Except when it's Sammo who doesn't hesitate to goad Jackie into doing some really insane shit. What are Big Brother's for?? "Shut up Little Brother, and just do it"....
The woman who fell off the car near the end was Michelle Yeoh who is in the running for an Oscar this year for Everything Everywhere All At Once. She was also a Bond girl when Pierce Brosnan was Bond. She had her start in the Hong Kong kung fu cinema doing her own stunts and she did some seriously hairy stunts (like jumping a motorcycle from an embankment onto a moving train). Clearly she survived falling off the car and into traffic.
what's crazy was before her debut in the action cinema she was as beauty pageant winner, Miss Malaysia. no training in martial arts or stunt whatsoever prior to that😂
@@EPThompson1 that was ballet, not sure that would help much from the kind of stunt she did, nobody had high expectations everyone thought she was just a typical girly girl like most HK sweethearts at that time but she gritted her teeth
In the actual behind the scenes, both she and the motorcycle were sispended by cables above the train and lowered into position. Also a stuntman jumped the bike over the train & into boxes on tbe other side. It was still good work by Michelle just not as dangerous as people were led to believe. She also credits Jackie with saving her life in the car incident by holding on to her long enough to deflect her fall.
This is why Jackie Chan is a legend that has unfortunately suffered a lot of injures because of his commitment. I’m glad I got to work as an extra when they where filming the spy next door, even if most of the footage was cut.
I love how Seth have these reaction. It's adorable to see his sympathy for others getting hurt. Now let's all remember all the times Seth did sketchy things with Icy Mike and Wonderboy. 😅
If I remember correctly, the clocktower scene was done twice. Apparently Jackie didn't like that version so he went and did it again - I'm not sure which take you watched but I think that was the second one. The film at 6:01 is Police Story 2 and sliding down that pole with all the lights resulted in an electric shock (for obvious reasons) as well as 2nd degree burns and, get this, a dislocated pelvis...ouch!
He actually does it three times. There is the one time in the movie and in the credit scenes you can see it done two other times. You can see that it's three separate falls because the falls and the landing are all different.
Seth you should see the behind the scenes of Police Story 3 and highlight Michelle Yeoh because she’s somehow an underrated stunt woman and actress. Jackie did the helicopter stunt in that movie because he had to try and outdo Michelle’s motorcycle jump and roll onto a moving train because he was the star of the film haha. There’s a scene where Michelle was supposed to fall of the back of a van and crash into the windshield of Jackie’s car but the special glass didn’t shatter and went tumbling around the car. She was nearly ran over and when the team got to her, she insisted to try it again. Hong Kong used to have some real tough talent.
old school chinese cinema: "wires?! we cant afford wires... also we dont care if you get hurt" everyone today : "wow so brave that they chose not to use wires"
You know the tree branch scene you just commented about grabbing the nonexistent lower branch? Well the first take was successful but Jackie was being a perfectionist and decided to do that stunt again, leading it to break and we see him fall like we just did just now. But it worked the first time.
Well..he also tore hus shoulder muscles, broke a rib, and dislocated a cheekbone ( something that the doctors, at the time, didn't know you could do). It seems on top of everything else...Jackie is the basis for multiple medical discoveries as well.
Jackie Chan took so many injuries that when he sees 2 people fall out of the car even he rushes to go see if they're OK. Cause he knows they aren't having a good time at that moment.
Even as a non martial artist, I always go for the foot catch. I guess years of hackey sack as a kid paid off. If it wasn't for that, I'd have a lot of broken phones.
A lot of these are from Rumble in the Bronx, which you may enjoy. It is in my top 5 greatest martial arts movies of all time and my fav Jackie Chan flick.
Actually... none of these are from Rumble in the Bronx. (Well, maybe some of the small "climbing the fence"-ones). Rumble is a Hollywood-movie, they would never allow him to do those kind of stunts there.
Tony did all of the stunts in Ong Bak. Tony was heavily influenced by Jackie Chan and he almost had a cameo in a Jackie Chan movie but unfortunately they had conflicting schedules. Tony Jaa could do a back flip and kick the ball out of someone’s hand who was on top of two other people. He also had an insane vertical jump. His stunt mentor once commented that gravity didn’t seem to affect Tony the same as anyone else 😂. Also I heard Tony used to watch wire fu movies as a kid and thought the jumps were real so he trained constantly in jumping and climbing trying to recreate those movies. Ah thanks to Tony we got a lot of great action movies out of Thailand.
That helicopter hang wasn’t even early days. That was the 90s. Jackie had already been at it since the 70s. No one told him no by this point. He did whatever he wanted.
The one where he slides down the pole with the lights, what happened is they got held up and the studio lighting heated up the metal and he got 3rd or 2nd degree burns on his hands
Most Hong Kong action films were shot with limited budgets and the action, especially if it was martial arts, was really up to the actors and the choreography was a place to start. The crazy dangerous stuff you see (though not to the degree that Jackie Chan routinely went to) was happening in almost every film. If you haven't scene Hong Kong action films and Thai action films from the 80's and 90's, then you haven't seen Action.
You should watch his outakes for Legend of the drunken master. Or any of the movies where you can see them. Donnie yen also has some great fight scenes
I don’t think there is another stunt man alive who would stand in for Jackie. I do believe all the stunts he did was just him, there are accounts of his injuries from every one of them
Please please react to "Jackie Chan - How to do Action Comedy" by Every Frame a Painting! I think it'd be an awesome way to both see some awesome stunts, but also gain some insight into exactly why he does the things he does.
what crazy was before Michelle Yeoh debut in the action cinema, which now she's considered as the queen of action cinema, she was as beauty pageant winner, Miss Malaysia. no training in martial arts or stunt whatsoever prior to that😂
Jackie's stun assistant did a few of the clock falls for him, same with the long glass building slide, not the slide down the lights and glass (you didn't show it tho)
One of the hangs (not the fall) from the tower was done by Mars for the camera to focus ...another stuntman did a test fall for the same reason the first time and was taken to the hospital. After the guy was seriously injured, Jackie's father who was an extra in the scene tried to tell him not to do it. The next day he told his father that they weren't filming so he wouldn't be on set. Jackie was then prodded by Sammo to do the stunt and he reluctantly obliged. Realizing that he was still alive and relatively in one piece, Jackie, convinced that he could do it better, decided to do the stunt again while he was still full of adrenaline. Unfortunately, the last fall wasn't without serious injury. Also, Jackie did do the final building slide that was featured in the movie. He fractured his ankle again when he landed at the bottom and had to be help off the building. ie: BTS ... Who Am I.
Jackie has admitted to literally throwing a baby across a room in anger, and has disavowed his daughter for being a lesbian. So don't feel too bad when he gets hurt.
He's definitely not a the greatest human being. He's not from an educated background ( like basic education) and came from an abusive upbringing in the Chinese Opera, where they would be beaten with sticks if they got something wrong. He's open about his shitty behaviour, drugs, drunk driving, picking fights in clubs wih his friends when he was he made it big 40 years ago. The daughter thing isn't because she's a lesbian. He said he doesn't care, he just wants her to get a job to support herself and she doesn't want that lifestyle.
