Martial arts Legends

Martial arts Legends "Blood lies in East and WestMartial arts Blood in culture, east and west, movie legends among legendsFrom a personal perspective, hardness and difficulty has always cast spells upon movie industries! Especially among Asians, who are being branded as “martial arts” stars instead of an actor, if they are not particular in connection with the names like Bruce lee, Jackie Chan or Jet li, they have a lot less chance to even survive in the business! When they are being mentioned, people will remember kung fu movies, each of them represented and symbolized a category of their own and only through this kind of dramatic demonstration will then put the world of martial arts onto a level that will cling on people’s heart and mind where one will n ot easily forget! Instead of honor them in a place above truth and realism there is a man who was also making contributions to the industry who is considered by Hong Kong movie directors and producers as the “it” person. His efforts are consistent yet quie tly pouring out in shadows, we’ve seen him displayed tough image on screen year after year and the luck of fortune has never sided in his place, rewards has been hindered by those greats under all kinds of circumstances! We felt pity for he was unable to break out his stereotypical tough boy image. But until now, where there shall be no more regrets and all these years of his suppressed efforts and talents will be finally put forward and shown to the world. His fame foreshadows a brighter future for the martial arts movie empire, creating a new legacy where possibility for his potential to grasp to it’s utmost. It is a celebrated moment where all the good things of the infinite has came in form to assemble greatness of another, unveiled before our eyes, his name is Donnie Yen.Hong Kong has been the father figure for Martial art movies making for sometime now, along the way, here and there emerged many stars with great fortune and fame but legends are delicately few! Bruce lee, an amazing human being that just happened to be born out of the eastern hemisphere, where proud to be a Chinese shall forever be a quote honorably preserved in the Asian community. But not only among the east even more so of a mystical legendary martial arts figure in the west, it all derived from his way of envisioning martial arts, perspective himself internally and externally in the world of art of kung fu. He was also a deep philosophical thinker who considers the way of martial arts from all aspect and was led by his driven ambition that pushed beyond envelope to the extent of extreme measures and was able to come up with a uniquely conceptualized kung fu called Jeet Kun Do. His creation was based on Wing Chun where it significantly signified and pointed out the angle between it’s technicality versus practicality. Bruce lee was a very intelligent person where he could transparently see through what’s beyond martial arts and ultimately interpret them into something provocatively refreshing and original! Instead of following the formalized unnecessary fancy movements under rules and regulations, the basics of Wing Chun favors simplicity, people among all ages and sex can practice, mastering difference will only distinct by the degree of one’s effort and determination.Bruce lee once said the only purpose of studying kung fu is to fight off enemies and illustrate oneis stronger and faster than others, this practical aspect of thoughtfulness is very closely related to western point of view. Despite western history is somewhat shortened in comparison with the east, it is perhaps that element which made the culture more likely to focus on facts where science and technology is obviously more prominently favored than art and literature! But putting assumptions aside, the concept of martial arts is not so distant than how people were perceived to be, letting go about in their routine lifestyle is not the only way that they’ve grown so accustomed to. If one was to practice martial arts with such amount of simplicity and repetitiveness’, even a person with mastery of patience will lose to a degree of craziness.So, as time went on, westerners are gradually begin to understand and see how Chinese martial arts is originated, based on their perspective, they’ve added a few touch that could eas ily alter the questionable meaning behind what really is martial arts! The aspect of acrobatic has become a new essential arousing attraction to expand a wider range of audience where is exciting to see and difficult to achieve. Jumping in the air doing 360 or even 720 degree twists has become an essential task where it is absolutely mandatory for one to enroll into becoming a professional Wushu athlete. But what’s the point? In reality, no one is going to let you spin in the air two or three times before you actually start punching or kicking! That is just flat out laughably ridiculous! Though a simple phrase will say “it looks amazing!” and the philosophy behind to support this theory is that the more flashy and difficult things you could do, the better skilled or capabilities you are. Wow, I would personally say, that is a Hell of a Bull! After centuries and years of what Bruce lee was trying to illustrate to us, the simple directness which emphasize on facts where it can applied extremely effective to real life, as well as it could stimulate realism on screen, the incredible speed of a punch or kick or the spot on quick interactive maneuvers in between two persons can lead to a satisfaction where there is no end. The society has grown so prone to rely on orders, regulations and what it appears to be superficial and shallow that has gradually taken over our own standards for mixing goodness in bad and corruptions in pure. We have no choice but to enslave ourselves to go according to the course which we absolutely resent.Among the west, people tend to do the exact opposite. The meaning of competition will only be lifted to a level that one surpassing the other, it never deviate from truth and realism. One’s goal to train Kung Fu should fulfill two main purposes only, self-health and self-defense. And while landing with your legs splitting onto the ground is entirely over fabricated, although it seems unbelievably cool and fashionable