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...Donnie Yen, the high-flying martial artist known for his rhythmic, graceful style, pits his gravity-defying leaps against Jet Li in a scene that will have kung fu fans roaring for more. Yen is fresh off success in the U.S. where Yuen Wo-ping's 1993 classic Iron Monkey, in which Yen plays a lead, was rereleased by Miramax and made $10 million at the box office. He spoke to TIME Asia entertainment correspondent Stephen Short. Edited excerpts...
...were promoting Miramax's Iron Monkey for Harvey Weinstein in the United States when you got the call for Hero, is that right...
...they phoned me a couple of months ago. Harvey had bought some of my films from Media Asia in Hong Kong a while back. I knew years ago, even when I moved to Los Angeles, that Harvey loved Iron Monkey. And in that respect, I've nothing but praise for Yuen Wo-ping, who made it. That's how I got the gig. The choreography in Iron Monkey was so advanced that I think it still wears well today...
...know a lot of people in Hong Kong think it's just a trend. But they don't understand American culture - martial-arts films have been a part of their culture for a long time. I was promoting Iron Monkey with director Quentin Tarantino and one day he took me back to his house, sat me down and described in detail an action film that he wants to make in Hong Kong and Japan. The actress Uma Thurman will play the lead. Is this merely a fetish? No, I don't think...
...considered a prominent but controversial contributor to Afro-American studies and his work is generally centered around African and African-American literary criticism and history, cultural studies and literary theory. His works include Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (1992) and The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (1988). He has also written Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the ‘Racial’ Self (1987), and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1997). Gates was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in 1981, and was included...