@ I beg to differ; I’ve read some pretty good Chinese works. It’s just that, in such a large country, there’s a lot more amateur writers and the cliches run rampant. And the huge media corporations tend to not care so much about quality, they just make it as flashy and feature-bloated as possible.
The most tragic thing about Tai Lung is when he finally opens the scroll and he sees a reflection of himself, he says “It’s nothing!” This shows how little value he had for himself because he was so determined with trying to earn validation from Shifu and becoming the Dragon Warrior that when he was denied his destiny, he was consumed with rage and hatred, especiallyfor himself. Truly a tragic character who really just wanted appreciation from his father figure.
i believe whats also interesting is how he looks AT his reflection, it seems he is reflecting, he understands, "who have i become?" he betrayed everyone and everything he held dear for that power he thought he was owed, and it WAS nothing, he was left with only himself, what was he himself now worth after doing all these bad deeds? He sacrificed everything and when he got the scroll, which was nothing more than a cute message, the man in the mirror is pitiable.
What’s also funny is that Tai Lung handles the scroll in the EXACT same way as Shifu when they look through it. Another telling example of taking after his father.
The way I see it like this: Tai Lung was raised to be the Dragon Warrior. He strove to be someone else, because that’s what he thought he had to be. Po was trained in a way unique to him. He was trained in his own identity. The Dragon Warrior can’t be you if you’re not you. Hence why it’s a mirrored scroll.
One part I really like, and often see overlooked, is how after Po lays out his insecurities to Shifu, we see that Tigress heard the whole thing and finally started to soften up and feel sorry for him, and realized he was actually taking Kung Fu seriously, not "treating it like a joke" as she previously stated.
YES, omg I don't see enough love for Kung Fu Panda 2, it has been my absolute FAVORITE of all the movies for the longest time and I just haven't met many people who agreed
At first, Oogway letting himself pass on when Shifu needs him most doesn't make sense. But it's actually a selfless act. Yes, he could've easily defeated Tai Lung again, but if he had, Shifu would never learn to accept Po or forgive himself for "creating" Tai Lung, and Po wouldn't have become the Dragon Warrior or stopped loathing himself.
There are really two things that make Po such a good fighter. 1. He's incredibly tough. So much crazy happens to him in these movies and barely gets scratched. 2. He's innately great at improvising in combat. Put him in any situation, with any objects nearby and he can easily turn it into a weapon and use the situation to his advantage.
He's also revealed in the Nickolodeon series to be a 'technique chameleon' in the same vein as characters like Taskmaster from marvel, and an absolute prodigy with Qi techniques, having picked up the Wind Hammer technique after being on the receiving end of it.
He's not just tough physically, but also mentally. On top of all the pain he takes in training and combat, he was also transparently loathed, mocked and degraded by his own idols. He took in the worst reasons why you should never meet your heroes on the chin, and either laughed it off or trained it off.
Kung Fu Panda is deadass one of the very, Very, VERY few movies with a plus sized main character that doesn't change himself for the story but learns to love himself. Also, although this is a comedy and Jack Black is a funny guy, the fact that his body isn't consistently the butt of the joke is amazing to me
Also while he stays a big panda throughout, he does slim down ever so slightly, it's super noticeable in the third movie for reasons I will not specify. Which makes sense, he's not fat for a panda, he's a healthy weight for a panda
@UltimateGamerCC as a big fat fellow myself and a HUGH(pun absolutely intended)fan of these three movies, I have to say I agree with the love yourself part I disagree with the need more plus sized protagonist in media take I get plenty of us in media where they are not all up in your face about it and it's OK to want to lose weight after all losing weight just means you want to start living a healthy life more and if you don't want to that fine too I love movies with protags that have the superhero physic or buff body I don't feel ashamed when I see them I feel inspired and you guys should too.
I have finally realized what the conversation about 'control' is about; Teaching. "I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, or make it bear fruit before its time." Oogway is talking about how you can't make someone learn at your pace, only their own. "I can control when the fruit will fall. And I can control where to plant the seed!" Shifu counters by saying he decides when and how his students learn. And while he is mostly right, one peach (Po) disobeys and falls on his head. "But no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach." And Oogway ends by telling Shifu that people don't change at their core. Tai-Lung was always going to have darkness in him, even if Shifu unknowingly cultivated it, and Po was always going to have a kind heart.
I love this interpretation, so allow me to add my two cents. Rather than Tai Lung always being bound to the darkness at his core, what if that darkness grew due to the very fact that Shifu forcefully tried to grow an Apple tree when he was only an Orange. He was never due to become the Dragon Warrior, yet that is what he was raised to be and that was where he put all of his self worth. Tai Lung was not raised to be the best version of himself, he was raised to be someone else, which is why the Gold Mirror reflective his perceived worthless, because there was no value in being himself.
Fun Fact: The Furious Five are all based on the Northern Chinese Martial Arts called Wuxing. Monkey, Tiger, Snake, Mantis, Crane; but the traditional martial arts were Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon. Which is a good reference in Tai Lung and Po, Tai Lung being a Snow Leopard and his fighting style, while Po represents Dragon as the Dragon Warrior. The care that goes into these movies is amazing
The character development, the fight choreography, the lessons, how well it depicts ancient China, it's all just perfect. In fact, originally, the Chinese government was against this movie being shown in China, thinking America couldn'tdo a Kung-Fumovie right, especially one that looked so goofy at first glance. Then they actually watched it and relented, wondering why their own films hadn't captured their own culture this well.
I liked the scroll being blank. They treated the scroll like it was something that would turn someone INTO the Dragon Warrior, like the Dragon Warrior needs the scroll to validate and "christen" them as being a legendary warrior. The Dragon Warrior doesn't need a fancy scroll to make them the Dragon Warrior, the Dragon Warrior IS, there's no outside force that can make it happen, they simply are.
This movie came out when I was only 8, and my class and family all collectively agreed that Tai-Lung was done *FILTHYYYY* Still. Was one of the greatest Dreamworks villains created.
I think about this sometimes and, like, Tai Lung is probably a better fighter than Po. But he goes into that fight already losing the mental game. He thinks he needs the scroll to be worthy and complete. Po knows that he’s already good enough. That kind of mental edge wins fights.
I have seen somewhere that in early test screening ppl empathised with Tai Lung too much so they added the attack on the village to make him clearly in the wrong.
