Yuen article at Yahoo

[j.crawford]

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/2006 ... 92000.html

[Brian Thibodeau]

Apparently this Yuen Wo-ping fellow was the action director of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill and The Matrix.

You don't hear that very often....

Also good to see Martial Law star Sammo Hung honoured as well. Gee, I wonder what ever happened to that guy? Comes out of nowhere to star in a hit companion show to TV's legendary Walker, Texas Ranger, and then returns to obscurity...

[bkasten]

Walker, Texas Ranger

I am going to install a puking emoticon post haste...

[Brian Thibodeau]

I am going to install a puking emoticon post haste...

YES!!

Can't wait to go back and update my posts in the Kerio's Edison Chen thread!

But just remember this, my friend:

Chuck Norris could kill the entire population of China, assuming they all came at him in a straight line, or surrounded him in a circle.

http://www.4q.cc/index.php?pid=fact&person=chuck
(keep renewing the page for more)

[bkasten]

I am going to install a puking emoticon post haste...

YES!!
Can't wait to go back and update my posts in the Kerio's Edison Chen thread!

Yep...he's become the punchline to many long running bad jokes (to which entire websites have been dedicated)...how unmercifully apropos...

...from a man a man whose screen fame reached its zenith when he had his neck snapped by Bruce Lee, two minutes into their sparring session...

As an exercise, see if you can read this in its entirety...
http://www.chucknorris.com/html/farewell_letter.html

<puking emoticon here>

"Chuck Norris could kill the entire population of China, assuming they all came at him in a straight line, or surrounded him in a circle."

No doubt...

BTW, Chuck had some pretty nasty things to say about Jackie Chan a few years ago...I'll see if I can find the citations. Something to the effect of "Jackie Chan isn't a real martial artist like me." Yeah. Sure thing, Chuck...

[Brian Thibodeau]

...from a man a man whose screen fame reached its zenith when he had his neck snapped by Bruce Lee, two minutes into their sparring session...

What?!?

Are you completely forgetting INVASION U.S.A.?

THE OCTAGON?

HERO & THE TERROR?

SIDEKICKS?

No Hong Kong martial artist would dare defend themselves against Chuck Norris. They are afraid of him.

Some martial arts "actors" are just so full of themselves it isn't funny. I can't speak for the Hong Kong guys (and gals) since I don't now how they come off to the Chinese-speaking world, but some of the lower-ranked American and British wannabes are nearly unbearable in interviews - I'm thinking of people like Gary Daniels, Mark Houghton, Dale Cook - you know, these clowns who have little to NO training or talent outside of their martial arts skills, but will take great pains to remind anyone who'll listen that the bigger stars they act with aren't real martial artists like they are, without ONCE stopping to ponder why they've never made it big in showbiz.

As with a real-life tool like Van Damme, some of the things Norris has said over the years would mark him for inclusion in such a group, but he was way more savvy when it came to marketing his own image. I suspect the "facts about Chuck Norris" may owe at least some of its existence to his oblivious nature.

Even funnier: I go to this gym a few nights a week to swim. Several nights a week, this place offers various martial arts classes, and about once a week, in the change room or out in the hallway, I overhear some dude, invariably one of the instructors, telling the newbies (without fail, it's always the newbies) how he "took down" some tough guy in a bar or how another martial artist challenged him to a fight and barely lived to shake his hand and thank him for the lesson. I'm sure the guys like this are quite skilled at their martial art of choice, but I really wish they could hear how desperate they are for an audience.

Yuen Woo-ping ain't kidding when he says it took waaay too long for Hong Kong martial arts choreographers to get their due credit. But it's their own fault, really. They never went on about their own greatness the way many western martial artists do! They just kept working.

[lartrak]

BTW, Chuck had some pretty nasty things to say about Jackie Chan a few years ago...I'll see if I can find the citations. Something to the effect of "Jackie Chan isn't a real martial artist like me." Yeah. Sure thing, Chuck...

He's sort of right. Jackie Chan doesn't have a lot of practical martial arts experience. He's an entertainer. If they got in a fight for some reason, I'd certainly put my money on Norris, the extra 10 years on him be damned. Norris was, and probably is, a very good fighter. Many of the HK martial artists don't have the kind of training that translates to actual fighting. I assume this is what Norris is referring to.

Norris is kind of an ***hole about it, though. Jackie Chan never claimed to be a great fighter in real life, and has said on numerous occasions said he considers himself an entertainer/actor more than anything else.