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Like her “Kung Fu Hustle” co-star Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu was one of the famous Seven Little Fortunes (the childhood Peking Opera performing troupe which ... included Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung). She started her martial arts training in the Peking Opera school at the age of 10. After 7 years of training, Yuen Qiu began her movie career as a stunt person and became one of the very few well-known stunt women in the Hong Kong movie industry at that time. Her first feature film role was in the 1973 movie “Not Scared to Die”, starring Jackie Chan. Later, she had a brief appearance in the James Bond film “The Man with the Golden Gun”.
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One of the most significant underdog figures in this post-1997 film Kung Fu Hustle is the child. In Kung Fu Hustle, Sing is an orphan/ nomad as the film never shows him having a home, family or parents. He drifts around in the street as a child as well as an adult. The xia hero is an extension of this kind of nomadic character, who prefers a wandering life in jianghu instead of stability in the mainstream society. Childhood/ youth is often doubly inscribed with nostalgia, standing for a lost time and for innocence. However, children represented in the socio-political reality created in Hong Kong cinema before and after 1997 are no longer bearers of innocence.
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Before the filming of the Kung Fu TV movie began, there was some discussion as to whether or not an Asian actor should play Kwai Chang Caine. Bruce Lee was considered for the role. In 1971, Bruce Lee wasn't the cult film hero he later became for his roles in Fists of Fury (1971), Enter the Dragon (1973), and Game of Death (1978). At that point he was best known as Kato on TV's Green Hornet (1966-1967). (Kung Fu guest actor Robert Ito reports that Lee hated the role of Kato because he "thought it was so subservient.") "In my eyes and in the eyes of Jerry Thorpe," says Harvey Frand, " David Carradine was always our first choice to play Caine. But there was some disagreement because the network was interested in a more muscular actor and the studio was interested in getting Bruce Lee."
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In Kung Fu Panda Jack Black provides the voice of an overweight panda named Po, who longs to do sweet karate moves. Unfortunately, Po is one of the laziest animals in ancient China, and besides he really doesn’t have the body for an active lifestyle. But when the enemies are at the gates, a MacGuffin prophecy says Po is the only panda who can save them.
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A follow on from the early series - "Kung Fu", a modern day descendant of Caine, Kwai Chang Caine teaches Kung Fu, sells herbs, etc. His son - Johnny, has become a gang member, and has served time in prison; but after a ghostly visit of the ancient Caine, changes his ways. Broadcast as a segment of "CBS Summer Playhouse". Also known as "Way of The Dragon" and "Warriors".
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In Kung Fu Hustle, Sing as a child faces the harsh reality of having his dream of becoming a xia shattered, as he was deceived by the homeless man who sells him a useless kung fu manual. Xia is a mythical and fictional figure that recuperates popular imagination as an antidote to the oppressive reality. The heroic and individualistic image of the knight-errant may pose a real threat to the official and nationalist ideology, but it can ... be manipulated by patriarchal myths of loyalty and brotherhood. Despite a xia’s seemingly unlimited freedom, Sing as an adult does not consider that as the register for his final fantasy. In the end Sing chooses to retreat from jianghu and entertains the political neutrality of a childhood fantasyland rather than becoming a xia who possesses the unbeatable Buddhist’s Palm martial skills. Through playfulness and childish humor, Kung Fu Hustle registers the utopian vision and ongoing discovery of becoming a child, not in reality but fantasy.
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