#The Young Master

[d2071art]

Well, what can I say. He influenced my life more than all my teachers combined ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Happy 70th Birthday to Jackie Chan! ^___^

[awellboiledicicle]

I appreciate that Fallen London's whole through line with Spices means Pages absolutely could have had a hybrid child with the protag of Mask of the Rose and just. Kept it in the towers of the bazaar because its only like 30 some years old.

Which i can only assume means its the equivalent of a 19 year old manager of a local mcdonalds. Definitely old enough to have a lot of responsibility, but you're not going to let it try to negotiate with anything higher up the chain than a human that is far more interested in a paycheck than arguing. The potential is there, though, so Pages probably has it reading and writing as much as it can stand before flying off to brood at its human parent about how 'Pages said i had to read a whole book of Correspondence before i got to play with my phonographs again and i do not want to, besides you cant even type it properly without things exploding--why should i care?'

Probably given supervision over the city's printing presses. Not what they print, just the manufacture and maintenance of the presses--including knowing just who has one. Maybe typewriters and maintenance shops for them.

"Parent, i want to oversee more! I want the phonographs!" It complains. "And the wax cylinders!" "When your maturvelopment is complete, child." Assures Pages, patting the youngling on the head before bopping it on the nose with a gloved hand. "Now, back to studying! You cannot comprehend the volumitude of information we have obtained without it!" This earns a dissatisfied chitter before the young master scurries off into the depths of the tower to read. Mostly about many different types of machines for storing and marking out information. This is done in a nest of blankets in a corner where its human parent cannot see it sneak before dinner snacks of fruit.

Not pictured is Pages scolding its human partner for spoiling the Young Master by helping it brush its fur and polish its horns well after it can do that itself. Partner insists Pages is just jealous and earns a squint accompanied by a huff. This is dealt with by them grooming it as well, though Young Master makes gagging noises in the background because its parents are flirting again.

[randomrichards]

THE YOUNG MASTER:

Student exiled

Save brother from life of crime

Law mistakes them both

[omercifulheaves]

The Young Master (1980)

[kungfuwushuworld]

Legendary Yuen Biao in Jackie Chan movie The Young Master 

[lonesomedreamereccentriclover]

On November 7th, the @criterioncollection is releasing a collection of early Jackie Chan movies on blu-ray:

Emergence of a Superstar

SPECIAL FEATURES

2K digital restorations of Spiritual Kung Fu, The Fearless Hyena, Fearless Hyena II, The Young Master, and My Lucky Stars and high-definition digital restoration of Half a Loaf of Kung Fu, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks

Alternate stereo and 5.1 surround Cantonese soundtracks

Classic English-dubbed tracks for Half a Loaf of Kung Fu, Spiritual Kung Fu, The Fearless Hyena, and Fearless Hyena II, plus an English-dubbed alternate track for Fearless Hyena II, and contemporary English-dubbed tracks for The Young Master and My Lucky Stars

New audio commentaries for The Fearless Hyena and The Young Master featuring Hong Kong cinema expert and producer Frank Djeng (Enter the Clones of Bruce)

Interview with author Grady Hendrix (These Fists Break Bricks) about actor-director Jackie Chan

Archival interviews with Chan, actor-director Sammo Hung, actors Michiko Nishiwaki and Hwang In-shik, and more

The Young Master promo reel from the 1980 Cannes Film Festival and deleted scenes from the film

Interview from 2005 with Hong Kong cinema critic Paul Fonoroff about producer-director Lo Wei

NG shots from The Young Master and My Lucky Stars

Trailers

New English subtitle translations

PLUS: An essay by critic Alex Pappademas

New cover by Kyle Baker

[of-fear-and-love]

Jackie Chan vs. Shih Kien fight scene from 師弟出馬 / The Young Master (1980)

[nemkero]

nobody will know that this is atla fanart

[oneofusnet]

Digital Noise Episode 335: It's All Good DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 335: IT’S ALL GOOD Wright and Chris get that February miracle: a whole stack of movies (and a show) for Digital Noise where they actually liked everything. From a mythology for the modern age adapted to tv, to a early history of one of the world’s greatest physical actors. From an anything but boring Boorman classic, to one of the best buddy cop movies you’ve never seen. We’ve got a lot to tell you about. All titles were sent to Digital Noise by the distribution companies in question for the purpose of review. No other compensation was… Read More »Digital Noise Episode 335: It’s All Good read more on One of Us

[canisalbus]

✦ They said you were a bright child ✦

[awellboiledicicle]

Keep pondering a Fallen London timeline where Pages had a hybrid with the protag from Mask of the Rose through some process and said child is referred to as The Young Master.

Pages spends its whole pregnancy both insisting it's not pregnant and having internalized anxiety about trying to divine meaning into it wanting to eat fish at 7am but only raw. Not because it isnt thrilled but because its terrified. The other masters that give a shit are unluckily also probably not so fond of Pages itself, the whole being with a human thing, or the very idea of mixing material. The insistence that the whole thing is in service of producing a good love story is a thin cover at best, but good golly its clinging to it.

Fun additions to this mental au include: Pages getting blissed out on a music box its lover found for the baby and promptly stealing it. Literally every Master knowing its pregnant and initially Hearts tries to take bets on who did it before being soundly sworn at. Lover moving in with Pages to help since it is their child too, and the inevitable process of Redecorating since everything is v much not their size. Debates about how the kid will look occupying the conversation whenever Lover visits Chapman's to check up on ppl, with Archie insisting hes "not that kind of doctor--if those exist" when asked. Griz spends a good deal of these conversations deadpan staring into the middle distance, imagining the paperwork backlog that will appear when Pages dips out to deliver and recover.

Not pictured in all this is the mental image of Pages absolutely hating nursery rhymes for not having a coherent narrative depth. Because its implied.

By FL times the kiddo would be old enough to be kinda pissed most things are already in hand so to speak. It likes fish and the zea. Would that make it Mr. Fish? Sails? Fins? Its conflicted and this leads to a lot of "I cant shrink down rn I'm POUTING".

I'm pondering

[eggdrawsthings]

“Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake

[mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves]

The Young Master (1980, Jackie Chan, Hong Kong)

[ashyart]

And here is my render for Spinjitsu brothers Wu