Secondly, Did Ip Man have 2 sonsSTARRING: Tony Leung, Cung Le and Ziyi ZhangLeraar Yip Man en Bruce Lee beoefenen Wing Chun kungfu, 1958. He had several students who later became martial arts masters in their own right, the most famous among them being Bruce Lee. When a ruthless real estate developer (Mike Tyson) and his team of brutal gangsters make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand against.
In “The Grandmaster,” notable Hong Kong star Tony Leung Chiu Wai (“Hard-Boiled,” “Hero”) plays him with an air of mystery. 1954 - 58 (From the collection of Bruce Lee Foundation) In the first half of the 20th century, in in the village of Foshan in Guangdong Province, Southern China, there lived a man known as Master Ip, or Ip Man.But “The Grandmaster” is as much love story as battle cry and, while this might disappoint fans who just want wall-to-wall beatdowns, it’s vintage Kar-wai, the man who gave us the arthouse classics “In the Mood for Love” and “Happy Together.”The best-known Ip Man incarnation is that of Donnie Yen, who turns in very straightforward performances in previous movies on the topic. Yip Man weigerde eerst hem als leerling aan te nemen, wegens de lang bestaande regel om Chinese vechtkunsten niet aan buitenlanders te onderwijzen.RUNNING TIME: 108 minutes in Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese with English subtitlesBruce Lee and Master Yip Man, Circa.
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Nowadays, you’re hard pressed to find a Hong Kong film that doesn’t feature Donnie Yen.The Ip Man franchise has made his name and catapulted Yen as far as the new Star Wars anthology film Rogue One, arguably the biggest film in the world this year. Ip Man went on to become one of the biggest Chinese films of the last decade, smashing box office records in mainland China and Hong Kong and winning awards for Best Picture and Best Action Choreography at the 2009 Asian Film Awards. More than just an action hero, Ip Man holds a lot of symbolic meaning for Chinese audiences, but how has his presence on the silver screen changed over the years?The cinematic story of Ip Man began in 2008 with the introduction of Hong Kong actor Donnie Yen (most well-known at the time for Hero and Shanghai Knights), as the legendary Wing Chun teacher Grandmaster Ip Man in the film of the same name. But the legendary Kung Fu Grandmaster has recently become more popular beyond China thanks to the efforts of actor Donnie Yen and director Wilson Yip’s Ip Man series and Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster. Ip Man (or Yip Man as he is sometimes known) has traditionally been an elusive figure for Western audiences far more familiar with his most famous student Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee is more like a ghost that haunts the franchise, influencing it only in spirit.Early Bruce Lee films have a strong influence over the Ip Man franchise, with fight scenes drawing heavily from films such as Fist of Fury. Global audiences may be more familiar with his most famous student Lee, but Ip Man is the original hero of the story. The Ip Man franchise has always been, in a historical and contextual sense, inspired by the work of Bruce Lee in cinema whilst retelling the (mostly non-factual) life of his teacher. Ironically, considering how the collaboration between Eastern and Western cinema contributed to its success, director Wilson Yip’s series is essentially a Mainland-Chinese-pleasing series of patriotic Kung Fu blockbusters about kicking foreign ass.Through the 3-film series we see Ip Man face off against the Japanese, British and Americans in a historical 1940s setting, but despite the faithful period trappings, all the stories are purely fictional and only feature a few elements of Yip Man’s actual life. It’s clearly benefited from the recent growth of Asian Cinema, attracting much wider distribution and more publicity than its predecessor. That deal is now working the other way as well, with East Asian blockbusters like the Ip Man franchise, Dragon Blade (Jackie Chan & John Cusack) and The Great Wall (Matt Damon & Andy Lau), attracting huge budgets and global audiences that would have been otherwise out of reachThe latest film, Ip Man 3, is obviously the third and potentially the final instalment in the franchise.
The film series is never about Ip Man, nor martial arts, instead it merely uses Ip Man as a fictional caricature to weave a narrative about change and the maintaining of your culture in response to it.Ip Man embodies tradition and stability through his Kung Fu, an ancient and respected martial art losing importance and sway in the progressive modern world. Ip Man 3 however offers extensive insights into Bruce Lee, showing him in a larger role played by Hong Kong actor and choreographer Danny Chan, who also bears a resemblance to the Kung Fu legend.What then, is the attraction of the Ip Man series for audiences? There are tentative hints of Bruce Lee’s training, insight into his Kung Fu master, and a chance to fawn over an ever-impressive Donnie Yen, but Ip Man offers more than that. The producers of Ip Man 2 has to scrap the original plot focusing upon Ip Man and his disciple, Bruce Lee, as they were unable to make an arrangement with his estate, and in the end Lee was only shown as a child. His admission into the series however is fleeting.
Water can drip and it can crash. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. Chinese culture comes out on top of its ‘progressive’ enemies, whilst fighting with traditional means and maintaining its cultural values. For a foreign audience, the Ip Man film series is as much an education into the art of Wing Chun Kung Fu, as it is a historical essay about the loss and adaption of a culture to the modern age, surviving through several invasions and dramatic country changes.Ip Man was never just about Martial Arts or bringing Wing Chun to a wider audience it’s about the adaptation of an entire culture to the modern world, the respectful maintaining of tradition, and most of all being able to change whilst still retaining the core values of your culture and what makes you… well, you.I can only end this on a quote from a Kung Fu legend himself, who summarises the core values of the Ip Man series succinctly.“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. Whilst Ip Man wins the fight against change in the first two films, audiences know that soon enough the fight will be lost as the timeline of the films moves on from pre-war China.For a Chinese audience that has gone through more change in the past 40 years than most of us will ever know, the Ip Man series evokes imagery of the past.
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