Jackie Chan tributes

[grlyncher99]

My lord and master, Gene Ching, made me post this. At least it's about a medal rather than a medallion. Or a Tuxedo for that matter.

Paris Awards Jackie Chan With Medal
June 29, 2005 6:48 AM EDT

PARIS - The mayor of Paris has awarded Jackie Chan an honorary medal from the city, praising the Hong Kong action star for his film career - and his smile.

"It would have been an immense pleasure just to shake your hand," Mayor Bertrand Delanoe told Chan on Tuesday.

Delanoe called the 51-year-old director, actor and stuntman a "master of humor, of the burlesque and of self-deprecation."

"This mayor knows everything about me!" Chan joked.

The "Rush Hour" star was in Paris for a film festival that will honor his work.

[GeneChing]

I was going to put this in Jackie Chan Museums, but it didn't quite fit, so I cannibalized this ancient thread and retitled it.

Russian businessman becomes Jackiechan

A businessman from Nizhny Novgorod, who is apt to fight corruption in his spare time, has decided to toughen himself up by changing his last name. Thus an ordinary entrepreneur from a provincial Russian city, Sergey Voronkov, turned into Sergey Jackiechan.

In fact, Jackie Chan is Sergey’s favorite actor, so he decided to use a derivative of the actor’s name. The idea dawned upon the Nizhny Novgorod resident when he was passing a local registry office. He says he suddenly wanted to change something in his life. He recalled the folk wisdom about what you call the ship, thus it will sail, and went in to apply for name change. He did not expect an immediate welcome of the civil service, but just in case he thought up a beautiful legend.

He explained that they had found a remote relative in Georgia, who turned out to be a Georgian prince. The Georgian prince told him that if he became Jackiechan, he would bestow his castle upon him.

His daughters have kept the old name: the younger is still really young and the older cannot bring herself to make such a drastic change in her life. His wife also left the old name Voronkova, although reacted to her spouse’s decision with humor and respect. Now Sergei dreams of a son who will become a hereditary Jackiechan Jr.

His colleagues and friends reacted to the new name in various ways. Some of them supported him, while others called Sergei’s behavior foolhardy. The newfound hero’s neighbour believes that it is necessary to glorify the name of the ancestors and not to imitate movie stars.

Sergei believes, however, that his life will drastically change with the new name, especially that he has so much in common with the real Jackie: both are cheerful, energetic, and equally hate injustice.

In the Russian Registry Office, Jackiechan filed also another application for a new travel passport. Once the document is ready, our superhero is planning to go to get acquainted with the world-famous namesake.

[JamesC]

He seems stable.

[SimonM]

That's is epic fan-silliness.

[charp choi]

That's is epic fan-silliness.

Yes it is!!

Charp Choi - AKA -Mike Samohung

[GeneChing]

Jackie is THE MAN!!!

2 March 2015 Last updated at 08:16 ET
Millions share new Chinese character
BBC Trending BBC Trending What's popular and why
This Chinese character has taken China's internet by storm The character 'duang' has taken China's internet by storm



A new word is taking the internet by storm in China - but no one knows quite what it means.

The character "duang" is so new that it does not even exist in the Chinese dictionary. But it has already spread like wildfire online in China, appearing more than 8 million times on China's micro-blogging site Weibo, where it spawned a top-trending hashtag that drew 312,000 discussions among 15,000 users. On China's biggest online search engine Baidu, it has been looked up almost 600,000 times. It's been noticed in the West too, with Foreign Policy seeing it as a "break the internet" viral meme - like a certain Kim Kardashian image, or a certain multicoloured dress.

But what does it mean?

"Everyone's duang-ing and I still don't know what it means! Looks like it's back to school for me," said Weibo user Weileiweito.

Another user asked: "Have you duang-ed today? My mind is full of duang duang duang."

"To duang or not to duang, that is the question," wrote user BaiKut automan.
Actor Jackie Chan gestures as he stands on the set of his new movie 'Around the World in 80 Days' on 6 May, 2003 in Berlin, Germany



"Duang" seems to be an example of onomatopoeia, a word that phonetically imitates a sound. It all seems to have started with Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan, who in 2004 was featured in a shampoo commercial where he said famously defended his sleek, black hair using the rhythmical-sounding "duang". The word resurfaced again recently after Chan posted it on his Weibo page. Thousands of users then began to flood Chan's Weibo page with comments, coining the word in reference to his infamous shampoo appearance.

