Jackie Chan The Kung Fu Master
Jackie Chan is one of my favorite actor, he was born in Hong Kong on April 7th, 1954. He childhood name is Chan Kong-sang. Jackie learned kung fu from his childhood, and he took a job as the head cook at the American embassy in Australia when he was seven years old. Jackie learned martial arts, acrobatics, singing, and acting in school, where the school was meant to prepare boys for a life in the Peking Opera. Chinese opera is very different from any other kind of opera, since it includes singing, tumbling, and acrobatics as well as martial arts skills and acting. It was a very harsh and difficult life but Jackie had nowhere else to go, so he stayed.
Jackie made his acting debut at age eight in the Cantonese movie "Seven Little Valiant Fighters: Big and Little Wong Tin Bar." He later teamed with other opera students in a performance group called "The Seven Little Fortunes." Jackie worked as a stuntman and an extra in the Hong Kong film industry. Jackie was extraordinarily athletic and inventive, so he gained a reputation for being fearless in Hong Kong film industry and he was in demand too. He worked in a restaurant and on a construction site, and there he got the name "Jackie". A worker named Jack had trouble pronouncing "Kong-sang" and started calling Jackie "little Jack." That soon became “Jackie” and the name stuck.
Willie Chan worked in the Hong Kong movie industry and he was looking for someone to star in a new movie being made by Lo Wei, a famous Hong Kong producer/director. Willie had seen Jackie at work as a stuntman and had been impressed. Soon Jackie was on his way back to Hong Kong to star in "New Fist of Fury". Willie Chan took control over Jackie's career, but the movies that Jackie made for Lo Wei were not very successful. Even Jackie Chan acted in Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon as a side artist. Latter on that Jackie brought humor to martial arts movies; his first success was "Snake in Eagle's Shadow", that was followed by "Drunken Master" (another blockbuster) and Jackie's first ever directing job, "Fearless Hyena." All were big hits.
After a series of lukewarm receptions in the U.S., he returned to make Rumble in the Bronx, the movie that introduced Jackie to American audiences and secured him a place in their hearts (and their box office). Rumble was followed by the Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon series which put Jackie on the Hollywood List. In recent years, Jackie's focus has shifted and he is trying new genres of film – fantasy, drama, romance – and is spending more and more time on his charity work. He takes his work as Ambassador for UNICEF/UNAIDS very seriously and spends all his spare time working tirelessly for children, the elderly, and those in need.
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