Giles ,'Chosen'
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Sean, does "martial arts epic"=="wu shu" for you?
I can see how the cases mostly are equivalent, but I really wish I could remember where I read the quotes from him on his completion of the genre. They were tied into the wu shu-ness of it, not the epicness.
Yeah, Sean's retired, and apparently happy about it.
Gives him more time to slap women around.
I can see how the cases mostly are equivalent, but I really wish I could remember where I read the quotes from him on his completion of the genre. They were tied into the wu shu-ness of it, not the epicness.
I don't know the difference, ita, but the trailers used the phrase "martial arts epic," if I recall correctly. Is wu shu a fighting style? Does that mean he would do a martial arts epic in another fighting style?
When was the last time that Sean was in a movie that didn't suck?
When was the last time that Sean was in a movie that didn't suck?
Last century.
The answer is either 2000 (Finding Forrester, which is worth it simply for "You're the man now, dawg!") or 1996 (The Rock). I don't think Entrapment sucked, but it was hardly memorable or worth existing.
Maybe 1998 (Playing by Heart, which I've never seen, but looks like a good cast).
The term wushu consists of two Chinese characters. 武 (wǔ), meaning "War Art",
Okay, then I find it slightly hilarious that the first movie Jet Li does after swearing off wu shu movies is called War.
Sean, does "martial arts epic"=="wu shu" for you?
Well, no, not really. And my original answer to P-C was going be all "yes and no" and go into the definitions of each, and include links to Wikipedia entries.
Then I checked the Wikipedia page for wu shu, and found that the wikipedia definition for wu shu boils down to "martial arts epic".
So I tossed my original post and went with a simplified "yes".
But I know what you're talking about. I think you and I talked about it back when he first made his announcement about "no more wu shu". I think we have similar definitions. I'm just feeling intellectually lazy this morning. More than usual. Intellectually lazier.
then I find it slightly hilarious that the first movie Jet Li does after swearing off wu shu movies is called War.
Well, it's war as in martial--despite the meaning fo the word martial, most war movies aren't martial arts movies.
Wu shu is a martial arts umbrella and a movie genre. I don't think you can make a wu shu movie without kung fu, but I think you can make a kung fu movie without it being wu shu.
In my head, anyway.
I wish I could see the source material for this interview. Because the article seems to equate a martial arts movie with a wu shu movie with a kung fu movie. Others don't.
Huh. From today's Chron review:
To say that "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" is better than the original isn't enough. The last one was awful, one of the worst movies of its year, while the new one is a pleasure, one of the most enjoyable pictures of the season. The last "Fantastic Four" was 106 minutes of water torture. The new one, instead of expanding in length, clocks in at a streamlined 92 minutes, but nothing about it seems truncated or small-scale. The stakes and the scope are tremendous, and yet the movie doesn't wallow in either. Director Tim Story and writers Don Payne and Mark Frost are at all times telling the story, moving the action forward.