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Armor of God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zoMAkCxvIc
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Jackie Chan sliding down a building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticE-Eg7I8o My heart jumps to my throat EVERY time he stands ups halfway down.
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Jan 26, 2019 23:42
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minato posted:Armor of God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zoMAkCxvIc Yeah, but that was actually Operation Condor, the sequel to Armor of God. Then they later released Armor of God in America as a sequel to Operation Condor. But yeah, legit the hardest working and craziest man in show business. In the Chinese movies, they would often spend a whole month straight on a single fight scene.
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Jan 27, 2019 04:53
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In Doc Martin the girl with the dislocated shoulder's name is Melanie Gibson.
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Jan 27, 2019 05:29
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Davros1 posted:Jackie Chan sliding down a building: If there is any safety equipment at all, such as nets or landing pads, they did a thoroughly excellent job hiding them. Jesus christ, the end to that.
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Jan 28, 2019 03:38
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Olaf The Stout posted:If there is any safety equipment at all, such as nets or landing pads, they did a thoroughly excellent job hiding them. Jesus christ, the end to that. Safety equipment???? Pfffffffffffffffft. Jackie loved to run the blooper reel during the end credits and there's usually always a few  HOLY gently caress moments. Here's the end credits for the movie where he did the building slide, check out the clip at 2:50.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe8dgWyG-j4
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Jan 28, 2019 04:26
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Jackie Chan's continued good health is proof that God exists and He is a fan of Jackie Chan movies.
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Jan 28, 2019 04:44
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1stGear posted:Jackie Chan's continued good health is proof that God exists and He is a fan of Jackie Chan movies. I read a review of Jackie Chan's autobiography that came away with the impression Jackie has become the kind of guy that says "Hey, I made. Why can't you?"* Jackie, literally everyone else who has tried to make it like you died trying! *I have not read the book, but that lines up with other things I've heard said about him.
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Jan 28, 2019 05:18
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He's also become a propaganda mouthpiece for the Chinese government.
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Jan 28, 2019 05:39
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His son also got arrested and brought him shame for raising a delinquent.
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Jan 28, 2019 06:14
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Queen Combat posted:He's also become a propaganda mouthpiece for the Chinese government. There's no way they don't have a ton of leverage on him, and China is the government that would lean on their own people by offering them some very unsavory choices. Besides, I'm not interested in his political views, I can get political views from 7 billion other people on earth. I'm interested in his action career hayday, of which the list of people he can be credibly compared to can be counted on one hand. Snowglobe of Doom posted:Safety equipment???? Pfffffffffffffffft. So, there was no greenscreen yet for that shot? Like at all? Holy poo poo the risk versus the absolute mundanity on a technical level of faking that shot is insane. Olaf The Stout has a new favorite as of 06:55 on Jan 28, 2019 |
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Jan 28, 2019 06:52
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He did star in at least one porno, that I know (thankfully not by watching it).
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Olaf The Stout posted:So, there was no greenscreen yet for that shot? Like at all? Holy poo poo the risk versus the absolute mundanity on a technical level of faking that shot is insane. I feel like you are having trouble grasping how insane Jackie Chan is. In his Chinese and especially early Hong Kong movies, what you see on camera is what happened. Very rarely they would have safety equipment just out of frame but if the shot requires him to fight Real Life Chun-li, fall into a pit of flaming coals and then scramble to get out, by God he's going to do it.
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Jan 28, 2019 10:08
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Fun fact about Jackie Chan: when he was cast as an extra in Enter the Dragon, he was such a big fan of Bruce Lee that he deliberately missed a block so that Lee would hit him in the face, just so he could get close to his idol when Lee asked if he was okay.
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Jan 28, 2019 10:40
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The Netflix Punisher series are also like that, pretty much most of the characters get ground up into mincemeat over the course of the show. Frank dishes out a lot of punishment but holy hell does he take a lot as well. The Die Hard movies are pretty good about that as well. Bruce Willis is badly beat up by the end of the 1st and 3rd ones. I don't recall what happened on the 2nd, 4th, and 5th movies because those didn't happen.
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Jan 28, 2019 13:46
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Krispy Wafer posted:The Die Hard movies are pretty good about that as well. Bruce Willis is badly beat up by the end of the 1st and 3rd ones. Whatever you say, Mr. Falcon.
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Jan 28, 2019 14:42
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Krispy Wafer posted:The Die Hard movies are pretty good about that as well. Bruce Willis is badly beat up by the end of the 1st and 3rd ones.  You are just in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
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Jan 28, 2019 15:09
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Olaf The Stout posted:If there is any safety equipment at all, such as nets or landing pads, they did a thoroughly excellent job hiding them. Jesus christ, the end to that. I love this post.
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Jan 28, 2019 15:26
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Arcsquad12 posted:Fun fact about Jackie Chan: when he was cast as an extra in Enter the Dragon, he was such a big fan of Bruce Lee that he deliberately missed a block so that Lee would hit him in the face, just so he could get close to his idol when Lee asked if he was okay. 
