Compiled by SALMA FAIRUS AND C.ARUNO
AN old clip of Jackie Chan belittling martial arts legend Bruce Lee is once again making its rounds on the Internet, China Press reported.
It showed Chan implying that he could beat the latter in a fight.
Chan, who appeared as an extra in Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury (1972) and Enter the Dragon (1973), said Lee was a nice person but had been “deified” by fans and the filmmaking industry.
Speaking on the Chinese talk show Behind the Headlines with Wen Tao, Chan mocked Lee’s signature yell when executing a martial arts move, saying that it was “ugly”.
When asked who would win in a fight between Lee and himself, Chan replied that he would “let him win”, implying that he himself was a more skilled martial artist.
However, not everyone agreed with Chan’s view of Lee.
“Bruce Lee really knew martial arts. Jackie Chan’s moves are just for show,” Cheng Pei-pei once said.
> The daily also reported that a man who pulled a large python from under a car’s hood in Sungai Buloh, Selangor, garnered both fear and admiration from online users.
The video, which was shared by Threads user @iamvictorchan, showed a man approaching a white sedan with its bonnet open.
The head of a large snake could be seen protruding from the engine. With quick hands, he grabbed the reptile’s head, tugged hard at it and managed to pull it to the ground. Judging from the video, the python captured was at least 2m long.
When interviewed, the uploader of the video said this was not the first time they helped capture a snake on behalf of their neighbours.
He said the snake was trapped in a barrel, before the Fire and Rescue Department was contacted.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
