I spoke to Jackie Chan on the phone once, and all I remember is he asked me if I had seen Rumble in the Bronx. I was in the fan club at the time. I spoke to him three times and met him once.
I wish I could like that 1,000 times! Jackie Chan is bad ass doing all of his own stunts. I'd also include some of his other movies: Drunken Master Supercop Jackie Chan's First Strike
It was a fanclub meeting and he spoke to all 40 or so attendees for a minute or so. I told him, happy birthday and that I liked his movies, and he said thank you. He asked if I had seen Rumble in the Bronx, which I later learned was his way to see if someone watched a bootlegged copies before official releases. That is about it. Yes, we met on his birthday. The time I met him in person was at a Costco in Seattle during a book signing. The fan club nerds got to meet him first. He showed up a little late because the book signing was starting right about the same time as a Seahawks game and traffic was well football game traffic, first thing he said when he walked in was "hurry up!" He signed a book for me with his name written in Chinese with a little note reading "Love you, Jackie Chan"
This really is the only answer. John McTiernan took his sleek storytelling style and added Frank Darabont's wonderful photography. Blood squibs were never so explosive, air vents had never been so huge, bare feet never so bloody. And they found a Eurotrash stereotype of German villain that Steven Spielberg would be jealous off..... Films like Speed and John Wick are the natural evolutuon from Die Hard.
I actually spoke to him 3 times and met him once. Conversation was pretty much the same one every time. The one year we couldn't talk to him he sent a huge box of gifts and swag. Dude is a legend to his fans.
I'm a massive Jackie Chan fan so I hate to break it to you, but he doesn't do all of his own stunts. It is weird though, I've seen scenes where he didn't do the stunt, but did all the other major stunts in the same movie, it's like it wasn't worth his time to simply fall down some stairs or something.
I also saw on the outtakes where he got hurt and had to have a stuntman compete the stunt, I'll try to find a clip.
I just saw this, and I read this post and thought I should post this clip: It might give some perspective. The narrator really did a good job at explaining Jackie's style.
