Donnie Yen, very cool

After "Hero" and "Seven Swords" its career seems unstoppable. E' by now to full load tito it between the action star more quoted than Hong Kong even if lives in America and has learned kung was from the mother who standard to Boston

of Roberto Bonomelli

The moment arrives for every artist of ringrazia the own parents for the support had in the scaling to the happened one. In the case of Donnie Yen, end from its first interview, has not never lacked the occasion to attribute all the merit to its mother for whom it is in a position to making on the scene. We are speaking about Bow brokerage house Mark, the experts of kung fu/wushu to this point will have senz' agreed other. The mother of Donnie is one of the figures of most Association of Bologna of the scene American of the martial limbs. Master of bagua and tai ji quan, Bow brokerage house deep Mark in the 1976 Chinese wushu research institute of Boston. In the same year, to the age of 11 years, the Donnie son begins to practice martial limbs. While to house he learned shaolin of the north and tai ji quan, with the friends he practiced wing chun, karate, taekwondo and the style of the mantide religious.
With the outbreak of the phenomenon wushu in the years Eighty and some problem in family, because of the bad companies that it attended, then sedicenne the Donnie decides to go to study martial limbs to Beijing. After deep "cultures shock" for the life style, the closing towards the aliens (in those years the situation in popular China was more rather various from today) and the fact that all speak Mandarin (in family spoke the cantonese), Donnie have been dedicated for two years to the intense program of training, but already to the term of the first one it had understood that it was not the martial art that was trying because the spirit with which he was practiced was similar to that one of whichever other sport. Left firm China to Hong Kong, where it meets the leggendario coreografo Yuen Woo Ping ("Matrix", "the tiger and the dragone") that then he will become its mentor, launch it in the world of the cinema as it had made opportunely with Jackie Chan. Since Bow brokerage house Mark had taught wushu to a sister of Yuen Woo Ping, when it has known that who was trying a new face for Drunken tai has proposed it the son.
Therefore Donnie still remembers its first audition with all the clan of the Yuen siblings, that they have intentional to see all what could demonstrate in front of the cinema camera: every style that were in a position to executing and every arm that could handle. Obtained its first part to nineteen years, its career was begun. But Donnie remembers also as it has learned what means to become a kung was star: "We began to filmare to the six of the mattino and Yuen said to make one to me cracked completes, a soccer circular flying, a triple spin and falling still and still, to times until the six of the mattino following! To times the only moment in order to sleep was on the set, ritagliando of the moments of rest between a pause and the other or while they changed the scenografia ". Drunken tai who (1984) has had a sure one happening although it was a commedia of kung was in custom, perhaps the last one of that period, in a moment in which the public it had been gotten tired of that kind and it crowded knows them to them for the new productions of Jackie Chan and Samo Hung by now oriented towards modern history. With the series In the linens of duty (from we of it solo from the title has arrived one it "pitiless Hunting", 1986) Donnie Yen becomes protagonist of one modern series of police beside Chyntia Khan. But it is senz' other Tiger Cage (1989), followed from Tiger Cage 2 (1990), to mark its period of gold. With "Iron Monkey" (1993, but arrived from we in 2001) it returns to the epico film stealing to the scene to the protagonist thanks to its extraordinary ability. Just like the great Bruce Lee, also Donnie Yen has had to find the happened one in Asia before obtaining the interest. Donnie has had its moment of international Gloria with a film of Jet Them (had already worked with he in Ounces upon to Time in China 2, 1992) that great resonance in the West has had one: "nozzle" interprets the called assassin that faces in duel the protagonist of Hero (2002).
On the wake of the rebirth of interest for the kind "cappa and sword", Tsui Hark has called it for its "Seven Swords" (2005) that it has gained the prize to the Golden horse awards for the best choreography of action. The preparation of Donnie Yen, after to have had a master of the cinema of action of the bore of Yuen Woo Ping, it has allowed it to go also behind the cinema camera for coreografare the scenes of combat of "Highlander 4 - Endgame" (Highlander: the endgame, 2000, in which it has also a small role of bad immortale), of "Self-confident 2" (2002, also in this have a cameo role: a vampiro armed with katana) and the German television series gone in wave also on RAI with the title it "the puma". Its career is in continuous rise, like they more and more demonstrate the average in dedicargli articles and covered some. In 2000 it is appeared on GQ magazine on the number dedicated to the emergent men of Hollywood, resting beside Shannon Lee, daughter of Bruce Lee. In Japan it is indeed much famous one to the point that more active clubs have dedicated to it one of its fan and they have demanded it for the coreofrafia of "The pincess blade", cinematographic version of famous manga from the title it Shurayuki hime. Between its last films we signal Sha po lang (2005, than it still does not have a title it for the international market) for its last film in which it interprets a policeman of Hong Kong that must face a boss of the triade interpreted from an unknown Sammo Hung in the worst version. Obviously there will be according to episode for "Seven Swords", in the Donnie meantime is finishing turning Dragon tiger gate, thanks to the which continuous collaboration with the director Wilson Yip (has directed Sha po lang and sure the continuation will be its also, already previewed, given the immediate one happening obtained in Asia). This adaptation of a popular Chinese comic strip sees Donnie Yen Co Chinese protagonist with to two POP star of the moment: someone to storto the nose, but the new superstar of the kung was assures that their performance will be to the height although they are not martial artists.
The style of cinematographic combat of Donnie is undoubtedly the fruit of multiple martial experiences, for its way to be and for its physical aspect it has been more times defined with the typical expression "very cool", in Japan have defined it the last one I dredge come from Hong Kong... the association, we know it, is too much banal. While also Donnie does not lack to honor it, who? Largest than all the times: "Bruce Lee is only. It was indeed ahead regarding its time ". In order to obtain information modernized on its films www.donnieyen.us

Roberto Bonomelli is journalist specialized in martial limbs, our collaborator from 1986, and writes also for reviews of the field Americans (Inside Kung-Fu) and English (Martial Arts Illustrated) let alone author of books ("Kali-Arnis-Escrima: the art of the combat with and without crews "," Course of personal defense") translate also in French and Spanish. Roberto is the first given a degree to Italian instructor in the jun-fan gung-fu/jeet-kune-gives and the martial limbs of the Asian South-east from master Dan Inosanto (Los Angeles, USA), let alone production manager national Akea, and standard jkd, kali and silat near its Bono Academy of Sixth Saint Giovanni (Me): www.bonoacademy.it.