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Nobody does action comedy like Jackie Chan. Perhaps this is why much of the action movies are meh these days? Maybe that explains it all.

Curious as to how people feel about "Kung Fu Shuffle" and "Shaolin Soccer" by Stephen Chow back in the 2000's? It fits the genre (of sorts), has comedy (although perhaps more oriental than western in sensibilities), and I've found them to be lots of fun. There's some parallels between him and Jackie, although Steven's not acted in a while.

Do you mean 'kung fu hustle'? 'kung fu shuffle' seems to be from 2010.

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Very interesting, nice video.

That moment when Jackie shakes his head when the actor doesn't perform to his liking, man, i would be destroyed...

I would still be floating on the euphoria of filming a fight scene with Jackie Chan. Cross one off the bucket list. Besides, I think he was shaking his head at himself as much as for the other guy. He said it himself, it's not pure skill, it's perseverance.

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Excellent breakdown. I love the side-by-side comparisons. Jackie Chan is the awesome.

Reminds me of behind the scenes of Rush Hour. The fight upstairs in the Chinese restaurant there's one gun and the American filmmaker wanted Jackie to toss it aside as if he would prefer to fight mano a mano.

Jackie pointed out the absurdity of that stupid concept altogether and made it so his character's focus in that scene was the exact opposite, to fight to get his hands on the gun, thus shutting the bad guy down.

It's awesome that he's done so many of his own stunts, but I feel bad for him because he's said one thing he loves about making films in America is they do everything they can to prevent him from getting hurt, and that's simply not the case in Hong Kong.

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My favorites are still his old Shaw Bro's pictures.
The static shot thing is the best. I HATE it when a 'fight' scene is all 1/3 second shots from behind patched together. It's ridiculous, and not followable, and yes, looks like a bunch of people flailing around, not a fight where people are getting hurt.

Well it's different. As a martial artist you're trained to do things a certain way.

But in Jackie's movies he's not doing martial arts in the traditional sense. It's more a peformance dance using martial arts moves. IT's a tightly scripted 'dance'.

He's also talented in that he understands film. He does things that on set seem non-sensical but LOOK good on film.

So - bloody - well - done. Upvote!!!

Excellent ! Thanks

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Sift of the week!

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