Jackie Chan

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Jackie Chan at San Diego Comic-Con International (2012)

Jackie Chan , MBE ( Chinese  成龍  /  成龙 , Pinyin Chéng Lóng , Jyutping Sing 4 Lung 4 ; born April 7, 1954 in Hong Kong ) is a Hong Kong- Chinese actor , film producer , screenwriter , film director , stunt performer and singer . He was born in Hong Kong to Charles and Li-Li Chan. His birth name was Chan Kong-Sang ( Chinese  陳 港 生 , Pinyin Chén Gǎngshēng ), which means something like "Chan who was born in Hong Kong".

In the Hong Kong film industry , Chan was initially marketed like many others as the successor to Bruce Lee , who died in 1973 and whose death had dealt a severe blow to the Hong Kong film industry. Filmmakers were looking for a new Bruce Lee, while Chan never saw himself as his successor. He created his own fighting style, which is characterized by acrobatics and comedic interludes and thus differs significantly from Bruce Lee's style based on seriousness.

In November 2016 he was awarded the honorary Oscar for his life's work.

Life

Childhood and youth

Jackie Chan grew up in a poor family who fled to the British colony of Hong Kong during the Chinese Civil War . Charles and Lee-Lee Chan first lived in poor ghettos , but were soon employed by the French consul , where Chan's mother became a maid and his father a cook. They lived in the exclusive villa suburb of Victoria Peak , although they lived quite isolated from the western world. Since his father mastered Chinese fighting techniques, he taught this chan early in his childhood. At the age of seven, his parents sent him to the China Drama Academy, the Peking Opera School (a kind of boarding school that specializes in martial arts, singing and acting) under the guidance of the strict master Yu Jim-Yuen to become the hyperactive Chan there among other things, could learn discipline, but also fighting (including Kung Fu ) and acting. It was there that he met his later friends, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao . Other well-known “opera brothers” (ie former classmates at the Peking Opera School) of Jackie Chan are Corey Yuen , Yuen Wah and Yuen Man Meng .

He was sent to this school because his parents took a job in Australia and couldn't take him with them. In addition, his performance in the elementary school he had previously attended had been miserable. After his parents moved, he was adopted by the master of the academy. The training at the Peking Opera School was tough: from dawn to midnight, the students were occupied with acrobatics , dancing, singing, "worship" and reading and writing (which, however, was of relatively minor importance). Beatings were not uncommon as punishment . According to the school contract, Chan was tied to the head of the school for ten years, which he even chose himself, because at the beginning he found the surroundings exciting and promised a lot of fun. When his father asked him how long he wanted to spend at school, he replied, "Forever!"

Chan followed his parents after finishing school and a rather volatile life in bars and arcades . Among other things, he worked in the construction industry , where he also got his name Jackie, as he spoke little English and the name of his foreman , who was called Jack, was imprinted on his work colleagues, who couldn't get his Chinese name off their lips. "Little Jack" became "Jacky" and he decided to use the spelling "Jackie". However, there are also films in which you write it with a y , and they are older films. In Superfighter 2 , his last name was spelled with an e .

Acting career

Chan in 2002

At the age of seven, Chan made his film debut in Big and Little Wong Tin-Bar . By the time he left school at the age of 17, he worked on four more films. He then found work as a stuntman , including in Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon . The competition was fierce, but Chan managed to stand out from the crowd of stuntmen through particularly daring actions. In this way he got his first roles as an actor and also worked as a stunt coordinator, even as the youngest in Hong Kong's film history. However, the new star failed several attempts to conquer the American market. In 1981 he played in the very successful ensemble clothing On the Highway All Hell Is Losing (Cannonball Run) alongside stars like Roger Moore , Burt Reynolds , Dean Martin and Farrah Fawcett . He was also seen in the 1984 sequel alongside the aforementioned stars, but failed completely at the box office with his own film The Protector in 1985. Although he did not make a breakthrough in America, he did not give up and made several very successful films in Hong Kong, such as Police Story and its sequels. Jackie Chan achieved success through breathtaking stunts in his films, which he completed courageously, but also often with injuries. Many of them were even life-threatening: since a fall in Armor of God (The right arm of the gods) , Chan is hard of hearing in one ear. This film almost cost him his life when he fell from a tree and landed on his head. Since that fall, he has had a hole in his head that is sealed with a plastic stopper. However, it's just a myth that Chan did all of his stunts himself; certain stunts require specially trained stuntmen, some stunts he was unable to do due to lack of time or prevention, and in other cases the stunt simply looked better when performed by another stuntman.

