[quote]SilentQuest wrote:
Professor X wrote:
electric_eales wrote:
I have heard from official sources that this will be Jet li’s last ever film.
Why? I am a fan of his even though I think he sometimes uses too much crane support when filimg.
Supposedly Jet Li has found or rededicated himself (not sure which one) to the practice of Buddhism; and all this kicking ass stuff is not inline with the values and beliefs of the religion. thats what Ive heard at least [/quote]
Jet Li has always been a devout Buddhist, in fact he almost became a monk at one time. He decided to retire in 1997 and pursue Buddhism more thoroughly, but was talked out of it by a Buddhist monk of all people. There seem to be constant rumors that he is abandoning movies. I suspect that he is a very polarized individual, with a great deal of inner conflict over his career.
[quote]hedo wrote:
I liked when he took Mel Gibson’s M-9 apart while he was pointing it at him. [/quote]
Wow, I had forgotten about that. Our first taste of Jet Li in the states…I remember when LW4 came out people were going nuts over “this Jet Li guy”, :-).
TW: Didn?t you say that you weren?t going to make any more action movies?
JL: No, I said Fearless is my last martial arts movie because I put my heart into that character. All my beliefs, the physical part, the mental part, everything is in that movie. I?ve been learning martial arts since I was eight years old, and the character I played is a great martial artist. And also, he died at 42, the same age [I was] when I made that movie, so I put a lot of my life experiences in that film, and I said that?s the last martial arts film. Because martial arts, in my mind, is totally different than just fighting. The Chinese characters for martial arts actually mean to stop war. Stop the war or stop the fighting. A few thousand years ago, they started martial arts to stop war. But later on, we [took] out the art; we only fight, fight, fight. So I told it very clearly in [Fearless]. [Rogue] is an action film. I will continue making action films. In my own heart, it?s not about art. It?s a different type of movie. [/quote]
That quote I stated above must have been more like “…last martial arts performance…”. I know I remember seeing the trailer and being pissed that it was going to be Jet Li’s last anything.