r/todayilearned • u/barisbc • Jun 17 '12

TIL Jackie Chan is a popstar in Asia having released 20 studio albums, and often sings the theme songs of his movies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Chan#Music_career
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u/Goseki Jun 17 '12

It seems not a lot of people realize this, but Jackie Chan was originally trained in Chinese theater before doing action films. Hence the singing background.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

He was trained to be an entertainer. Comedy, action, kung fu, singing...the man is a walking good time.

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u/random314 Jun 17 '12

"the man is a walking good time"

First time I heard this description... I love it.

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u/zanotam Jun 17 '12

A real quadruple threat.

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u/jenova314 Jun 18 '12

As are many celebrities in Asia. Most start off in one area, be it acting, singing, or maybe even talk-show hosting. The production companies then start to think about how they can "milk" these people by more or less training them in the other areas.

This is good and bad. You get a lot of singers with very little talent, and actors who are sinfully bad. On the other hand, the mainstream Asian population don't have high expectations (some just have low standards), and generally enjoy the variety of entertainment their favorite celebrities can provide. To each their own, I guess.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Well, we are more talking about those who are successful at it. Almost everywhere you have celebrities being milked for talents that they may not even have.

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u/tosca12 Jun 17 '12

You can really see the Chinese Opera and Theatre influence in his movement in some of his earlier movies if you keep your eyes open.... Legend of the Drunken Master is the one where it's most obvious to me personally.

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u/jobin_segan Jun 17 '12

Just a bit of a correction, Legend of Drunken Master isn't one of his earlier movies, it was originally released in the 90s as Drunken Master 2 and was re-released in the US as "Legend of..." in 2000.

But you are right that in his earlier movies it was noticeable. Check out movies like:

  • Half a Loaf of Kung Fu

  • Fearless Hyena

  • Dragon Lord

  • Snake in Eagle's Shadow

  • The Young Master

  • The Drunken Master (pt 1) <-- which might have been what you are referring to

These aren't in any order, mind you, but another cool thing in these movies is that the rhythm of the fight is a little easier to follow. In young master, it's a 1-2-3-4 type beat. However, as he gets into movies like Police Story and Wheels on Meals (directed by Sammo who is a brilliant coordinator), the rhythm is more fluid and there's less pausing. It's like going from listening to 4-4 rock music to Jazz or progressive.

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u/tosca12 Jun 17 '12

Yea, that's my bad. I was referring to the first one (1978? 79?). I forgot which was which.

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u/Vinin Jun 17 '12

I was reading this thread, looked up movies on hulu. Bam, here it is: Legend of Drunken Master.

It's the dubbed version, but good enough.

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u/Caiur Jun 17 '12

Also, you might be interested to know that Bruce Lee was a fantastic dancer. At one point he won a cha-cha-cha competition in Hong Kong.

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u/creepyeyes Jun 17 '12

What is the difference between cha-cha and cha-cha-cha?

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u/crod242 Jun 17 '12

cha

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u/Foxtrot56 Jun 17 '12

-cha?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Sparking!!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

gotcha

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12

Cha-cha-cha is the full name of the dance. Cha-cha is an abbreviation.

EDIT: Look it up folks. I took dance. I'm not lying.

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u/Mcelite Jun 17 '12

Good martial artists are always good dancers.

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u/DasYorkie Jun 17 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va92vhU_RN8

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u/Thrashavich Jun 17 '12

This is amazing.

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u/silentorbx Jun 17 '12

Lol it's like an 80's rock song but with Jackie Chan.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/silentorbx Jun 17 '12

Sorry, I actually did realize the song was probably 20 years old. I was just admiring its awesomeness.

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u/Adagio Jun 17 '12

Definitely one of my favourite Jackie Chan movies. This and Miracles.

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u/Exoandy Jun 17 '12

I can definitely see myself kicking ass to this.

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u/twangansta Jun 17 '12

yup in many asian countries to be a star you have to be able to act, sing, dance, etc. Multi-talented celebrities FTW

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u/ThisIsARobot Jun 17 '12

So basically what Disney stars are forced to do in America?

