Big trouble in little china

Games design assignment 1 Charles Hardy

Big trouble in little china

I will be assessing big trouble in little china.The first thing made to do with big trouble little china is the film back in 1987 but in 2014 the comic book was made many years after. The film had been made many years before and was the original piece of the old story.   

Main characters:

Jack Burton–  (main protagonist)Truck driver who only cares about getting out of the situation he is in and getting his truck back. He is the "hero" and pretends to be but spends most of the time knocked out. He is attracted to Gracie but at the end all he cares about is leaving in his truck 

Wang – Jacks friend who is a side kick to Jack and wants to save Miao Yin because she was kidnapped by Lopan, Wang's fiancè is Miao Yin and is portrayed as a sidekick but is doing most of the fighting. In the end he is happy with the out come he can finally reunite with Miao Yin.  

Gracie – Gracie is a journalist who wants to have a good story for her journal. She forms a relationship with Jack but she is left after asking Jack if she can come with him. Gracie is seen as wanting to help but she is captured many times but always breaks herself out.        

Lopan - main villain who wants to take over the world by marring a girl with green eyes. Lopan is evil and wants possession over his main form. He is the main antagonist  

Sub characters:

Tara – Tara is Gracie's friend and wants to help her out

Eddie – Wang’s friend who wants to help Wang out with getting Miao back.

Egg Shen – Can do magic and says his purpose is to defeat Lopan, he wants to make sure that everyone survives as well.   

Lopans henchmen – antagonists, they follow Lopans orders.   

The three storms – the three storms are henchmen that are more important then all of the henchmen and are the right hand men to lopan.   

Miao Yin – Wangs fiancè  

Emotions

There are many different various emotions in the film which causes various different characters in the film so that they can fill all the roles. Jack fills the comedic role and has the funny scenes while Wang fills the sidekick role and is more serious which makes him into a character which drives the movie forward. The emotion on the viewer is more based on what scene it as but mainly it is a comedy with action.

Motives

Each character has a different motive:

Jack: Jack only really cares about getting his truck back but

Wang: Save Miao yin from Lopan and makes sure that his whole family is safe. He also wants to marry Miao yin.

Gracie: Gracie wants to get a good story for her journal so she can get herself known.

Lapan: Marry a girl with green eyes because then he can become more powerful and take over the world.

Intro:

Egg shen talks to an attorney about magic and says that he believes in magic, the attorney then says he does not believe in magic and laughs at these insane claims. Egg shen then puts his hands together and creates lighting to which the attorney is shocked.

Jack talks to person on the radio and arrives at market bar area. Driver argues with Wang at the bar, they are friends and the gamble. Wang says he has to pick someone up and they run into some Lpans men at the airport. The gang stole Miao Yin, Wang and Jack leave the airport. The meet an American Lawyer there called Gracie.

Middle:

Shen almost crashes with Jack as they pursuit the kidnappers.  The truck parks and the gang members are ready to attack, they have a huge stand off and then one of the lighting men comes back with three lighting people who were ready to fight the people in the standoff. They escape back to Wang’s restaurant and the decent to go to where the kidnapped Wang’s girlfriend. It’s called the white tiger. Jack looks around for her and the building starts to rock and things fly upwards and the three lighting magicians are back. Wang’s girlfriend is taken by the lighting people and Jack escapes.

They argue for a while deciding what to do next and they go to try and save her. Wang and Jack walk in and trick the guards and get stuck in a lift. The lift begins to fill with water. The lift opens and they almost drown but are captured by lighting people.

Meanwhile Shen meets up with the others back at the restaurant and they talk to some Lopan in a chair about getting Wang’s girlfriend back. Wang and Jack are tied to chairs and this guy begins to tell a sad story. Lopan wants to marry the girl with green eyes.

The others go to the reception where they are seen by the Lopan who gets very angry at this. Wang and Jack are left in a room in a cage and are clearly captured. The others are in the lift and get down and save jack and Wang, the Lopan then transforms into ghost.

Wang and the others free random people and create distraction. Jack saves the others as the jump into water. The sim though and reach the other side. They are in the sewer and are trying to find away out. They are chased again and got into a fight with them, as the escape Gracie is taken by a monster thing and the rest get away but they don’t manage to safe Wang’s girlfriend and because Gracie has green eyes he is happy. Gracie is taken to where the lair where Lopan is. They plan to rescue Miao Yin and Gracie by the Lopan. Egg Shen leads Jack and Wang under the city to a new entrance to surprise them. Both Gracie and Miao survive the burning blade which is a test to make sure they are strong enough. They are ready to attack and save them. The drink the potion and have a speech and then ascend. Things go wrong and they get into a fight with all of them. Jack knows himself out but gets up and fights back. The fight continues while the Lopan continues to drink Miao’s blood to become human to take over the universe. Lopan and Egg Shen have magic stand-off.

End:

Lopan kidnaps Miao and Lopan is killed by Jack who throws a knife in his head. They then witness the end off the last henchmen and escape in Jacks truck. They are then all seen safe at the restaurant, where everyone is happy. Egg chen leaves and says that its was all over and Jack goes into his truck and leaves.     

Relationships

There are a few relationships in big trouble in little china and they are quite a main focus point during the plot. Wang wants to recuse Miao as he and Miao had a strong relationship and this was one of the main focus points to the film. Jack and Gracie had a short relationship but it ended because the only thing that Jack cared about was getting his truck back and going back to his old normal ways. The uncle and Wang had a normal relationship as Wangs uncle did seem concerned when Wang got into trouble. Wang and Eddie are friends and Wang and Jack are clearly decent friends who care about each other but when losing bets they need to pay up. 

Plot

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

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728/