Mastering the law of gravity.

Mastering the law of gravity.

YUEN WO PING.

This reading is about Yuen Wo´Ping, who is a 68 years old Chinese man. He is considered the best action movies director and  choreographer because of his influential and successful career.

He is member of a remarkable family, who were involved in a kind of opera, which has a traditional acrobatic dancing and extravagant martial art. His father and four of his other eleven children, (Yuen´s brothers) have had careers related to movie industry in Asia.

Following there are some important dates in his life and some of the names of productions where he has worked.

1945- His birth.

1965- He was working as an actor and stuntman in Hong Kong movies.

1966- ¨Magnificent Trio¨

1967- ¨One-Armed Swordman¨

1970- ¨Chinese Boxer¨

1971- He received his first choreography work in ¨Mad Killer¨

1972- ¨Kung Fu, the Invincible Fist¨ and ¨Deadly Buddhist Riders¨

1973- ¨Rage of Wind¨ and ¨Blood Brothers¨

1977- ¨Secret Rivals 2^nd¨

1978- ¨Snake in the Eagle´s Shadow¨ and ¨Drunken Master¨

1979- He opened his own production and action choreography in Hong Kong. Also worked in ¨Magnificent Butcher¨

1982- ¨Dreadnaught¨

1992- He won the Hong Kong Film Award for action choreography for ¨Once Upon a Time China II¨ and  he worked in¨The Twin Dragons¨

1993- ¨Iron Monkey and Tai Chi Master¨

1994- ¨Fist of legend¨

1995- ¨Sense and Sensibility¨

1996- ¨The Ice storm¨

1999- ¨Matrix¨

2000- ¨Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon¨

2001- He won four Academy Award for ¨The Ice storm¨ 

2003- ¨The Matrix Reloaded¨ and ¨The Matrix Revolutions¨

2003-¨ Kill Bill 1¨

2004- ¨Kill Bill 2¨

2004- ¨Kung Fu Sion¨ and ¨Danny the Dog¨

2005- ¨The Tai Chi Master¨

2006- ¨Fearless¨

In this unit we also can find some information about how martial arts has been including in action movies and how successful have resulted. Furthermore, there are details of wire work, impromptu weapons and how some special effects are created. But to me, the amazing information is to know that in Matrix, the second movie, they took a month to get a 5-minute scene right exactly as they wanted.

 In this lesson I learned that movies are not as easy as they seems to be when we watch them on t.v. or in the movie theather.

CARMEN M. DELGADO.  CB-0657