Hong Kong-Born 62 years ago, Jackie Chan is a real character multi-faceted. Specialist in martial arts, comedian, singer, actor and double action; it also is an acrobat, stunt coordinator, action director, screenwriter and film producer.
a few months Ago, she founded her own school of actors in his native country, specifically in the city of Wuhan, located in the center of China. "It was one of the dreams of my life," he said in the inauguration, accompanied by other celebrities of the big screen in china, as the director Feng Xiaogang or actress Li Bingbing.
The Academy Jackie Chan Film and Television will offer courses of acting, animation, and other related digital media.
Chan Kong Sang, the real name of the actor, in China it is known as Cheng Lon, of a family originally from the town of Yantái, to the northeast of the country, an area from which have come many fighters.
Your contribution to the Hollywood industry is going to be rewarded with the distinction of an academy award an honorific to his career that will be given during the eighth edition of the Awards of the Governors, the 12 of November next, in the living room, Ray Dolby of downtown Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles, the same venue that is the theatre where each year is held the famous gala of the Oscars.
In a statement, the Academy noted that the actor hongkonés "has developed a distinctive international career. Has starred in, and sometimes written, directed and produced more than thirty movies of martial arts in his native country, captivating audiences with his dazzling physical condition, their ingenious work in the action scenes and his infinite charisma".
This installment was separated from the ceremony of the Oscars in 2009, when the Academy eliminated the so-called "dull moments", for the sake of a ceremony more agile in order to get more audience. Since then, the awards of the Governors have been transformed into a gala event more intimate, which was held behind closed doors, but of great importance for the professionals of the industry of the seventh art.
Suffering and passion for the martial arts. Chan sent to his parents, he cook and her housekeeper, at the age of 8 to the School of the Opera of Beiging, an institution with a discipline impressive that, at times, made them train up to 19 hours a day. "It was very hard", in the words of the actor, but that enabled him to adapt the techniques learned to the cinema. He remained there for 10 years.
"Apart from learning to sing, we also learned to dance, and martial arts, between what is included punching, kicking, fighting with swords and sticks, tumble… it Was like a fusion of chinese arts", commented the actor in several interviews.
it Is one of the heirs of the techniques of the legendary Bruce Lee, with whom he shared as an extra in a movie, in addition to other experts, such as Sonny Chiba, Chuck Norris, Phanom Yeerum or Jet Li. What differentiated them from others was to introduce the martial arts in the film through comedy.
Chan was filming-the-numbers comedy, and acrobatics of Kung Fu, thanks to its past theatrical. In the documentary "Cine Kung Fu", Jackie commented: "I Started thinking about how I could distinguish myself from Bruce Lee, to me it was a superhero and I’m not. That’s why I added other elements, such as tumbling or jumping on the tables and other complicated movements".
A form of film making that have made him a popular character in East and West, although the dark part of the actor admitted to british newspaper the Sun where he confessed that at the age of 21, he had his skirmishes with the porn film, "because I had to do everything to survive and pay my bills."
His films, starting with "Jui kuen – Drunken Monkey in the Tiger”s Eyes", from 1978, were adding up followers on all scales of the ages. Then come titles such as " Fearless Hyena" (1979), "The Young Master" (1980), "Dragon Lord" (1982), "Project A / Pirate Patrol" (1984), "The Protector" (1985), "Operation Condor" (1991), "City Hunter" (1993), "Rumble in the Bronx" (1994), "What Who Am I?" (1998), "Shanghai Noon" (2000), "The Tuxedo" (2002), "The Medallion" (2003), "The Myth" (2005), "Shinjuku Incident"(2008), or the new version of "The Karate Kid" 2010, where he was master of Jaden Smith (son of Will Smith).
His contribution to cinema has been broad and has not stopped in any moment, despite the fact that Chan performs his own action scenes and has given up permanently to use a double during the filming, a decision that caused him to break a shoulder, the bones of the face, most of the bones of his hand, an ankle and nose three times.
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