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Exhaling smoke with a particular world-weariness only a beautiful woman can conjure, Xu Jinglei announces she's tired of Oriental mystique, all the brocade and bamboo and aerial kung-fu artistry. That's ironic, given that the movie director, 31, with her chopstick physique and brushstroke features, would fit quite nicely into an epic about a woman named, say, Plum Blossom...
...want to be recognized not just in China," she says. "I think Americans would be interested to know what a Chinese girl thinks about things." Even if the girl in question isn't wrapped in embroidered silk or delivering a kung-fu kick. --By Hannah Beech/ Beijing...
...Xuong Lu made sure, though, that his children embraced their Indochinese heritage. Victor did so with particular verve. He eagerly took up martial arts?winning a black belt in kung fu by the time he was 17?and delighted his father by participating in Chinese lion dances at local festivals in Los Angeles. As a teenager he'd got a Chinese warrior's tattoo on his left arm. A close grade-school friend, Arturo Fematt Jr., recalls that Victor tried to persuade him to get one, too. "I used to joke with him: 'Oh, man, you know...
...played by writer/director/star Stephen Chow) accidentally sets off a war between the murderous Axe Gang and the residents of a quaint slum called Pig Sty. The latter are revealed to be not quite as helpless as they seem—an unusual number of them turn out to be Kung Fu masters—and wild fight scenes break out, with more than a little help from computer graphics and wire suspension. Sing, whose delivery is more Bill Murray than Jet Li, is caught in the middle—should he suck up to the bad guys, who he thinks...
...understand the bounds between reality and fantasy, comedy and drama, subtlety and nonsense. Everything seems like some strange and awe-inspiring dream. I might be missing some of the cultural or cinematic intricacies, but I still had the time of my life at “Kung Fu Hustle”:. Hell, I’d take it over a girl’s ratty old underthings any day of the week...