By doing this, you can also "wander" in search of new life

"The Wandering Earth" became popular again with Wu Jing. Within ten days of its release, it grossed 2.964 billion at the box office, making it the biggest winner in the Lunar New Year festival.

"Science fiction blockbusters comparable to Hollywood", "opening the first year of Chinese science fiction movies", etc., various film reviews have flooded the circle of friends with praises. However, what most people can see is the present. Explosive and fiery, invisible before the long wandering and persistence. In this insistent "wandering" of life, Wu Jing and others strive to make themselves more and more scarce.

Scarcity is an objective existence, while scarcity is a subjective judgment of the entire society.

In this life, people have to work hard to make themselves scarce.

Wu Jing chose a wandering road. After walking this road, his mentality and values ????became a rare existence in society.

Wu Jing was born in a martial arts family. He entered a sports school at the age of 6. In the same year, his nose was broken during training, he had stitches on his head at the age of 8, and his arm was fractured at the age of 9.

An accident occurred during training when he was 14 years old. He fell onto his spine, resulting in paralysis of his lower body. However, he turned over with support every day and moved his whole body. During the recovery stage, after taking the first step with his hands, the doctor again He was encouraged and pushed to take one more step. Wu Jing endured the severe pain and took half an hour to complete this second step.

With a glimmer of possibility, Wu Jing chose to fight until the end.

From the first hint of intuition to the final complete recovery, it took several months of gritted teeth and perseverance.

When an average child from an ordinary family encounters something like this once, they will basically say stop practicing. Being able to persevere requires the encouragement and requirements of my parents, but my own perseverance is the key.

After recovering, he chose to return to school to continue training.

At the age of 17, he participated in the national martial arts competition and won the spearmanship and sparring championship. It took him three years to go from paralysis to championship.

It’s a miracle.

This experience broke all Wu Jing’s superiority and pride.

After graduation, Wu Jing began to dream of becoming a businessman, so he opened a clothing store and made some small money, but he became increasingly confused.

After experiencing a period of directionlessness, Wu Jing chose to be an actor.

He was recommended to film "The Kung Fu Kid". From then on, Wu Jing began to become famous in mainland China, but his career never made a leap forward.

Hoping that he could break through and create his own era of action, Wu Jing chose to change to a better environment and start from scratch.

In 2003, Wu Jing went to the Hong Kong film industry to look for opportunities because it had the most developed film market and the most professional filmmakers in the country at that time. Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen all became famous in Hong Kong films. Martial arts stars include classic action film directors such as Wilson Yip and Yuen Wo-Ping.

From 2003 to 2008, he starred in several movies in Hong Kong. In "Slaying the Wolf", in the fight scene with Donnie Yen, in order to pursue reality, he broke several sticks. , Wu Jing's wrist was hit with a stick until he could not lift it up. In 2007's "A Better Man", his cruciate ligament was torn during a fight. Situations like this often happen. During his years in Hong Kong, he was like a wandering child, slowly figuring out his own path.

With this dedication and perseverance, Wu Jing has taken every step very steadily. However, except for a Taiwan Golden Horse Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, he has not received enough achievements and respect, nor has he found a creative career. Create your own unique action era. Wu Jing, who was not satisfied with the status quo, began to think about what era he wanted.

From his subsequent development, it can be seen that what he wanted to understand at that time was that he was no longer just obsessed with martial arts, but what he wanted to express in the movie, so he chose to return to mainland China to become a director. .

After going round and round, he returned to the mainland. At this time, his mood was different. Wu Jing thought, foreign movies include Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stallone and others online. The tough guy role in the movie, but why doesn’t China have such a type of man? Why do most of our male actors look like boys over flowers?

So Wu Jing wants to make a film that shows Chinese men, responsibility and responsibility. So what type of person best fits this setting? He chose the military.

If you want to play a soldier, you must be truly qualified for the role. This is Wu Jing's creed as an actor.

Wu Jing chose to train with the special forces for 18 months. As a real soldier, he ate, lived and trained with the people in the army. There, he felt bullets whizzing past his ears and heard the roar of tanks passing over him. Learn various military skills, fighting, diving, parachuting, shooting and armed swimming, set a diving record of 33 meters, and obtained the international three-star diver certificate.

After six years of preparation, and even using his own property as a mortgage, he was able to scrape together enough money to complete the filming of "Wolf Warrior I". This movie, which cost 27 million yuan, grossed an astonishing 546 million yuan at the box office after its release. Song Ge from Beijing Culture did not believe that this movie would have such a high box office after watching it. But the audience recognized it because of Wu Jing's feelings about his family and country and his pursuit of excellence. He personally checked every prop and every action, which gave him a more realistic feeling.

When "Wolf Warrior II" was released and grossed 5.6 billion at the box office, Wu Jing was proved to be on the right path.

Some people say that he is selling "national spiritual drinks" under the banner of patriotism. Perhaps these people have overlooked that the reason why promoting national strength and national pride can ignite the emotions of the national audience is because China suppresses It has been too long, and the people have been suppressed for too long. Everyone needs a kind of spiritual catharsis and guidance.

