A high-energy tribute to one of cinema’s greatest action icons, Jackie Chan: Fast, Funny and Furious celebrates the speed, humor, and insane stunt work that define his legacy. Packed with classic clips, behind-the-scenes moments, and unforgettable fights, this compilation is pure adrenaline for longtime fans and newcomers alike.
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00:00He is a veteran of nearly 50 films.
00:08Against an army of other action stars, he has emerged the king of martial arts movies.
00:14Jackie put together the best action pieces and stunts. There he is.
00:19Blending dazzling fighting arts acrobatics with slapstick comedy,
00:23he has been dubbed the clown prince of kung fu.
00:27He has been nominated for and has won numerous awards for acting and action choreography
00:32and has expanded into producing, directing and writing.
00:36I learned everything from Jackie. He's brilliant. He's a filmmaker. He is a tremendous character.
00:40He taught me not only about filmmaking but about life as well.
00:43He is most famous for his amazing stunt work and infamous for refusing to let anyone double for him,
00:49despite his many injuries and superstar status.
00:53Once proclaimed the successor of Bruce Lee, he preferred to make his mark in his own style.
01:00That was Jackie Chan. I know. That's Jackie Chan. He's great.
01:06Not since the golden age of Hollywood can an action movie star declare, as he has,
01:11I don't use special effects. I am a special effect.
01:15He is known to the world as Jackie Chan.
01:18Jackie Chan!
01:20Jackie Chan!
01:21Hollywood, California. Hordes of fans turn out to greet the stars of yet another extravaganza,
01:39the premiere of a blockbuster action movie.
01:42Chinese ceremonial dragons initiate the festivities, appropriate for the Hollywood premiere of Rush Hour 2,
01:49with its tale of East meets West.
01:52Action star Steven Seagal turns out for the hoopla, checking out his chief rival superstar of martial arts mayhem.
01:59What do you think of Jackie?
02:03I love Jackie. I've known Jackie for 30 years.
02:06Martial arts movies, once considered only fit for B-movie category as exploitation pictures,
02:12now have gained greater respectability.
02:14This is in no small part due to the influence of Rush Hour and other Jackie Chan films.
02:20Chris Tucker, representing one half of the dynamic duo of the movie, arrives and gives his verdict on the film.
02:29With the arrival of the other half, the crowd goes wild.
02:34He is Chan the stuntman, the actor, the writer, director and producer, the action choreographer,
02:40and now international celebrity.
02:44Hailed as the biggest star to come out of Asia since Bruce Lee,
02:47he has also been compared to such classic American stars as Gene Kelly,
02:53Buster Keaton,
02:55Harold Lloyd,
02:56Fred Astaire,
02:58Douglas Fairbanks,
03:01Charlie Chaplin.
03:02Not the usual names one associates with movie action heroes.
03:07Jackie Chan merchandise includes action figures, toys, comic books, cartoons, the list goes on.
03:13I know you also have a clothing line.
03:15Yes.
03:16Is that what you are wearing also?
03:17Yes.
03:18How do you have energy for everything?
03:19Luckily I have a lot of people to help me all those years, Korea,
03:23and even I have a lot of friends around the world.
03:28I have a Jackie's Kitchen in China, in Japan.
03:32I start, I try to come to America.
03:34I have a clothing line.
03:35I have a sports.
03:36I have all kinds of things coming soon, soon, soon.
03:38I have a Jackie Chan adventure.
03:40Now a top international superstar, it seems like it has never been any different for the invincible ball of energy that is Jackie Chan.
03:48Jackie Chan needs no introduction.
03:51But that was not always the case.
03:54Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong on April 7th, 1954, in the Chinese zodiac year of the horse.
04:00He was named Chan Kong Sang, which translates as Chan, born in Hong Kong.
04:10Just as success would be overdue for the future star, so was his birth.
04:15Hello. Hello everybody.
04:16Weighing 12 pounds at birth, his petite mother nicknamed him Pow Pow, Chinese for cannonball,
04:23only the first of many nicknames he would acquire over the years.
04:26His birth was so difficult, his parents couldn't afford to pay the medical bill,
04:31$26 in American money, a fortune to an impoverished Chinese couple.
04:36To cover the cost, the doctor offered to buy the infant boy to be adopted by a childless couple.
04:41After much soul searching, Chan's parents turned down the offer,
04:45and scraped up enough money to pay the bill and keep their child.
04:49The family moved to Australia to make a new start,
04:55but the Chans wanted to make sure their little boy received a Chinese education.
05:00At the age of seven, Kong Sang was apprenticed to the Peking Opera Academy in Hong Kong.
05:04Peking Opera is a Western term for an Asian theatrical form with highly stylistic presentation
05:12that emphasizes acrobatic skill, telling stories from Chinese literature, history, and myth.
05:19At the Academy, Chan learned acting, singing, dancing, acrobatics, and of course, martial arts.
05:26Jackie taught me an ancient, old secret. I can't really tell y'all.