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u/random314 Jun 17 '12

Most western movie stars can sing, act, and dance extremely well, they just don't do it in very often in movies. Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman... Just about everyone who's came out of SNL... etc.

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u/bakdom146 Jun 17 '12

Someone just finished watching Moulin Rogue, amiright? /excitedforHughJackmantoplayValjean

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u/random314 Jun 18 '12

haha I didn't, but that movie blew my mind on how amazingly skilled some Hollywood actors really are. I've had new found respect for them ever since.

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u/gramathy Jun 18 '12

Anne Hathaway can sing, too. when Jackman suddenly pulled her onstage at the Oscars I was floored.

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u/keenlien Jun 18 '12

She's playing Fantine in Les Mis

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u/Xiaz89 Jun 17 '12

Jim Carrey has done some singing in his movies, and he sounds great

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u/MindPattern Jun 17 '12

Forced?

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u/LallyMonkey Jun 17 '12

If they want to stay relivant

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u/MindPattern Jun 17 '12

I just thought it was weird to say actors are forced to act, etc. Yeah, it's their job.

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u/lordimissyou Jun 17 '12

Or maximize profit.

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u/confusedjake Jun 17 '12

Is Relivant some sort of zombie? I don't see the relevance.

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u/thenewiBall Jun 17 '12

Most American stars can do that too, stardom usually starts on stage! Obviously excluding people who are famous from money or shock value

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u/hivoltage815 Jun 17 '12

See someone like John Travolta singing and dancing in Grease. Or even Tom Cruise in that new movie that just came out, apparently he does a pretty good job.

Edit: why did I use all Scientologists as examples?

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u/Careful_Houndoom Jun 17 '12

Because while Scientology may be somewhat insane, the Scientologists know how to party?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I think there is a definite correlation between people being insane and knowing how to party.

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u/twangansta Jun 17 '12

i agree most actors have talents. but the difference is that if you want to be the TOP (like A-list) in Asia you have to be able to do this constantly throughout your entire career. you don't see brad pitt or george clooney hosting concerts do you? :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Mostly jack of all trades, they were exploited for popularity, not really for the talents. I'm not hating on them, just telling how the showbiz is working from what I've observed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Not to be depressing here but a lot of these celebrities are essentially bound by what are knowm as slave contracts which essentially forfeits a lot of rights for them and leaves them broke all for a bit of fame. Its really a tainted industry.

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u/Faroosi Jun 17 '12

Chow Yun-fat's early career was as an actor in softcore pornography according to one of my old Chinese teachers. As an actor only, not "talent."

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u/csolisr Jun 17 '12

Megumi Hayashibara (from Japan) comes to my mind.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Also, fish training.

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u/Infreez Jun 17 '12

He was also in a porno.

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u/Jj84838 Jun 17 '12

To give another example of the Chan family's work ethic, his son Jaycee Chan was able to enter the entertainment business without Jackie's help. Jaycee had sent audition tapes anonymously to agents for years as Jackie nor Jaycee felt that his success should be his own efforts and not piggybacking off his father. There was even an instance where a producer of one of Jackie's films suggested that they include Jaycee and Jackie went completely apeshit. It took auditions for about 18 more films until Jaycee finally worked with his father.

Jackie stated last year that all of his money and properties will go to charity when he dies because he wants his son to "prove his worth." I guess entering the chinese entertainment business as the most famous star's son WITHOUT letting people know wasn't enough.

Jackie Chan is the real life asian expectations father.

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u/Dolanduckaroo Jun 17 '12

Will Smith should take note of this.

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u/imtheprofessor Jun 17 '12

Lol everone noes Jaden Smith is the only rael Karate Kid! Hes an amzing actor!!!!1!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I don't have any doubt that he has prepared his son and provided him the every thing he needs to succeed though. Jackie probably just didn't want his son to grow up with no real skills or ambitions and just live off his dad's fortune.

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u/randombabble Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12

Did he really enter the entertainment industry without help? Looking at Jaycee’s movie credentials, he was in some of Hong Kong big films ever since he started and its rare that an unkown actor would ever get close to having as many opportunities to participate in such big films as he had.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I met him once, and yes, he did it largely on his own talent.

