Drunken Master Review

oh well I better shadow the air personality that's hair and welcome to week two of and any dive in the Jackie Chan's body of work would be incomplete without taking a look at some of the early films of a young Jackie Chan and without the movies from the 60s where he was a child and people called him UN Lau but rather the late 70s when people tend to call him Chen yung Leung and he was old enough to drink and kick all the asses few of his films around that era are remembered around the world quite as much as drunken master then I got legend of drunken master drunken master 2 from 1990s as a sequel reboot thing I'm not quite sure yet but Zoe Kwan drunken master from 1978 considered sort of a follow-up to snake in the Eagles shadow despite the movies not really following each other and just having a lot of the same cast and similar themes drunken master follows Jackie Chan who ends up [ __ ] his life up so bad his father puts him under the harshest the martial arts training of his life would somehow involves him fouling around to the homeless man to getting drunk off his ass so let's take a look at drunken master and see how well it goes down [Music] [Applause] Oh God sweet hell I thought the THX logo was loud after the audience goes death we are interested Jim T Sam or Thunder leg played by Jung Lee Huang he's an assassin 500 dollars and this message won't self-destruct in 10 seconds so if it could be a doll and do that for us that'd be great Chon kwok-wai or as he is known in the dub charlie is played by Shunyi un he's the master of the four door fist style of kung fu or as i like to call it the sedan punch hearing that thunder leg was hired to kill him he makes an offer someone's paid you to kill me I'll give you twice as much to kill him you could only my own that comes first but he can't be bargained with he can't be reasoned with he has no pity or remorse and he absolutely will not stop until he gets paid thus begins the first big fight not too important as it's set behind the opening credits but the loud fully work hadn't lack of music doesn't give us a taste of what to expect in this one [Applause] ah the title of this martial-arts comedy set - the backdrop of cold-blooded murder really sets the mood here we see the rookie form of Jackie Chan training in martial arts under the watchful eye of wong kei-ying or as he's known in the dub robert played by cow Lam who then puts this lesson in the hands of Dean shek who is either playing coach Choi or professor - depending on which version you ask by the way he takes this great honor as a means to show the whole class how to abuse your power and feel superior to everyone else any power in your wrists boy how would you expect to make progress well and just like any authority figure wielding his immense power - the bane of the filthy peasants before him no one gives a [ __ ] as such the students only increase their antics with him around going so far as to get caught only because one of them told on Jackie Chan who plays the role of Wong fei-hung or as he's known in the dub Freddy after Freddie gets fingered he explains to Professor mole that the lessons are boring because the guy's kung-fu simply isn't the best in the first place and that completely bowlegged I bet on one sweep that I do and I do wish I could find out who did the voice acting in this dub because Freddy how much surfing did you do around ancient China and again that's kind of hard to find because there are actually two dubs of this the 2005 remaster this one and the sillier 1979 dub yeah this is the serious one there the way the movies a comedy at heart and therefore when their disagreement turns into a brawl it's a well choreographed show of the teacher being taught lesson after lesson by our favorite beach bum Surf's Up martial arts master Freddy this transitions very suddenly into Freddy hanging out with friends doing what friends do in movies from 1978 talk about girls imagine what it'd be like to be kissed by that kid finger is for children I could get that broad to hug me a hug I tell you I could get her to give me an awkward handshake thinking fast Freddy procures a few things and pretends to have something in his eye blow it out please catch help me huh Kenya oh one more huh Thanks now if you could help me siphon some gas from down there yeah he that uses the old eel is a snake trick to scare her into a scandalous ugh but what's this her mother is nearby and finds this kind of behavior what rude his response is she was asking for it dumb [ __ ] not gonna get meat for his character anytime soon rather I'm far more interested in how the mother takes this opportunity to administer some discipline on Freddy here and whoop his mother for good I guess that's it he just let her kick his ass I guess that's just another one of his kinks deceiving innocent maidens and letting older women have their way with him isn't Freddy's only pastimes however he actually has a little bit of a