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The commercial success of the original and sequel of Rush Hour has made many people have the illusion that this is the magical effect of China Kung Fu. As we all know, Jackie Chan's biggest dissatisfaction with the film is that he cut the originally carefully designed martial arts drama into pieces. In the Hong Kong movie starring Jackie Chan, we can see the whole wonderful martial arts. However, these films have a mediocre box office in the North American market, and Rush Hour, which Hollywood tailored for him, is very popular, but it can't make people jump in the Asian market at the same time. This shows that rush hour is an American Chinese food, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an American food that looks like Chinese food. Jackie Chan's wisdom lies in his willingness to use Hollywood's "formula" to prepare his unique "raw materials", although he didn't have confidence in this practice at first.

Try new methods to foster strengths and avoid weaknesses.

Jackie Chan is very clever. He knows his position as the big brother in the Asian film market, and no one can guarantee that he will open another day in Hollywood. In the early 1980 s, he had the experience of returning from Hollywood fiasco alone. Even after he became famous in the United States by "Pink Zone", his variety talk show last night was still ranked as a second-tier star. After some introduction of "the world's largest movie star", he followed a semi-red TV star. He knows that his "delicious food" needs to be repackaged in Hollywood mode.

In this wave of China stars attacking Hollywood, Jackie Chan seems to be the most able to recognize his shortcomings. The most obvious example is that English is not good enough, which should be fatal to people who eat acting. Looking at the foreign actors who broke into Hollywood, from ingrid bergman to Juliette Binoche, or even jean-claude van damme who beat the world with his fists, who can't speak English fluently? And this group of China actors, language ability seems to be getting worse and worse. To be honest, it sounds really creepy in American cinemas. Most like Zhang Ziyi, speaking Chinese with English subtitles. Ironically, the first China actors who broke into Hollywood, such as Chen Chong and Vivian Wu, had good English, but their luck was not as good as this wave. Good English is not necessarily a prerequisite for success, but since you want to make a name for yourself on someone else's site, mastering their language should be a necessary skill.

Jet Li seldom speaks in English movies. Once he speaks, his lines are very short. However, if this Gao Cangjian-style silence is used too much, it will lose its effect and make those who don't turn their heads realize that it has nothing to do with the character, but the language ability of the actor. Chow Yun Fat is more troublesome, because he belongs to the acting school and can't conquer the audience by punching and kicking. As if blunt English was not enough to subvert an acting career, he chose Anna and the King, a movie doomed to failure. People in the film industry don't know that the Thai king created by Youbolianna has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. I'm afraid it won't help to let King Tai perform himself. Now Chow Yun Fat's reinterpretation is like asking a Korean beauty to repeat Huang Wanqiu's Third Sister Liu, which will be rejected by the audience at the beginning.

Jackie Chan, on the other hand, not only did not shy away from his own language problems, but also integrated them into the play, making English fluency a major feature of his characters and even the basis of jokes. In Rush Hour 2, after his mouth was sealed with tape, he asked his black partner to save him. When the tape was torn off, he asked his partner, "Don't you understand what I mean?" The partner replied, "No one can understand you!" In fact, in this film, except for the bad guy who plays the boss behind the scenes, almost no one speaks standard English, including Cantonese English, Putonghua English, Black English, Spanish English-and Black Cantonese, which is really funny. It is said that this pidgin phenomenon in the eight countries has also caused a lot of communication troubles on the set.

Jackie Chan's humorous martial arts style is mainly formed by pantomime performances in the silent film era, such as buster keaton's films, but this style is slightly out of touch with modern people who like to play deep. What should we do with a black comedian who sings rap? The harsh voice and hurtful language blend well with Jackie Chan's humorous and almost aesthetic action drama. It's not an easy decision to be an action superstar who is used to "The First Hero" and a clown who can only talk, especially when the clown's salary is 20 million, and you only earn150,000 (Jackie Chan can be used for psychological balance, but his name ranks before Tucker on the screen).

Hollywood arrangement model, American racial jokes

The combination of Jackie Chan and Tucker is like a secret recipe. Once applied, it seems that each modulation does not require much energy. The story of Rush Hour 2 is so simple that even the loyal fans of the film have to admit that the story is just a rope for hanging clothes. Whether it is iron wire or nylon rope, as long as the clothes look good. What are these attractive clothes?

