{"id":134672,"date":"2025-08-10T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134672\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:41:08","slug":"jackie-chan-says-movies-lack-quality-because-of-money-focused-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134672\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Chan Says Movies Lack Quality Because Of Money-Focused Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJackie Chan<\/a> told a Q&A audience in Locarno<\/a> that he believes the big Hollywood studios are stifling contemporary filmmaking with what he described as their obsession with money.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think the old movies are better than today,\u201d Chan said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRight now, a lot of big studios, they\u2019re not filmmakers, they\u2019re business guys. They invest 40 million and think, \u2018How can I get it back?\u2019 And you can\u2019t go over. It\u2019s very difficult to make a good movie now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChan was speaking with Locarno head Giona Nazzaro this morning at a packed-out Q&A session, where he ran through his career credits, telling multiple lucid and highly entertaining stories about his start in the business, working in Hollywood, and how he completed many of his most dangerous stunts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe major throughline during the discussion was Chan\u2019s dedication to cinema craft, particularly how he worked to learn every role on a film\u2019s set, from stunt direction to acting and sound. Chan later joked that in Asian cinema, there were only two performers who had the same expansive skillset.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn all of Asia, only two directors can do everything: the writing, directing, acting, stunt coordinating, stunt fighting, and editing. Only two,\u201d he began. \u201cOne is Sammo Hung, the second one is Jackie Chan.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe veteran Hong Kong actor later added: \u201cAnd I\u2019m better because I know how to sing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChan continued to tell the audience in Locarno that he made a concerted effort to learn how to sing because he didn\u2019t see a future as only a stunt performer. Chan pointed specifically to his early appearances on late-night U.S. talk shows, where he was often asked to perform stunts or fight.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI cannot do this forever. It\u2019s just so dangerous,\u201d Chan recalled thinking. \u201cWhatever station I would go to, they ask me how to punch and kick. I thought, What should I do? I should learn how to sing. Then I started trying to learn how to sing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChan added that he quickly switched his professional goals to prioritize longevity and his working mantra was: \u201cI wanna be the Asian Robert De Niro.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, Chan told the audience that in the early 2000s, he gave up on making Hollywood films because he was unable to connect with American audiences, and he disliked the quality of scripts he was being given.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tChan added that he decided to try one more project before leaving the U.S. behind entirely, and it was his now-seminal buddy cop flick, Rush Hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRush Hour. It was the last try. If it doesn\u2019t succeed, then I finish,\u201d Chan said, adding that the film\u2019s production wasn\u2019t perfect, with constraints on budget and smaller space for action sequences. But it was a start, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think Rush Hour changed the culture,\u201d Chan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe veteran Hong Kong actor added that his career goal in Hollywood has always been to \u201cbe a cross-cultural bridge between the US and China.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChan was in Locarno this year to receive the festival\u2019s Pardo alla Carriera award for career achievement. His early directorial films, Project A and Police Story, screened at the festival.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\n\tLocarno ends on August 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackie Chan told a Q&A audience in Locarno that he believes the big Hollywood studios are stifling contemporary…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,81351,74855,74856,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-134672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jackie-chan","10":"tag-locarno","11":"tag-locarno-film-festival","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115005232646277683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}