The untold truth of Jackie Chan After starring in dozens of martial arts and action movies in which he's done his own stunts, Chan has sustained a number of injuries. So much so that in 2013, his movie Raising Dragon was promoted with a poster that consisted of an image of Chan's body with arrows pointing to all of his injured body parts. Among the injuries Chan has suffered in the pursuit of art and entertainment: On Drunken Master, he damaged a bone behind his eyebrow, and it nearly blinded him. He dislocated his right shoulder on City Hunter. Chan fell out of a tree while filming The Armour of God and suffered a skull fracture, a bone cave-in behind the ear, and bleeding into his brain. He broke his breastbone on Armour of God II. During the filming of The Accidental Spy, he broke his tailbone and was temporarily paralyzed. He's broken his nose four separate times: while making Young Master, Project A, Miracles, and Mr.
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Film Studies For Free The Editing Room: Abridged Scripts for Movies ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 | Film On the face of it, dystopian movies are the hardest sell in cinema. Who wants to see a film telling you that everything goes wrong and we all live miserably ever after? But increasingly, it seems, that is what we want to see, looking at recent hit sagas such as The Hunger Games, Planet of the Apes, Divergent and now a Blade Runner sequel. The pill has to be sugared with spectacle and romance, but dystopian futures perform a function. Few people wanted to hear what the original Blade Runner had to say in 1982. But where most sci-fi movies quickly date, Blade Runner has improved with age. Between the two movies and Philip K Dick’s source novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Ridley Scott’s film turned it around, somewhat. These are realms where Hollywood sci-fi does not often venture – although HBO’s Westworld did a fine job of it on TV last year. Thirty-five years on, many of those 1980s anxieties are ships that have sailed. “There is an order to things,” Wright tells K.
Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be? | Film Human Flow, the debut feature from the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, is a bold documentary about the refugee crisis. The film bounds from the cardboard cities of Europe to the burning oilfields of Mosul and from the unmarked graves of Turkey to the Texas-Mexico border. It plays out across 23 different countries. It contains a cast of thousands. In 2010, the artist packed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with 100m hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds that broke up underfoot and filled the air with dust. Here, he crams an entire global tragedy into 140 fraught minutes. If there’s a unifying thread in all this teeming human traffic, it’s the shambling figure of Ai himself. Human Flow premiered in competition at this year’s Venice film festival. Even those who would struggle to name one of Ai’s installations are familiar with the man’s history. Ai shakes his head; he knows this line of attack. Ai winces at the memory. Back in Beijing in his late teens, Ai enrolled at the film academy.