05-28-2021, 12:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-28-2021, 09:44 AM by Drunk Monk.)
A long time ago, there’s was buzz about a project dubbed Snow White and the Seven Shaolin Monks. I can’t tell you if this was related. In Chinese, it’s 笑功震武林 which translates into ‘laughing power shakes the martial forest’. It’s a Wong Jing film so for cf (and maybe the yeti too) we’ll, they know.
Stephen Chow has Mo lei tau - his wacky comedy style. Wong Jing has his own style of comedy and I don’t know if it has a name. It’s distinct from Mo lei tau but equally irreverent. It’s got a lot of slapstick, Benny Hill fast motion, looney tunes sound effects, absurd physics, corkscrew plot twists and kick ass Kung Fu.
I watched this on YouTube with only Chinese subs. That might have made it better because I couldn’t figure out what was going on all the time. A lot of characters, a lot of corny sight gags, a lot of cheesy cgi effects, a lot of fights. But engaging. It never gave me a genuine lol moment, but I did smirk a lot at the chicanery.
And what a cast! Sammo Hung, Eric Tseng, Sandra Ng, Yuen Wah, Dennis To, and two personal friends, Philip Ng and Former Shaolin monk Yanneng, here billed under his given name Xing Wu.
This poached a lot from Kung Fu Hustle - a Dragon lady with lion’s roar, a fay tailor (who ends up straight), Xing Wu...and then it goes all over the place like Wong Jing does: ninjas, silver arhats, noodle making, cross dressing, mistaken lovers, shape shifting underground burrowing ninjette, acupuncture mind control, freezing pressure points, punching foes through walls, kicking harlots, and weapons like chain whips, benches, shuriken, coin swords, cymbals, bolts of cloth, bolos, hatchets, scissors, double butcher knives, switchblade pole arms, brass baby (the brass man is a 2 ft metal statue listed in a few Chinese arms books but I’ve never seen one outside of movies - and this one was a baby). There was more that I’m forgetting.
Sword fights plus a lot of exotic weapons fights. Total DOOM flick, especially untranslate
Stephen Chow has Mo lei tau - his wacky comedy style. Wong Jing has his own style of comedy and I don’t know if it has a name. It’s distinct from Mo lei tau but equally irreverent. It’s got a lot of slapstick, Benny Hill fast motion, looney tunes sound effects, absurd physics, corkscrew plot twists and kick ass Kung Fu.
I watched this on YouTube with only Chinese subs. That might have made it better because I couldn’t figure out what was going on all the time. A lot of characters, a lot of corny sight gags, a lot of cheesy cgi effects, a lot of fights. But engaging. It never gave me a genuine lol moment, but I did smirk a lot at the chicanery.
And what a cast! Sammo Hung, Eric Tseng, Sandra Ng, Yuen Wah, Dennis To, and two personal friends, Philip Ng and Former Shaolin monk Yanneng, here billed under his given name Xing Wu.
This poached a lot from Kung Fu Hustle - a Dragon lady with lion’s roar, a fay tailor (who ends up straight), Xing Wu...and then it goes all over the place like Wong Jing does: ninjas, silver arhats, noodle making, cross dressing, mistaken lovers, shape shifting underground burrowing ninjette, acupuncture mind control, freezing pressure points, punching foes through walls, kicking harlots, and weapons like chain whips, benches, shuriken, coin swords, cymbals, bolts of cloth, bolos, hatchets, scissors, double butcher knives, switchblade pole arms, brass baby (the brass man is a 2 ft metal statue listed in a few Chinese arms books but I’ve never seen one outside of movies - and this one was a baby). There was more that I’m forgetting.
Sword fights plus a lot of exotic weapons fights. Total DOOM flick, especially untranslate
Shadow boxing the apocalypse