1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:04,320 (gentle music) 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:08,840 (bell dings) 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:13,640 (dramatic music) 4 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,560 (gong bongs) 5 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,240 (gentle music) 6 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:40,520 (man grunts) 7 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,120 - Martial arts has infected every form of media right now. 8 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:45,240 (man grunting) 9 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,440 - It's almost like a fever that you catch. 10 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:50,440 - [Man] It's a virus that's spread everywhere. 11 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:51,280 (man grunting) 12 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:52,240 - We're not fully aware of it 13 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,600 being there anymore, it's just there. 14 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:55,440 - Hey! 15 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:57,360 - And you watch a commercial, you watch a soap opera, 16 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:58,640 a music video, a kid's show. 17 00:00:58,720 --> 00:00:59,680 - Oh phooey! 18 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:01,760 - [Woman] So many video games, so many films. 19 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:03,960 - [Man] In music and dance. 20 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:05,760 - And it's a universal language. 21 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:06,560 (man grunts) 22 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,400 - But everyone takes what they need from it. 23 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:09,520 - We've twisted it. 24 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:10,720 We've remixed it. 25 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,840 - It truly has evolved 10 fold. 26 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,240 - I would never believe that Keanu Reeves would do Kung Fu, 27 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,520 that a kung fu movie would win an Oscar. 28 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:22,680 That just seemed impossible. 29 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:23,520 - Whoa. 30 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,320 (upbeat music) 31 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:27,120 - Ah! 32 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:28,200 (upbeat music) 33 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:29,040 (Bruce grunts) 34 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:34,120 (upbeat music) (men grunting) 35 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,600 (gentle music) 36 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,320 (grunting) (gentle music) 37 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,360 (swords clanging) (gentle music) 38 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:04,440 - Kung fu films are art, beauty, movement, legacy. 39 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:05,920 There's history. 40 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:08,480 (all grunting) 41 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,600 - They were based on Peking opera. 42 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,200 If you've ever seen an authentic Peking opera performance, 43 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:15,040 it's beautiful. 44 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,280 (gentle music) 45 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,280 - The beauty and the artifice and the elegance 46 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,640 and the style are all exactly what it's about. 47 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,440 - It was just all there like a dance, like a performance. 48 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,440 - Oftentimes the fight itself, 49 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,440 it's based on inherited stories 50 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,920 which are passed on generation to generation. 51 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,800 (dramatic music) 52 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,240 This was all to carry a forge into 53 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,760 the 20th Century particularly in Hong Kong. 54 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,600 (gong bongs) 55 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:51,520 - [Announcer] Hong Kong, 100 years ago 56 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:52,960 a rocky inhospitable island, 57 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,080 is today one of the world's busiest and most private cities. 58 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,480 Her new buildings match her new industries 59 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:01,080 producing goods which are sold across the world. 60 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,920 - Hong Kong was a place where everyone went 61 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,720 and they went there to make money. 62 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:07,200 In the 60's Hong Kong became 63 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,280 a manufacturing base and people working in cement factories, 64 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:11,600 artificial flower factories, 65 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:13,520 button factories, radio factories. 66 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:15,120 Everything was light industry. 67 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:17,920 - I mean Hong Kong then and now is always 68 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,120 a very stressful place to work, to live. 69 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:22,040 Sometimes you just wanna have fun 70 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:23,560 and going to the movies is almost like 71 00:03:23,640 --> 00:03:26,240 a community or family gathering sort of event. 72 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:27,520 (men yelling) 73 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,200 - Hong Kong was a British colony. 74 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:31,680 For them film making was not merely 75 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,000 an exercise in entertainment but it's also 76 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,520 a way of postulating the Chinese identity. 77 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,080 - There had been movie studios 78 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,040 in Hong Kong before Shaw Brothers but Shaw Brothers 79 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,400 was the Death Star of Hong Kong movie studios. 80 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,240 (dramatic music) 81 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:52,240 - [Announcer] Run Run Shaw sits in 82 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,200 this remote corner of the Commonwealth doing 83 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,200 what Hollywood would love to be doing. 84 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:58,720 Making a film every week of 85 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,040 the year and a profit at the end. 86 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:02,920 (man grunts) 87 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,480 He controls the worlds largest privately owned studio 88 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,240 and cinema circuit and an annual 89 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:08,800 income of 100 million pounds. 90 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,800 - I can guess what the people want better 91 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,640 then most of the other producers. 92 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,360 - They would make movies and more and more of them. 93 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:18,480 They would own their stars. 94 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:19,600 They would own their actors. 95 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,320 They would own their own fan magazines. 96 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:23,480 They would own their own sound stages and composers 97 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,760 and editors and cameras and lights and everything. 98 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:27,760 It would all be done in house. 99 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:32,600 (man grunting) (dramatic music) 100 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,240 And what Shaw was making was what was popular. 101 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:35,560 Adaptations of Chinese operas. 102 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:36,400 (film reel beeps) 103 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:38,440 (singing in foreign language) 104 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:39,840 Adaptations of classical works. 105 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,000 (singer vocalising) 106 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:43,760 There were a few spy movies. 107 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:45,920 (singer vocalising) (dramatic music) 108 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,640 A lot of romance and musicals. 109 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,280 (singing in foreign language) 110 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:52,320 Shaw Brothers decided that at the end 111 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:54,560 of the decade to move away from these graceful, 112 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:56,040 fanciful movies and instead 113 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,120 bring gritty realism and exciting combat. 114 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,560 (weapons clanging) (jazz music) 115 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,160 - Kung fu took the passion of opera 116 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,680 and you combine it with the athleticism 117 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:10,600 and the acrobatics of ballet. 118 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:11,800 (girl grunts) (weapons clanging) 119 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:13,600 - The Shaw Brothers, to me it was 120 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,920 like Cecil B Demille's "Ten Commandments." 121 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,160 That rich Technicolour and you could just escape. 122 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:20,880 (weapons clanging) (upbeat music) 123 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:21,760 (girl yells) 124 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:22,800 - The Shaw Brothers had this way 125 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:24,120 of everybody kinda understanding 126 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,680 how the genre should look, feel, sound. 127 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:28,520 How people should 128 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:29,320 be performing. - Hi ya! 129 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:30,160 - They just knew it all. 130 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:31,800 They were all experts in it. 131 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,320 (man speaking in foreign language) 132 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:35,680 - [Translator] Watching Shaw Brothers films, 133 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,600 what impacted me the most was, 134 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:39,400 I thought the sound effect of 135 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,000 the sword fighting (swords clanging) was nice. 136 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:44,760 (swords clanging) 137 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:47,200 - The way the sound was designed 138 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:52,280 was an important integral part of what made that genre tick. 139 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:54,760 (men grunting) (fists thudding) 140 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:56,640 People would still sit live in front 141 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,520 of the screen with a master recorder rolling at the back 142 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,960 and literally perform the sound effects 143 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,760 in sync with the action, with the choreography. 144 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:10,680 (men grunting) 145 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:12,720 They would frequently have three guys 146 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,200 in front of the mixing console each 147 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:16,800 with a reel to reel tape recorder 148 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,120 and they would quickly grab a roll of tape, 149 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,800 lace it up and fire it off in real time live 150 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:24,920 whilst they were watching the film. 151 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,360 (men yelling) 152 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:27,800 With a couple of guys in there 153 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,560 that had been in there with the cigarettes going constantly, 154 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:32,160 they'd have been in there for probably 155 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,400 the last you know, maybe 72 hours. 156 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,120 The mindset here was you guys are in this room, 157 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,160 you're not leaving this room until 158 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:40,800 you finished this film and by the way, 159 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,080 there's three more coming in (laughs). 160 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,200 (upbeat music) 161 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:47,120 (Chin Siu-Ho speaking in foreign language) 162 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,200 - [Translator] Night shifts right after day shifts 163 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:50,880 and then day shifts again. 164 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,000 (Chin Siu-Ho speaking in foreign language) 165 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,360 I had this record of me shooting six films at the same time. 166 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,480 - It was a factory and there were actors, 167 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,800 stunt men, technicians who lived in dormitories. 168 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:04,200 - That's how they could crank those out. 169 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:06,920 They had people making two or three pictures at a time. 170 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:08,320 - [Interviewer] If you have them living 171 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,160 in the dormitories here you have much 172 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:11,760 more control over them of course. 173 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:13,680 - [Run Run] Yes, of course. 174 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:14,960 We know their movement. 175 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:19,880 The time they leave the dormitory, time they come back, 176 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:23,080 and if they go out too much we ask questions. 177 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,760 - You work for Run Run Shaw and of course 178 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:28,720 you are also beneath Mona Fong who became 179 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,600 his sort of girlfriend and later became his wife, 180 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:33,680 who also became the head of Shaw's production 181 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,840 and it would be hard to find a woman 182 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,920 more hated or more important in Hong Kong film history. 183 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,240 Mona Fong knew how to watch the bottom line 184 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:43,800 and she would do things like tell them 185 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,320 to cut their costumes from floor length to knee length, 186 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,800 cut their spears from six feet to three feet, 187 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:50,040 leaving the director who showed up 188 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:51,840 the next day flummoxed as to how he 189 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:53,320 was gonna make a three foot spear 190 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,720 look at all threatening on screen. 191 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:56,560 (man yells) 192 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:57,760 (gentle music) 193 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,880 Shaw Brothers big problem in the 70's, 194 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:02,760 was that they were too big. 195 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:03,960 They were too powerful. 196 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:05,920 They had no reason to second guess 197 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,680 their decisions because all their decisions 198 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,320 had been right for a really really long time 199 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,680 and so when someone came to Shaw Brothers 200 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:14,480 and said we got this guy Bruce Lee, 201 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:16,160 maybe you wanna try him out and hire him, 202 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,320 Run Run Shaw thought you're just a kung fu guy. 203 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:20,240 Screw off. 204 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:21,200 - That was the biggest, 205 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:23,680 it's like not signing The Beatles, right? 206 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:26,280 (gentle music) 207 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,880 - Hong Kong was extremely male driven 208 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,640 and movies were originally made only for house wives. 209 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:34,240 So they didn't want the housewives going 210 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,040 and lusting after handsome guys. 211 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,400 So all the women played the leading heroic characters. 212 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,720 - One of the first big on screen heroines 213 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:44,960 coming out of the late 60's was Chin Pei-Pei 214 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:46,880 who was in Yueh Hua's "Come Drink With Me." 215 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,560 (upbeat music) 216 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,520 - When I come to Hong Kong, everything so strange to me. 217 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:00,040 I decide to go into movies, 218 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,320 only because dance training, 219 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:08,400 the dance make the fighting more feminine. 220 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,360 (grunting) (tense music) 221 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,160 - She saw fighting as dancing, 222 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:16,720 and you could clearly see in 223 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:18,040 the movie that fighting was dancing. 224 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,840 (sword clanging) (dramatic music) 225 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,400 (man grunts) (dramatic music) 226 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:25,280 - And the funny thing is that often, 227 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,800 kung fu films are looked down on by the cultural elite. 228 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,000 (dramatic music) 229 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,640 But this is the same thing as ballet. 230 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:35,680 (man grunts) (sword clanging) 231 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,120 - Gradually, it become like my own style. 232 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:44,200 (swords clanging) (gentle music) 233 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:46,840 - The image of Chin Pei-Pei surrounded 234 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:51,720 by men and then absolutely annihilating them (laughs), 235 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,680 it's so striking because it was happening 236 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:55,800 in these Hong Kong films way 237 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:57,760 before it was happening over here. 238 00:09:57,840 --> 00:09:58,800 (swords clanging) (dramatic music) 239 00:09:58,880 --> 00:09:59,840 (man yells) 240 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:02,160 - People don't wanna see always 241 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,280 some woman in a pretty dress. 242 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,000 I always loved the fight. 243 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,520 (dramatic music) 244 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:11,760 - In the older days in Hong Kong, 245 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,160 they actually show a real martial artist actress 246 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:19,680 like Chin Pei-Pei who actually can do action. 247 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,240 You can have longer takes, you can do more complex stuff. 248 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,000 (men grunting) (swords clanging) 249 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:26,640 - I didn't know this was something 250 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,000 special to me at the beginning. 251 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,560 I'm playing a girl who know how to fight. 252 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:37,320 (dramatic music) (swords clanging) 253 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,200 From then on, I fight all the time, all the movie. 254 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,920 (dramatic music) (swords clanging) 255 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:49,000 (grunting) (dramatic music) 256 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:55,560 (film reel ticking) 257 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:56,560 (dramatic music) 258 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:58,040 - [Announcer] Three straight days of street rioting 259 00:10:58,120 --> 00:10:59,840 in the crowded Kowloon Peninsula 260 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:02,640 of Hong Kong bring out scores of police. 261 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,880 - 1967 was a year Hong Kong was on fire. 262 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:07,880 When there was a strike by some workers 263 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,560 at an artificial flower factory and the police came in. 264 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,040 They were a little heavy handed. 265 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:13,760 The word spread that there was police brutality 266 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,520 going on and Hong Kong erupted. 267 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:17,360 (gun shot firing) 268 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,080 51 people died in clashes between protestors and police. 269 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:23,640 Journalists were attacked and burned to death in their car. 270 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:25,960 It was a crazy, crazy time. 271 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,160 - [Announcer] Police said the rioters soul aimed 272 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,560 seemed to be an attack on any and all authority. 273 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:31,560 (yelling) 274 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:35,160 (swords clanging) (grunting) 275 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,000 - The spirit of the movies that came out of this 276 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:40,480 were about angry, young pissed off people 277 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:42,480 who had nothing left to lose. 278 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:44,480 (objects clattering) 279 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:45,960 So they made "One-Armed Swordsman" which 280 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:47,280 is basically about a young man, 281 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,160 his father is killed and he's left with 282 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,960 the only relic of his father as a broken sword. 283 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:53,720 (man grunts) 284 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:55,760 - Director Chang Cheh could see 285 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,360 that the classic Shaw Brothers sword movie 286 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,720 had been kind of staid and pedestrian. 287 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:02,800 (man grunts) 288 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:04,400 We should try something different. 289 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:05,960 We should have more blood. 290 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,080 We should run a sword through somebody 291 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,760 and then see it sticking out the other side. 292 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:14,960 We should sever a few limbs. 293 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,760 (dramatic music) 294 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:20,200 - [Interviewer] You have entrails 295 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,680 being pulled out of bodies on camera. 296 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:23,680 What do you do for an encore? 297 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:24,480 - Well, we just... 298 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:26,520 People say it's not exciting enough. 299 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:27,680 We're putting more blood. 300 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:31,760 (grunting) (blood gushing) 301 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:33,600 (Lo Meng speaking in foreign language) 302 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:35,000 - [Translator] I did his fight scenes. 303 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,560 He shows the beauty of violence, 304 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:41,160 especially when he uses slow motion when a character dies. 305 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,040 (swords clanging) (men grunting) 306 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,680 - Chang Cheh liked machismo. 307 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:47,320 He didn't wanna see women on screen. 308 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,320 He wanted to go back to the old school male heroes. 309 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,800 Usually with their shirts off and their man boobs greased. 310 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:56,400 (men grunting) 311 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,120 - He got rid of the yin gang, the women, 312 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:03,200 and put in the yang gang, the manly, manly men, 313 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:04,960 who liked other manly men. 314 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,080 (weapons clattering) 315 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:09,160 - He loved boys standing back to back 316 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,080 and taking on all odds as their guts spill out on the floor. 317 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:13,760 He loved bloodshed. 318 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,720 (speaking in foreign language) 319 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:18,920 - [Translator] Director Chang was quite a serious person. 320 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,760 He would scold some of the crew but he never did it to me. 321 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:26,440 (chair clattering) 322 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:28,880 - "One-Armed Swordsman" captured the tenor of the times. 323 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,760 It was an angry young man standing up to authority 324 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,640 with nothing but a broken sword in his fist. 325 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,640 - That imagery of the innocent fighting the oppressor. 326 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,160 The poor versus the powerful. 