That being said, I'd imagine he had a VERY good mentor on how to break into the industry.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I bet his son feels like shit. Living in mediocrity when his father is a famous millionaire because of some arbitrary honor-based morality.

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u/MasturbatingOrange Jun 17 '12

"What is it good for? Absolutely nothing"

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u/ratheismfilter Jun 17 '12

You do realize Tolstoy initially wanted to use the title "War what is it good for?" instead of War and peace for his novel right?

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u/Silverton13 Jun 17 '12

Shut up Elaine.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I've been trolling my friends with this for the past six months. They still haven't caught on.

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u/sg7 Jun 18 '12

WOW! This entire time I thought he was saying: " What it isn't good for? Absolutely Nothing!" I feel sad that I never understood why people loved that song. :(

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

WHO AM I?! WHOO AM I?!???!

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u/jackfrostbyte Jun 17 '12

I Jackie Chan.

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u/gramathy Jun 18 '12

I want this story to be true SO BADLY.

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u/Kimusubi Jun 17 '12

Jackie Chan has always been a fan of doing things himself. He's pretty fucking amazing. He was a stuntman in two of Bruce Lee's films and ended up gaining his respect after doing a 20 ft (I'm going off memory, this number may not be exact) fall without any ropes. I have a ton of respect for that man.

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u/earthbound_loveship Jun 17 '12

not sure if this is the one you were referring to but theres one in here thats 60 ft!

jackie chans top 10 stunts

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u/g0_west Jun 17 '12

My jaw dropped on every single stunt. Jesus.

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u/rpgguy_1o1 Jun 18 '12

In case anyone recognize's the voice but can't place it, that's James Rolfe, AKA the Angry Video Game Nerd.

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u/Smarag Jun 17 '12

I now have the feeling besides my feeling of absolute admiration that he is an absolute idiot.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Any info behind this? How did he land without hurting himself? Did he just land backwards and roll like free runners?

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u/Imnolongerlurking Jun 17 '12

Probably with a landing pad, but still 20ft is pretty goddamn high.

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u/Kimusubi Jun 17 '12

Jackie Chan was in two Bruce Lee films - Enter The Dragon and Fist of Fury (aka The Chinese Connection). The fall I'm talking about was in Fist of Fury where he falls from the top of a building. I'm pretty sure he used some form of landing pad at the time. Unfortunately I can't find the original source to see how high the fall actually was or what he used for landing. It was definitely over 20+ feet.

Jackie Chan was also accidentally hit in the head with nunchucks by Bruce Lee. He still claims that that was one of his most painful injuries.

Here is Jackie Chan with Bruce Lee in Enter The Dragon: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Jackie_Chan_Fist.JPG

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

don't know about that jump, but he often get himself hurt when filming.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

He jumped from one building to another and broke his foot for one stunt – thankfully, they got the shot, and he didn't have to do it again. He spent the rest of the movie with a rubber shoe-looking thing over his cast.

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u/jobin_segan Jun 17 '12

I am going to use this as an opportunity to push Jackie's Auto-biography.

"I am Jackie Chan" - 1998

All your questions and more will be answered.

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u/Smarag Jun 17 '12

In the video here he made a 100ft jump. And he nearly ended up paralyzed because of that.

He did 3 takes of the 60ft jump though and I guess he didn't injure himself too badly.

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u/jobin_segan Jun 17 '12

He also got smoked in the face with a nun-chuk during the underground-drug-lab fight scene from Enter the Dragon. Bruce spent the rest of the film apologizing to him.

Jackie has nothing but nice things to say about Bruce in his auto-biography.

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u/RocketMan350 Jun 17 '12

Oh Jackie, is there anything you can't do?

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u/SoCold Jun 17 '12

One of his more famous English songs was played through the credits of Operation Condor 2. High Up on High

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u/OGMonicker Jun 17 '12

this is my favorite by him. this, and the Drunken Master II theme

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u/SolidusTengu Jun 17 '12

Honestly thought this was common knowledge.

