Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 754 The Dilemma of Action Movies
Zhang Yuanjun came at the right time. The two children slept 20 hours a day, so he came just as they were awake.

The nurse and Liu Xiaoli each held one and bathed the two little ones under the guidance of the nurse.

"When washing your hair, cover your ears with your hands like this to prevent water from getting in."

Liu Yifei held up her mobile phone to shoot a video.

The child was crying, Liu Yifei was laughing, Zhang Yuanjun sat aside and watched, and even stretched out his hand to test the water temperature.

The nurse explained to Zhang Yuanjun: "The child has never been treated like this in the mother's belly, so it will cry. This is normal."

Zhang Yuanjun was not so nervous that the child would die if he cried. He smiled and said: "I have done a lot of homework, I understand."

The two children were held and bathed like this, and Zhang Yuanjun couldn't tell who was who: "Who is the brother and who is the sister?"

Liu Xiaoli shook the child in her hand and said with a smile, "I am the elder brother."

Zhang Yuanjun took two steps to look at his son and then at his daughter: "They are exactly the same. I can't tell them apart without opening the diaper."

Liu Yifei said: "I can't tell the difference either."

Liu Xiaoli said: "You can tell them apart at two months old. Twins are easy to distinguish. If they are same-sex twins, some parents can't tell them apart until they are five or six years old."

After taking a bath, the two siblings were all red. Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei took the initiative to dress their children.

The nurse and Liu Xiaoli gave up their seats to the couple.

Zhang Yuanjun carefully dressed his daughter and said, "I was probably like this when I was a kid."

The little guy had cried and was tired, and his eyelids were trembling.

Zhang Yuanjun fastened the buttons on his daughter, patted her little butt, and smiled: "It's so soft and tender."

While his daughter was still asleep, Zhang Yuanjun gently held her daughter in his arms and held her head.

"Do you know me?" Zhang Yuanjun said to his daughter, "Do you know what you should call me?"

He held his daughter to his wife and said, "This is mom, this is brother."

"This is grandma, also called grandma, mother's mother, do you know."

Zhang Yuanjun is usually very quiet, but now he is holding his daughter, and his broken mouth keeps talking, wandering around the room.

"This is the nurse sister. They take care of you. You know, you want to say thank you."

Perhaps because her father was nagging her, her daughter quickly fell asleep. Zhang Yuanjun said, "I'll introduce you to my grandparents next time."

After putting his daughter down, Zhang Yuanjun wanted to torment his son again, but Liu Yifei said, "I'm asleep. I feel sleepy because of what you said."

Putting the two children together, Liu Yifei followed the nurse to do daily rehabilitation training.

Zhang Yuanjun's next life is very simple. He travels between his home and the confinement center every day.

Until the 21st, the domestic premiere of "John Wick 2". Since the release of "John Wick 2", the North American box office has exceeded 6000 million US dollars, and the global box office has reached 9300 million US dollars, and it is just around the corner to exceed million US dollars.

This will be Zhang Yuanjun's second film with a global box office exceeding 100 million US dollars after "Never Ending".

Of extraordinary significance.

"John Wick 2" entered the country in the form of a film batch, and the price has increased compared with the previous film, reaching 1300 million US dollars.

But Maoyan is still willing to pay the money, 1300 million US dollars, converted to only 8000 million, Zhang Yuanjun's name is worth this price.

Director Tong attended the premiere and delivered a speech. He praised the importance of the "John Wick" series to Chinese filmmakers:

""John Wick" has developed into a series, and it is a series in which our Chinese-speaking actors play the absolute leading role and provide an absolute selling point. This has a very positive stimulating effect on our domestic film market, especially our Chinese-speaking actors. Since then we have another business card in the world of cinema.

"The first part has achieved very good results in China, and the second part is now released. It coincides with Zhang Yuanjun's birth of Lin'er. I am here to wish the second part of "John Wick" good success and a double happiness!"

After Tong Ju finished speaking, it was Zhang Yuanjun's turn as the film's main creator to take the stage to communicate with the audience and the media.

Zhang Yuanjun has become so adept at handling this kind of premiere that the media and the audience all tacitly agreed not to ask any review questions, but only asked about the story behind the scenes of the movie and Zhang Yuanjun's personal life.

"I trained for more than a month before starting, mainly on various fighting skills and the use of firearms." Zhang Yuanjun shared the results of his training and also demonstrated several moves on the spot.

"There's no way to make an action movie without getting injured." But Zhang Yuanjun is not willing to suffer in front of the audience, "It's all trivial."

In the exclusive interview after the premiere, a reporter from the movie channel asked Zhang Yuanjun a very professional question:

"An important business card for Chinese films to go overseas is martial arts films, but what you showed in "John Wick" is modern mixed martial arts and firearms. What do you think is the difference between the two in terms of communication? MMA will replace martial arts. film’s status overseas?”

Zhang Yuanjun thought for a while and said: "Martial arts movies are too difficult to make. When martial arts movies go overseas, I can't make "Hero" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Martial arts movies are a unique type of action movies in my country, but I don't like to make them. Martial arts films are equated with Chinese action films. Our country’s action films include not only martial arts, but we also have films like “The Fuse” and “Slaying the Wolf.”

"Action movies must also evolve with the times. Now martial arts movies have indeed fallen into a trough. Mixed martial arts may be a way forward."

Zhang Yuanjun also said: "No one can ignore the historical status of martial arts films and their impact on action films around the world. But now, we should really consider what kind of action films we can make besides martial arts."

Zhang Yuanjun also shared his experience in Hollywood with reporters: "Whether it is martial arts or mixed martial arts, action movies have always been the most popular genre overseas. If you look at the current Hollywood superstars, action actors are the most numerous. Because action can break through language. There is a cultural barrier. You don’t understand English, so you can’t understand him fighting? He’s driving a car, he’s jumping off a cliff, it’s so exciting and beautiful.”

On this point, Zhang Yuanjun and Jackie Chan agree. They both believe that to go overseas, you have to rely on action movies, and it is too difficult to become famous overseas through literary dramas.

However, Zhang Yuanjun also expressed his concerns: "But there is an obvious gap in domestic action actors, and no young actors come out to fight." In fact, Zhang Yuanjun is only 32 years old.

"In the audience's impression, I may be better at literary drama." Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile, "I also know that my action talent is not that high. I didn't practice it when I was a child. I just learned it temporarily for filming."

Zhang Yuanjun revealed a long-gestating plan in front of the media: "I have been wanting to set up an actor training class for the past two years. I will teach literary opera. I will hire several professional guides for action scenes, including how to fight martial arts movies, How to do a fashion film and how to do a gun battle? This is just a preliminary idea, I don’t know if it can be done.”

On the same day, the Movie Network's Interview Weibo published a special report titled "Young action actors are at fault, Zhang Yuanjun wants to start an acting class and teach himself".

The next day, "China Film Report" emphasized Zhang Yuanjun's idea again. Before the news was broadcast, it said that Zhang Yuanjun wanted to organize such a class because he was "feeling the decline in the professionalism of young actors."

Criticizing young actors is now politically correct in the industry. Zhang Yuanjun said at the premiere of "John Wick 2" that he wanted to start teaching classes, which is in line with the current trend.

(End of this chapter)