Tucker said to Jackie Chan, "I'll beat you back to the Ming Dynasty with one punch!" " "

Jackie Chan said to Tucker, "I will kick you back to Africa!" "

The above two lines appear in two different places in the film, but they reflect the humorous style and the way to make money, that is, racial jokes. Racial jokes used to be the main type of American comedies. As the United States is an immigrant country, there are great cultural differences among ethnic groups. Many people have different views on immigrants or newcomers from backward countries, so in the blue-collar class, good or bad jokes are derived, such as mocking Poles for being stupid, Italians for being heartless, and Asians for being short and eccentric. After the rise of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, the mainstream society increasingly rejected this vulgar humor as a manifestation of racial discrimination.

However, repression does not mean extinction, because the soil that produces this kind of joke still exists, and the more depressed it is, the better the joke will be. In recent years, some people have begun to revive racial humor (strictly speaking, racial ridicule or racial abuse) by scratching the edge, which is mainly manifested by a group of black crosstalk performers cursing white people (and sometimes black people themselves). Their reasoning is that it is racial discrimination for whites to scold blacks, but it is not racial discrimination for blacks belonging to ethnic minorities to scold others.

The secret recipe found by the creators of Rush Hour is to make Asians and blacks, who are both ethnic minorities in American society, partner with each other and laugh at each other, and safely put those jokes that have been circulated among the people all the year round but cannot be elegant on the screen. Roger ebert, a famous American film critic, told the author that any racial joke similar to the above example in this film, if it comes from the mouth of white people, can't pass the internal review of the film company. He was also surprised that China people didn't respond to this (because most of the lines in the film were given to Tucker, natural blacks laughed at China people more than China people laughed at blacks). Many mainstream media are disgusted with Tucker's "hurtful" humor, but fans don't think so. They think that Tucker and Jackie Chan's "mutual loss" is not hostile, but more like an old couple quarreling.

If Tucker's "harm" to China people can also illustrate this point, then his attack on whites can be described as extremely vicious. For example, his criminal conspiracy theory is: "Behind every criminal case, there is a rich white man." Such obvious "reverse racial discrimination" remarks not only truly reflect the psychological state of some hard-line blacks, but also have self-deprecating elements. The extremes meet, and when a reasonable argument goes to extremes, it will be absurd. Tucker's scene in the casino fully illustrates this point. Because the banker didn't give him 1000 yuan, he cursed the banker's racial discrimination and promoted himself to the height of Mandela and Martin Luther King. One of the funniest details is that he rebuked why there were no black performances and black culture in the whole casino. The dealer said they invited singer lionel richie, and Tucker retorted, "Ricky is not black!" The reason is that Ricky's songs are very popular with people other than blacks. )

It can be said that the role of Tucker is deliberately annoying, because only by pushing his remarks to the extreme can the ridiculed person not really get angry. Who will be angry with a madman? From the perspective of drama, Tucker's cuteness is in sharp contrast with Jackie Chan's cuteness. Without Tucker's constant abuse, Jackie Chan's performance will become a personal martial arts show (although everyone appreciates him, they are all in a niche market); Without Jackie Chan, Tucker's unruly is more like a madman.

The film's role matching mode is also reflected in the fight between Zhang Ziyi and the Latin beauty Sanchez, which is undoubtedly very popular with male audiences. As for Zhang Ziyi's kicking Tucker, it was more for comedy-a small and exquisite oriental woman kicked a black man dizzy, and even Tucker himself felt angry and funny. Martial arts lovers certainly want to see more fighting scenes between Zhang Ziyi and Jackie Chan, but in that case, the film will enter a niche route (targeting the American market).

Speaking of Zhang Ziyi, her appearance in this film is cool, and she can be regarded as a successful image in action movies, and she will also be an excellent Bond girl in the future. But for an actress who wants to get rid of Gong Li's shadow, her line handling is simply a copy of Gong Li.

Rush Hour 2 is not artistic, but in the process of applying the routine of Hollywood commercial films, it uses forbidden racial jokes in a roundabout way, cleverly profiting from American racial politics. This feature makes it win a large audience in the North American market, but it also undeniably weakens its charm in the Greater China market.