327 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,200 (men grunting) (upbeat music) 328 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,240 - [Mike] That instantly got a response at 329 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,280 the box office that was fresh. 330 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,560 - So, Jimmy Wang knew how to brainstorm. 331 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:56,040 He thought well if we fight with swords in these movies, 332 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:58,240 why can't we do it with fists and use kung fu? 333 00:13:58,320 --> 00:13:59,120 (men grunting) (upbeat music) 334 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:00,600 And why can't we fight the people 335 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:02,760 who really hack me off, the Japanese? 336 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:04,640 So, he was allowed to develop a script 337 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,680 and direct it and he made "The Chinese Boxer." 338 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,000 And that started this enormous trend for kung fu movies. 339 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,200 Everyone wanted to see young pissed off Chinese guys, 340 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:15,520 but now they weren't fighting 341 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:16,960 martial arts masters with swords, 342 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:18,760 they were punching Japanese oppressors 343 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:19,600 in the face with their fists. 344 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:21,600 This was massive. 345 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:24,800 (blood gushing) (upbeat music) 346 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:26,760 - It's, yeah, the sheer physicality 347 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:28,040 of Hong Kong's cinema at its best. 348 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:29,320 We've all been picked and we've all wanted 349 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:31,600 to beat up the bullies and in 350 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:33,680 a kung fu movie that can happen. 351 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:38,520 (grunting) (dramatic music) 352 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,280 - These movies really tapped into something in Hong Kong. 353 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,640 People wanted to see this. 354 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:45,480 They didn't owe something to the man. 355 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:46,720 They owed something to the people 356 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:48,040 they stood shoulder to shoulder 357 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:49,760 with everyday at the bus queue, 358 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:54,440 at their office jobs, at the factory, on their streets. 359 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:55,280 (man grunts) 360 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,760 This explosion of film making in Hong Kong of 67 captured 361 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,960 this youth energy, this spirit of 'you can do anything.' 362 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:05,480 (upbeat music) 363 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,360 You can make the world stop and pay attention 364 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,880 to you with nothing more then your bare hands. 365 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,600 (gentle music) 366 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,080 And that idea spread from Hong Kong 367 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,120 and electrified audiences in America. 368 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:23,200 (upbeat music) (crowd chanting) 369 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:26,320 - It's the height of the civil rights movement in America. 370 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,640 It's the height of the anti Vietnam War movement. 371 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:32,120 There was all sorts of youth 372 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,440 in rebellion going on everywhere. 373 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,160 - Sometimes action speaks louder then words. 374 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,680 Actually, a lot of time it is. 375 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:42,360 - It's about some primal stuff. 376 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,480 It just permeates all borders. 377 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,720 - Fighting is very universal, but the vocabulary 378 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,320 of it has to have the right timing. 379 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,400 - You know, things are gonna resonate. 380 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,080 You don't know what it is. 381 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:54,920 (film reel ticking) 382 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:55,760 (film reel beeps) 383 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,200 (upbeat music) 384 00:15:58,280 --> 00:15:59,920 - I'm gonna take this right foot, 385 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:05,520 and I'm gonna whop you on that side of your face. 386 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:07,800 And you wanna know somethin'? 387 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:09,640 (birds chirping) 388 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:10,960 There's not a damn thing you're 389 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,040 gonna be able to do about it. 390 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:13,880 - Really? 391 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:15,600 (birds chirping) 392 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:17,280 - Really. 393 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:19,520 (foot thuds) (dramatic music) 394 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,200 - Billy Jack came out and he did the scene 395 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:23,720 where he's standing alone, 396 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,320 and he's got about eight people around him 397 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,400 and he just does these kicks and gets out of it somehow. 398 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:32,680 - I just go berserk! 399 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,520 - [Announcer] This is why they're talking about Billy Jack. 400 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,080 - [Man] He was a Vietnam vet. 401 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,160 He was a heroic guy because he was willing 402 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:42,280 to put his life down to save others. 403 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,480 - He wasn't only beating people up for the sake of it, 404 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,720 he was actually defending the American Indians 405 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,440 who were his friends and he was an American Indian. 406 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:51,320 - That's what Billy Jack did. 407 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,400 He was a step above just defending yourself. 408 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,280 (upbeat music) 409 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:56,440 Studios released it and lost money 410 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,440 in a couple theatres and gave it back to Tom Laughlin. 411 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:00,320 He re-released it. 412 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,080 Grossed 100 million in the 70's. 413 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:04,720 - That's 'cause he was an ordinary guy hero 414 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:07,280 resonated universally with people, 415 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:08,480 particularly working class people. 416 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:10,480 - I think I've seen it about three times. 417 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,000 This is the second time for my children. 418 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,640 - We have had people come back eight, 10, 12 times. 419 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:17,120 - Well I decided to come back and see it again. 420 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,560 (upbeat music) 421 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:21,280 - In America, the western world I believe 422 00:17:21,360 --> 00:17:24,000 he would be the first martial art action hero, Billy Jack. 423 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:25,040 (upbeat music) 424 00:17:25,120 --> 00:17:27,040 - About 80% of these movies there's 425 00:17:27,120 --> 00:17:29,520 a guy who's your average Joe Schmoe. 426 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,560 There was always a fight against something, 427 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,320 where there was oppression or tyranny 428 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,680 or fascism or government. 429 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:38,760 There was always a fight. 430 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,560 Even racism but before the movies 431 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:43,240 we had Bruce Lee of course. 432 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:44,680 All of us like Bruce Lee. 433 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:46,320 That was a big deal for us. 434 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:47,160 (upbeat music) 435 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:50,880 - When the real rockstar of kung fu emerges, Bruce Lee, 436 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,360 so many guys wanted to be that man. 437 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,360 - Bruce Lee I think is the kung fu savant. 438 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,840 Very early on he knew what road he was going down. 439 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:03,280 - He was part English, part Jewish and part Chinese, 440 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:04,680 so when he was growing up he 441 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,760 was discriminated in Hong Kong from both sides 442 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:10,080 and when he got to America he wanted to be the hero. 443 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:11,400 And he was the first person to come 444 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,920 to America and say I wanna create essentially 445 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,520 an archetype which is the Chinese kung fu master. 446 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:21,600 So he got his very first part as Kato in "The Green Hornet." 447 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:25,520 - "The Green Hornet" started as a "Batman" spin off. 448 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:26,640 So you had "The Green Hornet" 449 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:28,360 and Kato appearing on "Batman." 450 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:32,040 Also helped bring martial arts and definitely Bruce Lee 451 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:34,000 into homes in the U.S. 452 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,320 - As a kid I was wondering why people 453 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,320 were looking over our fence when 454 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,480 my dad was working out with Uncle Bruce. 455 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,160 They kept saying Kato, Kato, Kato. 456 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:47,160 They absolutely connected with that. 457 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,240 - Bruce Lee appeared on television and I was like whoa. 458 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:51,520 I kinda liked that. 459 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,080 - Every other little kid the next day 460 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,120 was like what just happened? 461 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:56,640 How cool was that guy that just 462 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,280 kicked the guy across the room? 463 00:18:58,360 --> 00:18:59,520 Who the hell was he? 464 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,360 - And a lot of people would be imitating Bruce Lee movies 465 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:03,160 on the street. 466 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,200 Friends of mine started taking up martial arts as a result. 467 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,880 (gentle music) 468 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,440 - And then right after I was really 469 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:18,640 attracted to the "Kung Fu" series with David Carradine. 470 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:20,840 Because I grew up on westerns. 471 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:21,840 I love my westerns. 472 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:23,920 (static crackling) 473 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,640 (shots firing) 474 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,040 - There had been a long string 475 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:31,760 of western television shows in the U.S. 476 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,360 Gunsmoke, Bonanza... 477 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,880 By the early 70's it was starting to fade. 478 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:39,240 (static crackling) 479 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,000 When "Kung Fu" first came on, 480 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,960 it seemed like another western show 481 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,440 but with kind of a unique spin. 482 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:48,920 - What we have to remember about the time 483 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,800 is this is the counter culture. 484 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,320 This is at the height of the Vietnam War 485 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,840 and so in many ways doing a TV series 486 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:00,120 about China was code for doing a TV series about Vietnam. 487 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:02,080 The Asians are the peaceful ones. 488 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:03,960 They're wearing kinda pyjama clothes, 489 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,440 and then you got the cowboys and they're 490 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,640 the stand in for the U.S. military. 491 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:11,880 - Gentlemen, I'm gonna bust your head. 492 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,320 (man yells) (upbeat music) 493 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,480 - It was picking up a cult following 494 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,200 especially among young viewers. 495 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,080 'Cause you could watch it and feel 496 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,360 like you were part of this kind of counter cultural protest. 497 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:26,760 - I really don't think anybody, 498 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:31,320 even myself had any idea how big a thing it was. 499 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,640 - To see kung fu in a western setting, 500 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:35,840 to me that was like whoa! 501 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:37,160 I used to collect the "Kung Fu" 502 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,480 trading cards and stuff like that. 503 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,240 - Before the TV show was on who knew what kung fu was? 504 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:44,760 But after that show... 505 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:46,480 - You have this explosion where everyone 506 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,880 becomes interested in this Chinese 507 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,000 or Asian culture, martial arts. 508 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:52,520 (gong bongs) 509 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:54,640 - I mean David Carradine and those guys did 510 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,440 a good job I must say but it 511 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,360 just felt a little weird because... 512 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:00,840 hmm, 513 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:03,480 is this guy really Chinese you know what I mean? 514 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:04,960 - Well, in Hollywood at the time 515 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,720 there was only one Eurasian kung fu master right? 516 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,040 There was just Bruce Lee. 517 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,160 - Bruce Lee faces a real dilemma. 518 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:15,480 He's on the verge of stardom in the United States 519 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,080 with a projected TV series on the horizon. 520 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,040 - And he had this idea to do sort of 521 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:22,640 an eastern western kung fu kind of movie. 522 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,000 - How else can you justify all these punching 523 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,200 and kicking and violence, - Yeah. 524 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,400 - except in the period of the west? 525 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:31,640 - They were interested in talking 526 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:32,920 to him about it and thought it was 527 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,520 a great idea but they also realised 528 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,240 that his accent would keep them from putting him on screen. 529 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,080 - [Man] And then suddenly Warner Brothers comes out 530 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:44,600 with a series that looks a lot like his series. 531 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:46,680 - Bruce Lee was crushed by this 532 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,280 because he saw this as his big shot. 533 00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:50,720 - Well Bruce actually went to China 534 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:52,360 because he didn't get that role, 535 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,960 and he said to himself well, if I can't get this part, 536 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:57,400 what am I doing in Hollywood? 537 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:58,800 - They needed an actor who looked 538 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,200 a little more western and who sounded western. 539 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:03,840 - When they interviewed David Carradine 540 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,600 The first audition he was completely high (laughs) 541 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:07,880 and blew the audition. 542 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:09,840 They still gave him a second audition. 543 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,080 - Now I could do the David Carradine Asian accent. 544 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,840 Talk very slowly. 545 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:15,680 That's all he did. 546 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:16,760 That was his accent. 547 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,760 I must go to the mountain, 548 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:20,960 to meditate. 549 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,120 (gentle music) 550 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:25,360 - [Interviewer] Did you already know kung fu 551 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,080 or karate when you were there? - No. 552 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:28,040 - [Interviewer] It's about-- 553 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:30,880 - I heard the word, twice before. 554 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:34,920 - So a drug addled white guy 555 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,960 who doesn't know any kung fu gets the part 556 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,000 whereas the Eurasian kung fu master 557 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:41,800 who's the most famous martial artist 558 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,920 in the history of the universe doesn't get the part. 559 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,560 - Hey, it's America you know, 560 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,000 where they would do those kinda things. 561 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:49,880 It's amazing how America finds a way 562 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,240 to put that old wine in a new bottle. 563 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,120 (upbeat music) 564 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:55,520 - Once World War II happens, 565 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,680 Asian Americans are no longer allowed to have lead roles. 566 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,920 Even when they're casting Chinese character parts 567 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,680 for example Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan. 568 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,280 - Hiding place discovered. 569 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:07,840 One masked figure suddenly developed 570 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:09,960 tell-tale scars on back of neck. 571 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,040 - They cast white guys and yellow face. 572 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,000 The yellow face era's underplayed. 573 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,720 It's a really horrible part of Hollywood tradition. 574 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,360 - Growing up watching TV or any other films 575 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,000 there was very little representation 576 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,240 of Asians in a great light. 577 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,080 Generally they're like the house boy 578 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,760 or somebody taking care of somebody or-- 579 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:32,600 - Asian women are either very over sexed 580 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,240 or they're dragon ladies or what have you 581 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,280 and then the guys are gang members or what have you. 582 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:39,880 (men grunting) (gentle music) 583 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,080 - When I started I definitely tried 584 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:46,600 to veer away from martial arts in that I was afraid, 585 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:50,040 I was afraid that it was going to be stereotypical. 586 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:51,200 But why is that a problem? 587 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:52,560 There's nothing inherently wrong with 588 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,360 an Asian character doing martial arts. 589 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,600 It's just when an Asian character 590 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,480 is reduced to nothing but martial arts. 591 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,120 - It's the idea of just wanting to be 592 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,240 sort of three dimensional and be heard. 593 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,560 We just don't all just do kung fu, right (laughs)? 594 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,200 (gentle music) 595 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,840 - In the late 1960's, early 1970's, 596 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,120 most film companies were going bankrupt 597 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,280 around the world because of the advent of colour television. 598 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:22,920 (gentle music) 599 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,520 But in Hong Kong, a group of executives, 600 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,160 senior executives from Shaw Brothers, 601 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,760 Raymond Chow, Leonard Ho, Peter Choi, 602 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,320 decided that they had a different vision 603 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,120 for where the film industry should be going 604 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,400 and their mantra was basically if you make good films, 605 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,440 people will come to see them. 606 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,320 And so they left and they set up 607 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,480 a little company called Golden Harvest. 608 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,240 (upbeat music) 609 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,520 - Golden Harvest knew the way Shaw Brothers didn't 610 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,840 that the future wasn't martial arts, the future was stars. 611 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,200 - We had a very small handful of actors 612 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:54,600 that we were working with. 613 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,480 The most important being a young American actor 614 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,680 by the name of Bruce Lee. 615 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,520 - He was a ticked off dude who knew he had something in him 616 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,600 but he couldn't get anyone to believe in him. 617 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,080 He was perfectly positioned for western expansion 618 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,760 because he knew how to be a movie star. 619 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:11,040 - Are you gonna stay in Hong Kong 620 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:12,040 and be famous or are you going to go 621 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:13,240 to the United States and be famous 622 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,720 or are you gonna try and eat your cake and have it too? 623 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,200 - I am gonna be both. 624 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,160 In the United States I think something 625 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,440 about the oriental should be shown. 626 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,720 - Bruce and I became friends because we had a lot in common. 627 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,800 I could understand some of his aspirations 628 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:34,280 of wanting to make films for the international market. 629 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:35,920 (upbeat music) 630 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,720 - What's interesting about Bruce Lee's early movies 631 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,720 is they really sort of serve as a metaphor for his career. 632 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:44,680 If you look carefully at "The Big Boss" 633 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:46,680 you will see it was a screen test. 634 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,720 - Because originally James Tien 635 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,400 is supposed to be the star of the movie. 636 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,240 - One of 'em has to die in order to make the third act work. 637 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,680 Who do ya kill off? 638 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:55,960 (film reel ticking) (upbeat music) 639 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,120 The director sent the dailies back to Hong Kong, 640 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,400 they looked at 'em and they said kill James. 641 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,120 (grunting) (upbeat music) 642 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,040 - The Bruce Lee style of fighting 643 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:06,520 was completely innovative for Hong Kong. 644 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:07,720 (punches thudding) (grunting) 645 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,720 The director wanted him to do the sort 646 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,440 of traditional Chinese opera style 647 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,400 of martial arts choreography which 648 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:14,680 is like clack, clack, clack, clack, 649 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,880 clack, clack, clack, clack, clack like that. 650 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,880 And Bruce wanted to do a kinda cha cha cha dance. 651 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:22,080 One, two, three, kick. 652 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:23,720 (Bruce grunting) 653 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,440 One, two, three, kick, pause. 654 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:27,240 (Danny speaking in foreign language) 655 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,000 - [Translator] Bruce Lee loved to dance, 656 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,000 because he was focused on tempo. 657 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,640 (Bruce grunting) 658 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,760 - He also wanted the fastest choreography 659 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:39,880 yet seen in Hong Kong cinema. 660 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,320 (Bruce grunting) (dramatic music) 661 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,200 - He was the one that would throw a punch and almost make 662 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,240 it seem like it lasted three seconds longer. 663 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:47,400 He'd be like (yells)! 664 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,760 That was about the intent that I don't need a second punch, 665 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:56,960 everything is about finishing the fight. 666 00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:58,960 - And the director hated it. 667 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:00,840 He's like, I need to fill a whole movie. 668 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,360 The script was only three pages long. 669 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,640 He actually called up Raymond Chow the director 670 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,240 and said you need to fire this guy. 671 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:09,280 And Bruce called up Raymond Chow 672 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:10,880 and goes you need to fire the director. 673 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,440 - And Bruce went on to become the star of that movie. 674 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:14,440 The movie worked. 675 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,320 - Long story short, "Big Boss" comes out, 676 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,880 smashes all the box office records in Hong Kong, ever. 677 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:22,560 - [Announcer] Casual bystanders enjoy 678 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,560 a lunch hour of controlled violence during 679 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,200 a karate demonstration in Manhattan. 680 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:28,440 These are experts of course 681 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,560 so nobody winds up in the hospital. 682 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:31,400 (upbeat music) 683 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:32,880 - One thing that really ticked off Bruce Lee 684 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,520 was that in the U.S. karate was big. 685 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,520 Everyone wanted to take karate. 686 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,480 Chinese kung fu, people are like what is that? 687 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:40,640 (upbeat music) 688 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,600 So Bruce Lee then made "Fists of Fury" 689 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,480 about how Chinese kung fu can beat 690 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,800 up any number of Japanese karate masters at any time. 691 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,720 - "Fists of Fury" represents the most nationalistic 692 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,600 anti-Japanese movie ever made in Hong Kong history. 693 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,120 - Because there are two scenes in that movie. 694 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,120 Bruce Lee's walking past a plaque 695 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:02,760 that said no dogs or Chinamen. 696 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,520 (tense music) 697 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,880 And he kicks the plaque off the wall breaking it. 698 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,680 - When they show that scene, 699 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,680 people just start cheering, applauding. 700 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,200 - Hong Kong audiences went crazy. 701 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,320 - [Man] That scene had never been shown before in Hong Kong. 702 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,600 - That sign existed in America, 703 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,200 except as no blacks and no Mexicans or whatever. 704 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,240 People saw that as oh yeah, I know that. 705 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:30,520 The Bruce Lee and his tribe was the same as our tribe. 706 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,160 - [Man] I guess they just kinda associate 707 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:36,040 the people that are on the screen like someone they knew. 708 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:38,240 - In the second there's a scene 709 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,440 when Bruce goes back into the dojo to challenge 710 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,840 the Japanese and there was a big Chinese calligraphy 711 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,960 that says sick men of Asia. 712 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,280 And Bruce, he looks at the Japanese and says... 713 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,560 (Bruce speaking in foreign language) 714 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,720 - That line caused audiences to roar 715 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,960 and come off of their feet in Hong Kong. 716 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,680 - Because it struck a chord of Chinese nationalism, 717 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,600 not patriotism but nationalism. 718 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,520 (gentle music) (glass shattering) 719 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:05,360 (man speaking in foreign language) 720 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,240 - [Translator] Chinese people are not sick men. 721 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,400 - [Man] And Bruce and Raymond and everybody there 722 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:16,480 were very quick to realise that there was an undercurrent. 723 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,560 Our Hong Kong audiences were enjoying seeing 724 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,640 the Chinese stand up to the ugly foreigners. 725 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,520 - It suggests if you have enough skill 726 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,360 with your fists and your feet, 727 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,720 you can overcome injustice. 728 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:30,760 (Bruce screams) 729 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,360 - A strong proud Chinese man, 730 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,080 he was gonna punch his way out 731 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,600 and get the respect he deserved, 732 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,920 not by asking for it but by taking it. 733 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:40,760 (man speaking in foreign language) 734 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,240 - [Translator] Bruce Lee brought it to a world stage. 735 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,040 - He was speaking to the oppressed of the world 736 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,560 in a way that he fucking meant it. 737 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:51,920 There's no doubt about it. 738 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:57,000 (man grunting) (dramatic music) 739 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,120 (animal growling) (dramatic music) 740 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,920 (upbeat music) 741 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,080 (men grunting) 742 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:05,600 (fists thudding) (upbeat music) 743 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,640 - The heroes in kung fu movies weren't strong men. 744 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:09,480 They weren't John Wayne. 745 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,400 They were ordinary guys. 746 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,240 Small, wiry, poor, peasants, workers, 747 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,240 who because of their skill learning kung fu 748 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,720 and putting the time and effort into training 749 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,240 were able to overcome oppressors. 750 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,480 (dramatic music) (men grunting) 751 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:26,800 - Everyone feels like an underdog you know? 752 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,680 Everyone likes to see the oppressed get, you know, rise up. 753 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:31,960 - And I think seeing somebody 754 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,520 do that on screen is so inspiring. 755 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,000 - No one wants to watch the film 756 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:37,440 about the guy who's got everything 757 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:38,600 and is successful at everything 758 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,120 and succeeds at everything you know? 759 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:41,400 - He'll never make it up here. 760 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,320 (Bruce grunting) 761 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,480 Yeah, we all want to root for the underdog. 762 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,680 (grunting) 763 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,160 (chuckles) 764 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:50,000 (film reel ticking) 765 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:51,640 (upbeat music) 766 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,360 - You had Bruce Lee doing the same thing. 767 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,160 He was gonna stand up to these forces 768 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,120 that were trying to keep him down. 769 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:57,960 (upbeat music) 770 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,880 - After "Fists of Fury" Bruce Lee is a full fledged star. 771 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,400 And he's like the Steve McQueen of Hong Kong. 772 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,680 He wants to direct, write and star in his own movie. 773 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,800 So he makes "Way of The Dragon." 774 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,720 He calls up Chuck Norris and says 775 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,880 I want you to be the bad guy and Chuck goes, 776 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,360 which one of us gets to win and Bruce says, 777 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:17,560 I get to win, I'm the star. 778 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:18,840 (upbeat music) 779 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,080 "Way of The Dragon" represents 780 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,440 Bruce's happiest time as an artist 781 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,120 because he was in control of every aspect of it. 782 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:27,680 - Uncle Bruce, one of the reasons why 783 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,560 he decided to write and direct and produce 784 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,600 his own projects also was he saw 785 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,880 that the medium was a way of expressing his philosophy. 786 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,040 - Learn everything you can from 787 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,960 everyone and everything you can. 788 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,680 - And then picking and choosing what fit best for him. 789 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,920 (Bruce grunting) 790 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,440 - The fight with Chuck Norris, 791 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,280 that was really about watching 792 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,320 a fight and seeing the strategy of 793 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,560 the fighter change as the fight went on. 794 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,600 The good guy's getting hammered, 795 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,840 then he started to change his cadence and his footwork. 796 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,160 I mean, suddenly the strategy changed. 797 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:08,080 Now the whole pendulum tilts. 798 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,080 That's interesting because now 799 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,480 you have a story within the fight, you know? 800 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,560 It's how do I defeat adversity? 801 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,240 I'm getting overcome. 802 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,680 How can I change my strategy and my mindset 803 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:19,840 and everything else and my physicality 804 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,640 can now come out on top? 805 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,320 Well he ends up being where he wouldn't have even stayed 806 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,200 the same strategy in beginning is the point. 807 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,280 - The fight scene is considered 808 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,120 the classic martial art fight scene 809 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,800 of all time and I get a letter one time, 810 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:33,800 I get it because there's a scene 811 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,400 where I throw Bruce to the ground, 812 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,240 he grabs the hair on my chest and he says, 813 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,720 did Bruce really pull the hair out of your chest? 814 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,240 He said if he did you're really a stud. 815 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,960 (sexy music) 816 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:46,800 (film reel beeps) 817 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:48,360 - I grew up when the Bruce Lee movies 818 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:49,800 were ridiculously badly edited. 819 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,200 So, the entire alleyway scene was missing. 820 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,840 So Bruce Lee walks out into the alleyway, 821 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,720 and walks straight back in and I thought 822 00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:58,760 oh it's meant to be some joke. 823 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,120 He's so fast he can do it. 824 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,040 - Get him! 825 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,720 - That scene is very believable 826 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,080 that Bruce Lee is totally invincible 827 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,120 and I think we all want to be invincible 828 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,000 in our imagination at least. 829 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:16,240 (weapons thudding) (man grunting) 830 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,720 - That movie cost $145,000 to produce. 831 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,840 It's grossed over 60 million dollars worldwide. 832 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,160 (upbeat music) 833 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:25,560 - We were very fortunate. 834 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,880 We caught lightning in a bottle. 835 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,240 Golden Harvest understood there was a world out there. 836 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,000 - But Shaw Brothers didn't care about the west. 837 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:35,320 They poked their heads over there 838 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:36,160 and didn't like what they saw. 839 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,240 It was confusing, it was a very different market. 840 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:39,360 (punch thuds) (upbeat music) 841 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:40,800 But, when Warner Brothers picked 842 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,440 up their movie "Five Fingers of Death" 843 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,080 and released it in the U.S., that was a huge hit. 844 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:51,160 (men grunting) (dramatic music) 845 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,560 (upbeat music) 846 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,240 - Leo Greenfield from Warner Brothers said look, 847 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,800 I got a picture I want you to look at. 848 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,760 I'd like you to come across and screen it with me 849 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,520 and tell me what your thoughts are on it. 850 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,160 I turn around and said to him after 851 00:34:10,240 --> 00:34:13,840 it was finished it is nothing but money. 852 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,760 - It had been picked up by Warner Brothers 853 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,320 and distributed kind of almost as a test 854 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,800 to see if there was a market for this kung fu stuff. 855 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,560 - There were big ads forward in the papers, 856 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,040 a free screening that night. 857 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:26,200 And it was a packed house. 858 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:27,640 Nobody knew what to expect. 859 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,240 In the first scene an old martial artist leaps 860 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:32,760 up in the air and kicks two opponents 861 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,760 in the head at the same time and the crowd just went nuts. 862 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:37,920 They would jump up in the air 863 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,560 and exchange blows in mid air. 864 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,720 Everyone was just sort of dazzled by it. 865 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,040 It was more intense fighting then we'd seen, 866 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,080 hand to hand fighting then we'd seen in the movie before. 867 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,000 The fight was the raison d'etre for the film. 868 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:53,080 The intensity of it, they were hooked. 869 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:53,920 They sat there. 870 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,960 They wanted to see what would happen next. 871 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,880 They were emotionally invested in what was going on. 872 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,120 (all cheering) (kick thuds) 873 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:02,360 And then as the crowd was coming out 874 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:03,160 they were clamouring for it. 875 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:04,360 You could see they were really excited 876 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,440 by what they'd just seen and they wanted 877 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:07,840 anything to get their hands on it. 878 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,960 Posters, buttons, stickers. 879 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,560 - Everybody was telling everybody to go see that movie. 880 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:14,760 (men grunting) 881 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:16,720 - The first martial art movie I saw 882 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:18,200 was "Five Fingers of Death." 883 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,400 (eerie music) 884 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:20,760 - "The Five Fingers of Death." 885 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:22,080 - "Five Fingers of Death." 886 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:22,920 (imitates eerie music) (eerie music) 887 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,480 - "Five Fingers of Death." 888 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:25,360 - "Five Fingers of--" 889 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:26,680 - "Death." 890 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,000 - And I was too damn young to be 891 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:29,240 in that movie and it freaked me out 892 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,520 a little bit because they were pullin' eyeballs out. 893 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:32,400 - You know how many times I watched that movie? 894 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:33,480 A million times right? 895 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,840 - No one had ever really seen anything like it. 896 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,400 - [Man] It's success was so huge for Warner Brothers. 897 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:40,960 - It instantly launched all these 898 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,560 smaller independent distributors into a mad scramble. 899 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:45,520 - [Man] And there were quite a few in 900 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,200 the hopper I think they had waiting. 901 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,680 - [Man] To get the next movie they could dub into English. 902 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:50,520 - It looks easy. 903 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:51,600 - Trim out the fat a little bit, 904 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,280 and releasing grind house theatres all over the States. 905 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,120 (horns honking) 906 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,440 - I would pick up an average 907 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,600 of six or seven of these a year. 908 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,760 We would find that they 909 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:07,280 had adopted famous American soundtracks 910 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,120 from famous American songs and dropped them in the picture. 911 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,640 I can remember buying in a short period 912 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:20,720 of time four pictures that had "The Shaft" soundtrack in it. 913 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:25,320 ("Theme From Shaft" by Issac Hayes) 914 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,760 I had this picture called "Queen Boxer" 915 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,960 which was full of barbaric action. 916 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,720 The putting out of eyes with cigars. 917 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,680 So I wanted to design a campaign 918 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,160 that had a palm of a hand out here, 919 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:50,440 and two large eyes and blood dripping down. 920 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,880 Well, what do I do with this female character? 921 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:58,720 And instead of subgum chow mein let's make her Judy Lee, 922 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,360 give them advertising. 923 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,440 It's like a two by four across the bridge of the nose. 924 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,120 And that was very important to me because 925 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,200 at one particular time I controlled 926 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,400 a lot of the theatres on 42nd Street. 927 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:16,480 It was the greatest film market in the world in those days. 928 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,960 - You had 42nd Street between 7th and 8th 929 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,600 and it was all lined with theatres. 930 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,320 - That whole strip was only two genres. 931 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:24,960 Pornography and kung fu. 932 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,120 - It was a great spot for people 933 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,640 to see things that they couldn't see in 934 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:32,120 their normal neighbourhood theatres. 935 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:36,480 From eight in the morning 'til 12 noon, two bucks entry fee. 936 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,520 - You'd see three, four movies back to back. 937 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,960 - In real slimy theatres but it was total pure fun. 938 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,800 - Once you plunked down to watch a movie, 939 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,080 those feet are not leaving where they are. 940 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:52,240 They're stuck to the floor with old Coca Cola (laughs). 941 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:57,840 And there were rats that scurried back and forth. 942 00:37:57,920 --> 00:37:59,600 (upbeat music) 943 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,280 There was no way to know what's good 944 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,040 or what's bad so the only thing is just 945 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,920 to park yourself in there and enjoy the ride. 946 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,400 (woman yelling) 947 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,520 - It filled a niche and what we actually discovered 948 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:12,800 was it was more then a niche. 949 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,480 There was a real hunger out there. 950 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,080 (dramatic music) 951 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,360 - These films are now out grossing U.S. films, 952 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,600 like what is going on here? 953 00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,640 - As the joke goes, the only colour Hollywood sees is green. 954 00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:26,760 Once they realised kung fu could make them money, 955 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,120 they decided they would give Bruce Lee a shot. 956 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:31,920 - When we did "Enter The Dragon" it was 957 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,280 the first Chinese, Hong Kong, U.S. co production 958 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:36,400 with a major studio. 959 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:37,560 - They didn't trust Bruce Lee 960 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,240 to be the only star of the movie. 961 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,320 They had a white guy, a black guy and an Asian guy 962 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,280 because they were afraid that an Asian alone 963 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:45,960 couldn't carry a movie in America. 964 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,080 But I think the most important thing he did 965 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,640 was after the Hollywood crew left, 966 00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:53,360 the opening scenes of "Enter The Dragon" 967 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,320 all of that Bruce Lee filmed himself 968 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,080 as the director and the writer and the star, 969 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,040 and they put it at the front of the movie 970 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:01,720 and then you know he's the star. 971 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,440 - When Bruce Lee took off his shirt 972 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,680 and he started (exclaims) started makin' cat sounds, 973 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,360 never seen anybody do that. 974 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,160 (Bruce calling) 975 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:13,240 He inspired me to wanna do martial arts movies. 