I’m so glad you’re watching these! Yeah, it’s corny, but it’s important. The dragon scroll lesson that “you are enough” is so valuable, especially to the target audience of kids. There’s no secret technique that makes you suddenly complete, just the hard work and confidence.
You're so spot on about Monty Oum. I remember when he was still working on RvB, and there were community rumblings about why a certain character was grouped in with a bunch of "elite" soldiers when he didn't appear to be all that extraordinary, and Monty replied in a thread, pointing out a specific exchange involving that character where he very deftly swaps equipment with another character he's fighting, and despite that other character being way better than him, he still managed to snag a weapon from them and use it to ultimately corner them. Those fight scenes are so well put together.
@@riluna3695 It was in Season 8(?) I think. Agent Washington and The Meta tracked Tex into an ambush, and while fighting he passed an AI memory unit to The Meta and tried to land a punch on Tex, which didn't work, but he grabbed a battle rifle off of her back, forcing her to take cover with it and ultimately snagging a couple of shots on her, allowing The Meta to finally grab her.
@@alliandrablack7751 Thanks! I knew right where that was. Season 8, Episode 19, "Reunion". Watched the whole fight again just now and _still missed it._ I needed help from the comments, because JEEZ that was a smooth move. Thanks for drawing that to my attention :D
Angelina Jolie herself wanted to be Tigress so bad in the first movie. And she really got the role. Both her and Jack Black were in Shark Tale before Kung Fu Panda 1.
"Oogway is my favourite character!" I don't blame you Alicia, Oogway IS the best. But damn. You do seem to have a knack for choosing characters that are destined to die as your favourite.
Tai Lung was not egotistical about becoming The Dragon Warrior, all he wanted was to make Shifu proud of him, at the pool when Shifu told Tai Lung that has always been proud of him and that his own pride blinded him to hope Tai Lung would be the Dragon Warrior, but he realizes that he controlled Tai Lung's life and not having his own destiny and he forges him to a monster, and he is sorry for what he has done to him, and we can see that was the real Tai Lung, the son of Shifu who needed to hear those words, but it was too late because he has been in prison for 20 years and all that time was fouled with rage that has built and know he wants the scroll that was kind of rightfully his.
32:50 so if you wanna see the history of the furious five thats not really in the main films but they do have a 2d animated film called legends of the five, that has the origins of them all, and its super freakin sweet, baby viper is such a precious bean
Fun fact: this movie was so well appreciated in China that the CCP launced a commission to figure out how an american film managed to represent their culture better than their own domestic film industry.
the fact that theres "not secret ingredient is the whole point of the movie, Po is special not because he is chosen one (later movies make change it a little, but still) is because he is who he is, he learn to figth because he love the five and Shifu, he want to be better not for the power but to be a bette version of himself, in fact i can assure you that theres a universe that with a little change Tai Lung, Tigress or any other of the five could have been the Dragon warrior, but in this moment Po was the perfect one because of who he is as a person.
10:57 Fate works the same way. Many stories where the protagonist learns of their fate and tries everything they can to change it, end with them bringing the very demise they tried to avoid.
thats why we call it "Self fullfilling Prophecies" in trying to avoid it, you provoke it instead. And even if you don't actively try to avoid it, the knowledge you have about it, will make you biased enogugh to take a path that would lead you to it anyways. Reminds me how by observing a photon(or was it a proton?) even if its just watching with no active action on your part, you actually influence it and it changes the result.
question, this is a western's studio take on a eastern setting we all know in the west this trope of "fate is inevitable" goes as far back as the ancient greek but did eastern lore also had something similar?
I love these movies. One of the major themes that I very much appreciate (though it has been argued that the final skadoosh somewhat contradicts it), is best exemplified by the summation of "there is no secret ingredient." All the characters seem to have this assumption of Oogway keeping some secret source of mystic power or something, given how they talk about the Dragon Scroll; even though he keeps insisting that you can only do your best and keep working hard. Everyone talks about the power "granted" by the Dragon Scroll by describing what the Dragon Warrior is said to be capable of. Nobody ever considers that these are achievements of the master *who would be named* "Dragon Warrior", instead assuming that the Scroll has some secret techniques or mystic power to grant them. Meanwhile, Oogway keeps saying that you have to accept that you cannot control fate or destiny, and simply have to keep trying your hardest and doing your best. The self-acceptance that Po expresses is the closest thing to a "secret ingredient" in the whole thing... except that it ISN'T "secret" at all, because Oogway is doing his damnedest to convey that information the whole time! xD ALSO: Mr. Ping is a top tier dad. Yup-yup.
the best thing about this movie is undoubtedly the bridge fight between tai lung and the five. literally, the animators went up to their superiors and said they had no idea how to do it, because nothing like it had been done before in 3d animation. they had to figure that shit out on their own, and the result is *amazing*
I find it funny that they restricted all of Tai Lung’s limbs & appendages except for his tail. In The Simpsons, one of the criminals; Sideshow Bob is so dangerous that they put cuffs evens on his curly hair.
I think the implication was that his tail, along with the rest of his body, was paralyzed by Oogway's pressure point attack. And the warden unintentionally returned feeling to him when he stomped on it to taunt him.
Oogway's and Shifu's arguments on control were amazing cause neither of them were wrong. Shifu was saying that there are things in the world we can control and that was no illusion, but Oogway was saying that certain things are beyond your control, and it's foolish to try and do that. Like he said, that seed will grow to be a peach try, no matter how much he took care of it, no matter the method of how he took care of it, it would still be a peach tree 20:51 Don't worry, this won't be the last time we see him
@Abyss_Princess it's still spoiler, sooner or later she gonna watch all movies and your comment spoilers whole fun from seeing him becuase she won't be expecting it
@@MuscleManOhhhhh yeah, 3rd movie was a bit of a whiff with the villain, but i like everything else about said movie. really helps with the depression caused by the 2nd movie. havent seen the 4th movie yet, but i'm hopeful the villain is better than 3's.
The thing about the dragon scroll may be cheesey, but honestly at 37 years old I find it to be true. Keep in mind, to open the scroll you have to he "worthy," both physically and spiritually. You have to have both trained hard and learned fitness and technique (which is why Poe couldn't open it immediately) and you have to still be humble and willing to learn (which is why Tai Lung wasn't worthy). If you're already at that point...there is no secret ingredient. It's just you.
