BUCK SING IN THE MOVIES

During 1996 Gary Shambrooke brought Buck Sing Choy Lay Fut to the big screen, starring in Jackie Chan's martial arts action movie "Mr. Nice Guy".

If you watch the NICE GUY bloopers (Shown at the end titles) you'll see Gary knock Jackie out cold during a fight scene in Melbourne Central shopping centre, and the crew rush to give him first aid. Despite Jackie stating that he is now leaning towards doing less stunts as he gets older, this scene shows that his work is still nothing less than real life action! Jackie was unconscious for twenty seconds, COLD!

Gary was nicknamed "Gwah-Sow-Gary" by the Chinese crew members (amongst other names as "RoboCop") when they saw him perform authentic Buck Sing styles that are rarely known outside China/HK.

LOCATION: MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA
When Jackie Chan came back to Australia to film on location for a second time it was an event not to be missed, especially when the Victorian government gave him the key to the town with permission to tear the streets and shopping malls of Melbourne to shreds!

Why Melbourne?
After the box-office success of RUMBLE, another "New York" setting was sourced, but location permit costs were prohibitive. Someone suggested Melbourne as a place that "Looks like New York" so Golden Harvest got a costing from the The Melbourne Film Office (MFO). The result is one wild ride through the streets of Melbourne, scripted to incorporate every facet of the city's attractions; especially stunt scenes using Trams, Horse and carriages, Koala-costumed charity collectors, The Melb-central shopping mall, Mr-whippy Ice-cream vans and so on...

The cast and crew was mainly Australian, again recruiting Richard Norton to play the lead Bad Guy.

Another Injury

During the filming of a scene, Jackie suffered seriously neck injury. As he described afterwards, "it was a simple scene. I was chased by these guys into a construction site, pushed into a wheelbarrow and thrown onto the streets. Simple."

So simple that everyone overlooked one small detail - that the landing protection for Jackie's fall was stacked too high and didn't allow Jackie enough time to fall safely. "I landed on [the landing protection] neck first," Jackie remembered. "I didn't feel a thing at first. Then I stood up and felt a loud CRACK! in my neck. I know this means trouble; so I lay down for rest but soon I passed out."

Obviously the crew was panic-stricken, and sent Jackie to the hospital for an X-ray, whom by then already awakened. It was later found out that one of his neck bones were dislocated and pulled a neck muscle.

"I should have been more careful. But it's always the little things that get you." Jackie looked back in hindsight