After 50 years in the industry and over 100 films with his name in the credits, Jackie Chan hardly needs an introduction. Loved by all, respected by all, Jackie Chan is universally called a legend. Jackie Chan has many fascinating moments in life that we, despite the fact that we are his fans, do not know.
So here 10 little-known and interesting facts about Jackie Chan:
10. His parents left him when he was a child
Jackie's father, Charles, was a spy working for the Chinese National Government, and while on assignment, he arrested the artist and opium saleswoman Li-Li, whom he later married. Both Charles and Lee-Lee had two children from their previous marriages, whom they left and flew to Hong Kong, where the communists came to power in 1949.
Jackie was born five years later and the first thing he did was sold for $ 26 to the doctor who helped him to be born. Later, Jackie was left in a boarding school, while his parents flew to Australia in search of work.
Life in the boarding school was difficult, Jackie and his comrades were given lessons in drama, acrobatics, martial arts and music, and beat for the slightest mistake. The boarding school did not teach reading or writing. At the age of eight, Jackie first appeared in the film, and after the death of Bruce Lee, he slowly began to transform himself into the new star of the Hong Kong film industry.
9. The real fight of the furious Jackie on the set
While filming "Diner on Wheels" in 1984, Jackie became angry at the painful blow of "reactive" Benny Urquidez (world kickboxing champion) while they were filming a fight scene with him. Jackie also left a few heavy punches on the boxer along the way. Furious and frustrated, Jackie challenged Urquidez to a real showcase match, and since Jackie himself was not a kickboxer, Urquidez warned him that he would be crippled.
Soon, the team members began to choose sides and place bets, but unfortunately for them, the show-off match did not take place. Not becoming to stir up the past, Jackie and Urquidez reappeared in the battle scene for the movie "Dragons Forever" (1988).
8. He nearly died doing the trick
Jackie Chan is a professional stuntman and has performed seemingly impossible deadly stunts with relative ease. But one day in 1986, he almost killed himself while performing a simple trick. He flew to Yugoslavia and went to the set (without acclimatizing) to jump off the wall into a tree.
Despite the fact that the first attempt was successful, it did not respond to his sense of perfectionism, and during the second attempt, Jackie fell from the branches of a tree, unable to grab them, and landed on the stones below.
As a result, he suffered a skull fracture, and one of the bones buried in the brain, which caused ear bleeding. The incident left its mark in the form of partially lost hearing on his right ear and a plastic plate that still covers the hole in his head.
7. He doesn't understand Hollywood
Jackie is not a big Hollywood fan. Even after years of success with blockbusters like Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon, Jackie says she doesn't understand American humor or the Hollywood craziness of car chase movies. Jackie stated that he did not like Rush Hour and that he would not star in a sequel, even if he was offered a truck full of money.
Early in his Hollywood career, Jackie sought the right to establish his own style as his early directors wanted to make him the new Bruce Lee. Still, Jackie Chan has become a revered superstar who may not have worked with Hollywood big daddies like Steven Spielberg, but that doesn't matter because "in Asia, everyone comes to see Jackie Chan in a Jackie Chan movie."
6. Awarded perfectionist
Cinema is a big deal. We are aware of the high expectations, especially of renowned filmmakers. Rumor has it that Charlie Chaplin re-shot the scene 300 times while directing his movie City Lights to keep the rose at the right angle in his hand.
David Fincher said that he makes an average of 50 takes for each of his scenes. But beloved Jackie Chan beat them all during the filming of Dragon Lord (1982), he did 2,900 takes in a single ten-minute scene. It was a detailed opening scene for the film, which featured a dozen stuntmen.
He was awarded a Guinness Book of Records entry for the most takes of the same scene.
5. A trick that makes his blood run cold
Even after years of practice and successful execution of the trick, Jackie finds each of his tricks intimidating. But none of them were as terrifying as the one he performed in Who Am I? If you've seen the movie, you'll well remember the climax as it slides down the 21-story Willemsserf building in Rotterdam.
He walked down the sloping side of the building at a 45-degree angle, toppled over, stood up and quickly descended before falling and sliding forward. It took him about two weeks to muster up the courage to perform this trick.
4. He sings and has already released 20 albums
He was strictly brought up in a boarding school, which did not give traditional lessons. Hard training as a child made him a master singer and since 1984 he has released 20 albums. Since 1980, he has sung in the end credits of all his Chinese films and has sung in the main theme of the film Young Master.
The Disney cartoon "Mulan" in the Chinese edition includes the song "I'll Make You A Human", dubbed by Jackie.
3. His body is full of mutilations
Almost every part of his body was in pain. Jackie has broken his arm countless times, broke his nose three times, injured his knee an unimaginable number of times, but now he uses a stunt double to shoot sprint scenes. He broke his ankle, neck, smashed his thigh between two cars, and dislocated his pelvis, shoulders and chest.
Jackie is known not only for performing his own stunts, but also for the fact that even injuries cannot prevent him from doing it.
2. Jackie Chan Stuntmen Association
Early in his career, Jackie was constantly injured during stunts with stuntmen. Since then, he has founded an association of stuntmen, which he called "Sing Kar Pen", which includes people whom he has trained and whom he trusts, some of whom are his boarding friends.
The team, along with Jackie as the choreographer, choreographed the action scenes and during the filming of the film they even live together. So far, Sir Kar Pen or the Jackie Chan Stuntmen's Association has worked in 28 Jackie films.
1. His records in the Guinness Book of Records
He has two more records - one for performing the most stunts of all stuntmen ever living, and the second for taking on 15 different professions in his latest film, Zodiac.
He has been a director, screenwriter, starringer, executive producer, producer, unit producer, art director, cinematographer, manager, props manager, stunt coordinator, stuntman, head light, lead singer, composer, and even a food dispenser.
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