One of the details I like the most in Kung Fu Panda is the shock on Shifu's face when Po calls him "The Greatest Kung Fu Teacher in all of China!" and he realises how much Po idolises him and the others. Po has spent his entire life looking up to and practically worshipping the Five and Kung Fu Masters and wanting to be like them. It would be like meeting your childhood hero and having them tell you to give up on your dreams and that you'll never achieve them because you're a fat disappointment. 28:50 That's kind of the point. Before being *worthy* to read the Dragon Scroll you first need to train to be ready for it. But if you've trained to the point of being allowed to read the Dragon Scroll then you are already the Dragon Warrior and just need to believe in yourself, your master and your training.
the opening was directed by James Baxter, a big name in the animation industry (Roger Rabbit, Beauty & The Beast, Lion King, El Dorado, How To Train Your Dragon, and so many others). he actually was brought onto Adventure Time in episodes literally named after him.
Speaking of the cast, the way the contract was written for the voice actors, in the future movies they basically just cut out the furious five because it would cost way too much. I'm pretty sure by the final movie it would've costed them more than their budget.
I love this I watched it with my brothers and their friends and my dad and cousin....I was a wee lad ...good times good times....Kung fu Panada 2 tho is my fav I watched it with my eldest brother
Fun fact: this movie sparked a good bit of outrage in China, bc it was so faithful to the culture that people were mad an American studio made a better movie about China than Chinese studios. People were legit upset at Chinese media that they haven't made anything so good and authentic. Imagine if the best movie about the Revolutionary War was made by a British studio 😂
The second movie does not really cover much more about the Furious Five. HOWEVER, when this movie came out on DVD, they also released a short called "Secrets of the Furious Five." It has Po telling some children who want to learn Kung Fu a story about each of the Furious Five, and something important that they learned in life, which helped them as they grew older and became kung fu masters. Worth watching if you can kind it. Especially for baby Tigress.
A really cool detail is that in the little scene where Mantis practices acupuncture in Po, it's stablished that all his fat doesen't allow him to find the actual vital points, which then becomes the reason why Tai-Lung can't hit him and knock him out like he did with the Furious Five. It's really cool how such a minor joke scene stablishes something so important for the climax
28:40 It makes perfect sense. The secret is that there is no secret. Hard work, constant training, knowing yourself and your limitations, that is what will bring you to the peak of YOUR capabilities. To me that is a great message. That is why the scroll is a golden mirror in which you reflect. The dragon warrior is a title, not a skill, or a skill set, or a skill level. It is not about "believing in yourself". Believing in yourself without putting the effort is just pathetic and childish, imo. That is just wishful thinking. It is not about "You can do anything", it is about "You can improve, and you could do something tomorrow that you cannot do today, you may never reach the goal but you can always walk the path towards it". And the lesson is not obvious. None of the characters understood it. Only the Dragon Warrior did.
The kung fu panda franchise has hands down some of the best villains in animated movie history, Tai Lung is an absolute menace and the villain from the second one is sooo underrated
I absolutely loved the final battle. Not just because of the cool fighting. But how every single thing Po used against Tai Lung was what he learned through the movie. First counter attack, he bounced off the wall after being hit and knocked back into him even harder. The punching bag in the dojo that knocked his tooth out! Falling down the stairs, thanks to Shifu kicking him down them. He learned how to bounce in ways where he knew how to shift his weight so Tai Lung would be under him! The noodle cart he tried to drag up the stairs gave him a boost, leading to the pans switching he learned from Shifu's final lesson! Utilizing fireworks to go faster just like when he made the firework chair in the beginning! We all know about his cookie climbing ultra instinct mode lol Then when Tai Lung used the pressure points on Po, they tickled him. We learned they aren't where they are on other people just like when Mantis and Viper tried doing acupuncture! And finally. Po can use the "power of the dragon scroll", because Po became happy with who he's become. But when Tai Lung saw that all he's sacrificed to get the scroll did nothing but leave him a shell of a man, he became nothing to Po.
This is unironically one of the most perfect 3 Act Structures ever written. Like a lotta movies will force a "dark night of the soul" or 2nd act comic relief character to hit the beats; but this movie every single beat is 100% earned and necessary. This movie has NO extra fat or forced drama. Actual masterpiece.
A touch I quite love is that the one point Po is confident in himself before his proper training is when the Furious 5 (minus Tigress) are all complimenting his noodles. He doesn't put himself down there, but just praises his dad's cooking instead. In fact, kung fu doesn't just refer to martial arts, but rather any "art that someone has dedicated themselves to". And Ping, Po's dad, is the only non-martial artist who is a "master of kung fu". His noodle obsession is silly and fun, but, from how the most prestigious individuals in the valley reacted to a dish that apparently isn't as good as his, you know that nobody can do noodles like him. And for his mastery, he had long since achieved the same enlightenment Oogway hid behind a mythical scroll.
I love that pause, when Shi Fu said he was actually proud... he let the hate he held and belief that his father never cared be stronger than believing Shi Fu thought he was world for more than to eb the Dragon Warrior.. it threw him off, but his his YEARS of hate overthrew him forgiving
One of my favorite parts actually comes in the credits. It's the still of Po showing a group of children the scroll, fast tracking them on an important lesson originally slated for enlightened masters.
I heard it once that Kung Fu panda 1 is about parenthood. How parents are strict or distant or smothering, but their child grows at their own pace and that they don't need to earn your love, they are worthy of love just the way they are.
Heres something about the bridge fight. The Furious 5 used Shifu's advice from the begining. Tigress fought more ferociously, Viper slithered underneath the bridge to het the drop on Tai Lung, Monkey hit the dash and sped his ass over there, and Crane hit from above. Also if you watch Tigress and Tai Lung as they talk, Tigress is constantly adjusting her position and looking down. Where as Tai Lung was walking by with no issue. Showing the difference in their levels
Something I really love about the Tai Lung vs The Five fight is that The Five objectively won, but Tai lung is just built different and requires more than just ropes to be defeated .
Viper and Mantis come around alot sooner because both of them relate to the experience of being thought of as lesser due to physical attributes, Mantis mentions his size, and, now i dont know if they actually had this in mind when making the film, but its revealed in a short released later that Viper was born without fangs, and on top of that her father is a deadly warrior known for his "poison fang technique", so she grew up in a family where it was considered important to have them.
Tai Ling saw himself and said “it’s nothing”. That’s the message of the movie, you are the best you, you can be. To change yourself you must first believe in yourself. To Tai Lung his strength always lied in the scroll, it was supposed to complete him. So when he saw only himself, “nothing” in the scroll, everything he was and thought he was, shattered. Po on the other-hand had always only known himself and like Tai Lung, believed everything he wanted lied in the scroll. But because he knew who he was, even if it took him time, he could understand the message of the scroll. You might think it’s cheesy but knowing who you are is by no means easy and can take a lifetime to discover.