Finally, in 1994, the American public became aware of Chan: through Rumble in the Bronx , which was the first of his films to make it to the top of the American box office charts . He was now gaining new fans all over the world, and his earlier films became well known outside of Asia, especially in video stores . Jackie Chan now enjoys a high reputation worldwide and runs many charitable drives outside of filmmaking, owns shares in the famous restaurant chain Planet Hollywood and campaigns for tourism in his hometown. Among other things, Jackie Chan also became a great idol in Europe , where he was also the role model for many martial artists .

His work includes over 80 films in which he has a role as an actor - over 60 with a leading role and a total of participation, including singing, in over 140 films.

Private life and social engagement

Jackie Chan has been married to Taiwanese actress Joan Lin Feng-Chiao ( 林鳳嬌 ) since 1982 , with whom he has a son named Jaycee Chan , who works as a singer, actor and director. After an affair with Miss Asia in 1990 Elaine Ng Yi-Lei , he has an illegitimate daughter, Etta Ng Chok Lam.

Jackie Chan will bequeath about half of his fortune to the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation . In 2006, US magazine Forbes named him "one of the ten most generous celebrities in the world". In 2003, Jackie Chan fell in love with the Berlin bears when he was in Berlin for several weeks to film about In 80 Days Around the World . He had himself photographed for a poster with a few hundred of the Buddy Bears . In 2004 he organized a visit to the United Buddy Bears in Hong Kong. At the opening, he was able to hand over three checks totaling HKD 1.43 million to UNICEF and two other children's organizations. Since then, Chan has held annual worldwide painting competitions - not just for children and young people - all about bears.

Controversy

Jackie Chan came under fire several times when he commented on the current freedom of speech and human rights with the following statement : “I have more and more the feeling that we need to be controlled. If we are not monitored , we will do what we want. ”Speaking to politicians and business people in Boao , he said that too much freedom could lead to chaos“ like in Hong Kong or Taiwan ”.

These statements in an interview with the South China Sunday Morning Post led to harsh criticism from the Taiwanese government.

Mentioned in the Panama Papers

At the beginning of April 2016, a list published by the ICIJ announced that Chan was involved in the tax and money laundering scandal published as part of the Panama Papers .

Injuries

Jackie Chan suffered a number of serious injuries while making his films:

He suffered numerous other broken fingers and back injuries while filming other films.

Background and miscellaneous

  • With a few exceptions ( Police Woman , Tiger of the Death Arena ), Chan always plays “good”, righteous characters.
  • One of his trademarks are the outtakes in the credits of his films.
  • He shot the movie All hell's loose again just to fulfill his contract.
  • He is a big fan of silent film actors such as Buster Keaton , Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd and pays them respect time and again in his films by incorporating silent film elements into his comedy or by reenacting entire scenes, as in Project A the case of the bell tower from Lloyds Safety Load .
  • At an awards ceremony in the Chinese community in London attended by Prince Charles , Jackie Chan said via video message: "If you want to learn a little Kung Fu, give me a call and I'll be right there."
  • Jackie Chan sang the official countdown song We Are Ready for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . He performed at both the opening and closing ceremonies.
  • During the state visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to the United States in January 2011 , Chan was invited by Barack Obama to a state dinner at the White House .

