After Drunken Master , he would go on to direct The Young Master (1980), form his own stunt team, and eventually break every bone in his body for films like Police Story and Project A . But the complete story of his first movies is not one of early glory—it is the story of a boy who learned to fall, failed spectacularly as a copycat, and then got up, laughed at himself, and invented a new way to fly.
Jackie was devastated. Critics called him a pale imitation. For the next two years, Lo Wei put him in more failed Bruce Lee clones: Killer Meteors (where he played an actual villain) and To Kill with Intrigue . Each bombed. Jackie later joked, “I was the king of the box office flop. My movies were so bad, people would throw tomatoes. I took them home and made soup.” By 1978, Jackie was a pariah. Lo Wei was ready to sell his contract. Desperate, Jackie secretly borrowed himself out to a small, struggling director named Yuen Woo-ping (who would later choreograph The Matrix ). They had no big stars, no budget, and no script—only an idea. jackie chan first movies
That man was Jackie Chan.