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Jackie Chan is a Chinese actor and director known for his daring stunt work and elaborate fight sequences that have earned him popularity worldwide. He began training at age seven in martial arts, music, and acrobatics. During the 1970s, he worked as a stuntman and fight choreographer in Hong Kong films. His breakout role was 1978's Drunken Master, which he wrote, directed and starred in. It was a major hit and introduced comedy elements to martial arts films. Chan became the highest paid movie star in Asia, known for performing his own risky stunts that have resulted in injuries. In the 1990s, he gained greater international fame with films like Rumble in the Bronx and Rush Hour.

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Referat ENGLEZA - Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan is a Chinese actor and director known for his daring stunt work and elaborate fight sequences that have earned him popularity worldwide. He began training at age seven in martial arts, music, and acrobatics. During the 1970s, he worked as a stuntman and fight choreographer in Hong Kong films. His breakout role was 1978's Drunken Master, which he wrote, directed and starred in. It was a major hit and introduced comedy elements to martial arts films. Chan became the highest paid movie star in Asia, known for performing his own risky stunts that have resulted in injuries. In the 1990s, he gained greater international fame with films like Rumble in the Bronx and Rush Hour.

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JACKIE CHAN

Chan, Jackie (1954- ), Chinese actor and director of action motion pictures, whose death-defying
stunt work, comic manner, and elaborately choreographed fight sequences have won him an enthusiastic
worldwide following. Born Chan Kwong Sang in Hong Kong, his Chinese screen name is Sing Lung,
which translates as becoming the dragon. He is known as Jackie Chan outside Asia. At the age of seven
Chan enrolled in the Chinese Opera Research Institute, a training center for the form of musical theater
known as Peking opera (see Chinese Music). For ten years, Chan studied dance, martial arts, music, and
acrobatics in an atmosphere of extreme discipline, acquiring skills that he would later adapt for his
performances in films.
During the early 1970s Chan worked as a stuntman and fight choreographer in Hong Kong's
expanding film industry, which achieved global success with a distinctive genre of action films, mixing
martial arts with spectacular stunts and often startling violence. After the death of Chinese American actor
Bruce Lee in 1973, film studios searched for a new martial-arts superstar, and Chan was among several
young actors who were groomed as potential successors. His first major film role was in Xin Ching-Wu
Men (New Fist of Fury, 1976), a sequel to an internationally popular Bruce Lee film, Fist of Fury (also
known as The Chinese Connection or The Iron Hand, 1972). After New Fist of Fury failed to achieve
commercial or popular success, Chan introduced changes to the martial-arts film style developed by Lee,
adding elements of playful misadventure and slapstick comedy. The result, Drunken Monkey in the
Tiger's Eye (also known as Drunken Master, 1978), was a major hit throughout East Asia.
Chan subsequently wrote, directed, and starred in numerous Hong Kong action films, becoming
the highest-paid movie star in Asia. He also developed a reputation for executing exceptionally risky
stunts, many of which have resulted in fractured bones and other injuries. Chan appeared in several
American films, including The Big Brawl (1980), The Cannonball Run (1980), and The Protector (1985),
but none of these performances significantly increased his popularity outside Asia. He received greater
international attention with the release of Police Story (1985), a fast-paced crime film shown at major
film festivals. Chan's meticulously choreographed stunts and self-effacing humor in the film inspired
critics to compare him with American actor and director Buster Keaton.
Chan's reputation soared as global interest in Hong Kong cinema increased during the early 1990s.
In 1996 one of his most accomplished films, Hong Faan Kui (1995), was released in the United States as
Rumble in the Bronx, achieving popular and critical acclaim. In 1998 he appeared in Rush Hour, an
action film set in Los Angeles. That same year his autobiography, I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action,
appeared.

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