Popular Hollywood actor, Jackie Chan, has come out to share when he plans to retire from his decades-long acting career. He recently revealed that he has no plans to ever retire from his acting profession, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, despite being 71 years old, he still performs his own stunts and has genuinely no plans to stop anytime soon.
Jackie added that he’ll only stop doing his own stunts in movies on the day he retires, and fortunately for him, that day is never coming.
His words, “Of course, I always do my own stunts. It’s who I am. That’s not changing until the day I retire, which is never!
When you’ve done it for 64 years straight, there’s no physical preparation anymore. Everything is in your heart and soul; it is muscle memory.”
On how technology has completely transformed how action sequences come out in movies nowadays, “In the old days, the only way was to be there and jump; that’s it. Today, with computers, actors can do anything, but there’s always a sense of reality that you feel is missing.
On one hand, actors become more and more capable of doing impossible stunts with the help of technology. And yet, on the other hand, the concept of danger and limit gets blurred and the audience is numb.”
WOW.
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.
The dominant style of American cinema is classical Hollywood cinema, which developed from 1910 to 1962 and is still typical of most films made there to this day.
Hollywood is considered to be the oldest film industry, in the sense of being the place where the earliest film studios and production companies emerged. It is the birthplace of various genres of cinema —among them comedy, drama, action, the musical, romance, horror, science fiction, and the epic—and has set the example for other national film industries.
Many of Hollywood’s highest-grossing movies have generated more box-office revenue and ticket sales outside the United States than films made elsewhere. The United States is a leading pioneer in motion picture engineering and technology.
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