That's a very unwieldy title, but it stems from something WhitePanda pointed out in the Taiji subforum. So the idea is this: Various styles have that one movie (or many movies) that put them on the map, embody them in the minds of the general populace, etc. Put forward a style and the title of a movie that you believe is iconic for that style. No wrong answers. And certain styles are likely to have many, many movies. For instance: Muay Thai: Chok Dee Boxing: Rocky Taekwondo: Best of the Best Capoeira: Only the Strong You get the idea. Have at it.
Hung ga: Too many to name (Once Upon a Time in China?? 36th Chamber?? How Wong Fei-hung Smashed the Five Tigers?? Drunken Master??) Jiujitsu: Redbelt
Well, the obvious one would be Wing Chun- Bruce Lee movies, and I would say the Ip Man movies now. I remember a potential walk in student asking about WC. After he left, the instructor sighed and said Choy Li Fut needed someone to make a movie about it to get it out there and famous for the general public.
Good entries, yeah. TV series are fair game, Boris, yeah. Hadn't really thought of that, since so few styles get that kind of treatment in the first place.
I actually wrote it as a very poor attempt at being funny. But then I remembered how influential and popular it was. I know my parents were big fans! Kung Fu wasn't based on a particular style IIRR, but I think it did show the general public in the west CMA and the whole Shaolin thing. - For money? A Shaolin monk does not sell himself for a hand full of rice. - You are more than a handful of rice! I was also going to add Savate: Savate. but sadly, the public missed that cinematic gem.
There was a movie came out in 2011 starring Sammo Hung and Kane Kosugi called 'Choy-Lee-Fut' I think it's also known as 'Fight the Fight'. I haven't seen it, but given the title does it have anything to do with Choy Li Fut?
You're not the general public though, you're the other one! :hat: Need to rewatch that film as soon as possible!
Yeah, I heard about that film. The incident with the instructor lamenting the lack of CLF movies was before this though. It certanly didn't take off or make CLF more popular to the general public like the Ip Man movies did. And I daresay no one in movies propelled a style like Bruce Lee did for WC. I think the fight sequence with Jackie Chan fighting a CLF style guy is more famous than that film. But CLF has no movie that has propelled it like some other styles. It's a pretty popular style in spite of this though. But we get people wanting WC checking out the school fairly regularly. Or asking if we have nunchucks like Bruce Lee. *sigh* Personally, that one annoys me as nunchucks aren't even a Chinese MA weapon.
For what it's worth one night while teaching Karate I had someone come in wearing a long black trench coat who pulled out a Tai Chi sword and asked if I could teach him how to use it. Also: Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins: Sinanju.