05:30Yet the students were not taught to read or write, nor much else to help them find employment in Hong Kong,
05:37where Peking Opera was fading in popularity.
05:40For the students, it meant grueling training from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day,
05:48and frequent beatings with a cane as punishment to encourage discipline and to toughen them up.
05:53Chan excelled at acrobatics, which he later utilized in his films.
06:01Chan forged his mind and body into the instrument which would one day astonish the world with its grace and abilities.
06:09After his ten years at the Academy, he left, joining with a group of other former students to form an acting troupe called the Seven Fortunes.
06:22Among his comrades in the troupe were Sammo Hung and Yin Biao, who would go on to success both on their own and in collaboration with Chan.
06:30Chan considered Sammo Hung a big brother, and the two had a deep friendship tempered with a sometimes bitter rivalry.
06:42The highly acrobatic Yuan Biao, Chan considered a little brother.
06:47The three started working their way into movies made in Hong Kong.
06:54Over the years, the trio would periodically separate, then reunite to work in pairs or all three together in movie projects.
07:04Chan had previously appeared in movies as a child, being loaned out by the Peking Opera Academy to local producers.
07:14But at the age of 17, he started working regularly in the movies as a stuntman, extra, and supporting player.
07:23When Chan went to visit his parents in Australia, Aussies had trouble pronouncing his Chinese name.
07:29So he picked up the name Jack. Jack soon became Jackie, the name he would carry into movie legend.
07:35Like most people around the world, he liked American movies.
07:40Who was that?
07:41Kurt Douglas.
07:42Oh, Kurt Douglas.
07:43Kurt Douglas.
07:44Kurt Douglas.
07:45I remember seeing the movie.
07:46I even don't know the title.
07:48He was one eye.
07:49You wish a thousand times that you were dead.
07:54You were dead.
07:55You were dead.
07:59Sound of Music.
08:00Sound of Music.
08:01Yes.
08:02Jackie Chan's idol at childhood Sound of Music.
08:05Yes.
08:06Well, you started off on one path.
08:07Yeah, because at that time I don't know Angus, I know the story.
08:11And I know the sound.
08:12Very easy.
08:14A deer, a female deer.
08:18So, it's very good.
08:20It's not surprising.
08:21Sound of Music was the most popular film in Hong Kong, breaking all records there.
08:29But Hong Kong also had a long movie tradition.
08:33After the fall of mainland China to the communists, Hong Kong became a center of movie production for Chinese language films.
08:39When Japanese film production stagnated in the 1960s, Hong Kong quickly became the chief producer of films for the Asian market.
08:48The Kung Fu Beast.
08:50Kung Fu movies, also called martial arts films, evolved from the theatrical tradition of the Peking Opera.
08:56These featured stylized combat sequences, which were the highlights of the movie, less involved with presenting realistic combat than providing a good show.
09:05martial arts sequences were indeed like dance numbers, with action choreographers directing the fight scenes the way dance choreographers directed dance numbers and musicals.
09:17The plots existed solely for the purpose of connecting a series of fight scenes.
09:22The Tibetan Tiger Men.
09:25With his academy training making him a well-honed martial artist and acrobat, Chan made for the perfect actor in martial arts films.
09:32Like film makers of the early days of Hollywood, Hong Kong movie makers employed a considerable amount of improvisation.
09:43Do you even start out with a script? I mean, you just make it up as you go.
09:46No. You know, we are the most easy script man for us.
09:50You know, they write dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, dialogue.
09:53When the fighting scene coming, just fighting.
09:56Yes, fighting. Then we just think about fighting.
09:58And at the end, big fight.
10:02Happy ending.
10:03Really.
10:05Things hadn't changed that much nearly 30 years later, according to Chris Tucker on the set of Rush Hour 2.
10:11This whole movie is improv. We don't have a script.
10:14We don't have a script. Do we have a script?
10:16No.
10:17We don't have a script.
10:18We're all going off of faith and just prayers.
10:22Every day we wake up, we just pray that we come through.
10:27For y'all, for the people.
10:30How can they fight, Jackie Chan fight the guy in the refrigerator, fight the guy in the...
10:36They don't know. They just know how to write the comedy, dialogue, then drama.
10:41Then the fighting scene coming. Big fight scene. Small fight scene. Comedy fight scene. That's all.
10:49We don't know what we... We do know what we're doing.
10:52We know what we're doing. We just ain't got no script.
10:55Chan's big break almost arrived in 1972 when he was 17.
10:59Cub Tiger from Kwantung featured Chan in the lead role, but as luck would have it, the production company went out of business and the unfinished movie was shelved.
11:09Only when Chan became a big star years later was the film completed and released, with a double filling in for Chan in the rest of the movie.
11:18Hard as it was to break into movies in Hong Kong, it was even harder for Chinese actors to get much attention from Hollywood.
11:24To gain a worldwide market, one had to crack the American market.
11:29In the early 70s, it looked as though one charismatic actor from Hong Kong was going to do just that and break through to international superstardom.
