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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

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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

Internet has been trying to locate Granada places that come out in a prohibited film starring a Nazi

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“A film full of humanity without any trend.” With that overprinting phrase on the screen it starts ‘Solange du Lebst’. A “neither right -wing” manual “that, however, hides a Nazi propaganda film that did not come to be seen in Spain but, surprisingly, in Germans after World War II, where he unleashed a considerable scandal. Today is completely missing. ‘Solange du Lebst’ (in Spanish it could be translated by ‘While you live’) is the closest thing to a cursed film mixture and, at the same time, purely, propaganda. We are facing una movie comparable to which both sides of the war rolled In large quantities, each favoring yours. Those of the allied side are better known, since Hollywood He launched all his machinery so that even non -war movies such as the Westerns or the suspense cinema would insufferate the ideology that the allies were interested in propagating. On the Nazi side the Fiction and propaganda films They are less popular, however much documentaries such as ‘The triumph of the will’ have gone down in the history of cinema for the power of the propaganda imagery of Goebbels, which produced 1200 films, Many of them prohibited for decades. But films like ‘El Arrow Quex’, ‘I wait for you’, ‘President Krüger’ or ‘Kolberg’ were not as well known as their American counterparts due to their low film quality. In Spain, in fact, the laughible ‘race’, the milestone of Franco’s fiction code, than any of these. That is why it is not strange that it has not been heard about ‘Solange du Lebst’, that did not premiere in Spain and was barely seen in Germany. The producer, Eva Films (we are not going to get Nazi connotations in every detail, but well, there is the name of the producer, which she shares with that of Hitler’s couple) premiered it thanks to subterfuges as the aforementioned initial message. However, the daring to reach German screens After the Nazi defeatwhen the nation faced global ignonymy and a feeling of guilt, the country ranked, it resulted in a considerable box office failure that ruined the producer. The film disappeared from the rooms and never broadcast on television. Occasionally it has reappeared in very limited circuits, such as when it was published inadvertently in a collection of DVDs in Spain, ‘jewels of the history of cinema’. FTW Condor Legion In ‘Solange du Lebst’, a heroic and handsome pilot of the Condor Legion, the Air Force that Hitler sent to Spain to help Franco in the Civil warshe crashes into the fictional Andalusian town of Torralbán. There he will live a caste and sincere relationship with his caregiver while he remains injured and hidden in a cave, facing the fearsome international brigades who want to invade Spain and the wild Republicans who patrol the area. The film (which you can see complete, yes, in German, in the video on these lines), despite appearances, it is not a series B shot under co -production. There is a considerable media slack where, in addition, several names that would later be known internationally. The director and screenwriter Harald Reinl has an extensive filmography that arrives until 1982 and where there are from war dramas to family comedies, through ufological documentaries or literary adaptations of the classic mystery writer Edgar Wallace. The leading actress, Marianne Koch, would reach some international fame with Westerns as ‘for a handful of dollars’. The scarce scope of the film has not even given margin as to become a cult film, but its atmosphere in Spain has raised the curiosity of experts … and the locals. As The ideal newspaper accounttwo scholars carry Three years trying to unravel the mysteries of ‘Solange du Lebst’: They are Julio Grosso, professor of audiovisual communication at the University of Granada and Ralf Junkerjürgen, researcher at the University of Ratisbona. Together they decided to try which areas belonged to the locations of the film. To do this, they have been publishing in social networks photograms of the lost film and thanks to the collaboration of Internet users have located areas of Granada such as Los Arenales del Trevenque where the pilot, the old clinical hospital in San Cecilio, the Armilla Air Base, the Tablate bridge, the old road of Güéjar Sierra and El Castillo de Lácha. Purely Spanish areas that, however, did not prevent the film from being released in Spain. Why that unusual destiny? Although his argument left no doubt about his political orientation, neither this nor its atmosphere helped the film to be released in Spain. A possible reason, despite the fact that the Franco dictatorship was completely settled, is that In 1955 the regime was not interested in digging up old ghosts. The pacts of Madrid between Spain and the United States They had just signed in 1953and he was ending the international isolation to which he had submitted to the country. The last thing that interested Franco was his little Nazi propaganda. No matter how well photographed that Granada was. In Xataka | In anemic times for the box office, Spanish cinema has a hope on the horizon: the new ‘torrent’

In the 90s Japan he created his own “Truman show.” A real one, starring a naked, alone and famel