reception

  • The character Lei Wulong from the video game series Tekken is based on Jackie Chan.
  • The Pokémon Nockchan and the dragon ball character Jackie Chun (aka Muten-Roshi) are named after him.
  • The German band Die Ärzte mentions Chan in their song Ein Mann from their album Noise .
  • The Alaska-based post-hardcore / metalcore band 36 Crazyfists was named after the Jackie Chan film The 36 Crazy Fists from 1977.
  • There are video games on the PlayStation consoles, the NES and the Game Boy Advance and an animated series (Jackie Chan Adventures) by and with him. The cartoon series was also published as a paperback and a comic book. However, both were discontinued after one edition or three comic editions.
  • The band Ash pays homage to him in their song Kung Fu , and the bands Goldfinger , The Toasters and McLoud each named a song directly after him. Tiësto & Dzeko ft. Preme & Post Malone also produced a song called Jackie Chan .
  • In April 2007 a magazine in Bratislava with Jackie Chan on the front cover sold out in just two hours.
  • In 2007, Chan received a special award from the Japanese magazine DVD DATA because he was voted best actor in that magazine for 20 years in a row

synchronization

Jackie Chan was dubbed in Germany by Christian Tramitz , Jan Odle and Stefan Gossler , among others . Jackie Chan's German dubbing voice has been Stefan Gossler since Rumble in the Bronx . Thanks to its extensive language skills (including English , Japanese , Thai , Taiwanese , Mandarin , Cantonese , Korean ), he is able to many foreign versions of his films themselves synchronized .

Filmography (selection)

actor

Director

Screenwriter

producer

Discography

  • 1980: The Young Master OST
  • 1983: Project A OST
  • 1984: Love Me
  • 1985: The Boy's Life
  • 1985: Thu Je
  • 1985: Heart of Dragon OST
  • 1986: Shangri La
  • 1986: Sing Lung
  • 1986: Armor of God OST
  • 1987: Mou Man Tai
  • 1987: Project A 2 OST
  • 1988: HK, My Love
  • 1988: Giant Feelings
  • 1988: Jackie Chan hits
  • 1989: See You Again, The Best of Jackie Chan II
  • 1989: Jackie, hits
  • 1989: Miracles OST
  • 1990: Armor of God 2: Operation Condor OST
  • 1992: Police Story 3 OST
  • 1992: Once Upon A Time In China 2 OST
  • 1992: Beauty and the Beast OST
  • 1992: The First Time
  • 1993: City Hunter OST
  • 1994: Drunken Master 1 OST
  • 1994: Rumble in the Bronx OST
  • 1995: The Best of Film Music
  • 1995: Thunderbolt OST
  • 1995: Jackie Chan hits
  • 1996: Dragon's Heart
  • 1997: Mr. Nice Guy OST
  • 1998: Dreams
  • 1998: Rush Hour EAST
  • 1998: Who Am I OST
  • 1999: Gorgeous OST
  • 1999: The Best of Jackie Chan
  • 2000: The Accidental Spy OST
  • 2000: Asian Pops Gold Series
  • 2002: Truly, With All My Heart
  • 2003: The Twins Effects
  • 2003: Rock Hong Kong 10th Anniversary - Jackie Chan Greatest Hits
  • 2004: New Police Story OST
  • 2005: The Myth OST
  • 2006: Rob-B-Hood OST
  • 2008: Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Jackie Chan's version

