Representation in media: Asian Media Part I: Martial Art Films

[jnelums1988]

  Representation Friday: I try to post a blog dealing with the Representation of People of Color. This theme is Asian Media.

Long as I can remember, as a child I wasn’t a big fan of Martial Art films. It was the same Van Damme and Segal films. At the time it was a big thing, because it was years since Bruce Lee’s death. Since then there have been

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[gwyd]

Thank you. I grew up with the Hong Kong things on Saturday after the monster movies, and missed a lot of the development as my interest has come in waves, so I completely missed the big picture. Thank you for laying out modern developments like this all at once

[jnelums1988]

That is true, That's Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, and Bangkok is the place if you want to look for good Martial Arts Films.

That's why I got mad when the did the Casting for King of fighters, Street Fighter, Tekken, Dragon Ball and others. They had choppy fighting. I mean that those fighting movies would been great if they had someone who knew what they are doing.

[gwyd]

*nods*

Heartbreaking. I missed those because I knew they'd just infuriate me.

It still pisses me off that that they put Shea LeBeuf in that Chan/Li film and just generally made a botch of it. I was so excited when I heard they'd have both legends in one film and it broke my heart what happened with it.

Oh, the last line I meant to write in the comment above was, "I'm really looking forward to further installments."

Oh man, once things quite down here I should do a Jet Li film festival for myself.

[jnelums1988]

I think that Chan and Li wanted to do the movie, but got shafted by Hollywood.