When we think of Jackie Chan, we always think of those blood-curdling action scenes.
And 22 years ago, Jackie Chan jumped about 30 stories in a play, which jumped out of the classics of film history and also jumped out of the Guinness Book of Records. The movie is:
"Who Am I"
"Who Am I" is a Hong Kong-made action film directed by Chen Musheng and starring Jackie Chan, which is the first of Chen Musheng and Jackie Chan
The film collaboration, and "Who Am I", began, the two subsequently collaborated on many Hong Kong film classics, including "New Police Story" and "Baby Project".
The film tells the story of the CIA who was betrayed by the internal ghost during the mission, and the special forces member (Played by Jackie Chan), code-named 523, lost his memory due to a head impact, and was named "Who Am I" by chance, and traveled to South Africa and the Netherlands to find memories and pull out the inner ghost.
The film features three scientists discovering a devastating diamond in South Africa.
The CIA sends an 11-man special forces team to intercept Diamond, but the special forces are betrayed by the inner ghost on the way back, and Agent 523 (Jackie Chan) falls into the jungle after fighting with one of the inner ghosts...
When he woke up, he was in a tribe of savages, and in the face of the curious inquiries of the wildlings, he could not think of anything, and he had no choice but to reply, "Who am I?" ”。
By chance, this also became his new name.
The Savage mode of "Who Am I" was subsequently reported in the newspaper for rescuing injured riders, which attracted the attention of many forces and brought a lot of trouble.
Forces looking for him include the CIA, the Security Bureau, and the villains led by Special Forces Leader Morgan, who pursue "who I am" with different purposes.
With the help of the driver's sister Yumi and CIA female agent Kristen, "Who Am I" turns the tide again and again and gradually approaches the truth of the incident.
After the plot, it is not difficult to guess, "Who am I" beat the villains one by one, and got a DISC recording the black screen.
At the end of the story, the CIA reinforcements arrive, the villain is tied up under the truth, and the movie ends with a family ending. Let's focus on a few highlights of the film:
First, the history of film is the most shocking!
The most wonderful scene in the whole film comes from the end of the film, the male protagonist played by Jackie Chan was forced to a dead end by the enemy, standing on the top floor of a 30-story building, facing a slope of more than 45 degrees, Jackie Chan resolutely jumped down, this scene also pushed the plot to a climax.
The sacrifice of the Rotterdam Mansion is the embodiment of Jackie Chan's acting career, when the 43-year-old insisted on not using a stand-in to complete this action, according to the interview later, we know that the reason why Jackie Chan fought so hard was to commemorate his master.
These scenes in the Netherlands originally did not appear in the script. At that time, Jackie Chan was planning to complete the story of "Who Am I" in South Africa, during which he went to Rotterdam in the Netherlands to participate in a local film festival.
There he was warmly received by the mayor of Rotterdam and hoped that he would put some scenes of the blockbuster here. Jackie Chan didn't have this idea, but when he saw this building, he said, if you can lend me this building, I will come over.
Unexpectedly, later the ambitious Dutch mayor really borrowed this building for him, and even for Jackie Chan's play, he also sealed the surrounding roads and built the suspension bridge, the most exaggerated is to invite the navy, army and air force to assist Jackie Chan in filming.
Such a card face, I am afraid that Jackie Chan was also unexpected at that time.
And it is Jackie Chan's shock that has made him receive great attention and respect from filmmakers around the world. This building in Rotterdam also became famous in the first world war and became a punch card mecca for many movie fans.
Since then, Jackie Chan was invited to participate in the Hollywood action film "Rush Hour" in the same year, thus becoming famous, and Jacky Chan and his Chinese kung fu gradually entered the vision of global film fans.
In the following years, the growing jackie Chan still did not hesitate to star in the film, including "New Police Story", "Baby Project", "Tuxedo" and other movies have left a lot of extreme action shots.
