Dragon Lord
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| Dragon Lord | |
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| Directed by | Jackie Chan |
| Produced by | Raymond Chow Leonard Ho |
| Written by | Jackie Chan Edward Tang Barry Wong |
| Starring | Jackie Chan Mars Whang Ing-Sik Tin Fung |
| Cinematography | Chan Chung-Yuen Chen Chin-Kui |
| Editing by | Peter Cheung |
| Distributed by | Golden Harvest |
| Running time | 86 min. |
| Language | Cantonese |
| IMDb profile | |
Dragon Lord is a 1982 martial arts film starring Jackie Chan.
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[edit] Plot
The film is about a young man named Lung (Jackie Chan) who gets in to a lot of mischief a and his father who is an important man and very strict disapproves of the way he acts. He is skilled in sports and fighting, but his father wishes he would be more educated and skilled in poetry. Lung pretends to work however he gets his servants and teachers to assist in helping him through his tests while he goes off on his own business. His father insists that he marry a young woman of his choosing and Lung finds a woman while he and his cousin Nagu are out having fun. What follows is some embarrassing attempts by both Nagu and Lung to get the girl. While it seems Lung manages to come out on top, Nagu becomes jealous and gets into a fight with Lung over who will get her.
They brawl in the streets and Lung and Nagu are separated by their fathers showing up. A short time later they reconcile their differences and Nagu instead admits defeat and tries to help Lung get the girl. Lung goes over with his servants, however they are all pelted with by fruit. So they turn their heads to the annual Shuttlecock championship as they are a part of the team known as "The Dragons" where Lung is captain and Nagu is goalie.
After some dirty tricks are pulled by the other team ("The Braves")the dragons come out on top and win the championship. Lung kicks the shuttle into the crowd, however he accidentally hits the girl whom he is trying to woo. To tell her how he feels about her Lung's Servants hatch a plan to fly a kite with a note attached to it to land right in her window. The gang prep the kite however they let it go at the wrong time thus it lands on top of the wrong house. This particular house has thugs inside who are packing China's valuable treasures away and then selling these treasures which belong to the Chinese people.
Lung manages to get the kite and encounters a defector to the thugs cause, warning him to be quiet when getting his kite. However Lung is caught after he narrowly avoided being stabbed by the thugs on the top of the roof. However the head thug tells his cronies to let Lung go, as one of the men supplying the thugs is none other than Lung's Uncle and Nagu's father. A short time later, Lung and his gang go to the temple in which the girl prays in. Lung tries to hear if she is praying for him, to judge if he is of good character. As she burns the Joss sticks which are used to judge his character, two of thugs have tracked down the traitor to the same temple in which Lung is in. The thugs throw the traitor through the shrine and Lung sees that the girl has chosen a bad Joss stick. He is heart broken and thus tries to prove he is of good character by running the thugs out from the shrine and protecting the traitor to the thieves cause.
Nagu and one of Lung's servants haul off the injured traitor to Nagu's barn while Lung and his other servant stay back after the fight and ask the girl which Joss stick she got. Even though it is the lowest class Joss stick, she lies and tells him "First-Class" as she knows in her heart that Lung is a decent man.
At the barn, Lung and Nagu hear about the thugs plans from the traitor. He passes out and Lung leaves to get matches to boil some herbs to make some medicine for the man. Lung returns and finds Nagu stiff as a board up against a pile of hay. Nagu acts really weird so Lung insists that he sing instead whilst he lights the matches.
Nagu begins to sing "one little two little SIX little Indians Six Little Indian boys". Lung asks him why he skipped so many Indians, but Nagu snapped back that "If I want it to be six, it's six". Lung then realized that Nagu was being held at sword point in the back so he acts all tough and tells Nagu "You light it and look after him then". Lung leaves and climbs to the top of the barn outside. It seemed that Lung was right and Nagu was being held by the thugs. Lung gets into the barn and knocks the second-in-command thief out by swinging from a rope. The thugs leave as they realize what they are doing is wrong. As the traitor goes to leave, he is sent flying back in. In the doorway is the head thief whom has a solid white iris in is right eye.
Lung, Nagu and the head thief begin to fight, however the stakes become even higher when the head thief pulls on a rope and Nagu's father is swung in from the roof, tied upside-down 15 feet in the air. Nagu goes into a rage and however the head thief just casually knocks him aside, while Lung continues to fight the thief with all he's got. Eventually the fight turns when Lung kicks a rock at the head thief and he hits it back however Lung kicks it and hits the head thief above his left eye. Blood trickled from the cut and entered the head thief's left eye thus rendering him partially blind. Lung and Nagu began to pummel him with grain sacks and win the fight. They then untie Nagu's father.
After the whole ordeal, Nagu's father tells of his deeds and asks to be forgiven by his older brother (Lung's father). We then see Lung and Nagu playing with firecrackers, blowing up chamberpots and other ceramic items. When Lung tells Nagu that this he's having so much fun, Nagu wheels out another of his father's possessions... A CANNON. So Nagu shows Lung how the cannon works, however he doesn't light it as their father's are coming out. Their fathers come out talking about how much each has learned and how they will be more mature, about a lovely plastered wall that he has built and about Nagu's father's new treasure, a cannon. They see the boys and notice that they are holding their lighters dangerously close to the wick of the cannon. Nagu, leans on the cannon telling his father not to worry, but this in turn, makes the cannon tilt on its fulcrum and lifting the wick to the lighter that Lung is holding. Their fathers run off, and Nagu's father says that his wall is so strong that they'll be safe. Lung and Nagu try to stop the cannon firing, however they cannot and the cannon fires directly at the wall. Lung looks through the dust and powder and sees both his father and his uncle coming out covered in dust and plaster pieces. Lung and Nagu quickly hold up a sign of "We will not play with the cannon again". However the father's yell out and run at their boys with Lung and Nagu quickly trying to get away, which leads to the credits rolling.
[edit] Box Office
In its original Hong Kong theatrical run, Dragon Lord grossed HK $10,936,344[1]. This was an impressive figure, although the film went so overbudget that profit was minimal, even after foreign box office.
[edit] Trivia
The complex shuttlecock scene may hold the record for number of takes for a single shot in a film, at over 2900 takes.[2] [3]
