I’m consistently impressed by the lengths Star Wars fans will go to avoid having to admit that maybe a series designed to sell toys was maybe just not very well thought out.
@@FactFiend Lucas should have just explained the difference in Vader-Kenobi duels in the most obvious, manga/anime-ish way one could: since the fight is between two Jedi masters, the action is happening on both a visible level using lightsabers and on an invisible level using the Force. Each one is using the Force to constrict the movement of the other. So, it would make sense that they were moving slowly and deliberately.
@@FactFiend I mean, that's not even what I'm trying to do when I defend Star Wars. I know for a fact it's not well thought out. I'm just here thinking about the _in story_ reasons why things are the way they are. Obi-Wan and Vader may not have crossed blades in a long time, but they acknowledged each other as a threat. And unlike the flynning you see in Western swordplay, the Japanese sport of kendo (which the original movies' fights were based on) is all about getting your opponent to overthink and second guess. Get them to block to the side when you strike at their head and you win. Plus, Vader is scary during his speed walk in Rogue One, but downright *_menacing_* in the original trilogy with Joe he power walks everywhere. Finding things to nitpick in a movie is easy. Appreciating it anyways is not something to be mocked.
Funny thing about Chow Yun Fat, he has a penchant for just popping up chilling out in weird places in Hong Kong. I've met him on a hike, in a random dim sum restaurant, and in a quiet noodle joint. And every time, I do a double take, because it's just like 'surely not,' but nope, it's international action star Chow Yun Fat chatting with my elderly grandmother about old movies halfway up a mountain, or politely accepting some offered siu mai off my family's table, or slurping noodles while talking to half a dozen people about the movies he's made. Wholesome guy. Real Keanu Reeves type. And I'm not the only one. He does this to EVERYBODY.
A few years back, there was a typhoon that tore through China. A random person saw a lone man clearing fallen debris (trees and stuff. Not light) from the road. He was filming the guy and was like "This is what it means to be a good person." And the man turned around and it was Chow Yun Fat and the person that was filming couldn't believe it. When interviewed, he was like "Someone's gotta clear the road. People will get hurt."
^ you all are 100% right, all of those did happen. And what I love about it is no matter what language you watch it in English, Chinese, Hindi, German, whatever, it’s 100% universally funny. And again, teleportation and no one in the mentioned it, that hows epic the entire scene was. God damn that Bruce Lee reference, that was a gourmet Michelin Star chef’s touch
Kung-fu Hustle is a fantastic movie. It has such a good contrast of hilarious high jinx and seriously cool fight scenes. Definitely one of my favorite films. Thanks for telling Yuen Qiu's story. So cool.
17:32 The previous characters for karate used to mean Chinese hand before it came to Japan. It used to be called tote, which was another way to Chinese hand. When it started to gain ground in Japan, the character for Chinese changed to "empty" yet kept the pronunciation "kara" to call empty hand. On top of that, the martial skills of China are called wu shu, or in Japanese bujutsu. Kung fu essentially means a skill(s) acquired through diligence, hard practice and utilising practical application of said skill.
That is the exact reason I really love martial arts movies _from the origin countries_ of those styles. Especially when they also either respect the personal style of the main actor (like Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan) or replicate a specific style in a bio pic (like Donnie Yen replicating Ip Man despite his personal style being - slightly - different). The most important things are a good choreography (that can also include meticulously planned sets and camera placements, like the bathroom fight in _The Raid)_ and not cutting everything down to fractions of seconds per shot. I really have no real preference to any specific region or genre, but some of my favorite films are the _Kozure Okami_ (Lone Wolf and Cup) movie series (not so much the tv series) with Tomisaburō Wakayama and _Lady Snowblood_ with Meiko Kaji for the Japanese cinema (and yes, it's more Samurai style than the predomoinantly unarmed martial arts of Hong Kong cinema); baiscally the whole (Hong Kong) movie catalogue of Bruce Lee, the _Police Story_ movies with Jackie Chan (as they are both more modern in setting and more serious than Jet Li's _Fearless,_ which I also like very much) - but his special, a bit goofy style is generally just cool. Lastly, I like most of Donnie Yen's work for the more "real" Kung Fu genre. Despite some general problems with the Wuxia genre, I do like some movies (like Ang Lee's _Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,_ - which surprisingly featured Chow Yun-fat in a martial arts role, _Hero_ or - most lately - Donnie Yen's _Sakra)._ As for other martial arts: There is no better actor the Tony Jaa in Muay Thai, and this martial art lacks the history and prestige of Kung Fu (due to Hong Kong cinema). Tony Jaa is also the protagonist in my favourite martial arts scene ever: The stairway fight in _Tom-Yum-Goong_ (distributed as _The Protector_ in the US, _Warrior King_ in the UK, _Revenge of the Warrior_ in Germany and several other titles in different countries). That being said, it's always refreshing to see those rare examples of brilliantly choreogaphed action, sensible and impactful cuts and good martial arts in a Hollywood movie - movies which strt of with a low budget but -un- surprisingly often become absurdly successful - see _John Wick._
I can give you an explanation on that "Never back down" sweaty commentary. I had a suspicion about this, but it was confirmed when I checked the filming location, which turned out to be Orlando Florida. Thing about Florida in general is that it is extremely humid over here. A lot of people can adapt to it, but people new to the location tend to react to the "humid heat" case in point, my sister came down for thanksgiving. She never sweats up north during a workout even in the summer. Ihe indoor humidity in my local gym was enough to get her sweating on a very light warmup to a boxing class. This happened multiple times when she was here and working out, wasn't a one off.
