Jet Li rose to prominence for his action roles in the 1980s. While he chose not to star in The Matrix, he did appear in Lethal Weapon 4 and Hitman.
Fans have seen him appear on screen with other popular actors. However, there was one person who Li had been trying to work with for years. Jackie Chan and Li have known each other for a long time. The two had a 20-year quest to join a project together.
Jackie Chan and Jet Li went decades without working together
Guys, who is your favorite actor?
Jackie Chan –
Jet Li – Retweet!
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Jackie Chan is one of those famous actors who knows how to fight in real life. He trained in martial arts for many years and gained skills in various fighting styles. As a teenager, he learned how to...
Fans have seen him appear on screen with other popular actors. However, there was one person who Li had been trying to work with for years. Jackie Chan and Li have known each other for a long time. The two had a 20-year quest to join a project together.
Jackie Chan and Jet Li went decades without working together
Guys, who is your favorite actor?
Jackie Chan –
Jet Li – Retweet!
Let's go! ? pic.twitter.com/T6bkJuysW7
— Yen.com.gh (@yencomgh) August 28, 2018
Jackie Chan is one of those famous actors who knows how to fight in real life. He trained in martial arts for many years and gained skills in various fighting styles. As a teenager, he learned how to...
- 2/10/2023
- by Victoria Koehl
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
House of Flying Daggers (2004) - Andy Lau - Hong Kong Movie ReviewStory88%Cinematography91%Action70%2016-01-2683%Overall ScoreReader Rating: (6 Votes)94%
House Of Flying Daggers
Shi Mian Mai Fu (original title)
Date of release– 2004
Run time : 119 minutes
Cast–
Takeshi Kaneshiro as Jin
Andy Lau as Leo
Ziyi Zhang as Xiao Mei (as Zhang Ziyi)
Dandan Song as Yee
Director Yimou Zhang
Writers Bin Wang, Yimou Zhang, Feng Li
Nominated for an Academy Award- Best Cinematography (Zhao Xiaoding)
At first look…
The title of the movie sounds like one large can of Whoop-Hash. Just the phrase “house of flying daggers” sounds like a Chinese translation for filling a “room full of uppercuts.” However, House of Flying Daggers is not a bar room brawl threat, but the name of a group of people who are waving their middle daggers at the government. The movie goes like this…
The year is 859 and things...
House Of Flying Daggers
Shi Mian Mai Fu (original title)
Date of release– 2004
Run time : 119 minutes
Cast–
Takeshi Kaneshiro as Jin
Andy Lau as Leo
Ziyi Zhang as Xiao Mei (as Zhang Ziyi)
Dandan Song as Yee
Director Yimou Zhang
Writers Bin Wang, Yimou Zhang, Feng Li
Nominated for an Academy Award- Best Cinematography (Zhao Xiaoding)
At first look…
The title of the movie sounds like one large can of Whoop-Hash. Just the phrase “house of flying daggers” sounds like a Chinese translation for filling a “room full of uppercuts.” However, House of Flying Daggers is not a bar room brawl threat, but the name of a group of people who are waving their middle daggers at the government. The movie goes like this…
The year is 859 and things...
- 1/26/2016
- by The0racle
- AsianMoviePulse
George Clooney and his fiancee, Amal Alamuddin, may be set for a wedding fit for the Dowager Countess: The pair are reportedly considering getting married on the English estate where PBS series "Downton Abbey" is filmed.
The U.K.'s Daily Mail reports that Clooney and Alamuddin took a private tour of Highclere Castle -- the shooting location for "Downton" -- last week and were smitten with the property, which boasts 1,000 acres and a towering Victorian castle. According to the Mail, Alamuddin is a huge "Downton" fan, and Clooney arranged for a visit to the estate through his friend and "Monuments Men" costar Hugh Bonneville, who plays Lord Robert Crawley on the series.
While the Mail notes that Highclere does rent out its various rooms for private events, the setting doesn't come cheap, with certain parts of the castle costing upwards of $23,000 per night to reserve. Still, that's a drop...