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Jan 28, 2019 16:15
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Apropos of nothing, here is a video of Jackie Chan being surprised by his old original stunt team and crying like a baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5ngCHUcR5g
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Jan 28, 2019 16:37
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Samovar posted:He did star in at least one porno, that I know (thankfully not by watching it). I'm guessing it involves ladders.
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Jan 28, 2019 17:13
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And not wanting no trouble
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Jan 28, 2019 17:45
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Jackie may be a Chinese propaganda mouthpiece but so were the last few (modern) martial arts movies I tried to watch, it's hardly only on him.
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Jan 28, 2019 17:51
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My Lovely Horse posted:Jackie may be a Chinese propaganda mouthpiece but so were the last few (modern) martial arts movies I tried to watch, it's hardly only on him. Yea I try not to overly blame him for that stuff, or at least I try to consider the burden that's been on his shoulders his whole career in terms of what's expected of him in China. It seems like he has such a genuinely good heart so I've always given him the benefit of the doubt.
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Jan 28, 2019 18:20
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But did you know that Jackie Chan is illiterate?
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Jan 28, 2019 18:28
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Fish of hemp posted:But did you know that Jackie Chan is illiterate? Fun fact, at the end of Seven its actually a dummy Jackie Chan head in the box.
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Jan 28, 2019 18:30
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DandyLion posted:Fun fact, at the end of Seven its actually a dummy Jackie Chan head in the box.
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Jan 28, 2019 18:33
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My Lovely Horse posted:Dummy? I think you'll find he does all his own stunts. The smart one does. His twin brother was a lot less intelligent, on account of the aforementioned Seven ending.
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Jan 28, 2019 18:40
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Calaveron posted:I also love how as the fight progresses both just start looking completely battered and bruised. A lot of action movies of those years had the stars looking completely unharmed after big fight scenes The fight choreography really reflects this, too. There's more feinting and more clinching as the fighters get worn down, culminating in Benny resorting to huddling in a semi-fetal defensive crouch. It's a level of attention to detail that really goes above and beyond.
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Jan 28, 2019 22:16
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I remember watching a documentary about Jackie and his stunt team. At one point they showed their use of wires. But unlike other films, where they put the actors in a harness to make them look like they're jumping higher or some such, one stunt was attaching a wire to a stuntman's shoe, and then yanking his feet out from underneath him so the impact of him hitting the ground was that much harder.
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Jan 28, 2019 22:57
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The best part of that documentary ("My Stunts") is where Jackie explains the use of a special shoe to prevent injuries. He proceeds to kick a fellow stuntman off a high ledge onto a set of pipes, resulting in the guy taking a nasty-looking fall. "Look," says Jackie, pointing to his special shoe. "It didn't hurt."
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Speaking of fight choreography, in Kung Fu Killer a serial killer targets martial arts masters, and he takes on each in their own fighting style, some based around kicks, some around strikes or weapons etc. And sure enough, in the final showdown between the hero and the killer, they fight using all the styles in the same order the murders happened. Maybe not particularly subtle and kind of an obvious choice but it was well done.
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I watched it for the first time in ages last night and in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, when Sir Bedevere and King Arthur are talking after he has the witch weighed against a duck, you can see in the background that the scales were misweighted. There's actually a fair bit of subtle stuff in it that everyone overlooks in favor of NI
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It's not subtle in the least but I love the bit about building a castle in the swamp. Significantly funnier than NI
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minato posted:The best part of that documentary ("My Stunts") is where Jackie explains the use of a special shoe to prevent injuries. He proceeds to kick a fellow stuntman off a high ledge onto a set of pipes, resulting in the guy taking a nasty-looking fall. I wonder what the breakdown of stunt-related injuries are, comparing, say, someone throwing punches and kicks and breaking something in their hand/foot vs falling onto pipes.
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Randalor posted:I wonder what the breakdown of stunt-related injuries are, comparing, say, someone throwing punches and kicks and breaking something in their hand/foot vs falling onto pipes. I imagine injuries from actual punches and kicks are probably common but minor, whereas the injuries that happen during bigger stunts are rare but more noteworthy because the guy(usually Jackie) maybe broke his pelvis or something more serious.
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Len posted:It's not subtle in the least but I love the bit about building a castle in the swamp. Significantly funnier than NI Lancelot running across the field and into the castle is funnier than anything else in that movie, period.
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Agreed. I think Monty Python are responsible for the two funniest scenes in movie history. This one, and the one in Life of Brian when the Roman governor with the speech impediment (Palin) is questioning his guards and they are trying not to laugh.
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kaesarsosei posted:Agreed. I think Monty Python are responsible for the two funniest scenes in movie history. This one, and the one in Life of Brian when the Roman governor with the speech impediment (Palin) is questioning his guards and they are trying not to laugh. Where does Romans Go Home fall in your hierarchy?
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kaesarsosei posted:Agreed. I think Monty Python are responsible for the two funniest scenes in movie history. This one, and the one in Life of Brian when the Roman governor with the speech impediment (Palin) is questioning his guards and they are trying not to laugh. If I recall, the extras playing the guards had been told (falsely) that if they laughed they wouldn't get paid.
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