Jet Li: calling it quits?

[SanSoo Student]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-03/11/content_1359576.htm

Jet Li claims to be giving up the movie biz, do you think he is serious about this...or just trying to get publicity?

[Shaolinlueb]

maybe he wants out of the movie he is making with jackie chan ebcause he knows jackie is the man :o

[SanSoo Student]

hope that movie turns out to have descent Hong Kong action.

[blooming lotus]

dudes...that is very cool...I am huge fan of jet li and being serious about kungfu above practicaly anything else, If you found a teacher or a style you wanted to learn...for sure you'd drop what yiu were doing and get into it.......welll...I would drop what I was doing...you know , as in stfu and training....props from me....can't deny him that right :cool:

[Balmung]

i never realy like jet li to much he seems like a wannabie bruce lee
i dont know

[Vash]

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There really aren't any parallels between the two, aside from the sound of there last names. And that Bruce Lee made crappy movies in Chinese whilst Jet Li made crappy movies in English.

[Ben Gash]

Vash, however, Jet has made some great films in Chinese.

[dwid]

If it's for real, I give him props for leaving a promising career to pursue monastic Buddhism.

[CaptinPickAxe]

Word,

That is a very honorable thing to do. I think it'd be cool as ice if he gave up movies for buddhism.

[GeneChing]

He was Buddhist from childhood - in fact, there was this story of how Wu Bin forced him to eat meat to become a champion. I'm not sure if he's vegetarian now, but surely, he's always been Buddhist.

[blooming lotus]

can anyone confirm that?...

[Shaolinlueb]

i was being sarcastic about the comment earlier. thats cool if he wants to do that. i respect him, maybe he will do seminars touring the country and such that would be neat. as for being a vegetarian. i think a lot of CMA's that take heart the true teaching become a vegetarian of some sort. its all part of the tradition.

[blooming lotus]

I'm a vegetarian myself, but as a Ch'an buddhist I make a committment to my health....so if my body needs animal protein and there's no way around it...I let myself eat aswell......don't like it, but I do it

[norther practitioner]

LOL..

Eating meat...

I still eat chicken and fish, but thats because I wouldn't get enough protien otherwise.


As long as monks don't kill the meat, or it wasn't killed for them, they can eat it, depending on who they are. There are a lot of monks who still eat meat, if it is offered to them.

[MasterKiller]

They also can't witness it being killed....

[blooming lotus]

I'm just going to go sentimental for a sec...if all life is worth saving ( or at least not harming)...how many animal lives is one humans' worth???

[dodger87]

did someone say jet li and jackie chan are making a movie together? can someone give me more info on this?

[Shaolinlueb]

Originally posted by dodger87
did someone say jet li and jackie chan are making a movie together? can someone give me more info on this?

it was on their website a while ago. i dont know if its there anymore.

link to jet li's site
http://jetli.com/jetli/projects/projects_other_jackie.php?bw=high

jackie chan's site is real slow for me. or else i would provide link.

[norther practitioner]

how many animal lives is one humans' worth

I figure around 256,895 or so...

:p

Listen, If you take yourself too literally, you'll miss the lesson your body is teaching you. We are not herbivors.

[blooming lotus]

that's dbatable...but for now health first...so if I need the meat I'm taking it

[Odin of Wei]

Originally posted by Shaolinlueb
maybe he wants out of the movie he is making with jackie chan ebcause he knows jackie is the man :o
I don't know. Jackie is getting pretty old.

His two recent movies were not his greatest. And it looks like he is using more computer than....himself. And when he does use himself he seems to be getting slower.

Those are my observations.

I like Jet Li. He seems to be more of a real aspect to Gung Fu movies than comparied to Jackie.

I still want to badly see when Jackie and Sammo Hung is in that jail....what is the name of it?
And Project A was just the best! Who ever hasn't seen Project A should get beat.

Jet Li is just as good too. From the second movie he's made, The kinds from Shaolin to Hero. Is just all great flicks.

Either way it will be very saddening for him to leave.

And I hope Jackie isn't running out of ideas too...we can only hope. :(

[unlawfulbreak]

Well maybe jet li is going through a tough time at that time and maybe that he needed that inner peace when he was studying with his teachers and masters. I have studied buddhism myself and it is very enlightening and helped me through tough times maybe thats what he is looking for that place that he had before the movies. well that is my opinion.
UNLAWFULBREAK

[Odin of Wei]

Originally posted by unlawfulbreak
Well maybe jet li is going through a tough time at that time and maybe that he needed that inner peace when he was studying with his teachers and masters. I have studied buddhism myself and it is very enlightening and helped me through tough times maybe thats what he is looking for that place that he had before the movies. well that is my opinion.
UNLAWFULBREAK
That is more than understandable. :cool: