Director Stephen Chow got great success and immense gratification from Kung Fu Hustle. It was the best movie in 2004, and it brought much glory and applause to Chow. It gave a fresh impetus to the movie business of Hong Kong. Kung Fu Hustle combines action and comedy ingeniously, and they were showed by actors’ action and dialogue. Chow’s work showed the perfect union of craftsmanship and imagination, and he used the Chinese style musical instrument to combine with dance, and used the advanced computer techniques to make this movie become more vivid. This movie worked well in highly improbable plot situations, exaggerated characters, and often slapstick elements were used for humorous effect.
Chow was director and chief actor in this movie, and the production of this movie cost twenty million U.S dollars. Many famous actors performed in this movie. Action super star Jeff Lee impersonate a fire demon, Daniel Yuan and Kelly lee impersonated the owner of a stockaded village, new star Elizabeth Lien impersonated a candy seller, and Jack Yuan and Daren Long impersonated hired thugs. They conquered the hearts of their audience by their excellent acting. This was a successful production by Chinese and Hong Kong actors. There was an important breakthrough that the style of Kung Fu Hustle was different from departed Chows films.
In the beginning of the movie, they combined traditional music with Chinese dance by the hatchet underworld gang. I t seemed to be comical and original. They used diverse Chinese style musical instruments, which represented Chinese classic music art. The Chinese zither was transformed into a powerful weapon. When the people played the musical notations, they became one by one peerless combatants, and they could kill a person without blood.
The computer techniques were used to embellish action and background results in excellent vision and hearing effect. For the background they used a representation of Shang Hai in the 30’s and 40’s. The background collocation conformed to the requirement of Kung Fu Hustle style. The dialogue was exaggerated unduly, comical and interesting, but did not depart from real life. There were some defects contained in the movie, and the chief defect was that they did not use detail in some plots to show the character’s characteristic, facial expression, dialogue and action.Kung Fu Hustle was a great contribution to the movies of Hong Kong, which brought the movie business of Hong Kong to a new level. it was a great revolution.
2 comments:
I have to admit, I never saw this movie, and I really have never liked the kung fu genre of movies, but you made this movie sound so interesting. You have a real passion for it that shows in your writing and you knew a lot about the subject. I had never heard of any of the actors or actesses you spoke about, but they seem to be important in Hong Kong. Very good writing was used here, and it was interesting to read. Good subject and good job!
kung fu hustle is actually one of my favorite movies, of course i think chinese know more about this movie than the american do. it had showed on TV for many times. i have to say it's a great and really funny movie to watch, i really enjoyed it.
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