Watching chinese movies with chinese crowd & dont know even a bit in chinese is a weird experience for me last friday. This movie in particular dragged my interest because of martial arts, obviously I can’t watch movie without understanding the dialogue or story; anyway this movie carries english subtitle.
Most of the martial arts movie I watched till now used to revolve around one point (Revenge); I expected the same thing in this movie as well, but to my surprise this movie is the story of the real life legendary martial arts master eep mun famously known as Master IP.
Master IP lived in a china town “Fo Shang” which is famous for martial arts school, teaching and people lived here practise martial arts for hobby; he is rich & best martial arts player in the town and nobody dare to fight against him or won him, Life goes pleasantly, leisure & happily.
In 1938 Japan invaded the china province and captured Fo Shang, as a turning point Master IP residence is used as headquarters by the Japan army; he and his family pushed to poverty.
Now story revolves how he and his family survived and escaped to Hong kong.
Master IP influenced many & one of the famous person is Bruce Lee.
Donnie Yen acted as Master IP, his martial arts talent is added advantage to his acting as Master IP. Finally the ultimate goal of the movie is not to showcase the martial arts, but to highlight positive moral & principles of master IP.
January 6, 2009 at 3:07 pm |
Yo. Hope you liked that movie. Yip Man (thats the actual spelling. But the name is registered by other director. So they change it as Ip man
) is known as father of modern wingchun. Try the upcoming thai movie “Ong Bak 2″ also. Thats also a martial art movie. That guy “Tony Jaa” is good.
January 6, 2009 at 3:12 pm |
you can try your hand with wingchun in singapore.hahahaha.
http://www.geocities.com/kahjoo_chua
January 10, 2009 at 8:58 am |
thanks for the link mohan.
I am also waiting to watch Ong Bak 2; will write my view on that movie as well…