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Actors: Jet Li, Siu-hou Chin, Billy Chow, Nakayama Shinobu
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Fist of Legend |
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Jet Li is Chen Zhen in this modern remake of the Bruce Lee classic, The Chinese Connection. While studying in Japan, he learns of his master's death in a competition. He fights the man who killed him, defeating him soundly. This leads him to suspect that the master was killed by other means. It is discovered that he was poisoned and this leads Chen to seek revenge. This is without a doubt the greatest martial arts movie of all time. Directed by the martial arts choreographer of the Matrix.
--Joe Nixon, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Fist of Legend |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Combat acrobatics/martial arts?
Yes
Kind of movie
- traditional karate
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Chinese
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Chinese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Specific kind of enemies?
- right wing dictatorship
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
- China
Misc setting
- prison
- fort/military installation
- building
- church/synagogue
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- mental battles
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- poisoning
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Chinese
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- None
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