976 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,320 (man speaking in foreign language) 977 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,480 - [Translator] I was a timid person when I was a kid. 978 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,000 I'm afraid of the dark and couldn't turn 979 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:21,600 the lights off at night. 980 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,920 After I watched his films, I thought, 981 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,040 this is what a man should be. 982 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,280 I learned we should overcome the things we are afraid of. 983 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,640 - He genuinely invents the kung fu hero in the west. 984 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:34,880 It would be like inventing the cowboy 985 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,720 or the samurai, it's the equivalent. 986 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,320 - Every teenage boy in America 987 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,080 had two posters in his bedroom. 988 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,240 One was a Farrah Fawcett in a red bathing suit 989 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,280 and the other was Bruce Lee in "Enter The Dragon." 990 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,080 - It was the biggest picture 991 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,280 I think in the world at the time. 992 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,000 (Bruce yelling) 993 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,200 - So the studios knew that there was money to be made, 994 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,320 but they hadn't really decided they were gonna work with us, 995 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,160 are they gonna work with Shaw Brothers? 996 00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:02,520 The head of distribution at one studio looked 997 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,440 at me and he said "we'll never buy these movies. 998 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:06,640 It's un-American. 999 00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:07,680 (dramatic music) 1000 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,640 In our movies the hero throws a punch, 1001 00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:13,560 then he pulls out a gun and shoots someone. 1002 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,960 It's just un-American to kick somebody. 1003 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,920 Your Chinamen are kicking people." 1004 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,040 Within six months they were releasing "Enter The Dragon" 1005 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,440 and wanted to know if they could get more. 1006 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:27,520 (air whooshing) (Bruce calling) 1007 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:32,640 (sombre music) (singer vocalising) 1008 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:40,560 - When you talk to people in Hong Kong 1009 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,080 of a certain age just like people 1010 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:43,520 in the States all remember where 1011 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,120 they were when JFK was shot everyone remembers 1012 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,800 where they were when they heard that Bruce Lee died. 1013 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,240 - In Hong Kong 50,000 people filled the streets. 1014 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,440 In America, "Enter The Dragon" of course 1015 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,280 is released a month later. 1016 00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,480 That's when he becomes a superstar. 1017 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,480 So, what's interesting about Bruce Lee 1018 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:05,200 is he's the only icon of the 20th Century who died young, 1019 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,960 who's fame was entirely posthumous. 1020 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:11,960 - He died and he got stuck in time. 1021 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:13,480 - [Man] There was a blank slate. 1022 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,560 Bruce Lee was just this character on film 1023 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:20,640 and his life could be essentially reinvented for his fans. 1024 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:21,560 (man speaking in foreign language) 1025 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:22,960 - [Translator] You can learn from his strengths 1026 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:24,680 and then be your own self. 1027 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,320 If he lasts for another hundred or 1,000 years, 1028 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,920 it means he's a religion of kung fu to an extent. 1029 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,080 (sombre music) (singer vocalising) 1030 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,600 - [Man and Bruce] I said empty your mind. 1031 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:37,440 Be formless. 1032 00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,400 Shapeless like water. 1033 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,720 And water can flow or can crash. 1034 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,720 Be water my friend. 1035 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:45,720 - Like that is it (laughs)? 1036 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,640 (laughs) (hands clapping) 1037 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:50,080 - [Announcer] The late Bruce Lee must rank 1038 00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,560 as the greatest martial artist of modern times. 1039 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,720 - After Bruce Lee died it was the height 1040 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,040 of the kung fu boom and suddenly Golden Harvest 1041 00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:59,280 had lost their money maker, 1042 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,200 Hollywood had lost their money maker. 1043 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,200 - Hong Kong's like what are we gonna do now? 1044 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:05,840 - Here's the seven o'clock news. 1045 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,920 Bruce Lee the world famous film star died 1046 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,440 last night of a sudden heart attack. 1047 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,480 He was rushed to the hospital in a coma. 1048 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,800 - Hey that looks like uh, you know, Bruce Lee. 1049 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:14,880 I heard they brought him in. 1050 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,640 (eerie music) 1051 00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:19,960 - And so what they decided the most respectful, 1052 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,200 meaningful and classy thing to do... 1053 00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,040 - Your name is Bruce Lee Two. 1054 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:25,920 - Yes sir. 1055 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:26,960 - Would be to find a bunch of people 1056 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:28,560 who kinda sorta looked like Bruce Lee. 1057 00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:29,720 (man calling) 1058 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,080 And get them to make sounds 1059 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:32,480 and do martial arts like Bruce Lee. 1060 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,080 (man grunts) 1061 00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,600 - And they change his name to Bruce Li. 1062 00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,040 - Bruce Le. 1063 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,600 - Bruce Long. 1064 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:41,520 - Bruce Flee. 1065 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:42,760 - Or Bruce Thai. 1066 00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,120 (men grunting) 1067 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,360 - You had Korean Bruce Lee impersonators, 1068 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,560 African American Bruce Lee impersonators. 1069 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:50,920 They were coming out of the woodwork 1070 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,520 and then movies were made fast and cheap and crappy. 1071 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,200 - And then it becomes this kind 1072 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,440 of whole Bruce-ploitation tradition. 1073 00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,520 There are over 50 of these movies. 1074 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,080 - A veritable popping zits worth of movies 1075 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,680 just flooding the market like a tidal wave of crap. 1076 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,600 Nevertheless, the distributors counted 1077 00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,600 on audience confusion to fill up the box office coffers. 1078 00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,360 (upbeat music) 1079 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:15,680 - When I was growing up my father 1080 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,080 used to put out children pictures 1081 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,560 in Manhattan and surrounding boroughs. 1082 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,040 The house was on a mortgage and so my father 1083 00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:24,520 was saying we really need to come up 1084 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,800 with a good gimmick to make something. 1085 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,680 Bruce Lee was the greatest thing I ever saw. 1086 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:30,800 Let's look in to getting "Green Hornet" 1087 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:32,560 which was a TV show he was on. 1088 00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,720 (fists thudding) (upbeat music) 1089 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:36,520 - Nobody move! 1090 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,800 - Ask could we take the series and edit it into a movie. 1091 00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:40,720 He said, a great idea but I don't think 1092 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,880 we can get the rights as he's a big star. 1093 00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:45,960 (upbeat music) 1094 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,120 Sure enough my father flew to California 1095 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,360 and he got the rights because 20th Century Fox 1096 00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,920 thought that the TV series was not successful. 1097 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:56,040 (upbeat music) 1098 00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,440 And they sent us 22 reels. 1099 00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:00,800 I knew how to use to the reel to reel 1100 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:02,440 and do all these things at like eight, nine, 1101 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:04,680 10 years old 'cause my parents were in the movie business. 1102 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,360 We had a basement where we edited pictures. 1103 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:08,640 So I'd pick the three episodes, 1104 00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:11,560 I'd cut 'em together and then my father said, 1105 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,120 uh, it's okay, we need to add more things. 1106 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,240 Added some sound effects, some other things. 1107 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:18,200 - [Announcer] Bruce Lee is heading 1108 00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,880 for more thrills and danger then ever before. 1109 00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,040 Bruce Lee is back. 1110 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:26,480 ♪ Woo ♪ 1111 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,720 - My father had gotten on 42nd Street 1112 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,200 at one theatre to start. 1113 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,000 There was a line around the block 1114 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,560 and so I went and I said this can't 1115 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,680 be for "The Green Hornet" can it? 1116 00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,120 He said I don't think so. 1117 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:43,600 It was people standing in the aisles, screaming, cheering. 1118 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,280 - Thanks for the editorial. 1119 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:47,120 (shot firing) 1120 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:47,960 (people cheering) 1121 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:49,080 - And it was one of the most exciting 1122 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:50,840 things that ever happened. 1123 00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,160 Everyone was perplexed by the success 1124 00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:54,920 of it but not me and my father. 1125 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,200 My father believed in me and he made it happen. 1126 00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:58,720 He had two phones in his ears. 1127 00:44:58,800 --> 00:44:59,640 He's like, you want Bruce Lee? 1128 00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:02,680 We got "The Green Hornet" and it was a very exciting time. 1129 00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,840 - The Bruce-ploitation movies are where 1130 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,520 you find a lot of awe's - from awe inspiring to awful. 1131 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,160 (gentle music) 1132 00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:14,520 - Bruce was working on "Game of Death" when he dies. 1133 00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:16,240 He'd filmed like 30 minutes of it. 1134 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:17,600 After telling Bruce Lee's widow 1135 00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,440 that he would take care of her and that he respected Bruce, 1136 00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,360 Raymond Chow at Golden Harvest took Bruce Lee's footage 1137 00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:24,520 he shot for "Game of Death"... 1138 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,520 - And they edited unfortunately down to about seven minutes 1139 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,360 and then they had to come up with some script to surround it 1140 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,160 and they totally tossed out Bruce's idea 1141 00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:34,880 and came up with their own. 1142 00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,800 - Raymond Chow hired a poor Korean guy 1143 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:38,120 that he renamed Tony Leung. 1144 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,840 And used him wearing a paper Bruce Lee mask in some scenes 1145 00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,400 to fill out the movie to discover who killed Bruce Lee. 1146 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:49,240 - So you've got him here finally. 1147 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,480 Before and after. 1148 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:53,600 - In the scenes made after he died doesn't look 1149 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,000 at all like Bruce Lee. 1150 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,280 It kinda reminds me of "Plan 9 from Outer Space" 1151 00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:58,640 in which they got somebody who didn't look 1152 00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:01,120 at all like Bela Lugosi to play his part after he died. 1153 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,280 (gentle music) 1154 00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,120 - You have to wonder how the Lee family felt watching 1155 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,600 someone pretend to be dead Bruce Lee 1156 00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,560 on screen in such an inexpert 1157 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:11,880 and clumsy ham-handed fashion. 1158 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,520 - Where's the doctor? 1159 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,600 (men grunting) 1160 00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:19,280 - Right side by side with the real thing itself. 1161 00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:20,760 - Watching it makes you uncomfortable 1162 00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:22,680 particularly since they cut scenes 1163 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,560 from Bruce's own funeral and put it in there. 1164 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,280 So, they got pretty close to the line. 1165 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:31,800 The amazing thing about watching "Game of Death" 1166 00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,800 is it's a bad kung fu movie up until 1167 00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,960 the moment Bruce Lee steps on screen, 1168 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:38,760 and you get to see his film. 1169 00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:40,600 And it reminds you what it is when 1170 00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:42,600 you see somebody who's a genius. 1171 00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:44,400 - Since it had footage with Bruce Lee in it 1172 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,440 it was a huge hit and made a lot of money 1173 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:50,480 but I mean it reeks of disrespect and grave robbing. 1174 00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:57,200 - I was involved in about six Bruce Lee pictures. 1175 00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:01,960 Three of them actually had the real Bruce Lee in them. 1176 00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,320 Including "Fist of Fear," Touch of Death." 1177 00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,640 (Bruce speaking in foreign language) 1178 00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:13,040 I had footage of Bruce at a very young age. 1179 00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,960 I think it was less then 40 minutes of footage. 1180 00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,320 So, I had to get 90. 1181 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,040 So I had to build a picture around it. 1182 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,240 Terry has a black and white film of Bruce Lee, 1183 00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,920 and then has a samurai film and wants 1184 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,200 to see a connection between the two 1185 00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,520 of them and I said: Really? 1186 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:32,880 (laughing) (upbeat music) 1187 00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,440 So he said why don't we take that samurai film 1188 00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:41,520 and make that the flashback to Bruce's great grandfather? 1189 00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:43,520 And I said whoa, whoa guys wait a second. 1190 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:45,720 I said, Bruce is Chinese. 1191 00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,400 Samurai is Japanese. 1192 00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:48,920 And they said don't worry about it. 1193 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,280 (Bruce speaking in foreign language) 1194 00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:53,480 We had these black and white scenes 1195 00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,560 and Terry said oh you can dub those right? 1196 00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:57,440 And I said, yeah. 1197 00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:58,240 (film reel ticking) 1198 00:47:58,320 --> 00:47:59,400 - [Bruce's Translator] Ma, you should've 1199 00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:00,840 seen me in karate class today. 1200 00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,120 Mm, I got my black belt. 1201 00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:07,160 - [Jack's Translator] Hey Bruce, Bruce? 1202 00:48:07,240 --> 00:48:08,760 - [Bruce's Translator] Jack! 1203 00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:09,680 Sue, it's my brother. 1204 00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:10,880 He's come home. 1205 00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:11,720 Jack! 1206 00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,240 - But then he wouldn't give me a script for the dubbing 1207 00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:15,640 so I was just making stuff up on the fly. 1208 00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:17,120 I'm looking at the footage and saying okay, 1209 00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:18,360 so what's the guy saying? 1210 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:19,480 And he says you know, 1211 00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,800 it looks like how do you want your steak? 1212 00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:22,640 Medium rare. 1213 00:48:22,720 --> 00:48:24,120 - All right, we're goin' with that. 1214 00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:25,720 - [Bruce's Translator] She's got it all wrong. 1215 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,000 That isn't the way it was back then. 1216 00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:36,040 (men grunting) (dramatic music) 1217 00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:38,880 - "Fist of Fear," "Touch of Death," 1218 00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,680 was an enormous financial success for us. 1219 00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,600 - And I totally understand that some people may feel 1220 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:49,280 that this is totally dissing Bruce Lee and his legend. 1221 00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,960 It was never my intention to go and trash the guy. 1222 00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:58,040 (PA announcer chattering) (upbeat music) 1223 00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:00,800 - I was flying to Hong Kong to make 1224 00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,760 a documentary about Bruce Lee 1225 00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:05,520 and everything was fine and I got 1226 00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:07,480 on the plane and we had touched down 1227 00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:12,400 and there was these big newspaper headlines, Bruce Lee dies. 1228 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,320 I made relationships there and I said 1229 00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:20,600 if I come back with a good story and I could raise 1230 00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:22,120 half the money in Australia would 1231 00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,400 you be interested in the other half? 1232 00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,760 - Having done "Enter The Dragon" we knew 1233 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,040 that it was possible to make co productions 1234 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,200 and that there was a way of doing 1235 00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:34,080 a co production in which you could come up 1236 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:35,680 with a story that would work for 1237 00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:37,400 the traditional Chinese markets 1238 00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,000 and should be able to work for the international market. 1239 00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,200 - And I thought hmm, I'd like to make one of those. 1240 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:48,280 And maybe it would be fun to have a Chinese "Dirty Harry" 1241 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,040 sent down from Hong Kong on the routine extradition. 1242 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,440 (tyres squealing) (upbeat music) 1243 00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:56,680 - And so he wrote up this script. 1244 00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:57,520 Terrible title. 1245 00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,000 It was called "The Yellow Peril." 1246 00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,960 - Because I wanted to take a serotype 1247 00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:03,160 and turn it on its head. 1248 00:50:03,240 --> 00:50:05,280 - I never met a Chinese yet 1249 00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,360 that didn't have a yellow streak. 1250 00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,280 - But it wasn't very funny here in Hong Kong 1251 00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:11,040 so the first thing we did was like, 1252 00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,920 right, change the title before we give it to anyone. 1253 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,560 - Anyway, that was the origin of "The Man From Hong Kong." 1254 00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,200 (upbeat music) 1255 00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:22,920 (men grunting) (upbeat music) 1256 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,920 - [Announcer] Jimmy Wang Yu is "The Man From Hong Kong." 1257 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,800 - Jimmy Wang Yu was by then under contract 1258 00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:31,160 with us at Golden Harvest and 1259 00:50:31,240 --> 00:50:34,160 we were really looking to build him up 1260 00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:35,960 from what we had learned in the course 1261 00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:37,440 of working with Bruce Lee. 1262 00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,520 - [Announcer] Accompanied by his co-produced Andre Morgan, 1263 00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,080 Asia's international super star Jimmy Wang Yu 1264 00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:45,400 arrives in Sydney to star in "The Man From Hong Kong." 1265 00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,600 Jimmy Wang Yu is regarded as Asia's Steve McQueen, 1266 00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,160 a top action star who's films 1267 00:50:50,240 --> 00:50:52,280 are tremendous hits all over the world. 1268 00:50:53,720 --> 00:50:56,440 - And we have George Lazenby under contract. 1269 00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,200 So, Wang Yu can be the hero, 1270 00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,880 George Lazenby can be the criminal mastermind. 1271 00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:04,040 And of course that made me wanna give 1272 00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,760 the movie Bond-ish aspects. 1273 00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,160 "Man From Hong Kong" was the first Australian, 1274 00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:12,400 Chinese co production. 1275 00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,240 - And it became part of the early experimental days 1276 00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,640 of trying to mix Chinese and English. 1277 00:51:18,720 --> 00:51:20,200 - This is Australia mate. 1278 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:21,600 - Don't give me any shit! 1279 00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,280 (men grunting) 1280 00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:27,160 Or did you huh? 1281 00:51:27,240 --> 00:51:30,800 - Golden Harvest Studios saw Sammo Hung was a rising star. 1282 00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:31,680 (man speaking in foreign language) 1283 00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:33,640 He was to be the fight choreographer, 1284 00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:36,200 and he looked different. 1285 00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,600 He was fat but it's all muscle. 