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Twenty-one years ago, Andy Lau, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Tony Leung Kar Fai collaborated in Island of Fire. Since then, because of their different film genre they did not get a chance to collaborate again. However, this film – Shaolin managed to bring these two superstars Andy and Jackie to collaborate again, however this time round, they switched positions.
It is said that Andy’s general character was betrayed by Nicholas Tse resulting to him losing his wife and children, he went into Shaolin Temple to become a monk, initially hope to gain revenge after mastering kung-fu. Unexpectedly he gained enlightenment from the cook (Jackie) whom has high knowledge in Buddhism but does not know kung-fu.
This time round, Andy made a breakthrough of his usual screen image, he was a handsome general whom had exciting fighting scenes against Nicholas and Wu Jing. Andy specially spent three months to practice Shaolin kung-fu as he managed to show off his realistic Shaolin’s 7-Star Fist. As Andy was too concentrated in the shooting, he got injuries in his right fist and legs. With regards to Andy’s kung-fu, Jackie exclaimed that Andy is a fast learner and able to become an action star, he has his own fighting style.
Jackie whom always fought on the silver screen is a monk whom only knows cooking, he’s not involved in any action scenes, all his scenes are talking, he even had a deep friendship with Andy. With regards to this, Andy quipped: “I already fought Jackie in Island of Fire, but I still does not dare to fight with him, I did have discussion with him during shooting, Jackie does not fight at all, we did not fight in Shaolin, not even a punch.” When talked about his character, Jackie expressed that he had gained a lot: “In the beginning feel that I don’t know kung fu, I master the kung-fu of cooking, I’m good at making buns.”
When talked about their relationship, Jackie said: “Although we did not collaborate in films, but we would meet up during charity events and matters of the guild, so we met all the times.” A mischievous Andy then said: “Jackie is good in the non-fighting scenes, he did not require me to give him tips at all.”
When talked about his cook monk character, Jackie revealed that he learn some cooking skills from his father, he also showed off his cooking skills in A Nice Guy and Wheels On Meals, however this cook monk character still has some difficulties for Jackie, “I made a lot of noodles today, it isn’t hard for me, cooking is another kind of kung-fu. I’m also good at changing the actions in cooking into kung-fu. The most difficult is when I need to say out those dialogues which are like sutra I’m making noodles or frying vegetables.” Andy also revealed that Jakcie was very popular among the children, “He would fry fish for the children, I had yet tasted his cooking.” It is said that both of them had no airs as htey mix around with the little monks. Andy also became the “king of children” by helping the little monks to choreograph dance.
However there is some accident for this hard-to-come-by collaboration of the two superstars, it is said that other than shooting Shaolin, Jackie is also busy shooting Zodiac, “I agreed to be cast in this film, since I gave my promise, I just cameo in the film!” Thus this is the collaboration of two superstars, although it took 20 years. They kept chatting with each other at the set, Jackie also witness personally Andy shaving his hair for the film, he sing praise of his professionalism: “He’s still so professional after a heavenly king for 20 years.”
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劉德華成龍二十年再攜手 《新少林寺》文武易位
《新少林寺》已定於2011年1月份登入全國各大院線。影片除集合了香港動作大導陳木勝、武術指導元奎外，更由劉德華謝霆鋒成龍、范冰冰、吳京等兩岸三地知名演員聯袂出演。作為劉德華與成龍暨1990年《火燒島》后的再度合作，《新少林寺》引起了各界的廣泛關注。
二十年后再攜手 《新少林寺》文武易位賺眼球
二十年前的一部《火燒島》，將當時已在影壇嶄露頭角的劉德華、成龍、洪金寶、梁家輝聚到了一起。而自此之后，成龍和劉德華因向不同的戲路發展而一直沒有再次合作的機會。如今，《新少林寺》憑借自身獨特的魅力又促成了劉德華和成龍這兩位影壇巨星的再度合作，不過二人此番的組合卻是文武易位。
據悉，劉德華飾演的軍閥被形同父子的副官謝霆鋒出賣，妻離子亡，躲進少林寺出家，本希望學成武功下山報仇。沒想到這期間卻被目不識丁，對佛學領悟甚高的煮飯僧成龍點化。此次，劉德華大膽突破自身以往熒幕形象，在劇中飾演一位少帥軍閥，與謝霆鋒、吳京等都有精彩的武打對手戲。為此劉德華特意苦修三個月少林功夫，現場拍攝時將一套少林七星拳打的虎虎生威、有型有款。由於過於投入拍攝，劉德華右拳和腳踝多處受傷，對於劉德華的功夫，成龍則力挺他套招上手很快，是合格的動作演員，很有自己的武打風范。
而一向在大銀幕上所向披靡打遍天下無敵手的成龍大哥卻演起只會煮飯的伙頭僧，絲毫沒有動作場面，而是以文戲為主，還與劉德華在片中有深厚交情的感情戲。對此，劉德華笑言道，“我在《火燒島》時已經和成龍對打過了，但現在還是不敢和他切磋武藝，拍的時候我也會跟他探討，這次是成龍完全不會打，我們兩個在《新少林寺》里面完全沒交過手，一拳都沒打過。”談及此次的角色，成龍表示自己收獲良多：“一開始覺得自己不會功夫，但已從做飯中悟出上乘武功，我在戲里做饅頭最拿手了。”
談及二人的交情，成龍快言快語，“雖然我們不一起拍電影，但常常會湊在一起做公益慈善，忙演員工會的事情，所以經常見面。”劉德華則幽默調侃道：“成龍的文戲非常棒，完全不需要我的指點。”
成龍感嘆秀廚藝難過打拳 險與劉德華擦肩而過
說起自己的伙頭僧角色，成龍透露以前跟爸爸學了不少手藝，而且也曾經在電影《義膽廚星》和《快餐車》中展現廚藝，不過《新少林寺》的伙頭僧一角還是讓成龍大哥“備受煎熬”，“今天撈了很多面，也難不倒我，煮飯也是一種功夫。而把做飯的動作變成功夫，我更拿手。最大的困難就是撈面或者炒菜的時候還要講很艱深比較像禪語的對白！”而劉德華更是曝料成龍片場很受小孩子歡迎，“他會給小孩子烤魷魚吃，我都還沒有試過他的廚藝。”據悉，兩人在片場絲毫沒有天王巨星的架子，和少林寺的小武僧們打成一片，劉德華還當起了“孩子王”，幫小武僧們排起舞蹈。
不過此次兩位影壇巨星難得的合作卻險些生出意外，據悉，成龍除《新少林寺》外還在趕拍《十二生肖》，“我很早以前就答應要拍這個戲，得兌現承諾，那我就說來客串吧！”由此才促成兩位巨星的二度合作，雖是時隔二十年的再次合作，兩人在拍攝現場不僅相談甚歡，簡直形影不離，而成龍也親眼目睹劉德華為戲落發的一幕，盛贊華仔敬業，“當了二十年的天王還是這么敬業。”
來源: 劉德華資訊
