Big Trouble In Little China Page #2

Synopsis: Truck driver Jack Burton arrives in Chinatown, San Francisco, and goes to the airport with his Chinese friend Wang Chi to welcome his green-eyed fiancée Miao Yin who is arriving from China. However she is kidnapped on the arrival by a Chinese street gang and Jack and Wang chase the group. Soon they learn that the powerful evil sorcerer called David Lo Pan, who has been cursed more than two thousand years ago to exist without physical body, needs to marry a woman with green eyes to retrieve his physical body and Miao is the chosen one. Jack and Wang team-up with the lawyer Gracie Law, the bus driver and sorcerer apprentice Egg Shen and their friends and embark in a great adventure in the underground of Chinatown, where they face a world of magicians and magic, monsters and martial arts fighters.
Director(s): John Carpenter
Production: Twentieth Century Fox
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
PG-13
Year:
1986
99 min
9,439 Views


You know how rare that is, Jack?

- How can you tell from here?

- Not her. She's trouble. Miao Yin.

Beautiful green eyes, like creamy jade.

Trouble, huh?

- Can I ask you a serious question?

- Absolutely not.

- Would you consider jumping right into...

- Sure, but not with a man in your condition.

- What's wrong with my condition?

- Try standing downwind where I am.

- It's Miller time.

- You know what I say when it's Miller time?

Wait a minute!

- Don't!

- Don't what?

The Lords of Death. Street gang. Punks

from Chinatown. What are they doing here?

Tara!

Miao Yin!

Excuse me.

Let's you and me have a little talk, friend.

What?

Where'd you get that?

Wait a minute, pal.

Get that one!

Come on, Jack!

Where?

Call the cops!

Son of a b*tch must pay!

What's goin' on, Wang?

Why'd they steal your girl?

You tell me! How come it's not safe to walk

in Central Park or to give a stranger a lift?

- Because the world's full of crazy people.

- The American girl knew something was up.

Stay away from her. She's a lawyer.

She's a what? Oh, come on!

- What the hell...?

- They got a clubhouse where they hang out.

- To sharpen their knives?

- I can't ask you to...

- Where is it?

- Thank you, Jack.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

I am Mr Egg Shen, with this wonderful tour.

Sit back and enjoy yourselves, see?

Long time ago, Chinese men with

gold-rush fever flooded into California.

We call Gum Shan - Mountain of Gold, see?

Leaving behind their wives and children.

Working for years to complete

the transcontinental railroad,

saving all their pennies.

And then they sent for their families

to help build this beautiful Chinatown

you see outside your window

this fine warm day.

- Go right, down that alley. Lords of Death!

- What alley?

Go right! Now!

- Where the hell are we?

- Come on, Jack.

Excuse me, ma'am.

I don't suppose you saw a...

No.

Keep moving.

- What is it? A parade?

- A funeral.

- A fighting tong. They're Chang Sings.

- A fighting tong?

Don't panic, Jack.

They're OK. They're good guys.

Maybe we should try a different alley.

What do you say?

Wang, these guys, these Sing Dings.

They got enemies?

- Wing Kong.

- Who wear red turbans?

Holy sh*t!

These guys are animals, Jack.

- What's happening, Wang?

- Chinese standoff.

A what?

Don't make a sound.

Who's that?

No questions! Just get outta here, Jack!

Jack!

- I think it was Lo Pan.

- Who?

- Don't look, Jack!

- I already did.

- Who? I mean, what?

- Lo Pan. Come on!

- I can't see!

- It's OK. It's only temporary. Over here.

Bend over.

Yeah, yeah.

I ran straight through him, Wang.

How the hell did I do that?

- You didn't. It only appeared that way.

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Gary Goldman

Gary Wayne Goldman is an American film producer, director, animator, writer and voice actor, he is well known for working on films with Don Bluth such as Anastasia, An American Tail, and The Land Before Time. more…

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