1286 00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:44,320 You actually hit that stomach and you hurt your fist. 1287 00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,320 (gentle music) 1288 00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,040 There's Sammo being taken to 1289 00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:50,600 the red desert in the middle of Australia. 1290 00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:51,800 He doesn't speak a word of English 1291 00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:55,600 and none of us speak a word of Chinese. 1292 00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:58,640 - The next stage on our tour is Ayers Rock, 1293 00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:01,240 the most famous rock formation in Australia, 1294 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:02,320 if not in the world. 1295 00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,000 - Naturally that's where a drug dealer would go 1296 00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:09,960 to exchange drugs 1500 miles into the Australian desert. 1297 00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,600 (upbeat music) 1298 00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:15,160 If you're trying to run away for being busted 1299 00:52:15,240 --> 00:52:17,600 for drugs do you run into the desert? 1300 00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,560 Or do you run up a 900 foot rock? 1301 00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:24,040 I think you should run up a 900 foot rock, really. 1302 00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,000 Sammo and I were able to communicate 1303 00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:30,400 with sign language and mock punches and so forth. 1304 00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,840 So, that is how we basically choreographed 1305 00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,440 the fight on Ayers Rock. 1306 00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:37,560 - [Man] Who sent you? 1307 00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:43,000 - Yeah and I love you too. 1308 00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,640 - I wanted the fights to be down and dirty. 1309 00:52:45,720 --> 00:52:48,200 You know, Street fighting with kung fu. 1310 00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,960 Prior to the R rating you couldn't kick anyone in the balls. 1311 00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:52,800 No, no, no. 1312 00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,320 That was just not a gentlemanly thing to do. 1313 00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:56,200 To hell with that. 1314 00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:57,880 I'm gonna put as many groin kicks 1315 00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:00,080 as I possibly can into the fight scenes, 1316 00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:02,920 and the infamous squirrel grip. 1317 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:07,800 (man screaming) (pants rustling) 1318 00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:09,280 It played in Hong Kong but it didn't 1319 00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:11,200 do the business that they'd hoped. 1320 00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:13,760 - It didn't work in America because 20th Century Fox 1321 00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:16,240 bought the movie and purposefully put 1322 00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:18,600 it on the shelf to protect another movie 1323 00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,120 they had that was about hang gliding 1324 00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,040 and we had hang gliding and "Man From Hong Kong." 1325 00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:24,760 So they just, they shelved it. 1326 00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:26,760 They didn't want it released in America. 1327 00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:28,600 ♪ The wind ♪ 1328 00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:30,040 But they had to release it because 1329 00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:31,560 the theme song that we put on the movie 1330 00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,080 was called "Sky High" and it became 1331 00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:37,080 the biggest selling song that summer all over the world. 1332 00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,200 ♪ Stop ♪ 1333 00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:42,120 ♪ You've blown it all sky high ♪ 1334 00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:43,960 - We made as much money off of the song 1335 00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:45,680 as we made off of the movie. 1336 00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:47,680 ♪ High ♪ 1337 00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:51,840 There was no way the movie could work for any market 1338 00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:54,320 'cause it was neither fish nor foul. 1339 00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:58,120 You either make an American international movie in English, 1340 00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,600 or you make a Chinese movie and stop trying to mix the two. 1341 00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:01,440 It doesn't work. 1342 00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,280 (upbeat music) 1343 00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:06,360 - When those Golden Harvest movies 1344 00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,000 resonated with certain communities 1345 00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:10,440 like the African American communities, 1346 00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,320 because it represented this kind of fight the power, 1347 00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:14,960 fight the man spirit. 1348 00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:18,160 - And the response in those theatres must've told them, 1349 00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:20,560 these could work with black folks in America. 1350 00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:22,840 - And at the same time, 1351 00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:26,320 there wasn't too much for their audiences. 1352 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,320 - [Man] So, we better give them a black hero. 1353 00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:34,000 - [Announcer] Enter Jim Dragon Kelly. 1354 00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:39,480 - Jim Kelly was someone that I looked up to very highly. 1355 00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,600 He was a high level martial artist. 1356 00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,880 - It breaks my heart because he was so hurt 1357 00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:48,080 by what the industry had done. 1358 00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,720 He never got paid what he was due. 1359 00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:51,880 - It's top priory. 1360 00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:52,680 (smirks) 1361 00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:53,520 - So am I. 1362 00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:54,920 (upbeat music) 1363 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:56,760 - Once I saw him in "Enter The Dragon," 1364 00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:01,280 I mean, he was the measure for all African American 1365 00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:04,600 young males that wanted to get into cinema. 1366 00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:06,560 At that point we realised that it could be done. 1367 00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:07,760 (upbeat music) 1368 00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,240 (gong bongs) 1369 00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:13,600 - [Announcer] Introducing Ron Van Clief 1370 00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:16,280 as "The Black Dragon." 1371 00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:19,200 We said enough, now we'll let him do the talking. 1372 00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:20,440 - You know, you go through the movies. 1373 00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:22,000 You see all these guys doin' kung fu 1374 00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:24,640 and I said one day I'm gonna do that. 1375 00:55:24,720 --> 00:55:27,480 My father said what are you talkin' about (laughs)? 1376 00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,320 Van Clief you are out of your fuckin' mind. 1377 00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,240 Go get a job (laughs). 1378 00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:33,080 - [Announcer] The assignment went 1379 00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,440 to the most feared man in America. 1380 00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,160 Ron Van Clief. 1381 00:55:37,240 --> 00:55:39,960 - So I quit my job with the police, 1382 00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:41,640 and I went to Hong Kong. 1383 00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:45,520 I was the first black man that headlined Hong Kong films. 1384 00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:47,480 So, I was an oddity. 1385 00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:49,920 - This makeup? 1386 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,840 - No baby, it's real skin. 1387 00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:56,480 I didn't know you were interested in my face, but I am. 1388 00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:57,720 You drive trippin'. 1389 00:55:57,800 --> 00:55:58,720 (upbeat music) (men grunting) 1390 00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:02,720 - When I saw "The Black Dragon" movies I was just like wow, 1391 00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:03,840 another one did it. 1392 00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:04,880 I can do this. 1393 00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,520 (upbeat music) 1394 00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:10,840 - Hit movies were playing in Harlem, 1395 00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:11,920 they were playin' in Brooklyn, 1396 00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:12,920 they were playin' in Queens, 1397 00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:14,720 they were playin' in Long Island. 1398 00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:16,680 It was such a big deal at that time. 1399 00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:21,480 We even did live exhibitions for movies in Times Square. 1400 00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:24,160 Sometimes I would cut five carrots on five people's throats 1401 00:56:24,240 --> 00:56:26,560 with the sword during the intermission. 1402 00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,440 I shot 10 films as the character "The Black Dragon." 1403 00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:32,360 These guys botherin' you? 1404 00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:37,440 (men grunting) (upbeat music) 1405 00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:40,720 - Wow. 1406 00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,000 How can I ever repay you? 1407 00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:47,280 - [Announcer] I'm sure Ron has some ideas of his own. 1408 00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:48,640 (gentle music) 1409 00:56:48,720 --> 00:56:51,520 - You have a string of movies where people 1410 00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:53,000 of colour are the heroes. 1411 00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:55,640 (upbeat music) 1412 00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:57,640 (men grunting) 1413 00:56:57,720 --> 00:56:59,080 - [Announcer] And all of that jumpin' around 1414 00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:03,160 and flyin' through the air because this is the real shit. 1415 00:57:03,240 --> 00:57:07,160 - You have all these black guys, cool, fighting the man 1416 00:57:07,240 --> 00:57:08,960 and being the hero at the end of the movie. 1417 00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:10,640 - What you want it for little momma? 1418 00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:11,840 - I ain't your momma. 1419 00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:13,120 (fists thudding) (upbeat music) 1420 00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:14,720 - They were good too. 1421 00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:16,560 They were cinema ready. 1422 00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:18,520 - [Announcer] Soul sisters answer to James Bond. 1423 00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:21,080 - You had the clothes, the looks, the hairstyles. 1424 00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,520 - As black people we could go to a film 1425 00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:27,160 and see a reflection of us on screen. 1426 00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,120 - So there was something up on the screen 1427 00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:32,840 other then Joe Whitehead. 1428 00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:34,160 - Gonna threaten me now? 1429 00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:35,840 (upbeat music) 1430 00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:38,360 - I was forged in their image. 1431 00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:40,160 Those were my heroes. 1432 00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:41,920 That's what I wanted to become. 1433 00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,920 (upbeat music) 1434 00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,280 (men grunting) (upbeat music) 1435 00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:50,520 - But what's interesting is is that Warner Brothers 1436 00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:54,520 was purposefully distributing their kung fu pictures 1437 00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:56,000 that they licenced from Shaw Brothers 1438 00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:58,760 with their blaxploitation pictures. 1439 00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:00,880 - They planned a lot of the same theatres. 1440 00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,480 Blaxploitation movies and the martial arts movies. 1441 00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,400 - [Eric] They realised that those markets were very similar. 1442 00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:09,560 - A great double bill will the blaxploitation pic 1443 00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:12,400 repeated with an all kung fu picture. 1444 00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:14,000 - The African American community were 1445 00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:17,760 the ones that really supported Hong Kong cinema. 1446 00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:22,400 (gentle music) 1447 00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,400 - [Announcer] Well pal, this south China seaport 1448 00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:28,920 is not exactly like Brooklyn. 1449 00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:31,600 - So parallel to New York City, 1450 00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,440 in 70's Hong Kong people were really poor. 1451 00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:37,040 You went to the theatre to escape for an hour and a half. 1452 00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:38,520 (upbeat music) 1453 00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:41,440 Shaw Brothers created a dream world of ancient China. 1454 00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:47,480 - The public want changes and will have to inject new ideas. 1455 00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:52,320 - And throughout the 70's the really 1456 00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:53,720 have the tenor of the times. 1457 00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:55,320 Lau Kar-leung who had started out 1458 00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:56,720 as a martial arts choreographer, 1459 00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:58,760 he wound up directing movies for them 1460 00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:00,320 that are considered rightly so 1461 00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:02,840 some of the greatest martial arts movies ever made. 1462 00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:05,000 (dramatic music) 1463 00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:07,680 - Bruce Lee gave the world the idea of kung fu 1464 00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:10,280 and it was really Lau Kar-leung who took 1465 00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:12,880 on board this idea and ran with it. 1466 00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:17,600 - Lau Kar-leung said we should make kung fu films 1467 00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:20,080 the way people actually practise kung fu. 1468 00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:20,920 (men grunting) 1469 00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:25,000 This like eagle claw versus tiger versus panther. 1470 00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:26,440 In Lau Kar-leung pictures where guys were doing 30 1471 00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:29,120 to 40 moves in one shot. 1472 00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:32,760 - So when I'm watching a Shaw Brother film, 1473 00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,080 what I like to do is count how long 1474 00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:39,640 that scene plays out for until they cut. 1475 00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:41,120 You know, one, two, three, four, 1476 00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:43,480 five, six, the longer you count until 1477 00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:48,120 that cut you realise how incredible it is to pull that off. 1478 00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:50,000 - There's a fight that moves into an alley 1479 00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:51,640 that gets progressively narrower 1480 00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:54,160 and he's using a different style of martial arts. 1481 00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:56,200 - At this range I'll use my elbows. 1482 00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:57,800 - For each exchange as they move 1483 00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:00,320 from walls that are 12 feet apart... 1484 01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:01,640 - I call this the lion style. 1485 01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:03,560 - To eight feet apart to six feet apart 1486 01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:06,120 to just a couple of feet apart. 1487 01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:07,440 He's able to fit the style to 1488 01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:10,640 the action on screen and the story. 1489 01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:13,640 - I really believe that a film 1490 01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:16,320 is always about the exchange of energy between 1491 01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:20,200 the person in front of the camera and the audience. 1492 01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:24,280 The great thing that they do is find the angles that work. 1493 01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:26,560 As a cinematographer that's an astonishing challenge 1494 01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:28,400 because I don't know what the hell they're doing. 1495 01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:29,600 I don't know (laughs). 1496 01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:32,360 - How is this super hero type of dude 1497 01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:36,080 and this girl doing that that fast? 1498 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:38,520 That was amazing to watch. 1499 01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:40,640 - When Lau Kar-leung wanted to sell the speed, 1500 01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:42,000 he wanted to sell the power the impact 1501 01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:45,040 and he became concerned with having the audience feel it. 1502 01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:50,120 (all screaming) (dramatic music) 1503 01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:51,800 (Sammo speaking in foreign language) 1504 01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:54,720 - [Translator] I respected Master Lau very much, 1505 01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:57,400 and he was a hero in my heart. 1506 01:00:57,480 --> 01:01:00,080 (gentle music) 1507 01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:05,960 - One of the more outlandish Peking opera-esque 1508 01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:08,520 Lau Kar-leung movies was "Dirty Ho." 1509 01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:11,200 The title invariably makes people giggle, 1510 01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:13,200 but Ho is the guys name. 1511 01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:14,040 Okay. 1512 01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:16,280 - "Dirty Ho" is like almost like the ultimate example 1513 01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:19,360 of like how complex and amazing you can get. 1514 01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:21,200 (upbeat music) 1515 01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:23,720 - The masterpiece in that movie is when the wine shop, 1516 01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:28,000 the great Lung Wei is serving him different wines 1517 01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:31,000 that are named not only for their vessel... 1518 01:01:31,080 --> 01:01:32,480 - Dragon tiger wine. 1519 01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:34,440 - But also for the kung fu style which 1520 01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,760 the two then attack and defend themselves with 1521 01:01:37,840 --> 01:01:39,760 in a way that no one else in 1522 01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:42,120 the White House knows it's going on. 1523 01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:44,600 Very advanced, very high level stuff. 1524 01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:46,760 (upbeat music) 1525 01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,440 - He also made "36th Chamber of Shaolin" 1526 01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:51,080 with his blood brother Gordon Liu. 1527 01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:54,200 - "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin." 1528 01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:55,040 Classic. 1529 01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:55,880 One of the best kung fu movies ever made. 1530 01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:57,960 - This is about a hot headed young kid 1531 01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:00,440 who has to go into hiding for the Shaolin temple 1532 01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:03,200 and he decides to learn Shaolin kung fu. 1533 01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:04,800 - Master, teach me kung fu. 1534 01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:06,080 (exclaims) 1535 01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:09,480 - He works his way through all chambers, one through 35. 1536 01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:11,120 (grunting) (water splashing) 1537 01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:15,480 - Every stage he needs to overcome a different challenge. 1538 01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:16,640 There was one he was using 1539 01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:18,240 his head on the sand bag (laughs). 1540 01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:20,640 (grunts) 1541 01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:22,840 Or having like candles and it 1542 01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:25,640 was like moving his eyes (laughs). 1543 01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:26,920 (exclaims) 1544 01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:30,720 Martial artist, you have to overcome all these obstacles 1545 01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:32,840 and you have to be disciplined, 1546 01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:35,320 you have to be dedicated in your craft. 1547 01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:36,160 (men grunting) 1548 01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:38,920 - You must pass it or you'll never go any higher. 1549 01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:41,760 (dramatic music) 1550 01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:46,640 - When you see Rocky doing a training montage, 1551 01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:49,520 when you see the 80's training montages coming out of this, 1552 01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:53,400 it finds its original DNA in "36th Chambers of Shaolin." 1553 01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:56,200 (dramatic music) 1554 01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:58,160 - I mean you see him learning what he needs to learn 1555 01:02:58,240 --> 01:02:59,680 and you see him use it at the end. 1556 01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:01,520 - It's fascinating to watch this 1557 01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:03,520 as slowly this person trains and goes 1558 01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:08,000 from being a hot headed brat to a focused intense individual 1559 01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,040 who's almost selfless in a way because 1560 01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:11,480 he's learned that there's something larger 1561 01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:13,640 then himself which is kung fu. 1562 01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:18,440 (grunts) (dramatic music) 1563 01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,640 (pensive music) (pedestrians chattering) 1564 01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:23,280 (grunts) (pensive music) 1565 01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:25,680 - We all had some obligation, 1566 01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:29,240 to make ourselves skilled. 1567 01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:31,920 (grunting) (pensive music) 1568 01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:33,760 Because you can disarm me by taking 1569 01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:35,880 away my gun but you can't take away this. 1570 01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:37,360 (dramatic music) 1571 01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:39,600 - North of the Brooklyn Bridge was 1572 01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:43,080 this Alfred E. Smith housing project. 1573 01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:46,240 I was a film artist at the time. 1574 01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:50,680 One time there was incredibly powerful sound 1575 01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:53,480 coming from the gymnasium. 1576 01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:54,800 (all grunting) (dramatic music) 1577 01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:59,600 It turns out that this was a group of martial arts students. 1578 01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:02,800 They said we really wanna make a film with you. 1579 01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:05,440 - The name of this film is "Deadly Art of Survival." 1580 01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:08,240 - And it was like an urban kung fu movie. 1581 01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:11,000 A black guy who has a kung fu school 1582 01:04:11,080 --> 01:04:13,920 in the low east side gets into something 1583 01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:16,640 with a rival guy from another kung fu school. 1584 01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:19,920 (men grunting) (dramatic music) 1585 01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,360 - [Man] It was about the spirit and the mind 1586 01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:26,920 becoming powerful through discipline. 1587 01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:30,240 - My school, my style is better then your style. 1588 01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:31,680 So they eventually clashed. 1589 01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:33,160 (dramatic music) 1590 01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:35,480 - It's a kung fu art film and I always thought, 1591 01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:38,160 hey I'm serving up the community. 1592 01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:42,680 (water splashing) (dramatic music) 1593 01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:44,840 - [Interviewer] Any politician you know 1594 01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:47,040 ever done anything worth while to this area? 1595 01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:48,160 - No. 1596 01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:50,520 - Nobody wants to fix these buildings. 1597 01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:52,600 - Brothers and brothers and they doing nothing. 1598 01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:55,120 (upbeat music) 1599 01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:58,200 - Well in that time the Bronx was barren wasteland. 1600 01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:00,680 Landlords used to pay gang members 1601 01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:02,680 to torch the buildings for insurance money. 