Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, is a Tai Chi fan and millionaire. That’s why he gave himself the gift of starring in a martial arts movie

Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of Alibaba, is known worldwide for having founded a technology empire in China, but he also made his first steps in the world of cinema. And of all genres, martial arts. An eccentricity that was allowed to be filled with top stars of the genre and that, however, was more than just an idea to massage the ego: Ma has been practicing Tai Chi for 30 years. The man, the legend. Jack Ma, born in 1964 in Hangzhou, China, is the founder in 1999 and former CEO of Alibaba Group, one of the largest e-commerce conglomerates in the world. He founded the company with the goal of connecting Chinese companies with international buyers, revolutionizing digital commerce. His vision turned Alibaba into a global e-commerce and technology giant. He is currently dedicated to philanthropy and education, while his company has been facing a fall of influence very considerable. 22 minutes of tollinas. In 2017, before retiring from Alibaba, Jack Ma starred in and co-produced a martial arts short film titled ‘Gong Shou Daoo’ (literally, “The Art of Attacking and Defending”): 22 minutes depicting Ma as a Tai Chi master facing off against a series of rivals, all of whom are legendary actors in Chinese action cinema. People like Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, Natasha Liu Bordizzo and boxing champion Zou Shiming, among others. Everyone involved agreed to participate free of charge, motivated by the promotion of Chinese culture and martial arts globally. All for Tai Chi. Jack Ma, as we have mentioned, has been practicing Tai Chi for thirty years, and used the film to highlight the philosophy and values ​​of this martial discipline, focusing on balance and harmony. The project arises from the intention of preserving and disseminating this discipline, and reflecting on the screen Tai Chi as an art with a physical and a spiritual aspect. Result: more than 170 million views when it was launched in 2017. But it’s okay or what. Let’s see, a movie in which Donnie Yen and Tony Jaa share the bill cannot be bad even if it wants to. But also, the fan has the opportunity to meet Jet Li again, who has been semi-retired from action movies for years, in a reasonably extensive role with fights. Ma is neither the most forceful nor the most expressive actor, but for that gift to fans alone, he has our thumbs up. If you want more Tai Chi. Speaking of Jet Li and speaking of Tai Chi, the choreographer of the film is Ku Huen-Chiu, chosen very consciously by Ma. Apart from a rich career with films in his filmography such as a sequel to ‘The Matrix’, ‘Kill Bill’ and several classics of Hong Kong action cinema from the nineties, Ku Huen-Chiu participated in the filming of ‘Tai Chi Master’, a marvel by Li and Michelle Yeoh directed by none other than Yuen-Woo Ping, one of the great Chinese action choreographers of all time. So if you think Tai Chi is something for old people in the park, check out that hilarious dynastic martial epic and you’ll change your mind. In Xataka | Jack Ma was the richest man in China. Until he fell out with the government and stopped being one

This guy existed and scientifically demonstrated that Jack could survive

We will never know for sure if James Cameron was aware during the filming of ‘Titanic‘Of what I was filming. What I have less doubts is that I knew perfectly the end I had to give to the story. At this point we do not discover anything with the death of poor Jack so that Rose remained afloat, although the doubt will always be there. Could I have survived? It turns out that the answer was in a frame of the movie. Let’s go first with one of the most famous deaths in the history of cinema. It is because, in essence, Jack could have saved Perfectly, or so we think many. Where one fits, two are always possible, but the character of DiCaprio decided that he left Rose’s entire table while she, far from forcing him to get on, dedicated herself to contemplating him curled up while the protagonist dies agonally and her parts freely freeze. The controversy was served. Myth hunters appear In 2012, the popular program raises the debate with a live test. What do they do? A drill with dolls and a small recreation of the film’s board. Indeed, the table leans, but when they tried the feat with a large -scale replica, they discovered that Rose could have removed the life jacket and place it under the plank to add extra float. The method lifted the table in such a way that most of their bodies (80%) were out of the water while floating. The conclusion from the program was clear, “Jack’s death was unnecessary.” The video of the Mythbusters went viral and Cameron soon came out in his defense. The director replied that people “were losing their meaning” with the whole issue of the character of the character. In 2017, Cameron began to be fed up with the question and called him sadist or had little scientific rigor. In the past he had already recognized that the character’s death was simply and plain An artistic licensebut seeing that no one paid attention to him, he opted for try the situation that occurs in Titanic. “It was in the water with the wood table, placing people on it for approximately two days, and studying exactly if it was buoyant enough to endure the weight of a person with full free space, which means that their body was not immersed in the water so that it could survive the hours that lasted until the ship came,” explained. So could it have been saved? Two years ago, Cameron, given the insistence of many fans of the film, went out to say something that until then was unknown. In an interview with Half The Toronto Sun He revealed that he had documented a “Scientific study“That shows that two people could not have survived at the floating door at the end of ‘Titanic’. “We have conducted a scientific study to end all this and nail a stake in the heart once and for all,” Cameron said. “Since then we have performed an exhaustive forensic analysis with an expert in hypothermia that reproduced the filly raft and we are going to make a small special about it.” Apparently, in this study they took two specialists who had the same body mass of Kate and DiCaprio, they put sensors throughout the body, “and we put them in ice water to see if they could have survived through a variety of methods. The answer was that there was no way that both could have survived. Only one could survive.” In addition, he added that “Jack needed to die. It is so, as in Romeo and Julieta. It is a film about love, sacrifice and mortality.” The baker Be an artistic license or not, the truth is that Cameron knew something that went unnoticed by many spectators at the premiere of the film. Among the many historical characters that are strategically placed in the film and representing real lives that embarked on the Titanic, one of them was the answer that fans expected at the end of Jack. Your real name: Charles Joughina guy who embarked on the Titanic to work as head of the transatlantic pastry and bakery section. Joughin, 33, was resting in his cabin when on April 14 the Titanic hit the iceberg. He was in charge of sending the greatest amount of food to supply life boats, and while doing so, he “gave” the bottle. This was recorded in The British Government Commission during the research on the sinking of Titanic. “I went down to my room for a drink,” Joughin declaredadding that I had A bottle of whiskey in his cabin that would accompany him the rest of the fateful day. The man then climbed and helped women and children enter the boats, and from time to time, he gave the bottle, which possibly calmed him and made the situation of chaos that was lived more bearable. And here comes the time (actually appears several times, but this is the clearest) in which reality and fiction come together (Min. 01:22 of the video). The film shows us Joughin, played by actor Liam Tuohy, in the same company as Jack (Dicaprio) and Rose (Winslet) and the Titanic departing in two. However, unlike the film, it is said that the “baker” remained as the only individual at the end of the Titanic while rising in the air, was suspended for a moment and then sank into the ocean. “I don’t think my head will sink underwater, really. It may have been wet, but up there,” declared in the investigation. Joughin was, therefore, one of the survivors who found himself floating in the icy waters of the North Atlantic (like Jack) and lived to tell it. As? The researchers explained that it is estimated that LAt water temperature that night was -2 ° C. In addition, we must have the impact of immersion in such frozen waters, which is why the majority died in just a few minutes. We know … Read more

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