The of the sort martial return

of Roberto Bonomelli

Undoubtedly the solid cinematographic tradition of Hong Kong has covered a fundamental role so that the great productions returned to be interested of our disciplines. Here because after the most popular star Jackie Chan and Jet (appeared Them in first part of this file) we will speak about Sammo Hung, Stephen Chow, Donnie Yen. But we will not only deal of Asian celebrities. We do not have to forget that the action cinema American has its stars, even if in this moment some of they are in shadow, and that by now ago a constant employment of martial limbs in every scene of combat. Various schools of thought on like more putting in scene the crash between two men exist but or. Exactly as it happens also in the Asian cinema: there is who makes wide employment of cables in order to exalt the acrobatics (you see Tsui Hark that, with its film series Ounces upon to Time in China, he has given the way to what comes defined a kind to himself, "wire kung was") and who instead refuses categorically to use artefizi making single confidence to the martial abilities to the actors and exceptional stuntmen (the Jackie Chan and Liu Chia Liang, in order to cite most famous). To the first school they belong senz' other "Matrix" and "Charlie' s Angels", while "Kill Bill" and "Blade" only occasionally have made use of make up of Chinese school for giving space also to the physical abilities of the interpreters. Sure Wesley Snipes has a curriculum in the martial limbs so solid not to have need from the use of "cables".
Moreover, that that the Afro-American actor door on the screen is a fight style rather originates them and more neighbor to the combat from road that to the artistic evolutions of the wushu. We have been able to admire it in "Passenger 57 - Terror to high quota" (1992), where it faced an international terrorist during a diversion, therefore like in the bad role contrapposto to Sylvester Stallone alias "Demolition Man" (1993), or in "Sol Levant" (Rising sun, 1993) in which it and Sean Connery face in a combat scene nientemeno that Tak Kubota, Tadashi Yamashita and Fumio Demura (three karate masters of that they have made the history in America), or also when wears the cloth of an expert of emergency of the United Nations, that it seems to prefer the hands to the guns, in "the art of War "(The art of war, 2000). But it is in the trilogy of "Self-confident" where Wesley Snipes has been able to show all its martial qualities, like it has asserted the coreografo of the combat scenes, let alone its trainer of old date, Jeff Ward: "What we have tried to obtain it is the crudezza. We have inserted elements from the combat from road and from whichever martial art it could wear for our combats. Elements of kali, taekwondo, wing chun, capoeira." We do not know in which of on next films it will show techniques of silat indonesiano, but is sure that to the last Arnold Martial arts festival (the great event devised from the governor of California) Wesley Snipes has invited to its table Sh. bapak Waleed, master of silek-yours (silat of Sumatra) and guru Cliff Stewart, expert of emergency to head of school L.A. Silat (bukti negara pencak-silat). And not only: the actor has been so hit from the indonesiana martial art to define it the next great phenomenon of our didactic field and to pubblicizzare the video of Steven Benitez, an English master of silek yours called from the Warner Bros to demonstrate its silat in order to understand of the scenica valence. Perhaps we will have to attend Chasing the dragon, where he interprets an agent of the Fbi that will give the hunting to a great Asian drug dealer from chinatown until to Taiwan, even Razor' s edge with the participation also of our Silvia Colloca ("Van Helsing"), or the possible cinematographic adaptation of The black panther, other Marvel comic strip for which she has asked for being the protagonist, but sure we will see Wesley Snipes to jump, to roll and to kick from earth in perfect style minangkabau! Continuing with sovrannaturali beings, we cannot forget the profitable tradition about the comic strips capacities in film.
