#246 - No One Does It Better Than Lau Kar-leung
The Important Cinema Club
Justin Decloux and Will Sloan
4.7 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan. |
| 0:07.8 | And today, we're talking about a big one because it's essentially the person that defined martial arts cinema and I would say basically has not been topped. |
| 0:18.0 | I think Lau Kar Lung's work, also known as Lucia Lang, I think his work |
| 0:23.4 | is unsurpassable, actually. There are many conditions that make his work unsurpassable. All of them, |
| 0:29.5 | labor-related conditions probably. Yeah, that people are not making stuff in a sweatshop film studio, |
| 0:36.2 | that they were not in a torturous school |
| 0:38.7 | setting to continually work out every single day until they could do all of these crazy moves. |
| 0:44.1 | But nevertheless, the legacy that he leaves behind, the martial arts films that he made |
| 0:49.3 | cannot be denied. He is arguably the most important martial arts director and choreographer of all time. |
| 0:56.4 | He has made films such as the 36th Chamber of Shaolin, legendary weapons of China, |
| 1:01.5 | Challenge of the Masters. Mad Monkey Kung Fu, so many amazing movies. He directed about 25 films |
| 1:08.7 | and almost all of them has something of interest. |
| 1:12.9 | And it's a great career to talk about because he continually tried to evolve with the times, sometimes to his detriment, but oftentimes kind of revolutionizing what could be done. |
| 1:25.4 | And he's also a topic that's a little bit intimidating because it's |
| 1:28.5 | difficult to talk about. And it's also incredibly vast as well. And before we say that, I would |
| 1:34.8 | like to mention that he has made a film that everyone interested in Hong Kong action movies has |
| 1:40.8 | seen, a film that many laymen have seen, too, and also one of the greatest |
| 1:45.2 | martial arts films of all time. And I refer, of course, to Drunken Master, too, also known as |
| 1:50.5 | The Legend of Drunken Master, starring Jackie Chan, a movie that he was fired from. |
| 1:56.1 | You know what's funny about that is that I thought you were going to say, um, 36 chamber of |
| 2:00.6 | Shaolin, which just goes to |
| 2:01.7 | show how many masterpieces this guy has up his sleeve. I do want to mention Drunken Master, too, |
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