"Slapstick" in Jackie Chan's Kung Fu Comedy

Adolfo 2022-03-22 09:02:50

Beginning and represented by the "Plan A" and "Police Story" series, Jackie Chan's kung fu comedy was established and has become a genre that can be singled out in Hong Kong films.

The first episode of "Police Story", the story is simple, the police make a big action, catch the drug dealer, the drug dealer's secretary is Brigitte Lin, the police chief wants to use her to report the drug dealer, and send Jackie Chan to protect it 24 hours a day. Maggie Cheung is Jackie Chan's girlfriend, jealous and misunderstood. Brigitte Brigitte first took the plan and put Jackie Chan together to make him embarrassed in court and the drug dealer was released. The drug dealer wants to take revenge on the male one and kill the female one. If one of these two crimes is committed in ordinary films, one must die. If they commit both, the death will be faster. In the end, Brigitte Lin stole criminal information for self-protection, but Jackie Chan couldn't be beaten to death. A shopping mall battle ended beautifully.

Jackie Chan's kung fu comedy is characterized by its structure of "slap and slapstick", kung fu is fighting, and comedy is slapstick. The opening scene is a big action scene. The entire shanty town on the hillside was finally destroyed into almost ruins with the joint efforts of the police and bandits. One has to wonder if this is the play of the director of the demolition office. In the famous scene, the two martial artists fell from the upper windshield of the emergency stop double-decker bus. This scene has been mentioned countless times. At that time, the two martial artists went directly to the hospital.

The shopping mall battle at the end is even more classic. There are countless textbook-level action scenes, all kinds of falling on the glass, and the difficulty factor of the action is like diving from a ten-meter platform. What about 720° swivels, back flips and swivels, and these actions should be named in the future. Jump for a family class. In the end, Jackie Chan jumped down from the top floor of the shopping mall, the fire splashed everywhere, and finally fell into the glass room. The bravery of Chengjiaban has created the pinnacle of Jackie Chan movies and Hong Kong action movies. What they have done, the Hong Kong dragon and tiger martial artists represented by Chengjiaban have done something unprecedented before and never followed.

After finishing the fight and saying "noisy", the queens who came to Jackie Chan's crew will be inspired by the comedy side. Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, straight policeman, petite female friend, and protected beauties witnesses, such a combination, comedy set. Certainly obvious. The stubbornness of the back was pierced by the scene, the cake was slapped in the face twice, and the court played an ambiguous recording of this traditional cliché. Haha, everyone came from naivety. And the scene where Maggie Cheung was directly pulled down on a motorcycle and sat on the ground, and Jackie Chan let go of Maggie Cheung and ran with the motorcycle, I admit that I laughed very happily. In addition, the scene where Jackie Chan answers five or six phone calls by himself at the small police station is the essence of Jackie Chan's comedy, and there is no semicolon.

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Extended Reading
  • Kacie 2022-03-22 09:02:50

    Forever Jackie Chan. . .

  • Estevan 2022-03-25 09:01:21

    Maggie Zhang was still a vase at that time.

Police Story quotes

  • Kevin Chan Ka Kui: [after being assigned to protect her from Koo's men, Kevin tries to persuade Selina to go home after she's been released from jail] Miss Fong, it's much too dangerous out here. Please go home.

    Selina Fong: I'll do what I want.

    Kevin Chan Ka Kui: Miss Fong, it's for your own safety.

    Selina Fong: [annoyed] Look, I don't need your protection, so get lost! Leave me alone!

    Kevin Chan Ka Kui: Are you sure? Do you know what happened to four other witnesses who said that?

    Selina Fong: [sarcastically] What? Somebody shot em? Don't try to scare me. So go on... what happened?

    Kevin Chan Ka Kui: Uh... nothing happened to them. They're all doing fine. But something could happen.

    Selina Fong: I hate you. Ya big jerk.

  • Supt. Raymond Li: Don't be a cop if you want to live to 100

    Inspector Bill Wong: You want this line on the recruitment poster?