He seems that by now all the superheroes bind together to their superpowers the practical one of the martial limbs. In order to make some title it: the "interpreted Daredevil" from Very Affleck (coreografato nientemeno that from Jeff Imada, expert of jkd-kali), "Elektra" with Jennifer Garner (famous for the television series "Alias", gone in wave on RAI, where he has wide been able to demonstrate its ability in the martial limbs), "Catwoman", for the whose role Has them Berry he has had to practice capoeira (for the more complex scenes has been employed Nito Larioza, an expert hawaiano in the art martial-we danced Brazilian let alone of wuhu and won hop kuen I give), but also "Batman", "X-Men", "Spiderman" and many other anchor. With tutt' other atmosphere, but always acclimatized in a future not very specified with policemen from the sovrannaturali powers that fight common men, we cannot forget "Equilibrium"(2003). This film to low budget deserves of being cited for the optimal interpretation of Christian Bale (famous for "Batman Begins", in this occasion it has had to practice judo and kendo for some months) and for them it originates them martial choreographies with employment of crews from fire: "gun kata" new martial art is one that allows to face opposing innumerevoli being hit them through scientific and infallible trajectories without being hit! If instead we want to return on the earth, we have some good examples of employment of essential and sure not spectacular martial scenes, at least in the classic conception of the term. In the first place, "The Bourne identity" (2002) with Matt Damon that, to the taken ones with its first role of action, has had to expose itself to a program of intense physical preparation beyond to the practical one of kali and jkd for three months. In spite of the resumption technique in motion it does not please the eye of practicing, preventing to have a limpid vision of carrying out itself of the actions, goes senz' other cited the combat in the apartment with the killer armed with knife where Jason Bourne recovers a pen to sphere from the writing desk in order to employ it like a knife (in the continuation "The Bourne supremacy", 2004, will be a rolled up newspaper to become to the occurrence an arm, like wants the Philippine school). It does not remain to us that to attend The Bourne ultimatum being hoped to see still more scenes than combat body to body. Remaining in argument, since we speak about kali Philippine, "The Hunted - preda" (2003) is a true one must. Interpreted from two actors from Oscar, Benicio of Toro and Tommy Lee Jones, respective a former-member of the special forces that having lost the control kills the hunters who go around themselves in the forest in which she has gone to living and its instructor to which she comes asked to stop it. The only arm is the knife, that she becomes nearly the protagonist of the film and that comes second employed the sophisticated techniques of kali of the school of the master American, of Philippine origins, Chris Sayoc. In it tries of new suggestions, the industry of the cinema seems is riponendo a sure interest in the Asian South-east, is for the oneness of its limbs of the combat that for the new talents that propose. Pack-saddles to think next to the interest that it has provoked "Ong Bak - Been born in order to fight" (2004) interpreted from true a new phenomenon of the cinema of the martial limbs, Tony Jaa. The innovation is therefore in muay boran the capacity on the screen, that is the martial art traditional tailandese (famous also like mae never muay thai) that it differs from the sport version thai boxing because practiced to hands knots and for the immensest baggage than technical. But the happened one of this first film has had also to the extraordinary ability of Tony Jaa, in a position to showing the effectiveness of its art but also to execute acrobatics to the Jackie Chan, and of the stuntman that they have worked demonstrating to you not to be second to the colleagues of Hong Kong. In the last Tom-yum-goong film, than in France it is exited like "the honor of I dredge" and we hope that soon it is distributed also from we, Tony Jaa extension still its shocking evolutions to hands knots and with the crews: unforgettable the use of boneses of an elephant tied on the forearms like the traditional arm never sun sowks of the krabi-krabong. But in order to see of what it is able Tony Jaa (never sun sowks) in the traditional art thai, famous for the use of swords and sticks, we will have to wait for the escape of "The sword". Rifacimento of omonimo the film of 1982 deserves a mention also "Born to fight" (that inspired Tony Jaa to practice martial limbs) directed from Rittikrai Cream (master of Tony Jaa and coreografo of "Ong bak") that nozzle a tailandese other star, Dan Chupong, even if in truth is a square of athletes who, employing everyone the own athletic abilities, will succeed to put in ginocchio a paramilitary group that holds them in hostage. Also in this film the level of the action and the dangerousness of the performances of the stuntmen are to the level of "Ong bak". We are speaking about tailandesi martial limbs in their original shape, shown on the screen from who has grown practicing them. We are therefore very far from the version edulcorata of the muay thai put in scene from Jean Claude Van Damme in the encounter with Tong Po in "Kickboxer - new guerriero" (1989).
Even if the technical judgment does not remove null to the importance that this film has had is in the spread of "kickboxing mania" that in filling up the arenas of thai boxing. To this point it is spontaneous to ask itself where it is ended "Muscles from Brussels", like the press American it called it. Jean Claude Van Damme, after to be ended in the circuit dtv, that is "direct to video" therefore directly in video, continues to having a public of becomes attached to you watching but it does not succeed in risollevarsi. Nevertheless the quality of the resumptions, of the photography, the means to disposition in its productions, is better of the films that has rendered it famous all over the world, therefore as the recitativa ability to the Belgian former-champion is better karate of. After an action film series of the sort, from the police one to the prison one, Van Damme it has seen in its first love the opportunity to redeem itself and to return to distribute its films in the cinemas. And here a plan entire dedicated to the martial limbs on whose scenario has worked for three years: Kumite. Van Damme, by now visibly aged, would have interpreted a former-champion who returns to defend the title it after alcoholism years. Between the adversaries the Banner and Malaipet would have been interpellati champions of sport from combat like Jerome. Unfortunately Kumite is set aside in order to give priority to other productions like