11:38Bruce Lee had gained some recognition in Hollywood for his role of Cato on the TV show The Green Hornet.
11:43However, frustrated with typecasting, he left California and returned to the town of his youth, Hong Kong, accepting an offer by producer Raymond Chow to appear in two martial arts movies.
11:55The first was called Fists of Fury, or The Big Boss.
11:58This was my fault.
11:59Lee's second film was The Chinese Connection, a period piece about rival martial arts schools in Shanghai.
12:14Jackie Chan was one of the many stuntmen involved in the production, doubling for featured performers or playing one of the many thugs Lee beats up.
12:22He also got to perform a memorable stunt, which won the praise of Bruce Lee.
12:29Doubling for the chief villain Suzuki, Chan was kicked through a wall by Lee in the film's climactic battle.
12:36There was a somersault flying out the window. He gave me a real kick. Then I fall out with no man, nothing. He just come in and grab me, oh, you're great. I said, it's okay, I'm fine.
12:47Lee's outstanding martial arts abilities and charisma finally attracted the attention of Hollywood.
12:54He was hired to appear in a major American film, Enter the Dragon.
12:58The big budget martial arts extravaganza featured practically every martial artist and stuntman in Hong Kong.
13:05Chan once again served as an extra and stuntman, usually as one of the villain's henchmen.
13:11In a couple of the fight scenes, Chan took on Lee with predictable results.
13:15The second, the second movie we did is Under the Dragon. Yeah, he was fighting with two sticks.
13:24I'm the one of the guy. He gave me real one hit on here. I was like a blackout, like a one second, two seconds.
13:33But I fell down. He kept acting until the camera said cut. He come in, oh God, did I really hit you?
13:40I said, no, fine, fine, fine, fine. But I really have a big scar in my eyes.
13:45But you know, being a stuntman, he said, okay, I just turn around and go away.
13:49Enter the Dragon was the Rolls Royce of martial arts films and eclipsed Sound of Music as the most popular film ever in Hong Kong.
13:59This movie was to be Lee's grand entrance into Hollywood and international cinema as a major new star.
14:08Then, tragedy struck. Just before the premiere of Enter the Dragon, Lee suddenly died.
14:14For the Hong Kong film industry, it was a doubly tragic event, not only for the loss of an enormous talent, but also because Lee was going to lead the way for Hong Kong films, directors and actors to get international recognition.
14:29With Lee gone, the world again seemed to turn away from Hong Kong movies.
14:33Desperate to continue the momentum started by Lee's popularity, Hong Kong producers hurriedly came out with a bunch of movies capitalizing on the Bruce Lee legend.
14:44A six-year worldwide talent search discovers actor Lee Shushen to portray Bruce Lee.
14:50These starred an embarrassing series of Lee imitators. Some picked for stardom not for their athletic or acting abilities, but because of their resemblance to Bruce Lee.
14:58So much like him, you'll swear Bruce Lee lives.
15:02Bruce Lee names his successor. Introducing a new star, Bruce Lee.
15:07Meanwhile, Jackie Chan kept on paying his dues, working his way up in Hong Kong films as stuntman, martial arts coordinator and actor in increasingly bigger roles.
15:18He appeared in a supporting role in Lady Kung Fu, although most of the attention was on the attractive star, Angela Mao.
15:24The unbreakable China doll, who gives you the licking of your life.
15:29Chan performed stunts in Slaughter in San Francisco.
15:32Chuck Norris played the villain in this film.
15:35Don Wong.
15:37This film actually starred newcomer Don Wong, who was being heavily promoted as a successor to Bruce Lee.
15:43In a bit part, Chan performed the usual task of having the pulp beat out of him.
15:47Hand of Death, Team Chan with former Seven Fortune Sammo Hung, under the supervision of John Woo, directing his first film.
15:57The actors had only supporting roles in this minor picture, but it demonstrated the talents of the future stars and one day acclaimed director.
16:05To gain attention, Jackie, one of hundreds of supporting players and stuntmen, became a different actor.
16:11Daredevil, willing to risk himself in the most dangerous and difficult stunts.
16:14To gain attention, Jackie, one of hundreds of supporting players and stuntmen, became a daredevil, willing to risk himself in the most dangerous and difficult stunts.
16:39He began making an impression on those around him with his steadfast dedication to professionalism and by always trying to improve his performance.
16:51Jackie is the most patient person I've ever seen in my life.
16:58I learned discipline. Jackie is the most...
17:00He makes it seem like I'm late. I come to set on time. Jackie's there two hours before that, dressed, sitting on the set.
17:11So, discipline, patience, hard worker. He's a great role model. Great role model.
17:18When he was recognized as a talented performer, it was inevitable that Hong Kong producers would try to force Chan into the Bruce Lee mold.
17:28But Chan did not want to follow in Bruce Lee's footsteps. He wanted to make his own path.
17:32While he had great respect for the late performer, Chan knew he could not replace him so easily.
