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Drunken Master http://www.ram.org/ramblings/movies/the_legend_of_drunken_master.html

Tired of the way Chan is so underutilised by Hollywood film makers, I decided to check out his breakthrough film, /Drunken Master/, one that I had seen a long time ago.

There's not a lot of plot to this film: Chan plays a troublesome son, Wong Fei-Hong, who is sent away to be tutored by Su Hua-Chi (Siu Tien Yuen) in the art of drunken boxing. After a few mishaps, he learns the skills quickly and returns in him to save his father, the Shaolin master Wong Kei-Ying, from being assassinated.

What is amazing about this film is the choreography of the fight sequences. You can try really hard but it's not easy to notice that the characters aren't really hitting each other. There's a tongue-in-cheek attitude to the fights that have become a trademark in Jackie Chan films.

The characters Wong Kei-Ying, and a younger Wong Fei-Hong, show up in greater style in /The Iron Monkey/, and Chan playing Wong Fei-Hong shows up again in /The Legend of the Drunken Master/.

In any event, if you feel the same way that I do about recent Chan films (/The Tuxedo/, for example) then I highly recommend checking this film out. At least the efforts here are sincere.

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