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I'm not sure I'd count that as "respecting the art" more than "ensuring I have continued employment".
by regularfry 5y ago
I'm not sure I'd count that as "respecting the art" more than "ensuring I have continued employment".
- enraged_camel 5y agoWhy would Jet Li worry about something like “continued employment”, when he is already worth $250 million?
- runawaybottle 5y agoBecause he might be one of those people where life didn’t hand him shit. In other words, he fought against competition at every step of the game, so he seriously considers the nature of competition and the implications. It’s like a rich person that grew up poor, they are constantly saving money. Of course they don’t really have to at this point, but that was their experience. All Jet Li might know is competition (just off the top of my head, he is under the shadow of Bruce Lee, similar to Jackie Chan, and the whole Hong Kong scene is second to America). He respects his experience.
- frutiger 5y ago> It’s like a rich person that grew up poor, they are constantly saving money. Of course they don’t really have to at this point, but that was their experience. Is the implication that people don't learn new things from new situations/environments and are forever stuck modeling the world the way they did when they were young teenagers/adults?
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoPeople certainly learn new things, but habits are a real thing. It's a natural tendency to keep doing what you are already doing, sometimes even if there are terrible consequences. See cigarette addicts for an example.
- frutiger 5y ago> but habits are a real thing I wouldn’t disagree, but I would question how widely applicable this is across cultures and socio-economic strata. In particular it would be interesting to compare the commonly accepted folk wisdom (e.g. “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”) with a more objective analysis (if such a thing exists).
- runawaybottle 5y agoDepends on how strong the systemic models were from the past. Thorough experience dealing with, say, people and how they interact competitively, will have a outsized reverberation later in life. You never ever want to be wrong about people. A soda drinking habit you can’t kick? You’ll mostly kick it once you get serious. The other stuff is probably going to take life changing events to alter.
- chris11 5y agoThere are a ton of stories about incredibly successful people in the entertainment industry who end up bankrupt. Sure, that comes along with stories of wasting money. But it seems like the ones who make the most money are both lucky and really care about IP. I don't think Jet Li should ignore concerns about IP just because he's rich.
- 0des 5y agoThe day will come where movie actors and celebs become CGI intellectual property, without unions, dressing rooms, personal problems off-set, etc. He's right to have this concern, it's happening now.
- rowanG077 5y agoI don't see how that is a problem. If a computer can do an equal or better job then it makes little sense to keep such a heap of actors around. "real" actors in movies should then just become a curiosity just like still see horse carriages around as curiosity.
- bseidensticker 5y agoIt's a problem if you are an actor.
- rowanG077 5y agoThen they have to find something else to do. Just like the myriad of other jobs that are redundant because of innovation.
- rambojohnson 5y agohorse carriages are seldom the protagonist of any movie, you realize...
- rowanG077 5y agoI don't understand what you are getting at. If you mean horse carriages are not people. You are right. But the "drivers" of horse carriages were.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoIt the computer can do a better job, but can only do that by exploiting your work as training data, then it’s not the same thing.
- slumdev 5y agoRecreating Wushu using low-detail-ragdoll CGI is an offense against Wushu. I think "respecting the art" is a fine way to describe his decision.