Wing Chun - As dangerous as a panther cat
| Movie | |
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| German title | Wing Chun - As dangerous as a panther cat |
| Original title | Wing Chun |
| Country of production | Hong Kong |
| original language | Cantonese |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yuen woo-ping |
| script | Elsa Tang , Anthony Wong Chau-Sang |
| production | Yuen woo-ping |
| music | Donnie Yen |
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Wing Chun - Dangerous like a panther ( Chinese 詠春 / 咏春 , Pinyin Yǒngchūn , Jyutping Wing 6 Ceon 1 , English Wing Chun , reference titles: The Panther Cat ) is a Hong Kong - martial arts film by Yuen Woo-ping from the year 1994 with Michelle Yeoh in the lead role. It tells the story of Yim Wing-Chun , who is at the center of one of the founding legends of the Wing Chun martial art style .
action
A brutal band of robbers made the province unsafe in medieval China at the time of the Manchu dynasty . The leader of the gang is the forced husband of Wing Chun, who rejects a life as a simple housewife. When the robbers kidnap a young woman, Wing Chun learns the art of martial arts in order to face the robbers. In a spectacular action, she manages to save the young woman.
Her husband seeks bloody vengeance and goes into pursuit. Driven into a corner, Wing Chun has to face superiority. She, who many believe to be a man, ultimately leads the leader back onto the path of virtue and receives help from an ex-lover who is believed to have gone by.
reception
At the reception, the film will be judged, among other things, on the basis of its feminist appeal. With regard to the actual emancipatory plot, it was often emphasized that female characters in Hong Kong films have to appear emphatically masculine in order to be noticed.
The lexicon of international films merely stated that the film was “Action-Eastern staged in the traditional style with numerous fight scenes and a tendency to flogging”, while kino.de simply commented: “Far Eastern martial arts action at the usual high acrobatic level. "
literature
- Sasha Vojković: Yuen Woo Ping's Wing Chun . Hongkong University Press 2009, ISBN 9789622099678 ( excerpts )
- Rikke Schubart: Super Bitches and Action Babes: The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970-2006 . McFareland 2007, ISBN 978-0-7864-2924-0 , pp. 129-131 ( excerpt )
- Suzie SF Young: How Positively Levitating! Chinese Heroines of Kung Fu and Wuxia Pian . In Susan Lord (Ed.), Annette Burfoot (Ed.): Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence . Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2006, ISBN 0-88920-497-7 , pp. 227-235 ( excerpt )
- Brian Thomas: VideoHound's Dragon: Asian Action & Cult Flicks . Visible Ink Press 2003, ISBN 1-57859-141-4 , pp. 675-676 ( excerpt )
- Catherine Jean Gomes: Doing It (Un) like a Lady. Rethinking Gender in Martial Arts Cinema . Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies , Volume 2, Issue 1, 2004, pp. 11-20
- Wendy Arons: Violent Women in the Hong King Kung Fu Film . In Martha McCaughey (Ed.), Neal King (Ed.): Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in the Movies . University of Texas Press 2001, ISBN 0-292-75251-2 , pp. 27-38 ( excerpt )
Web links
- Wing Chun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry in the Hong Kong Movie Database
- Full movie on YouTube
- Gilbert Gerard Castillo: Gender Identity and Influence: Hong Kong Martial Films . Master's Thesis, University of North Texas, December 2002.
Individual evidence
- ^ Asian Popular Culture in Transition . Routledge, 2013, ISBN 978-0-415-69284-7 , pp. 175 ( online ).
- ↑ City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema . Verso, 1999, ISBN 978-1-85984-203-4 , pp. 107 ( online ).
- ↑ Wing Chun - As dangerous as a panther cat. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Wing Chun. In: kino.de. Retrieved December 21, 2017 .