Jackie Chan
The fight scene in HBO’s Deadwood between Dan Dority (W. Earl Brown) and Hearst’s goon and body guard Captain Turner (Allan Graf) is one of the most realistic screen fight scenes filmed. Be forewarned it is brutal and ugly, like real fighting. Allan Graf was also the stunt coordinator for this fight (and several other [...]
In the Karate Kid, Mr. Han, an aging building superintendent, and as we soon learn, martial artist, saves the young underdog outsider from continued ass kicking by school bullies. Faithful to the classic remake, he reluctantly teaches the young boy, whose brash behavior covers childhood fears and anger, eager for revenge. While the audience naturally [...]
The Karate Kid’s Mr. Miyagi and Mr. Han are film heroes who show up at the precise moment when we must evolve or die. It seems odd to remake a classic…though we are always up for anything with Jackie Chan in it. The bully theme never gets old, and, unfortunately, it remains a part of [...]
“I am standing in the sky on the roof of a glass and steel office tower in Rotterdam, Holland. There are twenty-one floors of air between me and the concrete pavement below. I am about to do what I do best. I am about to jump.” ~Jackie Chan What does Jackie Chan have to do [...]
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 [...]
