@vance_astro:
I don't watch chinese reality shows. I'm American. I have seen a documentary on his stunts though with him doing commentary about how he pulled alot of it off. No wires or safety nets for alot of his movies.
Well, I'm Chinese, so I can say that your view on him is pretty skewed. He does indeed use wires to pull off moves that are not humanly possible, he does that quite a lot actually, as does the majority of others in Chinese martial arts movies.
I'm not talking about exaggerating the story, I'm talking exaggerating movement and what the actor is actually capable of.
Jackie Chan does this too, I fail to see where the difference lies?
Your initial point was that Donnie Yen was using wires in Ip Man and that is bad because the movie is based off a real life person and events.
I counter by saying that no movie follows real life events to a T.
Now you are bringing up an entirely new premise to the table.
So I'm going to counter this by saying that the majority of martial arts actors (at least in Chinese films) use wires because their old. Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Jackie Chan, and Chow Yun-Fat are all in their 50s and they can't realistically do anything you see in any of their recent movies. They are way too old for that kind of intense movements.
Just to put it out there, no one knows what the real life Ip Man done during his life before meeting Bruce Lee. Hell, he's only famous because he's Bruce Lee's teacher. We don't know what Ip Man did during the Japanese occupation of China or during his life in Hong Kong. It's urban legend at best.
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