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One of the greatest movie stars in the history of movies:Jackie Chan.

Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Jackie Chan.

He's not Superman, he's Jackie Chan.

The big winner is an actor named Jackie Chan.

Steven Seagal is a sissy, even Arnold is an amateur,

next to the real last action hero.

My name is Chan, Jackie Chan.

Here is Jackie Chan.

He's been described as a cross between Bruce Lee and Buster Keaton,

if you can imagine that.

His new movie is called ''Rumble ln The Bronx''

and it opens this Friday.

Please welcome the one, the only, Jackie Chan.

Jackie's my hero.

About Jackie Chan? He's a great man.

Now is he really the most famous movie star in the world?

He's funny, he's charming.

Kind of kung fu Jerry Lewis.

America loves Jackie Chan.

Jackie Chan is like...He's the man.

l mean, is actually a household name

in countries where they have no houses?

He puts his life on the line.

He's the best stuntman that ever lived.

l was working with an actor.

Or is he genuinely the bravest action actor in the world cinema?

He's enormously talented.

He's a role model for all of us.

He's a great guy.

ls he definitely filmdom's first live-action cartoon character?

He's great fun. You know, he's what you see.

Now, hey, can one man really act, direct, produce,

choreograph his own films, perform all his own stunts

and enjoy a successful singing career,

have equal success in Hollywood east and west

and find time to have fun?

Well, he can if his name's Jackie Chan.

Now we know who we thinks he is, now lets find out who he think he is.

l mean, who's the real Jackie Chan?

''Mom and Pop''

Jackie was born on April 7th, 1954, in Hong Kong.

Oh, what a cute baby, and look at what a big nose he's got.

Well, all my family's got big noses, ahahaha!

These are his parents.

Jackie was born weighing a whopping 12 pounds and,

perhaps appropriately, was shaped just like a cannonball.

Jackie was such a heavy baby, 12 pounds,

my wife has such a difficult delivering him,

obviously she was totally exhausted.

The nurse brought the baby in and says

''Oh! He is so cute just like a cannonball.''

All my wife says is ''l don't want him, don't want him.''

She was joking of course.

l was a very, very naughty boy.

l give my parents a lot of trouble.

For their living, my parents have to move to Australia,

American embassy.

My father was a cook. My ma was a maid.

At that time, l really don't know. They're just leaving me.

When l out the school at that time l was 17 years old,

my father still had to back to Australia to work.

Then in front of the airport,

then my father said: ''Son, you are big now.''

No matter what you do, there's two things you have to promise me.

Don't do it.

l said:''What, father? Tell me?''

First, very important, no drugs.

Second, no triad, triad society.

And third one, don't gambling.

Then l said: Yes, l promise you.

But l break my third law. l did gambling a little bit.

And Jackie still maintains a close relationship with his father.

''A Life at the Opera''

At the tender age of seven,

Jackie was enrolled in Chinese Opera school.

Now what is Chinese Opera, you may ask?

Well, one thing its definitely

not is a lot of big huge people singing about love and all.

While instead Chinese Opera offers drama,

spectacle, extravagant costumes, kung fu, swordfights, backflips,

frontflips, sideflips, any of kind of flip you want

and all this kind of shebang.

We also have like punch, kicking, gymnastics, acrobatics.

Three days later, the teacher said:''Come, come, come, come here.''

l think it's about time you have a ''Jiazhang mian.''

Pow, pow, pow, pow. l was big shocked.

Even my father, my parents, my mother never hit me like this.

Also our contract is write if the teacher beat me till l die,

it's legal.

So it's very tough school.

You can say that again, dude,

and it was at this very tough school where Jackie met two men

who would become his partners in martial arts movie mayhem,

the wiry Yuen Biao and of course the burly Samo Hung.

This terrible trio would join forces

to create some of the really classic Hong Kong action comedy flicks,

including ''Project A'', ''Wheels On Meals'' and ''Dragons Forever''

Those years spent training at the opera school

really paid off in the unique sense of timing and showmanship.

And Samo Hung discusses the bond between the brothers.

The relationship between Jackie,

Yuen Biao and myself is not easy to define.

Through those years, we trained together, ate together,

lived together even bled together.

Today we're always apart,

but the bond between us remain very strong indeed.

l think the people will not have this kind of upbringing.

lt is very hard to understand.

All of Jackie's fellow Chinese Opera school graduates

went on to successful careers in the Hong Kong action movie industry,

and they all got together to celebrate

the 80th birthday of their instructor Master Yu Jim-yuen.

lt was the skills he learned from Master Yu

that allowed Jackie to become the world's most physical movie hero.

''Kamera Ready Kid''

Jackie made his stage debut as one

of the Chinese Opera school's performance troupe,

''The Seven Little Fortunes'',

and made his first film at the age of 7.

When l was 7, l was on the school,

training in the daytime

from 5 o'clock in the morning until at night. Very tough training.

Suddenly one day there's director came to our school.

He wanted to choose some child actor.

Then he just pointed, one, two, three, four, uh,

l'm one of them, and l'm becoming a child actor.

And believe it or not.

That's Jackie right there in the red circle

as he appeared in his very first film.

All the money l get, l give to the teacher.

And this popular black-and-white film

saw Jackie fight, take a fall and, hey, sing a song.

At that time l think, yes, movie good.

