Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Film Career
There are many references to the real Jackie's live-action film career in the cartoon:
· Animated Jackie's all beige/khaki clothes are also similar in appearance to the real Jackie in his film Armour of God.
· In the first episode entitled The Dark Hand, Jackie fights Finn, Ratso and Chow in a playground. There is a similar playground fight scene in the Jackie Chan film Police Story 2.
· In another first season episode Tough Break, Jackie is seen waterskiing with a cast on his leg. This is a reference to the waterskiing scene from the Jackie Chan film Rumble in the Bronx where Jackie performed the scene with a disguised cast under his costume. Jackie had broken his leg shooting a prior stunt where he jumped onto a passing hovercraft.The episode Project A, For Astral is homage to Jackie's film Project A.
· The Season Two episode Showdown in the Old West has Jackie's ancestor during the Old West looking just like Shanghai Noon.
· In The Tiger and the Pussycat, Jackie splits into "good" and "evil" twins. Jackie Chan played dual roles in The Twin Dragons, one is a musical conductor and the other was the lost twin who is the only one with martial arts moves.
· Another possible reference can be seen during the fight between "light" and "dark" versions of Jackie in Tiger and the Pussycat where "Light" Jackie fights balancing onto makeshift stilts; using a ladder split vertically by "dark" Jackie. In the Jackie Chan film, Police Story 4: First Strike(known as Jackie Chan's First Strike in the US), Jackie has a fight scene whilst wearing stilts.
· In a Season 3 episode, Jackie is bitten by a snake. The poison affects him, putting him in a drunken state, which he uses to his advantage. This is an allusion to Jackie's movie Drunken Master.
· Another possible "Drunken Master" reference appears in season 5, in the episode "Clash of the Titanics." Jackie (wearing SCUBA gear) explores a sunken ship which holds the chi of the thunder demon, Tchang Zu. Jackie, pursued by Strikemaster Ice and his gang, is forced to surface too quickly and gets "the bends," a condition which makes him delusional, ie drunken.
· During the episode when Jade went back in time to Jackie's childhood, adult Jackie and young Uncle perform the same double team technique that Jackie Chan used in Rush Hour with Chris Tucker.
# posted by Angelina Jolie : 1:39 AM
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