17:39When Chan was allowed more freedom to let his personality as well as his abilities show, Hong Kong audiences liked what they saw and Chan's star rose.
17:48Chan established one of his trademark skills, using ordinary household objects as fighting weapons.
17:59Free of the pressure of being another Bruce Lee, Chan was able to develop his own screen persona.
18:06In 1976, he started going by the anglicized name of Jackie Chan, hoping to reach a wider audience.
18:13Chan continued in the same mode, expanding the comedy in his films, while always striving for more impressive stunts.
18:21The combination won an increasing number of fans, not only in Hong Kong, but all around Asia.
18:26These films proved a tremendous success in Hong Kong, and Chan leapt to stardom.
18:48The Young Master, made in 1980, was Jackie's first movie for famed Golden Harvest Productions.
18:53He starred, directed, and served as stunt coordinator.
18:56The result was more freedom for Chan, and greater stardom in Asian cinema.
19:04But to reach a worldwide market, Chan needed to crack the high walls of Hollywood.
19:09In 1980, he made the leap into American movies.
19:12I'm famous in Asia. I have to be famous in Hollywood.
19:19So I'm coming to Hollywood.
19:21But later on, I find out there's too many big stars in Hollywood.
19:25I cannot be the biggest.
19:27But in Asia, I'm the biggest.
19:29But Chan's reputation did not precede him into Hollywood.
19:33Jackie's first movie shot in America was The Big Brawl.
19:36The tale told of a Chinese martial artist coerced by a gangster into participating in a winner-take-all bare-knuckle fight in the 1930s.
19:46We are breaking bones over here!
19:50The American director gave him very little control over the stunts, even though Chan had been choreographing fight scenes for ten years in Hong Kong.
19:57Right over here!
19:59And out of the east comes a new master of martial arts.
20:05Although the film received a few good notices from critics, impressed with Chan's abilities and humorous appeal,
20:12low box office receipts told producers that American audiences weren't interested in another kung-fu movie.
20:19Action movies of another nature were gobbling up ticket sales.
20:24Sylvester Stallone, first blood, incredible adventurer of all, Conan the Barbarian.
20:37Chan disdained the violence and carnage of these action pictures.
20:41He liked one of Sylvester Stallone's movies, though.
20:43My mind is Rocky.
20:44Yes.
20:45Yeah, Rocky, because all the things, there's no blue screen, no computer things.
20:55Electricity is all over the place tonight.
20:57Wish me luck, I'm gonna need it.
20:59The underdog story of Rocky had a situation and a character with which Chan could identify.
21:06Rocky is not the only American movie to inspire Jackie.
21:09Among the movies he liked most were those of the great silent comedians, such as the poetic grace of Charlie Chaplin.
21:16The high-risk adventures of Harold Lloyd.
21:19The ingenuity and face of adversity of Buster Keaton.
21:23It was the likes of these talented acrobatic comedians that Chan had the greatest kinship with, and was most influenced by, as can be seen in his films.
21:34Keaton especially seems to have influenced Chan in his stunt work.
21:39Buster Keaton's Cops demonstrates not only the speed and daring Chan craves in the action segments of his films, but also the unusual inventiveness of the gangs.
21:47When Chan began directing, he demonstrated the influence of American movies by paying homage in scenes of his own movies.
21:55He duplicated Harold Lloyd's hair-raising high-rise troubles of safety last, with one scene in Project A.
22:04Keaton braves a windstorm in Steamboat Bill Jr. and has a house fall on him.
22:12Chan repeated the gag in Project A, Part 2.
22:16The grand finale scene featuring a wind tunnel in Operation Condor was also inspired by Buster Keaton's battle against a windstorm in Steamboat Bill Jr.
22:25While in America, he jumped at the chance to appear in a Hollywood comedy about a cross-country race.
22:36The stellar cast included Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Farrah Fawcett, along with Hong Kong actors Jackie Chan and Michael Hui.
22:46But Jackie had only a supporting role as a Japanese driver.
22:54At that time, Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, the big director, Hell Needham, wow, they're big.
23:00It looks very small. I totally destroyed my confidence.
23:04And that's good things. Why? Because in Asia, when I'm becoming a big star, I'm kind of like a snobbish.
23:10I'm big. But when I come to America, they destroy me. American audience destroy me.
23:17And the actor, actress, when I see them, they never say hello to me.
23:22Yeah, only some Burt Reynolds knows me. They, I, Jackie, but somebody knows, they don't know who I am.
23:28Jackie Chan.
23:30While his martial arts were superb by American standards, he was not allowed to fully develop the potential to best effect.
23:36I'm Roger Moore.
23:37Roger Moore.
23:39Roger Moore.
23:42Although Chan had good company, the crowded movie screen gave little time to his efforts.
23:47We all make mistakes, but 160?
23:50Cannonball Run was a box office hit, making $100 million worldwide, the most financially successful movie Chan had made so far.
23:58But Chan felt let down. However, when the film was screened, he noticed that the audience enjoyed watching the outtakes at the end of the film.