When l making a movie l don't have to training any more.

lnstead, Jackie got to appear as a supporting player in films

at both Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest,

with absolutely no idea that he would

become the industry's biggest star.

''Kung Fu Fighting Man''

Probably the most frequently asked question about Jackie,

next to ''Does he really do all his own stunts?'' or ''How tall is he?''

is ''What kind of martial arts does Jackie practice?''.

Well, the answer is: All of them.

After ten years. l learn Northern style,

then l learn karate, judo, hapkido, boxing, even boxing.

And just to prove it, here's Jackie ducking it out

with world kick-boxing champion Benny ''The Jet'' Urquidez.

Eeeesh. Aaah. Boxing is like a

bum, bum, bum, bum, quick, shoulder, yeh.

Which is Tong Long, what we call Tong Long,

l learn Tong Lang and also, at the end, l like Pak Mei.

Pak Mei is more like a, with the teeth here and this um,um.

All this martial arts training together with the physical skills

he had picked up at the Chinese Opera school

prepared Jackie for his career

as a unique kind of Hong Kong movie fall guy known only as:

''Lung fu mo see''.

lt's like a stuntman, but, kind of like a stuntman,

but translate to Chinese, is not stuntman. lt's lung fu mo see.

Wow. Dragon, tiger, something, we call.

We have to know this kind of thing.

And it was as a lung fu mo see

that Jackie worked on the classic Bruce Lee film

called ''Fist Of Fury'',

also known as ''The Chinese Connection''.

Yep, yep, yep! That's him right there as he appears in the film

as one of the students training at Bruce Lee's kung fu school.

Hard to believe, huh?

Being a stuntman at that time, l really earned a lot of money,

because, besides stuntman, l doubled for dangerous stunt,

dangerous stunt, different kind of pay.

Jackie plays a Japanese fighter in the 1972 kung fu classic called

''Hapkido'', and takes a serious beating from his Chinese Opera school

big brother Samo Hung, who was one of the film's stars.

Yep! and there's Jackie coming up to your left

and doing a nice looking header off the beam, off the balcony,

headfirst down. Ouch.

''Dragons Passing''

ln the 1970s,

everybody was kung fu fighting, and the reason those cats

were fast as lightning was this guy, Bruce Lee.

He was the first international Chinese action star.

Naturally, people compare Jackie to him.

Bruce Lee is a Southern style. My style is a Northern style.

So you can see in the movie,

when l fighting, totally different than Bruce Lee.

Jackie performed the most spectacular

stunt seen in Lee's ''Fist Of Fury''.

They just want me to double for the Japanese guy.

Outside of the window, at that time, l say ''OK, l do it''.

Wire with no mat.

One shot, go down.

Bruce Lee come and ''Shit! Wow, Jackie, are you OK?'',

l say ''OK, OK!''

Jackie also worked as a stuntman on Lee's most famous film,

''Enter The Dragon''.

He was fighting with like... twenty people at the same time

with the two sticks,

l'm at the end. l'm the end one, come out Pah!

Ooh! now that had to hurt.

l runs in, l fight him,

he turn around, one stick right in here,

they cut, he throw two sticks run away, look, ''Jackie!'',

then he grab me ''Oh, l'm sorry, l'm sorry!''

Bruce Lee may have killed Jackie on-screen several times,

but here his film ''Game Of Death''

saves out hero's bacon.

ln this scene from ''City Hunter'',

Lee's duel with basketball player Kareem Abdul-jabbar

gives Jackie some tips on how

to slam dunk his own opponents.

Hey! Thanks, Bruce.

You are welcome.

''Kung Fu Choreographer''

Even though Jackie no longer makes martial arts movies,

the hand-to-hand, foot-to-foot

and fist-to-face fight scenes in his films

constantly

set new standards for the action movie industry.

His style has evolved from the old kung fu movies

to a unique blend of acrobatic unarmed combat artistry.

Jackie was shooting bash-em-up videogame fights

before they were invented.

He got his very first break as a choreographer

thanks to another famous name.

Then, suddenly, John Woo called,

you know John Woo, director John Woo, then l met, l know him before,

then he was a second director or something,

then he suddenly do the first director film.

''Jackie, l want you be my stunt coordinator''.

l said OK, at that time, no problem.

l think he likes me in that time,

because now in that time. l learn how to bullshit.

l stay on the set like this,

then before the day coming, l go to the set first.

Tomorrow shooting, tonight l'll a go to the set,

looking, look at all the set, if the director say something,

want a fighting, okay, l look all around, okay.

Next morning, seven o'clock, l'm on the set, sit down,

wait for the director, director. ''Hi, good morning, director''.

Then l learn how speak loud.

lt's not like a

''Director, what, what do you want''.

Then at that time l learned how to smoke,

l put the cigarette in my mouth. ''Yes, director, good morning.

What do you want later? Uh? Well, l'm standing by. You call me? OK!

See you later.''

At that time, l was like 19.

l pretend like a big...and the talking is more power, confident,

let the director see l'm confident.

Yup, that's Jackie and that behind him, believe it or not,

is Mr. John Woo, yup, and besides directing and choreographing

''Hand Of Death'', they both appear in it too.

Suddenly, ''Jackie!''. Director calls you.

''Yes!'' ''l want a fighting,

did you create something? ''l say ''Yes.''

the table, the glasses break,

that guy look at, very angry, then turn around and go.

