``Project A'' From Chaplin to Harold Lloyd, from Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan. Cause and effect of the reincarnating action comedy

“Project A” takes advantage of the taste of the silent era

In Jackie's works since ` `Young Master '' (1980), his partner and screenwriter Edward Tan, who was responsible for the core story, was inspired by `` Raiders of the Lost Ark '' (1981). ” This is the reason for its birth.

A period drama set in the 1936s, similar to ``Raiders of the Lost Ark,'' which is an homage to serial action movies, it is a series of fistfights and sword fights set in Hong Kong at the time it became a British colony. Suggest an action movie to Jackie. Jackie takes the idea and adds a touch of Hollywood comedy from the silent era.

Among them, Buster Keaton's works had a great influence on his work. Chase rides his bike down a narrow alley. The chase running up and down the hill is a perfect example of the action scenes in Keaton's work. Additionally, the battle in the clock tower machine room borrows the idea from Charles Chaplin's `` Modern Times '' (36), where the characters are caught up in gears.

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As for Keaton, in the sequel `` Project A2 '' (1987), he quotes the famous scene from ` `Keaton's Steamboat '' (28), ``The wall collapses on people! It gets stuck in the window and you're completely safe!'' .

Jackie has long been fascinated by the silent era, especially comedy and comedy actors who used their bodies to express themselves without using words, and the actors themselves, rather than stunt doubles, expressed their amazing physical abilities. He researched the absolute power of these comedy works to make people laugh even decades later, and utilized that in his works.

This work is filled with the results of such research. And the scenes that cannot be avoided when talking about this work were also the result of such research.

Legendary action, falling from the clock tower