Armour of God
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| Directed by | Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang |
| Produced by | Leonard Ho, Chua Lam |
| Written by | Jackie Chan, John Sheppard, Eric Tsang |
| Starring | Jackie Chan, Alan Tam, Rosamund Kwan |
| Music by | Michael Wandmacher |
| Cinematography | Bob Thompson |
| Distributed by | Golden Harvest, Toho |
| Release date(s) | 1986 |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Followed by | Armour of God II: Operation Condor |
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Armour of God (Long xiong hu di) is a 1987 Jackie Chan film. The film is a features Chan's regular kung-fu, comedy and stunts, with an Indiana Jones-style theme. During a relatively routine stunt in this film Chan came the closest he has ever been to death when a tree branch snapped sending Chan plummeting a huge distance and cracking his skull.
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[edit] Plot
In the movie Jackie plays the character of Asian Hawk (the character's real-name being also Jackie), an adventurer with a mercenary-like way of thought. Jackie used to perform in a band with his friends Alan and Laura (Lorelei) before he was kicked out of the band by Alan, who wanted Laura for himself. At the beginning of the film Jackie steals a sword from an African tribe that is one of the five pieces of a valuable armour known as the Armour of God. Alan is still a successful singer and Laura is a renowned fashion-designer,
An evil cult wants to destroy the armour and has already collected two pieces of it. To get the final three pieces they kidnap Laura to force Alan to get Jackie to collect the remaining pieces of the armour for the cult.
[edit] Behind the scenes
- Chan and his crew were filming in Yugoslavia and the scene called for him to jump from a wall to a tree branch. The first take went perfectly, but Jackie wasn't satisfied and had wanted to do the scene once more. The second time, his grip on the branch slipped and Jackie fell 40 feet to the ground below. Jackie Chan landed hard on his head, causing part of his skull to crack and shoot up into his brain. He was flown to the hospital and was in surgery 8 hours later. He now has a plastic plug, and a permanent hole in his head. He is also slightly hard of hearing in one ear from that fall.
[edit] Box Office
At the Hong Kong box office, Armour of God was Jackie Chan's biggest hit up to that point, grossing HK $35,469,408 in its theatrical run.
[edit] International Versions
In North America, Armour of God was released direct-to-video by Miramax after the theatrical distribution of its sequel, Armour of God 2: Operation Condor, which was released in North America as simply Operation Condor. As such, the title Armour of God was changed, somewhat confusingly, to Operation Condor 2: The Armor of the Gods it was released after Operation Condor.
A new musical score was created for this release, and English dubbing (with the participation of Chan) was also done. Nine minutes of cuts were made to the Miramax version, including:
- The concert scene of Jackie Chan's band, 'The Losers.'
- Chan's dream sequence.
- The scene in which May (played by Lola Forner), disguised as a prostitute, encounters a monk who wants to sleep with her.
- An extended version of the slapstick sequence in which Alan (played by Alan Tam) hides in May's room.
These same cuts were evident in the Spanish Region 2 release.
The DVD releases in Hong Kong, Australia and the rest of Europe were uncut.
[edit] Cast includes
- Jackie Chan
- Alan Tam
- Rosamund Kwan
- Lola Forner
- Bozidar Smiljanic
- Ken Boyle
- John Ladalski
- Robert O'Brien
- Boris Gregoric
- Alicia Shonte
- Vivian Wycliffe
- Stephanie Evans
- Linda Denley
- Marcia Chisholm
- William Williams
- Anthony Chan
- Kenny Bee
- Bennett Pang
- Clarence Fok Yiu-leung
- Carina Lau
- Danny Yip
[edit] See also
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