Project A
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Short description
Set in late nineteenth-century Hong Kong, the film follows Sergeant Dragon Ma of the Coast Guard, a unit humiliated by the pirates who dominate the surrounding waters. The pirates' leader, Lo San Po, operates with impunity, aided by sympathisers in the colonial administration, and a planned naval campaign against him is sabotaged before it can begin. Stripped of its ships and reassigned to ordinary police work, the Coast Guard finds a lead pointing to the men actually behind the raids. Dragon forms an uneasy alliance with the roguish thief Cheuk Yat Fei and the by-the-book Inspector Hong Tin Chi to pursue both the pirates and their protectors.
Jackie Chan directs and stars as Dragon Ma, with Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao alongside him, Dick Wei as Lo San Po, and Mars and Tai Bo in supporting roles. It is the fourth of the fourteen films Chan has directed, arriving between Dragon Lord and Police Story, and he wrote the screenplay with Edward Tang. Raymond Chow Man-Wai, Jessica Chan Pui-Wah and Leonard Ho produced it for Golden Harvest.
Released in December 1983, the film took about 18 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.2 out of 10 from roughly 20,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.3 out of 10 from just under 600. Film critics rated it 7 out of 10 across 16 reviews, so audience and critical responses sit close together.
What's left behind the scenes
- During the scene of the fall from the clock tower, Jackie Chan suffered a serious injury to his lumbar spine. There were three takes, and all of them made it into the film.
- The creation of the clock tower in the film was inspired by the Kowloon-Canton Railway clock tower, built in 1915. The set was built at Golden Harvest Studios. The real one, however, was built and put into operation in 1921 as part of the terminal station. The terminal station was moved in 1975, and now only the clock tower in Tsim Sha Tsui remains as a memory of it.
- The door that Jackie Chan knocks on while riding a bicycle down the narrow street is not real. The door and wall were built for this scene because it was impossible to film the scene as intended on the real narrow street. Jackie decided to extend the wall so the camera could get the best shot. When the thug and his bicycle fall to the ground, you can see the front wheel hitting the false wall.
- The film was shot over a period of 2 years.
- In some scenes (including the fall stunt from the town hall), Jackie was doubled by Mars – a stuntman from the JC Association.
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