Awards

Jackie Chan's star on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong
year Award category Movie Result
1983 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Action Choreography (with Hark-On Fung and Yuen Kuni) Dragon Lord Nominated
1985 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor The superfighter Nominated
1986 Hong Kong Film Awards Best director Police story Nominated
1986 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor Police story Nominated
1986 Hong Kong Film Awards Best action choreography Police story Won
1986 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor Powerman 3 Nominated
1989 Hong Kong Film Awards Best action choreography Police Story 2 Won
1989 Hong Kong Film Awards Best movie rouge Won
1990 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor Miracles Nominated
1992 Golden Horse Film Festival Best Actor Police Story 3 Won
1993 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor Police Story 3 Nominated
1993 Asia-Pacific Film Festival Life's work Unit price Won
1994 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor Hard to Die Nominated
1994 Hong Kong Film Awards Best action choreography Hard to Die Nominated
1994 Golden Horse Film Festival Best Actor Hard to Die Won
1994 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Action Choreography (with Lia Chia Liang) Drunken Master Won
1995 MTV Movie Awards Life's work Unit price Won
1996 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor Rumble in the Bronx Nominated
1996 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Action Choreography (with Stanley Tong ) Rumble in the Bronx Won
1996 MTV Movie Awards Best Fight (vs. The Bad Guys) Rumble in the Bronx Nominated
1997 MTV Movie Awards Best fight (with the ladder) Jackie Chan's first strike Nominated
1997 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor Jackie Chan's first strike Nominated
1997 Hong Kong Film Awards Best action choreography Jackie Chan's first strike Won
1997 Fant-Asia Film Festival Best Asian Film Drunken Master Won
1999 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor Jackie Chan is nobody Nominated
1999 Hong Kong Film Awards Best action choreography Jackie Chan is nobody Won
1999 Hollywood Film Festival Actor of the year Unit price Won
1999 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Favorite Team (with Chris Tucker ) Rush hour Won
1999 MTV Movie Awards Best Team (with Chris Tucker) Rush hour Won
1999 MTV Movie Awards Best Fight (with Chris Tucker vs. The Chinese Gang) Rush hour Nominated
2000 Hong Kong Film Awards Best action choreography Under control Nominated
2000 International Indian Film Academy Award special price Unit price Won
2001 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Favorite Action Team (with Owen Wilson ) Shang-High Noon Nominated
2002 Teen Choice Award Best Film Chemistry (with Chris Tucker) Rush hour 2 Nominated
2002 MTV Movie Awards Best Team (with Chris Tucker) Rush hour 2 Nominated
2002 MTV Movie Awards Best Fight (with Chris Tucker vs. The Hong Kong Gang) Rush hour 2 Won
2002 Taurus Award Best Fight (with Chris Tucker vs. The Hong Kong Gang) Rush hour 2 Won
2002 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Favorite actor Rush hour 2 Nominated
2002 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Favorite butt kicker Rush hour 2 Won
2002 Taurus Award Honorary award Unit price Won
2002 American Choreography Awards Honorary award Unit price Won
2003 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Favorite actor The Tuxedo - danger in the suit Nominated
2003 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Favorite butt kicker The Tuxedo - danger in the suit Won
2003 MTV Movie Awards Best Team (with Owen Wilson) Shanghai Knights Nominated
2005 Asia-Pacific Film Festival Special prize from the jury Unit price Won
2005 Golden Phoenix Awards Honorary award Unit price Won
2005 Hong Kong Film Awards Life's work Unit price Won
2005 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor New Police Story Nominated
2005 Hundred Flowers Awards Best Actor New Police Story Nominated
2005 Golden Rooster Awards Best Actor New Police Story Won
2006 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Action Choreography (with Stanley Tong and Tak Yuen) The myth Nominated
2006 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Movie Song ("Endless Love") (with Choi Jun Young, Wang Zhong Yan and Kim Hee-sun ) The myth Nominated
2007 Hong Kong Film Awards Best Action Choreography (with Chung Chi Li) Rob-B-Hood Nominated
2008 MTV Movie Awards Best Fight (with Chris Tucker vs. Sun Ming Ming) Rush hour 3 Nominated
2008 People's Choice Award Favorite Team (with Chris Tucker) Rush hour 3 Nominated
2008 Teen Choice Award Best Actor - Action / Adventure The Forbidden Kingdom Nominated
2010 Hong Kong Film Awards Best movie City of violence Nominated
2011 People's Choice Award Favorite Team (with Jaden Smith ) Karate kid Nominated
2011 People's Choice Award Favorite action star Karate kid Won
2011 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Favorite butt kicker Karate kid Won
2012 Hundred Flowers Awards Best director 1911 revolution Nominated
2013 Huabiao Film Awards Best Foreign Actor Armor of God - Chinese Zodiac Nominated
2013 Golden Horse Film Festival Best action choreography Armor of God - Chinese Zodiac Won
2013 Hong Kong Film Awards Best action choreography Armor of God - Chinese Zodiac Won
2013 Guinness Book of Records Most credits in a movie Armor of God - Chinese Zodiac Won
2013 Guinness Book of Records Most of the stunts performed by a living actor Unit price Won
2016 Honorary Oscar Lifetime achievement award Unit price Won