You mentioning "throw away the gun when you're done", it makes me think of borderlands, one of the perks, when you reload, you chuck your gun at enemies as it's now a grenade and you get a replacement gun teleported into your hands.
Switching to a new gun instead of reloading is now called a New York reload. Best theory is A New York minute and B, a jeweler in new york who preferred to use revolvers. He started off with two, his second robbery he had four under the counter. The practice was eventually taken up by some of the NYPD's specialist units (idk what they were/are called, no, not swat)
Sorry to be one of those "erm acksually" people, but the Landlord in Kung Fu Hustle was Yuen Wah, another of the Seven Little Fortunes. Betty from Kung Pow was another actor.
I quite like the reload in Equilibrium; it's not spectacular but it is both unexpected and so perfectly on point for the universe they're in. Up the sleeve with a little claw thing to push it into place. Not my favourite, but it is a good 'situational surprise' thing.
This entire movie was one of my absolute favorites growing up. Unfortunately my aunt that is passed away now but her youngest son And I would watch that over and over again.
I play a lot of tabletop roleplaying, and I think every martial arts-style character I've ever created have been directly based on the various hidden secret masters of Kung Fu Hustle.
Please tell me you know the ttrpg Feng shui... If you don't, grab a copy. It's role playing in Hong Kong action movies. One of the faction leaders is a giant cybernetic ape named Battlechimp Potemkin.
I remember the first time I saw Kung Fu Hustle I had tears in my eyes. It was so funny and so well made! To learn the martial artists in the film were actual former stars getting another shot in the limelight is just wonderful to hear!
I highly recommend his older movies too. Stephen Chow has made so many movies ([almost] all of them funny and ridiculous) that every weekend here in Taiwan, I'll turn on the TV and another one of his movies is on.
On the Kung Fu Hustle DVD you can see her friend's audition tape, and she's in the back reading a paper looking annoyed. And THE BEST gun scene is Tiger on Beat with Chow Yun Fat directed by the legendary Lau Kar Leung, using the rope in the shotgun trigger trick. never to be copied.
That makes so much sense now, that Darth Vader’s duels were done by a fencing master. Like the prequels had way more warrior-style sword brawls, but in the original trilogy there was raw intimidation from the obvious skill difference Vader had (and how obvious it was that he held back in the final fight)
She basically quit the industry coz there wasn't any opportunity for women in the HK movie industry... It was a shame that she wasn't really around when Michelle Yeoh was living it up back in the late 80s early 90s
@@elroma7712 She basically quit the industry for a while coz there wasn't any opportunity for women in the HK movie industry... It was a shame that she wasn't really around when Michelle Yeoh was living it up back in the late 80s early 90s
The "throw the gun away" thing is a phenomenon known as a "New York Reload". It's something that allows for a higher rate of fire (and less down-time) than reloading a pistol with a speed loader or manually. And can actually allow more steady fire than even mag-fed reloads.
I remember my first time seeing this I was in a “fun” hole and man this film was just stuck in my head for years it’s amazing and show it to everyone possible
My favorite interview bit on the DVD extras of this movie is the director said he wanted to do a live action Looney Tunes road runner bit for a chase scene
I absolutely love Kung Fu Hustle. That is one of those movie I will ALWAYS laugh when I watch it. Also if you ever watched any Kung Fu movies you will see how much love and care every one working on or in has for them. Just fantastic.
Correction on one thing: Betty(in kung pow) aka wu ting chu (The Savage Killers 1976) was portrayed by Lung Fei not Yeun Wah. The resemblance makes it an understandable mixup.
I saw Kung Fu Hustle on tv as a kid and never been able to forget the movie itself, but didn't know the title and whenever I asked, people either didn't know from my description, didn't know the title either or brought up other movies that didn't even come near to the over-the-top-ness of kung fu hussle. So thanks, now I can finally rewatch this masterpiece whenever I want :D
Headcannon: The in-universe reason the lightsaber duels are crap in the original trilogy is that both combatants are furiously trying to switch the other's lightsaber off or pull the others lightsaber with the force and the actual strikes are just moments of opportunity.
My god, one of the funniest damn reloads. Comes out of nowhere, and no one questions it. The Scary Movie franchise was already starting to feel a little stale by that point (imo) but that reloading shovel scene still gets a good chuckle out of me. 😅
I remember when this came out trying to pick and promote it to everyone I possibly could just to get it more out there. I saw it in theaters during a film festival and absolutely loved it. To this day still my all time favorite, all these years later.