24:05That's Chanball Perfect.
24:09Intrigued with the idea, he initiated the practice for his own films when he got back to Hong Kong.
24:18When things go wrong in a martial arts movie, they often go hilariously wrong.
24:21Outtakes at the end credits have been a trademark of Jackie's films ever since.
24:27When you see the movie, at the outtake, you see what happened.
24:30Although disappointed in American Ventures, Chan didn't let it get him down.
24:43He returned to Hong Kong and dived back into work.
24:47In Project A, Chan played a Hong Kong Marine defeating a gang of Chinese pirates.
24:52The film was a huge hit.
24:59Teamed up with Jackie were Peking Opera Pals Sammo Hung and Yuan Biao.
25:07Project A provided plenty of stunts for the athletic performers, with Chan in the director's chair.
25:15You wanted it. You got it.
25:18Busy with his own projects and soured on appearing in American films, Chan did not want to appear in the Cannonball Run sequel.
25:24However, he was contractually bound to join the rest of the stellar cast for Cannonball Run 2.
25:31Jackie Chan.
25:33Again, it had a big cast of stars, including Burt Reynolds, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dom DeLuise.
25:39What a team.
25:41Again, it told of a cross-country race.
25:43And again, Chan felt underutilized and ignored.
25:46Cannonball Run 2.
25:49Back in Hong Kong, Chan teamed up with some of his former Seven Fortune Brothers for several movies in the slapstick vein.
25:57Winners and Sinners, also called Five Lucky Stars, had Sammo Hung and several other popular Hong Kong comic actors playing five ex-cons trying to go straight.
26:07The emphasis was on slapstick comedy and low-brow humor.
26:11Occasionally, fight scenes and kung-fu antics were thrown in.
26:13Jackie had the supporting role as a helpful cop.
26:18The opera brothers, Jackie, Sammo and Yuan, went to Spain for Wheels on Meals.
26:36This comedy was about fast food sellers Chan and Biao becoming entangled with a beautiful thief, endangered by a man.
26:43gangsters.
26:45Sammo Hung directed and coordinated the stunts, as well as playing a private detective in the film.
26:54The three former Fortunes Troop members had fun in this rollicking comedy.
26:59The three brothers were back for more in My Lucky Stars.
27:12The sequel to Winners and Sinners, it proved another big box office hit in Asia.
27:16Sammo Hung directed and coordinated the stunts.
27:30In one scene, Chan's character wears a doll suit and does battle with a man in a demon suit.
27:42In Hollywood, a stuntman would have doubled for a star whose face is not seen.
27:49But nobody doubles for Jackie Chan.
27:55The next sequel, Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars, provided more high-flying martial arts vying with low-brow hijinks.
28:01Even though his martial arts sequences dazzled audiences, Chan had to compete for screen time with the other stars of the films.
28:13But these movies were unlikely to make much of an impact outside of Asia.
28:18While hugely popular in the Asian market, they did not do much to further Chan's career.
28:29Jackie still felt the need to make a splash in Hollywood.
28:35In 1985, Chan once again attempted to break into the American market with another Chinese-American co-production, The Protector.
28:42Now, New York has a new weapon.
28:46This action film tried to force Jackie into the mold of an American action star.
28:51He was at constant odds with the director, who wanted to make a Dirty Harry-type movie.
28:56For the Hong Kong release of the film, Jackie insisted that all the profanity, nudity and bloodshed be cut out,
29:02which he thought undermined the film.
29:05And he then reshot the entire final fight scene.
29:08Jackie Chan is the protector.
29:13It makes me worry that the family audience, they think action movie is a violent.
29:18And they won't go to the theater.
29:21But in Asia, they know Jackie Chan movie, children, daughter, everybody go to see it.
29:26So this is why I come to America and I want everybody to see my movie. That's all.
29:30This film, too, made little impression on American audiences.
29:35Chan was more than disappointed.
29:39Even if Hollywood ignored him and the rest of the world never heard of him, Jackie continued to wow audiences throughout Asia.
29:45Over the next ten years, he thrilled audiences with his martial arts, his comedic style and sheer stunt work daring in an astonishing series of action comedies.
30:04In the Asian market, Chan was tops, and he and his films were often nominated for prestigious awards, especially for a category unheard of in Hollywood, Best Action Design.
30:25Best Action Design.
30:27All the years of training and hard work, all the hardships at the Peking Opera Academy, all the techniques he had acquired in years of struggle in the Hong Kong movie factories, all that he had learned from American movies, coalesced into the films he made now.
30:41Free wheeling, flamboyant, and perfectly blending action with comedy, these movies were critically acclaimed box office smashes throughout Asia.
30:50Armor of God introduced another new character, Asian Hawk, inspired by Indiana Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark Adventures.
30:59Armor of God introduced another new character, Asian Hawk, inspired by Indiana Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark Adventures.
31:16Jackie loved the Indiana Jones movies, and not only imitated them, but in many ways, topped them.