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“The only person who really understands what Tuman felt, for what happened, it’s me.” The phrase is Volume Hamatsuaka ‘Nasubi’, a 49 -year -old Japanese comedian, and the Truman who refers to is not The former president from the US or the author of ‘In cold blood’ nor any other character of flesh and blood that has used that name ever. No. Nasubi talks about the truman who plays Jim Carrey in The movie 1998 directed by Peter Weir in which the adventures and misadventures of a man who star in a Telerreality program is narrated Without having the slightest idea. If you have seen it, you know how delusional your argument is. If not, there goes a quick summary: Truman Burbank is a thirty -year -old who leads his whole life as the star of a very popular reality whose existence does not know. Everything in his life is false, pure dare, figures and script. Your family, actors. His friends, actors. His work and home, a set. All 100% designed material for Prime Time. Although he doesn’t know so that he reality Be much more real. With such a story the logical thing would be to think that Nasubi exaggerates when he says that he is “The only person” capable of empathize “really” with the character of Truman; But the truth is that he knows what he is talking about. The Japanese comedian was not born and grew up on a television set, but at the end of the 90 realityin his country as popular as bloody and crazy. And without knowing it. Last year his experience was rescued in a documentary, ‘The Contest’directed by Clair Titley, and now recovers it ABC News To probably remind us one of the most delusional stories in television history. An aspiring famous comedian Nasubi’s case started in 1998 with a stroke of luck. Throughout his childhood he had aspired to become A famous comedian In Japan, so a good day decided to appear at the casting of a reality of the country entitled ‘Hisunu! Denpa Shōnen ‘. There he met another twenty loop comedians who had to choose between several cards. In Nasubi’s, who was about 22 years old, put “winner”. A luck. Or so he believed. The fact is that this card gave him the right to make the producers put a headphones, they bandaged his eyes and put him in a car without giving him explanations. “Then they took me to a room and forced me to undress completely because they wanted me to start from scratch. They took all my clothes“, Relatize ABC News. In it tiny apartment In which they left him alone and in leather he found a woner, a phone, a ball, blank postcards, a radio, a television without connection, a pillow, a gas burner, a shower and the services fair and essential for survive. And for fair we talk about heating, running water and electricity. Nothing else. No clothes. No food or bottled water. And of course Nothing company In his peculiar confinement. What explained to him? What was the goal? Nasubi was only told a part of the project. Incomplete and, so it is deduced from His testimonydiffuse enough so that he did not know what he participated in. The idea was that the young man complete a challenge that consisted of surviving with what he won in the raffles of magazines and radio programs. Hence the postcards, the ball and the magazines. The contest would end when the symbolic sum of one million yen (around 6,100 euros to the current change). If that happened they would give him a cash prize; Although what Nasubi really ambition was the other promise of the contest: launch your comedian career. Were you guarantee that it was to achieve it? None. The young man was given a camera with which he had to be recorded more or less Every two hours And I also knew that I was being filmed. With all that material, they explained, a comic program could then be mounted that perhaps (and only perhaps) would be broadcast on Japanese television. The promise was enough for Nasubi to continue without having an exact idea of What was really doing with videos. The promise of the prize and fame sufficient. After all ‘Hisunu! Denpa Shōnen ‘ It was a popular program that was broadcast on Nippon TV between 1998 and well entered 2002. If I wanted to leave at some point, Nasubi had the open apartment door. No one prevented him from crossing her. But he didn’t. Apart from the obvious motivation, which had been left totally naked, one of the questions that have been asked since then is why he moved on. The young man Recognize ABC News that “felt silent pressure.” “The person I was talking with was a very famous television producer, so I thought it would be better for my future in the entertainment industry not to go against him. I was trying to make me a name.” “I think there are many reasons,” explained last year to the BBC Tiley, director of the documentary on Nasubi. “One is very stoic and that is due to its place of origin, Fukushima, and her parents, who were very strict. He is also a very loyal person. He did not want to get into trouble and He was very young and naive. It is still incredibly confident. There is also that samurai spirit of ‘I will prevail and endure’ “. Endured. What if he endured. Nasubi was 15 months Living only in that apartment, naked, subsisting with what he earned by participating at a distance in magazine or radio raffles. The young man He came to recognize to To This American Life that during the first days he lost so many kilos that the producers ended up intervening to bring bread and water. Although that help lasted little. Only until he started earning money. What I got however It didn’t always serve … Read more

Ryan Gosling would be one step away from starring in a new ‘Star Wars’ movie

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Everything seems to indicate that after the success obtained by giving life to ‘Ken’ in the film “Barbie”, Ryan Gosling would be ready to embark on a universe much loved by the public. And it was recently reported that The actor would be in negotiations to star in a new film project Star Wars. Keep reading to find out what is known so far. According to information from The Hollywood Reporter, the film that will be directed by Shawn Levy will not address the stories of characters Luke or Anakin Skywalker. On the contrary, will explore a completely new narrative within this renowned saga. Likewise, the American portal reported that it would have been the Canadian actor who promoted the completion of the project. If a favorable agreement is reached for both parties, The filming period could begin in autumn 2025. Meanwhile, It is known that director Shawn Levy works together with screenwriter Jonathan Tropper, under their production company 21 Laps, in collaboration with Lucasfilm. However, this would not be the first adventure in which this pair has embarked, as they have already worked together in films such as: “This Is Where I Leave You” and “The Adam Project”, to name a few. If Ryan Gosling consolidates his participation in said project, this would become the next film in the world of Star Wars to enter productionfollowing in the footsteps of “The Mandalorian and Grogu”, starring Pedro Pascal, and whose filming ended last December and is expected to hit theaters in May 2026. Continue reading: • Ryan Gosling performed his own version of “All Too Well” to say goodbye to Ken• Ryan Gosling revealed the reason he didn’t want to sing “I’m Just Ken” at the Oscars• Ryan Gosling launches his own production company

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