Fun fact, did you know that the mocap and voice actor of Dante from Devil May Cry - Reuben Langdon was in the same movie with Jackie Chan? The movie is called the medallion - a pretty meh movie but I kept getting butterflies watching Reuben Langdon and Jackie Chan on the screen together.
I know part of the reason the fight between Obi Wan and Darth Vader in A New Hope is kinda clunky is because the props kept falling apart. They had better ones in the next movie, which could be one of the reasons Luke and Vader's duel is way better.
David Prowse was also worried about hurting Alec Guinness. He's a big guy, doubly so when you consider his bodybuilder and weightlifter background, and facing a 60 year old man, and a highly distinguished and knighted one at that.
As a kid in the 70s I grew up with "The Water Margin"....the uncensored version....that had a female lead character who was every bit a bad ass and equal to the male ones . My favourite Chinese film is though the excellent comedy Mr. Vampire.
Got the DVD, loved the DVD and will always love the choreography. Also the tailor was just brilliant....also, also her selection is part of the extras bibliography.
Speaking on throwing the gun away rather than reloading it, my personal favorite example of that is from borderlands 2, where one of the gun manufacturers has explosive guns that you throw away when the clip is empty and then a new exact copy of the gun materializes in your hands.
9:53 I just imagine that age also catches up with the Sith and Jedi... When they were young they zipped and zapped... With older age those lightsabres were as heavy as greatswords 😂
Fun video. The "umm actually" moment for me was Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness in S-Mart. He tossed a cowboy gun - a lever-action rifle that he grabbed and just proceeded to unload on the Deadites.
Speaking of shotguns, the Terminator after shooting the car that Sara and Kyle are in in the parking garage, the Terminator uses slugs, chambers a shell outside the car with one hand and I've deduced that there Terminator had to reload at least 4/5 times with the amount of shells he uses during that last section of the chase. You can even see that after Kyle moves Sara from being shot, there is a gaping hole in the windshield where her head was before Kyle moved her out of instinct. Plus, The Terminator mainly focuses on shooting Sara and not Kyle. Kyle also has way less ammo than the Terminator. So his shots have to be on point and more scarce. Though both models are Ithica 37s, Kyle's has a bigger magazine tube.
The way I heard it. The reason the lightsaber fights were slow and clunky in the originals was because they were all old men and cripples. And Luke was just learning. In the Luke Veder fight you can see Luke is faster while Veder is more tactical using the force to throw things because he didn't have the speed anymore
I had no idea she was in that James Bond film! For the OG light saber fights, I think of it like this. Obi-Wan and Vader are beyond what was considered master Jedi. The reason they didn't do all those extravagant moves they used in the prequels is the same reason master Samurai will stare at each other across a bridge. They're actually trying 100 moves in their had from the smallest, old man movements. It may not look exciting to us, but oh boy, if only you could read their minds! For the last question, whatever the coolest reload scene in Equilibrium was.
Kung Fu Hustle might actually be the funniest kung fu movie of all time; easy 10/10 recommend for the watch. All the funnier that netflix at least in my country has every dub except english lmao.
I always thought the lightsaber choreography made sense in universe, qui gon gin is supposed to be the greatest jedi duelist, meanwhile lukes only training with the lightsaber was learning to feel the force by defending himself from the mosquito zapper droid. so of course he swings on old man vader like its a baseball bat, Im surprised he wasn't like "MOS EISLY M*****F*****!"
If you have any friend that says NO to the question "have you seen Kung Fu hustle?' you need to be a better friend lol. KFH is the epitome of cult classics. Anyone mentioning it as their favorite movie is a chad❤
In regards to the New Hope Vader vs Obi-Wan fight, a fan did an amazing cinema quality reimagining of the fight (SC 38 Reimagined) is the title here on UA-cam. It is Beyond Amazing 👏 and it really looks like Alec Guinness fighting
I have loved both Kung Fu Hustle and Kung Pow for so long and never realized Master Betty and the Landlord were the same actor. That blew my mind for a minute.
Id like to mention a quick moment in one of Donnie Yen's movies where he does Guile's grab on a guy ? Plus theres a sad/wholesome scene where he plays KOF with a guy he hurt too much.
I used to watch these movies as a kid, and it became my typical "oh they're from this movie" even if I saw older films haha. Greatest set of movies to get someone into martial arts films too. I only watched the ip man series because I was so into kungfu hustle, Shaolin soccer, and to a lesser extent kung pao. Kung pao to me was an ugly duckling and it flew over my head for the longest time that it was intentionally bad dubbing haha.
