For forty years, Jackie Chan is 24 years old

Joana 2022-01-09 08:01:48

Today, I happened to relive this old movie. I was full of emotions when I saw the appearance of my elder brother when he was young.

Forty years is really a long time ago. For the twenty-four-year-old me, it is an unimaginable number of times.

Fascinated by my big brother for fifteen years. Drunken Master was also watched when I was very young. The scene of Jackie Chan and Yuan Xiaotian’s martial arts training with his apprentices made me remember deeply. Even bgm, even after many years, I can still hum clearly in every tune. That thatched house, big water tank, pinch walnuts with your fingers, hold a spoon of water upside down, push-ups with alternating palms and backs of hands...I have imitated almost every training movement in it. My hands and feet hurt for a month. That part of the feeling is really good, and I sometimes even wonder if this is really acting, as if it was a vlog, it was recording the daily life of the master and the apprentice. As well as the drama between the master and the disciple against wine and poetry, the shadows on the wall when "the shadows become three people" are too lifelike. Although I don't know what the martial arts world should be, I think life is like this. , Ba Ye really portrayed this very well.

Although the action scenes of the whole movie still have the shadow of the Shaw Brothers action movies in the early 1960s and 70s, the action routines are relatively blunt. But the entire shooting environment, shots, lines, background music (including the general order) have achieved a great innovation, and also formed the embryonic form of a kung fu comedy. The eldest brother also took this opportunity to emerge, and then he also produced a series of good works such as "Junior Brothers", "Snake-Shaped Hands", "Laughing Fist Strange Moves" and other good works, and the "Jackie Chan body" has gradually formed.

To be honest, few people will pay attention to these old movies anymore, especially this kind of early martial arts movies. At that time, the conditions were really not so good, and the shooting conditions were also very difficult. The older generation of artists really suffered a little bit. Yes, even desperately when necessary. It is completely different from the current entertainment industry model.

Now sit down quietly and watch this "Drunken Master", feeling the unique style of that era, and feeling the young brother...

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Extended Reading
  • Doug 2022-04-23 07:03:27

    When I was a kid, I saw a comic book~

  • Mina 2022-03-20 09:02:16

    It’s called a hearty, special-effects world. The real practitioners don’t have food to eat. They rely on their faces to have food. It’s not worth talking about whether it’s going forward or retreating.

Drunken Master quotes

  • Iron Head Rat: I warn you, shit face. I pick who i'm gonna bury next. Say your prayers fast, 'cause you're about to feel my iron head.

  • Wong Fei-Hung: You watch out or you'll have a body with no ass!