Big Trouble In Little China Page #6

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
9,716 Views


- I'll be right back.

Where are you goin', Egg?

My work's done.

Lo Pan is dead and the evil spell's been lifted.

Years ago I promised myself a long vacation.

It is time to collect.

Well, why don't you go on over to China?

Visit the motherland?

Well, China's in the heart, Jack.

Wherever I go, she's with me.

- So what are you gonna call it?

- I don't know.

Maybe you can come over to my place later

and help me find a title?

- Here, Jack. Nothin' or triple.

- Nothin' or double.

Triple. You earned it.

You're right, I did. Thanks, Wang.

Well, last chance. I'm a rich man now.

I can give up the open road,

sell my truck, settle down.

Couldn't have that on my conscience.

The only way it might work

is if you buy a bigger truck

with a cosy little apartment

in back, just big enough for two.

That sounds pretty great. But sooner or later

I rub everybody the wrong way.

Well, let me think about it.

God, aren't you even

gonna kiss her goodbye?

No.

- See you around, Burton.

- Never can tell.

Bye, Jack.

We really shook the pillars of heaven,

didn't we, Wang?

- No horseshit, Jack.

- No horseshit.

You just listen to the Pork-Chop Express

and take his advice

on a stormy night, when the lightning's

crashin', the thunder's roarin',

and the rain's comin' down

in sheets thick as lead.

Remember what old Jack Burton does

when the earth quakes

and the poison arrows fall from the sky

and the pillars of heaven shake.

Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big old

storm right square in the eye and he says

"Gimme your best shot, pal. I can take it."

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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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