One Kiss Of The Dragon Mistake Made Jet Li's Movie Even Better
A mistake in Jet Li's 2001 action movie Kiss of the Dragon was kept in the film and made one of the fight scenes of the martial arts movie even better. In Kiss of the Dragon, Li portrays Chinese cop Liu Jian, on assignment in Paris to apprehend a Chinese drug lord (Ric Young). When he's framed for the drug kingpin's murder by his partner in crime, corrupt Parisian police chief Richard (Tchéky Karyo), Liu teams up with Jessica (Bridget Fonda) to clear his name and rescue her daughter.
In one fight scene in Kiss of the Dragon, Jessica's abusive pimp Lupo (May Ryan) repeatedly strikes her, and Liu's intervention kicks off a fight scene with Lupo's cohorts. The dialogue portion of the scene and the fight scene were planned to be shot individually, with the scene cutting before Liu grabs Lupo, pulls him back onto a table, and strikes him. However, on one take, director Chris Nahon forgot to say 'Cut!'. Jet Li, whose blinding speed has been well-known since he began his career in The Shaolin Temple movie series, was unaware that Nahon didn't mean for the scene to continue, and initiated Liu's attack on Lupo.
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Ryan and everyone else were caught off guard by this, and as seen on the Kiss of the Dragon DVD, this proved to be to the movie's advantage. In the documentaryJet Li — Fighting Philosophy, Fonda states "I didn't know, Max didn't know, Jet didn't know" with respect to Li's continuing of the fight choreography not being intended. Despite this not being planned, the shocked look on Ryan's face ended up working out very well for the scene.
In the end, the take of Li grabbing Ryan too soon was the one that was used in Kiss of the Dragon as the
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