Pete Lee

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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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Fun fact in the criterion release of hard boiled from 2000, John Woo admitted that his famous 2:47 oner from hard boiled actually contained an invisible cut and he dared the fans to spot it. Do you see it?

In hindsight, it was so obvi this was a paid stunt from bytedance, who first “leaked” ~20 clips of Tom Cruise and Goku that were all based on their own green studio footage, followed by 10,000s of dubious claims that they were all user generated based on 30-sec prompts, then -

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You could see Jackie Chan making up an entire fight scene out of the thin air while Ratner was on the phone from the Rush Hour DVD extra.

Two straight minutes of Conan bullying Jack McBrayer Aka Kenneth the Page and Jack for staying straight the entire time to set Conan up for more bits. Casual high level improv. Also peep Jon Hamm just watching amusingly from the sidelines.

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.

PT Anderson has been doing this for at least two decades now come on

Just last week I was indignantly talking shit about the over reliance of handheld camerawork in virtually all new action movies, then I see a clip from a random straight to streaming movie from China and I’m like hold up this is the dopest shit ever

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

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

Leave it to Stephen Chow to pull off one of the funniest and dopest fight scenes in history without ever even throwing a single punch or kick. Bruce Lee’s “Art of Fighting Without Fighting” fully realized.

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:

Anyways here’s the very best version of the “people in bulky clothes flying through different terrains via giant cranes” genre from Burberry. It’s simply the most beautiful and bold piece of wirework filmmaking ever

Threw it together just for fun stealing choreo is fine I have no problem with it

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.

Once again I’ll argue Jackie Chan’s Police Story is much more about a stuntman’s rage against the system than anything resembling actual police work - as epitomized by this scene. I’d take it over The Fall Guy any day of the week.

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.

lol that’s not what he said. What he actually said was far more interesting. I threw together a quick translation so here you go.

Remember when Tony Leung’s acting was so good John Woo had to slow that shit down at the very end like he was filming an explosion

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

James Earl Jones in Fences on Broadway Man was a giant

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

Eerily similar to that time in China where self-proclaimed tai chi master Ma BaoGuo gets knocked out by an amateur MMA fighter after months of shit posting then claims that he had to lose because his tai chi was too deadly and he didn’t wanna kill the dude