1602 01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:05,200 And in the middle of all this you had 1603 01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,680 the birth of hip hop which gave 1604 01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:09,880 us a chance to raise our hand and say, 1605 01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:12,360 hey look at me, I exist and I got talent. 1606 01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:13,640 I can do something. 1607 01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:16,000 - Kids who lived in urban ghetto areas 1608 01:05:16,080 --> 01:05:19,400 that would become a part of this movement called hip hop, 1609 01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:21,920 we all went to see these kung fu movies. 1610 01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:22,760 (plate shattering) 1611 01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:25,280 - I mean "Super Ninja," "Five Deadly Venoms," 1612 01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:26,920 "Shaolin Challenges The Ninja." 1613 01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:28,080 - [Man] Shaolin. 1614 01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:28,920 - [Man] "Ten Tigers of Kwangtung." 1615 01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:30,640 - Everybody watches kung fu cinema. 1616 01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:32,480 MC's, DJ's. 1617 01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:33,600 No one can tell me that they 1618 01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:35,000 didn't see that because they did. 1619 01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:36,400 (gentle music) 1620 01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:38,400 (upbeat music) 1621 01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:41,600 - 42nd Street I hung out all day long every day 1622 01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:42,960 in one theatre out the next. 1623 01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:44,560 I was there every Sunday. 1624 01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:45,760 - There were people that were really funny 1625 01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:47,040 in those movie theatres that said things 1626 01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:49,480 at the right time and the whole theatre would die laughing. 1627 01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:51,440 - You dummy, he's over there! 1628 01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:53,040 Like you better duck. 1629 01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:55,440 - Sometimes films mess up. 1630 01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:57,280 Sometimes the audio would get crazy. 1631 01:05:57,360 --> 01:05:58,320 You hear strange things like... 1632 01:05:58,400 --> 01:05:59,320 - Yo! 1633 01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:01,200 I didn't come here to watch no curtains. 1634 01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:03,920 I came here to watch a motherfucker get his ass beat. 1635 01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:04,760 (punches thudding) 1636 01:06:04,840 --> 01:06:05,600 (crowd cheering) 1637 01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:07,400 - And a lotta times we would clown with each other 1638 01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:10,200 just buggin' out off the fighting, choreography. 1639 01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:12,240 - You gonna watch it four times. 1640 01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:14,120 Now in the first round you watch the feet, 1641 01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:15,560 I'ma watch the hands. 1642 01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:16,920 And you watch the throws, I'll watch this 1643 01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:19,440 and we took turns isolatin' the movements 1644 01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:21,400 so we could get these techniques. 1645 01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:23,600 - A lotta these guys that were breaking 1646 01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:26,520 were heavily into martial art films. 1647 01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:27,360 (upbeat music) 1648 01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:30,200 "7 Grandmasters" is my favourite. 1649 01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:32,680 I based my whole career on "7 Grandmasters." 1650 01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:34,480 - My good name depends on this. 1651 01:06:34,560 --> 01:06:35,800 - I'll oblige you. 1652 01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:37,960 - What we saw on the screen was 1653 01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:42,920 the very essence of hip hop battling. 1654 01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,640 (upbeat music) 1655 01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:47,840 - Come on then, why are you waiting? 1656 01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:48,760 - Right now! 1657 01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:50,800 (upbeat music) 1658 01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:52,840 - [Man] One break dance crew challenging 1659 01:06:52,920 --> 01:06:55,680 another break dance crew form another part of town. 1660 01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:59,280 - The power of style to defeat your enemy. 1661 01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:00,440 - But it does have that kinda 1662 01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:02,280 like face off thing (whistling). 1663 01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:04,360 - [Man] My style is better then your style 1664 01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:06,680 was really where that all came from. 1665 01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:08,440 - There was a recognition that 1666 01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:13,440 the other person was their superior grandmaster. 1667 01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:14,680 (upbeat music) 1668 01:07:14,760 --> 01:07:16,520 - We know we're not grandmasters 1669 01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:19,160 but that's the whole innocent fantasy about it. 1670 01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:20,000 - [Crowd] Go, go! 1671 01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:21,040 - It was a recognition - Go, go, go! 1672 01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:23,920 - of respect and what is more hip hop then that? 1673 01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:24,760 (upbeat music) 1674 01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:26,680 ♪ Woo ♪ 1675 01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:30,240 (man yelling) 1676 01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:33,640 (upbeat music) 1677 01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:37,120 - [Man] To see these films with these amazing moves, 1678 01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:39,360 just kicking ass in a brand new way. 1679 01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:42,160 - They would see actors in kung fu movies on the ground, 1680 01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:44,800 on the shoulders kicking guys. 1681 01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:46,640 The windmill was very similar 1682 01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:48,880 to certain moves in kung fu movies. 1683 01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:52,040 You can see guys doing those scissors kick stuff. 1684 01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:54,680 In the intro credit scene in "Spiritual Boxer" 1685 01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:56,320 somebody does a suicide dive 1686 01:07:56,400 --> 01:07:57,760 which is a flip onto your back. 1687 01:07:57,840 --> 01:07:59,320 (all yelling) 1688 01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:00,560 (upbeat music) 1689 01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:01,960 - But there's another break dancer 1690 01:08:02,040 --> 01:08:04,160 from Brooklyn called Up Rock 1691 01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:05,000 and you're comin' up and down and you come up 1692 01:08:05,080 --> 01:08:07,720 and you exchange, punch, punch, punch and you go 1693 01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:09,440 back down and come up the same. 1694 01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:10,240 (upbeat music) 1695 01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:12,840 And that is totally Chinese martial arts. 1696 01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:15,240 (upbeat music) 1697 01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:17,960 - The drunken style, I adopted that fully. 1698 01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:19,240 But I'll be honest with you guys, 1699 01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:21,400 my whole entire style is drunken style. 1700 01:08:21,480 --> 01:08:23,040 (upbeat music) 1701 01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:23,880 - The were already doing it but 1702 01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:25,680 it just expanded the vocabulary. 1703 01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:27,200 (upbeat music) 1704 01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:28,360 - [Man] And in a lotta neighbourhoods 1705 01:08:28,440 --> 01:08:32,200 the dancing stopped the fighting drastically. 1706 01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:33,640 - They're tryin' to say well look, 1707 01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:35,960 I can do more then just steal and rob and stick you up. 1708 01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:37,280 - I keeps me outta two places. 1709 01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:38,480 It keeps me outta the poor house 1710 01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:41,400 and it keeps me outta your house, you know what I mean? 1711 01:08:41,480 --> 01:08:43,920 (upbeat music) 1712 01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:46,200 - Every single one of us that's creating 1713 01:08:46,280 --> 01:08:50,560 has this inspiration and if we really creating right, 1714 01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:52,320 then we put an interesting flip. 1715 01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:54,240 - They were sampling. 1716 01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:56,080 It's about cultures talk to each other. 1717 01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:57,840 - We twisted it. 1718 01:08:57,920 --> 01:08:59,520 We've remixed it and brought it 1719 01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:01,720 back to you with a fresh new beat. 1720 01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:02,800 - [Man] We are constantly talkin' 1721 01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:04,400 across the water to each other. 1722 01:09:04,480 --> 01:09:06,720 - "Mismatched Couples" is very interesting 1723 01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:07,960 to this whole discussion. 1724 01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:10,560 It's this movie about break dancing in Hong Kong. 1725 01:09:10,640 --> 01:09:11,440 In the intro right? 1726 01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:12,960 He's doing this un popping and locking 1727 01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:14,760 like putting his shirt on and taking it off. 1728 01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:15,960 He's doing some moon walking. 1729 01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:18,600 - But it's amazing to see how this culture 1730 01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:22,320 has combined with hip hop which it originally 1731 01:09:22,400 --> 01:09:25,520 had an influence on and then it could form 1732 01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:27,440 and function in it's own way. 1733 01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:29,240 I mean it's about time we get some publicity 1734 01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:31,080 for this God damn rap shit. 1735 01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:35,280 - A lot of the theatres that ran 1736 01:09:35,360 --> 01:09:37,600 the kung fu movies at this time, 1737 01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:39,440 they were inner city theatres. 1738 01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:42,960 A lot of the suburban kids, basically white kids, 1739 01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:46,640 parents were not comfortable having them go into the city. 1740 01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:50,280 So, why not put these on television? 1741 01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:51,720 (static crackling) 1742 01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:54,040 (upbeat music) 1743 01:09:54,120 --> 01:09:56,320 - When they expand beyond 42nd Street 1744 01:09:56,400 --> 01:10:00,440 into the commercial TV stations, then everybody got it. 1745 01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:02,560 - [Man] In Philadelphia, San Francisco, 1746 01:10:02,640 --> 01:10:05,240 Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Honolulu. 1747 01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:07,560 - [Man] People will be outside all day long. 1748 01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:09,640 They came inside to watch those kung fu movies. 1749 01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:13,000 - That inspired another generation of kids 1750 01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:16,000 like we were in the 70's and they got addicted 1751 01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:19,160 and plugged in to the whole phenomenon. 1752 01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:21,200 (upbeat music) 1753 01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:22,240 - [Announcer] Journey to 1754 01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:24,560 the mysterious world of the far east. 1755 01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:25,400 (gong bongs) 1756 01:10:25,480 --> 01:10:28,200 The wondrous and wicked world of the kung fu masters. 1757 01:10:28,280 --> 01:10:30,840 (gentle music) 1758 01:10:34,440 --> 01:10:39,080 - I discovered my love of these films on television. 1759 01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:43,520 I think the first one I watched was "Boxer From Shantung." 1760 01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:45,720 So I still have not seen anything 1761 01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:49,240 on commercial TV as bloody as that movie. 1762 01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:52,920 Chen Kuan-tai fights the whole like last 10 minutes 1763 01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:55,320 of the movie with an axe hanging out of his stomach. 1764 01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:57,040 (grunting) (dramatic music) 1765 01:10:57,120 --> 01:11:00,600 On a Saturday afternoon at four o'clock, 1766 01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:02,480 it was still outrageous. 1767 01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:05,760 (gentle music) 1768 01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:07,080 (man grunting) 1769 01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:08,600 - The reasons why they were good 1770 01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:11,400 for kids because they basically show 1771 01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:17,360 that if you're disciplined and you're prepared to study, 1772 01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:21,640 there isn't anything that you can't achieve. 1773 01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:24,440 (men grunting) (gentle music) 1774 01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:26,600 Which we know basically is nonsense. 1775 01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:29,400 (men grunting) 1776 01:11:29,480 --> 01:11:31,800 (child screaming) 1777 01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:32,760 (static crackling) 1778 01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:34,280 (kids laughing) (gentle music) 1779 01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:35,120 - Hello. 1780 01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:38,040 I'm Ron Van Clief and welcome to "Drive In Movie." 1781 01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:39,840 The "Chinatown Kid" is today's feature 1782 01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:41,840 starring Alexander Fu Sheng. 1783 01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:44,200 (eerie music) (men grunting) 1784 01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:45,280 - Now pay me for 'em. 1785 01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:46,440 (man grunting) (fist thudding) 1786 01:11:46,520 --> 01:11:48,360 - There were an English export 1787 01:11:48,440 --> 01:11:49,960 they were being done in Hong Kong. 1788 01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:53,000 So you have a lot of English accents being dubbed. 1789 01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:54,160 (film reel beeps) 1790 01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:55,960 - You bums obviously don't know me. 1791 01:11:56,040 --> 01:11:56,760 - Oh I know you. 1792 01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:57,600 You're one of Lou's men. 1793 01:11:57,680 --> 01:11:59,720 The one they say can kick like a mule. 1794 01:11:59,800 --> 01:12:01,640 - We all take the personality of dubbed movies. 1795 01:12:01,720 --> 01:12:03,840 - Hey, where do you think you're going? 1796 01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:06,520 - Hey, what do you mean over there huh? 1797 01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:07,360 Yeah. 1798 01:12:07,440 --> 01:12:09,640 - My kung fu is better then yours. 1799 01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:10,480 (laughs) 1800 01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:11,400 It's, it's (laughs)... 1801 01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:13,520 (film reel beeps) 1802 01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:14,360 - Ha! 1803 01:12:14,440 --> 01:12:15,600 (grunting) 1804 01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:17,560 - When we were dubbing them we would grunt, 1805 01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:19,440 we would make terrible noises. 1806 01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:20,280 (men screaming) 1807 01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:22,600 They took 10, 12 hours to dub. 1808 01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:24,760 There was one film we did. 1809 01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:28,240 We drank 72 beers between six of us. 1810 01:12:28,320 --> 01:12:29,960 We musta been drunk. 1811 01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:31,880 You can trust him to me (mumbling). 1812 01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:33,000 - Very good. 1813 01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:34,880 - Can you make it a little bit more Chinesey? 1814 01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:36,240 That was a bit English that one. 1815 01:12:36,320 --> 01:12:37,720 - So I'm just trying to write the thing 1816 01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:40,640 and trying to make the voices fit the lips. 1817 01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:41,720 - [Interviewer] You say, you make them 1818 01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:42,640 say what you want them to say. 1819 01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:44,480 Surely they've got to say what they are saying. 1820 01:12:44,560 --> 01:12:45,680 It doesn't make sense. - No. 1821 01:12:45,760 --> 01:12:47,440 They can be saying anything at all. 1822 01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:49,960 - "You must be tired of living" was a favourite. 1823 01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:51,480 Those words used to fit the lips. 1824 01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:53,960 - The lips go so many times. 1825 01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:55,200 So many times. 1826 01:12:55,280 --> 01:12:56,360 So many times. 1827 01:12:56,440 --> 01:13:00,800 - My favourite of all time was "The One-Armed Swordsman," 1828 01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:02,080 and I got him to say I'm 1829 01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:04,520 gonna kill you with my own two hands. 1830 01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:06,440 (upbeat music) 1831 01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:08,400 God knows it wasn't perfect. 1832 01:13:08,480 --> 01:13:10,400 Some of the time it wasn't even average. 1833 01:13:10,480 --> 01:13:13,720 - You be goin' left and right. 1834 01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:15,240 - "Fearless Hyena." 1835 01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:17,080 I did the Jackie Chan voice in it 1836 01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:18,960 and I saw it quite recently. 1837 01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:20,520 - What have I been teaching you? 1838 01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:22,920 - Study and act with thought. 1839 01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:24,120 - What else? 1840 01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:25,880 - Train hard to help others. 1841 01:13:25,960 --> 01:13:27,400 - Frankly I was horrified. 1842 01:13:27,480 --> 01:13:29,120 I could only watch 10 minutes of it. 1843 01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:30,320 I felt embarrassed. 1844 01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:32,200 - Why the hell did you attack me? 1845 01:13:33,280 --> 01:13:34,920 (grunting) 1846 01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:37,480 (upbeat music) 1847 01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:39,080 - As the 70's became the 80's 1848 01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:41,000 and the Hong Kong economy was booming, 1849 01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:42,440 Shaw missed the bus again. 1850 01:13:42,520 --> 01:13:45,120 Someone came to Shaw Brothers for this guy Jackie Chan. 1851 01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:45,920 Do you want this guy? 1852 01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:47,480 He's really funny, he's really popular. 1853 01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:48,320 Shaw said no thanks. 1854 01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:50,040 (voice screeching) 1855 01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:51,080 - That was the biggest, 1856 01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:53,280 it's like not signing The Beatles right? 1857 01:13:53,360 --> 01:13:54,760 (upbeat music) 1858 01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:56,360 - He went off to Golden Harvest where 1859 01:13:56,440 --> 01:13:59,480 they had realised that what people really really wanted 1860 01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:02,920 were kung fu comedies and people were eating it up. 1861 01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:05,400 Yuen Woo-Ping directed a movie 1862 01:14:05,480 --> 01:14:07,400 called "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow" 1863 01:14:07,480 --> 01:14:09,400 with Jackie Chan as a young boy 1864 01:14:09,480 --> 01:14:12,160 at a martial arts school who runs errands and cleans up. 1865 01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:14,240 - You have no idea (grunts). 1866 01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:16,680 - Who gets taught how to be a real fighter. 1867 01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:20,960 This really was the first big hit kung fu comedy. 1868 01:14:21,040 --> 01:14:22,280 (Jackie calling) 1869 01:14:22,360 --> 01:14:23,080 (upbeat music) (men grunting) 1870 01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:25,560 - Jackie Chan was not the next Bruce Lee. 1871 01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:27,440 - We don't need another Bruce Lee. 1872 01:14:27,520 --> 01:14:30,200 I'm going to make it my own. 1873 01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:31,960 - [Jackie] You must attract the audience, 1874 01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:33,760 see the movie (exclaims). 1875 01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:36,240 Then story, then comedy. 1876 01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:38,840 - And it was funny and like his personality 1877 01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:41,080 just exploded on screen. 1878 01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:44,160 - [Jackie] If no violent, no action, 1879 01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:47,080 not different cool stunt, few people are gonna see it. 1880 01:14:47,160 --> 01:14:48,040 (gentle music) 1881 01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:50,200 - Jackie Chan always said he was inspired 1882 01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:54,560 by Buster Keaton with all his stunts which inspired 1883 01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:57,920 him to do the comedy action that he's doing. 1884 01:14:58,000 --> 01:14:59,440 - Roll and action! 1885 01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:01,520 (upbeat music) 1886 01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:02,360 (shots firing) 1887 01:15:02,440 --> 01:15:05,040 - [Man] We want the audiences to see someone fall 40 feet 1888 01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:06,960 with nothing to catch them at the bottom. 1889 01:15:07,040 --> 01:15:08,680 - Stunt is my life. 1890 01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:09,760 Movie is my life. 1891 01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:12,080 - The joke was always we didn't 1892 01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:13,280 have money for special effects. 1893 01:15:13,360 --> 01:15:14,920 We had to be the special effect. 1894 01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:16,760 (upbeat music) (glass shattering) 1895 01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:19,040 - How do you appeal to the world? 1896 01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:22,000 Well, you make yourself the fall guy. 1897 01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:23,840 (upbeat music) 1898 01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:25,280 - [Jackie] And I'm not crazy. 1899 01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:27,080 - [Eric] That's genius. 1900 01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:30,240 - And you look at what Jackie Chan did with space. 1901 01:15:30,320 --> 01:15:32,000 Hello, hoo hoo! 1902 01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:33,400 (upbeat music) 1903 01:15:33,480 --> 01:15:35,560 - Doing an entire sequence in a wide shot 1904 01:15:35,640 --> 01:15:36,920 so you can see it's all there. 1905 01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:39,280 - You would run all over the set 1906 01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:40,880 and not just that set but you'd move 1907 01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:43,200 on to another set and another set after that. 1908 01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:45,040 - Jackie had his own style, 1909 01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:47,040 uses acrobatic abilities and learned 1910 01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:48,760 how to scale walls quickly 1911 01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:50,440 or jump over a table and come back, 1912 01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:52,760 slide on a table, flip over, do things like that. 1913 01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:54,480 (dramatic music) 1914 01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:57,720 Which to me is the precursor to parkour. 1915 01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:00,360 (upbeat music) 1916 01:16:01,720 --> 01:16:02,480 (clock chimes) 1917 01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:05,480 (woman singing in foreign language) 1918 01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:07,240 - For me we live in a society. 1919 01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:08,760 We like boxing, we're like squared in 1920 01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:11,200 and everything so okay it's safer. 1921 01:16:11,280 --> 01:16:13,000 So for me escape was better. 1922 01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:15,640 (upbeat music) 1923 01:16:16,680 --> 01:16:18,600 Getting outside, doing something else. 1924 01:16:18,680 --> 01:16:21,200 We find something positive to do. 1925 01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:23,440 (upbeat music) 1926 01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:24,280 For me it's all about energy. 1927 01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:25,760 It's like vibration. 1928 01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:27,000 It's in my head forever. 1929 01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:29,640 It's like this is part of who I am. 1930 01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:31,680 (woman singing in foreign language) 1931 01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:33,880 (upbeat music) 1932 01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:35,240 Watching those martial art movie, 1933 01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:38,640 Jackie Chan is a huge influence and he inspired us. 1934 01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:41,000 It was like he plant a seed in us. 1935 01:16:42,040 --> 01:16:43,840 Other kids where we grew up like, 1936 01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:46,760 the Dame du Laus which is a very iconic structure 1937 01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:49,200 allowed us to practise like a tool, 1938 01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:50,200 like a wooden dummy. 1939 01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:51,480 We were (clacking). 1940 01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:52,640 ♪ Let's go ♪ 1941 01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:54,240 It just fuels you. 1942 01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:56,040 Like gives you so much energy. 