In recent years, the film industry in China has developed rapidly, and more and more people like watching movies. For Hollywood, the American film kingdom, the China market has great attraction. In order to enter the China market, Hollywood films began to use a large number of China actors, and many China actors became international superstars.
Before 1990s, it was not easy for China actors to break into Hollywood. Of course, Bruce Lee, a great superstar, is the most formidable. He touched the world cinema with his real kung fu in the 1970s, and he is still an idol in many people's minds today. Unfortunately, Bruce Lee died young because of jealousy. Since then, Hong Kong film companies have been working hard to train Bruce Lee's successor, so many kung fu actors take the word "dragon" as their stage name. The film company hopes that one of the "dragons" can stand out, and Jackie Chan is one of them.
Jackie Chan's real name is Chen Gangsheng. At first, his stage name was still "Chen Long", with Chen as his surname. Once he went to work in Taiwan Province Province, I don't know whether the pronunciation of Putonghua was incorrect or others heard it wrong. Jackie Chan became Jackie Chan as soon as he called. The film company thought Jackie Chan was more interesting than Chen Long, so they simply asked him to use Jackie Chan as his stage name. Sure enough, Jackie Chan's career became more and more successful after he changed his name. 1979 became a Hong Kong Kung Fu star with the movie Little Brother Becoming a Monk.
Jackie Chan, who was in full swing, then made several kung fu films, which were very successful in China, Taiwan Province Province of China, Japanese and Korean. The film company thought it was now or never, so it arranged for Jackie Chan to enter Hollywood, hoping that he could become the second Bruce Lee.
However, when Jackie Chan first entered Hollywood, it was not as smooth as Bruce Lee's. Because Jackie Chan grew up in a martial arts school, he had no formal education and could not speak English at all, which not only became a big obstacle to his career, but also brought him many jokes and even broke a lot of money.
It is said that one night in the early 1980s, Jackie Chan was resting in a five-star hotel in the United States when a piece of paper was suddenly stuffed under the door of his room. Because the paper was all in English, Jackie Chan couldn't understand a word, but Chen Ziqiang, the agent, went back to Hong Kong because of something, and no one around him could ask.
The security of this hotel is very strict, and it won't casually stuff the note into the guest's room, so Jackie Chan worried that the content on the note must be very important, so he called Chen Ziqiang back to Hong Kong. Chen Ziqiang asked Jackie Chan to read the English letters on the paper to him one by one. They talked for more than ten minutes when Chen Ziqiang suddenly asked Jackie Chan if the newspaper said "Breakfast". It turned out that Jackie Chan regarded the breakfast menu of the hotel as an "important document".
Jackie Chan saw that he had spent so much time anyway, so he simply asked Chen Ziqiang to give him some breakfast. It took more than half an hour before and after. Think about it. This is the 1980s. Long-distance calls from the United States to Hong Kong are very expensive, and the handling fee is not cheap for five-star hotels. Because of the inconvenience caused by not knowing English, Jackie Chan vowed to learn English well and finally got a place in Hollywood.