Tang Jili and Jackie Chan's first collaboration on "Police Story 3" attracted Hollywood attention, after "Red Fan District" knocked on the door of Hollywood, followed by 1996's "Police Story 4: Simple Mission", with a larger investment and a larger scene, which is no less than Hollywood action blockbusters.
After cooperating with the mainland female police in "Police Story 3", Chen Jiaju finally went international, smoothly upgraded from Hong Kong police to international police, the story has reached the world level, and has also received financial support from Hollywood studios, and finally "Police Story 4" has become a big-scale secret agent film, and it is also the final peak of the "Police Story" series.
At the beginning, when Jackie Chan and Uncle Biao communicated with the international police, they were directly referred to by Westerners as his own English name "Jackie", there was no Chen Jiaju, only "Jackie". This shows that Jackie Chan himself and the role have been inseparable, in the eyes of foreigners, all the roles played by Jackie Chan are the same person, that is, Jackie Chan himself.
"Police Story 4: Simple Mission" is also a little deviated from the first three in style, Chen Jiaju has no daily life line at all, and it is indeed a big regret that Ami Zhang Maggie did not appear again, but the new "Dragon Girl" Wu Chenjun is hot and hot, which is also a major feature.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, action scenes</h1>
The poster has clearly written the main action scene selling points of this film: flying over snowy mountains, going deep into the ice lake, blood battle man-eating sharks, etc. are all big scenes of famous films and television.
In the famous scene, jackie Chan snow mountain chase jumped to the helicopter and fell into the ice lake.
Falling into the ice lake is a real shot without a substitute, which is very dangerous.
Jackie Chan's use of a ladder as a weapon to fight Xu Qi's cronies in the Golden Dragon Hall is also a very creative design, which has become the iconic bridge section of this film.
Finally, Jackie Chan's classic flying car on board is a scene, and the inspiration for driving a crash in "Fast and Furious 2" comes from here.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, homage to spoof 007</h1>
Jackie Chan films have many connections and origins with the 007 series. The parody and parody of the 007 film in the film is very interesting. In the film, Jackie Chan himself has a line: "I feel like 007 now, but there is one less bang girl." Yang Ziqiong participated in the Bond film "Empire of Tomorrow" in 1997, and she and Jackie Chan collaborated on "Police Story 3".
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, Chinese elements and international humor</h1>
This film is the first four "Police Stories" the least emphasis on comedy, action drama first, but still with a strong Jackie Chan comedy style, combined with the current events of the time and some regional unique elements and styles, comedy is also more international than ever.
For example, when Chen Jiaju went to Ukraine, someone said to him: "There is a little pocket money here, 1 billion yuan." ”
At first, I thought it was a huge amount of money, but I was quickly "punched in the face", because a can cost 2.5 million yuan, as a film in the 90s, combined with current events, loved by the audience.
In Australia, Chen Jiaju lived alone in an eight-thousand-square-foot two-story luxury presidential suite, and there was a swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna upstairs, buying him brand-name clothes and driving a luxury car. When things go wrong, there must be demons, and in the end there must be rabbits and dead dogs. Chen Jiaju, who had just arrived in Australia, did not realize this, and was very happy to tour the mansion, and called his boss Uncle Biao, who was far away in Hong Kong, to show off.
Jackie Chan, the comedic element of the koala in the mansion, also did not let go. Koalas are an important element of this film, appearing many times and laughing again and again.
For example, Chen Jiaju's clothes also have koalas on them, and after putting them on, the koalas are just in key positions... Jackie Chan's big brother is naked, and the "sacrifice" is a bit big.
On the Chinese elemental comedy side, Chen Jiaju tried to explain why xu jie would return to Australia as long as Xu Jie's father died. He didn't know how to express it in English, so he simply used Cantonese: "He must come back to wear Ma Dai Filial Piety and make a toast on the incense." The foreigners listened with a confused face, and the scene was very funny.
In fact, the laughter of this film is not the focus, because the laughter and action scenes are closely integrated.
The funeral of Xu Qi, the owner of the Golden Dragon Hall in Chinatown, is naturally also a big pomp and circumstance, with Chinese characteristics.
In the final funeral fight scene of Xu Qi, Chen Jiaju rescues Annie from the second floor with Chinese stilts, and the action design of Chinese elements is also very joyful.
Because the stilts are too high, I can't get up when I slide down from the handrail, and I need someone else to pull it up... Chen Jiaju often has problems because of stilt mobility problems, and laughs frequently.
In the end, the aquarium play was also full of laughter: underwater, everything turned into a slow-motion play. And the aquarium itself has an interactive fake action show with sharks, Chen Jiaju was attacked in the water, and aquarium visitors stood outside to watch, thinking it was some kind of performance.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >4, promote a new director, kung fu superstar behind the scenes is also the big brother</h1>
In fact, from 1993 to 1996, later in the "Police Story" series, Jackie Chan served as the president of the "Hong Kong Directors Guild" for two consecutive terms, and was also the "honorary president forever". Jackie Chan has promoted a new director, and the kung fu superstar is also a big brother behind the scenes. Tang Jili was carried by Jackie Chan and became a famous director.
Before working with Jackie Chan on "Police Story 3: Super Cop", Tang Jili independently directed a movie "Magic Domain Flying Dragon", but Jackie Chan was very optimistic about him. In fact, from the end of the film, jackie chan was involved in directing with Tang Jili at that time, but in order to promote newcomers, Jackie Chan decided to give up the signed director and martial arts director. Later, after Tang Jili won the best action director with Jackie Chan in the 15th Academy Awards with "Red Fan District", Tang Jili really began to act alone and embarked on the road of action blockbuster director.
In addition to Tang Jili, Jackie Chan loves to support new directors and rarely cooperates with directors who have already achieved fame in his executive career. For example, Ma Chucheng, his first work "Phantom Agent" was supervised by Jackie Chan, before that, Jackie Chan's "Drunken Fist 2", "Red Fan District" and this film "Police Story 4: Simple Mission" were all controlled by Ma Chucheng, gradually becoming a famous photographer, and then transforming into a director.
Jackie Chan's family class accompanied Jackie Chan around, filming the "Police Story" series, "Red Fan District", "A Good Man", "Who Am I" and other large-scale flying cars and explosion scenes, as early as the 80s, he could have the shooting experience of transnational action blockbusters. In recent years, mainland blockbusters such as "Wolf Warrior" Wu Zhi Li Zhongzhi, "Red Sea Action" Wu Zhi Huang Weiliang, comedy films such as "Detective Chinatown" Wu Zhi Wu Gang, action directors all have the figure of ChengJiaban. These new films are essentially techniques obtained from Jackie Chan movies.
Police Story 4: Simple Quest was the world box office champion of the year for Chinese films, earning HK$57.51 million in Hong Kong, becoming the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong in the 20th century and remaining the hong Kong box office champion for five years until it was broken by Shaolin Soccer in 2001.
In addition, the film also broke the box office record in many countries in Southeast Asia. At that time, Jackie Chan and Tang Jili were all popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and even in All of Asia and North America. This film is the peak of Tang Jili's cooperation with Jackie Chan, and after "Police Story 4", there is no Chen Jiaju. (Reported by: Mankei Wu)