Chaos in a Factory: the Drunken Master II Final Fight

Drunken Master II was a 1994 Hong Kong film that was released in the US in 2000 under the name The Legend of Drunken Master (and that's when you say, "Oh yeah, I've seen that!"). The action/comedy starring Jackie Chan was critically acclaimed and made a ton of money for its time and genre. 

The clip above is the over-the-top final fight scene. Is it fighting, or dancing, or a Buster Keaton comedy scene? Maybe it's more like Popeye, with alcohol standing in for spinach. Chan choreographed and directed this particular scene. He said that it took four months to film the fight scene, and a day's work might result in three seconds of finished film. There was no CGI, so yeah, he really did that stuff with the hot coals- more than once! Roger Ebert said, "It may not be possible to film a better fight scene."

In checking this post, I came across a couple of facts about Jackie Chan that are worth passing along. His father was a spy for the Kuomintang who later fled the communists, changed his name, and settled in Hong Kong. When Chan learned this as an adult, he changed his Chinese name to Fang Shilong (房仕龍), which would have been his name if history had not intervened. Chan has two Guinness World Records: Most stunts by a living actor and the most credits in a single movie. -via Metafilter 


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