The film that revolutionized martial arts cinema was also Jackie Chan's first effort to mix comedy with a serious plotline and Chinese Opera-style fight sequences. Chan plays a rebellious young student who learns the snake style of kung fu in order ...
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The film that revolutionized martial arts cinema was also Jackie Chan's first effort to mix comedy with a serious plotline and Chinese Opera-style fight sequences. Chan plays a rebellious young student who learns the snake style of kung fu in order to stop the Eagle Claw Gang. With Yuen Siu Tien. 98 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: Cantonese, English; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean; theatrical trailers. In Cantonese with English subtitles/Dubbed in English. NOTE: This Title Is Out Of Print; Limit One Per Customer.Amazon.com
Along with Drunken Master, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow launched a new fusion of comedy and kung fu. And it's easy to see why Snake has been so popular--it's easily the most engaging of Jackie Chan's early films. Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan (Chan) until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the "snake fist" fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with the master of the "eagle's claw" style, who has vowed to destroy the snake fist clan. Though these plot elements are familiar stuff, they're all executed with outstanding verve; the performances, the fight choreography, and even the obligatory training sequence are unusually complex and well filmed. Jackie is in top form and coming into his own as a star. --Bret FetzerSimilarProduct