In all seriousness, seeing how long ago this film was made and to think that Jackie Chan had been doing his stunts for that long really makes me appreciative for him. Imagine how many times he’s gotten hurt doing these crazy stunts and kept going.
How can you not love Jackie Chan? He's been in movies way longer than people know. I'm 45 years old and when I was a kid my brother and I would go watch every Kung Fu movie we could find. Jackie was in many of the movies we watched so it was no surprise to us when he became a huge Star. Unbelievably talented but he trained his entire life to get where he is.
Did you have kung-fu theatre on Sunday afternoons? When I was a kid (I'm 48 now) on Sunday afternoons one of our local channels had a kung-fu marathon called "kung-fu theatre"
Because he abandoned and disowned his daughter, throwing her to the curb like trash, she was spotted at a homeless free food drive in 2022 in Toronto. What did she do to deserve such indignation? She married a woman.
wasn't the first film he appeared in, the one where bruce lee beat his ass with a staff whilst jackie was a stuntman in the movie Enter The Dragon and he heavily apologized to him for it?
The fight between Freddy and Thunder was much more intense than what the Recap has summarized so i highly advise to at least watch the fight scene if you are not going to watch the whole movie.
"Can you hear the silence?" "Can you see the dark?" "Can you fix the broken" *"CAN YOU FEEL MY HEART!"* A true masculine man can beat anybody as being the perfect definition of a human being
“And taking advantage of his father’s position and having a white ass name, they decide to settle the conflict with a fight” this sentence had me dead ☠️
In the Jackie Chan movie Shanghai Noon, which takes place in the old west, Jackie's Character Chon Wang changes his name to John Wayne to be more Cowboy Non Asian. His Friend says "That's a Stupid Cowboy Name." So funny. Gets me every time.
"Dad I mastered an extremely difficult martial art, are you proud of me?" "No." "Dad I snapped a man's neck like a walnut, are you proud of me?" *"Yes."*
A lovely movie. Not only the fight scenes, the whole setting is just great, I mean a village where everyone solves their problems via Kung Fu is just so cute, and displayed in a very believable manner.
@@Iamno1_hehe let me tell u, girls in ancient china do will seen as a disappointment if they dod this, and the father will be humiliated as seeing that a girls is stronger then him (if the father isn't nice, but if they are nice they would be worried ) oh and they would worry how the child is supposed to get married bc marriage is important, very important
I like this channel, it takes me a week or two just to watch 1 movie because I keep stopping the movie after 15 minutes, now I can watch a whole movie in 10 minutes here.
The "Drunken Master" movies - and there are several - are always fun. The movie-maker gives the audiences a big wink, but the skill and acrobatics required to perform all the improbable and impractical moves never failed to impress.
The character of Jackie Chan in this movie is also wong fei wong, the master of shadowless kick, this story of feiwong in his younger years,. the drunkard old man that teaches him drunken kung fu is no other than The legendary Drunken master Beggar Su. The founder of wushu..
In the old VHS copy I had the bad guy was called thunderfoot and Jackie Chan credited as Yackie Chan. Most of it was still the same as you described but I always find it interesting that people who are both considered fluent can translate things so differently.
I watched this movie so much when I was a teen. I loved the choreography and the shenanigans that Jackie's character gets into. I also enjoyed the wide angle shots that let the actor's choreography stand out. I remember seeing a documentary about how western and easter movie making were different. And one of those differences were how they did action shots. In western movies, they would do cuts, zooms, and dynamic camera movements to hide any mistake the actors might do and make the scenes more fast paced. This makes the action seem more action-y without needing to teach the actors a whole lot of movements. The eastern style was to use wide angle shots that have the action start at one side of the screen and transition to the next screen on the other side. So an angle might start with the characters at the left of the screen and move to the right, then the next screen would be set up. This allowed the audience to always see where the scene would be going and give them a full display of the hard work the actors put into the scene. Jackie Chan revolutionized this technique of film making by incorporating the surrounding objects into the fights. We can see this in a lot of his movies and it keeps the audience on their toes wondering what prop the actor will use next. Unfortunately, a lot of Westerners are desensitized to action so they crave more and more excitement in the scenes. This has led to the eastern movie industry to adopt western techniques. Fortunately though, I think that as we have become desensitized to the action, we have begun to be more sensitive to BA style action which martial arts choreography can proudly display.
I grew up watching all the martial arts movies from the 80s.. they were absolutely magical to me.. inspired me to take different disciplines when I got older
I watched the movie several times, but never saw Thunderleg's backstory (that he tied knives to his legs). In the normal movie he's just "the main antagonist", you don't really learn much about him except he's an excellent kung fu fighter & a killer. He's the threat & obstacle that "the hero" (Jackie Chan's character) has to overcome to prove his own kung fu excellence (and in a broader sense, he proves that he's turned from an undisciplined, moody brat to a disciplined, focused & capable man). I found it interesting, though, that in the final confrontation Thunderleg seems to be scared by Jackie Chan's master who comes to watch. So is this an alternate version / director's cut, or did they cut out that scenes for the theatrical relase?
I owned the newer version of Drunken Master, again with Jackie Chan in it. I never knew that the newer version (from the late 90's) was a remake, and its even cooler Jackie got to redo his old film...I think the newer gave the film a new breath of life.
I miss old kung Fu movies. The art has died ..not the style of fighting but the moral discipline and compassion for life . May God have mercy on mankind