I was 5 when this came out and it was would like an everyone weekend at least bedtime film always was a belter of a film to watch with the lights oot and got to see the rest in cinemas😁
Not saying that he deserves to be acknowledged as a good dad(he really is a great dad)... but it is Shifu's fault Tai Lung ended up that way. Shifu gassed him up for so long saying he was the dragon warrior and then he didn't even try to cheer him up or tell him it was okay when he wasn't. Tai-Lung isn't justified but he's understandable and It IS Shifu's fault. I think more people need acknowledge fault as something being a fault. That said I wished their relationship resolved for the better, Shifu was still a great father even with his faults
I think my favorite detail of the movie is that Shifu caused Tai Lung to escape, because if he never sent the messenger, the feather would've never fallen down into the prison.
20:40 alicia: i love this character! (character imedatly dies horribly) alicia stop loving things, your love is killing them! close your heart to them elf gal! XD
Tai Lung is such an underrated Dreamworks villain. I love how he fits so neatly into the theme of "self-worth" the movie has. Like Po, his entire sense of purpose was built around what others thought of him, mainly Shifu. He pushed himself to his physical and mental limit just to make Shifu proud by becoming the Dragon Warrior, only to realise it was all for nothing & Shifu had simply filled his adopted son's head with his own dreams and vanity. You can even see in the scene where Po lays out his own insecuritied to Shifu, the latter stares off into space for a second; perhaps wondering if this is how all his stundents, even Tai Lung, felt while he trained them Heck, even Tigress starts to soften up once she realises the kind of inner turmoil Po had and that her comments to him about not taking Kung Fu seriously, really hurt him. And the moment Tai Lung opens the Dragon Scroll and says "It's nothing!" is like the perfect metaphor for his character. He genuinely believes he's nothing deep down and its what fuels his rage.
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The funny part is, when this came out the entirety of the movie industry in China collectively said..."How the fuck didn't we think of this first!?"
The way I heard it put was “why can a western studio make a better movie about China than Chinese studios?”
On reflection, instead of trying to make a movie about China, they made a good movie.
china not realizing they arent creative and never actually make any story that is good. take cultivation novels for example. its just copy and pastes.
@ I beg to differ; I’ve read some pretty good Chinese works. It’s just that, in such a large country, there’s a lot more amateur writers and the cliches run rampant. And the huge media corporations tend to not care so much about quality, they just make it as flashy and feature-bloated as possible.
@@quakxy_dukx i would say modern cultivation novels are pretty copy paste
even more so when its manga has new chapters daily
The most tragic thing about Tai Lung is when he finally opens the scroll and he sees a reflection of himself, he says “It’s nothing!” This shows how little value he had for himself because he was so determined with trying to earn validation from Shifu and becoming the Dragon Warrior that when he was denied his destiny, he was consumed with rage and hatred, especiallyfor himself. Truly a tragic character who really just wanted appreciation from his father figure.
and in the end he got scadooshed :D
and Po says "It's blank". Very telling about an open mind willing to consume new knowledge and experiences.
Yet even when he got it, it didn't matter to him he didn't care because he only put stock in power.
i believe whats also interesting is how he looks AT his reflection, it seems he is reflecting, he understands, "who have i become?" he betrayed everyone and everything he held dear for that power he thought he was owed, and it WAS nothing, he was left with only himself, what was he himself now worth after doing all these bad deeds? He sacrificed everything and when he got the scroll, which was nothing more than a cute message, the man in the mirror is pitiable.
What’s also funny is that Tai Lung handles the scroll in the EXACT same way as Shifu when they look through it. Another telling example of taking after his father.
"I'm not a big, fat panda. I'm THE Big, Fat Panda." One of best quotes of self-accepting.
My fav as always be "What you gonna do big guy?, Sit on me? " "Don't Tempt me", it as been an inside joke between me and a friend ever since
The way I see it like this:
Tai Lung was raised to be the Dragon Warrior. He strove to be someone else, because that’s what he thought he had to be.
Po was trained in a way unique to him. He was trained in his own identity.
The Dragon Warrior can’t be you if you’re not you. Hence why it’s a mirrored scroll.
I absolutely LOVE this way of looking at it
Alicia: “They’re my favorite character”
You just signed their death warrant
Eeeeeeevery time.
Oogway isn't dead, he's just gone home.
No worries. Oogway is just chilling with Obi Wan & Yoda in the Great Beyond.
@@samwallaceart288He pulled a Buddha and just like, decided it was time and ascended
@donaldwright8567 Or alternatively, the Nether world of the force
One part I really like, and often see overlooked, is how after Po lays out his insecurities to Shifu, we see that Tigress heard the whole thing and finally started to soften up and feel sorry for him, and realized he was actually taking Kung Fu seriously, not "treating it like a joke" as she previously stated.
Kinda sucks she left that out. Did want to see her reaction to that
Oh wow holy shit, I never noticed that! I've been watching these movies since the first one came out and I've never caught that!
Po and Tigress bond over being unironically _that_ nerdy about the craft.
If you cry over Kung Fu Panda 1. You aren't ready for Kung Fu Panda 2. which honestly, is also the most beautiful of all Kung Fu Panda movies so far
YES, omg I don't see enough love for Kung Fu Panda 2, it has been my absolute FAVORITE of all the movies for the longest time and I just haven't met many people who agreed
At first, Oogway letting himself pass on when Shifu needs him most doesn't make sense. But it's actually a selfless act. Yes, he could've easily defeated Tai Lung again, but if he had, Shifu would never learn to accept Po or forgive himself for "creating" Tai Lung, and Po wouldn't have become the Dragon Warrior or stopped loathing himself.
one does not CHOOSE when their time is up, he felt that it was his time to go.
because they dont know how to write anything good.
@@jdogzerosilverblade299who do you mean? Are you saying Kung Fu panda is badly written?
@@TimothyGod no china.
@@jdogzerosilverblade299 gotcha
I appreciate you shouting out Monty Oum, genuinely one of the GOATS and the very definition of gone too soon.
We love Monty
There are really two things that make Po such a good fighter.