Although in recent years, Jackie Chan's film dramas are mostly literary dramas, and the proportion of action dramas has decreased significantly, but the movie "Vanguard" released in the National Day file has come with the news of the accidental drowning of 65-year-old Jackie Chan during acting, obviously, age cannot stop Jackie Chan's action heart.
From Jackie Chan's big brother to Uncle Long, what has not changed is that Jackie Chan has always entered the drama with his life.
Second, Jackie Chan is full of elements, and there are laughs in the play;
Following the consistent style of Jackie Chan's films, in addition to the stimulation of fist to flesh, the fight process also adds a lot of humorous ingredients to the movie.
From the humorous scene when Jackie Chan met the driver's sister at the beginning of the film, to the gag-like joke when Jackie Chan evaded the killer's pursuit, Jackie Chan, who was full of camera, dedicated a scene of funny drama.
Villains have also staged plots of IQ drops, including accidentally kicking themselves when attacking Jackie Chan, and kicking the batselves against Jackie Chan's childishness, all of which are marked with a unique Jackie Chan movie style.
Since "Who I Am" was released in the New Year slot, it is not difficult to understand the funny elements added to this movie, which also allows the audience to gain some laughter in the rhythm of the tense atmosphere.
Third, the "atypical" dragon girl appears;
Another attractive element of Jackie Chan movies is the Dragon Girl, who has played with Jackie Chan before including Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Yang Ziqiong and other stars, and people are also looking forward to the spark that Jackie Chan brother rubbed with the beautiful women in the movie.
And this time in "Who Am I", Jackie Chan's dragon girls have two, they are the driver's sister Yumi Yamamoto Mirai, and the CIA female agent Farame Sui.
The two each account for half of the film and Play with Jackie Chan, and the cp sense of the screen is also different.
Compared with Jackie Chan's other films, the two dragon girls this time are relatively unfamiliar to the audience, french-Japanese actor Fara Meiho has only two film and television works in her career, and "Who Am I" is her first film work.
Although another actress, Yamamoto Mirai, has a wealth of Japanese film experience, she has rarely participated in Chinese films in her career, and her few intersections with the Chinese film industry in addition to this "Who Am I" are probably the "City That Never Sleeps" with Jin Chengwu.
Although the cooperative actresses in this film are all raw faces, there are not many sparks between Jackie Chan and the two beautiful women, especially under the role of the era filter, the mixed-blood Faramesui and Jackie Chan look very compatible.
Fourth, the exotic conversion from South Africa to the Netherlands, the "inescapable" alley chase;
Another major feature of the film also includes shooting across different countries and regions, in the upper part of the film, Jackie Chan lost his memory and fell into the jungle and was saved by the tribe, the film style is giraffes, wild jungles, wild people and other intentions, we can feel the simplicity and ruggedness of the African land from the film picture.
In the second half of the transition to the Netherlands, we can also feel the atmosphere of the modern city, from South Africa to the Netherlands, the lens also shifts from the primitive jungle to the modern city.
Whether it is the land of Africa or the urban life of the Netherlands, under the impact of scene changes, Chen Musheng still retains many details of the past Jackie Chan films with "new bottles of old wine", whether in South Africa or the Netherlands, we can see "Who am I" and the opponent staged a kind of alley chase scene similar to "Plan A".
For the whole movie, the African land is primitive and a simple and innocent "clean" world, so although the protagonist has lost his memory, he always has the most sincere and touching nostalgia for this place.
In the middle of the film, "Who am I" in the African neighborhood to avoid the chase of various forces, the arm that stands on the high pole shouts:
Who am I?
This one clip directly becomes the driving factor of many plots, and also becomes the click of the whole movie.
At the end of the film, the director deliberately left a blank space for the plot, and did not clearly explain whether the protagonist had found his memory. And only through dialogue to explain "who I am" finally chose to return to South Africa, the bustling but seductive city is still a simple life.
Overall, whether it is jackie Chan's shocking leap in the film world, or the first cooperation of the film industry's good partner "Jackie Chan-Chen Musheng", or the embodiment of the film's various action comedy elements, this 22-year-old movie is very worth watching.
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