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Wheels on Meals
快餐車
1984 · Film · 108 min
Directed by Sammo Hung Kam-bo
Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket.
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You can see this difference in the the films produced by him and his studio versus the american-produced ones. Every Frame a Painting has a good video on this. [0]
Typically for films the shooting portion takes only a few weeks to finish, so lots of retakes = money lost. Jackie Chan does a lot of random flourishes in his films that end up with him needing a lot of takes. For example, how he scales fences. [1]
The way he scales the castle wall in Wheels on Meals (1984) is probably my favorite example.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOjjdttsHy4
Movie is "Wheels on Meals", for anyone curious.
> The film's title was supposed to be Meals on Wheels. Superstitious Golden Harvest executives however demanded the title change because their two previous films with titles began with the letter 'M' – Megaforce and Menage A Trois – were both box office flops.