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Recommend me some kung fu classics
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I've found both Jackie Chan and Akira Kurosawa to be hit or miss. I'm not saying they're not both cinematic geniuses, because that's indisiputable. But they both leant their names and talents to inferior products too.
House of Flying Daggers is a badass movie that I never get tired of watching. But there's a lot of CGI in there, and a lot of camerawork that's based on recent technologies or only recently affordable setups. I mean that's cool and all -- Enter the Dragon doubtless wouldn't be the same IMAX experience as HoFD. But I have a basic respect for the old school martial arts actors and directors, who made do with not much beyond good stunts and well-coreographed fight scenes. Anybody who's worked in Bollywood or Broadway will tell you you can make a hit with a thin plot and bare bones special effects, if the music and dancing kick ass. I think the same analogy holds for fighting in martial arts films.
I saw a lot of recent low budget martial arts films on TV when I was over in China. Many of them are quite awful -- the fighting was really fake and amateurish. Made me wonder if gongfu was done away with in the Great Cultural Revolution.
House of Flying Daggers is a badass movie that I never get tired of watching. But there's a lot of CGI in there, and a lot of camerawork that's based on recent technologies or only recently affordable setups. I mean that's cool and all -- Enter the Dragon doubtless wouldn't be the same IMAX experience as HoFD. But I have a basic respect for the old school martial arts actors and directors, who made do with not much beyond good stunts and well-coreographed fight scenes. Anybody who's worked in Bollywood or Broadway will tell you you can make a hit with a thin plot and bare bones special effects, if the music and dancing kick ass. I think the same analogy holds for fighting in martial arts films.
I saw a lot of recent low budget martial arts films on TV when I was over in China. Many of them are quite awful -- the fighting was really fake and amateurish. Made me wonder if gongfu was done away with in the Great Cultural Revolution.