![]() ![]() But I have a sharp eye, and I said, 'Who's that woman with the cigarette?' It turned out she used to be a stunt woman. She was just accompanying a friend to a casting at my office, and she sat way at the back, coolly reading a newspaper and smoking just like she does in the film. "Most of them were my heroes from the movies I grew up with," says Chow, "but Yuen Qiu I found completely by accident. ![]() When she's not persecuting her husband, her special Lion's Roar dispatches the Axe Gang's assassins and causes major structural damage, all without dislodging the cigarette that permanently hangs on her lip. And best of all, the landlady, played by Yuen Qiu, proves to combine the fashion sense of Hilda Ogden with the agility of Jet Li. The baker turns out to be a master of the "Eight Diagram Pole". The local tailor, for example, transforms his curtain rings into lethal arm-cuffs. ![]() But when the sharp-suited, formation-dancing Axe Gang attempt to move in, they reveal themselves to be deadly geriatric killing machines. At first glance, the senior citizens are just lowly neighbours in Pig Sty alley, a poor tenement building in 1940s China that Chow's wannabe tough guy stumbles into. Like his previous movie, Shaolin Soccer, it uses special effects in ways their creators surely never intended, and turns just about every movie convention it can find to comic effect.īut as the title suggests, Kung Fu Hustle is all about martial arts action, and in that respect, the kick-ass pensioners steal the show. Chow is the writer, director and putative star of Kung Fu Hustle, possibly the most hare-brained martial arts movie ever made. But then again, there's probably only one person in the world who would actually have any use for them: Stephen Chow. E ven in Hong Kong, finding senior citizens with kung fu skills isn't easy. ![]()
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