Remember the dark tower: gunslinger movie? If you read the books you'd think the movie would feature some of the best reload shots ever.. they screwed that movie up so bad
The ... moral of Shaolin Soccer IS MY LIFE! I put a little Zen and Wu in everything I do. Walk around a crowd? Crain striding to outpace them. Dropped a glass bowl? I'd snap a toe kick (Karate) to deflect the motion across the floor instead of into it. If I wanted to move faster than the group crossing the street I applied Aikido fast evasion to slip through them. Getting charged at by a dog? Wing Chun horse stance, forward center kick to the head, neck or chest and pivot step as it passes under me. And I've gotten good hand strength from one-handing dictionaries while walking to the front of the library. Good legs from the eight pound ankle weights I worked construction in through ages 20 to 23.
My biggest issue with Star Wars 4 is that why wouldn't Obi Wan keep up his physical form as well as his mental? I did martial arts for years and a 75 year old man joined. He was frail and slow. As you'd expect. But... I left to study with a different school and I came back a few years later to say hi to everyone and here was this 80 year old man, no longer frail, no longer weak and slow. He was now teaching and it was apparent just by looking at him that he commanded respect, that he was as fit as a teenager. I was so proud of him. Point of the story, martial arts is one of the best things you can do for yourself. I suppose it doesn't matter which one, but if they don't emphasize breathing then it's probably not very good.
It’s ironic because it was originally called “welcome to the jungle” and they changed it to the rundown, and then the rock did jamunji: welcome to the jungle
my understanding is the in more recent starwars media, its said that lightsabers do have some decent weight, but its all obviously in the hilt so it barely matters
I don't remember which movie it is right off, but it was one of John Wu's films that I'd seen the best reload in. The shot was filmed in reverse actually, but the effect was that they character had a handful of rounds and tossed them all into the revolver simultaneously. Unfortunately it's been a long time since I've seen those films, but it had to be either The Killer, Hardboiled, or Bullet in the Head.
At least we can explain away slow Vader, he was terrified of Obi Wan who keeps kicking his arse, so this time he was way more calculating and hesitant
I’m consistently impressed by the lengths Star Wars fans will go to avoid having to admit that maybe a series designed to sell toys was maybe just not very well thought out.
@FactFiend just like people saying cartoons in the 80s/90s were better, even tho most were just 21-minute long toy commercials 🤣
@@FactFiend Lucas should have just explained the difference in Vader-Kenobi duels in the most obvious, manga/anime-ish way one could: since the fight is between two Jedi masters, the action is happening on both a visible level using lightsabers and on an invisible level using the Force. Each one is using the Force to constrict the movement of the other. So, it would make sense that they were moving slowly and deliberately.
@calmvibes3709 or an even funnier anime level explanation "they're moving so fast, my eyes can't keep up!" 🤣🤣🤣
@@FactFiend I mean, that's not even what I'm trying to do when I defend Star Wars. I know for a fact it's not well thought out. I'm just here thinking about the _in story_ reasons why things are the way they are.
Obi-Wan and Vader may not have crossed blades in a long time, but they acknowledged each other as a threat. And unlike the flynning you see in Western swordplay, the Japanese sport of kendo (which the original movies' fights were based on) is all about getting your opponent to overthink and second guess. Get them to block to the side when you strike at their head and you win.
Plus, Vader is scary during his speed walk in Rogue One, but downright *_menacing_* in the original trilogy with Joe he power walks everywhere.
Finding things to nitpick in a movie is easy. Appreciating it anyways is not something to be mocked.
Funny thing about Chow Yun Fat, he has a penchant for just popping up chilling out in weird places in Hong Kong.
I've met him on a hike, in a random dim sum restaurant, and in a quiet noodle joint.
And every time, I do a double take, because it's just like 'surely not,' but nope, it's international action star Chow Yun Fat chatting with my elderly grandmother about old movies halfway up a mountain, or politely accepting some offered siu mai off my family's table, or slurping noodles while talking to half a dozen people about the movies he's made.
Wholesome guy. Real Keanu Reeves type.
And I'm not the only one. He does this to EVERYBODY.
Bored God Energy
Im now refering to kind gentle souls - who can absolutely kick my ass as having bored god energy @ShankMugen
A few years back, there was a typhoon that tore through China. A random person saw a lone man clearing fallen debris (trees and stuff. Not light) from the road. He was filming the guy and was like "This is what it means to be a good person." And the man turned around and it was Chow Yun Fat and the person that was filming couldn't believe it. When interviewed, he was like "Someone's gotta clear the road. People will get hurt."
My all time favorite scene is the car scene after the harpist encounter. The Land Lady teleported into the car and NO ONE acknowledges it.
What else would they do? Lol
Her husband teleported to the front seat!
The right hand man getting mad at the henchmen walking up to them is always the best. XD
^ you all are 100% right, all of those did happen. And what I love about it is no matter what language you watch it in English, Chinese, Hindi, German, whatever, it’s 100% universally funny. And again, teleportation and no one in the mentioned it, that hows epic the entire scene was.
God damn that Bruce Lee reference, that was a gourmet Michelin Star chef’s touch
I always saw that as them being stupidly fast to the point of cartoon logic like the rest of the movie.