Then John Woo just :''Oh! OK, very good, let's do it...''

''No Way Lo Wei''

And in the mid-70s, he saw the Hong Kong kung fu business in decline.

After Bruce Lee die, the whole movie industry going down.

Everybody think that Bruce Lee is the best.

Some other action movie, nobody go to see it.

At that time l was quite, very disappointed, nothing to do.

Then l go back to Australia....

And, back Down Under, Jackie washed dishes

and worked on a building site.

l find out that's terrible time for me.

Little did Jackie know that his return to the Hong Kong film industry

was being prepared by this man,

Willie Chan, who remains his manager and best friend to this day.

Both the bracelet and ring. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Because the camera here. lf there no camera, l won't buy you.

And it was Willie Chan who re-introduced Jackie

to ''Fist Of Fury'' director Lo Wei.

Lo Wei wanted to remake ''Fist Of Fury'',

actually ''Fist Of Fury Part 2'',

but Lo Wei had to look for a newcomer, you know, to be the star.

Then l thought about, gee, this guy in Australia.

Not good looking...you know, but he can fight.

The most charming thing about him

is that he has a very nice

and warm smile,

you know, that comes across the screen very good.

Charisma, l think, is the word, you know.

lt was a marriage made in hell.

But he didn't give me enough time to fighting.

Everything quick. Low budget. Quick. Finish. Yes.

When the stunt fighting scene coming,

then he say ''Jackie, stunt fighting scene, no, fighting scene.''

Then Lo Wei, with the cigar, then sleeping.

When he sleep, l just, l create everything l want,

but when he gets up:

''God damn it, What time is it? You're still fighting!''

The movie comes out doesn't success.

But the audience, they don't like me at that time,

they just don't accept me.

Never in the field of kung fu movie-making

did one man make so many films with one star without ever having a hit.

''Shooting Drunken Snakes''

Jackie finally got a chance to show his stuff

when Lo Wei loaned him out to another company

called Seasonal Films.

His first movie for the company was called

''Snake ln The Eagle's Shadow'',

and it saw Jackie define a new style of comedy kung fu

and single-handedly revitalise the martial arts movie industry.

And ''Snake ln The Eagle's Shadow'' takes its title

from the unique fighting style that Jackie designed for the movie.

OK! That's a snake head. That's snake mouth.

Now what makes Jackie approach different

to that of the other martial arts movie stars of the time?

Well, he was more interested in

entertaining the audience

than simply just showing off his kung fu skills on camera.

A snake mouth. l make the reason why you have the...

l just like this. Oh! OK. You just block somebody arms.

OK! That's snake mouth, and, when you turn around,

that's snake tongue You know.

Then l go home, l look at the mirror.

When everybody, everybody sleep, l practice, yeah.

You know, you just doing this, look good for the movie.

lt's a new style. lts not like a ''Waaaaa''.

Every time coming, and do some comedy, you know,

this kind of thing. Everybody ''Ha, ha, ha''.

And pretty. lt's like a dancing.

Jackie mix of kung fu comedy

proved to be a huge success at the local box office.

The second movie that Jackie made for Seasonal Films was called

''Drunken Master'' , and in it, Jackie performs a traditional

form of Chinese martial arts in which

the fighter pretends to be drunk,

and, as ever, he took this concept to a new extreme.

Every time before l fighting, before rolling, then l just do this.

Then, that's rolling.

Cut. l get very dizzy.

The fighting is takes like... twenty takes, thirty takes

Every take, you have to do it.

l put my head down, let the blood come down,

all my face get red.

Then, tough, but worth.

After the success of

''Snake ln The Eagle's Shadow'' and ''Drunken Master,

Jackie became, literally overnight, the biggest star in Hong Kong.

He soon realised that

the only person he had to challenge was himself.

''l Love Cameras''

l love cameras.

Only the cameraman can watch the lens.

Then l becoming the godson of the cameraman,

so l have a chance to look at.

He always teach me. l say ''What's this 40? What's 50''

l love cameras.

l have like 9 cameras. Sometimes l do it myself.

Sometimes the cameraman, they do know how to do it,

but the fighting scenes, they don't know,

they don't know, so l do it myself.

Criticism of Jackie camerawork

caused him to make one of the most expensive films of his career.

l hear a lot of rumours.

''Jackie Chan, he know only how to make action film.

No technician.

All the fighting. The camerawork, one-two-three, one-two-three.''

That makes me angry.

Jackie's response was to dream up a film that would

put his trademark action sequences in a setting

that looked just like an old Hollywood classic

complete with extravagant sets and showy camerawork.

''Miracle.''

Now some of people probably realise this,

that Jackie based ''Miracles'',

otherwise known as ''Mister Canton And Lady Rose'',

on two films by the American director Frank Capra,

ones called ''Pocketful Of Miracles'' and ones called ''Lady For A Day'',

and it features some great camerawork,

like this single shot that takes actress Anita Mui right through

this elaborate set and out onto a balcony overlooking the sea.

Now l look back, very stupid!

Only two or three people talk, ''Oh, he is just an action actor''.

When l hear that,

l want to shoot that movie for these few people.

And thanks to those few critics,

film fans got to see one of the most beautifully photographed

Hong Kong action movies ever made.

''Awesome Auteur''

And after the Drunken Master's success,

then, when l go back to Lo Wei's company,

then l know that's my chance.

l cannot let Lo Wei director, to direct the old film. Destroy me.

l don't know how to talk.