hero streak as we see when jerry played by tino wong has a goon beat the crap out of director Wu pinyin before purchasing a man's priceless Jade heirloom for considerably less than the asking price and when pressed to actually pay what it's worth [Applause] salt theft destruction of property more assault and traumatizing little boy yes I'd say this was a productive day of evil but what's this the neighborhood's favourite juvenile delinquent Freddie Wong has shown up he demands Jerry pay the full price I guess Fred just wants to keep that title of biggest douchebag and China problem is Jerry doesn't comply so they must fight which is again very well choreographed in slapstick as hell but again there's no music and the fully work is questionable at best it's kind of like watching Tom and Jerry except instead of funny music and lots of sound effects when Jerry crushes Tom with that in Vellore you hear is crunching bones and cries of agony Jerry's not one for a fair fight though and uses a hand sword to get an unfair advantage over Freddie not to worry nothing can cut the unbreakable strength of plot armor and Freddie's kungfu is suddenly more than enough to avoid any damage instead he easily gets the sword in his own hands and uses the flat of the blade to not kill Jerry but rather humiliate him and also do a shitload of blood daemon soon because [ __ ] that guy only problem is when he tries to sneak back home after a day of delinquency and debauchery I say Freddie come on meet your aunt no no it's more terrifying with guy getting caught dishonouring your family or finding out you were sleeping on your cousin Freddie's visiting aunt is played by none other than Linda Lin yang while his cousin is played by Jin Tang his awkward behavior gets his father to wonder exactly what's bothering him which Linda is quick to say is most likely the fact that they weren't mistreated by some punk earlier today obviously Robert wants to see this miscreant brought to justice would you recognize him uh oh I'd never forget that face the voice can be a little iffy from time to time this little game of guess who ends quickly enough with Robert finding out it was Freddie all along he attacked his aunt his own his own cousin and worst of all disgrace the Wong family also surprised looks like Jerry was in fact Jerry Lee son of one Holly a very powerful influential man in the village played by jin-man fulton sure Jerry was an [ __ ] but what how didn't hear about that and besides breaking every bone of the man's body is probably still a bit much don't you think brother you mustn't kill your own son yes I've got to kill this devil he's a disgrace to the name of LOM still murder might be a bit too far ever heard of nope has our dear convinces Robert that he doesn't have to kill his own son because he can instead let mr. Lee take care of killing Fred with a few stipulations Lee picks his fighter and the guy gets 10 strokes with which to take Freddie down ten strokes one we needed I'm gonna do it in three maybe boast about how easily you can beat the guy after beating him Jackie Chan after all the deal is 10 strikes and Freddy can't fight back however he in Dutch oh there's no music to your fights you pay a lot of attention to the holy work and it seems that they accomplished the sound effect of a punch missing and hands flying around in the air by what wing into the microphone a lot eventually the 10 strikes are made against Freddie and well he's still alive so better luck next time next time being right now is they refuse to stop fighting but as the agreement is already over with Freddie can fight back with all the might of the snake the crane and the ultimate kungfu attack [ __ ] chainsaw our hands another day another attempt on my life definitely avoided with the power of kickin ass you'll fight quite well I must give you credit but well goddamn it's just impossible to get some father's approval Freddie's arms got his back though I mean so much is making sure he's not dead anyway as she gets Robert to instead try to encourage good behavior by torturous punishment starting off with having him practiced maintaining his horse stance for five hours are your legs a bit shaky lay a key you know I feel real sorry for you okay you had me in tube chicken chicken what the hell are you trying to do break his concentration with simple confusion not to worry Freddie's friend with fake freckles provides a bench to give him some much-needed rest only to found out mere moments later so not the best help all things considered rather Robert only intensifies the training regimen and even this isn't the limit as he has hired someone by the name of so high to come down and train Freddie further Fred's got no idea what he's in for but it seems his friend knew a guy who was subject to so highs rather extreme methodology he lost all his teeth his hair torn oh sure that steam is busted those his own father didn't know that monster double he's a real sadist no [ __ ] after