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0 pointsmncharity3y ago0 comments

Thanks - I edited to drop the real name. "Foreign" names often get a "oh no, Americans won't be able to handle that" variant name for use in US releases. So when quickly googling for the comment, when I saw the wikipedia page had another name up front, I included it.

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eozoon3y ago· 3 in thread

FWIW, no one use his "real name" even here in HK. He has a chinese pseudonym that most people use, but even Jackie Chan is much more widely known/used than his actual legal name. That was kinda like calling 50 cents "Curtis James Jackson III".

trompetenaccoun3y ago

He's also known as 'traitor' in Hong Kong, that's his second name.

eozoon3y ago

And being a general pos, horrible husband/father amongst other things... I usually bit my tongue when westerners fanboy about him since I don't want to be the party pooper but yeah, we don't really like him here. The blooper reels were neat, but that was a common feature in HK action films at the time and not really about integrity, since I don't think the audience were expected to believe any of the action were real.

ddeck3y ago

Context:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxqkn5/heres-why-jackie-chan...

Thanks for explanation. I wasn't critiquing you in any way. I was just curious about the reason.

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