How can l say ''Mr. Lo Wei, l don't like you director.''

''How can l say that? The only thing l can, l run away.

Middle of the night, in Korea, with my suitcase.

Two days later, suddenly, someone, knock on my door.

Lo Wei's wife standing there.

l call her ''Mother, mother''

Look! He continue make this kind of movie,

he destroy me. l don't want that''.

So what do you want? l say:''l want l'm director.''

So when Jackie took over the directing of ''Fearless Hyena'',

he soon developed his own unique film-making style,

and, amazingly, he had never studied film.

Everything he learned he learned

simply through making movies.

''OK! Why didn't you say so?''

''A Golden Harvest Or A Shaw Thing?''

When Jackie first became a star, there were two major studios

in Hong Kong.

One was Shaw Brothers,

which made kung fu movies with actor director Liu Jia-liang.

And the other is called ''Golden Harvest'',

whose biggest star had been Bruce Lee,

and who were desperately seeking someone to replace him.

Shaw Brothers, they have...many, many...Like, Lau Kar-leung,

Liu Jia-liang, Lee Han-hsiang, the directorjust died,

Lee Han-hsiang.

Some others. Too many.

But Golden Harvest, if l'm signed to Golden Harvest,

they only have one Jackie Chan.

Having made his decision,

Jackie signed a contract with Golden Harvest,

and used his time and talent to develop his own style

as both director and actor.

ln his first Golden Harvest film, called ''The Young Masters'',

this fight sequence featured a move that required over a hundred takes.

And in his second film for the company, ''Dragon Lord'',

Jackie shifted the focus away from martial arts

by staging a Ching dynasty hackey-sack match.

The ''Police Story'' series

created a whole new style of modern day action,

its more cop socky than chop socky.

Jackie had soon put together his own stunt team,

the members of which competed against each other

to perform the most outrageous moves,

and, amazingly, none of them were ever killed,

or even seriously injured.

Maybe it's no surprise that Jackie and his stuntmen

can't get any insurance,

having been blacklisted by every insurance company in all of Asia.

''American Dreams''

Golden Harvest were determined to launch Jackie worldwide.

They hired the director of Bruce Lee's ''Enter The Dragon'',

Robert Clouse, to make ''Battlecreek Brawl'',

Which is also known as ''The Big Brawl''.

lt's an adventure film set in the 1930s.

As you can see, the action owed more

to pro wrestling than it did Jackie's own films.

Jackie then shot a cameo for the star-studded

''Cannonball Run'',

but it was hard for him to make an impact among so many

Hollywood heavyweights.

He was later miscast as a tough New York cop

in director James Glickenhaus' ''The Protector''.

Then, finally Jackie got back

out on the highway for ''Cannonball Run 2.''

Then, l guest star in a movie.

l hope audience go to the theatre to see Burt Reynolds.

''Oh! There's a little Chinese guy!''

''Jackie! JJ! Cannonball, huh! Got it!''

But the movie comes out, of course,

in the United States,''Burt Reynolds, Jackie Chan'',

but in Asia,''Jackie Chan, Burt Reynolds''.

''Much appreciated!''

But l'm only in two minutes, gone,

and my image in Asia, getting down, getting down,

getting down...Totally destroyed.

Why l failed before? How can l continue my success?

So this is why l know l have to work very hard.

''JC Stunt Deliveries''

Most of the impact of Jackie's films comes from the fact the audience

is seeing someone genuinely risking their life for their art.

Having once seen leading players take the credit

for stunts that he bad performed for them,

Jackie decided that, when he became a star,

he'd take his own hard knocks.

Whole audiences started shouting ''Run, Jackie, Run!'',

during this scene from ''City Hunter'',

in which he almost becomes extra crispy fried Chan.

Jackie's leaps of faith have taken him out of Asia

and onto the world stage.

That's me!

Because we can tell before,

the older movies, Chinese movie, every movies,

when you see the double you can tell.

everybody do,

like this.

When you look at a Jackie Chan movie, when l'm doing a stunt,

that's me!

Of course, we're talking a big, we're talking about big stunt,

l think American is the best, American stuntmen is the best.

What l want to do is l want to totally do different

than American movie.

What l'm doing is a traditional like a silent movie.

Buster Keaton. Harold Lloyd. What they're doing,

l just follow them to do it.

Right now, getting, getting, what?,

more difficult, difficult, difficult.

lt's not falling down any more. lts jump off the building,

jump off the cars.

We fight at different location with diffesent tricks.

One of Jackie's most famous stunts is the fall

from the clocktower in ''Project A''.

lt was inspired by a scene in a Harold Lloyd film, ''Safety Last''.

You see me hanging there? You know how long?

Seven days, to do that shot.

Rolling. No, no, no, no, no.

That's not ready. Suddenly, seven days later,

Hung Jin-bao coming down.

''You're still hanging there? Come on! Let's do it, let's do it.''

Come on, come on. Camera rolling.

Now the sun's good.

Everything's perfect. Let's do it.

Then l tell the stunt guy, you know what?

''Let me hanging there.

Don't let me in,

until l really can't hang any more, fall myself.''

Then because l cannot hang any more

then, then, then, then, then, then go!

ln the finished film,

Jackie shows different takes of the same stunt.

