Reborn I am the second generation of stars

Chapter 760

The North American summer season is full of blockbuster movies, and the competition is very fierce. This is the most precious time in North America. Almost all the most exciting entertainment movies of the year will be released in the summer.

In the summer of 2009, there are also blockbuster movies, including superhero series, special agent series, and big animation movies. The competition is very cruel!
And in this fierce competition, "Ip Man" broke through the encirclement!
"Ip Man" has achieved great success in North America, earning 600 million US dollars in one week of its release. Although this figure is nothing compared to those blockbuster films, it is very impressive for a Chinese-language film to achieve such a box office in a short period of time. Very amazing!
And "Ip Man" has a very good reputation in North America!
The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes reached 80.00%80.00, and the popcorn index also reached [-]%[-]!

And it's not just a few reviews!

In another world, there are often Chinese-language movies with high ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, such as Baige Wu's movie, but only two people rated it in the end. Who are you fooling?Very embarrassing! ! ! ! ! ! !

In North America, there are thousands of people who commented on "Ip Man". Of course, most of them are Chinese, but many of them are white or black!
Check out those comments too!

"You really deserve to be Bruce Lee's master!"

"Sure enough, kung fu movies should still be starring and directed by Chinese people!"

"Ip Man, the great master of the generation, lives up to his reputation!"

"Xu Qian is so handsome!"

"That Chinese man is especially good at fighting!"

"This is the real Chinese Kung Fu!"

"I like to watch this kind of movie. It's exciting, tense, intense, full of punches, and unpredictable!"

"Niu Cha, very Niu Cha, this is my favorite Chinese movie, bar none!"

"Is Wing Chun so good? I thought that Tai Chi is the best in China. I want to learn Wing Chun!"

"In addition to Brother Long, there will be another Chinese star I like!"

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The reason why "Ip Man" was able to achieve great success is of course the credit of Bruce Lee. Although Bruce Lee has passed away for many years, his influence has never retreated!
It can be said that Bruce Lee has caught up with a very, very good era. He is a super-genius character who happened to be born in that special era!

The films he shot were all the kind of violently beating "islanders" and venting their inner emotions, which just stimulated the hearts of all people in semi-colonial and semi-feudal society who were bullied by f-Sis!

On the screen, he portrayed a Chinese image of enthusiasm, kindness, bravery, and fearlessness of violence, and his heroism impressed the whole world.Although he beat the Japanese invaders hard in the movie, Bruce Lee is still honored by the Japanese as the "Sage of Martial Arts" to this day!
He became a symbol of "resistance"!

So he can become a god!
And the reason why "Ip Man" can be successful is that it contains some philosophical ideas!

Many foreigners are not interested in Chinese philosophy, but it depends on how you use it?
The reason why Bruce Lee's movies were so popular at the beginning was that they contained some mysterious and mysterious philosophical thoughts, which fooled foreigners for a while!

"The so-called maturity refers to the deepest self-awareness, rather than being a captive of ideas."

"If you want to break through yourself, you need to know your self-awareness deeply."

"I am moving and I am not moving at all. I am moving like the moon on the waves. In fact, what is moving is only the reflection of the moon, and the moon is not moving at all. So the real meaning is not "what I am doing" but It lies in "what I am", in "the self-awareness deep in my heart", in "what is in my heart".

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It can be said that Bruce Lee really played with Chinese philosophy!

Of course, Bruce Lee's philosophy is not a fool, not a big fool like Jack Ma!

Bruce Lee's philosophy was empirical!
Bruce Lee constantly revised his philosophy with his own practice.
learning, and ultimately validate their philosophy with their own success.

It is stupid to just bury your head in hard work without knowing how to master the theory, and it is vain to only talk about theory without disdain to devote yourself to practice.

Philosophers in the past dynasties mostly talked on paper and replaced practice with fantasy, so their theories are often biased and fallacious, and future generations will inevitably go astray when they read them.Although Laozi’s theory is regarded as the secret art of the emperor, he himself has never become king, so his views are unrealistic; although Nietzsche put forward the theory of “superman”, he himself has no superhuman deeds, and later generations also I don't know how to become a superman; there are too many examples, so I won't list them all.

But Bruce Lee is different, he pays equal attention to theory and practice, different from other philosophers, he takes martial arts as his real career, different from other martial artists, he uses philosophy as the theoretical weapon to study martial arts, his research on philosophy is In order to develop one's own business, at the same time validate one's own philosophy in the process of developing one's career.

He uses philosophy to guide martial arts, and then uses martial arts to perfect philosophy. His success in martial arts depends on his comprehension in philosophy, and his achievements in philosophy are also inseparable from his own martial arts practice.

In the end, Bruce Lee achieved brilliant success in his career, which in turn became the best commentary on his philosophy.

And Bruce Lee's philosophy is the unity of opposites!

Historically, schools of philosophy have often argued against each other and contradicted each other.Like Nietzsche and Laozi, the former is wild and unrestrained, advocating individuality, while the latter is feminine and quiet, advocating passivity and inaction, which can be described as two extremes in the history of philosophy.However, these two seemingly incompatible philosophical views have been harmoniously unified and perfectly embodied in Bruce Lee.This cannot but be said to be a miracle.

Bruce Lee is undoubtedly a master who is good at combining the best of all families.

He seeks the truth wholeheartedly, breaks the boundaries of various schools, absorbs the essence of various philosophical thoughts at home and abroad, abandons its mistakes, and breaks through its limitations: follow the law and be aggressive, show his personality and respect science, seek wisdom and enter the world to start a business. He did not write eloquent philosophical monographs, but he has implicitly established a new, complete and rigorous philosophical system in his notes.

In the end, Bruce Lee broke through the shackles of form and strived to be free and unrestrained, taking the law as the law and the limitless as the limit.

And the Confucian "benevolence" in "Ip Man" is also unpredictable, just like the "philosophy of water!" that Bruce Lee expounded in the movie back then!

"Empty your mind, transparent, formless, like water, if you put water in a cup, it becomes the shape of the cup, you put water in a bottle, it becomes the shape of the bottle, you put When water is put into a teacup, it becomes the shape of the teacup, and the water can flow softly, or it can harden, be like water, my friend."

Although foreigners don't understand this kind of inscrutable thinking, they think it's awesome!

This also proves that it is not impossible to apply traditional Chinese ideas in movies, nor is it impossible to apply them. The key depends on how you use them and in what way?
In the eyes of wise people, everything is law!
But in the eyes of stupid people, no matter how you go, it is a dead end!
Secondly, the most important reason why "Ip Man" was able to succeed is because of Warner's distribution capabilities. Without Warner's promotion, "Ip Man" is simply a skillful woman who can cook without rice!
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