MovieChat Forums > Ging chaat goo si (1985) Discussion > Two questions: No.1 - the lyrics and No....

Two questions: No.1 - the lyrics and No.2 - 'Jackie Chan' address


Good Day, Everybody.

No.1 Can anybody help with the lyrics of the title song sung by Mr Jackie Chan? What is it about? Is it a kind of dance-pop or something more serious?

No.2 I can clearly hear that other characters of the movie call the main hero "Jackie Chan". But the actor is playing the supercop who has a different name. How is that? Did they change it this way while dubbing into English? Unfortunately my DVD has English/Russian soundtracks only.

Thanks in advance for answering.
Regards

reply

1. Here are the lyrics for the song -->http://www.jackiechanmusic.com/lyrics/karaoke/jackie-1989/Hero%20Story.GIF
Here is the site I found it on ---> http://www.jackiechanmusic.com/

2. Jackie's character name in the original version was Chan Ka Kui, which i think is like the equivalent to Kevin Chan in Cantonese. Not for sure though.

When the US dubbed over the first two Police Story films, they changed his name to Jackie Chan. They also didn't use Jackie Chan to dub his own voice.

When the dubbed the movie Supercop in English, they got Jackie Chan to dub his own voice, and his character's name was correct to Kevin Chan.

Hope this helps.

reply

I've got “Police Story” with the English sound, "Police Story 2" with the Chinese soundtrack and "Police Story 3" with the English one, so, I'll pay attention to the difference.
And according to your info the 2nd and the 3rd have Jackie Chan talking his native language and English while in the 1st it’s a don’t-know-who talking. Such a variety for one title!

Is there anybody here who can translate the lyrics from Chinese to English line after line? Do people from China participate in such communication at all?

reply

Little error you made, I said when they dubbed the first two Police Story movies, meaning Police Story and Police Story II. Jackie did not do the dubbing for those two movies. Someone unknown dubbed those movies and they called the character in the movie Jackie Chan, instead of his intended name of Chan Ka Kui or Kevin Chan.

For Supercop(which is Police Story III), they got Jackie Chan to come in and do the dubbing. Which is why Jackie corrected them and told them to change his character's name to Kevin Chan(which it was supposed to be), instead of them using his real life name.

reply

Heres a pretty accurate translation in subs on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S90M-N4gaM0, it's pretty much directly translated but it's main focus is on being a hero etc.

reply

[deleted]

  I'm a Chinese. The song is, as a matter of fact in Cantonese, rather than Mandarin. So I can't understand the lyrics by just listening to the song. I need to read written lyrics to understand what it's about. But luckily, it's very easy to find the lyrics of this song in China. First of all, this is a very serious song. It's not just for fun, it's about justice and it's very much related to the theme of the movie. And I have to say the lyrics are very very difficult to translate into English. Because the lyrics are very-well written in Chinese, and it's like some kind of poem. The lyrics have structures, have the features of a poem. So I don't think it's a good idea to translate them into Chinese. Trust me, you won't understand the charm of the lyrics in English. But if you understand Chinese and read the Chinese lyrics, you will know how wonderfully it's written. But anyway, I still translated the lyrics by myself. I'm not a professional translator and, as I said, it's really difficult to translate, so the translation may not be very good.
  
All on my own,
Man of Iron,
Risking my life crazily.
Sweating blood,
Making full use of a hot-blooded heart,
Seeking for the great meaning.
Taking life at stake,
Leaving hero stories.
Out of sufferings comes strength of character,
Taking steps and looking around like an awakened lion.
Rush forward,
I'm the only one who knows all my gain and loss.
Take fast steps,
I'm going to write on the clouds...
My name!

Using pride,
Writing by myself,
The poem of my life.
Emotion and love,
Tears and craziness,
Sincereness is all that counts.
Risking Life recklessly,
Leaving astonishing cheerful things.
A hero has strength of character,
Looking at the world powerfully like an awakened lion.
Rush forward,
I'm the only one who knows all my gain and loss.
Take fast steps,
I'm going to fly above the clouds.

Rush forward,
I'm the only one who knows all my gain and loss.
Take fast steps,
I'm going to fly above the clouds.
Rush forward,
I'm the only one who knows all my gain and loss.
Take fast steps,
A man should be a righteous...
Hero!

reply

Sadly, we cannot thank this hero without a cape now due to the closure of the IMBD forums.

Try to watch the closing credits while reading this!

reply