Big Trouble in Little China

Big Trouble in Little China is a 1986 film about an adventure in San Francisco's Chinatown that puts a gung-ho trucker and his unlikely allies in the middle of a centuries-old supernatural battle between good and evil.

Directed by: John Carpenter

Written by: Gary Goldman and David Z. Weinstein

Starring: Kurt Russell , Kim Cattral and Victor Wong

Table of contents

1 Jack Burton 2 Egg Shen 3 Dialogues 4 External links

Jack Burton

• Everybody relax, I'm here.
• Ok, you people! Sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we're not back by dawn... call the president.
• Ready? I was born ready.
• Could you stop rubbing your body up against mine? 'Cause I can't concentrate when you do that. [to Gracie Law]

Egg Shen

[After casting a magic cantrip at the behest of a tourist]

• That was nothing. But that's how it always begins ... very small.

Dialogues

Jack Burton: Egg, what is that stuff?

Egg Shen: Black blood of the earth.

Jack Burton: What, you mean oil?

Egg Shen: No, I mean black blood of the earth.

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[After having dispatched a big, hairy, bug-eyed, man-eating cave monster with a grenade.]

Egg Shen: You will come out no more!

Jack Burton: What? HUH? What will come out no more?

External links

• Big Trouble in Little China on IMDb.