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00:00Well, I never intended to be in the industry.
00:03I've always been a martial artist.
00:05As you know, my mom teaches martial arts.
00:08So ever since I was a little kid, I was exposed to the whole world of martial arts.
00:14You know, like any other kid, we always had our share of running wild.
00:21And I was a rebel.
00:23So my mom sent me back to China to train martial arts when I was 16, I was 16 and a half.
00:31And I trained in Beijing for on and off about almost two years then.
00:36On my way back to the state, I stopped by Hong Kong.
00:41And during that time, Steven Spielberg of Hong Kong martial arts films, Yuen Wa Ping at the
00:47time, he was looking for a new talent.
00:50That was right after he just finished making two of the biggest martial arts films, Snake
00:56in the Eagle Shadow and Drunken Master, which Jackie Chan starred in.
01:01And obviously, those two films made him superstardom.
01:05And coincidentally, my mom's student happened to be Yuen Wa Ping's older sister.
01:13So as he was scouting for new talents, the sister went up to Yuen Wa Ping and said, hey,
01:17here's this new kid.
01:18You know, he's checking him out, he's supposed to be, you know, the really awesome martial
01:25art skill.
01:26So I stopped by and never, you know, didn't expect anything.
01:30And he, we met.
01:33And a couple of days later, he brought this whole camera crew and, you know, I was overwhelmed.
01:39Obviously, he wanted a screen test.
01:41So I did everything I knew and everything I didn't know, you know, he asked me to do.
01:49And then two weeks later, and he just gave me this contract, I want you to be the next
01:55star of my next films called Drunken Tai Chi.
02:00And then I ended up working with him for many years on.
02:06I'm Monkey.
02:07I play a character.
02:08It's called Wong Kee Ying.
02:09Wong Kee Ying is actually a live character, historical character.
02:12It's called a ten tiger from Canton and a very famous martial arts instructor.
02:19Well, I try to stay within the character since the character is a real person and Wong Kee Ying
02:30practiced Hong Ga style, you know, with the claw, with the crane, and that's, that's actually
02:36a real style in Chinese martial art.
02:38It goes all the way back to Shaolin Temple, true, very true style, actually very common martial
02:47art style, Chinese martial art style.
02:49So I try to stay within that content.
02:52However, of course, film is film, you know, you can't really, it's not a martial art documentary.
02:58So I remember talking to Yu Mo Ping and I asked him that I would like to have this character
03:06do Hong Ga.
03:07And then I remember he said to me, well, isn't that a little outdated?
03:11Because back in the Shaw Brothers times, many of these films were made.
03:14And I said, well, it's really dependent on how we can repackage it and change the pace
03:20a little bit and make it a little different.
03:25He would always look at the situation like maybe perhaps you're holding a pen or something.
03:30He said, you know, can we do something with a pen?
03:32You see what I'm saying?
03:33With that, with that extreme.
03:35So that's why when you watch his film, there's so many things going on all the time.
03:41You know, either the character is playing with the umbrella or a chopstick or with a chair
03:46or with the, you know, with the rice bowl, you know, he always spent a lot of imagination
03:53on props and situations.
03:56You know, ironically, he's not a martial artist.
03:58But because he's enormous experience working with so many top-notch martial artists throughout
04:06many of his films, he has sort of like sucked in all the knowledge into his whole library.
04:17Hong Kong industry first is quite small, especially among the whole Hong Kong action circle.
04:26It was very competitive back then.
04:28It was between a group of people versus another group of people.
04:33And to be exact, I was with the Yun Wa Ping, so we call it the Yun Clan.
04:38We were going against Jackie Chan, for instance.
04:41So every movie we take on, every project we take on, we try to kind of outdo each other.
04:48Well, for myself, my favorite scenes in Iron Monkey, I think probably the shadow kick scenes.
05:11It's probably my favorite scenes, because if you look at the choreography, the rhythm of
05:15that whole scene was staged beautifully.
05:19First, you come off with a lot of hands choreographies with real Hong Kong style with a claw and a crane.
05:25Then you go, then you picked up the whole pace when the character performed his so-called
05:31shadowless kick.
05:32But if you talk about, like, dramatic and acrobatic and creativity, of course, the ending scene
05:46with the fire, the pole, you know, the thrills and the risk of, you know, having a couple
05:52of characters fighting on top of the poles, I think Yun Wa Ping's work, you know, represent
06:00that type of motivations, you know.
06:02Each movie, he always want to top the last one.