Being able to appropriately express the inner emotions of the public can form a political consciousness, and Wu Jing has made himself and his movies the rare ones who can guide this kind of political consciousness, so He did it.

Just imagine, almost every star or director wants to achieve this kind of result. Therefore, we cannot deliberately belittle Wu Jing just because he has achieved it. If so, we will really become the "joke-watchers" described by Lu Xun Chinese people".

Everything has two sides, not just right or wrong. Back then, Wu Jing could follow director Yuan Heping to Hollywood to develop, starting from being a stand-in, then to martial arts instructor, and then to actor. He would also be influenced by Hollywood actors. respect. There are indeed peers who do this, but Wu Jing does not. He chose to go back to the mainland to be a director. There are greater possibilities here, but it also means starting from scratch. This is Wu Jing's understanding of choice.

What kind of values ??determines what direction a person chooses.

Big-name actors feel that it is not the time to make science fiction films and are unwilling to participate in them;

Specially made realistic props, scenes, and top-notch special effects lenses consume funds quickly;

Director Guo Fan invested all his net worth;

Producer Gong Geer sold his car;

The director of photography spent his own money to buy equipment and rent it to the crew;< /p>

Actors have cut their salaries;

Wanda Pictures, the main investor, has decided to divest.

This was the situation faced by "The Wandering Earth" before coming into contact with Wu Jing.

Many comments say that Wu Jing is a rising star in the investment world. From "Wolf Warrior I" to "The Wandering Earth", they are all operations with extremely high return on investment.

Capital is all about profit, and no one dares to invest real money in a Chinese film market that is empty of science fiction films at this time.

Guo Fan and Gong Geer created a self-consistent world view for The Wandering Earth;

It is different from European and American science fiction blockbusters and integrates values ????with traditional Chinese concepts;

There are A complete 100-year chronicle;

More than 3,000 concept drawings;

More than 8,000 sub-shots...

When Guo Fan finished speaking about his After four years of creative process, Wu Jing felt that this man's persistence and desire in his eyes were very similar to himself who devoted all his efforts to the filming of "Wolf Warrior I".

So he went from guest appearances, to zero-pay performances, to directly spending 60 million to complete the filming, and he also changed from an actor to a producer and investor.

As a result, "The Wandering Earth" opened the first year of Chinese science fiction movies with a milestone.

At the beginning, Wu Jing made a simple but difficult request to Guo Fan.

Why, because such people are so scarce, not only in the film industry, but in all walks of life.

The essence is that people who have the courage to start and persevere are scarce, and this phenomenon will always exist.

Whether it is a character or a movie, if we laugh it off after watching it, we will forever continue in the cycle of watching and commenting.

So the key is whether we as individuals can get inspiration from them that will make us grow and even succeed.

First, keep thinking

There must be an idea in my heart that I want to be different and be useful to others, or be able to produce something useful to others.

Being able to think is the first step. Unique solutions and optimization solutions for anything exist in long-term thinking and pondering.

Second, do it

Once you do it, you will find various problems. It is time to learn relevant knowledge and fix it immediately. If there is a problem, solve it, no problem. Just proceed down. If you keep doing it, you will naturally become more and more familiar and better.

Third, key skills outside of work

If you have a stable job, these three points can assist in training. If you do not have a stable job, these three points can be focused on cultivating for two years. time to train and polish. As long as you start now, it's never too late. Year after year, it sounds long, but it's actually very fast.

These three points are writing, investment and training, skills that are always scarce.

For writing, take WeChat public accounts as an example. By the end of 2017, there were more than 10 million WeChat public accounts, including 3.5 million active accounts, an increase of 14% from 2016, and the number of monthly active fans was 797 million. A year-on-year increase of 19%.

China has 1.4 billion people. Currently, the illiteracy rate is about 5%. Excluding the number of semi-illiterates, it is estimated that 65% of children under 12 years old can read basic articles, which is 900 million people. According to statistics in 2018, WeChat’s monthly active users have reached 1 billion. Excluding those with multiple accounts and those who cannot read articles, taking 70% of the total, there are 700 million people who can read on WeChat. If there are an average of 2 people managing each active public account, that is 7 million people. Then it can be understood that people who insist on writing articles on public accounts account for 1% of the people who can read them.

It is still rare to be able to practice this skill well.

Investment thinking is a more urgent market demand than writing. The history of China’s stock market is very short, and there are no other mature and widespread investment opportunities for ordinary people. Therefore, this skill is needed by you and me. There will be follow-up More detailed related articles.

Training is an advanced form of learning a certain skill. It is a more practical method of transferring knowledge application than independent learning. Based on this goal, polish yourself, and the benefits will be endless.

The pursuit of scarcity should be a normal state of mind for us. This will make me look for places, fields, and methods to achieve scarcity. Along this path, you will have greater and greater success. value.