History Film / DrunkenMaster

* BadassGrandpa: Beggar So looks like a washed up old guy, but he's surprisingly awesome in a fight.

* [[DrunkenMaster Drunken Masters]]: The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]], of course.

* [[TricksterMentor Trickster Mentor]]: Beggar-So is equally sneaky, finding interesting ways to keep Fei-Hung from running away from his (often brutal) training.

* BullyingADragon: Averted very hard when Thunderleg meets Beggar So partway during the climatic battle. He wants no part of Beggar So, and tells So that his fight is of no concern to So.

* WorfHadTheFlu: As stated above, Drunken Boxing requires one to be legitimately intoxicated. The one time in the film Beggar So is forced to fight sober (because Fei-Hung was too lazy to complete a booze run and filled So's flask with water instead,) he is rapidly outclassed.

* CombatHandFan: In the second movie, Fei-Hung uses one to great effect against a giant mook. The saying written on it also inspired him to use a BoozeBasedBuff to defeat the BigBad and TheDragon.

* EvilBrit: The villains of the sequel, who steal Chinese artifacts to the British Museum of Art. Interestingly, the English dub uses American voice actors for good Chinese characters (save Creator/JackieChan himself) while using a British voice actors for a villainous Chinese character.

!! This movie provides examples of:

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Fei-Hung, before some CharacterDevelopment.

* {{Badass}}: Fei-Hung (After mastering drunken boxing), Beggar So, and Yan Ti San.

!! This "sequel" provides examples of:

* EvilBrit: The villains of the sequel, who steal Chinese artifacts to the British Museum of Art. Interestingly, the English dub uses American voice actors for good Chinese characters (save JackieChan himself) while using a British voice actors for a villainous Chinese character.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: John. In the beginning he comes off as the brains of the henchmen, especially with his huge nerd glasses. Come the final fight though, he winds up being Fei-Hung's last opponent and likely the most dangerous of them when he reveals powerful kicking techniques.

* VirtrolicBestBuds: Ling and Marlon, they quarrel over the attention of their female friend and argue about their fighting styles, but it's clear they are protective of each other.

* FatalFlaw: Fei-Hung is not nearly as clever as he thinks himself to be, and he is constantly slacking off from training. This goes beyond being merely BrilliantButLazy however, as he never bothers to learn the eighth form of Drunken Boxing ("Drunken Miss Ho" which he feels is too feminine to work in a fight) and he has to make up his own eighth form in the final fight to keep from getting killed.

* TheTrickster: Fei-Hung is very sneaky, one reason why he's so in enough trouble to be sent for special training.
* [[TricksterMentor Trickster Mentor]]: Beggar-So is equally sneaky, finding interesting ways to keep Fei-Hung from running away from his (often) brutal training.

* WellDoneSonGuy:

Later, there was a sequel of sorts in the form of ''Drunken Master II'', released in North America as ''Legend of Drunken Master''. Wong Fei-Hung accidentally comes into possession of several valuable Chinese artifacts, which smugglers are trying to sell to {{Evil Brit}}s. In 2005, Time Magazine declared this movie one of the 100 best movies of all time, and Creator/RogerEbert rates the climactic foundry fight as one of the best fight scenes ever committed to film.

* DuelingDubs: The first one (circa 1979) called Fei-Hung Freddie Wong, Beggar So was called Sam Seed, and Yan Ti San was called Thunderfoot. The original dub could be seen on older bootleg VHS tapes. In the 2005s remasterd DVD dub, Fei Hung and his father are still Freddie and Robert Wong. Beggar So is now called So Hei. Yan is called Thunderlegs. The original dub was a product of its time with usual cartoony voice acting, awkward dialogue, and inflections, much like all the Kung Fu dubs of the time with the unintentional hilarity. The DVD dub had both voice acting and dialogue which tended to be stilted or subdued at times in order to avoid the signature quirks of older kung fu movie dubs. Most of the humor remains in what is being said as opposed to how funny it sounds to the ear. Also, much of the translation in the DVD relsease is more literal. So-Hei has a voice that is curiously similar to Sam Seed's. Interestingly enough, Yan's original English dub sported an accent reminiscent of characters in Spaghetti Westerns. His voice in the later dub gave him a lower, more subdued, deadly sounding voice. Mr. Lee and Gorilla both had cartoony voices (similar to Piglet from Franchise/WinnieThePooh) in the original dub but were given more appropriately deeper voices in the DVD dub. However, Freddie's voice actor was definitely hamming it up in the new dub.

* ProductionPosse: Ken Lo, the man who [[TheDragon kicks the crap out of him for about a third of every Jackie Chan movie]], usually toward the end.

* EvilBrit: The villains of the sequel, who steal Chinese artifacts to the British Museum of Art. Interestingly, the English dub uses American voice actors for good Chinese characters (save JackieChan himself) while using British voice actors for evil Chinese characters.

NeedsMoreLove.

Wong Fei-Hung is a young, [[ArrogantKungFuGuy irresponsible martial arts student]] who, in the space of one day, manages to anger his kung fu instructor by demonstrating that the instructor was an incompetent in front of the entire class, antagonize his aunt by [[KissingCousins making advances towards her daughter]], and a local nobleman for beating the crap out of his ([[RoyalBrat very snooty]]) son. As punishment, his father sends him to train under Beggar So, who has a reputation for crippling his students. Naturally, Fei-Hung doesn't like this idea, and so he escapes, only to run into Beggar So, who gives him brutally rigorous training. At first, Fei-Hung hates his mentor, but he comes to respect him and becomes a much more proficient martial artist. At the end, Fei-Hung uses his new knowledge to defeat an assassin after his father.

* EvilVirtues: Yan Ti San/Thunderleg is a killer for hire. Off the clock he is an ArrogantKungFuGuy ''par excellence'', but once he is hired, he is a ConnsumateProfessional; he cannot be bribed or rehired by the current target to kill his current client, and he will not relent until his target is dead.

* OutGambitted: When Fei-Hung tried to walk out of the restaurant without paying, he attempted the old "that old guy over there's paying" trick. "That old guy over there" just happened to be the owner of the restaurant. Worse, Fei-hung claimed the guy was his father. Which prompted the head waiter to ask "You have more than one father?". The head waiter just happened to be the son of the owner and added "You must be a bastard, then". Obviously, the owner and his family had seen this trick before and don't mind giving so much food away for free if it means they get to teach the perpetrator a lesson.

JackieChan's fourth starring role, and the one that put him on the map.

* [[DrunkenMaster Drunken Masters]]: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin If it wasn't obvious]].
* [[JackieChan Jackie Chan]]: [[RuleOfThree If it wasn't obvious]].

* ValuesDissonance: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler: Wong is shown blinded from consuming industrial alcohol during the film's climactic fight scene]]. This scene, while played for laughs in the Cantonese cut, was removed for the American version as it was not considered funny over there.

* [[DrunkenMaster Drunken Masters]]. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin If it wasn't obvious]].
* [[JackieChan Jackie Chan]].