In the 1980s, Jiahe sent Jackie Chan to Hollywood to develop, but it was not successful. 1983's "Plan A" is Jackie Chan's ambitious work after returning from Hollywood setbacks, a combination of writers, directors, and lead actors, completely according to his own ideas, a great success.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, "Iron Triangle" starred for the first time</h1>
Jackie Chan learned martial arts from Peking Opera master Yu Zhanyuan in his childhood, and in 1962, when a film company in Hong Kong wanted to start filming the movie "The Princess and the Seven Little Swordsmen", Yu Zhanyuan, as a martial arts instructor, cast the "Seven Little Swordsmen" from his "Chinese Drama School", one of which selected Jackie Chan, whose stage name was "Yuan Lou" at that time. Later, Yu Zhanyuan pulled up the Peking Opera class of "Seven Little Blessings", which was inspired by a 1961 movie called "Seven Little Blessings".
In fact, the "Seven Little Blessings" are not a fixed team, but are taken turns by the division brothers. Because the performance of "Seven Little Blessings" everywhere is famous in Hong Kong, only hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan, Yuan Biao, Yuan Kui, Yuan Hua, Yuan De, and Yuan Bin have become celebrities in the Hong Kong film industry, and naturally "Seven Little Blessings" has become synonymous with the seven of them.
Master brother Hong Jinbao's acting talent is more prominent, and his fat appearance is very suitable for comedy. As the eldest disciple of Yu Zhanyuan, he is naturally also a famous martial arts superstar, known as "the most flexible fat man in the world". It is rumored that in 1964, Hong Jinbao broke his leg during training, lacked exercise in recuperation, dieted uncontrollably, ate into a big fat man, could no longer perform on stage, so he left the theater and broke into the film industry.
The disciples of the Chinese drama school "YuanJia Class" are known for their unity, which stems from the efforts of master brother Hong Jinbao. Among the "Seven Little Blessings", the most popular three people, Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan and Yuan Biao, were praised as "Jiahe Three Treasures", and "Plan A" was also the first co-starring of Jiahe Sanbao, which was a luxury Cass production at that time. After "Plan A", the "Iron Triangle" cooperated with "Fuxing Gaozhao", "Fast Food Truck", "Flying Dragon Fierce", "Summer Fuxing" and other films.
In addition, the experience in the "Chinese Drama School" also provided an important inspiration for Jackie Chan to create this film: it is said that when he was a child in the "Yuanjia Class", Jackie Chan often went to the theater with Hong Jinbao to watch plays such as "Wise Tiger Mountain". The climax of the movie "Plan A" is that Jackie Chan pretended to be Zhou Yongling and mixed into the pirate's lair, and as a result, Li Chujiu, a pirate who had seen Zhou Yongling, also fled to the old lair. Jackie Chan was about to wear a gang, and used a three-inch non-rotten tongue to force the pirate Li Chujiu to prove his identity to Luo Sancang with death. This is the confrontation between Yang Zirong and Luan Ping in "Wise Tiger Mountain". This is actually a red story that everyone has long known, but Jackie Chan used his directing skills to give the audience a unique viewing experience.
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This film is a turning point in Jackie Chan's screen image from a kung fu juggler to a policeman in the Republic of China, and since then Jackie Chan's films have run through the style of hard bridges and hard horses, not all action scenes are funny, which is completely different from previous works such as "Snake-shaped Executioner" and "Drunken Fist", which focus on traditional routine dismantling. There are five classic fight scenes in Plan A:
In the first scene, the marine police and the land police bar group fight, and Jackie Chan and Yuan Biao fight. This is the first fight in the film, because the marine police and the land police look at each other unfavorably and make fun of each other in the bar, fighting for face.
In the traditional action movies of that time, one-to-many cases were generally aimed at the protagonist, and the person next to him flew out of the camera when hit by the protagonist. And the scene of "Plan A" is a multiplayer melee, Jackie Chan uses his excellent scheduling ability to make the scene of a large number of people not look disorganized, and almost everyone has a close-up, which was a big breakthrough at that time.
