2. Jet Li (another successful example of entering Hollywood, the cumulative box office is second only to Yu Chenglong, and his masterpieces are Fatal Romeo and Kiss of the Dragon).
3. Chow Yun Fat (the cumulative box office score is not too high, and there is a big gap compared with the above two films, such as Anna and the King and Bulletproof Monk).
4. Zhang Ziyi (The box office was quite satisfactory, but it was quite surprising that a movie "Knight" was released in the United States and achieved zero box office. Masterpiece: Memoirs of a Geisha)
5. Gong Li (one of the most famous female stars in China in the eyes of foreigners and quite popular, her masterpiece: Miami Vice).
Chen Chong (He went to America in 1980s, but it was not particularly successful. Except for the last emperor, the films of other performances have a general response (such as special police judges and polar heroes).
7. Maggie Cheung (She appeared in a few films, but she was quite successful, including china box and Clean).
8. Li Bingbing (he started to enter Hollywood in the past two years, although he was later than Zhang Ziyi, but his movies are not low in topic and popularity, such as resident evil 5 and Transformers 4).
9. Vivian Wu also went to the United States in 1980s and 1990s, and his situation was similar to that of Chen Chong.
Masterpieces: A Pillow Book and Eight and a Half Women (starring Yi Nengjing).
10. Yam Tat-wah (Yam Tat-wah's works are not many, and the first one played a villain in Tomb Raider 2. Other works: Co-starring with jean-claude van damme in the action movie Battlefield of Death.
Hollywood is located in Hollywood, a suburb of Los Angeles, California, on the west coast of the United States. It is surrounded by mountains and waters and has pleasant scenery. It was first discovered by photographers looking for location. At the beginning of the 20th century, it attracted many photographers. Later, some small companies and independent filmmakers flocked to escape the control of patent companies and gradually formed a film center.
Before and after the First World War, some movie master such as Griffith and Chaplin won the world reputation for the United States. Wall Street consortia intervened in the film industry, and Hollywood Film City rose rapidly, which just met the needs of the rapid economic development in the United States during this period. Movies are further incorporated into the economic mechanism and become a part of profit. The abundant capital and the increase of film production ensured the dumping of American film market in the world, and the small village outside Los Angeles finally became a huge film city.
Entering Hollywood has always been the biggest dream of China filmmakers. In the last 30 years of China's film development, countless mainland stars tried to make efforts to Hollywood, but all failed. All kinds of success or failure, both personal factors, but also the big factors of the times. Three stages of mainland filmmakers' March into Hollywood in the past few decades.
1, the walk-on era represented by Chen Chong.
In the 1970s, Chen Chong and Liu Xiaoqing were the two most dazzling movie stars in Chinese mainland, and Chen Chong was called "the first actress in China". 1979, Chen Chong won the best actress Hundred Flowers Award for her film Little Flower. 198 1 year, she decided to go to the United States for further study. However, in the early 1980s, Americans were not familiar with mainland movies. They know something about Hong Kong movies, but they know nothing about mainland movies, which also leads to the "China's first actress" being left out in the United States.
During this period, Chen Chong lingered on the edge of Hollywood and never really integrated into the Hollywood environment. He only walked for a while in Hollywood movies, or appeared in some nude scenes. Even The Last Emperor, which won a great victory in the Oscar, could not improve Chen Chong's position in Hollywood. Finally, Chen Chong had to return to China to be a director himself. Until Chen Chong returned to Hollywood in 2000 to direct Autumn in New York, the box office was bleak.
Chen Chong's return declared that the first batch of mainland filmmakers entered Hollywood and ended in failure. Chen Chong's failure was determined by the general environment at that time, because mainland films were still small soldiers in the international film industry.
2. The era of demonizing the image of Chinese people represented by Zhang Ziyi.
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won an Oscar in 2000, and Zhang Ziyi officially entered Hollywood with this film as a springboard.
During this period, Taiwan Province's Shu Qi, Hongkong's Edison Chen and Zhang Ziyi's classmate Liu Ye all started to leap to Hollywood. However, the roles given to them by Hollywood do not seem to be very attractive. Zhang Ziyi plays a prostitute in Memoirs of a Geisha, Zhang Ziyi plays an adopted daughter who killed her father in China in Knight, and Liu Ye plays a twisted international student in Dark Matter. While Penélope Cruz Sánchez, who entered Hollywood at the same time as Zhang Ziyi, easily gained a foothold in Hollywood by virtue of his nationality advantage, leaving his name on 20 1 1 Avenue of Stars.
From 2000 to 2007, mainland films won the most awards in the world. These award-winning films are more or less showing the disadvantages of China and the dark side of human nature. At that time, when the news was underdeveloped, these films became a window for Hollywood to know about mainland films, which led some distorted characters in Hollywood to like to use China stars. Zhang Ziyi also said that the really good roles in Hollywood will not be reserved for China people.
3. The era of co-production represented by Zhou Xun.
In 2008, with the rise of the mainland film market, Hollywood began to attach importance to cooperation with the mainland, and the relationship between mainland filmmakers and Hollywood was also replaced.
The 20 12 movie "Cloud Map" gives consideration to the box office in the mainland market, and introduces the mainland movie star Zhou Xun. 20 13 iron man made a special edition of Fan Bingbing China in consideration of the mainland audience. On 20 14, letv pictures and Hollywood jointly produced "The Expendables 3", and Fan Bingbing was promoted from Iron Man China Special Edition to the No.3 female in the X-Men. Li Bingbing's role in Resident Evil and Transformers gradually became popular.
By 20 15, the names of China stars can almost be found in Hollywood's popular blockbusters, such as Jay Chou in One Piece, Fan Bingbing in Escape of the Jedi, Li Bingbing in Resident Evil, Yuqi Zhang in Evaporation of the Pacific Ocean and Tang Wei in The Matrix.