Challenge unknown
In the impetuous, follow-the-trend, fast-food movie circle, especially in the case that Hollywood blockbusters impact the China movie market, Jason Wu wants to try to build a domestic heavy industry military film and set up a decent China superhero on the big screen. His idea is the tough guy image of China people's face+Hollywood visual effects scene+patriotic feelings. Just like when you mention Tom Hanks, you will think of Forrest Gump, and when you mention Stephen Chow, you will think of the Supreme Treasure. Now, when you talk about Wu Jing, you will think of Leng Feng and the soldier image he represents in the new era. Jason Wu thinks this is one of his dreams. Whether it can be realized is unknown. But as early as 2008, he began to do it step by step. For the film, he studied military hard and thought about every shot countless times. Finally, I persisted for 8 years and made a high-quality film that was good for the audience.
What people do is not afraid of no opportunities, no experience and no challenges. Jason Wu is a kung fu actor, but he dares to challenge to be a director. He wants to make a relatively difficult military film and create his own superhero. To this end, he spent eight years studying and exploring all the unknown things, made full preparations, and finally made a movie comparable to Hollywood blockbusters. The audience not only saw China's tough guy hero, but also had strong feelings. To outsiders, Wolf Warriors 2 is very popular and accidental, but for Jason Wu, it is the result of his challenging the unknown and rewarding his hard work.
Last stand-Fight a life-and-death battle.
Jason Wu's budget for filming Wolf Warriors 2 is 80 million yuan. At first, no one knew it would succeed, so no one would pay for Jason Wu's dream. Difficulties, Jason Wu and his wife to discuss, want to take out all the savings at home, mortgage the house out to realize their dreams. This is undoubtedly an adventure. Jason Wu told his wife that maybe she would make a lot of money, or she would lose everything. The wife said, nothing. I'll support you if the movie loses. When the official shooting started, the final cost soared from the original estimate of 80 million to 200 million because of going to Africa! Due to economic problems, Jason Wu sold automobile mortgage again to raise funds for filming. This is a real gamble, the last try. Jason Wu said: "People who practice martial arts have a personality: when playing games, they all want to play well. So if I want to do something, I must do it wholeheartedly, otherwise I won't do it at all. "
Success requires adventure and the spirit of death and afterlife. If you don't succeed, you will die. It takes money to make a movie, but everyone doesn't like this theme. Jason Wu dares to put all his possessions on it, which shows his determination and courage, and also shows his confidence. A person dares to walk into a dead end, one is forced to be helpless and the other is ambitious. If people want to succeed, they should be hard on themselves and dare to cross the rubicon. Jason Wu proved it. In this case, it must be the spirit of 120 and the effort of 120, and the film will show the score of 120.
Brave and desperate
Jason Wu personally fought for Wolf Warriors 2 and fought for his life. There is a fight scene of "underwater mirror to the end". Everyone thinks that the mirror is the best alternative, but no one knows whether it will succeed. Even American action director Sam has no idea about this scene, because he has never seen a scene that lasted for six minutes and was filmed underwater. Everyone was caught in a difficult choice, but Jason Wu finally decided to "shoot! It is very interesting to do things that others have never done. " Jason Wu spent half a month shooting this underwater scene, and spent more than 10 hours practicing and shooting every day. He jumped 26 times. Once almost killed him and was washed away by the ocean current. Afterwards, he also said frankly: "You have never experienced life and death, how can you interpret life and death? Listen to the truth, see the truth, don't pretend, don't take, don't pinch. The audience will see your sincerity through the big screen. " This scene also created a record in the history of world movies. Some viewers said that just fighting for him is worth 654.38+0 billion.
Without a spirit of desperate pursuit, it is difficult to achieve perfection and create miracles. As a leading actor, Jason Wu respects his profession very much, so he has a spirit of "desperate Saburo" and a harsh pursuit of perfection. While adding a "life-and-death experience", he also added one shocking scene after another to Wolf Warriors 2, which is worth learning from those "little fresh meat" actors who dig pictures, body double, pose and read numbers.
Wolf Warriors 2 is famous both at home and abroad, which makes Jason Wu famous and famous. It is worth pondering, is Jason Wu's achievement only due to his temporary luck? Absolutely not! His success is due to these qualities that many others can't copy. These qualities in him are worth learning and cultivating.