I can't explain why, but this feels like we're back to the origins of Fact Fiend and I'm totally here for the nostalgia trip
Kung-fu Hustle is a fantastic movie. It has such a good contrast of hilarious high jinx and seriously cool fight scenes. Definitely one of my favorite films. Thanks for telling Yuen Qiu's story. So cool.
10/10🎉 I'll be watching at again tomorrow
I swear i can watch that knife scene 100 times in a row and will be in tears and stitches every single time!! Such a great flick!
reminds me of ace ventura taking the spears to the knees, peak physical comedy
I always flinch.
Who's throwing handles?
Who's throwing knife handles
It made me laugh so damn hard when he puts the knife back in.
Imagine telling Jackie Chan to be eye candy. They did this actress dirty
17:32 The previous characters for karate used to mean Chinese hand before it came to Japan. It used to be called tote, which was another way to Chinese hand. When it started to gain ground in Japan, the character for Chinese changed to "empty" yet kept the pronunciation "kara" to call empty hand. On top of that, the martial skills of China are called wu shu, or in Japanese bujutsu. Kung fu essentially means a skill(s) acquired through diligence, hard practice and utilising practical application of said skill.
Karate was also heavily influenced by Ryukyuan/Okinawan Té, which is why Okinawan Karate has its own unique flavor.
Underrated comment.
That is the exact reason I really love martial arts movies _from the origin countries_ of those styles. Especially when they also either respect the personal style of the main actor (like Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan) or replicate a specific style in a bio pic (like Donnie Yen replicating Ip Man despite his personal style being - slightly - different). The most important things are a good choreography (that can also include meticulously planned sets and camera placements, like the bathroom fight in _The Raid)_ and not cutting everything down to fractions of seconds per shot.
I really have no real preference to any specific region or genre, but some of my favorite films are the _Kozure Okami_ (Lone Wolf and Cup) movie series (not so much the tv series) with Tomisaburō Wakayama and _Lady Snowblood_ with Meiko Kaji for the Japanese cinema (and yes, it's more Samurai style than the predomoinantly unarmed martial arts of Hong Kong cinema); baiscally the whole (Hong Kong) movie catalogue of Bruce Lee, the _Police Story_ movies with Jackie Chan (as they are both more modern in setting and more serious than Jet Li's _Fearless,_ which I also like very much) - but his special, a bit goofy style is generally just cool. Lastly, I like most of Donnie Yen's work for the more "real" Kung Fu genre. Despite some general problems with the Wuxia genre, I do like some movies (like Ang Lee's _Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,_ - which surprisingly featured Chow Yun-fat in a martial arts role, _Hero_ or - most lately - Donnie Yen's _Sakra)._ As for other martial arts: There is no better actor the Tony Jaa in Muay Thai, and this martial art lacks the history and prestige of Kung Fu (due to Hong Kong cinema). Tony Jaa is also the protagonist in my favourite martial arts scene ever: The stairway fight in _Tom-Yum-Goong_ (distributed as _The Protector_ in the US, _Warrior King_ in the UK, _Revenge of the Warrior_ in Germany and several other titles in different countries).
That being said, it's always refreshing to see those rare examples of brilliantly choreogaphed action, sensible and impactful cuts and good martial arts in a Hollywood movie - movies which strt of with a low budget but -un- surprisingly often become absurdly successful - see _John Wick._
I love this movie so much. Its great she took the roll. It was perfect for her and she made it look so good.
I can give you an explanation on that "Never back down" sweaty commentary.
I had a suspicion about this, but it was confirmed when I checked the filming location, which turned out to be Orlando Florida.
Thing about Florida in general is that it is extremely humid over here. A lot of people can adapt to it, but people new to the location tend to react to the "humid heat"
case in point, my sister came down for thanksgiving. She never sweats up north during a workout even in the summer.
Ihe indoor humidity in my local gym was enough to get her sweating on a very light warmup to a boxing class. This happened multiple times when she was here and working out, wasn't a one off.
Further Clarification: My sister lives in New York, she's lived there since graduating college over 10 years ago.
In defence of the name karate kid, the kid keeps calling it that and every time Jackie Chan corrects him and calls it Kung fu.
You mentioning "throw away the gun when you're done", it makes me think of borderlands, one of the perks, when you reload, you chuck your gun at enemies as it's now a grenade and you get a replacement gun teleported into your hands.
Switching to a new gun instead of reloading is now called a New York reload. Best theory is A New York minute and B, a jeweler in new york who preferred to use revolvers. He started off with two, his second robbery he had four under the counter. The practice was eventually taken up by some of the NYPD's specialist units (idk what they were/are called, no, not swat)
Kung Fu Hustle was such a sleeper but I'm so glad it's getting the love it deserves.
Sorry to be one of those "erm acksually" people, but the Landlord in Kung Fu Hustle was Yuen Wah, another of the Seven Little Fortunes. Betty from Kung Pow was another actor.
I quite like the reload in Equilibrium; it's not spectacular but it is both unexpected and so perfectly on point for the universe they're in. Up the sleeve with a little claw thing to push it into place. Not my favourite, but it is a good 'situational surprise' thing.