The word appears to have many different meanings, and there's no perfect translation, but you could use it as an adjective to give emphasis to the word that follows it. A kitten might be "duang cute", for example. Or you might be "very duang confused" by this blog.

For readers of Chinese characters, the Jackie Chan theme is also apparent from the quirky way in which the word is written: a combination of Chan's names written in Chinese.

Reporting by Heather Chen and Mukul Devichand

[GeneChing]

Here's a new commercial from that original Shampoo company capitalizing on the Duang phenomena. It's on a Chinese video sharing site so I can't embed it. It's annoying anyway, especially the rap at the end. 2015-03-01期 我是拒绝盗版的，正版Duang降临

Still looking for that original commercial.

[GeneChing]

I don't think Jackie is that lucky. He earned his fortune, pulling himself up from poverty with sheer grit. Nobody has risked so much to attain Jackie's stardom. He's got duangin' perseverance.

'Lucky' Jackie Chan an online hit
Chinadaily.com.cn, March 20, 2015

These days, movie star Jackie Chan is as famous for Internet memes as he is for his kung fu and slapstick humor on screen. Following his latest contribution to Internet culture with the nonsense word "duang", two old photos showing him posing with cash have gone viral on the popular US social networking site Tumblr.



A Tumblr user with the name Dailyjackiechan publishes two photos of Jackie Chan on the site with a post saying: You have been visited by the Chan of wealth, reblog this and you will have money come to you! It has generated more than 90,000 posts.
A Tumblr user with the name Dailyjackiechan published the two photos on the site with a post saying: You have been visited by the Chan of wealth, reblog this and you will have money come to you!

The photos became a hit on the site immediately, and have generated more than 90,000 posts, which means that more than 90,000 netizens liked or forwarded the thread.

The photos are said to date back to 2007 and Chan took them to advise fans not to send gifts to him on his birthday, according to qq.com.

[GeneChing]

I would so take a selfie here.

'Jackie Chan' Translation Fails Are the Best Translation Fails
Brian Ashcraft
KOTAKUEAST
4/03/15 8:00am



Everybody knows Jackie Chan. He’s a martial artist, an actor, a filmmaker, a singer, and more. What he is not is a bus stop in Sichuan, China.

As noted by Austin Ramzy (via Eric Jou) on Twitter, the bus stop named “The University Jackie Chan Campus Station” is apparently a computerized translation fail.

The institution is Sichuan Normal University, which is the oldest teacher college (aka normal university) in the region.



So, instead of “The University Jackie Chan Campus Station,” which is a great bus stop name and which is totally wrong, it should mirror the correct Chinese written on the sign and read, “The Sichuan Normal University Chenglong Campus Station.”

While you might think the sign looks Photoshopped, Chengdu Daily confirmed that it’s a real mistake and reports that the goof will be replaced.

I hope the new sign reads “The University Sammo Hung Campus Station.” As it should.
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[GeneChing]

[GeneChing]

Here where Jackie Chan at!

Jackie Chan Was With Kate Middleton All Along
Eileen Sutton Oct 21, 2015, 10:25a


Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images

Mere days after Tracy Morgan and Kenan Thompson posed the question "Yo! Where Jackie Chan at Right Now?" on Saturday Night Live, Chan turned up in Great Britain. In the sketch, the two hosts checked Asia ("He's not there"), before posing the question to Chan's film peers from Chris Tucker (Jay Pharoah) to Chuck Norris (Kyle Mooney). Nobody knew where Jackie Chan at right now.

It turns out that Chan was en route to London's Lancaster House where the actor was scheduled to hang with Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge and professional wearer of tiaras.

Last night, Chan posed for photo ops with the British Monarchy as well as the guests of honor Chinese President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan. Yo! Where Jackie Chan at right now? Chilling with presidents and monarchs, OF COURSE.

This is an especially lovely instance of cultural kismet because the sketch was a part of Tracy Morgan's return to SNL since a near-death car wreck put him in a coma. Welcome back, Tracy, and thanks for taking time out of your long-awaited homecoming to ask the important questions.


Photo: WPA Pool/Getty Images

Back to the ****tail party for a quick style recap: Kate wore a burgundy lace Dolce & Gabbana dress, which retails for $3,495. (The Duchess certainly did not go with high street fashion for this historic meeting of very important royal guests and seminal movie stars.) For his part, Jackie wore a gorgeous traditional white suit. It's as if he knew the whole world and/or SNL-watching public would see him and think, "Oh. That's where Jackie Chan at right now."

[GeneChing]

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