In the second game, Jackie Chan and Yuan Biao go to the Noble Club to arrest the fugitive's long shirt. Jackie Chan jumped on the bar and grabbed the lobby chandelier and swung up the second floor, and this "swing" has also become a landmark action that often appears in Future Jackie Chan movies.
In the third game, Jackie Chan chased a bicycle in a narrow alley. A major feature of Jackie Chan is to be good at using common props in the scene, such as the use of doors, windows, ladders, clothes rails, etc. of households in the alley to increase the funny effect. This scene is one of the most classic clips of the film.
In the fourth scene, Jackie Chan fell from the bell tower. Jackie Chan landed in free fall from outside the bell tower. This one-shot shot made Jackie Chan break his neck. Jackie Chan was also very frightened before jumping, and only jumped under the encouragement of Hong Jinbao. And a total of 3 jumps, the audience will find that the situation of the three falls of the positive film is not exactly the same.
Jackie Chan's habit of fighting for his life began with this film, these tidbits Jackie Chan was placed in the subtitle background at the end for the first time during production, and almost all future Jackie Chan movies will add tidbits at the end of the film, becoming a major feature of Jackie Chan movies.
In the fifth game, Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao, Yuan Biao, and Mars (members of the Chengjia class) decided to fight the three cannons of Douluo. In the end, Hong Jinbao's character pressed Luo San Cannon with his fat body, and the two were wrapped in a carpet. Mars stuffed a grenade into it, and Jackie Chan Quickly dragged Hong Jinbao out, and the action design was very hilarious.
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Jackie Chan and his team went to the Hong Kong Marine Police before filming, dedicated to portraying the image of the police at that time. Both Plan A and the 1987 Plan A Sequel are both imaginary images of Hong Kong's society in the early days of the port.
In the film, Luo San cannon robbed the Shantou merchant ship, and the newspaper seller shouted loudly, but the people on the street were accustomed to it.
The Rear Admiral watched as a ship of men was hijacked by pirates.
The Administrator is also just thinking about taking money to ransom people.
At that time, the British police costume was a pointed round hat, the Indian police used the traditional Sikh turban, and the Chinese police used a conical bamboo hat; the summer uniform was dark green, and the message was conveyed by the flute.
In the film, several police officers in the police bar performed cross-talk shows, which mentioned the description of the folk customs of the time and the ridicule of the image of the police in the Hong Kong nursery rhymes at that time: smelling the wife cake, it is Yuen Long, smelling the smell of roasted goose, it is the deep well, hearing the sound of BB, Hong Kong. One two three four, ABCD, big head green coat, catch people to blow BB. (Catch people to: can't catch people)
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >4, box office is gratifying, and even inspired Japanese anime</h1>
In 1983, "Plan A" won 19.32 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, ranking third in the annual box office list, after "Best Partner 2" and "The Magic Trick Five Lucky Stars", and also won NT$24.17 million in Taiwan Province, ranking first. From 1980 to 1999, there were 20 annual Chinese box office champions in Taiwan Province, and Jackie Chan alone occupied 17, a record that no one has been able to break so far.
"Plan A" was also very popular in Japan, winning 2.95 billion yen, becoming the sixth most popular box office in Japan (foreign language films + local films). In fact, since 1979, Jackie Chan's films such as "Drunken Fist", "Killer Trench", "Master and Disciple Out of the Horse", "Young Master Dragon", "Plan A", "Fast Food Truck", "Police Story", "Plan A Sequel" and other films have all entered the top ten at the box office of Japan's annual foreign language films.
There are many classic anime that have references and tributes to "Plan A":
For example, in an episode of Gintama that is a spoof of "Plan A", Jackie Chan is chaotic into the Yizhishi exam.
In the crayon novel, there has been a plot of Jackie Chan's movie "Plan A" jumping the bell tower.
In one episode, Xiao Xin's family met Jackie Chan to shoot "Plan A", and Yuan Biao and Hong Jinbao also appeared on camera.
As a 1983 film, "Project A" was one of the few Hong Kong films that successfully exported culture at that time. In Jackie Chan's film career, he is a key film that inherits the past and the future, and can also be regarded as the prelude to the "police story". Jackie Chan opened his personal hard bridge hard horse action movie style, and completely began to emerge in the Chinese language and even the world film industry. (Reported by: Mankei Wu)