Big Trouble in Little China

• Kurt Russell: Jack Burton
• James Hong: David Lo Pan
• Victor Wong: Egg Shen
• Kim Cattrall: Gracie Law
• Dennis Dun: Wang Chi

Big Trouble in Little China is a fantasy film directed by John Carpenter from the year 1986.

Action

In San Francisco's Chinatown, the young Chinese restaurant owner Wang Chi expects his fiancee Miao Yin from Beijing, but she is kidnapped by henchmen of industrialist David Lo Pan. Jack Burton, a trucker and Wang's friend, the search for Miao Yin includes, but makes up an acquaintance with powers that exceed his mind - because almost all of his opponents using black magic. Lo Pan is in fact a more than 2200 year old spirit who rebelled in ancient China against the first sovereign emperor of Jin Dai, the God of the East, was occupied by the curse of Fleischlosigkeit and now with the help of a ritual which the wedding and with the offering of a particular woman includes, wants to regain his human form. His chosen one to be a girl with green eyes; This applies to Miao Yin.

Reinforced by the tourist bus driver and magician Egg Shen, the lawyer Grace " Gracie " Law, the reporter Margo Litzenberger and the top of Wang's Restaurant Eddie penetrate Jack and Wang in Lo Pan's only one, but can not find it Miao Yin. Instead, Grace is that also the conditions of Lo Pan's fulfilled prophecy, kidnapped, and now both women are preparing for the wedding with him. Under Egg Shen's leadership succeeds Jack, Wang and a group of helpers, again penetrate the fortress in Lo Pan and push forward to the wedding hall, where Lo Pan just completed the ceremony.

Jack succeeds with some difficulty, to bring Lo Pan finally to the track, almost as soon as he has regained his mortality, and separates after their successful flight with a new understanding of the supernatural in the world of his Chinese friends - but only to a Lo Pan's monsters to have you as a stowaway on the neck.

Reviews

The film garnered when it was released by adult critics and in by the public, so only played a fraction of the cost back. It was only with the release on video, he has been over the years to the success and many fans to tip. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a rating of 83%.

" Elaborately staged spectacle, the stereotypes of the western adventure film with kung-fu acrobatics combined and takes the prejudiced image of the opaque, criminal Asians as an occasion for a fast-paced, but bloodless action comedy. "

" Pompous costumes, giant special -effects and lots of action to the appeal of satire on all Eastern, fantasy and adventure clichés. Action and horror specialist John Carpenter ( Assault - stop at night ',' Escape ',' Halloween ') returns here a winking fun movie full of hair-raising adventures: his protagonists have to shimmy at a breathtaking pace of an action scene to the next. Steven Spielberg and various colleagues from Hong Kong send their regards. "

Others

• John Carpenter was dissatisfied with the film end, and there was a lot of trouble and interference from the studio Fox. An employee was unjustifiably accused of theft, and Carpenter was treated in his view, very disrespectful of the studio bosses. The film is available on DVD with the alternate ending.

• After the experience at the filming of Big Trouble Carpenter was so disappointed in Hollywood, that he decided to tackle only small independent projects in which he had full control. He turned back to the first horror film, which earned him much criticism after films like Starman and Big Trouble.

• The music of John Carpenter has cost more than his film Halloween - The whole night of horror.

• In the U.S., the film was also distributed under the title John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China.

• There is a rumor that Big Trouble was originally planned as a sequel to the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in Little China. However, this is not true.

Cultural impact

The figures Lo Pan and his chief henchmen, the three storms, enjoyed in America, despite the general failure of the film very popular. James Hong played the role of Lo Pan (or characters who were inspired by him ) in the science- fiction series The Chronicles ( episode: " Here There Be Dragons ", 2001 ) and the NBC series Chuck ( " Chuck Versus the Sizzling Shrimp "). Incarnations of Lo Pan also appear in the video games Fallout 2 and Master of Magic, and the character of Raiden from the Mortal Kombat series to have been inspired by the storm Lightning.