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Chen Guokun's appearance was unanimously recognized by the entire crew.

Everyone said that he didn't need to act, just like he stepped out of an old Bruce Lee movie.

The only pity is that Chen Guokun is still 44 years old after all, and his real age is ten years older than Bruce Lee's age at that time.

Fortunately, as an actor, Chen Guokun can still take good care of himself. He looks the same when he is 40 and acting as a 30-year-old. At most, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes are a little more obvious. When the time comes, just cover up the blemishes and it will be done.

It's much better than Andy still acting as a thirty-year-old when he is sixty years old.

After the leading actor was recognized without any surprise, the crew of "Bruce Lee" naturally entered the actual start-up stage.

There was no press conference for the launch, and there was no widely publicized media to promote it. There was not even a launch ceremony in Asian culture. The crew of "Bruce Lee" started filming in Los Angeles on a quiet day in September.

The first scene that was filmed was Bruce Lee's school days, and it was also the opening scene of the movie.

Because Bruce Lee spoke very well in Cantonese, and the company he signed with was Golden Harvest in Hong Kong Island, many people who only heard of Bruce Lee's name but had no actual understanding of him would mistakenly think that Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong Islander, and then go to Hong Kong. Come to Wu for development.

But in fact this is not the case. Bruce Lee was a full-fledged overseas Chinese and was born in San Francisco. As for the fact that he spoke Cantonese well, it was only because he was originally a descendant of immigrants from Guangdong Province.

It's just that less than a year after he was born, his parents brought him back to live in Hong Kong Island.

And he is also an actor who started out as a child star.

In February 1941, 3-month-old Bruce Lee made his debut on the screen in the Cantonese film "Girls of the Golden Gate" directed by Ng Kam-ha.

He has been filming since then. Before going to college in the United States, he had made five or six movies.

At the same time, his hobby of martial arts and kung fu has been around since he was a child.

When he was still in the second grade of junior high school in Hong Kong Island, Bruce Lee was keen on fighting. Seeing this, Edward, the physical education teacher at the academy, encouraged Bruce Lee to participate in inter-school boxing competitions and placed Bruce Lee in the boxing team to train every day after school.

So he led the school and won the championship in the inter-school boxing competition, defeating the three-time boxing champion Gary Elms who represented King George V School.

Well, in a sense, Bruce Lee in junior high school achieved the feat that Fearless did when he defeated Hercules.

At this point, his "fighting" character was out of control. In the end, he injured his opponent during the fight. Afterwards, Bruce Lee's parents decided to let Bruce Lee go to the United States to study and live in the United States.

The beginning of Wu Yuan's "Bruce Lee" movie begins when Bruce Lee attends the University of Washington.

Here, he did not give up his hobby of practicing martial arts and continued to practice Wing Chun, Tai Chi, Hong Quan, Cai Lifuquan and other boxing techniques, while also enjoying his campus life.

While facing the common racial discrimination of that era, he also met the wife who would stay with him for the rest of his life.

In the process, he also accepted the challenge of a Japanese karate player, and finally defeated the opponent after a competition. He became famous among the Asian martial arts enthusiasts in Seattle. He even opened a martial arts gym privately and took over The first disciple, Jesse Glover, met Takeyuki Kimura, James Demire and others.

In short, the first third of the "Bruce Lee" movie mainly focuses on Bruce Lee who has not yet begun to enter the Hollywood film and television industry, which can be regarded as paving the way for his fame and martial arts skills.

Why is Bruce Lee so legendary?

It is because his kung fu is not just a showmanship learned for performance, but a real kung fu that truly integrates various traditional Chinese martial arts. He has become an unbeatable fighter all over Seattle. He even opened a martial arts gym and recruited many Chinese people. A master boxer who was apprenticed to Europeans and Americans.

Later, he became a martial arts actor by chance.

Therefore, in Wu Yuan's "Bruce Lee" movie, Bruce Lee is not just an actor, he is a real martial arts master. His scenes of practicing martial arts and fighting when he was young are not at all trivial.

This is also the meaning of biographical movies, so that people who don't know Bruce Lee at first can clearly know who Bruce Lee is after watching the movie, instead of vaguely thinking that he is just a famous kung fu actor and the last Cheng Long.

Of course, these scenes are the top priority for Chen Guokun. How to make the fight look good and beautiful, and at the same time conform to Bruce Lee's own martial arts skills. This is a difficult thing to have the best of both worlds.

If you change an actor, it will definitely not be possible. You can't expect a martial arts actor to be able to master Wing Chun, Tai Chi, Hong Quan, Cai Li Fuquan and other boxing techniques.

But Chen Guokun is not an ordinary actor. He knows Bruce Lee himself. In the past ten years, he has actually studied and learned these boxing techniques in order to play this man well.

Although he cannot compare with Bruce Lee, a real master, Chen Guokun has also mastered these boxing techniques. At least it is no problem to fool laymen who don't understand.

The action instructor Wu Yuan specially hired from Cheng Long's martial arts class didn't even have much room for performance. Sometimes he had to discuss with Chen Guokun how to fight to better suit the character.

This kind of shooting situation also made Wu Yuan quite interesting. The protagonist knew the characters in the script better than him, the screenwriter and director, which was really worry-free.

Looking at the footage shot by the camera, watching Bruce Lee played by Chen Guokun beat up the short Japanese karate fighter with all kinds of cool and photogenic punches, Wu Yuan immediately thought of a word that is currently very popular on the domestic Internet.

"Bibo Burning!"

Just a small boss in the first third of the movie, Chen Guokun beat it very excitingly. A biographical movie has the flavor of early Hong Kong Island Kung Fu movies, which really surprised Wu Yuan.

Maybe his previous view of this movie was too conservative.

Even if it is a biographical movie, this "Bruce Lee" has the potential to be a big hit!

Apart from other things, Bruce Lee's legendary color + retro Hong Kong Kung Fu movie elements + 70s Hollywood style.

These elements are superimposed together, maybe this movie can get a better box office performance than "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"!

After all, the "retro" trend is actually quite popular in the film market, especially for the generation of European and American movie fans who were once impressed by Bruce Lee and Hong Kong Kung Fu movies. Even though they are at least 50 years old, they may go to the cinema for this movie!

Thinking of the global box office of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" of 329 million US dollars, and then thinking of the plot in the movie that "tributed" to Bruce Lee that most fans were not satisfied with.

Wu Yuan was a little excited.

Perhaps the final box office of "Bruce Lee" will bring a special surprise! (End of this chapter)