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It officially doesn't apply to the Jackie Chan movie Miracles.
Movie takes place sometime in the 1930's. It's a kind of takeoff on a Frank Capra movie called Pocketful of Miracles, only Frank Capra characters usually don't get into four-against-one kung fu battles in rope factories or all-out gang fights (where nobody seems to really get hurt) in downtown Hong Kong teahouses. I was recommended this movie as possible source material for a Pulp Juncture in Feng Shui, particularly the teahouse scene- the recommender was quite correct, that's got to have been one of the best staircase fights I've ever seen. (Spiral staircase. Lots of gangsters. Jackie Chan. Now there's a combination.) The movie came out in 1989 and was re-released in 2000. I don't know when they did the dub job, I only know that they hired Americans and that Jackie didn't even do his own English... but for once that's okay. Because, see, it just isn't a gangster movie unless it has the gangster voices. I swear, they must've written the scripts into English, then done a casting call for Edgar G. Robinson / Jimmy Cagney imitators, then hired people who always wanted to be in The Godfather or something. Combine that with all these Chinese gangsters running around 1930's Hong Kong in fedoras and traditional vests (or sometimes three piece suits and carrying Lugers) and you just can't go wrong... My only real quibble with it was the crappy music. Anita Mui played a nightclub singer, and she got one good song. The rest of the movie's music was basically the bottom of the American public domain barrel, except for one scene where I swear they lifted the music from the scene in The Neverending Story where Bastian first approaches the Mirrorgate.
Got it at Blockbuster. I used a free rental on this one, but it'd be worth renting for actual money. Just be aware that this is basically a comedy movie with a couple of fights thrown in, rather than an action movie with a strain of comedy. Meet it on its own grounds and I think you'll love it too. It's a nice change of pace from some of the grim and serious stuff out there these days. Give it a shot if you happen to run across it.
Movie takes place sometime in the 1930's. It's a kind of takeoff on a Frank Capra movie called Pocketful of Miracles, only Frank Capra characters usually don't get into four-against-one kung fu battles in rope factories or all-out gang fights (where nobody seems to really get hurt) in downtown Hong Kong teahouses. I was recommended this movie as possible source material for a Pulp Juncture in Feng Shui, particularly the teahouse scene- the recommender was quite correct, that's got to have been one of the best staircase fights I've ever seen. (Spiral staircase. Lots of gangsters. Jackie Chan. Now there's a combination.) The movie came out in 1989 and was re-released in 2000. I don't know when they did the dub job, I only know that they hired Americans and that Jackie didn't even do his own English... but for once that's okay. Because, see, it just isn't a gangster movie unless it has the gangster voices. I swear, they must've written the scripts into English, then done a casting call for Edgar G. Robinson / Jimmy Cagney imitators, then hired people who always wanted to be in The Godfather or something. Combine that with all these Chinese gangsters running around 1930's Hong Kong in fedoras and traditional vests (or sometimes three piece suits and carrying Lugers) and you just can't go wrong... My only real quibble with it was the crappy music. Anita Mui played a nightclub singer, and she got one good song. The rest of the movie's music was basically the bottom of the American public domain barrel, except for one scene where I swear they lifted the music from the scene in The Neverending Story where Bastian first approaches the Mirrorgate.
Got it at Blockbuster. I used a free rental on this one, but it'd be worth renting for actual money. Just be aware that this is basically a comedy movie with a couple of fights thrown in, rather than an action movie with a strain of comedy. Meet it on its own grounds and I think you'll love it too. It's a nice change of pace from some of the grim and serious stuff out there these days. Give it a shot if you happen to run across it.
