Drunken Master was a part of the new Chinese way of directing. In made a subtle hint as to revolution metaphor in showing how a lowly karate student can become a master and overcome the man that oppressed him. They also incorporated the use of martial arts into their films that is commonly associated with China. In movies like this, the main character tends to fight his way out of situations.
Drunk master used many camera techniques that were not used during this time. During many of the fight scenes, the camera would zoom into the character's face to show their expression on how the fight was going. This has now become a common tactic that has now been commonly associated with martial arts film. Films such as "The Matrix" and Jet Li's "The One" have used this technique in more recent films. This shows how the effects of these martial arts films and the style of Chinese films have continued to be apart of films today.
Drunken Master is a kung-fu action comedy that stars legendary film actor, Jackie Chan, as the protagonist hooligan paying for his misdeeds. Wong Fei Hung, dubbed as Freddie Wong, is a miscreant who goes overboard with his martial arts that eventually lands him being disciplined by a drunken kung-fu master.
This film has been revered as one of the greatest kung-fu movies ever made due to its fight choreography and comedy. Drunken Master relies heavily on the action and movements of the characters. Some scenes are dedicated solely to the fights with only the bare minimum of story elements to it.
The techniques used in the film, such as close-ups and undisturbed focusing has become common tactics to how kung-fu films are made today. Not only that, but the slapstick comedy shown in the film has become Jackie Chan's main niche in his films today.
The movie “The Drunken Master”, directed by Yuen Woo-Ping in 1978, is the movie responsible for the upgrade in Jackie Chan career. The movie shows Jackie Chan as the son of a martial arts master. Jackie Chan’s father sends him to be disciplined by a famous and intimidating professor of martial arts known as “The Drunken Master”. This master trains Chan in a severe way, and Chan finally runs away from his practice. In his escape, he meets a famous killer for accident. They fight and Chan is completely humiliated. After that, he goes back to the practices session of the Drunken Master, and ended up learning the secrets and skills of his professor. In the end of the movie, he has a final fight with the killer that humiliated him before. In this fight, he is able to mix all the lessons he took before, find his own Drunken Master style and ended up defeating his opponent.
I really enjoyed the movie. The combination between martial arts and comedy was well planned and well executed. This movie was responsible for the popularization of this kind of slapstick fight films. Moreover, I realized some similarities between this movie and the German Expressionism; the characters expression, dialogues, fights, and feeling are over expressed and over exaggerated. Jackie Chan did a phenomenal job with his expressions. Sometimes in the movie, words were not necessary to show what he was feeling in the moment.
In addition, I saw one particular scene during a Jackie Chan’s fight that reminded me of many fight scenes nowadays. It happened when Chan kicked his opponent in slow motion. This technique is broadly used nowadays in movies such as Matrix, Superman and Spiderman. This technique emphasizes a particular moment that the director wants the viewer to pay close attention.
Finally, this movie’s cuts and editing is also remarkable, especially in the fight scenes. These scenes are really dynamic and use the shot-reverse shot technique to show the moves, actions, and reactions of the fighters. This allows the viewer to see the expressions of the fighters while they are trying to defeat the opponent.
The movie Drunken Master seemed to be a typical "kung foo" film. There were many fights between the good guy (Jackie Chan) and the bad guys. In my opinion there was a lot of bullying in the movie. And some parts were actually funny. This wasnt my favorite movie that we watched this semester but it was still informative. It drew attention to the techiniques Chinese film makers used during this time. For example the fights looked pretty realistic for this time period.This had a lot to do with the editing and intricate coaching. Also there were a view vulgar words that kind of took me aback because we havent seen many movies with such overt obscenity. The storyline uses elements of Hollywood cinema like the happy/triumphant ending where he defeats the antagonist that is foreshadowed throughout the film.
I loved this movie, it was quite different from what I expected.The plot centers on a young and mischievous Freddie Wong. Wong runs into a series of troubles. First, he embarras his martial arts teacher to teach him a lesson. Next, he makes advances on a woman to impress his friends, and is beat up by her older female guardian as a result.He later finds out that the two females are his aunt and cousin.His father decides to punish him for his behavior by making him train harder in martial arts.There is so much more to this movie.I enjoyed how martial arts and comedy was used in the film. I feel as if it was advanced for its time.This movie relies on movement and comedy. I feel as if this movie was advanced fro its time
In response to Lucas Santa Ana's comment: I also thought it was really interesting how you can see that newer films got their inspiration from films such as "The Drunken Master". It was also interesting to see the differences between this form of Chinese Kung Fu Cinema versus newer films. One example is the focus on the movements of the body, common in Chinese Cinema, versus the use fo stunt doubles in newer films, in that movements are shown in flashes, while there's more of a focus on the emotions of the actor's face. And while you can see Jackie Chan's skill through seeing his entire body do these stunts, many actors now must train to make the transition between them and their doubles appear as if they're the ones performing the stunts in order to acheive continuity throughout the action sequences.
Xueyun “The Drunken Master” is one of the Jackie Chan’s action comedy movies. In this film, it used lots of zoom in technique. This technique show us how people feel when they facing their enemy. Like Lucas said, the film also used lot of shot-reverse shot, which show the whole action during the fighting. This movie is one of the “The Drunken Master” movies, and most all of those movies are about some “grasshopper” got humiliated and learned from his mistake and become a better kungfu master. I really like action movie, and I think this movie is one of the best movie in this class.
This really was a great movie and it used a lot of different and new techniques. I love how they focused on the body of the actors and how they move it was interesting to see the actual fights like actual martial arts its simply beautiful.
