[weareallcowards]

Jackie Chan had a similar attitude toward his films. He once said in an interview:

>Whatever you do, do the best you can, because the film lives forever. No, "because that day it was raining and the actor don't have time."

>I said, "would you go to every theater and tell the audience?" No! The audience sits in the theater: good movie? Bad movie? That's all.

And he practiced what he preached, sometimes going through hundreds of takes to get a stunt just right.

[andrewzah]

You can see this difference in the the films produced by him and his studio versus the american-produced ones. Every Frame a Painting has a good video on this. [0]

Typically for films the shooting portion takes only a few weeks to finish, so lots of retakes = money lost. Jackie Chan does a lot of random flourishes in his films that end up with him needing a lot of takes. For example, how he scales fences. [1]

The way he scales the castle wall in Wheels on Meals (1984) is probably my favorite example.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOjjdttsHy4