Just got this quote from a friend.

[scottobear]

It's a well-known axiom in filmic studies that no film yet produced in the history of cinema could not have been improved with Jackie Chan and/or a monkey.

-- Brian D.

Comments

Im sorry....

[destroll.livejournal.com]

But I just could not see Jackie Chan and some chimp in Return of the Jedi, The Wall, or The Doors.....Maybe Im just not imaginative enough.....

Re: Im sorry....

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

what about that classic scene in citizen cane, with Jackie Chan in a *monkey suit*!!!

Re: Im sorry....

[petfish.livejournal.com]

The Matrix needed some monkeys . . . and just imagine American Beauty with Jackie Chan . . . in a cheerleader costume!

Re: Im sorry....

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

damn straight... you got the vibe!

Re: I dont know about that

[destroll.livejournal.com]

But if they had Jackie in a monkey suit for the Atrau vs. the wolf scene in The Neverending Story that would have livened it up a bit.
Or what about puttin him in a Frankenfurter costume in LA Confidential when the cop walked in on Kim Basinger at her house.......

chan and monkeys

[mauracelt.livejournal.com]

I just can't see Chan taking Orsen Welles place as Hamlet! Horacio I knew him well. *kick thwap* uh no I think not. *giggle*

Re: chan and monkeys

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I don't even want to know howhe uses the skull of horatio as an improvised weapon!

meloncholy gravedigger style!

Re: chan and monkeys

[petfish.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a monkey instead, then?

Re: chan and monkeys

[petfish.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I know, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern would have been played marvelously by monkeys and/or Jackie Chan!

?????

[mauracelt.livejournal.com]

Who would he have played in Valley of the Dolls?

Re: ?????

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

with the right computer animation, everyone.

Re: ?????

[mauracelt.livejournal.com]

Liz Taylor's part?? Or maybe Judy Garland?? no way could he Ever play Patti Duke

Re: ?????

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

no, you'd need monkeys there.

Re: ?????

[mauracelt.livejournal.com]

LMFAO thats too funny lots of monkeys sitting around drinking and smoking cigs. bitching at e/o hehehe

Re: ?????

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

the breakfast at tiffany's version warmed my heart, too as I laughed...

Re: ?????

[mauracelt.livejournal.com]

I'l bet it did. *giggle*

*ponders*

[chicky.livejournal.com]

What about those horrible movies with Clint Eastwood and the monkey?

Would an additional monkey improved them at all? Perhaps Jackie Chan in the Eastwood role? As Eastwood's love interest?

Re: *ponders*

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

that wasn't a monkey. it was a horrible, terrible mass of trained earthworms in a monkey-suit.

if they'd used a real monkey, or Jackie chan, well.. then you'd have a different film. perhaps the red balloon.

Re: Monkeys!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

see, I knew you had great taste. :)