View yourself as part of the whole, not the main event. Those top-notch outings boast action to spare, but alongside character sensibility, memorable villains, meticulous choreography mixing action with comedy (Chan’s explained that he wants his fights to look like dances), and a morality which, while hardly complex, stressed heartening values. Jackie Chan’s best movies, say, “Rumble in the Bronx,” or “The Legend of Drunken Master,” raised the bar. They are often brainless action films, films that pushed the whupass, or the whoopass, in the absence of any strong elements of character development, nuance, or memorable dialogue past a few curt, comedic catchphrases. My old cinematic friends called it “whupass.” You spell that either “whupass” or “whoopass.” A two-syllable brand for action films.
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