They also have the ones where he throws the reloads into the hall at the start of the fight and lands both his guns on the clips.
This entire movie was one of my absolute favorites growing up. Unfortunately my aunt that is passed away now but her youngest son And I would watch that over and over again.
I play a lot of tabletop roleplaying, and I think every martial arts-style character I've ever created have been directly based on the various hidden secret masters of Kung Fu Hustle.
Please tell me you know the ttrpg Feng shui... If you don't, grab a copy. It's role playing in Hong Kong action movies.
One of the faction leaders is a giant cybernetic ape named Battlechimp Potemkin.
I remember the first time I saw Kung Fu Hustle I had tears in my eyes. It was so funny and so well made! To learn the martial artists in the film were actual former stars getting another shot in the limelight is just wonderful to hear!
I highly recommend his older movies too. Stephen Chow has made so many movies ([almost] all of them funny and ridiculous) that every weekend here in Taiwan, I'll turn on the TV and another one of his movies is on.
On the Kung Fu Hustle DVD you can see her friend's audition tape, and she's in the back reading a paper looking annoyed. And THE BEST gun scene is Tiger on Beat with Chow Yun Fat directed by the legendary Lau Kar Leung, using the rope in the shotgun trigger trick. never to be copied.
That makes so much sense now, that Darth Vader’s duels were done by a fencing master. Like the prequels had way more warrior-style sword brawls, but in the original trilogy there was raw intimidation from the obvious skill difference Vader had (and how obvious it was that he held back in the final fight)
She was awesome in KH. Its a shame that we lost her for so long.
She died?
@@elroma7712 What?! I hope not!
She basically quit the industry coz there wasn't any opportunity for women in the HK movie industry... It was a shame that she wasn't really around when Michelle Yeoh was living it up back in the late 80s early 90s
@@elroma7712 She basically quit the industry for a while coz there wasn't any opportunity for women in the HK movie industry... It was a shame that she wasn't really around when Michelle Yeoh was living it up back in the late 80s early 90s
I hope you guys talk about Jet Li's "The One" someday.
That movie embodies the 2000's cheese and I love it
I can contribute!!! The Landlord is Yuen Wah, Betty is Wong Fei Lung!!
A very underappreciated quote from George Lucas, to summarize:
There are more regulations for movie making in Hollywood than in the Soviet Union.
Regulations means protections for the cast and crew. Regulations aren't a bad thing
Regulations like "ooh, CGI in a weird space monster in the background here. I always felt like there should be a weird space monster here."
@@jeremyofficer5038 In some cases i'd agree. In some cases there are regulations that are absolutely idiotic.
In the Soviet Union no one gave a shit if you died.
You looking forward for being buried under a highway?
@@GeebusCrustit’s his movies, he can do what he wants with them
They don’t even effect the movies themselves lmao
The "throw the gun away" thing is a phenomenon known as a "New York Reload".
It's something that allows for a higher rate of fire (and less down-time) than reloading a pistol with a speed loader or manually.
And can actually allow more steady fire than even mag-fed reloads.
That movie is literally just live action looney tunes
It’s amazing
Kung fu hustle brings back core memories, brilliant video
I hear "Kung Fu Hustle" and especially talking about Yuen Qiu, I gotta upvote and everything. RIP the amazing landlady.
RIP? The character doesn't die and the actress is still alive.
I remember my first time seeing this I was in a “fun” hole and man this film was just stuck in my head for years it’s amazing and show it to everyone possible
My favorite interview bit on the DVD extras of this movie is the director said he wanted to do a live action Looney Tunes road runner bit for a chase scene
I absolutely love Kung Fu Hustle. That is one of those movie I will ALWAYS laugh when I watch it. Also if you ever watched any Kung Fu movies you will see how much love and care every one working on or in has for them.
Just fantastic.
Correction on one thing: Betty(in kung pow) aka wu ting chu (The Savage Killers 1976) was portrayed by Lung Fei not Yeun Wah. The resemblance makes it an understandable mixup.
I love Kung Fu Hustle so damn much! I feel like I wanna watch it every time that I see it mentioned/discussed in a video.
Kung Fu Hustle is a scream, and the landlady steals the whole movie.
The road-runner-esque chase scene is just fantastic.
I never get tired of her.
I saw Kung Fu Hustle on tv as a kid and never been able to forget the movie itself, but didn't know the title and whenever I asked, people either didn't know from my description, didn't know the title either or brought up other movies that didn't even come near to the over-the-top-ness of kung fu hussle. So thanks, now I can finally rewatch this masterpiece whenever I want :D
Headcannon: The in-universe reason the lightsaber duels are crap in the original trilogy is that both combatants are furiously trying to switch the other's lightsaber off or pull the others lightsaber with the force and the actual strikes are just moments of opportunity.
Other suggestion: they're both old men
greatest reloading scene is from Scary Movie 3. The shovel.