Logically it shouldn't work, but dramatically, it does.

After more than ten years, more than ten years, still the best!

Jackie built this whole shantytown on a Hong Kong hillside

specifically for this explosive downhill car chase

in which his character chases after a gang of drug dealers.

28 stunt drivers were hired to pilot the vehicles,

and 9 of Hong Kong's top cameramen were on hand to make sure that

all of his flying heavy metal action was captured on film.

Jackie's own stuntmen were deployed throughout the village

and given the fun job, uh, ofjumping out of the ways

just in time to avoid being killed.

When ''Police Story'' opened,

one critic wrote that

this scene alone was worth the price of admission.

Looking at the shopping mall showdown that ends the film,

its easy to see why Jackie's stuntmen refer to it as ''Glass Story''.

And especially this movie...this movie.

l do it perfect for every single glasses.

All is glasses, see.

You have to know how quick you have to do it.

You cannot go in right away,

You have just, boom, bah, that.

And for this outrageous stunt, Jackie had two choices:

Either the fall would kill him or else the high voltage would. Fun,

Ten storeys. l cannot remember, seven storeys, l will tell later. 25 feet. Look.

More l look down, more you scared. Then l say ''Don't look down''.

l just like this move. Then l just ''Rolling!'', huh?!

Then l just suddenly ''Yahhh!''. You know? ''Yahhh!''

As it turned out, Jackie burned all the skin off his hands

as he slid down the pole, and injured his back.

ln ''Police Story 2'',

Jackie offered a new approach to making your way through

the busy Hong Kong traffic.

lts stunt sequences like this that have earned Jackie his reputation

as the world's bravest action actor.

Though he survived ducking and diving over and under these signs,

Jackie sustained yet another serious injury

when he crashed headlong through this signboard.

When you looking for real action movie, Jackie Chan.

When you looking for some other action movie, many. Many.

To provide a suitably explosive ending for ''Police Story 2'',

Jackie brought in pyrotechnics experts from America.

Biggest in Asia, explosion. Look.

Having located a factory to demolish,

Jackie, realising that this was a one take deal,

hired an army of cameramen to ensure

that his escape was captured on film.

Boom! Look at this!

The blaze caused by the explosion raged out of control

and the fire service was called in, but, luckily, no one was injured.

The stunt that almost killed Jackie was one that seemed,

by Jackie standards, to be a very simple one.

A lot of people say: ''Jackie, did you break every bone?''...

Not every bone, but l can say, every my body,

every inch l get cut, and l get burned, l get twisted,

Yes, l do, but l think

the most serious one is in Yugoslavia,

when l'm making the film ''Armour Of God''.

What l remember is the tree from here about twenty feet,

twenty something, l can't remember.

There's a camera below. The Yugoslavian cameraman below.

There's another camera here, another camera here.

Then l think, l very safe from the castle to the castle,

but its not very dangerous. Here, its about like a hundred feet.

lf l missed it, when l jump then l die.

The second time, when l jump,

after l jump l just fell, slipped, l think l landing

the first time,

the water come out from the trees or something like that.

Then l grab it, l just fell. But at that time

l just hear a lot of the sound blak-blak-blak, blak-blak-blak,

and breaking all the tree, blak-blak-blak, boom!

l think l land my back first, there's the head, back, then head,

so just ba-bang. l think l'm lucky.

lf the ba-bam, then, gone!

l try to get up, but a lot of people just

push me down again.

''Don't move!''''What, what, what?'' ''Don't move!

Get the medical!'' Everything, l don't know what happened.

Then suddenly they have a lot of things put in my ear, then,

as soon as they put in my ear,

then l hear something,

l say what the hell's that? Look at. Wow! All the blood,

just from my ear comes out.

l..l admit. l was very panicky at that time.

You know how lucky Jackie is?

The doctor who operated on Jackie was exactly the person

that Raymond asked me to contact, you know.

ltjust so happened that he was in Yugoslavia.

This is the specialist that we wanted to look for

and he had already operated on Jackie before we found him.

Jackie was lying in the hospital room,

a westerner came up to me.

He said, ''you know, your son is made of steel.''

A lot of people say:''Jackie, you're doing a stunt, are you scared?''

No. Of course l'm scared! l'm not a superman,

l'm the normal people like you.

l just have the guts to do it.

And l just know because l treat movie as my son,

l treat movies, l love movies,

but l know that after l do the stunt make the movies,

the movie can keep very long, especially right now the technology,

that we have CD-Rom, LD, everything, we can keep long as possible,

and l know when l watch the movies, l can tell my friends,

eighty years old

l can tell my children,

l can tell my grandchildren, hey, that's your grandfather,

that's your father.

lf l'm not doing this way, if let someone else to do it,

if l say that's me, l feel l'm cheating.

''JC Style''

The whole world have a different language,

but my personal think that

the real international language is action.

Jackie has defined

his own unique style of international action movie-making

with films like ''Wheels On Meals'',

which was shot in Barcelona

and a big hit with audiences all over the world.

You can see my older films there's a lot of unnatural comedy.

Unnatural comedy is like even after somebody break your leg,

You ''Braugaugh!''.

That's passing, it's gone,

so later in you see all my ''Rumble ln The Bronx'',

even the ''Drunken Master 1'', ''Drunken Master 2'', totally different.

''Drunken Master 1'', ''is ''hic, urguh''.

