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    (#5) Chan Slid Down A 21-Floor Glass Building For The Who Am I

    Though suffering from amnesia, Jackie Chan's character globe trots with an undercover CIA agent, protecting her from hit men while trying to rediscover his own identity in the movie  Who Am I. The characters end up in Rotterdam, atop a glass building with a very pronounced angle. Jackie's character needs to quickly escape (Honestly? the "why" isn't very important here) and doesn't have a lot of options. To you (and us), the building just looks like a big, scary, tall building that's just a bit slanted, but to Jackie it looks like a giant slide, so of course Chan slid down the thing. 

    Watch that video. Does this even count as a stunt? It looks less like a master safely avoiding danger and more like the world's luckiest and silliest fall. Though, since it's Jackie Chan we're talking about here, it's not really "luck" as much as it is "yet another case where some cosmic being far greater than us is saving and protecting Jackie Chan for some glorious purpose we couldn't possibly comprehend."

  • Thumb of During Production Of Project A, Chan Fell Six Stories And Landed On His Head video

    (#1) During Production Of Project A, Chan Fell Six Stories And Landed On His Head

    Project A is a story about a 19th century Hong Kong police force dealing with some troublesome pirates, but it's nothing that Jackie Chan's character Sergeant Dragon Ma can't handle. (Sidebar: Sergeant Dragon Ma is the best name in movie history and we do NOT talk about it enough.) 

    After a clock tower fight scene, the script calls for Dragon, our handcuffed protagonist, to fall six stories, through two awnings and land on his head. Now, how would YOU film that? If it was the present you'd probably use CGI and if you were a coward you'd probably use a dummy or a bunch of soft mats as a landing pad. But it's not the present, and you're not a coward, you're film icon and absolute hero Jackie Chan, so you do it FOR REAL. The video you see is not an outtake; the scene played out exactly as scripted damaging his cervical spine in the process. Jackie allowed extras to help him to his feet but he finished the scene and then continued to live, which we hope he does forever. 

  • Chan Fractured His Skull While Filming The First Armour Of God on Random Insane Movie Scenes That Nearly Killed Jackie Chan

    (#6) Chan Fractured His Skull While Filming The First Armour Of God

    There's a stunt in the first Armour of God installment that is much safer than most of Jackie Chan's usuals but it still almost killed him. In the scene, he has to jump onto a tree and grab a branch but he loses his grip and goes tumbling down. Fortunately, there were rocks beneath the tree to cushion his fall but he landed on them head first. It was later realized that Chan fractured his skull and caused internal bleeding. He needed surgery to recover and there's still a metal plate in his head from the accident.

    We work at Ranker. If one day one of our coworkers came in and said "Yesterday sure was rough, I came into the office to do my job and then my skull got fractured in a surprising but not completely unexpected work-related injury. Mondays, am I right?" we would promptly quit and probably move far away. This is one of the chief ways in which we internet writers are different from Jackie Chan.

  • Thumb of Chan Dislocated His Breastbone During Operation Condor video

    (#8) Chan Dislocated His Breastbone During Operation Condor

    In Armour of God II: Operation Condor, Jackie Chan basically portrayed a Chinese Indiana Jones and there's a relatively innocuous stunt (by the actor's standards) that resulted in Chan's dislocated sternum. In the outtakes (around the 48 second mark), as he slides down a steep rocky surface on a chain, the actor flips off at the end and lands awkwardly. Somehow, he dislocated his breastbone, a typically impossible feat.

  • Thumb of The Actor Dislocated His Pelvis And Injured Two Vertebrae To Get The Perfect Clip In Police Story video

    (#3) The Actor Dislocated His Pelvis And Injured Two Vertebrae To Get The Perfect Clip In Police Story

    One of Jackie Chan's worst failed stunts took place during an earlier installment of Police Story. In it, protagonist Officer Chan Ka-Kui kicks a lot of bad guys and jumps on a lot of stuff (classic Jackie). He actually jumps on a pole in a shopping mall decorated with Christmas lights. Though it went as intended, the stunt still had bad repercussions for Chan. While sliding down the overheated pole, the actor burned his hands, pulled down all the light bulbs, and eventually crashed through glass. Chan, who could very well be a masochist, dislocated his pelvis and injured two vertebrae. He could've been paralyzed, but instead he just decided to be unstoppable and we love him for it. 

  • Thumb of Chan Crawled Over a Bunch of Burning Goals Like a Maniac in The Legend Of The Drunken Master video

    (#4) Chan Crawled Over a Bunch of Burning Goals Like a Maniac in The Legend Of The Drunken Master

    The Legend of Drunken Master is a hilarious action comedy film in which Jackie Chan's character Wong Fei-hung is a master of martial arts only when heavily intoxicated. There's a scene in which Jackie Chan gets kicked backwards onto a bed of coals that he then must wiggle across. The stunt legend was adamant about doing this scene right (actually entering the coals instead of using wires to pull him across), but the director didn't think it was a good idea (smart!) so they left the project. The director thought that they couldn't in good conscious put their star through such an ordeal. And who COULD, in good conscious, ask an actor to do something so obviously dangerous?

    There is one man: Jackie Chan. When the director walked off the movie, Chan took over the director's chair and shot the dangerous stunt twice.

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Jackie Chan is the pride of the entire Chinese movie industry. The Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award is also the international praise and affirmation for this top action actor. All these honors were earned by Jackie Chan with constant dedication. During more than 40 years career, he has filmed more than 80 movies and was seriously injured 29 times. He has never used a stand-in for making movies and still adheres to this principle even when he is more than 50 years old.

When you see some of the most dangerous movie scenes in his movies, you will know that his success is not surprising at all. The generator displays random 9 movie scenes that nearly killed Jackie Chan, and you could search for other interesting things with the tool. 

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