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In his essay “A Dirty Job” Jackie Chan’s claim that Hong Kong movies elevated the stars, but relegated the stuntmen to marginal status proves that in show business, hard work is irrelevant to a person’s success, which is based upon popularity and credibility. Jackie Chan’s motivation was not based on the fame given to the actors he worked with. Instead, he’d pride himself with hard work and determination. Chan was not an actor; he was a stuntman who was filled in for actors featured in the movie. The only recognition he was given was toward the end of the credits, but by the time they popped up, the audiences were already long gone from the theater. Besides being determined by their downgraded status, Chan and his fellow stuntmen had a phrase or philosophy that was a huge motivator. This phrase was known as lung fu mo shi, or “dragon tiger”(521). This not only was a phrase; it was a state of being. You could obtain lung fu mo shi by “trying an amazing stunt