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* JerkassHasAPoint: At several points, Michele complains about how John won't let her leave the house. John isn't always polite about it, but the fact remains that the easiest way for a bodyguard to protect someone is for their principal to spend as much time as possible in places the security team controls.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: At several points, Michele complains about how John won't let her leave the house. John isn't always polite about it, but the fact remains that the easiest way for a bodyguard to protect someone is for their principal to spend as much time as possible in places the security team controls.controls, something reinforced by the fact that the first time Michele spends a non-trivial amount of time outside the house, she is attacked.
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* IHaveAFamily: Charlie’s reasons for accepting the dangerous job as Michelle’s bodyguard, despite knowing how every hitman in Hong Kong is after her, is for the salary to fund his son’s education.
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* IHaveAFamily: Charlie’s reasons for accepting the dangerous job as Michelle’s bodyguard, despite knowing how every hitman in Hong Kong is after her, is for the salary to fund his son’s education. [[spoiler: At the end of the movie John lets Charlie keep the surplus from the detail's expense account for his son's college fund.]]
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* JerkassHasAPoint: At several points, Michele complains about how John won't let her leave the house. John isn't always polite about it, but the fact remains that the easiest way for a bodyguard to protect someone is for their principal to spend as much time as possible in places the security team controls.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: John isn't always polite about it, but the fact remains that the easiest way for a bodyguard to protect someone is for their principal to spend as much time as possible in places the security team controls.
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* RuleOfThree: The panic button is pressed three times. The first two times its a false alarm, which makes John think the third time is a case of CryingWolf at first.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Yes, John may seem a little over-the-top, what with him pointing guns at everyone he sees, insisting for surveillajce cameras to be installed in every corner (including Michelle's bedroom) and following Michelle wherever she goes, but considering the syndicate who wants her dead have a seemingly endless supply of henchmen stationed in every corner, its justified.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Yes, John may seem a little over-the-top, what with him pointing guns at everyone he sees, insisting for surveillajce surveillance cameras to be installed in every corner (including Michelle's bedroom) and following Michelle wherever she goes, but considering the syndicate who wants her dead have a seemingly endless supply of henchmen stationed in every corner, its justified.
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* DisguisedInDrag: In the mall scene, a hitman tries sneaking up on Michelle while disgiised as a heavily pregnant woman. Unfortunately for him, John sees through his disguises and kills him on the spot.
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* DisguisedInDrag: In the mall scene, a hitman tries sneaking up on Michelle while disgiised disguised as a heavily pregnant woman. Unfortunately for him, John sees through his disguises and kills him on the spot.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: The final battle between John and Wong. At first Wong gains the upper hand by stabbing his baton into John’s side, but later John manage to rip out Wong’s baton and fling it into Wong’s throat, finally killing him]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: The final battle between John and Wong. At first Wong gains the upper hand by stabbing his baton into John’s side, but later John manage to rip out [[LodgedBladeRecycling Wong’s baton baton]] and fling it into Wong’s throat, finally killing him]].
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* DarkenedBuildingShootout: As a legion of assassins enters a lounge area, John shuts off the lights, and throws torchlights into the lounge before shooting assassins momentarily revealed by the light. He takes it even further by waiting for a group of assassins to walk pass a television, then press on the remote control and shoot down every assassin he can see.
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* StepIntoTheBlindingFight: Happens in the final shootout. As a legion of assassins enters a lounge area, John shuts off the lights, and throws torchlights into the lounge before shooting assassins momentarily revealed by the light. He takes it even further by waiting for a group of assassins to walk pass a television, then press on the remote control and shoot down every assassin he can see.
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* DisguisedInDrag: In the mall scene, a hitman tries sneaking up on Michelle while disgiised as a heavily pregnant woman. Unfortunately for him, John sees through his disguises and kills him on the spot.
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* ItsPersonal: Turns out the last assassin killed by John in the mall shootout is none other than Wong's brother, which makes John the top assassin's main priority to eliminate.
