Jackie Chan vs Bruce Lee

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He moved to Australia to work as a construction laborer after the Hong Kong movie industry tanked. While there, he received a telegram from Willie Chan asking him to star in "New Fists of Fury."Jackie Chan sites Willie Chan (probably no relation) as the reason for his success, although he did not see much until he started contributing his own ideas. Many of these contributions involved humor and his first success was "Snake in Eagle's Shadow." He soon became a huge star in Asia but his reception in the U.S. was lukewarm until "Rumble in the Bronx." He remains frustrated at the lack of varied roles for Asians in Hollywood movies.

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He frequently does his own stunts and suffered numerous injuries, including one blow to his head that nearly killed him, over the years.

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Charity work includes serving as Ambassador for UNICEF/UNAIDS and he spends much of his spare time working tirelessly for children, the elderly, and those in need.

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1. The Karate Kid. Jackie Chan's most recent film, in which he plays a Chinese maintenance man who befriends a 12-year-old kid who is being plagued by bullies. This is a remake of the 1980s film and has more to do with kung fu than karate.



2. The Spy Next Door is a martial-arts comedy in which an international spy tries to live a normal life next door to a pack of typically rambunctious kids. When their mother asks him to watch them, the situation naturally goes haywire, and he must call on his spy skills to save the day.

3. Little Big Soldier, set in 227 B.C. China, features a soldier who takes a general hostage in the hopes of collecting a ransom. They clash at first, but eventually (inevitably) develop a certain amount of respect for each other.

4. Shinjuku Incident pits an ordinary Chinese immigrant against the most powerful criminal organization on the planet.

5. Wushu: The Young Generation A tight-knit team of martial art students face off against an evil sensei.



6. Kung Fu Panda features a big, fat panda who, with the help of a little red panda master, must learn kung fu to defeat a treacherous enemy.


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7. The Forbidden Kingdom An American teen gets transported back to ancient China and teams up with an army devoted to freeing their captive king.



8. The Rush Hour Trilogy, in which Jackie Chan plays a kung-fu-fighting supercop.

9.Robin-B-Hood has Jackie Chan playing Slipper, a man with problems that include a huge gambling debt. To pay it off, he helps his landlord kidnap a tycoon's grandson in the hope of collecting a ransom. Triads (gangs) want the baby for reasons of their own, and they end up having to return the child.

10. Enter the Phoenix has Chan playing Georgie, the gay heir of a triad king. Not wanting the job, Georgie lets his father's man think that his room-mate is the real son, and this quickly leads the room-mate is in danger


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11. The Myth involves an archaeologist, a loyal general of China's first emperor, and Jackie Chan playing both. The archaeologist is searching for a mythical stone that is said to defy gravity, but in his dreams, he is the general who is falling in love with the Emperor's consort.

12. House of Fury features two teenaged kung-fu experts who learn that their father's exciting stories are more based on reality than they thought.



13. Around the World in 80 Days has Jackie Chan venturing into classic science fiction. Jules Verne's classic tale of an inventor who takes up a wager to travel around the world in 80 days.

14.New Police Story pits a wrongfully disgraced cop against the gang that set him up.



15. The Medallion features a Chinese immigration officer who is killed and comes back to life with special powers.



16. Shanghai Nights and Shanghai Noon features an East-West culture clash when an American train robber and a Chinese imperial guardsman team up to save the day.

17. The Tuxedo features a cab driver who acquires special powers when he puts on a special suit. He teams up with a rookie agent to overcome the trouble he keeps getting into.



18. The Accidental Spy has less kick-butt martial-arts action but more international espionage. Buck Yuen accidentally stops a bank robbery and this leads him into a missing-persons case and a hunt for hidden treasure.

19. The Legend of the Drunken Master teaches audiences to never underestimate a drunk as Jackie Chan teaches the art of "drunken boxing.



20. Twin Dragons are two identical twins separated at birth and reunited in America, where they keep getting mistaken for each other.

21. Sam Dung features two romantically challenged teenagers who are forced to break up after being caught together. They go their separate ways but end up bumping into each other years later.

Jackie Chan's marriage was not revealed until the publication of his 1998 autobiography - "I Am Jackie Chan". In fact, as early as 1982, he married Taiwanese actress, also Miss Hong Kong Lin Feng-Jiao. They have a son named Jaycee Chan.

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His street fights continued on a frequent basis and, after he beat up a son of a feared triad family, his parents feared for his life. They sent him to America to meet up with his older sister Agnes Lee. There, he continued his high school education and worked as a waiter for Ruby Chow. He also began teaching martial arts. He also moved in with James Lee, a well-known Chinese martial artist, who introduced him to Ed Parker. Because of Parker, Bruce Lee was later "discovered" by Hollywood.

Bruce Lee was involved in a number of competitive fights, some of which were not arranged in advance. In 1965, after a fighting match with Wong Jack Man which Lee judged as lasting too long, he began work on a new style of fighting called Jeet Kune Do. This style would emphasize practicality, flexibility, speed, and efficiency and do away with the formalized styles of traditional martial arts.

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His acting career included roles in television shows like "The Green Hornet," which only lasted one season but was a hit in Hong Kong. He also guest-stared in "Batman," "Ironside," and "Here Comes The Brides." Movies included "Way of the Dragon" (which also introduced Chuck Norris) and "Fists of Fury."

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Bruce Lee's martial arts traning was never ending. He was first introduced to Wu style tai chi chuan by his father. At the age of 13, he started learning Wing Chun from teacher Yip Man. Besides, he was also trained in Jing Mo Tam Tui, Choy Li Fut, Western Boxing, fencing, Épée, Judo, Praying Mantis, Hsing-I and Jujitsu. So, it's hard to find appropriate word to address his martial arts trait.