in order to set up the One Foundation, he also said in the interview that he had "never done anything wrong to the Chinese nation", but it didn’t seem to have much effect on image recovery.
Due to Jet Li’s "Indonesian Tsunami" experience, the One Foundation, which was launched in 2007, was once faced with a crisis of interruption in the second year of his Singapore citizenship.
He starred in "Danny the Wolfhound" for zero pay and was scolded for his role image setting.
In the film starring Jet Li, he collaborated with Luc Besson, and in 2005, Danny the Wolfhound was controversial. In the poster, Jet Li, wearing a collar, is put under one foot, punching to make a gesture of resistance and counterattack.
For Jet Li, this film is very special. It is not only a theme he has never touched on, but also conveys the theme that "violence is not the solution to the problem". He didn’t even receive a penny for this story from being instructed by an animal or a machine to becoming a man.
Unfortunately, after the film was released, the response was not good.
In addition to being accused of too many commercial gimmicks, the plot is pale and weak, and even the "China Kung Fu" as a selling point has not reached expectations, the role of Danny has even made Jet Li fall into a sneer.
Many people think that this character is too insulting.
In the face of accusations, Jet Li suggested that opponents "reflect". When this statement comes out, the dissatisfied are even more numerous.
Besides affection, nationality and role image, Jet Li’s contact with a master and his position related to his faith have made his public impression decline continuously.
All kinds of rumors are also accompanied.
In 2010, when Jet Li appeared in public, she was found haggard and her eyes were protruding, and the word "cancer" spread like wildfire. Since then, it has been disabled and died in countless rumors.
In an interview, he once laughed and said "every year".
After the fire broke out in Notre Dame in 2019, it was reported that Jet Li donated 10 billion yuan, which provoked Xiang Taitai Chen Lan to defend him on his personal social platform and denounced the boring "breaking news media".
With all these superpositions, Jet Li, once a Shaolin boy and a Kung Fu emperor, who were popular all over the country, said that being a man should not be inflated, and that he should "guard against arrogance and rashness, with his tail between his legs", has long been completely different in people’s minds. He is no longer a hero of justice who is similar to the screen image, but has become a person who only has interests in his eyes.
The existing impression, coupled with the mobile game he endorsed this time, has a lot of controversy in the user experience, and it is natural to be accused of "fishing for gold" in China.
Therefore, even a superstar, if he doesn’t know how to cherish feathers, the audience who started with his works may stop at his character.
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