The U.K.'s Daily Mail reports that Clooney and Alamuddin took a private tour of Highclere Castle -- the shooting location for "Downton" -- last week and were smitten with the property, which boasts 1,000 acres and a towering Victorian castle. According to the Mail, Alamuddin is a huge "Downton" fan, and Clooney arranged for a visit to the estate through his friend and "Monuments Men" costar Hugh Bonneville, who plays Lord Robert Crawley on the series.
While the Mail notes that Highclere does rent out its various rooms for private events, the setting doesn't come cheap, with certain parts of the castle costing upwards of $23,000 per night to reserve. Still, that's a drop...
- 5/27/2014
- by Katie Roberts
- Moviefone
Tags: Afternoon DelightFortune FeimsterChelsea LatelyHope SoloIMDbNicol Paone
Good afternoon and happy Monday! What did you think of the Olympic closing ceremony? Is it just me or was anyone else concerned that Jessie J and the Spice Girls weren't wearing seat belts?
Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images
Speaking of Olympians, do you think Hope Solo looks like Dexter's Jennifer Carpenter? How about U.S. Hurdler Lolo Jones and Parks and Recreation's Rashida Jones? Us magazine has some doppelganger photos that are right on.
Lesbian comedian Fortune Feimster represented the “Islands of Lesbos” during the Chelsea Lately Idiot Championships. Wait, does one want to win or lose the idiot championship?
Heather Peace “rocks out” on the cover of Curve magazine.
On Friday Tabatha Coffey co-hosted The Talk and if you missed the episode you can watch the entire show here.
Two straight dudes made a point to video tape...
Good afternoon and happy Monday! What did you think of the Olympic closing ceremony? Is it just me or was anyone else concerned that Jessie J and the Spice Girls weren't wearing seat belts?
Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images
Speaking of Olympians, do you think Hope Solo looks like Dexter's Jennifer Carpenter? How about U.S. Hurdler Lolo Jones and Parks and Recreation's Rashida Jones? Us magazine has some doppelganger photos that are right on.
Lesbian comedian Fortune Feimster represented the “Islands of Lesbos” during the Chelsea Lately Idiot Championships. Wait, does one want to win or lose the idiot championship?
Heather Peace “rocks out” on the cover of Curve magazine.
On Friday Tabatha Coffey co-hosted The Talk and if you missed the episode you can watch the entire show here.
Two straight dudes made a point to video tape...
- 8/13/2012
- by Bridget McManus
- AfterEllen.com
Since The Week in Sports began as a feature on AfterElton.com we've kept our queer eye on the photo wires to bring you a weekly compilation of the most arresting images of male athleticisim from around the world.
2009 is coming to a close, so in this final installment we thought we'd look back and gather together the best of the best. Hence The Year in Sports. (Well, technicaly the half-year in sports, since we only started this feature in July.)
Now we know not every football fan is also a tennis fan, and some rugby fanatics cannot abide men's gymnastics. So this time out we've helpfully sorted the photos by category. You can jump to whatever photo collection you want by the table of contents below. Oh, and in addition to the major sports, we've got a few special photo categories that we hope you'll enjoy!
Baseball...
2009 is coming to a close, so in this final installment we thought we'd look back and gather together the best of the best. Hence The Year in Sports. (Well, technicaly the half-year in sports, since we only started this feature in July.)
Now we know not every football fan is also a tennis fan, and some rugby fanatics cannot abide men's gymnastics. So this time out we've helpfully sorted the photos by category. You can jump to whatever photo collection you want by the table of contents below. Oh, and in addition to the major sports, we've got a few special photo categories that we hope you'll enjoy!
Baseball...
- 12/23/2009
- by dennis
- The Backlot
London, England - October 13: Samuel Simpson of Australia competes in the parallel bars during the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2009 at O2 Arena on October 13, 2009 in London, England. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)
Sydney, Australia - October 13: Darren Lockyer passes the ball during an Australian Kangaroos training session at Concord Oval on October 13, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Robert Gray/Getty Images)
London, England - October 13: Daniel Keatings of Great Britain competes in the floor exercise during the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2009 at O2 Arena on October 13, 2009 in London, England. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)
London, England - October 09: Nathan Cleverly of Wales poses with his belts after defeating Courtney Fry of England in their British & Commonwealth light-heavyweight fight at York Hall on October 9, 2009 in London, England. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
Albany, New Zealand - October 10: Michael Reid of North Harbour attacks...
