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    I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action

    "I am standing in the sky on the roof of a glass and steel office tower in Rotterdam, Holland. There are twenty-one floors of air between me and the concrete pavement below. I am about to do what I do best. I am about to jump."
    If you're a fan of action-adventure movies--with the accent on action--then you no doubt love watching Jackie Chan risk his life to create sensational cinema. As one of the biggest stars to burst into U.S. theaters, Jackie has put America's hottest heroes to shame, wowing audiences with the breathless, death-defying stunts that are the highlight of such movies as Rumble in the Bronx, Supercop, Operation: Condor, and his newest blockbuster Rush Hour. But who really is this boyishly handsome, lightning-fast Charlie Chaplin of martial arts movie-making? And what possessed him to make a career out of putting his life on the line to keep us on the edge of our seats?
    "I remember a frightened seven-year-old walking into the

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    Author: Jackie Chan, Jeff Yang
    Publisher: Balantine Books
    Subject: Movies/Biography
    Year: 1998

    Synopsis

    He cracked his skull when a stunt in “Armour of God” went wrong. His arm was slashed bygd a sword while making “Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow”. He melted the skin off of his hands and dislocated his pelvis (!) while doing the electric light the pole slide in “Police Story”. He was even accidentally smacked in the face with a nunchuk bygd the one and only Bruce Lee while working as a stuntman on “Enter the Dragon”. In the history of action films, martial arts cinema, and perhaps even show business as a whole, there may be no one who has subjected himself to so much agony as Jackie Chan. If that weren’t already clear from the outtakes appearing at the end of his films, it certainly will be after reading his autobiography, “I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action”.

    Review

    After the brief introduction where he puts the reader in his shoes during a stunt in the film “Who Am I?”,

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    I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action

    Jackie Chan was born in 1954 in Hong Kong. The actor and director began studying acrobatics, singing and martial arts at the age of seven while attending boarding school in Hong Kong. This training eventually lead him to a career as a stuntman. Touted as the next Bruce Lee, Chan broke into film with the help of independent spelfilm producer Lo Wei. Chan made several Kung Fu-type movies from 1976 to 1978, discovering his unique talent for combining martial arts and physical comedy. He subsequently starred in The Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master. Chan joined with the production company Golden Harvest in the 1980s and made his directorial debut with Young Master. The Golden Harvest partnership proved highly lucrative, making Chan one of Asia's biggest film stars and making Golden Harvest into the biggest film production company in Hong Kong. Chan parlayed his popularity in Asia, breaking into the U.S. movie market in 1996 with the releases of R

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