Jackie Chan -- How to do action comedy.

[Tacit Ronin]

Beautiful piece showing how proper action/comedy works and how Hollywood, by contrast, does not know how to execute it well. Some illuminating points regarding framing, choreography, performance and editing and how they are stifled in the west.


Warning: Some Marvel fans may not like it because of the examples used as not working.


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[Monsieur Xavier]

Interesting.

 

[dark_b]

''but shaky cam is more realistic''

the editing in hollywood is becoming a very big problem. 10 years ago it was already to fast. but now they are trying to do it even faster. its of course because the movie is very bad and they are trying to hide everything. you pay money for shaky cam and fast editing. hollywood won and we lost.

fantastic video. i like this youtube channel. we need more videos like this explaining why some artists are the best.

 

[Tequilla]

Good Video (maybe he should have empashyzed the name of directors a little more) .Jackie Chan , Yuen Woo Ping , Lau Kar-leung , Chang Cheh , Stanley Tong , Liu Chia-liang , Sammo Hung , Gordon Chan , etc. These are some of the greatest directors ever , who completely reformulated and recreated how to compose action (and im just talking body-action , not gun extravaganza). If director's want to learn , just grab their catalog and start watching...

People sometimes take Jackie as just an actor/funny guy/stunt when he is a great filmmaker. He might not be a great story teller , but nor his films approach cinema from that point of view. For instance Police Story 1 was a film made around different set pieces. He wrote what what he wanted to show , how the wanted to show and then he glued a story to it . Off course it's not going to be the most elegant thing in the world, but it also doesn't try to be any of that. It excels at the area the filmmaker knows where to deliver. Its the beauty of cinema.

 

[Brother Jack]

Great Youtube channel everyone who's interested in film should subscribe to. There are a bunch of videos like this one analyzing different personalities and elements of moviemaking.

 

[Matt Mortem]

That video was fantastic. I always knew Jackie Chan was awesome, but this cements it.

 

[kedrell]

Nice find, thanks.

 

[The Endless]

Great video. Some people are under the illusion that action and comedy are easy things to do and should be looked down upon. Whereas in reality they are the more difficult things to get right when it comes to making films.

 

[Dr. Manhatten]

I enjoyed the video and there's so much of Jackie Chan's work I hadn't seen before the video. However, like the one he did about Edgar Wright, I don't think using Chan is an example of how it should work for everyone. He's definitely one of the best and Hollywood definitely does have issues with action blocking, camerawork, etc. but what works for one doesn't always work for another. I had a bigger issue with the Wright video since comedy is much more subjective and I didn't agree with his examples