Twitch catches the long-awaited trailer for Wong Kar Wai’s Wuxia biopic of Ip Man, The Grandmaster. Synopsis from The American Film Mart press release, manages to convey excitement in spite of the stiff translation:
With martial arts getting more popular in the Thirties, more people seek to learn them via the professionals at Foshan in Southern China. Some of the experienced masters like to challenge their counterparts and undergoing battles. To have their whole concentration, it is their practice to lock up the venues and no one is allowed to leave during battles. No food and no rest before reaching any results.
Ip Man is a young rich man extremely talented in martial arts, but he chooses to keep a low profile. Yet this doesn’t keep him out of these troubles ahead. One day he is trapped in this battleground so he has to use every means in order to get out of there. The masters are amazed by his abilities. Master Kung and his daughter Kung Yi are amongst, and the latter is attracted to this newcomer.
A high warlord is assassinated by his own guard Yi Xian Tian. All masters in Foshan vow to take Tian down no matter what….
(via wong kar wai news)
New stills from my blog:
http://wongkarwainews.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-grandmasters-teaser-trailer/
New stills from my blog:
http://wongkarwainews.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-grandmasters-teaser-trailer/
Correction. THREE Ip Man biopics in the last three years before this one.
Correction. THREE Ip Man biopics in the last three years before this one.
Not a complaint but didn’t we just have two Ip Man biopics in the last couple years before this one?
Not a complaint but didn’t we just have two Ip Man biopics in the last couple years before this one?
The scene looks cooler than anything in Priest (2011), but that’s not really a compliment.
The scene looks cooler than anything in Priest (2011), but that’s not really a compliment.
I really like the trailer, but this isn’t what I was expecting at all. I had always thought that this movie was going to concentrate more on Ip Man’s relationship with Bruce Lee. I also didn’t expect it to be quite as action-focused as it appears to be in this trailer.
I really like the trailer, but this isn’t what I was expecting at all. I had always thought that this movie was going to concentrate more on Ip Man’s relationship with Bruce Lee. I also didn’t expect it to be quite as action-focused as it appears to be in this trailer.
The rain-soaked martial artistry reminds me of the first action sequence in Hero, one of my favourite action scenes of all time. That film was shot by Christopher Doyle, cinematographer for almost all of Wong Kar Wai’s films, until Wong moved to America with My Blueberry Nights and worked with Darius Khondji. In this film, he’s working with Philippe Le Sourd, a DoP who’s not very well known, but Wong Kar Wai could probably work with my mother as DoP and produce something exquisitely beautiful.
The rain-soaked martial artistry reminds me of the first action sequence in Hero, one of my favourite action scenes of all time. That film was shot by Christopher Doyle, cinematographer for almost all of Wong Kar Wai’s films, until Wong moved to America with My Blueberry Nights and worked with Darius Khondji. In this film, he’s working with Philippe Le Sourd, a DoP who’s not very well known, but Wong Kar Wai could probably work with my mother as DoP and produce something exquisitely beautiful.
Amazing!!! When will it open?
Amazing!!! When will it open?