Worldwide Portrait of Actor Jackie Chan
In a few weeks, Jackie Chan will be 67 years old. At this age that is no longer young, he appears less and less on the big screen and big screen.
Jackie Chan, S.B.S., M.B.E. born in Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, April 7, 1954, is an actor, director, stunt double, film producer, martial arts actor, comedy actor, screenwriter and singer from Hong Kong. Getty Images / Central Press
# Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung's duet changes Hong Kong cinema
When it comes to action comedy films that originate from Hong Kong, then there are two big actor names that come to mind, namely Sammo Hung Kam-bo and Jackie Chan. Both of them succeeded in changing the Hong Kong film market at that time by presenting action films wrapped in comedy.
Acting as a director, Sammo Hung, also cleverly drew Jackie Chan in several films such as Winners and Sinners, My Lucky Stars and Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars which dominated Asian cinema in the 80s era.
Reporting from the South China Morning Post, it is stated that the era of action comedy films has actually started since the appearance of the film Aces Go Places, directed by Eric Tsang in 1982. The film presents action scenes like James Bond, but combined with comedy.
Golden Harvest, which produces Winners, was surprised by the success of Aces Go Places and wanted to create its own version. Aces is still considered lacking action scenes, and Winners presents comedy elements with action scenes, not an action-comedy film, although the action scenes are very good, "said Frank Djeng, an Asian film expert.
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When it comes to action scenes, Hong Kong is indeed one of the kings in the film industry. The various choreographers used in Hollywood action films or even the average world are people of Hong Kong or Asia.
The two names of the great actors, Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan, also entered the world of acting, armed with the martial arts they had learned and became an assistant choreographer.
Sammo Hung even became an assistant choreographer at the age of 14 while working at the Shaw Brother Studio. He also had time to try to be an extras, stuntman, stuntman coordinator until finally glanced at by the director from Taiwan, King Hu, to arrange choreography in a film titled The Fate of Lee Khan in 1973.
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Jackie Chan was the same, in his teens he had become an additional actor in action films until at the age of 17 he was chosen to be Bruce Lee's stuntman in the films Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon. The action also made him glimpsed for starring in a film titled Little Tiger of Canton in 1973.
Gradually the two of them began to open up new markets for cinema in Hong Kong. Comedy films began to get crowded with the audience until they finally gave birth to talented actors and directors such as Stephen Chow to Ng Man Tat.
# Out of Bruce Lee's Shadow, Jackie Chan Brings Street Fighting Style
Producer Lo Wei is the figure who brought him into the film industry. New Fist of Fury is a film directed and starring Jackie Chan himself. But at that time, Jackie Chan was compared to Bruce Lee.
"Lo Wei just wanted me to be Bruce Lee, and he wanted me to do kung fu in the style of Bruce. But I'm not like Bruce Lee, as a warrior as well as a person. I don't have the experience Bruce has and can't act like him," said Jackie Chan in a 1998 interview with the South China Morning Post.
"Also, I've seen the pressure Bruce is under because he is promoting himself as the best fighter, and I didn't want to go through that. So I realized that to succeed, I had to be completely different from him."
Even though he doesn't have the same vision as Lo Wei, Jackie Chan got many valuable lessons while making New Fist of Fury. He also told behind the filming of the film.
"Well, I learned a lot. Lo used to fall asleep while we were shooting fight scenes, and when he fell asleep, I would do everything myself. The crew worked quietly so as not to wake him up, and I had more time to finish martial arts. So it was really great. helped me become more experienced, "he said
In the end, Jackie Chan was not too satisfied with the results of the film. He admitted that he did not get much time to complete the martial arts scene, especially since the budget for the film was not too big.
The film Shaolin Wooden Men, shot in 1976, is a much better film. Although, the figure of Bruce Lee still haunts Jackie Chan.
"I was very happy with the martial arts in the film, because I choreographed myself. Lo is still trying to turn me into the next Bruce Lee with Shaolin Wooden Men, so the film failed at the box office," he said.