Sydney, Australia - October 13: Darren Lockyer passes the ball during an Australian Kangaroos training session at Concord Oval on October 13, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Robert Gray/Getty Images)
London, England - October 13: Daniel Keatings of Great Britain competes in the floor exercise during the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2009 at O2 Arena on October 13, 2009 in London, England. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)
London, England - October 09: Nathan Cleverly of Wales poses with his belts after defeating Courtney Fry of England in their British & Commonwealth light-heavyweight fight at York Hall on October 9, 2009 in London, England. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
Albany, New Zealand - October 10: Michael Reid of North Harbour attacks...
- 10/14/2009
- by dennis
- The Backlot
BERLIN -- Gu Changwei, one of China's most accomplished cinematographers, who has worked with such fellow Fifth Generation filmmakers as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, makes an auspicious directing debut with Peacock. This lyrical film finds its drama in the lives of ordinary folks coming to terms with the cards life dealt them. It comes as no surprise that Peacock is beautiful to behold. Yet the compassion and empathy Gu has for his characters and their behavior, observed without judgment or condescension, mark him as a true storyteller.
The film has the potential to captivate people the world over. It brings viewers into a small Chinese city and inspires familiarity with the rhythms of everyday existence, with people's dreams, shortcomings and illusions in a way that is universal. For nearly 2 1/2 hours, one lives a Chinese life that is both recognizable and revelatory. Put another way, theatrical prospects look excellent in markets outside Asia. About all that is missing are stars. Then again, when a Chinese film starring Zhang Ziyi showed in Berlin in 2000, no one knew her, either.
A family enjoys an evening meal on a communal balcony outside their humble flat in the late 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has ended, and the country is in transition from a planned to a market economy. From this exact moment in time, the film takes up separately the stories of each of the family's three children. (Clearly, the stories predate the governmental decree of one family/one child.)
First comes the daughter, a dreamy girl whose desires always outrun her achievements. Next, the film backtracks to that dinner to glimpse the life of the older brother, whose weight and mental handicap embarrass his two siblings. Finally, the film assesses how humiliations over his brother and sadness over his sister's disillusionment affect the younger brother.
The film contains moments that feel surreal yet are not. A plane flies overhead and paratroopers fall from the sky. One nearly lands on Weihong (Zhang Jingchu). Her life is transformed. She too wants to jump out of airplanes. And the paratrooper she meets ever so briefly becomes a romantic ideal no man ever will match. Her application to the air force goes nowhere, and she marries a colorless worker.
Everyone mocks and mistreats Weiguo (Feng Li), yet only his family feels the pain. He takes things in stride and feels no sorrow. Even an attempt on his life by his siblings goes unnoticed. Doted on by parents and eventually looked after by a wife his mother arranges for him, Weiguo winds up with a successful fast-food stall.
Li Qiang's meticulous screenplay gives short shift to the young brother, Weiqiang (Lu Yulai). The smartest of the three, he nevertheless suffers the tribulations of his siblings and decides his only option is to quit the town for the outside world. He returns with a wife, who supports him, her child and a finger missing from one hand. The film never explains any of this. His is a secret life, an enigma never resolved.
Although a bit too long, the movie exploits its leisurely pace to show us in full the details of small-town life, the cruelties of many folks, the judgmental nature of the parents and a society changing before our eyes. In this way, Gu and his writer explore human nature: A woman becomes a martyr to her dreams. A fat bundle of sensual need embraces life and faces up to forces arrayed against him. A man is willing to ignore his gifts and fail. Parents are quiet, interfering, benevolent yet uncomprehending.
All technical aspects of the film come together to create an expressive, engrossing, melancholy family drama which contains much beauty, yet this goes mostly unnoticed by the participants.