1. He's incredibly tough. So much crazy happens to him in these movies and barely gets scratched.
2. He's innately great at improvising in combat. Put him in any situation, with any objects nearby and he can easily turn it into a weapon and use the situation to his advantage.
Po embodies the real life Po, Jackie Chan. XD
He's also revealed in the Nickolodeon series to be a 'technique chameleon' in the same vein as characters like Taskmaster from marvel, and an absolute prodigy with Qi techniques, having picked up the Wind Hammer technique after being on the receiving end of it.
He's not just tough physically, but also mentally. On top of all the pain he takes in training and combat, he was also transparently loathed, mocked and degraded by his own idols.
He took in the worst reasons why you should never meet your heroes on the chin, and either laughed it off or trained it off.
@@42ndguardianI don't know why I immediately thought of "WIND TUNNEL!!!" Right after I saw the word "Wind Hammer" 😂😂😂
Kung Fu Panda is deadass one of the very, Very, VERY few movies with a plus sized main character that doesn't change himself for the story but learns to love himself. Also, although this is a comedy and Jack Black is a funny guy, the fact that his body isn't consistently the butt of the joke is amazing to me
we totally need more plus-sized protags that dont be self-loathing beans who gotta lose the weight to be happy.
He’s a panda. They keep him portly like a panda yet still find ways to make it very satisfying to watch
Also while he stays a big panda throughout, he does slim down ever so slightly, it's super noticeable in the third movie for reasons I will not specify.
Which makes sense, he's not fat for a panda, he's a healthy weight for a panda
@UltimateGamerCC as a big fat fellow myself and a HUGH(pun absolutely intended)fan of these three movies, I have to say I agree with the love yourself part I disagree with the need more plus sized protagonist in media take I get plenty of us in media where they are not all up in your face about it and it's OK to want to lose weight after all losing weight just means you want to start living a healthy life more and if you don't want to that fine too I love movies with protags that have the superhero physic or buff body I don't feel ashamed when I see them I feel inspired and you guys should too.
"i like that he's a panda.. have you ever played Tekken before? there's a character named Bob?"
Panda: am i a joke to you?
Subversion of expectations...
There's also just a straight up fuckin panda in the game 😂😂😂 so I feel like the panda be like "bitch wtf I've been here for while"
Actual Panda: "I'm Right here!!"
@@Azmodeus87 oops, i meant Panda.. no idea why i said Kuma
@@12DAMDO maybe because kuma means bear in japanese
Alicia: “They’re my Favorite Character!”
Community: "NOOO~!!!"
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Im learing this bit of lore as I watch some of Alicia's other vids.
I have finally realized what the conversation about 'control' is about; Teaching.
"I cannot make it blossom when it suits me, or make it bear fruit before its time." Oogway is talking about how you can't make someone learn at your pace, only their own.
"I can control when the fruit will fall. And I can control where to plant the seed!" Shifu counters by saying he decides when and how his students learn. And while he is mostly right, one peach (Po) disobeys and falls on his head.
"But no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach." And Oogway ends by telling Shifu that people don't change at their core. Tai-Lung was always going to have darkness in him, even if Shifu unknowingly cultivated it, and Po was always going to have a kind heart.
I love this interpretation, so allow me to add my two cents.
Rather than Tai Lung always being bound to the darkness at his core, what if that darkness grew due to the very fact that Shifu forcefully tried to grow an Apple tree when he was only an Orange.
He was never due to become the Dragon Warrior, yet that is what he was raised to be and that was where he put all of his self worth. Tai Lung was not raised to be the best version of himself, he was raised to be someone else, which is why the Gold Mirror reflective his perceived worthless, because there was no value in being himself.
Fun Fact: The Furious Five are all based on the Northern Chinese Martial Arts called Wuxing. Monkey, Tiger, Snake, Mantis, Crane; but the traditional martial arts were Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon. Which is a good reference in Tai Lung and Po, Tai Lung being a Snow Leopard and his fighting style, while Po represents Dragon as the Dragon Warrior. The care that goes into these movies is amazing
Jack Black was the perfect actor to voice Po, plus this movie is what made his Po voice famous to this very day
Not was, IS THE PERFECT ACTOR!!!!
@@nicktechnubyte1184 that's what I meant
@@nicktechnubyte1184 i wish i could agree, but his takes responding to Minecraft fans really isnt doing him any favors atm.
I.... am Po.
I AM..... STEVE!!
The character development, the fight choreography, the lessons, how well it depicts ancient China, it's all just perfect. In fact, originally, the Chinese government was against this movie being shown in China, thinking America couldn'tdo a Kung-Fumovie right, especially one that looked so goofy at first glance. Then they actually watched it and relented, wondering why their own films hadn't captured their own culture this well.
also the fact that each character uses kung fu differently due to them being different animals. that IMO is their best achievement.
Biggest things china is known for:
1. Kung fu
2. Pandas
The Chinese goverment when somehow nobody ever came up with a movie that combines the two :0
That and Oogway being an unironically great depiction of Chinese philosophy
Alicia really be jinxing character deaths whenever she calls them her favourite character 🤣
like when she said nobody dies in One Piece, you noticed that she aint said that since Marineford. XD
I liked the scroll being blank. They treated the scroll like it was something that would turn someone INTO the Dragon Warrior, like the Dragon Warrior needs the scroll to validate and "christen" them as being a legendary warrior. The Dragon Warrior doesn't need a fancy scroll to make them the Dragon Warrior, the Dragon Warrior IS, there's no outside force that can make it happen, they simply are.
This movie came out when I was only 8, and my class and family all collectively agreed that Tai-Lung was done *FILTHYYYY*
Still. Was one of the greatest Dreamworks villains created.
I think about this sometimes and, like, Tai Lung is probably a better fighter than Po. But he goes into that fight already losing the mental game. He thinks he needs the scroll to be worthy and complete. Po knows that he’s already good enough. That kind of mental edge wins fights.
I have seen somewhere that in early test screening ppl empathised with Tai Lung too much so they added the attack on the village to make him clearly in the wrong.
I’m so glad you’re watching these!
Yeah, it’s corny, but it’s important. The dragon scroll lesson that “you are enough” is so valuable, especially to the target audience of kids. There’s no secret technique that makes you suddenly complete, just the hard work and confidence.
It works on a lot of levels. When learning a skill or art, there's no technique more valuable than your own effort and understanding of your self.
