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...punishment. Jane plays Frank Castle, a moody, haunted ex-Marine, now superhero, whose wife was killed by a Mafia boss (played by John Travolta). Hence his penchant for the punitive. The actor spent nine months working with Navy SEALs on "hand-to-hand combat, edged-weapon fighting, Japanese martial arts, Israeli martial arts, Filipino martial arts..." Jane ticks them off on his now deadly fingers. "The training has been incredibly intensive." Is he devoted to his craft? Or just compensating for having a girl's name...
...paper, Kill Bill sounds dangerously close to Charlie’s Angels: there are many martial arts action sequences, all of the main characters are women and one of them is played by Lucy Liu. Upon closer inspection, however, the two films couldn’t be more different. Whereas Angels was just mindless fun that may have offered female viewers a sense of empowerment and certainly supplied the male audience with lots of eye candy, Quentin Tarantino’s newest film is a thoughtful and beautiful homage to classic themes and styles while remaining the most...
...abilities. "First of all, he started the movie with my character accidentally and in self-defense killing a woman in front of her 4-year-old child," says Thurman. "You can't really stack the cards against a character much higher." There was also the matter of the martial-arts training Tarantino expected his leading lady--three months removed from childbirth--to endure. "Three styles of kung fu, two styles of sword fighting"--Thurman says this through pursed lips, as if she's going to spit--"knife throwing, knife fighting, hand-to-hand combat, Japanese speaking. It was literally absurd...
...East can also borrow from East. Prachya Pinkaew's Ong-Bak Muay Thai Warrior is a Thai gloss on the old Hong Kong plots that spurred heroes from Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan: kid from the country (superhuman martial artist Petchtai Wongkamlao) comes to the city on a noble mission, takes infernal beatings, kicks back even more furiously. It's insanely vigorous fun that's guaranteed to delight video action fans on four continents. Kim Ki Duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring starts as a tale of spiritual apprenticeship (boy taught by old monk) that might have come...
...Berkeley," says Fu, now a statistician at Harvard Medical School, "because he wanted to serve his country." But when the student democracy protesters began to flood Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989, Yang forsook his equations for late nights watching the TV news. And after Deng Xiaoping declared martial law several weeks later, Yang voluntarily returned to China to support the demonstrators. "He knew that something major was happening, and he couldn't bear the thought of not being a part of it," says Fu. The killings he witnessed firsthand became a part of him. Yang returned...