1943 01:16:56,120 --> 01:16:57,680 That's what all his movie did for me. 1944 01:16:57,760 --> 01:17:00,720 - [Man] When you see parkour, it's no different 1945 01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:03,880 than Jackie Chan getting chased around town. 1946 01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:06,880 - Parkour felt like wire work without the wires. 1947 01:17:06,960 --> 01:17:10,240 - He makes you think like supernatural exists. 1948 01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:13,320 We could wall run. 1949 01:17:13,400 --> 01:17:14,520 So you change your mind. 1950 01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:17,000 The wall is no more wall, the bench is no more bench. 1951 01:17:17,080 --> 01:17:17,840 Jackie Chan you see? 1952 01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:19,720 He uses the environment. 1953 01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:21,600 That's what we do, we use the environment. 1954 01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:24,160 We initiate the fashion phenomenon. 1955 01:17:24,240 --> 01:17:28,800 We're responsible for this crazy famous discipline. 1956 01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:31,560 But there is people also allow us to do that. 1957 01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:33,080 It's a link. 1958 01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:35,720 We are inspired and then we inspired. 1959 01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:38,560 (dramatic music) 1960 01:17:44,240 --> 01:17:46,200 - [Man] In the 80's Hong Kong movies started moving 1961 01:17:46,280 --> 01:17:47,720 into the modern times with people 1962 01:17:47,800 --> 01:17:49,360 like Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, 1963 01:17:49,440 --> 01:17:52,320 except their stars now were white collar workers. 1964 01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:53,880 (men grunting) (upbeat music) 1965 01:17:53,960 --> 01:17:56,200 - The plot was irrelevant. 1966 01:17:56,280 --> 01:17:57,840 It was all about how are we gonna 1967 01:17:57,920 --> 01:17:59,760 get from this acrobatic scene 1968 01:17:59,840 --> 01:18:02,760 to this comedy scene all with kung fu? 1969 01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:05,080 - Those guys would start bringing this idea 1970 01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:07,480 of well a stunt man also needs to know falls, 1971 01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:10,400 jumps, how to go through a window or a wall. 1972 01:18:10,480 --> 01:18:11,360 (Sammo speaking in foreign language) 1973 01:18:11,440 --> 01:18:12,160 - [Translator] You hope to show 1974 01:18:12,240 --> 01:18:14,280 the audience something new in every film. 1975 01:18:14,360 --> 01:18:18,680 I wanted them to be happy when they watched my films. 1976 01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:19,520 - There's nobody better then Sammo Hung. 1977 01:18:19,600 --> 01:18:22,440 That guy's the most incredible action director 1978 01:18:22,520 --> 01:18:23,600 I've ever worked with. 1979 01:18:23,680 --> 01:18:25,920 (men grunting) 1980 01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:27,960 In "Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars" 1981 01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:30,240 Sammo said you swing the chair at my legs 1982 01:18:30,320 --> 01:18:32,760 and I'll do somersault and land on my feet. 1983 01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:35,440 Honestly I'm like, where's the stunt double? 1984 01:18:35,520 --> 01:18:38,640 Course Sammo did it like 30 frickin' times 1985 01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:40,480 and you know how he's built. 1986 01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:41,720 Jackie made a comment once, 1987 01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:44,280 he looks like an elephant but moves like a monkey. 1988 01:18:44,360 --> 01:18:45,120 (shot firing) 1989 01:18:45,200 --> 01:18:47,120 - Sammo Hung was concerned with impact. 1990 01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:49,000 He wanted things to hit hard. 1991 01:18:49,080 --> 01:18:50,120 (men grunting) 1992 01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:51,440 - As hard as he hit you, he wanted you 1993 01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:53,400 to hit him just as hard back. 1994 01:18:53,480 --> 01:18:54,960 (men grunting) 1995 01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:56,640 - Kung fu? 1996 01:18:56,720 --> 01:18:58,240 They put camera here and I have to put 1997 01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:00,960 my head into frame and Sammo boom, 1998 01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:02,520 bare fisted upper cut. 1999 01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:05,000 I remember after the first few days 2000 01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:06,560 in my fight scene with Sammo, 2001 01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:10,000 if I can get through this I can get through anything. 2002 01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:11,840 (upbeat music) 2003 01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:13,640 - People wanted modern day movies. 2004 01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:14,840 Golden Harvest cleaned up with 2005 01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:18,000 their action comedy series set in the modern day. 2006 01:19:18,080 --> 01:19:19,040 (upbeat music) 2007 01:19:19,120 --> 01:19:20,240 And Shaw Brothers was just 2008 01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:23,200 one beat behind what audiences wanted. 2009 01:19:23,280 --> 01:19:25,840 (gentle music) 2010 01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:31,320 And so slowly Shaw faded and faded. 2011 01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:33,760 (gentle music) 2012 01:19:33,840 --> 01:19:37,680 'Til eventually, Shaw Brothers died in 1986 2013 01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:39,520 when basically television production 2014 01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:41,920 took over the Clear Water Bay sound stages. 2015 01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:42,880 (gentle music) 2016 01:19:42,960 --> 01:19:44,440 They abandoned actually Lau Kar-leung 2017 01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:45,840 who was shooting his movie. 2018 01:19:45,920 --> 01:19:47,440 They just sort of left him there. 2019 01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:48,600 We're shutting down production. 2020 01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:49,520 Good luck. 2021 01:19:50,480 --> 01:19:52,480 They moved over into TVB full time 2022 01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:54,760 and made more millions of dollars there 2023 01:19:54,840 --> 01:19:56,680 becoming the biggest and most powerful producer 2024 01:19:56,760 --> 01:19:59,000 of televisions martial arts dramas, 2025 01:19:59,080 --> 01:20:02,240 period dramas, romances and contemporary cop shows. 2026 01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:04,880 (gentle music) 2027 01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:07,280 (men grunting) 2028 01:20:07,360 --> 01:20:08,120 - [Man] Marker. 2029 01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:09,360 - [Man] One thing Golden Harvest understood 2030 01:20:09,440 --> 01:20:11,000 in a way that Shaw Brothers didn't is 2031 01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:14,400 that you had to constantly have fresh faces. 2032 01:20:14,480 --> 01:20:15,240 - [Man] One more. 2033 01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:16,080 - [Man] Go overseas, 2034 01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:18,200 hold auditions and see what was out there. 2035 01:20:18,280 --> 01:20:19,360 (static crackling) 2036 01:20:19,440 --> 01:20:21,360 - In karate (exclaims), 2037 01:20:21,440 --> 01:20:24,120 I'm number one and Kentucky Fried Chicken 2038 01:20:24,200 --> 01:20:25,560 is number one in chicken. 2039 01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:27,960 It's got that taste that (exclaims)... 2040 01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:29,280 (static crackling) 2041 01:20:29,360 --> 01:20:32,080 - I was five time karate world champion. 2042 01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:34,240 The editor of Inside Kung Fu Magazine 2043 01:20:34,320 --> 01:20:35,960 said hey there's a Chinese company here. 2044 01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:37,920 They're in Los Angeles and they're auditioning. 2045 01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:39,960 They're looking for the next Bruce Lee. 2046 01:20:40,040 --> 01:20:42,160 I did some fighting, I did self defence, 2047 01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:44,960 I did some weapons and Corey Yuen says I want the girl. 2048 01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:47,480 (shot firing) 2049 01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:50,040 My first movie was "Yes, Madame" in Hong Kong 2050 01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:51,080 and I was like what do I do? 2051 01:20:51,160 --> 01:20:52,560 I'd never shot a film before. 2052 01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:53,400 - Go away! 2053 01:20:53,480 --> 01:20:55,560 - Get away or I'll kill her! 2054 01:20:55,640 --> 01:20:56,400 - Ah! 2055 01:20:56,480 --> 01:20:58,960 (man grunting) 2056 01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:00,360 Nothing was in English. 2057 01:21:00,440 --> 01:21:01,760 I didn't know what I was saying. 2058 01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:03,880 I remember just going (speaking in foreign language) 2059 01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:06,240 and they go cut, that's good. 2060 01:21:06,320 --> 01:21:08,560 And I was like no I said (speaking in foreign language). 2061 01:21:08,640 --> 01:21:09,640 They said doesn't matter. 2062 01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:10,880 (speaking in foreign language) 2063 01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:12,200 Corey Yuen was such an innovator 2064 01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:14,040 to take a chance with two women. 2065 01:21:14,120 --> 01:21:16,040 - Ha, let's see how good you ladies are. 2066 01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:17,280 (upbeat music) 2067 01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:18,760 - Final fight with her and Michelle Yeoh together 2068 01:21:18,840 --> 01:21:20,960 side by side is just mind blowing. 2069 01:21:21,040 --> 01:21:23,000 (all grunting) (upbeat music) 2070 01:21:23,080 --> 01:21:25,840 - Their internal power emanates out of them 2071 01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:29,960 through the lens to you in the audience and it's like yeah. 2072 01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:35,960 (all grunting) (upbeat music) 2073 01:21:36,760 --> 01:21:38,360 - The movie was a success and I signed 2074 01:21:38,440 --> 01:21:40,320 a three picture deal with Golden Harvest. 2075 01:21:40,400 --> 01:21:42,000 - So what about you lady? 2076 01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:43,600 You wanna try my kung fu? 2077 01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:46,080 - Of course I wanna try you piece of shit. 2078 01:21:47,440 --> 01:21:48,840 (exclaims) 2079 01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:50,640 There's a big difference between shooting 2080 01:21:50,720 --> 01:21:52,320 in Hong Kong and in American. 2081 01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:53,960 We never had a script and I remember 2082 01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:55,400 I was shooting "The Magic Crystal" 2083 01:21:55,480 --> 01:21:58,000 and the director said to me look at the ceiling. 2084 01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:00,000 And I said oh boy, why am I looking at the ceiling? 2085 01:22:00,080 --> 01:22:01,040 He goes oh don't worry about it. 2086 01:22:01,120 --> 01:22:04,160 (man speaking in foreign language) 2087 01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:06,200 When I see the movie we're gettin' invaded 2088 01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:08,000 by aliens and they're attacking us 2089 01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:09,520 and I was like that might've been 2090 01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:12,560 a little bit important information to tell me. 2091 01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:14,320 - And did you see the alien when it came out? 2092 01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:15,560 It looked like some kid had made 2093 01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:18,000 it out of Plasticine or something. 2094 01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:20,680 (man screaming) 2095 01:22:20,760 --> 01:22:22,320 I did it with Cynthia Rothrock 2096 01:22:22,400 --> 01:22:24,240 who I've done nine movies with. 2097 01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:29,160 (grunting) (upbeat music) 2098 01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:31,160 - And I always tell people it 2099 01:22:31,240 --> 01:22:32,640 doesn't matter how good you are. 2100 01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:34,320 If you're with a partner that isn't good, 2101 01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:35,880 you're not gonna look good. 2102 01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:39,240 If you did a movie then and you weren't a good fighter, 2103 01:22:39,320 --> 01:22:40,320 that was not gonna sell 'cause people 2104 01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:42,720 could tell if you could fight or not. 2105 01:22:42,800 --> 01:22:47,080 (man grunting) (upbeat music) 2106 01:22:47,160 --> 01:22:48,920 - The fight has highs and lows. 2107 01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:52,280 It has nouns and verbs and adverbs and adjectives. 2108 01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:54,920 (grunting) (upbeat music) 2109 01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:56,920 That's what's important in a fight scene. 2110 01:22:57,000 --> 01:23:02,000 (upbeat music) (weapons whizzing) 2111 01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:04,200 (man calling) (upbeat music) 2112 01:23:04,280 --> 01:23:06,720 (rock music) (glass shattering) 2113 01:23:06,800 --> 01:23:09,600 - One of the toughest careers is doing Hong Kong movies. 2114 01:23:10,920 --> 01:23:11,800 You get hurt. 2115 01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:13,120 (explosion booming) 2116 01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:15,400 - Hong Kong action is gruelling. 2117 01:23:15,480 --> 01:23:16,240 (upbeat music) 2118 01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:17,800 - There's a stunt in a movie, it's called "Pantyhose Hero" 2119 01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:20,040 where you see Sammo Hung get hit 2120 01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:22,040 by a car and you see his body move 2121 01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:24,000 in ways a body shouldn't move. 2122 01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:25,600 And I'm like oh, how long did you go to the hospital for? 2123 01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:26,560 Oh, I didn't go. 2124 01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:28,640 (shots firing) 2125 01:23:28,720 --> 01:23:31,280 - That's why Hong Kong's action films are so unique. 2126 01:23:31,360 --> 01:23:35,440 Safety is not really the first major concern. 2127 01:23:35,520 --> 01:23:36,400 (upbeat music) 2128 01:23:36,480 --> 01:23:38,200 - I mean there's a scene where Jackie's 2129 01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:41,880 gonna blow the top three floors off of these buildings. 2130 01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:44,680 (alarm ringing) (dramatic music) 2131 01:23:44,760 --> 01:23:48,360 They got 15 cameras so eventually action, boom! 2132 01:23:48,440 --> 01:23:50,920 (explosion booming) 2133 01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:52,640 The whole thing's blown off. 2134 01:23:52,720 --> 01:23:54,400 (dramatic music) 2135 01:23:54,480 --> 01:23:57,840 Next minute, people are running, grabbing cameras. 2136 01:23:57,920 --> 01:23:58,680 Quick! 2137 01:23:58,760 --> 01:23:59,720 Come on! 2138 01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:00,560 Quickly, quickly! 2139 01:24:00,640 --> 01:24:01,720 And I get dragged into a car to get out 2140 01:24:01,800 --> 01:24:03,680 of there 'cause I hadn't told anybody 2141 01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:06,040 'cause they knew if they asked for permission 2142 01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:08,160 they wouldn't get it so they just did it. 2143 01:24:08,240 --> 01:24:09,600 (gentle music) 2144 01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:12,440 - The stunt coordinator is such a tough job. 2145 01:24:12,520 --> 01:24:15,120 So on this scene prissy guys, 2146 01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:16,640 they wanted to kidnap the girl and 2147 01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:20,360 they just grabbed the kid's hair and then the car back off. 2148 01:24:20,440 --> 01:24:24,040 (man laughing) (engine revving) 2149 01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:24,960 Bang! 2150 01:24:26,840 --> 01:24:28,560 We show it to the parents first 2151 01:24:28,640 --> 01:24:32,680 to gain parents permission and then okay, just do it. 2152 01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:36,920 (man laughing) (engine revving) 2153 01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:38,600 In Hollywood you couldn't do that. 2154 01:24:38,680 --> 01:24:41,680 (upbeat music) 2155 01:24:41,760 --> 01:24:42,520 ♪ Hey ♪ 2156 01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:44,800 - These guys lay their lives on the line everyday 2157 01:24:44,880 --> 01:24:46,280 to give us the cinematic beauty. 2158 01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:47,360 (upbeat music) 2159 01:24:47,440 --> 01:24:48,640 - When the doctor goes oh yeah, 2160 01:24:48,720 --> 01:24:51,240 you jumbled your internal organs, am I like what? 2161 01:24:51,320 --> 01:24:53,120 I jumbled my internal organs? 2162 01:24:53,200 --> 01:24:53,920 What does that mean? 2163 01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:55,640 - He actually knocked my tooth out. 2164 01:24:55,720 --> 01:24:57,720 Boom, my tooth is rattlin' around in my head. 2165 01:24:57,800 --> 01:24:59,680 Sammo's like put it in your pocket, let's go back to work. 2166 01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:02,840 (upbeat music) (all exclaiming) 2167 01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:05,680 - [Announcer] They were supposed to land onto the car, 2168 01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:06,880 not the road. 2169 01:25:06,960 --> 01:25:09,480 Three months in hospital they're back at work. 2170 01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:11,480 (all yelling) (upbeat music) 2171 01:25:11,560 --> 01:25:12,640 - You're in a Hong Kong movie. 2172 01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:14,440 If the director says he's gonna set fire 2173 01:25:14,520 --> 01:25:17,120 to you and throw you down the stairs, you gotta run with it. 2174 01:25:17,200 --> 01:25:20,040 - So I have to fall off from the flyover 2175 01:25:20,120 --> 01:25:23,000 and then land on a moving truck 2176 01:25:23,080 --> 01:25:27,480 and then bounce off to a moving van. 2177 01:25:27,560 --> 01:25:30,280 I stood on the flyover for seven nights. 2178 01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:34,760 Every single night to try to fall in love with the stunt. 2179 01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:35,600 (shot firing) 2180 01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:37,320 It was so dangerous and so tough. 2181 01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:41,360 The director wanted me to do one more time. 2182 01:25:41,440 --> 01:25:43,120 What's wrong with that one? 2183 01:25:43,200 --> 01:25:44,800 (upbeat music) 2184 01:25:44,880 --> 01:25:47,800 I go home, my mom ask me, you sure this 2185 01:25:47,880 --> 01:25:51,200 is your long term career or what? 2186 01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:52,320 Okay, I said yes. 2187 01:25:52,400 --> 01:25:53,400 (upbeat music) 2188 01:25:53,480 --> 01:25:55,400 - First time you be a part of their stunt team 2189 01:25:55,480 --> 01:25:57,160 you would do whatever it took. 2190 01:25:57,240 --> 01:25:58,520 Often that meant gettin' 2191 01:25:58,600 --> 01:26:01,520 the absolute shit kicked out of you. 2192 01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:04,320 Like in "Twinkle" they were real rackets you know? 2193 01:26:04,400 --> 01:26:06,360 They weren't balsa wood or anything. 2194 01:26:06,440 --> 01:26:07,400 Pow, pow, pow, pow, pow. 2195 01:26:07,480 --> 01:26:08,280 (grunting) 2196 01:26:08,360 --> 01:26:10,640 The stunt guy, he's in the corner (gasping). 2197 01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:12,720 He's like this. 2198 01:26:12,800 --> 01:26:15,160 I said oh my God, he's gonna die. 2199 01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:16,880 - You don't have a mark on you. 2200 01:26:16,960 --> 01:26:18,040 Let's make it worthwhile. 2201 01:26:18,120 --> 01:26:19,960 (grunting) (upbeat music) 2202 01:26:20,040 --> 01:26:22,840 - In "Yes, Madam" Corey Yuen kept saying hit him harder, 2203 01:26:22,920 --> 01:26:24,360 hit him harder and the guy's going no, 2204 01:26:24,440 --> 01:26:25,720 don't hit me harder it hurts. 2205 01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:26,920 (man grunting) 2206 01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:27,760 - Madam, I think he's had enough for now. 2207 01:26:27,840 --> 01:26:29,480 - When I went an did my first American picture 2208 01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:31,960 they're like don't hit so hard, this isn't Hong Kong. 2209 01:26:32,040 --> 01:26:37,040 (all yelling) (dramatic music) 2210 01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:40,960 (bell dings) 2211 01:26:41,040 --> 01:26:42,120 (siren wailing) (dramatic music) 2212 01:26:42,200 --> 01:26:45,440 My films in America, most of them went directly to video. 2213 01:26:45,520 --> 01:26:47,520 (dramatic music) 2214 01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:49,800 - [Narrator] There are some places in this world... 2215 01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:51,520 - [China] I can't see you back there. 2216 01:26:51,600 --> 01:26:54,440 - [Narrator] Where a pretty girl should never walk alone. 2217 01:26:54,520 --> 01:26:56,800 - But I can feel you. 2218 01:26:56,880 --> 01:27:01,440 - [Narrator] Unless her name, is China O'Brien. 2219 01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:03,200 (China yelling) (dramatic music) 2220 01:27:03,280 --> 01:27:05,640 - It was such a iconic character 2221 01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:08,240 that people started callin' me China. 2222 01:27:08,320 --> 01:27:09,080 - [Man] The U.S. 2223 01:27:09,160 --> 01:27:10,960 I mean movies like China O'Brien. 2224 01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:11,800 (exclaims) 2225 01:27:11,880 --> 01:27:13,320 she's one of chop suey fighters. 2226 01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:15,400 - Which was really trying to capture 2227 01:27:15,480 --> 01:27:17,160 an audience they knew was out there 2228 01:27:17,240 --> 01:27:19,680 but they weren't gonna fight for them in movie theatres. 2229 01:27:19,760 --> 01:27:21,280 (upbeat music) 2230 01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:22,560 They knew they could get these people 2231 01:27:22,640 --> 01:27:24,720 in video stores which were everywhere. 2232 01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:28,160 - The VHS era comes in and then you have 2233 01:27:28,240 --> 01:27:32,760 a whole 'nother wave of people seeing these kung fu films. 2234 01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:33,560 - People's necks are being split 2235 01:27:33,640 --> 01:27:36,240 and their hands are being chopped off. 2236 01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:38,320 - [Man] They had a hungry audience that wanted 20, 2237 01:27:38,400 --> 01:27:40,800 30, 40 action movies in a year. 2238 01:27:40,880 --> 01:27:43,360 - It was the video boom when I was growing up. 2239 01:27:43,440 --> 01:27:45,680 There's a local video shop right by the house. 2240 01:27:45,760 --> 01:27:48,120 I would watch three films a day and then go 2241 01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:50,880 back to the video store and get three more. 2242 01:27:50,960 --> 01:27:52,760 - What made people kind of rent a movie 2243 01:27:52,840 --> 01:27:54,720 was usually the cover art. 2244 01:27:54,800 --> 01:27:58,040 I did "Equaliser 2,000" with this Corinne Wahl 2245 01:27:58,120 --> 01:28:01,000 and she's kind of almost naked and I'm bare chested 2246 01:28:01,080 --> 01:28:03,280 and it's oh, but that's kinda what 2247 01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:06,160 you had to do to sell the movie you know? 2248 01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:08,600 - [Announcer] Finally a major martial arts movie 2249 01:28:08,680 --> 01:28:11,000 starring the greatest kick boxers in the world. 2250 01:28:11,080 --> 01:28:12,680 (upbeat music) 2251 01:28:12,760 --> 01:28:15,120 - There was a time where if you could throw a kick 2252 01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:16,240 okay we'll put him in the movie. 2253 01:28:16,320 --> 01:28:19,080 You had the Van Damme's, you had the Don Wilson's. 2254 01:28:19,160 --> 01:28:22,560 - [Announcer] Don Wilson is quite frankly a one man army. 2255 01:28:22,640 --> 01:28:23,640 - All my posters used to say 2256 01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:26,840 world kickboxing champion Don "The Dragon" Wilson. 2257 01:28:26,920 --> 01:28:27,680 (upbeat music) 2258 01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:28,520 - [Announcer] Don Wilson is 2259 01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:30,280 the greatest kick boxer of all time. 2260 01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:33,120 - They had these physical guys doing 2261 01:28:33,200 --> 01:28:34,600 these very physical movies 2262 01:28:34,680 --> 01:28:36,480 and the acting wasn't so important. 2263 01:28:36,560 --> 01:28:39,280 - [Announcer] World karate champion Billy Blanks. 2264 01:28:39,360 --> 01:28:40,880 - Don Wilson asked if I would play 2265 01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:42,680 a part in his movie "Bloodfist" 2266 01:28:42,760 --> 01:28:44,520 and I went wow this is a blessing. 2267 01:28:44,600 --> 01:28:45,840 Don Wilson is talkin' movies. 2268 01:28:45,920 --> 01:28:47,800 (grunting) (crowd cheering) 2269 01:28:47,880 --> 01:28:49,520 I'm not a great actor but the goal is 2270 01:28:49,600 --> 01:28:52,000 to be able to take my martial arts 2271 01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:54,720 and make it be so good that people don't even see my acting. 2272 01:28:54,800 --> 01:28:56,360 (upbeat music) 2273 01:28:56,440 --> 01:28:58,000 - I became what they called a video star. 2274 01:28:58,080 --> 01:28:59,800 I was doin' up to five movies a year though. 2275 01:28:59,880 --> 01:29:01,240 There were not theatrical releases 2276 01:29:01,320 --> 01:29:02,840 that were direct to video. 2277 01:29:02,920 --> 01:29:05,400 - In Time Magazine they have me and Don Wilson 2278 01:29:05,480 --> 01:29:08,400 as the top video sellers of that time. 2279 01:29:08,480 --> 01:29:10,200 - I would go around the country for a month 2280 01:29:10,280 --> 01:29:12,520 going to individual video stores 2281 01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:14,640 and just meeting the public. 2282 01:29:14,720 --> 01:29:17,280 - I met Cynthia Rothrock at Blockbusters, 2283 01:29:17,360 --> 01:29:18,840 told her my aspirations that I wanted 2284 01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:20,560 to do what she did and get into the movies 2285 01:29:20,640 --> 01:29:23,840 and she signed a picture saying I'll see you in the movies. 2286 01:29:23,920 --> 01:29:24,800 There's loads of guys like me 2287 01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:27,520 that were inspired by these films. 2288 01:29:27,600 --> 01:29:29,120 Okay, I wanna be one of these guys. 2289 01:29:29,200 --> 01:29:30,080 That's the goal. 2290 01:29:30,160 --> 01:29:31,520 (upbeat music) 2291 01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:33,000 (static crackling) 2292 01:29:33,080 --> 01:29:37,440 (men grunting) (upbeat music) 2293 01:29:37,520 --> 01:29:42,320 - With the inception of VHS, now we had the power. 2294 01:29:42,400 --> 01:29:45,640 - When we were trying to learn how to make these films, 2295 01:29:45,720 --> 01:29:47,960 we would watch fight scenes frame by frame. 2296 01:29:48,040 --> 01:29:49,920 - Slowly fast forward to that spot. 2297 01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:51,760 - [Man] Pause, rewind, go slow. 2298 01:29:51,840 --> 01:29:54,440 - Which causes the tape to kinda degrade after awhile. 2299 01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:56,720 - A film like "Wheels On Meals" for example. 2300 01:29:56,800 --> 01:29:59,280 Okay, so he was over Jackie's shoulder and the shot changes. 2301 01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:01,880 - At this point this was individuals controlling 2302 01:30:01,960 --> 01:30:04,040 their entertainment for the first time. 2303 01:30:04,120 --> 01:30:04,880 (static crackling) 2304 01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:05,720 (upbeat music) 2305 01:30:05,800 --> 01:30:06,560 - [Announcer] What's happening in Los Angeles 2306 01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:07,920 that brings thousands of people to 2307 01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:10,000 the hottest training centre in the country? 2308 01:30:10,080 --> 01:30:10,840 Here's a hint. 2309 01:30:10,920 --> 01:30:13,440 (upbeat music) 2310 01:30:13,520 --> 01:30:14,480 - And Jane Fonda was 2311 01:30:14,560 --> 01:30:16,880 the top aerobic instructor at the time. 2312 01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:18,120 Her studio where she was teaching 2313 01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:20,840 was probably two miles from my house. 2314 01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:23,080 So I would go down and look in the window 2315 01:30:23,160 --> 01:30:25,000 and watch her teach classes right? 2316 01:30:25,080 --> 01:30:26,400 - Hi, I'm Billy Blanks coming to you 2317 01:30:26,480 --> 01:30:28,560 with your first Tae Bo workout. 2318 01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:30,680 So then I started takin' kung fu moves, 2319 01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:32,560 callisthenics moves, boxing. 