1985 ‘警察故事’ Directed by Jackie Chan
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Selina, who will testify against the gangster in court.
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FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!
aspirational. a masterpiece. jackie chan’s physicality here is just... unparalleled. huge respect for him using that to great effect even outside of the action scenes, it really drives home how much comedy is derived from just pure physical commitment. i’m in awe! i dream of getting to use my body this way. just fully becoming a swiss army knife, staging pratfalls and stunts, both big and large, so perfectly choreographed that your body stands somewhere between a ragdoll and a gymnast. everything in this movie is so vaudevillian, even the villains, and that doesn’t come to a halt when the fighting begins. the way jackie uses the scenery has always been my favorite thing about his work and he transitions…
There's a moment where Jackie Chan does the moonwalk in order to scrape off some cow poop from his shoe, so you know you're in a safe space. I'll never go to a mall the same way again.
i have never been so happy as when EVERYBODY in the theater started hollering when jackie chan slid down the mall pole three times in a row
95
There's really nothing like Police Story. Action and comedy in harmonious sync. Jackie Chan offers humor not as a counterpoint but as punctuation between action beats. It's so complex in what movements he emphasizes and how he leads the viewer to the next development almost entirely through action. Watching him perform, even in standard expository scenes, is a unique and exhilarating experience, and this is one of his mountain peaks as an artist. Basically one all-timer moment after another.
Jackie Chan plays detective Kevin Chan. A lot of violence towards women for comedic effect
u might say that chaplin and keaton were the masters of screen comedy and nobody else could ever touch them, but unlike jackie chan, chaplin and keaton never Moonwalked cow shit off their converse. forget herzog, jackie chan is a true solider of cinema; every outtake in the blooper reel is just him getting escorted to the hospital. few others have given so much for CINEMA. that man's body has healed so many times over that he must be a mutant. the restoration is so gorgeous, the color of jackie's sweaters truly pops, and every shatter of glass and gut punch and car crash is as intoxicatingly loud as it should be. not sure how i've seen over 50 or…
Jackie Chan goes to the mall and breaks every single pane of glass in sight.
there are so many perfectly timed action and comedy beats in this (often simultaneously) it's astounding. the sheer devotion to cinema on display. jackie chan the goat.
