Sammo v Lar Kau Keung was just as impressive and magnificently stunning as it can possibly get. The staff work from both was PHENOMENAL. 🙂 As someone with a decent amount of fight choreography and performance experience, I never understood how anyone could get to such high levels. Even despite camera cranking. 😉
Damn, I guess it’s 20 years too late but now I know, Rufus from Street Fighter V and Bob from Tekken were inspired/parody of Sammo Hung! 😅 For a guys of his size, Sammo sure can move around, top notch choreograph! ❤
Pedicab Driver was groundbreaking in a lot of ways. One of the things most often cited isn't even a fight scene. When the gangsters do A Bad Thing that causes Sammo and his friend to go seek revenge, the way the scene plays is that they find the Bad Thing, look at it in silence for a moment, look at each other, and without a word they go to the gangster's house to kill him. There's no dialogue necessary, and Sammo knows the audience understands. It's beautifully done. Sammo could direct more than just action scenes and slapstick.
I only ever knew this dude from my days working at Blockbuster and him on the cover of what I assumed was DTV schlock. Sammo Hung is the real fkin deal. I would have never guessed. Color me impressed.
Sammo Hung (the big guy in question) has a background in Peking Opera (in fact, he trained at the same school as Jackie Chan). He does brilliant choreography and often makes on-screen fighters look as good as they're ever going to.
I love Sammo Hung’s fight scenes he’s agile and porky which make him relatable scenes are well choreographed and funny as hell too! He’s the only martial artist that makes me laugh harder than Jackie Chan and he takes it as well as he dishes it out but when he dishes it Oh man is his opps in for it! Bruce Lee, Angela Mao, Sammo Hung,Gordon Liu and a few others who’s names I can’t remember were the best of the 70’s &early 80’s great movies even before Crotching Tiger…
Movie producers no longer can make classic kungfu fighting scenes like this anymore. John Wick's fight scenes pale in comparison to this. The closest match is probably the Ip Man movies, but I still like the 80s 90s kungfu movies better
I would be so delighted if 88 Films or Eureka! Entertainment were able to get a licence to release this in the West on Blu-Ray and/or 4K Ultra HD. Their releases over the past five years or so have been incredible.
Сэмо просто шикарен! Кроме сценарных, режиссерских, постановочных талантов он еще и классных боец и спортсмен. Так вращаться при его комплекции - это просто ориентир для всех нас! Браво!
Sammo Hung was a contemporary of Jackie Chan, in fact I think they trained in the same martial arts academy in China. Sammo was always a bit portly but to be that agile and able to do the martial arts he was capable of at that weight is another level of talent.