31:21Moreover, Chan performed stunts not only Harrison Ford would never do, but few Hollywood stunt doubles would dare attempt.
31:29Project A, Part 2, sequel to the popular movie of the same name, was another example of Chan starring, directing, and coordinating stunts.
31:42It was even more successful than Project A, winning Best Action Design at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 1987.
31:48Dragons Forever, directed by Sammo Hung, featured the three Seven Fortune Brothers in another rousing martial arts extravaganza.
32:01Chan played a lawyer for a powerful chemical factory who falls for an environmental activist trying to shut the plant down.
32:08It marked a rare Jackie film centering on romance, although as always leavened with humor.
32:21Although he didn't like The Protector, it inspired Chan to make his own cop movie, Police Story.
32:27Made in 1985, it introduced one of Jackie Chan's best-known characters, Police Inspector Kevin Chan.
32:35One of the most outstanding of Chan's films from the 90s was Police Story 3, eventually released in the United States as Supercon.
32:43Chan reprised the role of Hong Kong detective Kevin Chan.
32:47This time, he teamed with Hong Kong action superstar, Michelle Yeoh.
32:52Jackie won the Best Actor Award in Taiwan for this film.
32:57More than anything else, it was Chan's outstanding stunt work that astonished audiences.
33:06Like the stuntmen of the early days of Hollywood, Hong Kong action choreographers rely more on daring and ingenuity than careful planning.
33:14Like before the Rambo in the Bronx, we jumped over the building.
33:19There's nothing, I suppose, only chasing scene.
33:22After chasing scene, I can kick the guy, pick up the motorcycle, run away.
33:27But after I look at the building, ah, there's the balcony, the next building.
33:34Can we jump over?
33:36It's more exciting.
33:37Yes, let's do it tomorrow, you know.
33:39We have nothing training, just do it.
33:41Stunt work in Hong Kong is more an art than a science.
33:48We are crazy, but not really crazy.
33:51When we think about the stunt, we think the human being really can do it.
33:57You know, of course, not the normal human.
34:00Yeah, see, from the 10-story jump to the ladder.
34:03How far I can jump?
34:04Okay, we test on the road, the floor first.
34:07Jump.
34:09Just jump, okay, about 12 feet.
34:12Okay, but 10-story high.
34:15We put some map.
34:16We're not like our American stuntmen.
34:17They have a calculator.
34:19You know, match the wind.
34:21We don't.
34:23Because they've been doing this for many years.
34:26For us, we've been kicking and punching only.
34:28Yeah.
34:29But these kinds of things, for us, very new.
34:32We don't know how to, the helicopter, we just guess.
34:35And also, when we choreograph all the fighting, we don't have a schedule.
34:42We're not saying, ah, we have this.
34:44Well, no.
34:45We understand, suddenly we see some bridge.
34:47Okay, we can jump off the bridge.
34:49Then two days later, we just jump it.
34:50And that means you have a gust of none.
34:54Chan often insisted everybody do their own stunts.
34:57Even the women in Jackie's movies are at high risk.
35:01Co-stars Maggie Chung, Michelle Yeoh, and other actors faced incredible risks making Chan's movies.
35:09Michelle told me about a couple things.
35:10She said you made her do all of her stunts.
35:12Yeah.
35:15See, she's a tough woman.
35:17She's tough women.
35:18Yeah.
35:19Now, she told me that she didn't want her to do all the stunts.
35:20Is that true?
35:22You didn't want her to do all of the stunts?
35:24I said, some stunt don't do it because you're a girl.
35:27You're not like me.
35:28Oh, wait a minute.
35:29A girl is lesser than a man?
35:30Is that what you're saying?
35:31No.
35:32Jackie.
35:33No, because she's pretty.
35:35Not like me.
35:36I broke my nose.
35:37I broke my eye.
35:38It's okay.
35:39That's okay.
35:40No, even if she got something wrong, I have to get married with him.
35:44That was her.
35:45I was on top of a van, and people are shooting at me from inside the van.
35:49So I rolled to miss the bullets, and I rolled off the van.
35:53And Jackie is coming in a car, and he is supposed to catch me on that car.
35:58And I rolled off the police.
36:01But in that stunt, it went wrong.
36:03Yeah, she almost died.
36:04He saved my life.
36:05He saved my life.
36:06For real?
36:07I mean, in actuality, you saved your life?
36:09He did.
36:10Yeah.
36:11So many stunt personnel were injured in Jackie's films that many refused to work for him again.
36:15I'll be.
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36:24Oh, my.
36:25In response, Chan created his own stunt team known as the Jackie Chan Stuntman Association.
36:29Come on!
36:30Working with the same stunt people enabled Jackie to rely on those he was most familiar with,
36:36and who knew what their demanding director wanted.
