This was Jackie’s golden era as both filmmaker and star, and it coincided with the popularity of home video. However, his early forays into American cinema, such as 1980’s The Big Brawl, 1985’s Cannonball Run II, and 1986’s The Protector, were less than spectacular and he returned to Hong Kong to continue making movies there. That died away quite quickly following the death of Bruce Lee, but Jackie Chan always had dreams of multi-market success. We’re a much more pluralistic global culture now, but back in the day there wasn’t a whole lot of East/West cinematic crossover until the martial arts boom of the ’70s. He helped popularise Asian action cinema in the West
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