Ok I am new to the whole Kung Fu thing, but I have been fascinated by it for a long time, I rem watching alot of old Kung Fu flicks when I was a kid, and I still enjoy them and other fighting type movies (redbelt,fighting,never back down, karate kid ect..), anyways I have a few questions and hope you guys here can help:)
Me and my brother used to have a vhs that we bought at a yard sale for $1, it was a older king fu flick ( I believe made in the early 80’s), we watched it so much that we ran the tape down. I have been trying to find a copy of this movie for a long time now, but havent yet. Heres what I remember. There is a older master and he has 3-4-maybe 5 pupils that he teaches differant styles. One is taught crane,one is tiger, one is dragon, and I belive there is one or two more, like snake and maybe another, maybe not. Their master is killed and they go on a revenge mission I believe. I cant rem much more than that one.
My favorite flick is still the Once Upon a time in China trilogy with Jet Li. I know Jet Li is a wushu master, but also would like to know what styles were mainly used in the movies? I understand it is a tale about a man names Wong Fei-Hung? Would like to know what Styles were used primarily in this series.
The “style” used in the Jet Li trilogy is contemprary wu-shu and movie choreography-nothing at all like the style Wong Fei-Hung actually did, which is Siu Lum Hung Kuen, more commonly known as Hung-Ga.
Pretty sad. All these movies about WFH, and none of them portray Hung Kuen. Even Jacky Chan is guilty of this.
[QUOTE=TenTigers;1003421]The “style” used in the Jet Li trilogy is contemprary wu-shu and movie choreography-nothing at all like the style Wong Fei-Hung actually did, which is Siu Lum Hung Kuen, more commonly known as Hung-Ga.
Pretty sad. All these movies about WFH, and none of them portray Hung Kuen. Even Jacky Chan is guilty of this.[/QUOTE]
lol, so true.
Mostly because Jet and Jackie tow the line…so to speak.
If you wanna see Hung Ga on film, you have to go back ****her into the black and white days of hk cinema and tv shows about wfh. then you’ll see some actual hung ga.
Jet and Jackie play mostly opera style or outright prc wushu in jet’s case and there is almost no traditional styles shown in any of their films with maybe a small glimpse here and there. Mostly movie fu though with a huge helping of commie useless wushu thrown in for flare.
[QUOTE=Koontzy;1003412]Ok I am new to the whole Kung Fu thing, but I have been fascinated by it for a long time, I rem watching alot of old Kung Fu flicks when I was a kid, and I still enjoy them and other fighting type movies (redbelt,fighting,never back down, karate kid ect..), anyways I have a few questions and hope you guys here can help:)
Me and my brother used to have a vhs that we bought at a yard sale for $1, it was a older king fu flick ( I believe made in the early 80’s), we watched it so much that we ran the tape down. I have been trying to find a copy of this movie for a long time now, but havent yet. Heres what I remember. There is a older master and he has 3-4-maybe 5 pupils that he teaches differant styles. One is taught crane,one is tiger, one is dragon, and I belive there is one or two more, like snake and maybe another, maybe not. Their master is killed and they go on a revenge mission I believe. I cant rem much more than that one.
My favorite flick is still the Once Upon a time in China trilogy with Jet Li. I know Jet Li is a wushu master, but also would like to know what styles were mainly used in the movies? I understand it is a tale about a man names Wong Fei-Hung? Would like to know what Styles were used primarily in this series.[/QUOTE]
in the old kung fu flicks
they shared the same plot or story line. you or your family/school got hurt, you better your kung fu and revenge, final fight lasting longer. revenge is always bitter sweet.
this line of plot continued into Bruce Lee’s flicks.
Jackie Chan around the same time, started to move away from this. more stunts, more comedies—
Jet Li somehow started in the “generic” movie story line.
re play the well know WFH
nowadays, both Jet Li and Jackie Chan both play in hollywood.
they are pricey, now.
so you would see sammo hung (cheaper) start more in hong kong/china movie
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and there is the steven chow kung fu commedie and exaggeration out of this world.
During the Kung Fu craze of the 70’s there were a lot of Chinese flicks dubbed into English. They rolled from one fight scene to the next, none stop. A nephew introduced me to them. My favorite guy was Superman Chu. Or was it Super manchu? Everyone appeared to be about 15 years old with lots of makeup, except for the bad guy, who seems to have always been middle aged.
I have a movie like this. Was a SB re-release. The english title given was Shaolin Super Soldier. There was a traveling martial artist who would carry a sign stating something to the effect that he had the cure for bad kung fu. And would defeat those he thought unworthy and force them to close down.
An old master, who assumedly was not that bad at kung fu, and also a good person, was defeated and forced to close his school. He had 3 pupils who then left. The old master thought he had been abandoned, but instead the pupils vowed to go elsewhere to aquire new kung fu skills and return in 2-3 yrs and reclaim the honor of their school and sifu. This sounds the same?
[QUOTE=Koontzy;1003412]1. Me and my brother used to have a vhs that we bought at a yard sale for $1, it was a older king fu flick ( I believe made in the early 80’s), we watched it so much that we ran the tape down. I have been trying to find a copy of this movie for a long time now, but havent yet. Heres what I remember. There is a older master and he has 3-4-maybe 5 pupils that he teaches differant styles. One is taught crane,one is tiger, one is dragon, and I belive there is one or two more, like snake and maybe another, maybe not. Their master is killed and they go on a revenge mission I believe. I cant rem much more than that one.
Some movies have “flashes” of “legit” kung fu moves from the styles they pretend to represent, Iron Monkey is a good example where Donnie Yen does some nice “tiger and crane” moves right out of the form.
You can’t really ask for much more than that in a movie.
