In WING CHUN, the 1994 Yuen Woo-Ping classic, the great Michelle Yeoh plays Yim Wing Chun, a legendary character who was supposedly the first disciple of the Shaolin nun who invented the Wing Chun style of kung fu after seeing a crane fight a snake. The movie’s not about that, but it’s a reworking of a famous story about Wing Chun using her skills to ward off an asshole trying to force her to marry him. I’m not sure, but I think it’s kind of like in western culture if you do a new version of Zorro, Dracula, Hansel and Gretel or whatever you’re probly not gonna directly adapt the version people know, you’re gonna try to take the famous elements and put a different spin or twist or perspective on them. (read the rest of this shit…)
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Wing Chun
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019Tags: Catherine Hung, Cheng Pei-pei, Donnie Yen, Hong Kong, Kingdom Yuen, Michelle Yeoh, Norman Chu, tofu, Waise Lee, Xiang Dong Xu, Yuen Woo-Ping
Posted in Action, Martial Arts, Reviews | 10 Comments »
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