My god, one of the funniest damn reloads. Comes out of nowhere, and no one questions it. The Scary Movie franchise was already starting to feel a little stale by that point (imo) but that reloading shovel scene still gets a good chuckle out of me. 😅
i love the relode from the first laura croft movie, the thigh mounted mags
Yeah, buddy taking his tie off in that Jackie Chan scene was funny AF.
The first time I watched Kung Fu Hustle I fell in love with her character. Even on rewatches she's still badass and I adore her.
I remember when this came out trying to pick and promote it to everyone I possibly could just to get it more out there. I saw it in theaters during a film festival and absolutely loved it. To this day still my all time favorite, all these years later.
Fun fact, did you know that the mocap and voice actor of Dante from Devil May Cry - Reuben Langdon was in the same movie with Jackie Chan? The movie is called the medallion - a pretty meh movie but I kept getting butterflies watching Reuben Langdon and Jackie Chan on the screen together.
I know part of the reason the fight between Obi Wan and Darth Vader in A New Hope is kinda clunky is because the props kept falling apart. They had better ones in the next movie, which could be one of the reasons Luke and Vader's duel is way better.
David Prowse was also worried about hurting Alec Guinness. He's a big guy, doubly so when you consider his bodybuilder and weightlifter background, and facing a 60 year old man, and a highly distinguished and knighted one at that.
As a kid in the 70s I grew up with "The Water Margin"....the uncensored version....that had a female lead character who was every bit a bad ass and equal to the male ones .
My favourite Chinese film is though the excellent comedy Mr. Vampire.
This channel deserves 5 mil
I've been saying that for 4 years
Got the DVD, loved the DVD and will always love the choreography. Also the tailor was just brilliant....also, also her selection is part of the extras bibliography.
Welp. I know what I’m watching when I get home
Speaking on throwing the gun away rather than reloading it, my personal favorite example of that is from borderlands 2, where one of the gun manufacturers has explosive guns that you throw away when the clip is empty and then a new exact copy of the gun materializes in your hands.
9:53 I just imagine that age also catches up with the Sith and Jedi... When they were young they zipped and zapped... With older age those lightsabres were as heavy as greatswords 😂
the fact that i cant get an fact fiend fart asmr has just ruined my day maybe the rest of my life thanks karl XD
Fun video. The "umm actually" moment for me was Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness in S-Mart. He tossed a cowboy gun - a lever-action rifle that he grabbed and just proceeded to unload on the Deadites.
Speaking of shotguns, the Terminator after shooting the car that Sara and Kyle are in in the parking garage, the Terminator uses slugs, chambers a shell outside the car with one hand and I've deduced that there Terminator had to reload at least 4/5 times with the amount of shells he uses during that last section of the chase. You can even see that after Kyle moves Sara from being shot, there is a gaping hole in the windshield where her head was before Kyle moved her out of instinct. Plus, The Terminator mainly focuses on shooting Sara and not Kyle. Kyle also has way less ammo than the Terminator. So his shots have to be on point and more scarce. Though both models are Ithica 37s, Kyle's has a bigger magazine tube.
There are very few movies I love more than Kung Fu Hustle. It is brilliant and absurd perfection.
The way I heard it. The reason the lightsaber fights were slow and clunky in the originals was because they were all old men and cripples.
And Luke was just learning. In the Luke Veder fight you can see Luke is faster while Veder is more tactical using the force to throw things because he didn't have the speed anymore
More than 1 thing can be true at the same time =P
It's been so long since I watched it that I don't remember what the movie was about but indefinitely remember her
I had no idea she was in that James Bond film!
For the OG light saber fights, I think of it like this. Obi-Wan and Vader are beyond what was considered master Jedi. The reason they didn't do all those extravagant moves they used in the prequels is the same reason master Samurai will stare at each other across a bridge. They're actually trying 100 moves in their had from the smallest, old man movements.
It may not look exciting to us, but oh boy, if only you could read their minds!
For the last question, whatever the coolest reload scene in Equilibrium was.
Meanwhile Yoda is so far ahead he's just having fun
Yuen Qiu who plays the landlady was a bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun
Love this movie -
Even the dub , is hilarious.
Some lines might not of aged well but for me it's pure gold.
Kung Fu Hustle might actually be the funniest kung fu movie of all time; easy 10/10 recommend for the watch. All the funnier that netflix at least in my country has every dub except english lmao.
That knife scene had me crying with laughter first time I saw it.
I always thought the lightsaber choreography made sense in universe, qui gon gin is supposed to be the greatest jedi duelist, meanwhile lukes only training with the lightsaber was learning to feel the force by defending himself from the mosquito zapper droid. so of course he swings on old man vader like its a baseball bat, Im surprised he wasn't like "MOS EISLY M*****F*****!"
One of the BEST MOVIES EVER! love it, Thank you for going over it!
0:08 HELL YES I used to love this when i was younger
13:31 honestly one of if not my favourite punch in all of cinema. Mf didn’t see him nor did he see it coming he was just laid out
The Corridor Crew videos referred to are called Tacticool Reloads. They’ve made three and they’re all outrageous.
