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Reminds me of a line attributed to Bruce Lee: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 t
by tsjq 6y ago
Reminds me of a line attributed to Bruce Lee:
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
- weareallcowards 6y agoJackie Chan had a similar attitude toward his films. He once said in an interview: >Whatever you do, do the best you can, because the film lives forever. No, "because that day it was raining and the actor don't have time." >I said, "would you go to every theater and tell the audience?" No! The audience sits in the theater: good movie? Bad movie? That's all. And he practiced what he preached, sometimes going through hundreds of takes to get a stunt just right.
- andrewzah 6y agoYou can see this difference in the the films produced by him and his studio versus the american-produced ones. Every Frame a Painting has a good video on this. [0] Typically for films the shooting portion takes only a few weeks to finish, so lots of retakes = money lost. Jackie Chan does a lot of random flourishes in his films that end up with him needing a lot of takes. For example, how he scales fences. [1] The way he scales the castle wall in Wheels on Meals (1984) is probably my favorite example. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOjjdttsHy4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOjjdttsHy4