![]() ![]() Those two films, “ Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow” and “ Drunken Master,” would become Chan’s biggest hits to date and would help establish his signature style, which mixed kung fu and action with broad, even slapstick comedy.īut those weren’t his only films that year. Their director, Yuen Woo-ping (who would later achieve international fame as the martial arts choreographer on the “ Matrix” and “ Kill Bill” films), gave Chan not only the freedom to direct his own fight scenes but to free himself of the stone-seriousness of those early efforts. After years of flailing about in serious kung fu films, with producers and directors attempting (as they did with so many of his contemporaries) to fashion Chan into the next Bruce Lee, he was loaned out to the independent production company Seasonal Films for two films.
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