Shifu actually translates to “Sensei”, so he's technically “Master Master”
Just like chai tea 😂
You're so spot on about Monty Oum. I remember when he was still working on RvB, and there were community rumblings about why a certain character was grouped in with a bunch of "elite" soldiers when he didn't appear to be all that extraordinary, and Monty replied in a thread, pointing out a specific exchange involving that character where he very deftly swaps equipment with another character he's fighting, and despite that other character being way better than him, he still managed to snag a weapon from them and use it to ultimately corner them. Those fight scenes are so well put together.
Rest in Peace to the Legend 🙏
Somehow I can't figure out what moment you're talking about. Can you direct me to it? I'd be curious to rewatch it, see what I missed.
@@riluna3695 It was in Season 8(?) I think. Agent Washington and The Meta tracked Tex into an ambush, and while fighting he passed an AI memory unit to The Meta and tried to land a punch on Tex, which didn't work, but he grabbed a battle rifle off of her back, forcing her to take cover with it and ultimately snagging a couple of shots on her, allowing The Meta to finally grab her.
@@alliandrablack7751 Thanks! I knew right where that was. Season 8, Episode 19, "Reunion". Watched the whole fight again just now and _still missed it._ I needed help from the comments, because JEEZ that was a smooth move. Thanks for drawing that to my attention :D
Angelina Jolie herself wanted to be Tigress so bad in the first movie. And she really got the role. Both her and Jack Black were in Shark Tale before Kung Fu Panda 1.
"Oogway is my favourite character!"
I don't blame you Alicia, Oogway IS the best.
But damn. You do seem to have a knack for choosing characters that are destined to die as your favourite.
Tai Lung was not egotistical about becoming The Dragon Warrior, all he wanted was to make Shifu proud of him, at the pool when Shifu told Tai Lung that has always been proud of him and that his own pride blinded him to hope Tai Lung would be the Dragon Warrior, but he realizes that he controlled Tai Lung's life and not having his own destiny and he forges him to a monster, and he is sorry for what he has done to him, and we can see that was the real Tai Lung, the son of Shifu who needed to hear those words, but it was too late because he has been in prison for 20 years and all that time was fouled with rage that has built and know he wants the scroll that was kind of rightfully his.
Master Oogway quotes are one of the best parts of these movies!
"Whoever holds this stick....is gae..."
Well, that was no accident either.
32:50 so if you wanna see the history of the furious five thats not really in the main films but they do have a 2d animated film called legends of the five, that has the origins of them all, and its super freakin sweet, baby viper is such a precious bean
I believe it’s called Secrets of the Furious Five but other than that you’re right on the money!
It’s a short film and it’s partially 2D and partially 3D. It uses the same 2D style that was used for Po’s dream.
@@primrosevale1995 ok thanks it has been a long time since i saw it, memories not so good anymore.
"Mmm, monkey."
Fun fact: this movie was so well appreciated in China that the CCP launced a commission to figure out how an american film managed to represent their culture better than their own domestic film industry.
Cultural appreciation and Attention to details and history, can do tremendous things
the fact that theres "not secret ingredient is the whole point of the movie, Po is special not because he is chosen one (later movies make change it a little, but still) is because he is who he is, he learn to figth because he love the five and Shifu, he want to be better not for the power but to be a bette version of himself, in fact i can assure you that theres a universe that with a little change Tai Lung, Tigress or any other of the five could have been the Dragon warrior, but in this moment Po was the perfect one because of who he is as a person.
Future movies will explain all of the Dragon Warrior stuff and what the Wuxi Finger Hold did. The Furious Five spin-off explains the Furious Five.
10:57 Fate works the same way. Many stories where the protagonist learns of their fate and tries everything they can to change it, end with them bringing the very demise they tried to avoid.
thats why we call it "Self fullfilling Prophecies" in trying to avoid it, you provoke it instead.
And even if you don't actively try to avoid it, the knowledge you have about it, will make you biased enogugh to take a path that would lead you to it anyways.
Reminds me how by observing a photon(or was it a proton?) even if its just watching with no active action on your part, you actually influence it and it changes the result.
Poor Shirou
question, this is a western's studio take on a eastern setting
we all know in the west this trope of "fate is inevitable" goes as far back as the ancient greek
but did eastern lore also had something similar?
ABOUT TIME. This movie is too BODACIOUSLY AWESOME, it's the stuff that makes for LEGENDS FOR THE LEGENDS.
Alicia continuing her streak of saying "This is my favorite character" only for them to die. 😂
I love these movies. One of the major themes that I very much appreciate (though it has been argued that the final skadoosh somewhat contradicts it), is best exemplified by the summation of "there is no secret ingredient." All the characters seem to have this assumption of Oogway keeping some secret source of mystic power or something, given how they talk about the Dragon Scroll; even though he keeps insisting that you can only do your best and keep working hard.
Everyone talks about the power "granted" by the Dragon Scroll by describing what the Dragon Warrior is said to be capable of. Nobody ever considers that these are achievements of the master *who would be named* "Dragon Warrior", instead assuming that the Scroll has some secret techniques or mystic power to grant them. Meanwhile, Oogway keeps saying that you have to accept that you cannot control fate or destiny, and simply have to keep trying your hardest and doing your best. The self-acceptance that Po expresses is the closest thing to a "secret ingredient" in the whole thing... except that it ISN'T "secret" at all, because Oogway is doing his damnedest to convey that information the whole time! xD
ALSO: Mr. Ping is a top tier dad. Yup-yup.
the best thing about this movie is undoubtedly the bridge fight between tai lung and the five. literally, the animators went up to their superiors and said they had no idea how to do it, because nothing like it had been done before in 3d animation. they had to figure that shit out on their own, and the result is *amazing*
The wushi finger hold is a instant death technique that sends the target into the spirit world, destroying their physical body in the process
I find it funny that they restricted all of Tai Lung’s limbs & appendages except for his tail. In The Simpsons, one of the criminals; Sideshow Bob is so dangerous that they put cuffs evens on his curly hair.
I think the implication was that his tail, along with the rest of his body, was paralyzed by Oogway's pressure point attack. And the warden unintentionally returned feeling to him when he stomped on it to taunt him.
Oogway's and Shifu's arguments on control were amazing cause neither of them were wrong. Shifu was saying that there are things in the world we can control and that was no illusion, but Oogway was saying that certain things are beyond your control, and it's foolish to try and do that. Like he said, that seed will grow to be a peach try, no matter how much he took care of it, no matter the method of how he took care of it, it would still be a peach tree
20:51 Don't worry, this won't be the last time we see him
No need to spoiler her bruh
@PepetoGuy I didn't say when. There's 3 more movies
@Abyss_Princess it's still spoiler, sooner or later she gonna watch all movies and your comment spoilers whole fun from seeing him becuase she won't be expecting it
ONE of the greatest animated trilogies ever!
