
Pete Lee
@kungfupete • 3,906 subscribers
directed a short film at sundance, photographed a cookbook that won the james beard, but I just wanna tell you about kungfu movies
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Here is Jackie explaining how he stages a group fight. This dvd taught me so much about filmmaking I spliced together two cuts of Jackie Chan: My Stunts - the SD version that contains from the OG cut and the HD criterion re-edit with better video but fewer copyrighted clips.
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PT Anderson has been doing this for at least two decades now come on
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There used to be a very niche subgenre of action movies where a director would call up his choreographer buddies and say something like “c’mon we’ve all acted before right? So let’s go show those pretty boys how it’s really done” and 100% of the time it’ll be a certified banger
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Just realized every cut was to maintain the illusion of them fighting seven guys at once - if they lingered just a sec longer you’d see the stunt guys just standing around (which Jackie DESPISES) so they’ll cut out of the shot to keep the illusion and momentum going
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PT Anderson has always been sneaky incredible at staging stunts and fights and set pieces tho. Let’s do a quick thread, you’ll find straight up fight scenes, big crashes, and “how the fuck did they do that” stunts that come outta nowhere. First up, Punch Drunk Love:
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Threw it together just for fun stealing choreo is fine I have no problem with it
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This featurette the from Die Hard III is pure logistics porn - the luxury of shutting down the busiest street in the busiest city for one crazy car jump, surrounded by civilians in the middle of the day. Nothing but expertise on display. We don’t know how to do this anymore.
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First half of “Black Coal Thin Ice” features some of the most exciting directions in the 21st century. Just the coolest blend of Coen Bros, Takeshi Kitano, Jia Zhangke, Stephen Chow, and Kusturica. Every scene leaps off the screen. The second half is just straight up despair tho.
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People talk about John Woo and his excess, but he was also incredibly efficient. Peep this 60-sec mini revenge arc where all it took was a table of flour a propane tank and some squibs for Woo to transform Chow Yun Fat from an ordinary cop into a God of Vengeance
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Found this clip from kungfu quest where stuntman Phillip Ng and sanda champ Jerry Yeung went all over China to learn from different masters - what was cool was Jerry would then spar with said masters - often he’d actually defeat them but there was alway real mutual respect
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