his father's five-hour horse dance training and then pushing that up into hang side down for the night with no food or water hope you survive what in the hell is so high gonna do them anyway teach him how to dive into a wood chipper figuring it's best not to find out Freddie besides the best thing to do is run the [ __ ] away problem with this plan of course is that he's one broke [ __ ] and working for food or money isn't something juvenile delinquents do so instead he finds an old man sat alone at a restaurant and decides to sit by him for some Pleasant company during his meal between the insanely difficult training the crazy martial arts masters all coming together fight each other and this scene in particular it probably will surprise no one to find out the drunken master said to have been quite the influence in the design of Dragon Ball after tucking away enough food to satisfy goku freddie tells the old man it's been real but he's gotta go and don't worry he'll pay for both of them on the way out obviously his real plan was to tell him that the old man will pay while he can leave bran with this ideas as it turns out it was Han Chen Wang who plays the owner of a restaurant and they don't take kindly to folks that refuse to pay for their meals thus he must face gorilla play by Chung hua Lee hold on is that gonna get me to monetized well if that doesn't then this might after trying to fight off gorilla Freddy is captured by the unbelievable strength of the waitstaff even worse Wang instructs them that if he can't pay the bill then beat the food out of him I mean you didn't vomit that much that's just the MSG talking hungry or not he'll keep on fighting which eventually awakens a mysterious old man whom also just so happen to be at that restaurant not too pleased with being disturb he joins in on the fight beating the crap out of the waitstaff and without music the fight is having a harder time working as comedy in my opinion I mean unless you just feel like people getting the [ __ ] kicked out of them is hilarious eventually the two of them beat the crap out of absolutely everyone in there and need to run away escaping into the night the old man played by sweet in un can have a drink and find out just why it is Freddie couldn't pay his tab he hears that the boy ran away from home after his father hired a brutal taskmaster by the name of so high no bother just it was this old man anyway [Laughter] also known as beggar so or in the original dub Sam seed I loved having like 20 names where each person is sift through to find out who in the hell plays who despite his rather shitty run of luck this whole time freddie is still surprised to find out that the old drunker is in fact the man his father hired to whip him into shape however if you missed that part earlier we're so high beat the crap out of the Busboys he's happy to slap Freddie around for a while until his new pupil submits as when it comes to the hero's journey you gotta admit he put everything he had into refusing recall hell he's still trying to get away but of course so high is always one step ahead of him catching the crouching tiger by the toe and even having a spare door trap as a backup however Freddie's not done trying to escape as the next day's torturous training of transferring buckets of water while balancing on the pots gives him an idea he drops into one but does not surface so high as concerned so he investigates only to be pulled into the bot himself [Music] ready when it comes to things that you're trying order to avoid responsibility murder is a bit far fortunately this trick doesn't kill so high it only gives Freddie enough time to escape escape into the far corners of the forest far far away from anyone's prying eyes in fact the exact location you might consider hiding out in if you happen to be a secret assassin kung fu master rocking a killer 70s porn stash not that Freddie knows who he's dealing with at least up until fund early kicks the crap out of him insulting his fighting style nearly crushing his skull and then forcing him to crawl on the ground between his legs and humiliating defeat finally he burns the man's pants leaving him with nothing to do but a run away in shame [Music] well what's that supposed to be yeah we remember that happened like two minutes ago [Music] [Applause] I can squash Yoshi on like butter that too was slightly more recent [Applause] [Music] you literally just showed that scene we really don't need the reminiscing quite so fast heaven I remember running down here and falling and remembering how he insulted my kung-fu jaw at least some good came out of this Freddy has figured out that harsh training from so high isn't nearly as bad as being insulted and humiliated before getting your pants set on fire with that he returns to so high ashamed and ready to make amends takes a bit to convince the guy to look past that whole attempted murder earlier but he eventually comes around I had her so high figured the