Drunken Master was a part of the new Chinese way of directing. In made a subtle hint as to revolution metaphor in showing how a lowly karate student can become a master and overcome the man that oppressed him. They also incorporated the use of martial arts into their films that is commonly associated with China. In movies like this, the main character tends to fight his way out of situations.
ReplyDeleteDrunk master used many camera techniques that were not used during this time. During many of the fight scenes, the camera would zoom into the character's face to show their expression on how the fight was going. This has now become a common tactic that has now been commonly associated with martial arts film. Films such as
"The Matrix" and Jet Li's "The One" have used this technique in more recent films. This shows how the effects of these martial arts films and the style of Chinese films have continued to be apart of films today.
Drunken Master is a kung-fu action comedy that stars legendary film actor, Jackie Chan, as the protagonist hooligan paying for his misdeeds. Wong Fei Hung, dubbed as Freddie Wong, is a miscreant who goes overboard with his martial arts that eventually lands him being disciplined by a drunken kung-fu master.
ReplyDeleteThis film has been revered as one of the greatest kung-fu movies ever made due to its fight choreography and comedy. Drunken Master relies heavily on the action and movements of the characters. Some scenes are dedicated solely to the fights with only the bare minimum of story elements to it.
The techniques used in the film, such as close-ups and undisturbed focusing has become common tactics to how kung-fu films are made today. Not only that, but the slapstick comedy shown in the film has become Jackie Chan's main niche in his films today.
The movie “The Drunken Master”, directed by Yuen Woo-Ping in 1978, is the movie responsible for the upgrade in Jackie Chan career. The movie shows Jackie Chan as the son of a martial arts master. Jackie Chan’s father sends him to be disciplined by a famous and intimidating professor of martial arts known as “The Drunken Master”. This master trains Chan in a severe way, and Chan finally runs away from his practice. In his escape, he meets a famous killer for accident. They fight and Chan is completely humiliated. After that, he goes back to the practices session of the Drunken Master, and ended up learning the secrets and skills of his professor. In the end of the movie, he has a final fight with the killer that humiliated him before. In this fight, he is able to mix all the lessons he took before, find his own Drunken Master style and ended up defeating his opponent.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the movie. The combination between martial arts and comedy was well planned and well executed. This movie was responsible for the popularization of this kind of slapstick fight films. Moreover, I realized some similarities between this movie and the German Expressionism; the characters expression, dialogues, fights, and feeling are over expressed and over exaggerated. Jackie Chan did a phenomenal job with his expressions. Sometimes in the movie, words were not necessary to show what he was feeling in the moment.
In addition, I saw one particular scene during a Jackie Chan’s fight that reminded me of many fight scenes nowadays. It happened when Chan kicked his opponent in slow motion. This technique is broadly used nowadays in movies such as Matrix, Superman and Spiderman. This technique emphasizes a particular moment that the director wants the viewer to pay close attention.
Finally, this movie’s cuts and editing is also remarkable, especially in the fight scenes. These scenes are really dynamic and use the shot-reverse shot technique to show the moves, actions, and reactions of the fighters. This allows the viewer to see the expressions of the fighters while they are trying to defeat the opponent.
Lucas Santa Ana
The movie Drunken Master seemed to be a typical "kung foo" film. There were many fights between the good guy (Jackie Chan) and the bad guys. In my opinion there was a lot of bullying in the movie. And some parts were actually funny.
ReplyDeleteThis wasnt my favorite movie that we watched this semester but it was still informative. It drew attention to the techiniques Chinese film makers used during this time. For example the fights looked pretty realistic for this time period.This had a lot to do with the editing and intricate coaching.
Also there were a view vulgar words that kind of took me aback because we havent seen many movies with such overt obscenity. The storyline uses elements of Hollywood cinema like the happy/triumphant ending where he defeats the antagonist that is foreshadowed throughout the film.
I loved this movie, it was quite different from what I expected.The plot centers on a young and mischievous Freddie Wong. Wong runs into a series of troubles. First, he embarras his martial arts teacher to teach him a lesson. Next, he makes advances on a woman to impress his friends, and is beat up by her older female guardian as a result.He later finds out that the two females are his aunt and cousin.His father decides to punish him for his behavior by making him train harder in martial arts.There is so much more to this movie.I enjoyed how martial arts and comedy was used in the film. I feel as if it was advanced for its time.This movie relies on movement and comedy. I feel as if this movie was advanced fro its time
ReplyDeleteIn response to Lucas Santa Ana's comment:
ReplyDeleteI also thought it was really interesting how you can see that newer films got their inspiration from films such as "The Drunken Master". It was also interesting to see the differences between this form of Chinese Kung Fu Cinema versus newer films. One example is the focus on the movements of the body, common in Chinese Cinema, versus the use fo stunt doubles in newer films, in that movements are shown in flashes, while there's more of a focus on the emotions of the actor's face. And while you can see Jackie Chan's skill through seeing his entire body do these stunts, many actors now must train to make the transition between them and their doubles appear as if they're the ones performing the stunts in order to acheive continuity throughout the action sequences.
Xueyun
ReplyDelete“The Drunken Master” is one of the Jackie Chan’s action comedy movies. In this film, it used lots of zoom in technique. This technique show us how people feel when they facing their enemy. Like Lucas said, the film also used lot of shot-reverse shot, which show the whole action during the fighting. This movie is one of the “The Drunken Master” movies, and most all of those movies are about some “grasshopper” got humiliated and learned from his mistake and become a better kungfu master. I really like action movie, and I think this movie is one of the best movie in this class.
This really was a great movie and it used a lot of different and new techniques. I love how they focused on the body of the actors and how they move it was interesting to see the actual fights like actual martial arts its simply beautiful.
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