If you have any friend that says NO to the question "have you seen Kung Fu hustle?' you need to be a better friend lol. KFH is the epitome of cult classics. Anyone mentioning it as their favorite movie is a chad❤
In regards to the New Hope Vader vs Obi-Wan fight, a fan did an amazing cinema quality reimagining of the fight (SC 38 Reimagined) is the title here on UA-cam. It is Beyond Amazing 👏 and it really looks like Alec Guinness fighting
I have loved both Kung Fu Hustle and Kung Pow for so long and never realized Master Betty and the Landlord were the same actor. That blew my mind for a minute.
The video brad was talking about is called tacticool reloads by corridor
Id like to mention a quick moment in one of Donnie Yen's movies where he does Guile's grab on a guy ? Plus theres a sad/wholesome scene where he plays KOF with a guy he hurt too much.
fact fiend disappeared from my homepage a couple years ago, it's back here again, like shawty's a melody stuck in my head...
Chocolate is the most underrated awesome action movie ever. Would like to see the boys talk about it.
I looooove Kung-Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer.
If, in the next stream, Brad doesn't say that he has since watched Kung-fu Hustle, I'm gonna riot even if I have to do it alone
My favourite Stephen Chow films are the Fight Back to School trilogy he did,
I love Kung fu hustle. Now knowing the story of the land lady. I have to watch it again.
Among my friend circle, we called The Rundown "The Rockdown"
I used to watch these movies as a kid, and it became my typical "oh they're from this movie" even if I saw older films haha. Greatest set of movies to get someone into martial arts films too. I only watched the ip man series because I was so into kungfu hustle, Shaolin soccer, and to a lesser extent kung pao. Kung pao to me was an ugly duckling and it flew over my head for the longest time that it was intentionally bad dubbing haha.
Dropping an empty gun and using another loaded one is referred to as a "New York reload"
Double curveball: He actually loves Tuxedo for the plot, proof = it was on the tip of his tongue.
The best reload scene is somehow randomly the final gunfight scene of 1969 True Grit😂
Kung-fu hustle is my dads favorite movie when he was growing up and after he showed it to me i fell in love with it
The best gun reload has to be when Henry Cavil reloads his arms
Remember the dark tower: gunslinger movie? If you read the books you'd think the movie would feature some of the best reload shots ever.. they screwed that movie up so bad
The ... moral of Shaolin Soccer IS MY LIFE! I put a little Zen and Wu in everything I do. Walk around a crowd? Crain striding to outpace them. Dropped a glass bowl? I'd snap a toe kick (Karate) to deflect the motion across the floor instead of into it. If I wanted to move faster than the group crossing the street I applied Aikido fast evasion to slip through them. Getting charged at by a dog? Wing Chun horse stance, forward center kick to the head, neck or chest and pivot step as it passes under me. And I've gotten good hand strength from one-handing dictionaries while walking to the front of the library. Good legs from the eight pound ankle weights I worked construction in through ages 20 to 23.
My biggest issue with Star Wars 4 is that why wouldn't Obi Wan keep up his physical form as well as his mental? I did martial arts for years and a 75 year old man joined. He was frail and slow. As you'd expect. But... I left to study with a different school and I came back a few years later to say hi to everyone and here was this 80 year old man, no longer frail, no longer weak and slow. He was now teaching and it was apparent just by looking at him that he commanded respect, that he was as fit as a teenager. I was so proud of him. Point of the story, martial arts is one of the best things you can do for yourself. I suppose it doesn't matter which one, but if they don't emphasize breathing then it's probably not very good.
I wasn't planning on watching yet... but I saw The Land Lady and had to click.
The crazy reload videos were Tacticool reloads by the Corridor Digital crew
The landlady was the best character and nobody but Yuen Qiu could have pulled it off so well.
It’s ironic because it was originally called “welcome to the jungle” and they changed it to the rundown, and then the rock did jamunji: welcome to the jungle
Chow Yun-Fat does the throw-the-gun-away-reload in "The Replacement Killers"
Such an incredible film. The more I learn about it, the better it gets
my understanding is the in more recent starwars media, its said that lightsabers do have some decent weight, but its all obviously in the hilt so it barely matters
Oh, Hella, we're talkin about Kung Fu Hustle
I don't remember which movie it is right off, but it was one of John Wu's films that I'd seen the best reload in. The shot was filmed in reverse actually, but the effect was that they character had a handful of rounds and tossed them all into the revolver simultaneously. Unfortunately it's been a long time since I've seen those films, but it had to be either The Killer, Hardboiled, or Bullet in the Head.
"Please join my movie"
" no, fuck off- get off my property"
"PLEASE PLEAAAASE JOIN MY MOVIE YOUR PERFECT!!!"
"We're not going do that. We're gonna talk about Kung Fu Hustle"
Why not both?
Don't fly too close to the sun, my friend.
@@randomuploaderguy lmfao I can dream can't I?
What is Kung Fu Hustle if not the ASMR Farts of martial arts movies? Because it's the goddamn best