I wasn’t that keen on the third movie
@@MuscleManOhhhhh yeah, 3rd movie was a bit of a whiff with the villain, but i like everything else about said movie. really helps with the depression caused by the 2nd movie. havent seen the 4th movie yet, but i'm hopeful the villain is better than 3's.
Spoiler alert!@@UltimateGamerCC
.....Hah fuck no!
The thing about the dragon scroll may be cheesey, but honestly at 37 years old I find it to be true. Keep in mind, to open the scroll you have to he "worthy," both physically and spiritually. You have to have both trained hard and learned fitness and technique (which is why Poe couldn't open it immediately) and you have to still be humble and willing to learn (which is why Tai Lung wasn't worthy).
If you're already at that point...there is no secret ingredient. It's just you.
Skadoosh!
The Monty Oum mention got me teary eyed, love the respect for his work and 100% agree.
One of the details I like the most in Kung Fu Panda is the shock on Shifu's face when Po calls him "The Greatest Kung Fu Teacher in all of China!" and he realises how much Po idolises him and the others. Po has spent his entire life looking up to and practically worshipping the Five and Kung Fu Masters and wanting to be like them. It would be like meeting your childhood hero and having them tell you to give up on your dreams and that you'll never achieve them because you're a fat disappointment.
28:50 That's kind of the point. Before being *worthy* to read the Dragon Scroll you first need to train to be ready for it. But if you've trained to the point of being allowed to read the Dragon Scroll then you are already the Dragon Warrior and just need to believe in yourself, your master and your training.
Love Kung Fu Panda. It actually inspired me to start practicing kung fu.
Another one of my childhood favourites!
You are reacting to some of the best animated movies recently
MONTY OUM MENTIONED:
RIP MONTY we miss your fight scenes and story telling
Oh no i just remembered what happens in Kung fu panda 2 Alicia's not ready
I watched this movie years ago, and neither am I. I am not ready see her suffer the *SPOILERS!*
the opening was directed by James Baxter, a big name in the animation industry (Roger Rabbit, Beauty & The Beast, Lion King, El Dorado, How To Train Your Dragon, and so many others). he actually was brought onto Adventure Time in episodes literally named after him.
oh that's amazing! also Alicia should watch all of the films mentioned here, I love Road to El Dorado so much
If you’ve ever seen red vs blue, you know Monty was also a master at making extremely one sided fights.
And we do know she's seen RWBY which Pyrrha vs team CRDL
Speaking of the cast, the way the contract was written for the voice actors, in the future movies they basically just cut out the furious five because it would cost way too much. I'm pretty sure by the final movie it would've costed them more than their budget.
I love this I watched it with my brothers and their friends and my dad and cousin....I was a wee lad ...good times good times....Kung fu Panada 2 tho is my fav I watched it with my eldest brother
Fun fact: this movie sparked a good bit of outrage in China, bc it was so faithful to the culture that people were mad an American studio made a better movie about China than Chinese studios.
People were legit upset at Chinese media that they haven't made anything so good and authentic. Imagine if the best movie about the Revolutionary War was made by a British studio 😂
The second movie does not really cover much more about the Furious Five. HOWEVER, when this movie came out on DVD, they also released a short called "Secrets of the Furious Five." It has Po telling some children who want to learn Kung Fu a story about each of the Furious Five, and something important that they learned in life, which helped them as they grew older and became kung fu masters. Worth watching if you can kind it. Especially for baby Tigress.
Awesome to see you reacting to this trilogy!!!
Yep! Just THREE movies totalllll...
there are only three of them.
A really cool detail is that in the little scene where Mantis practices acupuncture in Po, it's stablished that all his fat doesen't allow him to find the actual vital points, which then becomes the reason why Tai-Lung can't hit him and knock him out like he did with the Furious Five. It's really cool how such a minor joke scene stablishes something so important for the climax
28:40 It makes perfect sense. The secret is that there is no secret. Hard work, constant training, knowing yourself and your limitations, that is what will bring you to the peak of YOUR capabilities. To me that is a great message. That is why the scroll is a golden mirror in which you reflect.
The dragon warrior is a title, not a skill, or a skill set, or a skill level. It is not about "believing in yourself".
Believing in yourself without putting the effort is just pathetic and childish, imo. That is just wishful thinking.
It is not about "You can do anything", it is about "You can improve, and you could do something tomorrow that you cannot do today, you may never reach the goal but you can always walk the path towards it".
And the lesson is not obvious. None of the characters understood it. Only the Dragon Warrior did.
The kung fu panda franchise has hands down some of the best villains in animated movie history, Tai Lung is an absolute menace and the villain from the second one is sooo underrated
Non-spoiler inspirational thing. Mr Ping... his restaurant in the second one is "Noodle and tofu shop". Never too late too follow your dreams.
I like to think that Po going after his dreams inspired this. Its such an underspoken detail
I absolutely loved the final battle. Not just because of the cool fighting. But how every single thing Po used against Tai Lung was what he learned through the movie.
First counter attack, he bounced off the wall after being hit and knocked back into him even harder. The punching bag in the dojo that knocked his tooth out!
Falling down the stairs, thanks to Shifu kicking him down them. He learned how to bounce in ways where he knew how to shift his weight so Tai Lung would be under him!
The noodle cart he tried to drag up the stairs gave him a boost, leading to the pans switching he learned from Shifu's final lesson!
Utilizing fireworks to go faster just like when he made the firework chair in the beginning!
We all know about his cookie climbing ultra instinct mode lol
Then when Tai Lung used the pressure points on Po, they tickled him. We learned they aren't where they are on other people just like when Mantis and Viper tried doing acupuncture!
And finally. Po can use the "power of the dragon scroll", because Po became happy with who he's become. But when Tai Lung saw that all he's sacrificed to get the scroll did nothing but leave him a shell of a man, he became nothing to Po.
I think Kung Fu Panda is one of my favorites movies of all time, not only animation (though I prefer animation than live action)
Skadoosh!
One of my favourite childhood movies of all time, alongside TMNT (1990) and Jurassic Park
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So glad I’m not the only one who felt the likeness between him and Shan Yu. Same greys, same “BOW TO ME” attitude, same mustache too.
