Jackie Chan

traits that I can identify on Jackie Chan is persistent. For example, when Jackie Chan is young, his father would wake him up early in the morning to practice Kung Fu. His father believed that learning Kung Fu would help to build Jackie Chan’s character and teaching him to be patience, strength and courage. Due to the occupation forced his father to leave his son, his father decided to let Jackie Chan to stay in Hong Kong and send him to China Drama Academy. During Jackie Chan’s time at China Drama

Colonialism in Jackie Chan Films   For over 20 years Jackie Chan has been the biggest action star in most of the world. First becoming popular in his native Hong Kong in the early 80s, his popularity slowly spread across the globe, and finally hit the U.S. with the 1996 release of Rumble In The Bronx (1994.) Since then Chan has made three highly successful films with American studois and several more with the Hong Kong studio Golden Harvest. He is easily one of the most recognizable Asian movie

You never really ever get to see a main character, who is a independent, courageous Asian "that doesn't know kung-fu", in any movie or TV shows. Many actors in modern day media prove these stereotypes to be true such as; beloved actor Ken Jeong, Jackie Chan, James Hong, Lucy Liu, and John Cho. First off, to help prove my point is ,America's favorite comedic actor, Ken Jeong. You never see Ken Jeong ever play as a main character of any movie. Ken Jeong usually plays as the random minor roll foriegn

me something’s impossible”. That is one of most Jackie Chan’s most famous quotes. His dream was to become an actress and a martial artist. He has been studying kung fu, acrobatics, and singing his whole life.He has been in a lot of musical films in his lifetime. Jackie Chan has been in more than one hundred films. He began studying martial arts, acrobatics, and singing at the age of seven. His parents moved to Australia to find new jobs, Jackie Chan was left behind to study at the Chinese Opera Research

Since I am interested in China, I decided to find out a little more about it. One of the first things I would like to find out is some basic information about the country. Another thing I would like to find out is what happened in China’s history. Furthermore, it would also be interesting to learn about the country’s current leader. In addition, I would like to find out about popular attractions that are located in China. Finally, I want to learn about a famous person who was born in China.

“The action hero who does all his own stunts”, that is what American audiences started calling famous Chinese director, actor, and martial arts expert Jackie Chan. His movies are known to be action packed, full of hand-to-hand combat, as well as having some comedic moments. The films analyzed in this paper will be Project A (1982), Project A 2(1987), as well as Police Story (1985). All of these take place in Hong Kong and are filled with satirical comedy as well as many martial arts scenes. During

circumstances.” Chan. Some might not have know Jackie Chan as an author. Chan was born on April 7, 1954 in Victoria Peak, Hong Kong where he lived in extreme poverty. When Chan grew up he then moved to Canberra, Australia to go to school, more specifically, Dickson College. Being born into extreme poverty, Chan was inspired to write about his and many other children's experiences in the book Children of China. Jackie Chan was more known as an actor rather than an author in his lifetime. Chan has written

realism and a tense atmosphere. After a pause in the action, the first piece of dialogue is spoken. Jackie Chan is taunted and challenged. As Jackie accepts his opponents proposal an incidental piece of music begins to play. It is a fast heroic piece, with obvious oriental influences. This gets the audience involved in the scene and makes them feel empathy for Jackie. Sound plays an important part in both scenes, and helps to add to and take away from the way violence is

1980. Therefore, there are many similarities and differences between 1980 and now. First, old Hong Kong and now Hong Kong have similarities in culture, especially movie industry. Hong Kong is one of the most famous movie stars’ home town such as Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, and Sammo Hung. In fact, Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco, and he lived and went to school in the US, but he went Hong Kong when he was 3 year old baby and grew up in Hong Kong. By his impressive martial arts and

Introduction By definition, Media Literacy is defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media. The power of the media should not be underestimated. Millions of teens and adults spend hours watching television and surfing the web on a daily basis. With the use of media literacy, these individuals that utilize hours of their daily lives can be protected from pressures of media disinformation that also pushes them to become the idealistic human model it wishes them to be. By teaching