2320 01:30:32,640 --> 01:30:33,960 I started blendin' it all together 2321 01:30:34,040 --> 01:30:35,960 and then I decided I'm gonna come 2322 01:30:36,040 --> 01:30:37,720 up with somethin' and call it Tae Bo. 2323 01:30:37,800 --> 01:30:39,120 - [Announcer] Join the millions of people 2324 01:30:39,200 --> 01:30:40,880 all over the world and become part 2325 01:30:40,960 --> 01:30:43,360 of the Tae Bo fitness revolution. 2326 01:30:43,440 --> 01:30:45,880 - It became the most popular video in the world. 2327 01:30:45,960 --> 01:30:48,160 It sold more videos than the movie "Titanic." 2328 01:30:48,240 --> 01:30:50,280 It sold over 150 million copies. 2329 01:30:50,360 --> 01:30:51,160 How you guys feel? 2330 01:30:51,240 --> 01:30:52,000 - Woo! - Good! 2331 01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:55,120 (dramatic music) 2332 01:30:55,200 --> 01:30:56,480 - [Announcer] Or "Tae Bo Gold," 2333 01:30:56,560 --> 01:30:58,040 a workout specifically designed for 2334 01:30:58,120 --> 01:31:01,440 the exercise needs of men and women over 40. 2335 01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:02,360 (static crackling) 2336 01:31:02,440 --> 01:31:05,040 (gentle music) 2337 01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:07,680 - The circumstances are unique. 2338 01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:10,320 Your agreement is unique. 2339 01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:14,160 It is right that we should feel a sense of history 2340 01:31:14,240 --> 01:31:19,120 and pride and of confidence in the future. 2341 01:31:19,200 --> 01:31:21,360 (dramatic music) 2342 01:31:21,440 --> 01:31:23,560 - The mid 90's are an interesting time in Hong Kong 2343 01:31:23,640 --> 01:31:26,680 because of the upcoming handover to mainland China. 2344 01:31:27,800 --> 01:31:28,600 - The infrastructure in 2345 01:31:28,680 --> 01:31:30,320 the Hong Kong film business had changed. 2346 01:31:30,400 --> 01:31:33,800 Things were slowly moving to the mainland 2347 01:31:33,880 --> 01:31:36,040 and the Hong Kong film industry really 2348 01:31:36,120 --> 01:31:37,480 was a hit or miss at that time. 2349 01:31:37,560 --> 01:31:41,400 - Hong Kong was making close to 300 movies a year. 2350 01:31:41,480 --> 01:31:45,400 This is from a city with fewer then nine million people. 2351 01:31:45,480 --> 01:31:49,240 It is a scale of over production that is hard to comprehend. 2352 01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:52,640 By 99 when the Asian economic crisis hit, 2353 01:31:52,720 --> 01:31:54,960 Hong Kong suddenly dropped to making fewer 2354 01:31:55,040 --> 01:31:56,640 then 50 movies per year. 2355 01:31:56,720 --> 01:31:58,960 People were out of work everywhere. 2356 01:31:59,040 --> 01:32:00,560 (Chin speaking in foreign language) 2357 01:32:00,640 --> 01:32:02,520 - [Translator] There was a transitional period 2358 01:32:02,600 --> 01:32:05,840 where film makers got a bit lost in the action cinema. 2359 01:32:06,920 --> 01:32:08,520 And they didn't know where to go. 2360 01:32:08,600 --> 01:32:10,880 (upbeat music) 2361 01:32:10,960 --> 01:32:14,200 - And then you have a flood of these Hong Kong performers 2362 01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:15,720 and directors coming into the U.S. 2363 01:32:15,800 --> 01:32:18,600 (upbeat music) 2364 01:32:18,680 --> 01:32:19,920 - The people that I had grown up with 2365 01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:21,720 in the Hong Kong film industry 2366 01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:25,280 were now coming over to join the Hollywood film industry. 2367 01:32:25,360 --> 01:32:27,040 (upbeat music) 2368 01:32:27,120 --> 01:32:29,040 - [Man] Executives or agents, they were trying 2369 01:32:29,120 --> 01:32:30,760 to quickly catch up but, like, 2370 01:32:30,840 --> 01:32:31,960 how do we make sense of this? 2371 01:32:32,040 --> 01:32:33,280 - [Man] Like okay, who are these guys? 2372 01:32:33,360 --> 01:32:35,000 Like they obviously have market appeal. 2373 01:32:35,080 --> 01:32:36,600 - They were in a fish bowl of sorts 2374 01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:38,040 where they were sort of finding 2375 01:32:38,120 --> 01:32:39,760 them fascinating but at the same time... 2376 01:32:39,840 --> 01:32:42,720 - Not really understanding why they were good. 2377 01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:43,840 What they could do. 2378 01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:46,440 (upbeat music) 2379 01:32:46,520 --> 01:32:49,640 - [Man] Then Yuen Woo-ping came in and changed the game. 2380 01:32:49,720 --> 01:32:51,280 - I know kung fu. 2381 01:32:53,560 --> 01:32:54,280 - Show me. 2382 01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:56,880 (upbeat music) 2383 01:32:56,960 --> 01:32:58,680 - When the Wachowski's went to Yuen Woo-ping 2384 01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:01,160 and said we want you to choreograph the action, 2385 01:33:01,240 --> 01:33:03,200 and he said okay well, but I need 2386 01:33:03,280 --> 01:33:05,920 to train the actors for like three to six months. 2387 01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:08,560 - The challenge is how we can make 2388 01:33:08,640 --> 01:33:09,760 these people look as though they know 2389 01:33:09,840 --> 01:33:12,360 they are born with the skills. 2390 01:33:12,440 --> 01:33:14,560 (upbeat music) 2391 01:33:14,640 --> 01:33:15,400 - And what happened? 2392 01:33:15,480 --> 01:33:17,920 Everybody, everybody loves those fight scenes. 2393 01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:19,640 There's a reason that they love them. 2394 01:33:19,720 --> 01:33:21,800 - You want Hong Kong style action? 2395 01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:24,320 The actors gotta do it themselves. 2396 01:33:24,400 --> 01:33:27,960 - "The Matrix" made kung fu look cool. 2397 01:33:29,200 --> 01:33:32,280 It was the ultimate 90's movie 2398 01:33:32,360 --> 01:33:35,360 and it was infused with the spirit of Hong Kong film. 2399 01:33:35,440 --> 01:33:37,400 (fists thudding) (dramatic music) 2400 01:33:37,480 --> 01:33:38,560 - One of the things that we love 2401 01:33:38,640 --> 01:33:39,960 about Hong Kong action is the way 2402 01:33:40,040 --> 01:33:41,320 that they shoot fight scenes 2403 01:33:41,400 --> 01:33:43,680 with long takes and wider angles. 2404 01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:46,280 But they also do this wire work. 2405 01:33:48,080 --> 01:33:51,600 Everybody has like super human, super natural grace. 2406 01:33:51,680 --> 01:33:54,000 - And after "Matrix" came out, 2407 01:33:54,080 --> 01:33:54,840 and everybody's going do you know 2408 01:33:54,920 --> 01:33:56,480 how to do this wire work stuff? 2409 01:33:56,560 --> 01:33:58,160 It's like yeah like, I tried talking 2410 01:33:58,240 --> 01:34:00,520 to you about that five, six, seven years ago 2411 01:34:00,600 --> 01:34:02,080 but you didn't wanna do it. 2412 01:34:02,160 --> 01:34:03,520 - [Man] It helped permeate the idea 2413 01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:06,480 that Hong Kong visual sense was really important 2414 01:34:06,560 --> 01:34:08,640 in cutting edge technology and film. 2415 01:34:08,720 --> 01:34:11,640 - And that was the moment in America 2416 01:34:11,720 --> 01:34:13,880 where Hong Kong movies became cool. 2417 01:34:13,960 --> 01:34:15,520 - Nobody in that audience is going 2418 01:34:15,600 --> 01:34:16,840 what does he mean by kung fu? 2419 01:34:16,920 --> 01:34:18,840 It's super pop culture in your face. 2420 01:34:18,920 --> 01:34:20,080 Everyone knows it. 2421 01:34:20,160 --> 01:34:22,760 (upbeat music) 2422 01:34:27,120 --> 01:34:30,000 - Yuen Woo-ping was suddenly the biggest name anywhere. 2423 01:34:30,080 --> 01:34:33,240 He would go on to do "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." 2424 01:34:33,320 --> 01:34:35,160 (upbeat music) 2425 01:34:35,240 --> 01:34:37,520 Ang Lee the director who was Taiwanese American 2426 01:34:37,600 --> 01:34:40,160 really wanted to do the movies of his boyhood. 2427 01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:43,200 - They're using the history but then adding 2428 01:34:43,280 --> 01:34:46,080 much more high gloss production value to it. 2429 01:34:46,160 --> 01:34:48,680 - The culture tempers differed. 2430 01:34:48,760 --> 01:34:52,560 Go back to the "Come Drink With Me" but here improve it. 2431 01:34:52,640 --> 01:34:54,840 - One of the reasons why it appealed 2432 01:34:54,920 --> 01:34:57,320 to international audiences is to really show people 2433 01:34:57,400 --> 01:35:00,200 a hidden secret transfer that no one 2434 01:35:00,280 --> 01:35:01,800 had a glimpse of beforehand. 2435 01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:03,960 (gentle music) 2436 01:35:04,040 --> 01:35:05,280 - We introduced the western world 2437 01:35:05,360 --> 01:35:06,680 and they're like oh, wow look at this 2438 01:35:06,760 --> 01:35:09,760 yet they were doing that for 20 years in Hong Kong cinema. 2439 01:35:09,840 --> 01:35:12,600 (dramatic music) 2440 01:35:13,880 --> 01:35:16,560 - Michelle Yeoh, her fight scene with Zhang Ziyi, 2441 01:35:16,640 --> 01:35:18,640 one of my favourite fights of all time. 2442 01:35:18,720 --> 01:35:20,960 - To see two women at their top 2443 01:35:21,040 --> 01:35:23,440 of their games was so wonderful. 2444 01:35:23,520 --> 01:35:25,600 - Very strong powerful women. 2445 01:35:25,680 --> 01:35:28,920 Also very graceful and elegant. 2446 01:35:29,000 --> 01:35:30,120 (yelling) (upbeat music) 2447 01:35:30,200 --> 01:35:32,080 - The choreography was beautiful, yes. 2448 01:35:32,160 --> 01:35:33,680 (gentle music) 2449 01:35:33,760 --> 01:35:35,560 But it was the emotion, it was the story. 2450 01:35:35,640 --> 01:35:38,080 That film is about love. 2451 01:35:38,160 --> 01:35:41,440 - Actions, fantasies, romance, power. 2452 01:35:41,520 --> 01:35:42,680 - Testosterone. 2453 01:35:42,760 --> 01:35:43,560 (laughing) 2454 01:35:43,640 --> 01:35:44,400 (all yelling) 2455 01:35:44,480 --> 01:35:46,440 - And it spoke to everyone in the world. 2456 01:35:46,520 --> 01:35:49,200 Over 100 million dollars box office. 2457 01:35:49,280 --> 01:35:51,120 Four Oscars. 2458 01:35:51,200 --> 01:35:56,000 - [Woman] Taiwanese, Hong Kong, China and America 2459 01:35:56,080 --> 01:35:58,240 all coming together in this one movie. 2460 01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:01,440 - And that did sorta set the stage 2461 01:36:01,520 --> 01:36:04,640 for all of these countries suddenly exploding 2462 01:36:04,720 --> 01:36:06,080 and their markets blowing up and competing 2463 01:36:06,160 --> 01:36:08,000 with Hong Kong and mainland China. 2464 01:36:08,080 --> 01:36:10,440 (upbeat music) 2465 01:36:10,520 --> 01:36:11,880 - You look to Thailand where people 2466 01:36:11,960 --> 01:36:14,320 like Panna Rittikrai was seeing Hong Kong movies 2467 01:36:14,400 --> 01:36:16,840 and making is own versions of them on VHS 2468 01:36:16,920 --> 01:36:19,320 that he distributed himself by hand. 2469 01:36:19,400 --> 01:36:21,560 He discovered a student named Tony Jaa 2470 01:36:21,640 --> 01:36:22,920 and their movies slowly got more 2471 01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:26,160 and more slick until they wound up making "Ong-Bak" 2472 01:36:26,240 --> 01:36:28,240 and really putting the Thai film industry 2473 01:36:28,320 --> 01:36:29,560 on the international map. 2474 01:36:29,640 --> 01:36:32,720 (dramatic music) 2475 01:36:32,800 --> 01:36:36,600 - These are all countries that have had barbaric history 2476 01:36:36,680 --> 01:36:41,200 and conflict so they all hinge on different influences. 2477 01:36:41,280 --> 01:36:43,720 (upbeat music) 2478 01:36:43,800 --> 01:36:45,600 You're also seeing with each one of these 2479 01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:49,280 their own local indigenous martial arts style. 2480 01:36:49,360 --> 01:36:52,080 In "Ong-Bak" the elbows to the head, 2481 01:36:52,160 --> 01:36:54,480 that was a very different style. 2482 01:36:56,520 --> 01:36:58,000 - If you watch "Ong-Bak 2" there's Tony Jaa 2483 01:36:58,080 --> 01:37:00,160 doing Chinese kung fu. 2484 01:37:00,240 --> 01:37:01,880 He's doing dragon and tiger and everything. 2485 01:37:01,960 --> 01:37:02,960 It's chop socky. 2486 01:37:03,040 --> 01:37:04,480 It is a mixture of everything. 2487 01:37:04,560 --> 01:37:05,600 (gentle music) 2488 01:37:05,680 --> 01:37:07,400 - It's a global community and so it's like 2489 01:37:07,480 --> 01:37:12,480 one never ending jam session at a jazz bar. 2490 01:37:12,720 --> 01:37:15,440 (upbeat music) (glass shattering) 2491 01:37:15,520 --> 01:37:18,680 (men yelling) (glass clattering) 2492 01:37:18,760 --> 01:37:20,680 (upbeat music) 2493 01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:23,120 - Wherever you consider your stunt men expendable, 2494 01:37:23,200 --> 01:37:24,360 that's where the next big trend 2495 01:37:24,440 --> 01:37:25,840 in action is gonna come from. 2496 01:37:25,920 --> 01:37:28,800 Things moved to Indonesia where "The Raid" came out. 2497 01:37:28,880 --> 01:37:30,440 That was where they could do it because 2498 01:37:30,520 --> 01:37:32,720 they could do it cheap and fast 2499 01:37:32,800 --> 01:37:34,560 with no one looking over their shoulder. 2500 01:37:34,640 --> 01:37:38,920 (men yelling) (dramatic music) 2501 01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:40,120 - And the funny thing is for me 2502 01:37:40,200 --> 01:37:41,680 that Indonesian action cinema 2503 01:37:41,760 --> 01:37:43,640 was brought back by a Welshman. 2504 01:37:43,720 --> 01:37:44,800 - [Man] They all grew up on Hong Kong films 2505 01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:47,640 and were like so inspired by that stuff. 2506 01:37:47,720 --> 01:37:49,080 - That's how they learned about framing 2507 01:37:49,160 --> 01:37:50,640 and they learned about tempo. 2508 01:37:50,720 --> 01:37:53,400 - We can't go off and copy Hong Kong action cinema. 2509 01:37:53,480 --> 01:37:55,360 We need to do something different and something new. 2510 01:37:55,440 --> 01:37:57,480 If we try to emulate it we come off second best. 2511 01:37:57,560 --> 01:37:59,000 (dramatic music) 2512 01:37:59,080 --> 01:38:00,560 - You see "Raid," game over. 2513 01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:01,960 (dramatic music) 2514 01:38:02,040 --> 01:38:04,080 - Man, how can they go farther? 2515 01:38:04,160 --> 01:38:06,400 They're just going farther and farther and farther 2516 01:38:06,480 --> 01:38:09,160 but they make it convulsively watchable. 2517 01:38:09,240 --> 01:38:10,240 And that's super cool. 2518 01:38:10,320 --> 01:38:12,400 (upbeat music) 2519 01:38:12,480 --> 01:38:17,480 (men grunting) (dramatic music) 2520 01:38:22,800 --> 01:38:25,640 - One place that action film making still 2521 01:38:25,720 --> 01:38:28,120 has this visceral street level feeling, 2522 01:38:28,200 --> 01:38:29,640 you'll find it on YouTube. 2523 01:38:29,720 --> 01:38:33,320 - I got my first audition from a fight video. 2524 01:38:33,400 --> 01:38:35,520 My first lead film from a fight video. 2525 01:38:35,600 --> 01:38:38,360 (dramatic music) 2526 01:38:40,120 --> 01:38:43,200 So I did one specific video called "Amy Vs. Many." 2527 01:38:43,280 --> 01:38:44,320 We wanted to create this really 2528 01:38:44,400 --> 01:38:47,440 cool powerful female warrior badass. 2529 01:38:47,520 --> 01:38:49,200 (upbeat music) 2530 01:38:49,280 --> 01:38:51,640 The choreography as well as the camera work 2531 01:38:51,720 --> 01:38:55,440 as well as the performers combined makes magic. 2532 01:38:55,520 --> 01:38:57,360 - "Amy Vs. Many" and I saw it and 2533 01:38:57,440 --> 01:38:59,320 I remember seeing that and being like wow, who's this? 2534 01:38:59,400 --> 01:39:02,120 (upbeat music) 2535 01:39:02,200 --> 01:39:04,840 On "Accident Man" Amy Johnson was the only girl 2536 01:39:04,920 --> 01:39:06,840 that I wanted for that role to be honest. 2537 01:39:06,920 --> 01:39:08,840 You don't often see a petite little blonde girl 2538 01:39:08,920 --> 01:39:10,280 doing that sort of stuff. 2539 01:39:10,360 --> 01:39:12,920 Not since the days of Cynthia Rothrock, eh? 2540 01:39:13,000 --> 01:39:13,840 (gentle music) 2541 01:39:13,920 --> 01:39:16,040 - YouTube is so powerful. 2542 01:39:16,120 --> 01:39:17,760 Being able to harness each other's skills 2543 01:39:17,840 --> 01:39:19,920 and show that to the world. 2544 01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:21,160 (dramatic music) 2545 01:39:21,240 --> 01:39:23,440 - And we are shooting movies. 2546 01:39:23,520 --> 01:39:25,280 We just did it in a different way. 2547 01:39:26,200 --> 01:39:28,520 - The way films used to be done, it's over with. 2548 01:39:28,600 --> 01:39:29,760 It's all changed. 2549 01:39:29,840 --> 01:39:31,400 This digital technology has taken 2550 01:39:31,480 --> 01:39:32,840 things to a whole new realm. 2551 01:39:32,920 --> 01:39:34,160 (grunting) (upbeat music) 2552 01:39:34,240 --> 01:39:37,280 - I mean I'm glad YouTube wasn't around when I was a kid. 2553 01:39:37,360 --> 01:39:39,520 I woulda been puttin' out all sorts of nonsense. 2554 01:39:39,600 --> 01:39:41,440 My career would've ended before it began. 2555 01:39:41,520 --> 01:39:44,080 (upbeat music) 2556 01:39:45,680 --> 01:39:48,760 - [Man] We grew up in like the lower class side of Adelaide. 2557 01:39:48,840 --> 01:39:50,640 (upbeat music) 2558 01:39:50,720 --> 01:39:52,520 - [Man] Three, two, one, action! 2559 01:39:52,600 --> 01:39:53,480 (screaming) 2560 01:39:53,560 --> 01:39:55,720 (upbeat music) 2561 01:39:55,800 --> 01:39:57,200 - We grew up back yard wrestling 2562 01:39:57,280 --> 01:39:58,480 and beating each other up with 2563 01:39:58,560 --> 01:39:59,960 like light tubes and barbed wire. 2564 01:40:00,040 --> 01:40:01,880 We started recording our like back yard shows. 2565 01:40:01,960 --> 01:40:03,920 It sort of veered off into film making. 2566 01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:06,600 (upbeat music) 2567 01:40:07,920 --> 01:40:08,680 (shot firing) 2568 01:40:08,760 --> 01:40:10,200 We were the kids that your parents 2569 01:40:10,280 --> 01:40:11,560 didn't let you hang out with. 2570 01:40:11,640 --> 01:40:13,120 (upbeat music) 2571 01:40:13,200 --> 01:40:14,200 We started doing our own stuff 2572 01:40:14,280 --> 01:40:15,840 for like Facebook and that's when it blew up 2573 01:40:15,920 --> 01:40:18,040 and started to go viral straight away 2574 01:40:18,120 --> 01:40:19,520 and then the YouTube just blew up 2575 01:40:19,600 --> 01:40:20,440 and now it's like our jobs. 2576 01:40:20,520 --> 01:40:24,840 (dramatic music) (all grunting) 2577 01:40:24,920 --> 01:40:25,800 When we're recording we work with 2578 01:40:25,880 --> 01:40:27,040 a lot of parkour artists and a lot 2579 01:40:27,120 --> 01:40:29,200 of martial artists and like, I'm in love with what I do. 2580 01:40:29,280 --> 01:40:31,440 It's just those fight scenes and that's 2581 01:40:31,520 --> 01:40:33,040 what we started looking back. 2582 01:40:33,120 --> 01:40:34,760 (water splashing) 2583 01:40:34,840 --> 01:40:36,000 Every fight scene in "RackaRacka" 2584 01:40:36,080 --> 01:40:37,120 there's different styles and stuff. 2585 01:40:37,200 --> 01:40:39,160 So we delved a lot into those original Shaw Brother films. 2586 01:40:39,240 --> 01:40:41,880 It was the first time they used the camera as a character. 2587 01:40:41,960 --> 01:40:45,560 Like you felt like you were inside those fights. 2588 01:40:45,640 --> 01:40:48,160 The sound effects of kung fu translated 2589 01:40:48,240 --> 01:40:49,280 to "RackaRacka" very heavily. 2590 01:40:49,360 --> 01:40:52,000 We take sound effects from those old kung fu films 2591 01:40:52,080 --> 01:40:53,400 and put it into "RackaRacka." 2592 01:40:53,480 --> 01:40:54,840 (giggles) 2593 01:40:54,920 --> 01:40:55,920 Like I love in the kung fu films 2594 01:40:56,000 --> 01:40:57,840 even if someone turns their head it's (air whooshing). 2595 01:40:57,920 --> 01:40:59,000 (upbeat music) 2596 01:40:59,080 --> 01:41:00,960 Everything's so safe with I think western cinema. 2597 01:41:01,040 --> 01:41:03,440 Those films are so raw and nuts. 2598 01:41:03,520 --> 01:41:07,880 (dramatic music) (grunting) 2599 01:41:07,960 --> 01:41:09,680 We were ranked the fifth most powerful figures 2600 01:41:09,760 --> 01:41:13,240 in media for Australia so before Nicole Kidman 2601 01:41:13,320 --> 01:41:14,840 and after The Murdochs, 2602 01:41:14,920 --> 01:41:17,480 between Facebook and YouTube it'd be in the billions 2603 01:41:17,560 --> 01:41:19,640 that like the videos are being consumed or watched. 2604 01:41:19,720 --> 01:41:24,720 (upbeat music) (men grunting) 2605 01:41:26,120 --> 01:41:27,080 - You all right? 2606 01:41:27,160 --> 01:41:27,960 Austin? 2607 01:41:28,040 --> 01:41:29,560 I'm sorry man. 2608 01:41:29,640 --> 01:41:31,040 - Why did you hit me? 2609 01:41:31,120 --> 01:41:32,120 - But you've been hitting us all day man. 2610 01:41:32,200 --> 01:41:33,120 - Not with a pole! 2611 01:41:34,160 --> 01:41:35,320 (air whooshing) 2612 01:41:35,400 --> 01:41:36,880 (film reel ticking) 2613 01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:39,160 (men grunting) (upbeat music) 2614 01:41:39,240 --> 01:41:42,440 - This type of genre in story telling, it connects. 2615 01:41:42,520 --> 01:41:44,000 And so the platforms may change 2616 01:41:44,080 --> 01:41:48,760 but the underlying storylines are just so fundamental. 2617 01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:51,720 It erases the language barrier 'cause you get it. 2618 01:41:51,800 --> 01:41:54,400 - It's all part of that ongoing dialogue. 2619 01:41:54,480 --> 01:41:57,040 - [Man] It's a great time for somethin' like that. 2620 01:41:57,120 --> 01:41:59,280 Everybody united in action. 2621 01:41:59,360 --> 01:42:00,520 - [Man] It's kinda cool when 2622 01:42:00,600 --> 01:42:01,800 you think where it started from. 2623 01:42:01,880 --> 01:42:03,720 - And there's a message there from those movies 2624 01:42:03,800 --> 01:42:06,080 that speaks to people who have nothing. 2625 01:42:06,160 --> 01:42:09,080 (horns honking) 2626 01:42:09,160 --> 01:42:10,440 - My girl dumped me the day I bought 2627 01:42:10,520 --> 01:42:11,880 the wedding ring so I was in a bar 2628 01:42:11,960 --> 01:42:14,280 on Saint Marks Place in East Village 2629 01:42:14,360 --> 01:42:15,760 and to cheer me up I'm lookin' 2630 01:42:15,840 --> 01:42:17,520 at the trailer of "Who Killed Captain Alex?" 2631 01:42:17,600 --> 01:42:19,320 Uganda's first action movie. 2632 01:42:19,400 --> 01:42:20,440 It was 90 seconds. 2633 01:42:22,160 --> 01:42:23,320 Clearly they have no money, right? 2634 01:42:23,400 --> 01:42:26,160 But in the west if you have no money you make a love story. 2635 01:42:26,240 --> 01:42:28,720 (shouting in foreign language) 2636 01:42:28,800 --> 01:42:30,440 Like you don't make a frickin' war film. 2637 01:42:30,520 --> 01:42:31,320 - Uganda! 2638 01:42:32,880 --> 01:42:35,280 - I thought it was brilliant and he had millions of views. 2639 01:42:35,360 --> 01:42:37,680 I couldn't get it out of my head. 2640 01:42:38,960 --> 01:42:40,280 I bought the cheapest ticket I could. 2641 01:42:40,360 --> 01:42:42,480 It's like a 28 hour trip airport to airport. 2642 01:42:42,560 --> 01:42:45,760 (dramatic music) 2643 01:42:45,840 --> 01:42:48,000 So we get on the back of a motorcycle 2644 01:42:48,080 --> 01:42:49,720 and we pull up to this little house right 2645 01:42:49,800 --> 01:42:52,440 in front of the sewage and this Isaac Godfrey Nabwana, 2646 01:42:52,520 --> 01:42:55,040 founder of Wakaliwood and I say hello, my name's Alan. 2647 01:42:55,120 --> 01:42:57,280 I'm from New York City and I'd just like to talk to you 2648 01:42:57,360 --> 01:42:59,120 and he looks at me and he's like (sniffs) all right. 2649 01:42:59,200 --> 01:42:59,960 (laughs) 2650 01:43:00,040 --> 01:43:00,800 And that was it. 2651 01:43:00,880 --> 01:43:01,640 - Yes! 2652 01:43:01,720 --> 01:43:03,120 - And then two weeks later I became 2653 01:43:03,200 --> 01:43:04,560 a Ugandan action movie star. 2654 01:43:04,640 --> 01:43:05,520 - Father let's go. 2655 01:43:05,600 --> 01:43:08,040 - [Man] Forget your ways in America. 2656 01:43:08,120 --> 01:43:09,560 She hates you. 2657 01:43:11,200 --> 01:43:13,080 That spice it was poo poo. 2658 01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:13,920 This is Uganda. 2659 01:43:14,000 --> 01:43:15,760 Poo poo everywhere. 2660 01:43:17,400 --> 01:43:20,240 - I've gotten horribly sick where I'm 2661 01:43:20,320 --> 01:43:23,240 like vomiting out my ass and shitting out my mouth. 2662 01:43:23,320 --> 01:43:24,480 And that terrifies them. 2663 01:43:24,560 --> 01:43:26,080 They were like what are we gonna do with a dead white guy? 2664 01:43:26,160 --> 01:43:28,720 (grunting) (upbeat music) 2665 01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:30,520 I was adopted by the Owianchimawu clan. 2666 01:43:30,600 --> 01:43:31,400 I think my name now 2667 01:43:31,480 --> 01:43:34,800 is Alan Sali Owianchimawu Sawakagbaka Aneme 2668 01:43:34,880 --> 01:43:37,240 Faniusugandalaptop Hofmanis. 2669 01:43:39,920 --> 01:43:42,440 Around 1981, 82, around that period was first time 2670 01:43:42,520 --> 01:43:44,920 in over a generation where like the country was open 2671 01:43:45,000 --> 01:43:46,320 (upbeat drumming) 2672 01:43:46,400 --> 01:43:49,080 to outside influences and culture. 2673 01:43:49,160 --> 01:43:51,440 Like hip hop but then also movies. 2674 01:43:51,520 --> 01:43:53,160 But then when violence erupted, 2675 01:43:53,240 --> 01:43:55,200 schools were pretty much closed forever 2676 01:43:55,280 --> 01:43:56,080 and so how do you learn? 2677 01:43:56,160 --> 01:43:59,040 Like how do you take it seriously in Uganda when you're 14? 2678 01:43:59,120 --> 01:44:00,560 (gentle music) 2679 01:44:00,640 --> 01:44:01,960 In the beginning it's the movies. 2680 01:44:02,040 --> 01:44:02,800 - Action. 2681 01:44:02,880 --> 01:44:05,000 (singing in foreign language) 2682 01:44:05,080 --> 01:44:07,440 - [Announcer] It is from inside this spooning slum 2683 01:44:07,520 --> 01:44:10,000 that Uganda's best known action films director, 2684 01:44:10,080 --> 01:44:13,280 Issa Nabwana makes his films. 2685 01:44:13,360 --> 01:44:16,520 - [Issac] I used to like Chinese kung fu very much 2686 01:44:16,600 --> 01:44:18,720 and I thought of making a kung fu movie. 2687 01:44:18,800 --> 01:44:20,440 - We just wanted to transfer 2688 01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:24,440 from Chinese to Ugandan kung fu. 2689 01:44:24,520 --> 01:44:25,280 - We need to do that. 2690 01:44:25,360 --> 01:44:27,480 We need to show the world what African kung fu is. 2691 01:44:27,560 --> 01:44:29,800 - I think I need more kung fu in my movies 2692 01:44:29,880 --> 01:44:34,080 because kung fu is loved over here by my audience. 2693 01:44:34,160 --> 01:44:36,800 (upbeat music) 2694 01:44:36,880 --> 01:44:41,400 - Issac I think is a crazy blend of Hong Kong with commandos 2695 01:44:41,480 --> 01:44:42,760 but it's in a blender of Uganda, 2696 01:44:42,840 --> 01:44:45,680 where's there's Bruce Yu, the Ugandan Bruce Lee. 2697 01:44:45,760 --> 01:44:49,560 - [Issac] Inspired by Bruce Lee and Chinese movies. 2698 01:44:49,640 --> 01:44:51,120 - I love kung fu. 2699 01:44:51,200 --> 01:44:54,160 - Issac I think is a genius on a world level 2700 01:44:54,240 --> 01:44:55,880 because he's a real storyteller. 2701 01:44:55,960 --> 01:44:59,000 And Issac says that like yeah, I've seen violence okay? 2702 01:44:59,080 --> 01:45:00,360 I'm old enough, I know it, okay? 2703 01:45:00,440 --> 01:45:01,400 You know what violence is Alan? 2704 01:45:01,480 --> 01:45:03,480 Violence is when the soldiers come into the village, 2705 01:45:03,560 --> 01:45:06,200 they point at your father, you hear two shots behind 2706 01:45:06,280 --> 01:45:08,240 the shed and you never see him again. 2707 01:45:08,320 --> 01:45:09,280 That's violence. 2708 01:45:09,360 --> 01:45:10,440 It's not what I'm doin'. 2709 01:45:10,520 --> 01:45:12,080 What I'm doing is life lessons. 2710 01:45:12,880 --> 01:45:15,200 (upbeat music) 2711 01:45:15,280 --> 01:45:17,240 So we got the actors together and we said, 2712 01:45:17,320 --> 01:45:19,480 what if we make a kung fu movie with our own kids? 2713 01:45:19,560 --> 01:45:21,240 Something where there's kidnappers 2714 01:45:21,320 --> 01:45:23,320 'cause they were really afraid of kidnappers 2715 01:45:23,400 --> 01:45:24,560 but they could fight back. 2716 01:45:24,640 --> 01:45:25,600 They're tough in this. 2717 01:45:25,680 --> 01:45:27,080 So if there's a real life kidnapper, 2718 01:45:27,160 --> 01:45:29,320 they may think twice about stealing our own children. 2719 01:45:29,400 --> 01:45:31,320 And so we made this "The Crazy World" 2720 01:45:31,400 --> 01:45:33,720 is a child kung fu film where the kids 2721 01:45:33,800 --> 01:45:36,120 are the action stars in a hope that 2722 01:45:36,200 --> 01:45:37,280 it may save their lives one day. 2723 01:45:38,840 --> 01:45:40,040 You sense some kind of dedication 2724 01:45:40,120 --> 01:45:41,360 to something bigger then themselves. 2725 01:45:41,440 --> 01:45:44,960 And when I first went to Uganda, I really felt the same way. 2726 01:45:45,960 --> 01:45:47,560 I'm convinced that there's gonna be 2727 01:45:47,640 --> 01:45:50,480 some kid in a village in northern India 2728 01:45:50,560 --> 01:45:52,120 who's gonna see a kung fu film from 2729 01:45:52,200 --> 01:45:55,000 a village in Africa and in two seconds 2730 01:45:55,080 --> 01:45:57,640 understand the conditions those films were made in. 2731 01:45:58,600 --> 01:46:00,280 And in 20 years we're gonna know that kid's name. 2732 01:46:00,360 --> 01:46:02,920 (upbeat music) 2733 01:46:03,920 --> 01:46:05,040 (film reel beeps) 2734 01:46:05,120 --> 01:46:07,880 (dramatic music) 2735 01:46:23,560 --> 01:46:24,440 (static crackling) 2736 01:46:24,520 --> 01:46:27,080 (gentle music) 2737 01:46:30,440 --> 01:46:32,640 - As an actor, I know about stress. 2738 01:46:33,320 --> 01:46:35,360 I know I must remove this stress 2739 01:46:35,440 --> 01:46:38,080 in order to free my mind to create. 2740 01:46:38,160 --> 01:46:39,880 And with the help of our class members, 2741 01:46:39,960 --> 01:46:42,520 we will demonstrate the ancient techniques 2742 01:46:42,600 --> 01:46:45,840 and extraordinary powers of kung fu. 2743 01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:48,760 Rotate your head clockwise. 2744 01:46:48,840 --> 01:46:51,400 (gentle music) 2745 01:46:55,680 --> 01:46:57,800 Rotate your hips clockwise. 2746 01:46:59,360 --> 01:47:01,080 Keep your head still. 2747 01:47:01,160 --> 01:47:04,280 (gentle music) 2748 01:47:04,360 --> 01:47:05,640 Relax your body. 2749 01:47:05,720 --> 01:47:07,000 (gentle music) 2750 01:47:07,080 --> 01:47:11,400 Turn the hand over, form a crane's beak, 2751 01:47:11,480 --> 01:47:13,520 snap the wrist back and bend the elbow. 2752 01:47:13,600 --> 01:47:14,480 Strike up. 2753 01:47:16,000 --> 01:47:19,280 Knees out, toes forward. 2754 01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:22,080 Keep your back straight and sit into the stance. 2755 01:47:22,160 --> 01:47:23,760 Push your buttocks forward. 2756 01:47:23,840 --> 01:47:24,800 (gentle music) 2757 01:47:24,880 --> 01:47:27,280 Approach your relationship to kung fu 2758 01:47:27,360 --> 01:47:31,080 as you would a courtship, getting to know it 2759 01:47:31,160 --> 01:47:35,560 until you steadily build a genuine love for the art. 2760 01:47:35,640 --> 01:47:38,200 (gentle music) 2761 01:47:41,960 --> 01:47:42,720 (bell dings) 2762 01:47:42,800 --> 01:47:45,440 (gentle music)