PEACOCK
An Asian Union Film & Media production
Credits: Director: Gu Changwei; Screenwriter: Li Qiang; Producers: Dong Ping, Gu Changwei; Executive producer: Ma Baoping; Director of photography: Yang Shu; Production designers: Huang Xinmin, Cai Weidong; Music: Dou Peng; Costume designer: Ziang Honghui; Editors: Lui Sha, Yan Tao. Cast: Sister: Zhang Jingchu; Brother: Feng Li; Younger brother: Lu Yulai; Mother: Huang Meiying; Father: Zhao Yiwei; Guo Zi: Liu Lei; Jin Zhi: Wang Lan.
No MPAA rating, running time 144 minutes.
The film has the potential to captivate people the world over. It brings viewers into a small Chinese city and inspires familiarity with the rhythms of everyday existence, with people's dreams, shortcomings and illusions in a way that is universal. For nearly 2 1/2 hours, one lives a Chinese life that is both recognizable and revelatory. Put another way, theatrical prospects look excellent in markets outside Asia. About all that is missing are stars. Then again, when a Chinese film starring Zhang Ziyi showed in Berlin in 2000, no one knew her, either.
A family enjoys an evening meal on a communal balcony outside their humble flat in the late 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has ended, and the country is in transition from a planned to a market economy. From this exact moment in time, the film takes up separately the stories of each of the family's three children. (Clearly, the stories predate the governmental decree of one family/one child.)
First comes the daughter, a dreamy girl whose desires always outrun her achievements. Next, the film backtracks to that dinner to glimpse the life of the older brother, whose weight and mental handicap embarrass his two siblings. Finally, the film assesses how humiliations over his brother and sadness over his sister's disillusionment affect the younger brother.
The film contains moments that feel surreal yet are not. A plane flies overhead and paratroopers fall from the sky. One nearly lands on Weihong (Zhang Jingchu). Her life is transformed. She too wants to jump out of airplanes. And the paratrooper she meets ever so briefly becomes a romantic ideal no man ever will match. Her application to the air force goes nowhere, and she marries a colorless worker.
Everyone mocks and mistreats Weiguo (Feng Li), yet only his family feels the pain. He takes things in stride and feels no sorrow. Even an attempt on his life by his siblings goes unnoticed. Doted on by parents and eventually looked after by a wife his mother arranges for him, Weiguo winds up with a successful fast-food stall.
Li Qiang's meticulous screenplay gives short shift to the young brother, Weiqiang (Lu Yulai). The smartest of the three, he nevertheless suffers the tribulations of his siblings and decides his only option is to quit the town for the outside world. He returns with a wife, who supports him, her child and a finger missing from one hand. The film never explains any of this. His is a secret life, an enigma never resolved.
Although a bit too long, the movie exploits its leisurely pace to show us in full the details of small-town life, the cruelties of many folks, the judgmental nature of the parents and a society changing before our eyes. In this way, Gu and his writer explore human nature: A woman becomes a martyr to her dreams. A fat bundle of sensual need embraces life and faces up to forces arrayed against him. A man is willing to ignore his gifts and fail. Parents are quiet, interfering, benevolent yet uncomprehending.
All technical aspects of the film come together to create an expressive, engrossing, melancholy family drama which contains much beauty, yet this goes mostly unnoticed by the participants.
PEACOCK
An Asian Union Film & Media production
Credits: Director: Gu Changwei; Screenwriter: Li Qiang; Producers: Dong Ping, Gu Changwei; Executive producer: Ma Baoping; Director of photography: Yang Shu; Production designers: Huang Xinmin, Cai Weidong; Music: Dou Peng; Costume designer: Ziang Honghui; Editors: Lui Sha, Yan Tao. Cast: Sister: Zhang Jingchu; Brother: Feng Li; Younger brother: Lu Yulai; Mother: Huang Meiying; Father: Zhao Yiwei; Guo Zi: Liu Lei; Jin Zhi: Wang Lan.
No MPAA rating, running time 144 minutes.
- 2/18/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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