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Ong-Bak is a Masterpiece !

03-06-03 04:38

For those whichbegin worry bout the ageing of the Kung-Fu movies stars, well don't worry, the raising is here with Phanom Yeerum. In Ong Bak, Phanom proves its talents of boxers in each scenes. « He is involved for four years for this movie », has revealed Prachya Pinkaew amazed by the performances of its actor.
Together, they created or recreated more than one hundred movements of
the old thai boxing (muay thai) whose majority wasn't ever
showed before on the screen.
Ongbak is thus indeed the first film to place thai boxing at the martial art row, which forecasts beautiful hours of pleasure in the years to come if the Thai cinema manages to reproduce the success of kung fu cinema from hongkong from years 1970-80.
If you wish to see some images of them, videos are available to download,
a clip of 4 mn and a 6 mn scene of the "making of ", on the website :
http://www.generation-video.fr.st/ , news category.

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03-07-03 10:38 RE: Ong-Bak is a Masterpiece !

by François

Well Fabien, it's not really the same style as kung-fu movies... It's another style of fighting, much more violent and less graceful. People looking for efficient and impressive martial will love Ong Bak, when people looking for graceful moves will prefer HK movies. Still there is enough to please everybody, those who loved the energy of a Police Story will find in Ong Bak the same kind of commitment: those guys really hurt themselves, and it's nice to see that now that most fighters are girlies with long hairs which don't want to take any risk.

I guess that with a muay thai trend + the growing quality of kung-fu TV series (Wu Jing rules...), the futur of martial art movies is not so dark.

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03-10-03 16:43 RE: Ong-Bak is a Masterpiece !

by Astec

I agree with you, compadre (c bon là, y'a pas d'faute jefe webmaestro? ;)

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07-01-04 04:29 RE: Ong-Bak is a Masterpiece !

by jjblake

i just recieved the movie and i thought the fight scenes were the best yet. the fighting choregraphing was awesome. the thai language got annoying after awhile and so did the reading but overal the movie is awesome. now i just fast forward to the fight scenes and watch them over and over. the move inspired me and now i must learn the ways of a muay tai fighter.

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