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37:36I was on the side on it on the side suppose I turn around go back just
37:42missed it that the helicopter just go on you know bomb on me and I was black out
37:50he hit me on the wall in the wall the helicopter pilot is just like this and
37:57some other guy just touch lower up lower up he cannot see me he just did it
38:03yeah going down good now it's my face also okay it's my body okay move back
38:10okay but I was like this no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no not strong enough
38:17more fast then he do it again no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
38:21fast that's a boom I just boom and then he hit a good take a good take okay move to next
38:31undaunted Chan continued filming I've been hanging 15 days every day at seven o'clock in the morning
38:37after from the countryside handing on the uh the the ladder 20 minutes to the city and at least one
38:46hour then going back you know the the traffic everybody stopped the car to wave hi he has
38:52also received burns cuts and broken bones nose broken three times broken ankle dislocated hip
38:58dislocated cheekbone dislocated breastbone a front tooth knocked out Chan's body is a book written
39:05with all the stunts that went bad this kind of heat it's a real good take but you get hurt but you get
39:11hurt already gone Jackie also injured himself doing skateboard stunts in City Hunter Chan takes it all in
39:19the stride you just oh good take okay next shot will be like this okay what was the most dangerous
39:26stunt that you've ever performed the one that kept you up you know sleepless the night before
39:31uh I think there's a two stunts very scary one is the um Rambo in the Bronx charm of the building yes
39:43yeah they say you broke your ankle on is that when you yes yeah the broken ankle one stunt nearly killed
39:50him he was performing a simple jump from a wall to a tree branch the branch broke and he fell 15 feet
39:57landing on his head fracturing his skull and driving a piece of bone into his brain on the verge of death
40:03he was rushed to the hospital where emergency brain surgery was performed to remove the bone shard he still
40:09has a hole in his skull with a plastic plug under his scalp to keep his brains from coming out as
40:14he puts it the big one here why doesn't he use a stunt double like other stars such as Van Damme
40:21Schwarzenegger and Seagal they're not stuntmen so you're talking about Schwarzenegger he's a bodybuilder
40:28he's not the action star right so this is why when he uses a stunt stuntman a double we should forgive
40:36him if I'm used a stuntman nobody forget I was a stuntman before the Hong Kong imports which had
40:44limited release in the United States quickly gained a strong cult following among cinephiles wowing
40:50American and European reviewers and influencing American filmmakers directors such as Quentin Tarantino
40:56embraced and lauded the Hong Kong imports as well as imitating them another propitious sign was the rise
41:03in Hollywood of the action comedy genre films such as lethal weapon starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
41:10provided action and laughs and open the way for Chan's own style of movies to be accepted in the
41:15American market movies with equal emphasis on comedy as well as action were right up Chan's alley with
41:24renewed confidence Jackie again tried to tackle the American market this time he made sure he was in
41:30complete control of the film and it paid off rumble in the Bronx in its first week shot to the top in
41:36box office receipts with an opening weekend gross of 11 million dollars your first big great
41:42one of the first one suddenly everybody in America was talking about Jackie Chan but you're making a new film
42:03already you're already filming another one yeah a nice guy a nice guy um after here are going back
42:07you're gonna film a nice guy huh yeah the title called a nice oh that's the name of the movie yes
42:12oh I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm the nice guy hello everybody with the success of Mr. Nice Guy and other films
42:20some of Chan's best Hong Kong films finally gained wider release in the United States including Supercop
42:26Jackie and Michelle Yeo were on hand at the Planet Hollywood restaurant donating the rope ladder used
42:33for the helicopter scene in Supercop while plugging the American release of their movie are you excited
42:39ready for the film to open ma'am yes I I want to see the the new version new new sound effect yeah new music
42:47everything proof of his having made it in Hollywood came at the 1996 Academy Awards ceremony in which he was
42:53an Oscar presenter although that wasn't clear to the folks back home in Hong Kong you know I suppose
42:59now everybody ah Jackie you come to Oscar Jackie you come to Oscar now in Asia every front page you
43:04it's a Jackie okay like I'm I just present the war but now I think in Asia everybody I accept the war
43:10it's a totally yeah is this exciting for you to see your first Oscar yeah very exciting very so what no wonder
43:17why every film star they want to come to Hollywood now I know why suddenly Chan was everywhere
43:23doing guest appearances on TV shows including the NAACP image awards yeah presenting the outstanding
43:31comedy series Chan had the charisma the moves the style but fame can be brief in Hollywood if the
43:39hits stop coming how could Jackie stay on top a big decision that really changed your life
43:44making a rush hour yeah I know you're making rush hour too right now yeah two days ago yeah oh good
43:53while Rumble in the Bronx Mr. Nice Guy and other films were successful rush hour proved a mega hit
44:00that boosted Jackie into the heights of international superstardom in rush hour he played a Hong Kong police
44:07detective paired with a loud-mouthed fast-talking Los Angeles undercover cop played by the loud-mouthed
44:14fast-talking comedian Chris Tucker who was also rocketing to fame with his movie appearances
44:18me and Jackie don't understand a word we are saying to each other we don't understand each other we both
