San Francisco bus driver breaks down Shang-Chi's extraordinary fight scene in epic tweet thread
The Marvel Studios hit movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings hit Disney Plus on November 12, sending the superhero flick that has made over $430 million worldwide into the homes of subscribers.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings tells the story of Shang-Chi, one of the new Phase Four entries into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as he learns about his father’s mysterious past and fights to save the world from terrifying monsters (you know, normal superhero things). Early in the movie — which is fantastic, everyone should watch it — there is an epic fight scene set on a San Francisco public transit articulated bus.
Twitter user and San Francisco MTA bus operator Mc Allen (@that_mc) decided to evaluate the scene frame-by-frame on Saturday night, putting his thoughts into one glorious, 50-tweet thread.
Finally watching Shang-Chi, here as a bus operator to rate the SFT transit factors of The Bus Scene:
— Mack, yes, That Mack (@that_mc) November 13, 2021
The thread understandably went viral, even earning an emphatic reply from Simu Liu, the actor that portrayed Shang-Chi.
Allen covers everything from the route — apparently this is like a 45 minute bus ride in real life — to insider info on when they would have stopped the bus (and how!).
Bus operators don't want to stop very hard because that's how you get Falls On Board.
— Mack, yes, That Mack (@that_mc) November 13, 2021
According to a story by SFGATE, Allen has only been on the job for a week and is already making a huge impact. The retweets (now up to 16.7k) and likes (nearly 50k) aren’t Allen’s favorite part of the whole going viral experience, telling SFGATE’s Dan Gentile, “People will just tag somebody they know on a quote tweet, then that person will reply with just a laughing emoji. It feels like somehow that’s the most entertaining part for me. Somebody really liked this, then wanted to show somebody they knew. I see that, and I have a little window into this interesting friendship between these two people.”
Operator wasn't even wearing his seat belt! Workmans Comp not going to cover this. Also: Fall on Board. pic.twitter.com/4VCTC1jpKx
— Mack, yes, That Mack (@that_mc) November 13, 2021
Allen wraps up the thread with a wonderful reminder to be kind to your drivers, use public transportation, and say thank you when getting off the bus. Thank YOU, Mc Allen.