training him was the best revenge II could possibly get anyway after enough risk thrashing bucket filling inverted pull-ups and wallet smashing practice they figure head into town and get some money for wine so I intends to do this with a classic game of test your sight and things are going wonderfully for him up until they aren't but what's this so much quicker I had to make sure it wasn't under that cut before I showed everyone you cheated so Plan B game over police are coming everyone run except of course Freddy still wants that money however he faces Wow that's horrible you had powers like bunk but your name is rats iron headed bollock what play by qui Shan and yeah that's his kung fu alright being incredibly hard-headed as such he beats the crap out of Freddy head first having such a sturdy skull proves to be a difficult match for ol Fred until he learns his one weakness I didn't expect his considerably cutting cranium to also be as Achilles heel now the hell's Thunder Lake gonna go out stubbing his toe so they beat rat and get that money so ever even incredibly painful looking training so I can send Freddy off to buy him more wine of course instead of buying the wine like instructed free by stuns a food for himself and a little wine which he makes the most out of by filling the bottle the rest of the way with water also wouldn't you know it Rex masters none other than the king of bamboo shoot' king 10 played by sheshu the thing is he doesn't know exactly who it was and be to crap out of his pupil so high rings [Music] I'm sorry my idiot student got his head in the way over your hamburger won't happen again however without his wine the old man is shaking and rat says there's no way he's really so high he must be bluffing thus the bamboo King does battle with him but without his wine there's no way so I can defeat him then from just over the horizon Freddy comes running in ready to save the day ready not able this turn of events means they have to perform a tactical retreat surviving long enough for Freddy to critique the situation he thinks it's both of their fault his for bringing water down wine when it's clear so I has no strength unless he's properly sauced up and so highs fault because his shitty training has been nothing but porter for Freddy and thus he wasn't skilled enough to beat the bamboo King of course this is actually because surprising no.1 Freddy's an idiot the torturous training was to make sure his body was strong enough to learn the secret kung-fu of so high the styles of the eight drunk gods I think you're ready for it is that right just study my style you'll find it easier you have a drink first which is not actually true drunken boxing is best performed sober otherwise you're far more likely to hurt yourself than your opponent Oda thong kits so they spend the rest of the night getting good and wasted guess it's also easy to learn the style the raging hangover because lessons begin the next day learning the styles of the eight drunken gods Lou the drunkard with internal li the crippled drunk with one powerful leg fat Han the drunk with the pots holding the pot big clay pot and more God a drunk with a sudden deadly waist attack ah the God who spends the night paying tribute to the altar of porcelain there's also Chung who does double kicks which also has something to do with being drunk apparently so the drunk with anger issues powerful throat lock sounds like an angry style of me there's also the drunken flute playing God Han with strong wrists and last but not least miss ho a drunken goddess who works what she got there's nothing silly at all about getting completely out and dancing around in the middle of a fear pretending of being a flirtatious woman it's the only way to bring our bacterial family Fredi always the idiots wines that miss ho is a woman and the style is for women so II shouldn't have to learn it so hai argues it's important but obviously Fred still isn't paying attention no bother after a brief interlude to let us know there is drama between the Wong family in the lease as one Hal wants to dig up the historic village cemetery and turn it into a coal mine we move back to Freddy and Friends she interrupts the bamboo Kings preparations for a family wedding good I'll pick another dish what's that said they let that boy on stick don't get my stick okay I got some good news King boo he's already pretty marinated but this means he can't be beaten so easily so let's try and remind ourselves over and over during this fight that Freddy is the good guy and therefore bamboo King deserves to have his wedding preparations crashed his face smashed into poop his ass thoroughly kicked and lest we forget those big ol [ __ ] jugs of wine he brought for the wedding straight-up stolen our hero ladies and gentlemen however when he brings the spoils of his antics back home so high is nowhere to be found one year has passed the time has come for us to take separate paths I have taught you all the