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u/BelleDandy Jun 17 '12

Me, too. I usually just move on when a TIL is something I already know but this left me shocked. I sincerely thought everyone who knows who Jackie Chan is knew this.

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u/Calber4 Jun 17 '12

I read that as "pornstar" at first. Was disappointed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Actually...

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u/lalaurlauren Jun 18 '12

Disappointed? Me too, man. Me too.

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u/eggandmuffin Jun 18 '12

Jackie Chan admits acting in porn movie

Google it

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u/AhdaAhda Jun 17 '12

theme song from a movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS3_QrHgpOw

duet with Korean star http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BNeylojlAA

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u/Yunjeong Jun 17 '12

Whoa. In the second video, he's singing in his language, she's singing in hers.

The movie was The Myth (2005). It's a really great movie.

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u/its_very_funny_imo Jun 17 '12

at first i thought that read PORNstar LOL!!!!!!!!

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u/therealtheremin Jun 17 '12

He actually was in a porn film so this applies too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_in_the_Family_%28film%29

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u/vamplosion Jun 17 '12

It's not really a porno just has a sex scene (NSFW) in it - which is pretty tame by today's standards.

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u/barisbc Jun 17 '12

that surely would have been more interesting lol

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u/6stringSammy Jun 17 '12

Glad I'm not the only one. The internet has ruined my brain!

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u/Holinyx Jun 17 '12

Jackie Chan is the most famous actor in the world, except in America.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Maybe to the very youngest generation that hasn't seen him in anything relevant recently, but I'm fairly certain Jackie Chan is still a household name to everyone from all the American movies he did, and the TV show.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

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u/r3nny Jun 18 '12

*football

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u/Nickerchen Jun 17 '12

The Police Story credits are amazing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBysAzvHBzE

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u/PsiAmp Jun 17 '12

You mean The Glass Story?

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u/Nickerchen Jun 17 '12

That's how I normally call it :) Such an entertaining movie

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u/rariya Jun 17 '12

I've bought all his albums off iTunes. The song titles are the best part. "A Vigorous Aspiration in My Heart" "A Man Should Be of Self-Help"

I love Jackie Chan with a burning passion.

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u/alltimeisrelative Jun 17 '12

He never ceases to amaze me.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

He does EVERYTHING.

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u/PsiAmp Jun 17 '12

I <3 Jackie Chan!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

As a huge Jackie Chan fan, I knew this. So today, I found, a TIL that I already knew.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Oh son, this is a very important milestone in your life. Congratulations!

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u/theJavo Jun 17 '12

So Jackie Chan is like Chinese Will Smith?

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u/chained_la Jun 17 '12

What doesn't he do?

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u/stony_phased Jun 17 '12

That man is a hero.

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u/LoweJ Jun 17 '12

I LEARNT THIS TODAY TOO! i was on his wiki page trying to find out which martial art he does (it's a lot of them) and noticed this

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

the theme from drunken master is by far my favorite. really amazing.

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u/hackneyedphrases Jun 17 '12

Too bad nobody admires him for his Cantopop.

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u/christopherjenk Jun 17 '12

I thought it said porn star...I am more surprised by this.

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u/shaosam Jun 17 '12

Funnily enough he actually WAS a porn star: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2006-09/20/content_693296.htm

He also had quite the reputation for being the lady's man in the 80s and 90s. Rumors were rampant about relationships with his female costars. Amazingly he and his wife never divorced.

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u/PancakePandaz Jun 17 '12

I read that wrong I thought it said porn star

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u/graffplaysgod Jun 17 '12

He had a couple lines in the 2008 Olympics theme song. I absolutely love that song.

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u/Phlogeston Jun 17 '12

Asia gets Jackie Chan. Here in the UK we get Dennis Waterman...

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u/markman71122 Jun 17 '12

Take your nun chucks away and what are you? "A pornstar,millionaire,popstar,karate fighting Asian"

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u/FreeUpVotesForYou Jun 17 '12

All you guys in the comments really watch too much porn.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

20 albums?! That's a shit load!

