1983's "Plan A" is the first work of Jackie Chan's life-fighting performance, unlike his previous action films that only focus on juggling and funny, this movie has more of a hard bridge and hard horse combat style in the fight design, Jackie Chan also challenged the difficult action for the first time in the film, and the jump on the bell tower made him famous in a battle, becoming an insurmountable existence for latecomers
But at that time, this shot, Jackie Chan hesitated for 7 days did not dare to jump down, and finally rely on Hong Jinbao angry scolding to complete, "Plan A" gave all the glory to Jackie Chan, do not know that Hong Jinbao is the real behind-the-scenes hero of this movie, today we will talk about those things you don't know in "Plan A"
In 1979, Jackie Chan entered Jiahe, and the company intended to promote him as the "second Bruce Lee" to the world, so it spent $60 million to create a movie called "Killer Trench", but because Americans have long been accustomed to Bruce Lee-style fist-to-flesh, it is naturally unacceptable to Jackie Chan's witty and mischievous style, so the response to this movie after its release is flat
The first impact on Hollywood but can only get such a result, Jackie Chan is naturally unconvinced, he decided to personally direct a work, in order to prove his strength, so this "Plan A" came into being, the film with Jackie Chan Hong Jinbao Yuan Biao as the protagonist, telling the beginning of the 20th century, the Hong Kong Army Police and the Marine Police due to the intensification of the contradictions in the official arena a series of stories, neat and neat fights mixed with gags between brothers, can be said to be tense but not interesting
The first week of the film's release won more than 20 million box office, Jackie Chan also won the nomination for the fourth Academy Awards Best Actor with this film, the most impressive thing in the whole movie is his jumping the bell tower scene, in the era when there is no special effects technology, this picture is by the actors to really fall out, according to some information, this shot before and after at least three people jumped, because the danger coefficient of action is too high, Jackie Chan before doing, First, I found some martial arts stand-ins to experiment with the feasibility of this action
The first should be a member of the kamikaze stunt team, who did not break through the second awning during the process of falling, but bounced up and planted his head down, for which he broke his tail vertebrae, although this shot did not appear in the main film, it finally appeared as a tidbit at the end of the film, and was also cut with Jackie Chan's third jump
The second test jump is the Mars of the Chengjia class, from the beginning of grasping the pointer to the final landing, the jump of Mars was completely recorded, and was also used in the positive film, the first time Jackie Chan fell from the upper floor is actually Mars shot, because of the success of this action, Mars also got a reward of 5,000 yuan
Although this lens can be used, but in order to have a one-shot to the end of the face of the picture, Jackie Chan still needs to jump in person, because it is the first time to try this kind of difficult stunt shot, Jackie Chan is very scared, grasp the pointer and dare not let go, so he did not jump down for seven days in a row, and the people around him did not dare to urge him, seeing that the shooting was in a stalemate, Jackie Chan's face could not hang up, and had to ask Hong Jinbao to come to check for himself
Hong Jinbao came over and saw that Jackie Chan was still hesitating on it, so he was in a hurry to reprimand, under the scolding of the master brother, it may also be to the point of desperation, Jackie Chan bit his teeth and jumped down from the bell tower, after falling once, Jackie Chan found that feeling, the fear of psychology was also reduced, so he asked to jump again, but this last jump made his neck seriously injured, and it took two years to recover
"Plan A" earned 3.1 billion yen after its release in Japan, and many anime also appeared to pay tribute to it, such as "Crayon Shin" and "Gintama", two classic animations, which have shots of jumping from the clock tower, which shows how influential this action is, this fight scene has made a name for Jackie Chan movies, and in this regard, Hong Jinbao, who promoted his success, is naturally indispensable
Although the director of this movie is Jackie Chan, but Hong Jinbao has given him great help in many aspects, there are some classic pictures in the film or Hong Jinbao self-directed, just like the playing mahjong scene when he first appeared, quietly teaching those who play rogues, the last punch is also very domineering, but unfortunately this scene was later deleted in the international version, because of the fear that foreigners can't understand playing mahjong
Because Hong Jinbao's debut is far earlier than Jackie Chan, so in many things Jackie Chan will ask the master brother for advice, in the film Jackie Chan originally wanted to spend 4 million to build a pirate ship, but not sure whether it is worth it, he could not make up his mind he went to ask Hong Jinbao, the master brother read the script and advised Jackie Chan not to spend this money, after all, it is not the main role of the tool, compared to the junior Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao's decision on some things is still very reliable
In fact, whether as an actor or a director, Hong Jinbao plays an important role in "Plan A", and he also takes good care of Jackie Chan, a little disciple, and in a later interview, he admitted that he did not charge the director fee, but only symbolically collected his own actor fee
Finally, let's talk about Jackie Chan again, this film was of great significance to him at that time, so in many ways he was refining, when filming the scene of the bicycle chase, someone reminded him that this is similar to the previously released "E.T Alien", which may be suspected of plagiarism, jackie Chan who learned of the situation immediately stopped shooting, went back to watch the movie from beginning to end, and came back to continue shooting after determining that there was no similarity, I have to say that in the awareness of copyright protection, Jackie Chan still did a good job
In the film, the two old drama bones that played the qi assistant and the stone assistant also made Jackie Chan think about it a lot, because the two were still immersed in the rhythm of filming the TV series, so the lines were very slow, and Jackie Chan was embarrassed to urge, so he could only reduce the lines for them on the spot, and then speed up later, the two old seniors gave wonderful performances for the audience in the film, but unfortunately they are now gone