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As the henchman (played by the giant, former wrestler Nathan Jones) says, “This guy can move like a monkey”!

“ First Strike” (1996) – Hotel Room Escapeįilmed on Australia’s beautiful Gold Coast, Jackie has a memorable chase through his hotel suite.

Playing on cultural stereotypes and misunderstandings, the bar fight scene was a great way to introduce the uninitiated to Jackie’s comic timing and flamboyant physical skills!

Jackie Chan finally hit global box office gold alongside co star Chris Tucker with the buddy-cop comedy “Rush Hour”. In a pay-off from an earlier action sequence, Jackie displays his cheeky charm when actress Carol Cheng has her towel whipped off! It kick-starts a frenetic Three Stooges-style fight and chase through a North African hotel!

“ Armour of God 2: Operation Condor” (1991) – Hotel Fight.

The outtakes reveal Jackie having to make multiple attempts at flicking up and kicking a clog at a bad guy until he was happy with the accuracy.

In a career spanning way over a hundred films, we take a look at 10 of Jackie Chan’s laugh-out-loud funniest scenes! in descending order…įilmed in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Jackie demonstrates the power of a Dutch wooden shoe! The reaction of the stuntmen really sell their pain to the audience and Jackie’s grinning “Feels good?” punchline is priceless. His fusion of their slapstick stunt style, timing and rhythm with his Chinese opera-trained martial arts and Hong Kong action skills has led to arguably some of the finest cinematic physical comedy since the silent era movies. The film and its follow up, “ Drunken Master”, were hugely successful turning Jackie Chan into Hong Kong’s biggest star.Īs a young cinemagoer, Jackie Chan adored the comedy and physicality of performers such as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and dancer Gene Kelly. However, in 1978 Jackie was “loaned out” out to Ng See Yuen’s Seasonal Films, where he was allowed more creative freedom and came up with the first smash hit “kung fu comedy”, “ Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow”. Whilst Jackie’s martial arts skills were never in doubt, audiences never really took to him as a serious replacement for the iconic Bruce Lee. In 1976, Lo Wei, director of Bruce Lee’s Asian box office record-breaker “Fist of Fury”, tried to launch Jackie’s leading-man career as “the new Bruce Lee”. Jackie Chan is a legend in the world of stunts and action but it was an extra special ingredient in 1978 that really kick-started his meteoric rise to fame – comedy!