Monday, November 15, 2010

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong on April 7, 1954. His parents are named Charles and Lee-Lee Chan is the Chinese civil war refugees. Jackie Chan, has little name Chan Kong Sang, which means born in Hong Kong. He spent his childhood in elite environment, District of Victoria Park.

When he was a child,his parents register Chan to the China Drama Academy, Peking Opera School. Thanks to the expertise of martial arts and acrobatics, eventually brought Chan to be included in the Seven Little Fortunes, a performance group that membered by the best student in her school.

Chan has entered the world of movies since I was eight years old, when he appeared in a movie called Big Little Wong Tin Bar. In this film, Jackie Chan play with Sammo Hung Kam-Bo and Li Hua Li. Next year, he played with Li Hua Li in the movie musical The Love Eterne.

When he growing up, at the age of 17, his expertise in art martial arts led him to become a stuntman in films played by Bruce Lee. Stunts played by Chan in First of Flury and Enter The Dragon.

He was given the chance to be a star in the movie Little Tiger of Canton who had a limited release in Hong Kong in 1973. The next year, Chan played in a film called Rumble in Hong Kong. 


But over the next two years, Chan was not involved in film production. Finally he decided to stay with her parents who had moved to Canberra, Australia, where his parents worked as cooks. There, Chan continued his studies at Dickson College.

While in college, he also worked as a construction worker. Apparently, nickname Jackie Chan aimed when he worked as a construction worker. He got his nickname Little Jack, who later became Jackie. 

The presence of Chan in Canberra Australia did not last long, because in the same year he got a telegram from Willie Chan, a Hong Kong film producer, who was very impressed with Chan. Willie Chan offered him a film directed by Lo Wei, titled New First Fury. But unfortunately this film fails in the market.

In 1978, Chan comes with a kung fu comedy genre film titled Snake in the Eagle's Shadow. The success of the film could be the start of the kung fu comedy movie . After that, Chan's career began to climb after he played in the film mainstream who success in the market, the Drunken Master, and then forwarded to the kind of film entitled Half a Lot of Kung Fu and Spiritual Kung Fu.  

 Throughout his career in action films, Chan has recorded three times a nasal fracture, one ankle fracture, most of the fingers, both cheekbones and his skull bone, and has a permanent hole in his head, because of an accident in action in front of the camera.

Movies that played by Jackie Chan:


* Young Tiger (1973)
* Eagle Shadow Fist (1973)
* The Killer Meteors (1976)
* Shaolin Wooden Men (1976)
* New Fist of Fury (1976)
* Countdown in Kung Fu (1976)
* To Kill With Intrigue (1977)
* Jackie Chan’s 36 Crazy Fists (1977)
* The Magnicient Bodyguards (1978)
* Spiritual Kung Fu (1978)
* Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow (1978)
* Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin (1978)
* Half a Lot of Kung Fu (1978)
* Drunken Master (1978)
* The Fearless Hyena (1979)
* Dragon Fist (1979)
* The Young Master (1980)
* The Big Brawl (1980)
* The Cannonball Run (1981)
* Dragon Lord (1982)
* The Fearless Hyena II (1982)
* Winners and Sinners (1983)
* Wheels on Meals (1984)
* Jackie Chan’s Crime Force (1984)
* Fantasy Mission Force (1984)
* Cannonball Run II (1984)
* The Protector (1985)
* Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars (1985)
* Police Story (1985)
* Ninja Thunderbolt (1985)
* Heart of the Dragon (1985)
* Naughty Boys (1986)
* Project A II (1987)
* My Lucjy Stras (1987)
* Police Story II (1988)
* Dragons Forever (1988)
* Miracles (1989)
* The Prisoner (1990)
* The Kid From Tibet (1991)
* Island on Fire (1991)
* The Best Of Martial Arts Films (1992)
* Supercop (1992)
* City Hunter (1992)
* The Armour of God (1994)
* Project A (1994)
* Once A Cop (1994)
* Crime Story (1994)
* Supercop (1996)
* Rumble In The Bronx (1996)
* Operation Condor (1997)
* Jackie Chan’s Second Strike (1997)
* First Strike (1997)
* Gods (1998)
* The Operation Condor 2 : Armour of the Gods (1998)
* Who Am I ? (1998)
* Rush Hour (1998)
* Mr. Nice Guy (1998)
* Hongkong Face Off (1998)
* Burn, Hollywood, Burn (1998)
* Twin Dragons (1999)
* Master of Disaster (1999)
* Jackie Chan’s Project A (1999)
* Heikek Chi Wong (1999)
* Bolei Cheun (1999)
* The Legend of Drunken Master (2000)
* Shanghai Noon (2000)
* The Accidential Spy (2001)
* Rush Hour 2 (2001)
* The Tuxedo (2002)
* The Medallion (2003)
* The Cin Gei Bin (2003)
* Snake in Eagle’s Shadow 2 (2003)
* Shanghai Knights (2003)
* San Gingchat Gusi (2004)
* Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
* Sen-Hua (2005)
* Legends of Martial Arts (2005)
* Come Drink With me (2005)
* Thunderbolt (2006)
* Bo Bui Ga Wak (2006)
* Rush Hour 3 (2007)
* The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

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