Motorsport

Since 2016, Chan, together with the US racing driver David Cheng , has been co-owner and namesake of the Le Mans motorsport racing team Jackie Chan DC Racing (formerly Baxi DC Racing Alpine ). In the 2015/16 season , the team, for which Alex Brundle and Oliver Jarvis drive alongside Cheng , won both the drivers' and the team championship at the Asian Le Mans Series . The idea for this collaboration came up in March 2015 when Cheng and Chan met for the first time and Chan spoke of his enthusiasm for Steve McQueen and his film Le Mans . FranceFrance

literature

  • Jackie Chan, Jeff Yang: Jackie Chan - A life full of action . Autobiography. Heyne Verlag, 1999, 366 pages, paperback ISBN 3-453-15906-3 . Updated edition 2002, paperback ISBN 3-453-20982-6 .
  • Leo Moser: Made in Hong Kong - Jackie Chan's films. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-89602-312-8 .
  • Thorsten Boose: The German Jackie Chan film guide . Shaker Media Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86858-102-7 .
  • Christian Berger: The real Jackie Chan . Self-published, 2019, 122 pages, paperback.
  • Jackie Chan, Zhu Mo: Never Grow Up. The official autobiography. New Life, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-355-01892-0 .

Web links

Commons : Jackie Chan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Biography of Chéng Lóng - About Jackie Chan. from Bunte.de, accessed on February 27, 2013.
  2. Jackie Chan, Anne V. Coates, Lynn Stalmaster and Frederick Wiseman to receive Academy's 2016 Governors Awards at oscars.org, September 1, 2016 (accessed September 2, 2016).
  3. a b c Biography on jackiechan.com ( Memento from January 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Jackie Chan's Charity Work. on jackiechan.com, accessed February 27, 2013.
  5. Jackie's Design Buddy Bear Contest ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Spiegel Online from April 19, 2009 .
  7. ^ Financial secrets of the rich and famous revealed. In: ABC News. Retrieved April 3, 2016 (Australian English).
  8. Jackie Chan Kids - Jackie Injury Map. Retrieved July 29, 2015 .
  9. Jackie Chan is fed up with his character stereotype. at fan-lexikon.de, accessed on February 27, 2013.
  10. Oliver Hüttmann (2003): “Shanghai Knights”: Kung-Fu with Gene Kelly. at spiegel.de, accessed on February 27, 2013.
  11. Jackie Chan wants to teach Prince Charles Kung Fu. of November 2, 2007 at mopo.de, accessed on February 28, 2013.
  12. My Visit to the White House ( Memento from June 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ^ Lei Wulong on fightersgeneration.com, accessed February 27, 2013.
  14. Die Ärzte Ein Mann Lyrics on stlyrics.com, accessed on February 27, 2013.
  15. Jackie Chan Adventures. on imdb.com, accessed February 27, 2013.
  16. Ash Biography & History on ash-official.com, accessed February 27, 2013.
  17. Goldfinger on lastfm.de, accessed on February 27, 2013.
  18. The Toasters on lastfm.de, accessed on February 27, 2013.
  19. https://www.dance-charts.de/2018052310058/tiesto-dzeko-feat-preme-post-malone-jackie-chan
  20. Jackie Chan - Japan. on jackiechan.com, accessed on February 27, 2013. ( Memento of February 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  21. German synchronous files
  22. Chris Lugert: Co-owned by Baxi DC Racing Alpine. Motorsport-Magazin, February 6, 2016, archived from the original on July 16, 2017 ; accessed on July 16, 2017 .
  23. Geoffroy Barre, Emma Paulay: David Cheng tells us how he joined forces with Jackie Chan. Le Mans.org, February 25, 2016, archived from the original on July 16, 2017 ; accessed on July 16, 2017 (English).
  24. Youtube clip