Jackie Chan's Useless Aesthetics

Kayla 2022-01-16 08:01:34

Jackie Chan is a very famous actor in China. Whether you like him or not, he is important. Maybe many people don't know that he was the producer of Guan Jinpeng's film "Ruan Lingyu". There are excellent dubbing performances in the American animated film "Kung Fu Panda" and last year's victory in "The Return of the Great Sage". Jackie Chan has always been inseparable from commercial movies, because in the most popular era of Hong Kong movies, his action movies have formed a routine.

In his new film "Escape from the Jedi," the eldest brother Jackie Chan passed on a kind of "useless" aesthetics. For example, his partner asked him what he wanted to do most, and he said that if he wanted nothing to do in the future, he would raise alpaca because alpaca has nothing to do with the world. Probably the audience remembers the neatly trimmed appearance of the alpacas at the end of the film, but they forgot the four words that describe them: no fight in the world.

Could Jackie Chan have nothing to do with the world? of course not. But he envied this kind of life and wanted to live this kind of life. In 1989, Jackie Chan directed, wrote and starred in the film "Miracle", and partnered with Anita Mui in Frank Capra's work "A Lady in a Day".
In my opinion, the characterization of his latest "Escape from the Jedi" is very similar to the "Miracle". They are all people who are obsessed with one kind of thought, but they all have gained a lot. At the end of "Escape from the Jedi", Officer Chen, played by Jackie Chan, had a beautiful daughter and a chance to date. He named this character Hong Kong Sheng. This not only reflects his love for Hong Kong, but also wants to give some compensation to those past movies, because this is his real name, but few people know it.

My favorite scene in "Escape from the Jedi" is probably Jackie Chan and Connor on a bamboo raft. Jackie Chan did not promise him to give up, saying that you would go back to testify to me. As a result, foreigners thought he was stupid and dragged him into the water. Jackie Chan shouted "I can't swim", but he still didn't say anything to give up. The filming was very good, the audience was laughing all the time, but I think this may be Jackie Chan's personal "aesthetics". And the uselessness of translation to him is actually persistence.

Jackie Chan works very hard in filming. In this movie, the scene on the factory assembly line is beautiful. It seems to have returned to his previous model, but with a lot of foreign elements added. In the matryoshka match, Jackie Chan was very hard and practical. The trance made me feel that this man has returned to the feeling of watching his movie at the beginning. It's a very enjoyable experience.

On his way to escape with Connor, he was chased by others behind him. In a hurry, he said "Let me take you to fly", so he grabbed the zipline and started to glide along the track. The filming of this scene is also very beautiful, and it really responds to what many Internet celebrities like to say "Take you to pretend to be forced to fly".

In the end, Police Officer Chen met his good friend A Yong and found that he was the enemy he had been looking for: the matador. The faith in his heart collapsed instantly, but he kept his promise and helped a good friend to take care of his daughter for nine years. A Yong, played by Zeng Zhiwei, satirized Jackie Chan and said that you choose honor, and I choose power. And I think if Jackie Chan has time and the self-sufficient Ayong said, it is likely that he will be returned: you choose power, and I choose justice.
So at the end of the movie, he really got his wish and lived an uncontested, "useless" but very useful life. (Text: Yuan Zhi)

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  • Lucie 2022-03-23 09:03:00

    There are no reviews as bad. . . Not bad, this is also a Chinese landscape propaganda film. . . And that foreigner smiles, I always think of Jim Carrey. . . Ha ha

  • Kieran 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    The eldest brother is 62 and still struggles like this, can only ignore the aging of the action style. Right should keep the time-honored brand, someone will like this one. It's just that these third-rate Hollywood directors and screenwriters went to China to make various fools. The story was completely unreadable, and all kinds of political inaccuracies and racial discrimination were added unscrupulously, and their brains were flooded...

Skiptrace quotes

  • Bennie Chan: [after feeding Connor and being asked what the food is] Fried goat testicles.

  • Connor Watts: [surprised at Bennie's performance of a song] I never would have figured you for an Adele fan.

    Bennie Chan: [smiling] "Rolling In The Deep" is a classic.