![]() The film takes place in China just prior to World war II and feels like two segments. The first of the two films is a semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun who, as audiences will learn, was the teacher to Bruce Lee himself. They are both must-see films for those that love this genre, but further, must see films for all audiences interested in seeing good, entertaining movies. ![]() These films are both well constructed, well-acted and extremely entertaining films in the martial arts world. The Ip Man films, however, bring audiences (and frankly, China) back to this Golden Age. While Crouching Tiger and its peers are fun in their own way, the nature of the martial arts film has transformed and largely lost its way from more original, classic martial arts bad-assery such as in Enter the Dragon. With Bruce Lee long gone, Jackie Chan mixed up in films that incorporate Kung Fu the way Dots are featured at movie theaters, and exaggerated martial arts films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon becoming the norm, it is difficult to argue with this hypothesis. While there are many that believe martial arts is itself a long lost, dying art, the craft of proper martial arts films is also a possible endangered species.
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