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* InterestingSituationDuel: The climactic finale eventually leads to the kitchen, with a gas canister having sprung a leak, where John and Wong is unable to shoot each other (or else risk blowing up the whole area and killing themselves) and are forced to fight each other one-on-one. And wash their faces during every ten seconds of the fight as they inhale noxious quantities of gas. Rinse and repeat.
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* InterestingSituationDuel: The climactic finale eventually leads to the kitchen, with a gas canister having sprung a leak, where John and Wong is unable to shoot each other (or else risk blowing up the whole area and killing themselves) and are forced to fight each other one-on-one. And wash their faces in a nearby sink during every ten seconds of the fight as they inhale noxious quantities of gas. Rinse [[VisualPun Rinse]] and repeat.
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* BadassLongcoat: Wong, the ArchEnemy of John, who is almost never seen without his cool black trenchcoat.
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* BodyguardCrush: Michelle develops one for John, despite her being a rich businessman's girlfriend, after he [RescueRomance saved her life]] from a legion of assassins.
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* StepIntoTheBlindingFightStepIntoTheBlindingFight: Happens in the final shootout. As a legion of assassins enters a lounge area, John shuts off the lights, and throws torchlights into the lounge before shooting assassins momentarily revealed by the light. He takes it even further by waiting for a group of assassins to walk pass a television, then press on the remote control and shoot down every assassin he can see.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: John Keung is a badass and all, but half of his briefing scenes have him standing with the Chinese flag prominently displayed in the background, with patriotic music playing every scene, and his superiors constantly repeating he’s a member of the Chinese People Liberation Army.
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* BigDamnHeroesBigDamnHeroes: John Keung, throughout the movie. Whenever things get really bad and the MauveShirt bodyguards are losing, John arrives and single-handedly takes down enemies by the dozens.
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BodyguardCrush: Michelle develops one for John, despite her being a rich businessman's girlfriend, after he [RescueRomance saved her life]] from a legion of assassins.
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CreatorCameo: Director Corey Yuen had a cameo as a shopper in the mall shootout.
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* SpottingTheThreadSpottingTheThread: In the mall shootout, John is able to spot enemy assassins from civilians, from two pens each assassin had clipped to their front pockets. Remembering seeing a dead assassin with pens clipped to his front, John manage to kill an enemy disguised as a cowering civilian before said enemy can shoot, and later steals two pens from the slain assassin to trick and get the drop on another assassin.
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* StopOrIWillShootStopOrIWillShoot: John greets everyone assigned to protect Michelle in this way, pointing his gun and demanding them to identify themselves constantly. Charlie had to blurt out that they're on the same side while staring down John's gunbarrel.
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''The Bodyguard From Beijing'', also known as ''The Defender'', is a 1994 Hong Kong action film produced by and starring Creator/JetLi, directed by Corey Yuen.
Jet Li stars as John, the titular bodyguard, one of the best from the Beijing military academy ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title states]]) whose latest assignment is to guard the life of Michelle Leung (Christy Chung), the girlfriend of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman whom had witnessed a murder. After three prior witnesses have been killed, the Hong Kong police is entirely unavailable to send bodyguards reliable enough to protect Michelle, save for two bumbling rookies Charlie and Ken, and John is the best man for the job. Unfortunately, the syndicate who wants Michelle's life has sent Wong, a fellow ex-hitman who was trained in the same academy as John, and is close to as skillful as John is.
This is the first 90s movie starring Jet Li that is NOT a Wuxia or period-piece film. Its closer to a HeroicBloodshed film compared to what Jet Li was known for at that time, what with the hero taking on legions of mooks, over-the-top gunplay, and an insanely high onscreen bodycount.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* {{Anvilicious}}: John Keung is a badass and all, but half of his briefing scenes have him standing with the Chinese flag prominently displayed in the background, with patriotic music playing every scene, and his superiors constantly repeating he’s a member of the Chinese People Liberation Army.
* BadassInANiceSuit: John Keung wears a really smart coat, complete with tie, during more than one shootout sequence.