''Drunken Master 2'' already becoming natural comedy.

lt's a situation comedy.

You can tell from ''The Young Master'' beginning,

l still doing ''Uh-pap-pap-ah''.

Then when l look at some other movies,

they're, everybody doing the same thing.

At the end, l say ''No! l have to change.''

So from the bad guy comes out, you see the difference,

So my movie always lead for all the action movie in whole of Asia.

Everybody look at Jackie: ''What are he doing?''

What Jackie's usually doing is trying to stay one jump,

One slide or one flip ahead of both himself and the audience,

and the soul of his style is spontaneity.

And the bicycle chase scene in ''Project A'' remains a fan favourite.

Then suddenly when l go on location scout,

that's the thing.

As soon as l see on the location,

all my pictures in my mind already, okay.

l still shooting one day, one of my stunt guys:

''You know what?'' Steven Spielberg already do the bicycle scene. God!''

You know what? lmmediately l stop filming. We wrap.

All my stunt guys, everybody, went to the theatre to see ''E.T'',

because l have the idea he already shoot it, but l said,

if they similar like me,

l'm not going to shoot it, l change the style,

because l've been prepared for a long time.

Then, until the movie at the end, bicycle go to the mountain,

go down the mountain, chasing on the street, suddenly go to the sky.

Then, hahaha. l was very happy.

lt's different! Not the same!

Go! We got back to the set. We filmed again.

The kind of no-holds-barred fight sequences

in Jackie's films have been a cause of concern

for some overly sensitive critics,

and, surprisingly, for Jackie himself.

l'm really honest, l...l hate violence.

Yes, l do. lt's kind of a dilemma, hah?

As a result, Jackie has laid down his own code of conduct,

a moral framework that encompasses all of his films.

l like action, but l hate violence. So that's why,

When l make action films, less violent as possible.

Everybody think action is violent.

OK! lf it is violent, my movie is a good violence.

There's no dirty words,

no dirty jokes,

no sex...

l tell you what, if the company give me the same amount of money.

Just don't fight, kiss and make love, l'll do it.

l always say l learn from Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

When l first see the clock tower, l watch Harold Lloyd,

he just do the clock tower. Ah! My whole things comes out.

l see the clock tower,

then l know how to the whole bicycle scene,

to the pole, jump to the clock tower, fight to the clock tower then...

Critics in the west have been quick to point out

that Jackie's films owe more to the great silent comedians

than they do to the kung fu stars of the 70s.

And Jackie himself is also a fan of the American masters of rhythm,

the dancers of the golden age of Hollywood.

You can see Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly,

five minutes, no cut editing.

That's something. That's something. Not everybody can do that.

Jackie is someone who can,

as he proves in this very impressive one-take swordfight.

Tight shot, give me tight shot,

you don't know what l'm doing...

When l'm making an action film,

it must be a wide shot. Let them see it. Very clearly!

Wah! That's not cheating.

Jackie's commitment to excellence extends from the location

to the post-production of his films,

every step of which he supervises personally.

Editing part is very important. When you,because you know editing,

then you will become a very good director or martial arts director.

As a director, Jackie has pioneered a number of editing techniques that

have since been copied by action film-makers from around the world.

For example,

Double cut.

Now a lot of people learn from me.

A lot of people ask me, high school,:

''Please, Jackie, can you say something about movies?''

l say:''l have nothing to say,

because l don't have this kind of philosophy.''

My emotion. The shot.

The feeling.l don't know how to say these kind of things.

lf you ask me: ''Why you do the double shot?''

l don't know. l just want it.

''Why you want the track shot?'' l don't know.

l've no theory.

We may be able to get some insights into Jackie's style

by comparing the two different versions of his film ''The Protector''.

This cop thriller cast Jackie against type

as a Clint Eastwood style American lawman.

Police. Give me the keys.

Get the hell out of here? What are you doing?

Give me the fucking keys.

The first version was shot by this American director,

James Glickenhaus.

Although Jackie initially went along with Glickenhaus,

agreeing to change his style of action to suit the American market,

he was horrified when he saw a rough cut of ''The Protector'',

and threatened to re-shoot the fight sequences.

That's not a threat. That's a promise.

They just think my punch, my kicking, is not power enough.

Look at Bruce Lee. Boom. One kick. Out

Bang. One punch. Out

Look at Clint Eastwood, John Wayne. Boom! That's power.

They, What they like it.

But l said ''lf one kick, one punch, it's easy.''

My type of action is not easy.

Here we see the two versions side-by-side.

Notice that, in the American print,

the fight between Jackie and karate champion Bill ''Superfoot'' Wallace

is much darker and sees the two perform much more slowly.

While in Jackie's cut, he enhances the action

by using various tricks of the trade,

like Fuller's Earth, What they call ''Power Powder'',

is sprinkled on to clothing to enhance the impact of a blow.

Then an arm has a trouser leg and shoe put onto it

to simulate a full power kick to the face.

And Jackie's jerked back

by an invisible wire to highlight the strength of Wallace's sidekick.

And when be re-shot Wallace's chainsaw attack,

Jackie placed himself in much greater danger,

by getting closer and closer to the blade

to add further impact to the sequence.

lnterestingly, it was Jackie's style of filming fights

that actually appealed to American audiences

when he finally broke into the U.S. market with

''Rumble ln The Bronx.''

