Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Action Comedy Fantasy Adventure Directed by John Carpenter
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Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.

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Influenced By

  1. Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)
    "Tsui Hark's wuxia-fantasy is the explicitly-cited Hong Kong influence Carpenter brought to Big Trouble's mix of supernatural action and comic register." source
  2. Five Fingers of Death (1972)
    "Carpenter's stated kung-fu-cinema education at film school. King Boxer / Five Fingers of Death is one of the canonical HK films he was channeling." source

Influenced

  1. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
    "Waititi: 'The thing I love about that film is Jack Burton, all he wants, his only thing that he wants, is to get his truck back.' Big Trouble's tonal template — heroic-character-who-fails — was Waititi's explicit Thor model." source
  2. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
    "Marvel's Shang-Chi acknowledges Big Trouble's role in mainstreaming Hong Kong-action sensibility within Hollywood franchise filmmaking." source

Big Trouble in Little China (1986), directed by John Carpenter, was inspired by 2 earlier films — including Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain and Five Fingers of Death — and has been cited as an influence on 2 later works, such as Thor: Ragnarok and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Check out the citations below.