"Snake Shaped Hand" 1978
"New Jing Wu Men" 1976
"Fighter" 1978
"Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" 1986
Secret Agent City 2001
The new film "Detective Pu Songling" starring Jackie Chan will be released on Lunar New Year's Day, but I am worried about the film's quality and box office performance. Judging from Jackie Chan's works in recent years, he is still very desperate, but he can no longer spell new ideas. In addition, the scripts are often relatively bad, which has repeatedly lowered the lower limit of "Jackie Chan movies". Looking back at the "Jackie Chan movies" of the 1970s and 1980s, it can be described as lively and brilliant. These films are not necessarily good works, but most of them have some highlights, even if they are not "good stories", they also have "good sentences."
"Snake Shaped Hand" (1978) is Jackie Chan's famous work. Yuan Heping (director of "Snake Shaped Hand") and Jackie Chan started the wave of "humorous kung fu movies". In the same year, they also collaborated with even more exciting similar works. The work "Drunken Fist" (1978).
Jackie Chan had acted in many movies before "Snake Shaped Hand", but he still couldn't become popular. Among the early films starring Jackie Chan, I was more impressed with "The Gate of Shaolin" (1976) directed by Wu Yusen. This film is being directed and performed, and it just barely passed.
"Xin Jing Wu Men" directed by Luo Wei was also a 1976 work. After the death of Bruce Lee, Luo Wei, who once directed the tube for Bruce Lee, wanted to "make" another Bruce Lee, so he urged Jackie Chan. The name "Jackie Chan" was given to Jackie Chan, who was also named Chen Yuanlong at the time. "one slice. The story of "Xin Jing Wu Men" closely follows the "Jing Wu Men", similar to the sequel, and its story structure is almost from the "Jing Wu Men", but it moves the location of the story to Taiwan.
Bruce Lee cannot be copied, and it is not a wise choice for Luo Wei to shoot "New Jing Wu Men". Besides, Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee are not actors of the same type. This kind of blunt copying is destined to be invisible. But Luo Wei did a very remarkable thing, that is, he gave Jackie Chan a superb stage name. Jackie Chan has used a lot of names. I know Yuan Lou (the stage name in Peking Opera School), Chen Yuanlong, Chen Gangsheng, etc., but the only one we are familiar with is "Jackie Chan". Li Hanxiang talked about the various "hidden rules" for film stars to choose stage names in the book "Thirty Years from the beginning". Although the name cannot determine the fate of an actor, it will more or less have some impact on the acting career. If we read the names of today's movie actors, we will know that these names are mostly catchy, fresh and pleasant, or meaningful.
"Fighter" was also directed by Rowe and was produced in 1978. 1978 was Jackie Chan’s harvest year. A total of 5 works were released during the year. In addition to "Snake Shaped Hand", "Drunken Fist", and "Fist", there are also "Flying Over Rolled Cloud Mountain" and "Snake Crane". Eight Steps. I can’t figure out the sequence of these 5 works, but I guess that "Fist" was filmed before "Snake-Shaped Hand" and "Drunken Master". In "Fist", Jackie Chan's image has been very different from the image of Bruce Lee in "Xin Jing Wu Men". Jackie Chan's "ghost horse" character has begun to take shape. If my guess is correct, then Yuan Heping used Jackie Chan's image and style of "ghost horse" in "Fighter" more or less when filming "Snake-Shaped Hand". From this point of view, Rowe has also made a great contribution to the creation of Jackie Chan's "ghost horse" image. By the way, in "Xin Jing Wu Men", Pan Lei is one of the screenwriters, and in "Fist", Pan Lei is the screenwriter alone. The screenwriter of "Xin Jing Wu Men" is not very good, but the creativity of "Fist Master" is quite good, and the plot design is much better than "Xin Jing Wu Men". However, the design of the martial arts scene in "Fisting" is slightly careless. The martial arts instructor of the film is not someone else, it is Jackie Chan who appeared under the name "Chen Yuanlong". It seems that Jackie Chan, who was a martial arts coach for the first time, was limited in his ability, but by the early 1980s it was very different.
The two films "Brother Dragon" (1986) and "The Flying Eagle Project" (1991) are five years apart, seemingly irrelevant, but in fact they can be regarded as the same series-the protagonists are both "Flying Eagle" Jackie, All "sell" exotic styles. "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" was the box office champion of Hong Kong Chinese movies in 1987 (the film was first released in Japan in 1986). This surprised me a bit, because I felt that the same year's "Prison Storm", "Autumn Fairy Tale" and other films were all It is much better than it, and the entertainment is not worse than it. But Jackie Chan is Jackie Chan, and his appeal is there. Moreover, "Brothers and Tigers" was released as a New Year's Eve movie, which is very pleasing. The classic action scenes of "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" are mainly the first and last scenes. Jackie Chan is indeed very hardworking, enough to win the cheers of men and the screams of women. However, the plot of "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" is full of loopholes, and some of the dialogue is even more stupid. Another selling point of "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" is probably Alan Tam's performance and singing in the film-the very popular "Friend" is from the film. Alan Tan, like Lin Zixiang, Jacky Cheung and other singers, mainly sings, and acting is just a sideline. However, the acting skills of several singers are quite good, whether they are funny or funny, they are unambiguous; moreover, they often don’t miss the opportunity to promote their voices in the film, so that the audience can feast their eyes on it. Besides, feast your ears again.
From the mid-1980s to the 1990s, Hong Kong films set off a wave of "selling" exotic styles. It was those people and the signature elements (martial arts, crime, humor, etc.), but the story took place overseas. The local customs are a "selling point", and the film also includes some "capable" foreign actors. In addition to "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" and "Flying Eagle Project", similar works include "Fast Food Truck" (1984), "Legend of Wesley" (1987), "Jihad" (1990), "Red Zone" (1995) , "Who Am I" (1998), etc. Many of these works are starring Jackie Chan, because Jackie Chan has had a certain international influence since the mid-1980s. His works are not only popular in Chinese-speaking areas, but also can be sold overseas. These works became Jackie Chan's later "stepping stone" to Hollywood. Jackie Chan, as an international superstar,
In 2001, the "Secret Agent Mystery City" directed by Chen Desen was regarded as a "Jackie Chan movie" that brought the exotic style to the extreme. Chen Desen dragged the crew to far away Turkey, digging into the "Turkish style" to his heart's content. Turkey is an Islamic country, but it is relatively "enlightened" among Islamic countries. Making a movie that can show the mysterious and unique Islamic style is indeed a clever idea that can attract eyeballs. In addition to Islamic customs, Turkey also has a well-known Turkish bath. Therefore, "Mystery of Secret Agents" is destined to be a "blockbuster" with full selling points.
From becoming famous in the late 1970s to "working hard" to create a world in the 1980s, the works during this period can be regarded as Jackie Chan's "early works". Since then, Jackie Chan has gradually grown into an "international superstar" and has become the pride of the Chinese world. Compared with his "early works", the works of "international superstar" Jackie Chan are often more sophisticated, but there are few classic works. On the contrary, many of his "early works" that are not flawless but lively and vigorous have become his film career. Classic. Since last year, the most important DVD publishers in Europe (Eureka, UK) and the United States (CC) have successively released (or will soon release) Jackie Chan’s works, but the selected works are all his "early works." Such as the "Police Story" series (the first two parts), the "Plan A" series, etc., show the importance of his early works-in Europe and the United States, Jackie Chan's early works have become important works of the film "subculture".
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