Chinese Opera
Part 2 In the last post we looked at the influence Chinese Opera had on Hong Kong fight films. The Hong Kong fighting action style was so appealing that it was also absorbed into Western cinema. It is evident in Hollywood blockbusters like The Matrix as you can see in the above clip. Hong Kong [...]
Our friend, Mark De Sousa, asked us about the relationship between Chinese Opera and Kung fu movie fight choreography. Hong Kong kung fu choreography is evident to chop socky aficionados in modern Hollywood films with acrobatics, leaps and the lone superhero dispatching a multitude of attackers. What is not readily apparent is the influence of [...]