Jackie won over the international audience.

Thanks to the worldwide release of his Asian hits.

Now what makes his style so special?

l've no theory.

Jackie has proved himself to be a genuine artist,

always trying to improve on what he's done before,

always happier to show what he can do than to talk about it.

My movies, what l shoot, is my experience.

Over the years,

various action sequences have been cut from the international prints

of Jackie's films.

Here are some example

of Jackie's fight scenes that have rarely, if ever, you know,

been seen outside of certain Asian territories.

And his comic combat encounter in a Hong Kong gym

was shot by Jackie for the Chinese version of ''The Protector''.

lt highlights one of Jackie's principles of fight choreography.

He uses every aspect of the surroundings to enhance the sequences.

Two fight scenes were cut from the international print

of ''Heart Of The Dragon'', also known as ''First Mission''.

Well, the decision to cut the scenes were taken

because the running time of the film was too long,

and because it was decided to market the film as a drama.

And both scenes served to define Jackie's abilities

as a martial artist rather than advancing the plot.

So here's a chance to see Jackie in a couple of superior fight scenes

that might otherwise remain forever lost in the archive.

''Chan The Man''

lf you subject your body to the kind of stuff

that Jackie Chan's had thrown at him over the years,

you need a body that's built to last, buddy.

See, since childhood.

Jackie has maintained a heavy duty daily training routine.

Jackie's workout involves high repetitions of basic exercises,

such as sit-ups, two thousand two, two thousand three,two thousand four,

and, of course, fast combinations of his trademark martial arts movies.

l think that's part of my secret.

Right now, l'm 43, but l move like a 25.

Fight, when l fight... When l fight like...25,

and, l think, that exercise, especially for me,

is very important because, in my movie, l always do my own stunts

and own fighting scenes, always chasing, jumping around.

l have to train to the best, prepare to the movies,

l have to train very hard, and, of course, training very difficult.

Punching.

Punching, kicking.

We need flexible body, you know, we do somersault, you know.

There's a tough time, but l think, even you are not the movie star,

you have to exercise,

because exercise is real good for your health.

ln Jackie's case, it's definitely paid off,

keeping him alive and kicking after a quarter-century's worth of

physical abuse.

No film going on.

ln between films, Jackie devotes his time and energy

to the Jackie Chan Foundation.

This charitable organisation raises money for charity

by staging a variety of different events.

At this fundraiser in Canada,

a backflip can earn $300 for the Foundation

and a display of Drunken Boxing even more.

Well Jackie is not only a superstar, he's also super generous,

and l've had so much pleasure working with Jackie on the Foundation

and so much fun but also a lot of hard work.

Right now, all the fans, they know, all around the world,

they send me a different kind of money,

and then later on l will give to the charity foundation.

and also some other things like a T-shirt, sweater,

because...honest, l already have a lot of already,

no matter shoes or T-shirt.

Yeah! Jackie Chan keeps a lot of odd things around them.

This is from the airplane. l never use it any time.

l just keep them. l believe, all the children, they like it.

Then they take all the stuff and kind of divide up

which is suitable for the kids and whatever's suitable for adults,

like T-shirts. OK! Hey, big one, huh?

l collect for myself, l keep it, because that's for my name.

And of course all of the gear is kept

in a store room right next to his office. Here we go.

That's for the charity, charity, charity,donate,

charity, charity, charity, charity,

then l will keep it all fot the end, end of the year or Christmas....

But l can't help falling in love with you.

And, besides movies,Jackie has one other great passion in life.

l love cars.

And that's, that's ''Jackie Chan Day'',

September 2nd, 1980, in San Francisco.

l'm also a very good singer, see.

1980, the best foreign singer in Japan.

That's ajoke, huh?

That's Life Achievement Award. l believe a lot of people know.

MTV Award...Right.

They give to me, l accept it.

They don't give to me, l still do my best. That's all!

But l can't help falling in love with you.

Actually, l'm a very good singer,

because l had a very good training when l was young.

Jackie himself admits

that he's had to make sacrifices in terms of his personal life

in order to maintain his position

as undisputed king of international action cinema.

So this is why l tell you: First, movie.

Second, l don't know, family, either friends, on either business

or either money. l don't know. Don't understand,

l just don't understand, and also l don't have time to learn.

Ah! Action, who's the best?

At least eighty percent the people say Jackie Chan, right?

Why? Because all those years,

l've been into it. Really into it.

Love? No love. ln, in, in, in.

Friend? No friend? No friend. Eat? No eat?

Then l'm becoming a profession.

lf l learn, action, love, action. Then, who's the best?

He's the guy know everything,

but none of them are good, right?

l've to concentrate. Movie, its too much.

Actress, actors, extras, stuntman,

l've in the set take care everybody.

Girlfriend, you sit home, just you.

lf l'm not concentrating here, always girlfriend,

girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend,

then l think the movie turn out and become shit. Really!

You know, l often tease him. Say, l'm glad l'm your manager

and not your wife of your girlfriend,

you know, because l think Jackie can be a very good friend,

but l think he's certainly not a good husband.

l have family, butjust can't always together,

l just keep travel,

but they understand that.

She takes of my father and mother,

because my job is six months in Australia,

five months in South Africa,

two months in America, one month,

you just keep travelling, travelling, travelling.

l'm tired. l'm not the perfect person.

l'm good for something, bad for a lot of things.

l know. l feel sorry, yes, but what can l do.

