A few years ago it was said that if an actor didn’t want to lose prominence in a film, it was better not to put a child or a dog next to him. WELL Jackie Chan (who we will meet soon Ralph Macchio for a movie Karate Kid) turns a deaf ear to this axiom stunt doublesnew proposal from the actor Rush hour in the combination of the genres that best suit him: comedy and action.
Chan was, in his past and among many activities, a stuntman, with a legendary catalog of injuries in real life, so this film produced in China and spoken in Mandarin takes him back to those actions he used to perform, be it stunts or falls . .
And like a swansong fortune or misfortune, the film contains snippets of Chan’s film doing just that, because his character is, you guessed it, a stunt double, but is no longer dedicated to that task, due to a question of age and because the cinematographic technique, with the green screen in the background, is on the safe side, even if it is fake. Until he is called to shoot an action scene with his horse Red Hare.
No one in the film world remembers Luo except the young people he taught and supported, so his return could be complicated. Luo is therefore torn between returning to the ring, risking his physical integrity and that of his horse, and re-establishing his relationship with his daughter Bao (Liu Haocun), whom he has seen little since he divorced her mother when she was girl. I was one year old.
Red Hare and Luo (Jackie Chan): One of those relationships. Photo MB FilmBao feels orphaned (her mother died) and sees a chance for reconciliation when Luo needs the help of a lawyer: she studies law and asks her lawyer boyfriend Mickey (Kevin Guo) to defend her father (and his horse). in court.
A horse protagonist like Jackie Chan
Red Hare is almost as much of a protagonist as Master Luo (Chan) and Bao. Luo lives in a loft above his neglected horse stable and struggles to keep Red Hare, when a debt collector (Andy On) tries to take the horse as collateral. And then two company representatives claim the little horse as part of their boss’s ownership, following a complicated lawsuit involving Red Hare’s previous owner.
The film has, in addition to a director behind the camera, another as “action director”, He Jun. It’s not that there are that many hand-to-hand fights between Luo and the bad guys, but the few you do see are very well shot. , as brilliantly executed choreography.
Jackie Chan will turn 70 on April 7. There is also an action scene director in this film.Chan, who turns 70 on April 7, looks 40, including dyed hair. The fact that in real life he is estranged from his daughter Etta Ng-Chan is very conservative and firmly supports the Beijing regime: her daughter is homosexual – leads one to think that this film was made to heal or compensate for the damage. .
Who knows if he succeeded.
“The action doubles”
Comedy/Action. China, 2023. Original title: “Long ma jing shen”. 125′, SAM 13. From: Larry Yang. With: Jackie Chan, Haocun Liu, Kevin Guo, Yueting Lang. Rooms: Showcase Belgrano and Norcenter, Hoyts Unicenter, Cinépolis Avellaneda and Pilar.
Source: Clarin
