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The special effects that enlivened early martial arts movies in Hong Kong, from flying swords and palm rays to men in monster suits

The special effects that enlivened early martial arts movies in Hong Kong, from flying swords and palm rays to men in monster suits
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Fong Sai-yuk, Hong Xiguan: Were the folk heroes of kung fu films real historical figures?

The swordfighting heroes of wuxia films are generally drawn from novels, but the heroes of kung fu films are often folk legends who may have really existed. Wong Fei-hung is well known , but below we look at two other heroes, Hong Xiguan and Fong Sai-yuk. Both are believed to have trained at the southern Shaolin Monastery in Fujian –.

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How martial arts choreographers changed Hong Kong cinema

Facebook/9independentswords Hong Kong martial arts films owe much of their success to martial arts choreographers. But their history is mainly undocumented. A brief 1999 essay by the Hong Kong Film Archive’s Yu Mo Wan, called Martial Arts Directors in Hong Kong Cinema, set out the historical framework of the craft and provided some of the material for this story. The first wuxia films were made in Shanghai, then known as “the Hollywood of the East”, in the 1920s. According to Stephen Teo’s all-encompassing book Chinese Martial Arts Cinema, 1922’s Vampire’s Prey is the earliest example of a film with wuxia characteristics, and The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple, released in Shanghai 1928 and directed by Zhang Shichuan, is generally considered to be the first of the genre as we would recognise it.

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Sammo Hung and others on what makes a good martial arts film

Fortune Star Media Limited What makes a good martial arts film – realistic kung fu or special effects and wirework? Should the performers be trained martial artists, and does the story matter as much as the action? The legends of the genre give their opinions. Sammo Hung Kam-bo, who was generally absent from the effects-driven martial arts films of the early 1990s, talking to Cinema AZN in 2005: “When I first saw special effects in martial arts films, I was very excited. But now everyone uses something, every film has a special effect. I liked special effects at first, but they use them too much in martial and action films now. People don’t trust the action any more.

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