The climax of The Crimson Blade is scheduled for a midnight shoot at the old Kowloon Wharf. The script says Ah Long’s character faces twenty assassins and wins by using the environment—ladders, ropes, fish barrels. But Ah Long arrives to find no camera crew. Instead, The Viper’s men are loading crates onto a boat. And Mr. Ko has a real gun.
The audience—a dozen old men, three bored teens, and Uncle Li—watches the final fight. But instead of the original cheesy choreography, the film shows grainy, shaky-cam footage of the real warehouse battle. Ah Long, bruised, bleeding, using an eel as a whip. jackie chan 1st movie
The Crimson Blade’s Echo
Ah Long looks at the broken fan in his hand. Then at the warehouse: hanging hooks, a pile of bamboo scaffolding poles, a cart of live eels, and twenty armed thugs. The climax of The Crimson Blade is scheduled