44:24have interpreters we have the combination of these two talented high-energy performers was box office boffo
44:33and critics compared them to previous Hollywood teamings of equal pyrotechnic chemistry Jackie's
44:39just a good person and we just we like each other you see most actors you see on film some of them don't like
44:44each other but me and Jackie we love each other so we feel comfortable around each other we say you know
44:49Jackie helped me with stuff and we come up with stuff on the set and it's just we like brothers
44:55in Shanghai Noon Chan played an Imperial guardsman who travels to the American West in 1881 to rescue a
45:04kidnapped princess Jackie was partnered with up-and-coming actor Owen Wilson in the role of a laid-back outlaw
45:11rush hour was such an international box office smash that plans were quickly made for a rush hour too
45:20I wanted to make sure that it was it was good and it was different because I knew we did it again
45:26it had to be it had to be different so it took a little while for them to convince me but once I
45:31talked to Jackie and he gave me the okay that it's going to be different and he's going to more
45:36action for me because Jackie put together the best action pieces and stunts there he is so I said let's
45:43do it Brett Rattner was back on board as director I'm doing rush hour to the sequel to my first movie
45:49instead of Jackie being the fish out of water in LA Chris is the fish out of water in Hong Kong
45:53the difference is bigger more bigger set pieces is around the world this time it's not last one
46:00is like losing LA who's going through you know I was going to a little train of town places like
46:05that but now this one is like traveling all over the place we in Vegas we in Hong Kong it's the
46:11interplay between Tucker and Chan that made both movies box office hits we should just change the
46:17name for a shower to name it Jackie and Chris characteristically Tucker is not above making
46:23fun of his sidekick and co-star Jackie is he around is Jackie around Jackie gets scared a lot about a lot
46:30of stunts he gets scared not to help Jackie do a lot of stuff if somebody fly back here make sure you
46:38don't know see I didn't stop crying I said Jackie just concentrate concentrate think think success think
46:48success and then he do he do he's a great guy when he's not crying and whining he's a great guy one
46:55thing I learned from Jackie is that I taught him a lot I learned Jackie's a good listener rush hour 2 is
47:03just the latest in a string of hit films for the top action star but he is already pursuing more
47:08success in new projects I'm pretty exciting right now and after I know it's the power one very
47:15successful so give me a lot of pressure right now I have to think about more difficult funny action
47:22difficult stunts and more things to the audience are you doing your own stance again always Chan helps
47:30build bridges of international understanding with his movies with the charities he supports and by
47:35helping introduce Asian ideas to the world at large as an Asian superstar he has also helped propel
47:42Hong Kong cinema into the spotlight a wave of Hong Kong directors actors and stunt coordinators came to
47:49Hollywood Chan's old pal Sammo Hong landed the starring role on a popular American TV series Marshall
47:55Long Jet Li began making martial arts action films for Hollywood as well as seeing his Hong Kong films
48:02go into mass release in America John Woo became a leading action director in Hollywood with such films as
48:08Broken Arrow Faceoff Mission Impossible 2 and Windtalkers Michelle Yeoh became a Bond girl in the James Bond movie
48:17Tomorrow Never Dies Chao Yun-fat broke into American films with action movies such as the replacement killers and
48:24the Corrupter and historical dramas such as Anna and the King international boundaries blur as movie
48:31productions involve people from all over the world at a recent reception at the Cannes Film Festival the new
48:37wave of Hong Kong movers and shakers got up on stage to celebrate their recent achievements in cinema
48:42they were the heirs of the intentions and aspirations of Bruce Lee without being imitators one Hong Kong
49:03production would even earn an Academy Award nomination for best picture crouching tiger hidden dragon
49:08but it is Jackie Chan who made the biggest splash in Hollywood
49:15his superstar appeal has crossed international boundaries and now he has worldwide fame doing the type of work he loves best
49:23if Hong Kong cinema gets the respect it deserves and Chinese actors directors and choreographers become popular in Hollywood
49:32it will be recalled that Jackie Chan helped lead the way now a superstar around the world
49:39Chan may feel the need to move on and explore new avenues for his boundless talent
49:44since you've done just about everything you've acted and you've done all your own stunt work
49:48do you the question is do you plan to produce and direct your films in the future
49:55yes I do because I've been looking for young talent so this right right now in my each movie I use new actress and find new actor and I believe for some day I want to be a very good action director
50:12yeah so this why I also producer he is at the age at which he said he would retire from the death defying stunts and concentrate on directing
50:21but now with international stardom built on his reputation for eye dazzling stunt work
50:26it seems likely he will continue in the same vein for some time
50:30the real stunt I think at least 45 another three four years
50:36yeah and if and the audience still likes me I may be continued to do it with the blue background computer
50:47especially with my reaction maybe 50 to 54
50:51whatever the future may bring whether a star or supporting player whether his writer director or stunt coordinator
50:58Jackie Chan will continue to dazzle audiences with his artistry and delight them with his wit
51:04even if he never made another film Jackie Chan has made his place in film history as one of cinema's all-time greatest stars
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