Pete Lee - The Art of Hong Kong Action Cinema (Action Talks #30)
Pee Lee is a writer, producer, and director known for his Sundance short film Don’t Be a Hero as well as Death Grip and the Rope A Dope series. We talk all about martial arts, action cinema, and trends. You can see his IMDB here:
Edited by Joey Min
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Timestamps
0:02:07 Love of HK films
0:02:53 Watching Jackie Chan movies
0:04:20 College Life
0:05:15 Censorship in Taiwan
0:06:37 Biolence in Japanese Anime
0:07:29 The Fantasy of Jackie Chan
0:09:25 Jackie’s shooting style vs others
0:10:10 Jackie’s use of zooms
0:10:31 Cost of Jackie’s shooting style
0:11:14 History of cameras
0:12:22 Woo Ping’s style of shooting
0:12:46 Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-tung’s style of shooting
0:13:25 Difficulty in shooting wides
0:14:56 Shooting military thrillers
0:15:49 Jackie’s use of location
0:17:48 Shapes and spaces
0:21:12 Sammo Hung’s sense of space
0:23:34 Martial art trickers and choreography
0:26:54 Healthy Jealousy
0:30:28 Dick Wei story
0:31:38 Heart of a Dragon dolly shots
0:34:52 Police Story finale
0:36:07 Barry and deadpan shots
0:40:40 Police Story escalator stunt
0:42:51 Project A vase stunt
0:44:03 How Jackie’s shooting style changed
0:47:55 Intellectual climate of HK cinema in the late 90s
0:48:48 Project J
0:50:35 KWOON forum
0:52:57 Stunt People forum
1:00:00 From forum to pro filmmaker
1:01:52 Vlad Rimburg’s short films
1:03:45 Manny Manzanares’ short films
1:05:22 Insincerity in modern choreography
1:07:08 Chinese sticky hands
1:09:09 The New Matrix fights
1:11:23 Matrix long fist choreo
1:12:09 Woo Ping’s diverse choreography
1:13:32 Eric wanting to train in martial arts / TKD
1:15:49 Hans Zimmerfication of action
1:18:15 Action in 2004 - 2006
1:22:20 Kicking off a new era
1:25:41 Chemistry with choreography
1:28:22 NPC-ness of stunt people
1:58:40 Parting advice
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