Saturday, March 13, 2010

Jackie Chan: My Stunts

I particularly like this film not only because Jackie Chan is in it, but he does a great job telling his perspective on the behind scenes action - editing, stuntwork, camera work.

He goes really in depth with over 35-40 yrs of industry work..he can do it all. This made me have a great respect for him not only because he's in his 50's and still does his own stunt work - he is also very involved behind the scenes.

I never really considered the depth of how detailed and important each job of a filmmaker maybe. Jackie goes into depth of how timing is really key with choreography and how a simple shout or grunt can be the difference in correctly timing your kick or punch or the latter: accidentally kicking your co-worker in the face or worse.

I respect Chan for doing films the old way of actually using the little trick wire, the pennies on the glass, using knock off shoes instead of real shoes or fake props. The camera movements are so fast and the editing is on point to where you cannot readily tell that its fake or real. The whole film is posted on youtube, or you can buy it on Amazon or other places. Here is an excerpt from the film:




Chinese version: Pt 1



Sorry, but they would not allow an embed for the English version otherwise I'd post that instead of the url:

Pt. 1 (English)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOEUgbiBXMc

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