Story Telling- Unit 74

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Big Trouble In Little China

Intro- a Chinese bus driver is being interrogated and performs sorcery. Wang and Jack go to the airport to pick up Wang’s fiance but she gets kidnapped. Wang and Jack go down the wrong alley as two Chinese gangs get into a street fight, it is interrupted by three sorcerers. Jack and Wang heard about where his fiance was being kept and they go to try and get her back, the sorcerers take her again. 

Middle- Wang takes Jack to his restaurant where they meet up with Gracie Law, Eddie Lee and Egg Shen. The group infiltrate a brothel where they think Miao yin is being held. All is going well until the Storms fly in and take Miao Yin away to their master, Lo Pan. Jack and Wang manage to sneak past the main guards to gain access to their facility but quickly get captured by Rain. They get tied and beaten but finally meet Lo Pan who is now a crippled old man and tells them that he needs to marry a green eyed woman to remove a curse, hense the reason for kidnapping Miao Yin. Jack and Wang's friend come to save them but also get captured them selves. Lo Pan realises that Gracie Law also has green eyes so he intends to sacrifice Gracie to appease the emperor and marry Miao as intended. Jack and Wang manage to escape, freeing captured women on the way. Whilst Gracie is also trying to escape she gets recaptured by a horrid beast.

End- Wang and Jack meet up with Egg Shen and the Chang Sing, a gang who agree to help them defeat Lo Pan. They go to an underground cavern to get to Lo Pan's headquarters. As Lo Pan is trying to marry Miao Yin a battle starts between the two sides. Jack knocks himself at the very start of the fight and gets trapped under a large suit of armour. Jack, Wang and Gracie group up to chase Lo Pan who is now in his human form. They thought all was lost until Jack catches a knife being thrown at him and hits Lo Pan in the forehead with it, killing him. Thunder eventually returns to see his dead master and explodes because he feels like he has dishonoured him. Thunder tries to trap them all by collapsing the place but they get rescued by Egg who also drops a statue on thunder which kills him. The group all meet up and celebrate their victory.

Characters- 

Egg Shen is a sub character but the main characters of the film probably wouldn't have as much information on Lo Pan as they did if Egg Chen wasn't there for them.

. Jack Burton is the main focus of the film. He thinks everything will go his way and that he's great in all situations but in reality he cant even handle himself in a fight.

. Wang Chi is basically Jack's Sidekick but ends up doing most of the work. He's a main character because we follow both Jack and Wang throughout the whole film and none of it would have happened if they didn't go to pick up his wife from the airport.

. David Lo Pan is the main bad guy of the whole film, he is the reason for all of this happening so you couldn't have the film without him. He is an ancient wizard who was cursed to live as an immortal form and must marry a green eyed woman to gain his human form again.

. Gracie Law is a sub-character. She starts of helping our main protagonists but ends up being captured her self.

. The three storms are sub characters that work for Lo Pan, stopping Jack in his tracks wherever they meet. They only became the storms because of Lo Pan and have worked for him for many years.

. Miao Yin is Wang's wife. She is the one who originally gets kidnapped at the airport by The Lords of Death. None of the film would of happened if she wasn't originally captured. Lo Pan needs her because he must marry someone with green eyes to regain his human form. 

Plot- Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) wins a bet with his friend Wang Chi and accompanies him to the airport to pick up Wang's fiancé Miao Yin to make sure he honours the payment. A Chinese street gang, the Lords of Death, tries to kidnap another Chinese girl at the airport who is being met by her friend Gracie Law, intending to sell her as a sex slave. After Jack intervenes, they take Miao Yin instead. In Jack's truck, he and Wang track the Lords of Death to the back alleys of Chinatown, where they find a funeral procession that quickly erupts into a street fight between the Chang Sing and Wing Kong, two ancient Chinese societies. When "The Three Storms" - Thunder, Rain, and Lightning, mighty warriors with weather-themed powers - appear, slaughtering the Chang Sing, Jack tries to escape but runs over Lo Pan, a powerful and legendary sorcerer and the leader of the Wing Kong. Horrified, Jack exits his truck, but finds Lo Pan completely fine. Wang guides Jack through the alleys; the two escape the carnage and mayhem, but Jack's truck is stolen. They each spend the rest of the film trying to get Wang's fiance back and jack's truck back. they each face different problems on the way.

Character motivation-
Jack- Throughout the whole film Jack says he is only helping so he can get his truck back from the gang that stole it. Whilst watching the film you can see that he has feelings for Gracie Law so that may of helped convince him but even at the end of the film he doesn't even stay for her.

Wang Chi- Wang's Fiance is who gets captured by the Lords of Death at the airport and swears that he will get her back

David Lo Pan is motivated to marry Miao Yin because it's the only way he can get his human body back.

The Three Storms are motivated because they have to serve Lo Pan due to also being cursed.


Jack and Wang start the film off as friends who have known each other for many years. They play card games every so often. Their friendship grows as the film goes on, eventually becoming better friends.

Emotional themes- Jack's emotions are anger and loss. At the start of the film, him and Wang are forced to abandon his truck in the middle of a gang fight and he spends the rest of the film trying to get his truck back.

Wang feels loss due to his fiance being kidnapped. He will do whatever it takes to get her back, killing many enemies throughout without feeling any remorse.