This is unironically one of the most perfect 3 Act Structures ever written. Like a lotta movies will force a "dark night of the soul" or 2nd act comic relief character to hit the beats; but this movie every single beat is 100% earned and necessary. This movie has NO extra fat or forced drama. Actual masterpiece.
rip monty, he was my favorite choreographer animator and just a really cool person
Iroh and oogwa chillaxing in the spirit world. A show I'd watch
There is a short film called the secrets of the furious 5. It gives you a look in each of their pasts
Omg I was wondering if she was gonna react to this… thank you!
all 3 fung fu panda movies are very good and lots of fun.
Monty Oum mention makes me really want to see your reaction to Red vs Blue. Such a good series with some great fight choreography in the mid seasons.
This along with Shark Tale was the movie that introduced me to the Goat himself Jack Black
A touch I quite love is that the one point Po is confident in himself before his proper training is when the Furious 5 (minus Tigress) are all complimenting his noodles. He doesn't put himself down there, but just praises his dad's cooking instead.
In fact, kung fu doesn't just refer to martial arts, but rather any "art that someone has dedicated themselves to". And Ping, Po's dad, is the only non-martial artist who is a "master of kung fu". His noodle obsession is silly and fun, but, from how the most prestigious individuals in the valley reacted to a dish that apparently isn't as good as his, you know that nobody can do noodles like him.
And for his mastery, he had long since achieved the same enlightenment Oogway hid behind a mythical scroll.
25:00 Oh, I love Monty's works! Dead Fantasy was such a great series. RIP Monty...
I love that pause, when Shi Fu said he was actually proud... he let the hate he held and belief that his father never cared be stronger than believing Shi Fu thought he was world for more than to eb the Dragon Warrior.. it threw him off, but his his YEARS of hate overthrew him forgiving
You got watch kung fu panda 2 it’s arguably the best one
One of my favorite parts actually comes in the credits. It's the still of Po showing a group of children the scroll, fast tracking them on an important lesson originally slated for enlightened masters.
This movie is so good and somehow the second one is just as good if not better.
I kinda wish you showed your reaction to Po revealing his self-hatred, but overall, I'm glad you got to this series
This is the quality content I've been wanting from my favourite vtube reactor
Alicia: Character X is my favorite character!
Character X: Aight, Imma head out.
Yoooo Monty! I know him from Red vs Blue! A legend! Rest in peace!
I heard it once that Kung Fu panda 1 is about parenthood. How parents are strict or distant or smothering, but their child grows at their own pace and that they don't need to earn your love, they are worthy of love just the way they are.
Heres something about the bridge fight. The Furious 5 used Shifu's advice from the begining. Tigress fought more ferociously, Viper slithered underneath the bridge to het the drop on Tai Lung, Monkey hit the dash and sped his ass over there, and Crane hit from above.
Also if you watch Tigress and Tai Lung as they talk, Tigress is constantly adjusting her position and looking down. Where as Tai Lung was walking by with no issue. Showing the difference in their levels
Something I really love about the Tai Lung vs The Five fight is that The Five objectively won, but Tai lung is just built different and requires more than just ropes to be defeated .
2nd movie is the best of all 4.
Viper and Mantis come around alot sooner because both of them relate to the experience of being thought of as lesser due to physical attributes, Mantis mentions his size, and, now i dont know if they actually had this in mind when making the film, but its revealed in a short released later that Viper was born without fangs, and on top of that her father is a deadly warrior known for his "poison fang technique", so she grew up in a family where it was considered important to have them.
Tai Ling saw himself and said “it’s nothing”. That’s the message of the movie, you are the best you, you can be. To change yourself you must first believe in yourself.
To Tai Lung his strength always lied in the scroll, it was supposed to complete him. So when he saw only himself, “nothing” in the scroll, everything he was and thought he was, shattered. Po on the other-hand had always only known himself and like Tai Lung, believed everything he wanted lied in the scroll. But because he knew who he was, even if it took him time, he could understand the message of the scroll. You might think it’s cheesy but knowing who you are is by no means easy and can take a lifetime to discover.
Next one is even better
Dead Fantasy mentioned woo! Rest in peace Monty, you were a choreography and animation genius
Can’t wait for you to see the 2nd one that ones definitely my favorite
I was 5 when this came out and it was would like an everyone weekend at least bedtime film always was a belter of a film to watch with the lights oot and got to see the rest in cinemas😁
Not saying that he deserves to be acknowledged as a good dad(he really is a great dad)... but it is Shifu's fault Tai Lung ended up that way. Shifu gassed him up for so long saying he was the dragon warrior and then he didn't even try to cheer him up or tell him it was okay when he wasn't. Tai-Lung isn't justified but he's understandable and It IS Shifu's fault. I think more people need acknowledge fault as something being a fault. That said I wished their relationship resolved for the better, Shifu was still a great father even with his faults
The various Tex fights in RvB are my favorite Monty works.
Also my favorite part of the training montage is that Shifu is finally, genuinely smiling.
Everybody was kung fu fighting
Kung-Fu Panda was SO much better than it had any right to be. You have to feel for Tai Lung… even though he went SKADOOSH
I think my favorite detail of the movie is that Shifu caused Tai Lung to escape, because if he never sent the messenger, the feather would've never fallen down into the prison.
20:40 alicia: i love this character!
(character imedatly dies horribly)
alicia stop loving things, your love is killing them! close your heart to them elf gal! XD
2nd: new villain
3rd: Po's True father and back story
4th: Po's replacement as Dragon Warrior
Tai Lung is such an underrated Dreamworks villain.
I love how he fits so neatly into the theme of "self-worth" the movie has.
Like Po, his entire sense of purpose was built around what others thought of him, mainly Shifu. He pushed himself to his physical and mental limit just to make Shifu proud by becoming the Dragon Warrior, only to realise it was all for nothing & Shifu had simply filled his adopted son's head with his own dreams and vanity.
You can even see in the scene where Po lays out his own insecuritied to Shifu, the latter stares off into space for a second; perhaps wondering if this is how all his stundents, even Tai Lung, felt while he trained them
Heck, even Tigress starts to soften up once she realises the kind of inner turmoil Po had and that her comments to him about not taking Kung Fu seriously, really hurt him.
And the moment Tai Lung opens the Dragon Scroll and says "It's nothing!" is like the perfect metaphor for his character. He genuinely believes he's nothing deep down and its what fuels his rage.
12:30 and lucy liu is viper