8 Famous Movie Scenes You Didn't Know Were Stupidly Hard To Film

Jackie Chan might just be the hardest working man in the movie business. Think that's hyperbole? Consider this: Until the age of 60, Chan performed his own stunts, many of which resulted in innumerable broken bones and a plethora of scarred skin tissue. Sometimes he'd perform the same highly dangerous stunt dozens of times in a row because he wasn't about to have a half-baked sequence (and a non-busted limb) in one of his movies.

Although the details of this one are still a bit cloudy -- thanks to Chan's curious lack of notation on the subject -- it's been stated by various sources that a scene from Dragon Lord (also known as Dragon Strike) required 2,900 takes to complete. No, that isn't a typo. The comma is supposed to be there, as are those zeroes at the end. Just take a minute to let that number sink in.

Now, to be fair, the action sequence in question -- in which Chan and a dozen other guys play a hyper-competitive game that looks to be a cross between badminton and Shaolin soccer -- is roughly 10 minutes long and involves plenty of very intricate physicality. So it's not like Chan used 3,000 takes to film a quiet conversation between two people on a park bench.

About his perfectionist streak, the Hong Kong action legend said "People say Jackie Chan is slow, because I have no budget limit and no deadline... I’ll film the movement until it’s the way I like it. That way I know my fans will like it."

Can you imagine if someone told him they hated this scene after all that?