''Jackie Goes to Hollywood''

And everything happen so fast.

And when ''Rumble ln The Bronx''

was picked up for theatrical distribution in the U.S.,

it gave Jackie a second crack at the American market.

l hope, l hope ''Rumble'' doing well, then l can coming back.

''Rumble'' was a hit, and come back Jackie

did with the U.S. theatrical release of ''Supercop'',

directed by Stanley Tong.

He's, he's very stubborn, but that's good, in a good way,

you know because, making movies, you have to be stubborn.

Usually, when we think of something, some idea that we like,

right away, oh, yeah, it turns out will be good,

but when it comes to production then producer, production manager,

location manager start to convince you, you know,

but l think Jackie... He will insist.

Though shot several years earlier,

''Supercop'''s stunning stunt scenes

soon won an appreciative American audience.

See this one. Very scared... you know what.

Because you really don't know how high, how low.

The driver, the pilot up there, he really don't know. He just guess.

l never try this before. When you go in,

Wah! You really feel the smoke. Waaarngh!

And you're not doing it one time, three times, four times,

each time you do it, push everything and waarngh,

and it makes the comedy.

lf you don't have an experience, then go, go, go, go, go...

then you think safe, you let go.

When you let go from here, boom, like a mess your face.

The film saw Jackie teaming up with Michelle Yeoh,

the queen of Hong Kong action movies.

Michelle played a tough mainland Chinese lady cop,

and she would then go on to partner James Bond

in the film ''Tomorrow Never Dies''.

He was the very first person

l worked with in Hong Kong, our thirty second romance.

Jackie and Michelle first encountered each other

when they shot this TV commercial on location in Australia.

lt's almost like he challenges you.

lt's like... OK! You think you can do that? Try this!

And then it's good because you learn a lot.

Then when we did ''Supercop''

there were so many rumours running around that,

you know, we were competitors,and we were trying to outdo one another

We both know that our biggest competitor is us.

You know, it's with us. lt's not with anybody else.

So we had a good working relationship in that way.

Jackie's generosity gave Michelle a chance to win her own fan following,

and to pursue her own Hollywood career.

After the success of ''Supercop'',

Jackie made an unexpected appearance on a hit American comedy series.

Happy quan-san. l'm looking for Shineneah.

Jackie's walk-on role in The Martin Lawrence Show occurred

because one of its producers was a fan.

l'm his number one fan. l'm in his fan club,

l watch all of his movies.

l've been his fan for at least ten years.

Happy quan-san. l'm looking for Shineneah.

What's it mean ''quan-san''?

Right!

Very nice man, very nice man,

a gentleman, you know, very polite, very patient, you know,

fun, and good spirited,

got a good sense of humour which is good.

Jackie made his next Hollywood appearance alongside superstars

Sylvester Stallone & Whoopi Goldberg in a movie-within-a-movie

in a movie called ''An Alan Smithee Film''. Hoo...

l'm convinced that if someone becomes as big a star as Jackie is,

you have to have the combination of the charisma,

the explosiveness and warmth.

The movie offers three times more bang for your buck.

You just give me a hard time with the long dialogue.

Reincar... Reincarnation... Reincar... Reincarnation.

Let me say this. l never... l never want to do rewrites,

but for Jackie Chan l will.

ln the film Jackie plays

a comic version of himself.

No die! No die! No die!

Hey! Peace, this Chuck D...

with the man... Jackie Chan, in the house...turning it out.

No worry, no doubt.

On the film, Jackie was directed

by a veteran Hollywood film-maker Arthur Hiller,

who soon became an enthusiastic Jackie Chan fan.

No die, no die, good, no die.

Because you see a wonderful actor with this just innocence and charm

and suddenly this wonderful physical activity going on,

and how many people can do that?

lt's interesting, because there are also people who can do,

let's say, karate or can do stunts, but that doesn't make them actors.

Jackie is an actor.

That's the wonderful difference, that you can say to Jackie:

''l wantjust a little stronger or humour or what if we do this?

Won't that be funny?''

Or he says: ''What if l do this?''

You can work with somebody like that.

The film revolves around the theft of the world's greatest action film

and two of its stars have plans to make a movie in real life.

l think definitely Jackie and l will be working together in the future.

We've been talking about it for years.

Mmmm... of course, l really want to work with him,

but right now we are looking for the right script.

With a little more drama in it, and something a little more special,

and the two different cultures coming together and so on.

lt's, it's difficult...

Very difficult for the two action stars in the same movie.

But we'll get there.

You got it. Now go home and get some sleep.

Martin Luther King: l have a dream.

l think everybody have dreams, l have dreams.

l only know when l growing up, my first dream is buy my own car.

Another dream is

l hope one day my name and my fingerprints, footprints l can...

on this star road.

That's my second dream coming true.

Here's Jackie!

And in 1997, Jackie was invited to contribute his hand,

foot and nose prints to a cement square on Hollywood's Walk Of Fame.

The second dream, l want to get into American market.

The third dream, l want to get into the whole world market.

But, right now, people ask me:

Jackie, what's your fourth dream or last dream?

Right now, my last dream, really, honest, bottom from my heart,

my last dream is peace. We do need peace right now.

That's my last dream.

l working on and l will work very hard.

Whoops! Sorry. That's an out take.