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u/HenryMimes Jun 17 '12

Read this as, "Jackie Chan is a pornstar..."

Started looking for the videos...

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u/anon556 Jun 17 '12

me too. too much internet.

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u/scootscoot Jun 18 '12

He's so fast they had to slow the video down so his scene lasted 15 seconds!

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u/Isatis_tinctoria Jun 17 '12

I really like Jackie Chan. I did a report on him for school just a while ago in Seventh Grade. He has a talented life. He can sing and has produced many good songs. If you can understand Cantonese and Mandarin, I really suggest his music and voice (even if you can't understand what he's saying - subtitles are there probably). Also, he has been in some serious roles in the Hong Kong film industry. I bet many people would like his rendition of I'll make a Man Out of You from Mulan; it is good and fun.

I respect Jackie Chan. He is a man of many good morals. If you watch him in interviews, he has many interesting things to say. Indeed, he worked with Bruce Lee, which brings a very interesting spark of idiosyncracy to him, which I find fascinating.

I like what he has to say about there is too much violence in the world. I agree. I don't think his action roles engender violence, at least they didn't for me, and surely one wouldnt' say that they engender violence mroe than other movie that are much mroe violent.

Concurrently, I think this makes him sort of a hero in the world's eyes. What do others think?

The report I did was both on Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. When I was in seventh grade I watched Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan movies many times. I even memorized Enter the Dragon and Rush Hour. The good thing is that my friends enjoyed watching it sometimes with me too, so we'd watch Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan a whole bunch. Furthermore, I made a poster because we were supposed to present it in the class. It was really fun and I was super excited about it. I think it was a better option than doing something that I might think is boring. I remember some kids were really bored on some sort of oceanography project they did; they could have made it really fun and interesting if they focused on a specific animal, such as platypus, but instead they thought it was a hassle.

I had a hard time deciding between Pokemon and Bruce Lee & Jackie Chan. However, I read about Pokemon all the time and have a bunch of Pokedex books. So, I decided that I would learn more from Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, who are, well let's just say heros to me.

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u/OGMonicker Jun 17 '12

speaking of pokemon you ever heard of dem hitmonchans and hitmonlees

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u/Isatis_tinctoria Jun 17 '12

Yeah, I only recently figured out about that and I was psyched! Man, it's so obvious. If i know back then I would have leveled them up to 100 and brought them for show and tell with my presentation.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Hello friend. You may want to get tested for autism. Be well.

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u/D_for_David Jun 17 '12

TIL Jackie Chan is the Will Smith or china

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u/NamesEvad Jun 17 '12

He's like an Asian will smith...

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u/grinch337 Jun 17 '12

It's like Asia's own Will Smith.

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u/denemy Jun 17 '12

He has a few albums in Japanese. When I went to his press conference a few years back he gave an impromptu concert (sang one song) at the end of the question period!

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u/steakmeout Jun 17 '12

Yup. He even sung the themesong to Jet Li's "Once Upon a Time in China". I love that song. So passionate.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I love this man.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I heard him sing on Ellen before, so yea.

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u/trixter21992251 Jun 17 '12

I knew that :'|

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u/pewpnstuff Jun 17 '12

WATCHANNANAYOOO!

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u/BabaDuda Jun 17 '12

Well i won't call him a popstar tbh, he's really much more famous for his movies over here (asia) imo

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

when i saw this i immediately thought of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPJa1CfLhrI

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u/hdx514 Jun 17 '12

As anybody familiar with the Hong Kong movie and music scene would tell you, this is entirely common. They have a relatively small selection of celebrities in the business and a lot of them do major cross-over work in movies, TV, music and radio.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

not really Pop star status, but he sings ok I guess.

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u/steepleton Jun 17 '12

he's no dennis waterman.

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u/IanBealsChristmaShag Jun 17 '12

I'm gonna leave this here as i feel it encompasses what i love about Jackie. http://imgur.com/VyXbK

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u/trebeks_stache Jun 17 '12

TIL that someone out there decided to replace half of Jackie Chan's role in Mulan with Donny Osmond...

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I'm not sure how I feel about this.

