09-20-2005, 03:14 PM
I was watch this thing not too long ago about the Hong Kong Movie Industry and I was just glued to the TV screen. I LOVE Martial Arts so much and I was really enjoying hearing about the "Evolution" the Martial Arts movies have gone through over the course of the years.
They mentioned about how Japanese movies (Samurai movies in particular) inspired Hong Kong movies (ya' know the whole one slash taking down multiple foes or the pause then collapse thing). One of the things in Martial Arts movies that I've always enjoyed was one person taking on one score after another of enemies. They motioned how that apparently didn't settle well with some American viewers though, they didn't believe that a man could take on so many opponents and walk away from it, that they wanted reality in their movies.
Hey I'm American and I can't get enough of that and what's the point of going to a movie if all you're gonna see is everyday crap!? That's why "Hero" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are so damn good.
There was also this part where they talking about this one movie where the director was wanting to use every Chinese weapon in one scene and so he was talking to everyone about all the weapons and this one he talked about was really interesting. It's a pole weapon with three blades at the end and the most dangerous part of the weapon was actually in between the middle and one of the side blades because if you get your arm caught there then the other person can twist the pole and trap your arm and then yank on it and it'll pull your arm right out of the socket!
Then there was this other movie with this made up weapon called "The Flying Guillotine" (which was also the name of the movie) and it what does is you hold onto a chain and toss the Guillotine onto someone's head and then you pull the chain and some blades come out and chops the person's head clean off (or at least as clean as it gets).
So anyway while I was watch this little TV special I realized that a lot of western made movies are really dull... I don't think in the last two years (maybe more) that there has been a single western made movie that has made me say, "Oh I gotta see that!" I mean I like a lot of western made movies but none of them really get me excited like Chinese or Japanese movies do. Course that's not too say that I'm like, "If it ain't Asian it's CRAP!!!" Because that would just be ridiculous...
Oh and by the way you know how a lot of Chinese weapons have that red patch of hair (I don
They mentioned about how Japanese movies (Samurai movies in particular) inspired Hong Kong movies (ya' know the whole one slash taking down multiple foes or the pause then collapse thing). One of the things in Martial Arts movies that I've always enjoyed was one person taking on one score after another of enemies. They motioned how that apparently didn't settle well with some American viewers though, they didn't believe that a man could take on so many opponents and walk away from it, that they wanted reality in their movies.
Hey I'm American and I can't get enough of that and what's the point of going to a movie if all you're gonna see is everyday crap!? That's why "Hero" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are so damn good.
There was also this part where they talking about this one movie where the director was wanting to use every Chinese weapon in one scene and so he was talking to everyone about all the weapons and this one he talked about was really interesting. It's a pole weapon with three blades at the end and the most dangerous part of the weapon was actually in between the middle and one of the side blades because if you get your arm caught there then the other person can twist the pole and trap your arm and then yank on it and it'll pull your arm right out of the socket!
Then there was this other movie with this made up weapon called "The Flying Guillotine" (which was also the name of the movie) and it what does is you hold onto a chain and toss the Guillotine onto someone's head and then you pull the chain and some blades come out and chops the person's head clean off (or at least as clean as it gets).
So anyway while I was watch this little TV special I realized that a lot of western made movies are really dull... I don't think in the last two years (maybe more) that there has been a single western made movie that has made me say, "Oh I gotta see that!" I mean I like a lot of western made movies but none of them really get me excited like Chinese or Japanese movies do. Course that's not too say that I'm like, "If it ain't Asian it's CRAP!!!" Because that would just be ridiculous...
Oh and by the way you know how a lot of Chinese weapons have that red patch of hair (I don