![]() I also can’t quite take my mind off the ridiculous political situation the United States has been broiled in, with many fighting to bring back some golden era that never really existed. Having not really watched the film since 2005 when I first discovered Jet Li’s Chinese films, I was interested in discovering if the film held up. It’s quite the loaded movie and even enters the dreaded “political” territory that the internet so hates. Often heralded as the pinnacle of Wire-fu films, this film presents a fictionalized retelling of folk hero Wong Fei-Hung’s life that deals with themes of westernization, colonization, and the encroachment of modern technology in a peaceful land. How have I managed to not speak about Jet Li in any capacity? It makes sense why I would have covered Bruce Lee twice and Jackie Chan is absolutely more known in America, but Jet Li is a tremendous force in China that helped legitimize Wushu (China’s national sport) and would go on to revive the country’s film industry in the 90s.Ĭase in point, the 1991 release Once Upon a Time in China, directed by the legendary Tsui Hark. As we round out a full year of me taking a look back at Kung Fu classics, I notice that there is a glaring omission of one famous star across my various columns.
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