Episode 139: RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995) with Seth Zarate

Featuring special guest Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate)! With one eye on Chinese martial arts and one eye on American ‘tude, RUMBLE IN THE BRONX was Jackie Chan’s breakout Western hit. There’s dirtbike gangs in the streets, diamond-peddling crime syndicates, a hoverboat – everything you’d expect from an American action comedy, just with 100% more Jackie Chan. More violent, more outspoken, more plot-heavy, and just a bit less fun than Jackie’s Hong Kong films, RUMBLE also functions, unintentionally, as a sort of inverse commentary on ethnocentrism in American filmmaking: the same stereotyping cultural lens Hollywood points at Asia is pointed back at the USA in a movie where Vancouver is an unconvincing stand-in for the Big Apple and gun-toting mafiosos tear down a grocery store with tow cables for the hell of it. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Music: Credits theme from the RUMBLE IN THE BRONX soundtrack (Hong Kong release). 0:00 - Episode 139: RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995) 3:05 - The podcast actually starts 5:26 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:57 - Seth’s thoughts 11:38 - Jason’s thoughts 19:11 - Cody’s thoughts 23:25 - Harry’s thoughts 29:54 - Aaron’s thoughts 36:20 - The contrast of excellent action and a throwaway plot 42:56 - Familiar faces in a new context 48:01 - Danny 51:04 - Final thoughts 57:28 - Cody’s Noteys (Triplove: A Podquest [location trivia])