* BigDamnHeroes
* BigFun: Charlie, a huge, chubby and friendly fellow bodyguard who’s also a BoisterousBruiser and gets along well with his partner Ken and Michelle’s kid brother.
* BodyguardCrush / RescueRomance
* CreatorCameo
* DamselInDistress
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: In the end of the movie, John’s passion is for duty and country. Sorry, Michelle]].
* FatAndSkinny: Between ThoseTwoGuys, Charlie is the chubby one, Ken is the skinny one.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: The final battle between John and Wong. At first Wong gains the upper hand by stabbing his baton into John’s side, but later John manage to rip out Wong’s baton and fling it into Wong’s throat, finally killing him]].
* IHaveAFamily: Charlie’s reasons for accepting the dangerous job as Michelle’s bodyguard, despite knowing how every hitman in Hong Kong is after her, is for the salary to fund his son’s education.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: John, who is a devil with using both pistols and throwing knives. At one point Charlie accidentally knocks a dartboard off a wall, and John, from across the room, hurls the dart he was holding into the hook that was initially holding the board to the wall, pinning it in place.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Wong, whose preferred close-range weapon is a sharpened baton with a triangle-shaped tip which he uses to stab several people.
* InterestingSituationDuel: The climactic finale eventually leads to the kitchen, with a gas canister having sprung a leak, where John and Wong is unable to shoot each other (or else risk blowing up the whole area and killing themselves) and are forced to fight each other one-on-one. And wash their faces during every ten seconds of the fight as they inhale noxious quantities of gas. Rinse and repeat.
* InvincibleHero: Jet Li’s John Keung practically guns down enemy mooks like sitting ducks, and defeats literally everybody except Wong without breaking a sweat.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: At one point, Charlie managed to hold an enemy hitman at gunpoint, before Michelle’s kid brother suddenly shows up and said Charlie mixed up his gun with the kid’s water pistol. A shocked Charlie pulls the trigger, and ends up wetting his opponent’s face.
* OneManArmy: John, who emerged unscathed in shootouts against dozens of mooks and leaving behind loads and loads of dead enemies wherever he goes.
* PatrioticFervor
* SecurityCling: Michelle clings to John’s shoulder more than once throughout the movie, especially after he saved her from assassins out to get her in the shopping mall. Its even depicted on the above poster.
* ShoppingMontage: Halfway through the second act, Michelle decides to go shopping with her kid brother, with only the bumbling duo of Charlie and Ken, oblivious to her cover being blown to the assassins who had their men already stationed in the mall.
* SpottingTheThread
* StepIntoTheBlindingFight
* StopOrIWillShoot
* TagalongKid: Michelle’s kid brother, who inexplicably follows her everywhere, even between a heated shootout where she is the target and John is busy gunning down mooks left and right.
* ThatPoorCat: Michelle’s cat is the reason she’s alive in the first place. The hitmen sent to assassinate her tries to off her using an ElectrifiedBathtub trap, but a sudden CatScare had the cat ending in her tub instead.
* TooDumbToLive: Despite her insanely close shave with death (which happens five minutes into the film), somehow Michelle still insists on going out to do some shopping, against John’s advice, and she even warned him against following her! John tails her anyway, which is a good thing because the syndicate who wants Michelle dead has deployed at least 20 hitmen in the mall.
* WorthyOpponent: By the end of the movie, John and Wong considers each other as this.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Not pictured: At least 40 assassins outside of the frame...]]
''The Bodyguard From Beijing'', also known as ''The Defender'', is a 1994 Hong Kong action film produced by and starring Creator/JetLi, directed by Corey Yuen.
Jet Li stars as John, the titular bodyguard, one of the best from the Beijing military academy ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title states]]) whose latest assignment is to guard the life of Michelle Leung (Christy Chung), the girlfriend of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman whom had witnessed a murder. After three prior witnesses have been killed, the Hong Kong police is entirely unavailable to send bodyguards reliable enough to protect Michelle, save for two bumbling rookies Charlie and Ken, and John is the best man for the job. Unfortunately, the syndicate who wants Michelle's life has sent Wong, a fellow ex-hitman who was trained in the same academy as John, and is close to as skillful as John is.