techniques the magic of kungfu practice remember to drink every day flail arouse and if possible beat some people up would you with his training done Freddie must return home but what's this Robert Wong is alerted that evidently mr. Lee has gone over his head and is desecrating the gravesite as they speak thus he heads out at once and is promptly abandoned by his escort as it turns out he hasn't started the coal mine yet but he has hired a certain someone to take the patriarch of a wan family out of the picture none other than the master of the pornstache style of kungfu thunder lay cold-blooded assassin that everyone fears thunder legged sell his brother come on it yes we know who is you don't need to build up his badass room the movie opened with him murdering a mother on earth while Robert is a master of martial arts in his own right Thunder legs ruthless attacks proved to be more than he can handle however he's [ __ ] with the Wong family and Freddy comes down to save the day I'm unlucky today two will die for the price of one everything that's crazy like you have no idea what you're in for for the rest of before things can get started though who would just offer to show up but so high proud of his pupils progress and completely faithful but he'll be able to take on Thunder leg with so highs instruction throughout the fight so sky like a Pokemon battle Hitmonlee vs Hitmonchan he goes through the various styles of the drunken gods standing toe-to-toe with thunder leg up until he has to resort to the drunken miss ho I didn't follow it huh can't you teach me now that's like asking your professor to give you a quick refresher on the lesson during the finals naturally Freddy starts getting his ass kicked but so high has a brilliant idea combined the seven gods he did practice and augment them with his own on-the-fly interpretation of Miss Howe therefore miss hell's a drunken goddess flaunting her body and delivering some serious mixed messages with the ultimate power of slapstick comedy in his hands Freddie Wong managed to the best Thunder league saving his father and the honor of his family name the end ah he went from being a juvenile delinquent making an ass out of himself and beating people up to being a master of getting shit-faced making an ass out of himself and beating people up now whatever works for him anyway that was drunken master and it's very much a product of its time that's aged pretty well it's unmistakeably a movie from the late 70s what would this specific quality of film drain and the somewhat odd balance of musics action yes there's plenty of higher budget movies from that area that I feel do quite a few of those things better but it's kind of obvious drunken master was made on a bit tighter of a budget than your alien or Star Wars or even fan out of the paradise for what it is a low-budget martial arts comedy produced in Asia Dragon Master does about as well as can be expected the sets are limited but mattes the story perfectly the story and characters are very simple but developed enough that it is actually worth paying attention to and the fighting is mostly entertaining what has to keep in mind that for its time there weren't that many examples of amazingly choreographed martial arts sequences and well-known films so that novelty alone likely carried it pretty well for today's standards though I did feel like the combat tended to drag on so much of this movie is fighting which is the point and it's presented humorously enough but the lack of music and questionable Foley work left me feeling quite a bit more abhorred than I imagined someone would have felt watching this back in the 70s at the end of the day drunken master is certainly a fun movie that I recommend to any fan of Jackie Chan to see at least but know what you're getting into it's still early in the man's career so he hasn't settled into what he'd be typecast as quite as much as you might be used to and fully work back then well it kind of blew still drunken master manages to come in at a respectable three jugs of 100% proof alcohol out of five even though 100% alcohol would be 200 proof not 100% proof and that's not even physically possible he of ninety-five point 57 is sort of the physical maximum amount of pure alcohol you can have in a liquid and that would be a hundred and ninety-one proof and doesn't matter anyway thank you all for watching I have been Decker shadow and remember you can't just master your craft by getting incredibly drunk or can you [Music] evening shadows forever [Music] the shadow number two the master [Music] I'll pick another dish what's that sir Philip the boy on stick don't get my stick okay father French

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Keywords: Decker Shado, drunken master, jackie chan, 醉拳, martial arts movie, kung fu movie, review, movie review, review (media genre), comedy

Id: yTRsqGXQgfI

Length: 29min 49sec (1789 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 04 2019