IP Man - Fighting the Thug

IP Man - Fighting the Thug

also, to everyone who has not seen the whole movie: go out and buy it! it's a MUST
It's one of the best movies I've seen in years, and I watch allot of movies! BUY IT

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Traditional:
葉問

Simplified:
叶问
Directed by:
Wilson Yip

Produced by:
Raymond Wong

Written by:
Edmond Wong

Starring:
Donnie Yen
Simon Yam
Lynn Hung
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Lam Ka-Tung


Cinematography
O Sing-Pui

Editing by
Cheung Ka-Fai

Distributed by
Hong Kong:
Mandarin Films Distribution Co. Ltd.
Singapore:
Cathay-Keris Films
Innoform Media
DVD release:
Universe Laser & Video (Hong Kong)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

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• movie
• bruce
• lee
• master
• teacher
• martial
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[samuellimmingchun]

@LongLiveTrueFreedom 3) P.S. the 20 punches thing is a movie thing. nobody (I hope) trains their students to punch more than.. 4-6 times depending on your lineage. We're encouraged to use a varying system of palm, elbow, finger strikes and kicks at different points of the body in an all out attack once you gain the upper hand.

Sorry for long reply and multiple posts, sorry for english, hope you find wing chun an interesting art to observe, maybe practice!

[samuellimmingchun]

@LongLiveTrueFreedom 2) the principle of quick counterattack is the precise reason for the quick punching. wing chun attacks are non-committal, which means they don't have the big arm swinging motions of, say Western boxing punches (no offence to boxers, getting punched by them still sucks :P ) hence once you get into a good position you don't want to risk it all on a single attack so therefore multiple attacks are the way to go. the punches are not weak (see point 1)

[samuellimmingchun]

@LongLiveTrueFreedom I would like to make a few comments to clear up the misunderstanding here, if you don't mind :)

1) the breathing technique is there, it is. it doesn't have the fa jing (shaking power) of some other arts like taichi or bagua, but wing chun centerline punches use many of the same principles, e.g. rooted to the ground, using your core muscles as well as your arms in a whip-like motion, etc, etc. Even the horse stance wing chun uses is similar.

[tofufication]

@MrSingaporeproductio Ip Man is speaking Cantonese, a dialect of Chinese. The northerners he's fighting speak Mandarin Chinese.

[tofufication]

@ScientificNoodles Hi! I'm Cantonese as well. The reason why the northerners look like this is just because they come from the mountainous areas. Northerners dressed very differently from those who live in the south. Even now, there are many villages like this in China. In the movie, not everyone was as well dressed as Ip Man. Others like the old man who served soup to the northerners didn't dress like that. Also, his house is very westernized, as you can see from the clothes his wife wears.

[tofufication]

@AWDracer Plus, as part of school research and stuff from library books that I've read, and also as just talks from my parents, the Japanese BACK THEN viewed the Chinese as low as dogs, such as the famous "No dogs or Chinese allowed" park sign put up during the Japanese occupation. The attitudes of the Japanese military officers are based off of this. Plus it's a patriotic movie, the Chinese of course would have to win in here.

[tofufication]

@AWDracer Being Chinese and born in China myself, I wouldn't say it's pure propaganda as well. It's a Chinese patriotic movie, about how the Chinese stood up for themselves during foreign invasion. A lot of Chinese from the older generation still bear resentment for the Japanese from the Sino-Japanese war, especially from incidents like the Rape of Nanjing/Nanking. But war breeds hate on both sides, and this is just from the Chinese perspective.

[AWDracer]

@BardockSjj10 Ah... thanks for the clarification. My mistake.

[BardockSjj10]

@AWDracer no it's actually the opposite, the first one is when japan took over fo shan and the 2nd one is when he goes to hong kong and the twister fight etc

[AWDracer]

@ScientificNoodles The first movie doesn't really deal with Japan at all, if I'm not mistakened. This one just had Twister/Sammo Hung.

The second one is the one with the Japanese Karate/General. I can't see the second being more well-received than the first one.