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Drunken Master
醉拳
1978 · Film · 111 min
Directed by Yuen Woo-ping
After getting into trouble, a mischievous young man is sent to train under a brutal, but slovenly old beggar, who teaches him the secret of the Drunken Fist.
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>"Most Titanic victims understandably succumbed to mortal panic as soon as they hit the icy water, but [Charles] Joughin was so bombed out of his mind that he didn’t seem to care.
Booze didn’t protect Joughin from the cold that night, but it did give him just enough false hope and inflated confidence to think that he could doggy paddle his way out of history’s worst maritime disaster. And in this one case, that turned out to be true."
So, there's the Bear Grylls and Wim Hof and Les Stroud (etc.) survival methods -- do everything you can to survive -- but now there's also apparently the Charles Joughin survival method -- just get completely sh-tfaced drunk! Get completely hammered, get completely sloshed!
And well, that's it!
There's nothing more to do!
Let nature (or in this case, the sinking Titanic!) take care of itself!
All you gotta do is find some (well, technically a lot of) alcohol -- and imbibe it!
And well, that's it!
There's no survival techniques, no preparedness checks, no physical and mental strengthening beforehand, no grit, no training, no exercise, no survival will, no special survial equipment, no nothing required -- just booze!
And the guy actually survived! :-) <g> :-)
Amazing!
(Reminds me of two things: Jackie Chan in "Drunken Master", and the Hitchhiker Guide To The Galaxy's "Don't Panic" advice...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080179/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Don't_Panic )
Also, I vote that this is the funniest story that I've read on HN in a long time! <g> :-) <g>
I can agree things like sports are a lot better at high frame rates. You want to see what players are doing precisely in a live setting. But people don't watch sports in movie theaters.
I'd argue stylistically the lower frame rate works a lot better on a big screen. There's also the fact that high frame rates on a big screen seem to cause some people to get motion sick.
I personally have no issue w/ action scenes which are shot at 24fps. Yeah, there is a fair amount of blur but it all seems natural (at least on a cinema projector), and conveys the fast movement, even if it might not be precise.
Take Jackie Chan's Drunken Master epic final fight scene for example - yes it's a bit blurry but I can make sense of everything going on. If anything it enhances the feeling of action - if this was shot at 60fps, it would look much more "real" and be a lot less enjoyable.
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwDU3IOBEIk
I have to agree with that. I once decided to hack in the "Drunken Master" after the Jackie Chan film. If you are a martial arts master, then every booze potion you drink increases your attack and your defence (thought you still walk around mostly randomly). If you drink too many (I forget how many it was), then you fall asleep. I also added a fortune cookie that said, "A boat floats in water, but sinks in it too". I think it took me a couple of hours to go from never having seen the code base before to completing the hack. Really lovely stuff. Unfortunately, I don't have the code any more, but if anyone wanted to add it, it's easy ;-)
Yes (to Drunken Master)! I just noticed this last weekend that it was on Netflix and re-watched it. After many years, I still really enjoy the movie.
Another one of his that I really enjoyed was Who Am I, but I haven't seen it in probably a decade.
Rush Hour 1 through 3 have long been some of my favourite movies!
If we're getting into Jackie Chan movies, though, one cannot leave out Drunken Master
Drunken Master is one of my favourite movies of all time! That said, I still love the Rush Hour series.
I agree with the article that even with Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon, Western audiences really haven't seen the full Jackie Chan palette of tricks and stunts. Some of the stuff he did in movies like Police Story, Armor of God and Drunken Master is amazing. Supercop (Police Story 3, per Wikipedia) has some of the most astonishing stunt work I've ever seen, and Michelle Yeoh matches him stunt for stunt.