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Friday, December 17, 2004

Martial arts in film

Reading the thread on "Hero" at Otakuboards reminds me that most people have virtually zero appreciation for *real* martial arts. Something that demonstrates actual skill. I find Jackie Chan's and Jet Li's and Van Damme's *realistic* fights much more interesting than the wire-assisted crap that's all over the place nowadays.

Honestly I think the last time I saw a real martial arts fight in a film was in Cradle 2 the Grave (and just thinking about that movie kills my brain cells) or Transporter. Why is it that films like Hero and Matrix are liked for the fights when the fights are so fake it hurts to watch? Clearly they do not require real martial artists... Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne are downright pathetic and untalented with zero skill, and Zhang Ziyi is a dancer not a kung fu practitioner.

Good technique (which Ziyi does have; I'm not bashing *her* for anything really) is just not something people seem to discern or even care about nowadays. I'm sure a large part of why is that almost nobody knows what proper technique really is. Still, it's annoying to me to hear people praising that stuff as if it's anything other than hanging on wires for a while or just plain sucking ass at fighting.

Honestly, what a waste of good martial artists.

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