at first but it lacks serious substantial meaning all over it. Unfortunately our most beloved Wushu has being strongly taken off course as years went by. It was influenced by the mixes unhealthy display of showman ship instead of demonstrating its soulfulness of the art. Kung fu and Martial arts have revolutionized to become such a widely distributed concept that it should only be grasped with fluidity in formation with irrationality! No matter what kind of change it undertook, fundamentally the core of it has to be coming from the real hard bone crushing downright realism, it sounds tough and hurting but that should be exactly it. Just like adding cheese onto a fresh baked cake where it won’t turn out to be a chocolate but it will simply become something a lot more delicious and attractive that called cheesecake.But paralle l speaking, in movie industry, we can’t have absolute simplicity where it will be insufficiently boring and tasteless. Heroes are established through Wuxia movies which they can fly and execute explosively ridiculous Buddha Palms that has always kept the audience in wild interest and wonders. But as time goes on, the more we see, the more we get tired of, that’s how human beings are, never satisfied with what we already have but constantly craving for more. Slowly, WuXia movies are increasingly become flat out stupid and dull in the eyes of another. But on a contrary if combining the two elements successfully will then produce massive results both in terms of representing the factual side of kung fu and the fancy aspect of WuShu into a new found spiritual interpretation which can be redefined its way of the martial arts. Bruce lee was the first to be able to single handedly held tight to this concept, bravery and keenness of belief fixing so deeply to what he felt that came up with his own ability to capture what he has envisioned within the mind of a genius. Jackie Chan despised and feared to be another stereotypical Bruce lee, intended himself to bring about another unique creative aspect all on his own. Tearing off the seriousness of martial arts and originated his style of clever wit and laughter to the stuntman work where supreme bravado can only be described. As for jet li, who followed his way of beliefs in Wushu and perfectly recited onto screen like an artist carrying on the deepest traditional format of an impression that struck the audience forever to the heart.And with Donnie yen’s film “Ip man”, it is believed he has undertook the role of the continuation of what Bruce Lee’s legacy has established in our beloved memories once, even so, in a more refreshingly prospect. To me, it segregated the eastern philosophy and the western philosophy. To the west where it obviously favors straightforwardness, everything is direct and forceful. Nothing is hidden or deceived! It favors absolute expressiveness, naked and unhindered! However, Eastern philosophy is on par with the complex, it’s accustomed to indirectness and more cunningly designed than simplicity, it puts great strength emphasizing on meticulous matters rather than things that are practical and useful. The deceiving aspect is being presented in the film more so not as anything bad but simply mellowing with a fabrication that covers and hides what is even more excitingly powerful if it actually shows. The film Ip man illustrated this point of eastern philosophy through how Donnie yen has portrayed his character. A perfect combination of the concept Ying and Yang with a sense of freshness add up to Ip man’s character that manipulated Donnie into a complete opposition of what he used to play in movies in the past, it took him a dramatic spin of his usual toughness, muscular manhood, and purposefully disguised by a layer of delicate sensitivity over it. Here we see him as a responsible, loving and caring family man who loves his wife and child. Appearanc e wise it changed the audience’s view with a new prospective. Therefore we were deceived, but in an extremely good way. A calm caring father and husband who seems harmless, and yet could wheels deadly maneuvers, striking each fist with impeccable accuracy, it is sharp and precise to one end and it does not drag but quickly put to a satisfactory end on the other. Based on the relation to the Asian culture, it used a method that tricked us into believing what he appears to be and yet knowingly shows a side totally opposite of the other. His fists so affectively worth watching is because the heaviness with the burden from a real human being. The veracity of truthfulness where we can much relate to instead of most Kung fu hero inthe past whom at the very beginning shows off his every superior skills in martial arts, hence sadly end up with nothing refreshing for us to expect, all that is left is the action sequence alone, which can become quite without flavor over times! But in Ip man, the film’s main character never showed any distinctive difference between him and others. As his mastery of wing Chun exploded out through his focus, the combative spirit which thickly rooted internally from inside resembles nothing short of a volcano itself, it’s grand, it’s big and it’s beautiful. We say a man in calm and act upon gentility goes suddenly berserk and full of action is worthy of attention more than millions and billions.Curiosity serge ties of desires and lust of attractions. It is that longing and wanting for more that has established Ip man’s character to the core of success which brought the best of us in a way it provided an endless satisfaction. Whether be a martial art film or drama based film, memorable performance is a key to elevate a movie to new height, this movie was a breakthrough for Donnie yen the same time it recreated a standard in martial art films and directors in Hong Kong. Where key to succeed lies within the importance of an element to be able to understand and appreciate the eastern philosophy as well as the west. Because it is this belief that carries on what is being shared between east and west that will ultimately render stars onto legends. Culturally it transcends the meaning of traditionalism and modernism, but it is through martial arts, that will bring out a togetherness that shall define history more so than how future will be plan out before us.。