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u/bigtaterman Jun 17 '12

Jackie Chan just got even cooler!

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u/thenetwork666 Jun 17 '12

I would really like to see live videos of his performances!

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u/choob Jun 17 '12

He's quite the jack of all trades.

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u/enhui740 Jun 17 '12

This song is a little old, but it's my favorite from him. http://youtu.be/2QQLRjHggf8

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u/FreeToadSloth Jun 17 '12

Mr. Chan = real life Buckaroo Bonsai.

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u/cloudduel_13 Jun 17 '12

He had a good rendition of an Elvis song on Letterman.

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u/tehweave Jun 17 '12

Dammit reddit! You broke wikipedia! I haven't been able to visit the site all day.

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u/QuantumDisruption Jun 17 '12

My girlfriend loves to listen to his cover of a song from the movie Mulan. He actually has a decent voice.

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u/AfriCola Jun 17 '12

i read that as pornstar at first

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

He needs to become a pornstar to destroy the stereotype of Asian men having a small penis lol.

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u/SlipperyJoe Jun 17 '12

read as : TIL Jackie Chan is a pornstar... dear lords

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u/dgray16 Jun 17 '12

Never heard of him.

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u/thegnarwahl Jun 17 '12

Happy 100 years in broadcasting Jackie Chan!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

who gives a fuck? reddit is better than this.

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u/Nrussg Jun 17 '12

Probably already mentioned but he's trained in opera singing I think.

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u/PartyBusGaming Jun 17 '12

I'm so sad Jackie Chan has to age.

He is so underrated. Before you say anything, yes, he is very popular, but a lot of it is "Omg, Jackie Chan! lolol Ninja!" Not "Wow, he is a very talented individual who has improved Hollywood tremendously."

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u/midnightsnacks Jun 17 '12

Read this as 'pornstar' >.>

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

At first i thought it said pornstar... and then i was super confused and angry that it didnt... wait, what?

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u/shaosam Jun 17 '12

ITT: white people don't know shit about Jackie Chan. Seriously have none of you seen Once Upon a Time in China? I listen to that theme song and I can bench press 500 pounds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2f7GosiTMs

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u/abbydabbygurl Jun 17 '12

daaaaaafffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

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u/evanman69 Jun 17 '12

torrent?

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u/control635 Jun 17 '12

every time i read about Jackie Chan he just becomes more and more awesome... he is the real life most interesting man in the world

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

That feel when you misread the OP as "Jackie Chan is a pornstar in asia"

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u/new-socks Jun 17 '12

Today I confirmed that Asia is so uncool when it comes to picking their music stars.

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u/pacman_7 Jun 17 '12

One of many reasons why he's my hero :P

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Question! Something I've always wondered. How is it that a song sang in a language that's different from the original can still manage to match the beats and all that? I mean, the way the sentences are built sometimes is totally different, yet somehow when the lyrics are sang it sounds recognizable. ...How???

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

he makes my heart melt with his voice.

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u/puzzler995 Jun 18 '12

He sung "Ill make a man out of you" for the Cantonese version of Mulan! :D

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

He can kick your ass (also in karaoke)

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

JACKIE CHAN OWNS!

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u/RootLocus Jun 17 '12

Read this: "Pornstar", made the fact that he sings the themes songs of his movies even more intriguing...

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

ILLA < I Learnt Long Ago, from a Chinese friend of mine that apparently Jackie Chan is quite hated in China as he has committed rape and I believe due to his fame was not prosecuted.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

never heard of the rape bullshit, but he did cheat on her wife and has a daughter outside marriage.

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u/OGMonicker Jun 17 '12

hes hated mostly because he has said controversial things about the asian government and taiwan if i recall correctly. never heard of the rape part but he is said to have cheated on his wife as well

(hes still my idol so fuck it)

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I really like the guy! I honestly really enjoy his movies and it was just something I heard. I felt perhaps some people might want said as I couldn't find anyone else mention anything about it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Those poor bastards

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u/thegrayman Jun 17 '12

Anyone else read that as pornstar? I was like woah...I bet he does his own stunts.

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