The hard corps, where Van Damme interprets a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq that returned in its country come assumed like guard of the body of a former-champion of boxing threatened from a dangerous one rapper, and Second in command still in a military role. Next we will see also in one European production to it beside Gerard Depardieu and Alain Delon: the third film in meat and boneses dedicated to the famous French comic strip "Asterix". It seems that Van Damme will take the best of that had put in "Kumite" in order to realize the new one "Without exclusion of blows" (Bloodsport), film to low budget that in far away the 1987 allowed it to become the idolo of years Ninety with fan all over the world. It will resume the cloth of Frank Dux, champion of the clandestine tornei, in a history that s' will perhaps entitle Bloodsport - To new beginning (remembers that the three films realize to you opportunely as sequel of Bloodsport they were not interprets to you from the star Belgian). We do not know what indeed has arrested Kumite, but we hope that Van Damme, although the 45 years, it can return to that kind that a lot has carried it fortune. Who instead since the beginning of its career has been associated to the action kind, and not to that one of the martial limbs, it is Steven Seagal. Not because they lacked to it the credentials (vary instruction and years practical in Japan and a 7° to you dan of aikido) but because with "Nico" (Above the law, 1988) introduced the figure of a hard skillful xecutioner with the improper gun, crews and also in the body to body. Although the little sympathy of which its enjoys the actor American between the community the martial limbs Americans (for some arrogating affirmations earned the challenge of a square of champions and masters of ready Los Angeles to demonstrate anytime that it was not hardest than Holywood) must riconoscergli that it has carried on the screen a new way to fight educating the spectator to techniques of lever to articulate and short blows, ugly, cruenti but effective. Between its last productions, that they are all gone directly R-al.mercato of home the video, we cite that one that has had one important production, with the participation of the sony, the resumptions made in Japan: "Into the sun" (2005). Steven Seagal has the possibility to show itself in action with the technical katana and also evolution of trapping interpreting the role of an agent of the expert Cia is in Japanese limbs of the combat that Chinese (learned from a sifu of the chinatown of Tokio) called to interfere in the transactions of the joined young people yakuza to the young people tongs. Sure we will not lack to the appointment with former-Navy cook Seals in what it could be "Trap to high quota" (Under siege 3), cioé the continuation of "Trap up sea" (unforgettable the combat of knife with Tommy Lee Jones, 1992) and "Trap on full of rocks mountains" (1995). Although its not more young age Steven Seagal, cinquantacinque years, seems unstoppable. The directory of its films in escape is indeed along: we cite the Submerged onlooker a horror in which he must face a crew transformed in zombi because of an escaped bacteriological agent to the control. Then Mercenary, turned in Polonia (where cotinua to acclimatized several of its films), in which it will interpret exactly a soldier to payment forced with I blackmail to free from a jail of maximum emergency the son of a powerful one boss of the drug. And a Korean production from the title it Clementine where for before the Seagal time it interprets a role from bad one: a master of taekwondo (we do not believe but to see it for the occasion to make flying soccer...) that in order to force its adversary, from which it had been defeated seven years before, to one rivincita the rapisce to the daughter. Seagal is sure not more nella physical shape than a time and we do not know if this production to continuous jet can be effective or deleterious for its career.
Of Seagal fact he is not alone producing actor but also, and not only of its films: as an example it is execitive producer of Dragon squad with Sammo Hung that to its escape has sbancato the botteghini of Hong Kong. There is who seems to have made instead the choice sewing itself I lean the star of ranger of Texas, we are speaking about Walker alias Chuck Norris. After a long cinematographic career, begun with the leggendario combat of "urlo It of Chen terrorizza also the West" (The way of the dragon, 1972), has been dedicated to this television series moving itself in Texas that has rendered it one true icona American. Memory a friend and connects American, gotten passionate of action cinema, than it asked to me likeably: "Where they are new the Sergio Lion". In effects in Italy the action cinema has been buried for a long time and, to how much it seems, not is no possibility of resumption. Our cousinses of Oltralpe have instead teaching in this field. Jean Luc Besson director and eclectic producer ("Nikita", "Leon") is the more representative example. To he the two wonderful "The transporter" (2002) and "Transporter must: extreme "(2005) where English actor Jason Statham ("Snatch - the tear ", 2000), natural athlete and practicing of karate and wing chun, interpret a former ones of the special bodies that carry out" particular "deliveries to payment with its automobile. Both are directed from the talentuoso Louis Leterrier with to Corey Yuen, famous director and coreografo of scenes of combat of Hong Kong (one curiosity: the bad of according to episode is Alexander Gasman). Also in Germany it seems to be exploded the interest for the kung was. In the first place we must cite the television series "puma" (the Codename: Puma, 1999), because it has gone in wave also on the RAI, interpreted from the excampione of taekwondo and kickboxing Mickey Hardt (Max Havoc: curse of the dragon and Max Havoc: ring of to fire, 2005). Then, we signal Kampfansage - the last apprentice, than probably it will become Challenge for the international market, an important plan entire centralized on the martial limbs. In a future one imprecisato a tyrant wants to natch the secrets of an art marzialie guarded from a master and from its last student, interpreted from the expert of kung it was Mathis Landwehr.
Draft of a film of action with crobatic scenes that they do not have null to envy to those of the wuxiapian is turned to you in China. In more, we signal also the spectacular use of the two short sticks that the protagonist extension to know to second handle the Philippine martial art of the kali or escrima. This is only the last title it of action that the Action concept, house manufacturer of Colony founded from stuntman, has put in port after the television successes "Der Clown", "special Square Cobra 11" and "Invincible angels". While we continue to wait for the new Sergio Lion...