All difficulties are to make us stronger

Everything is to make us stronger. <br />It seems that in a telephone interview, a reporter once asked me a very interesting question: Jet Li, you have been smooth sailing all these years, how did you become so powerful? What?
This reporter, I have never made serious preparations before interviewing me. First of all, I have never been smooth sailing. I have a nickname among my friends, called "survivors who have died a hundred times." My father died when he was a child. His family was too bad. He had to join the martial arts team and support the whole family with a meager subsidy every month. At the age of 11, I won the national martial arts competition five times in a row. At the age of 18, I took a photo of "Shaolin Temple" overnight. But immediately, in the second year, I broke my leg and almost became a waste person; I finally waited until the "Huang Feihong" series of movies sold, my agent was shot by the underworld, and my career fell into a trough again...not to mention, When the Indonesian tsunami in 2004, I almost lost my wife and I was stunned. When the flood was raging in front of you, the inner panic and disappointment, how many people have faced it?
It can also be understood that the person who asks this question is estimated to have only known me in the movie. I feel that I am the tough guy in the movie, who is stunted, and is naturally born from the spirit to the flesh. In fact, I am just an ordinary person made of flesh and blood. Even, I am more vulnerable than many people. For a while, I thought about being a monk every day.
However, a monk from the Shaolin Temple did not agree with me to do so, because the monk does not solve the problem fundamentally. The Buddha also pays attention to the practice of entering the WTO! Later, when I went to Hollywood to develop, he asked me to remember one sentence: all difficulties are to help themselves become stronger!
This sounds really not like a blessing. Sure enough, when it came to Hollywood, things didn't go well. Although Taiwanese boss Yang Dengkui spent hundreds of millions of dollars to help me create an image and create opportunities, the arrogant Hollywood refused to accept me as a Chinese with a height of 170CM. I endured it, until once on the set, the director dropped the script on my face and asked me coldly: Do you not understand English, so the script didn't understand?
That night, I called the sorghum. He said faintly: You have suffered a lot in these years, but when you look back, you are thinking that you are strong now, or are you strong in the past? I glanced at the experience of my own life. Indeed, those difficulties don’t seem to be worth mentioning now, but at the time, why didn’t they force themselves to have no way to escape? Visible, the difficulty is really making me strong, at least, let my ability to withstand stronger and stronger!
Since then, I am no longer afraid of any predicament, and even have a "welcome" attitude towards the inside and outside of the dilemma. My friends said that I am crazy, but I know in my heart that this is just to cultivate myself in difficulties.
During the time when "Hero" was filmed, Zhang Ziyi was very criticized and even isolated by some people in the crew. In her body, I saw the self who just debuted: impulsive, clear-cut, and my face was never hidden... So, I told her about her experience. Slowly, she also reborn from rumors and began to perform. A strong Zhang Xiaomei.
In the past two years, I have been thinking more and more about the martial arts. I really want to share this idea with the audience. So I asked people to write a film about the peace of Tibet, "Tibetan Monk in New York." Many filmmakers are very interested in the name, but they are not willing to invest when they look at the script because there are too few martial arts scenes and they are not commercialized. Where can I find an investor? Every night, this problem is tormented. I can't sleep. I really can't help. I found the famous French director Luc Besson. I want to take my own pocket. After the filming, I was very good at 90 minutes before watching the movie, but after 30 minutes, I fell into the cliché of the martial arts film. I asked for the end. Others felt that I was crazy, and the end was suicidal behavior, which would make the box office plummet. Luc Besson also asked me very surprised: "Do you really want to offend all your audience?" I said with a smile: "Try it once."
The fact is that the film has not been publicly screened, and it has received a lot of attention from film experts and the media. Slowly, with the renewed pursuit of Huo Yuanjia, everyone began to know: Hey, it turns out that Jet Li is not a martial arts machine. He also has his own ideas; in addition to practicality, Chinese martial arts also have profound things in it!
This is my purpose. It is really too difficult to express both the heart and the box office, but I know that the dilemma will always pass, and those who have experienced difficulties will become more optimistic and more powerful in this process.