Category Archives: Martial Arts
Why Care About the Hero?
I originally entitled this post: The Best Fight Scene Ever. Part Deux. But then I realized that this article is just as much about how movies make us actually care about the hero as opposed to just watch them go around and do things without any emotional involvement. Note: There are a few plot spoilers […]
Popular Fiction as High Art
As an artist I consider my self eclectic and postmodern. One of the tenants of postmodernism is that of recycled culture, and the influence of both “high art” and “low art” (i.e., popular culture) without distinction. John Storey, in his book Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, states that the postmodern approach would “no longer recognize the […]
The Best Fight Scene. Ever.
I’ve been watching a lot of martial arts movies lately. I plan on making martial arts movies. (Every time I watch a movie, it’s research. I love researching. Work is play and play is work. ) Last night I watched Drunken Master 2. (Hong Kong, 1994. Released in the U.S. six years later as “The […]