This is the first 90s movie starring Jet Li that is NOT a Wuxia or period-piece film. Its closer to a HeroicBloodshed film compared to what Jet Li was known for at that time, what with the hero taking on legions of mooks, over-the-top gunplay, and an insanely high onscreen bodycount.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* {{Anvilicious}}: John Keung is a badass and all, but half of his briefing scenes have him standing with the Chinese flag prominently displayed in the background, with patriotic music playing every scene, and his superiors constantly repeating he’s a member of the Chinese People Liberation Army.
* BadassInANiceSuit: John Keung wears a really smart coat, complete with tie, during more than one shootout sequence.
* BigDamnHeroes
* BigFun: Charlie, a huge, chubby and friendly fellow bodyguard who’s also a BoisterousBruiser and gets along well with his partner Ken and Michelle’s kid brother.
* BodyguardCrush / RescueRomance
* CreatorCameo
* DamselInDistress
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: In the end of the movie, John’s passion is for duty and country. Sorry, Michelle]].
* FatAndSkinny: Between ThoseTwoGuys, Charlie is the chubby one, Ken is the skinny one.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: The final battle between John and Wong. At first Wong gains the upper hand by stabbing his baton into John’s side, but later John manage to rip out Wong’s baton and fling it into Wong’s throat, finally killing him]].
* IHaveAFamily: Charlie’s reasons for accepting the dangerous job as Michelle’s bodyguard, despite knowing how every hitman in Hong Kong is after her, is for the salary to fund his son’s education.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: John, who is a devil with using both pistols and throwing knives. At one point Charlie accidentally knocks a dartboard off a wall, and John, from across the room, hurls the dart he was holding into the hook that was initially holding the board to the wall, pinning it in place.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Wong, whose preferred close-range weapon is a sharpened baton with a triangle-shaped tip which he uses to stab several people.
* InterestingSituationDuel: The climactic finale eventually leads to the kitchen, with a gas canister having sprung a leak, where John and Wong is unable to shoot each other (or else risk blowing up the whole area and killing themselves) and are forced to fight each other one-on-one. And wash their faces during every ten seconds of the fight as they inhale noxious quantities of gas. Rinse and repeat.
* InvincibleHero: Jet Li’s John Keung practically guns down enemy mooks like sitting ducks, and defeats literally everybody except Wong without breaking a sweat.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: At one point, Charlie managed to hold an enemy hitman at gunpoint, before Michelle’s kid brother suddenly shows up and said Charlie mixed up his gun with the kid’s water pistol. A shocked Charlie pulls the trigger, and ends up wetting his opponent’s face.
* OneManArmy: John, who emerged unscathed in shootouts against dozens of mooks and leaving behind loads and loads of dead enemies wherever he goes.
* PatrioticFervor
* SecurityCling: Michelle clings to John’s shoulder more than once throughout the movie, especially after he saved her from assassins out to get her in the shopping mall. Its even depicted on the above poster.
* ShoppingMontage: Halfway through the second act, Michelle decides to go shopping with her kid brother, with only the bumbling duo of Charlie and Ken, oblivious to her cover being blown to the assassins who had their men already stationed in the mall.
* SpottingTheThread
* StepIntoTheBlindingFight
* StopOrIWillShoot
* TagalongKid: Michelle’s kid brother, who inexplicably follows her everywhere, even between a heated shootout where she is the target and John is busy gunning down mooks left and right.
* ThatPoorCat: Michelle’s cat is the reason she’s alive in the first place. The hitmen sent to assassinate her tries to off her using an ElectrifiedBathtub trap, but a sudden CatScare had the cat ending in her tub instead.
* TooDumbToLive: Despite her insanely close shave with death (which happens five minutes into the film), somehow Michelle still insists on going out to do some shopping, against John’s advice, and she even warned him against following her! John tails her anyway, which is a good thing because the syndicate who wants Michelle dead has deployed at least 20 hitmen in the mall.
* WorthyOpponent: By the end of the movie, John and Wong considers each other as this.
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