Jackie retires from Action

Well he has been saying in Chinese media that AOG3: Chinese Zodiac / Twelve Zodiacs is going to be his last big action movie. So this isn't really NEW news.

Jackie Chan hangs up kung fu kicks after The Spy Next Door

The Hong Kong dynamo has revealed he's getting too old for the death-defying stunts that made his name.

Chan is in cinemas from today with The Spy Next Door, in which he plays a spy juggling babysitting duties with fighting terrorists.

In July, he'll fill the Mr Miyagi-style role in The Karate Kid. Then he's planning to go out in style with Asian action extravaganza Armour of God 3. He will star and direct.

"It'll probably be my last big action movie," Chan says. "I'm 55 - when I finish the movie I'll be 56 and when we release it I'll be 57. But I want to show the audience I can still do a lot of things."

Chan has suffered so many injuries in the course of his career, he's now in constant pain.

"A lot," he says with emphasis. "My shoulder, my arms . . ." He points at his groin: "Here. All the joints really hurt . . . you don't know! My back!"

Chan says his most painful stunt was simply falling the wrong way during the making of Police Story.

"I thought 'I'm dying' . . . I thought my backbone had gone through my heart," he says. "There was all this blood coming out. That hurt but I wasn't dying."

SOURCE: HERALD SUN

Jackie on Fireworks

Following Jackie on Twitter today he made the observation that fireworks pollute the sky/air. While I am aware of the noise pollution associated with fireworks (any one who has had pets around fireworks will be aware of the trauma the noise causes) which is more than enough reason for me to want to ban them, however I was entirely unaware of the other forms of pollution associated with them.

This article (one of the more accurate ones I found) is too long to reproduce here but it goes into (without too much detail) all the sources of pollution from fireworks:

TOXIC FIREWORKS

Despite these - my strongest objection to fireworks is the other damage/risks associated with them when they are let off in an irresponsible manner. These examples in the linked articles are a very very small illustration of the problem:

ROUND UP OF ARTICLES CONCERNING FIREWORK RELATED DEATHS AND INJURIES IN CHINA

Every single year all around the world countless people, children and animals are either traumatised, killed, injured, or disabled because of fireworks. Those pretty displays come with a high price tag.

Finally evidence from the horse's mouth...

 

Recently Jackie was in Singapore to celebrate the anniversary of Jackie Chan Fitness there. In between doing the zumba - Go Jackie Go! And demonstrating boxing techniques he had time for a few interviews

And there we have it ... confirmation of what I have been seeing with my own two little eyes for years in the way he moves.

"I'm also grateful that the injuries picked up while filming my own stunts in the movies have not affected me much!"

So to all the peeps who think Jackie is one wrong twist or turn away from some kind of permanent injury - you have it in his own words at last - he is A-OK!