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• 'The Blood Bond' Experience - HK Stunt team

  2010-06-25 7:41PM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
  

  First a personal story:
  
  In the mid 90's when I started to really get into films and the filmmaking process I watched a ton of Hong Kong movies even the ones I must have seen clips of when I was a kid in the 80's.  It wasn't so easy to get good quality stuff in Minneapolis, but I would search high and low for whatever place had VHS copies for rent.  At one point my brother thought I was nuts always spending my weekends taking a trip over to the shop to get some movies, but it was my love...still is.
  
  Mainly I rented and later duplicated a copy for myself every Jet Li and Jackie Chan movie there was!  Sometimes they were dubbed in Mandarin but I tried to find them in the original Cantonese version.
  
  When I was real little Yuen Wo Ping and Jackie Chan's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master were the first kung fu movies I ever watched...and the only tape we had around.  Later, it was Gordon Liu in Master Killer (a.k.a. 36 Chambers of Shaolin) must have seen these 20 times each.  As I got older it was Tsui Hark's Once Upon a Time In China and Jet Li's version of Wong Fei Hung that totally had me curious about films and not just watching them. All this was before the discovery of John Woo, but I knew then and there I would someday find myself in Hong Kong. 
  
  I never considered to be a Hong Kong stuntman, but I always thought about what Jackie Chan did with Police Story 1 and 2...and really the entire series...its breathless.  Since then, I've never looked at a shopping mall, bus, glass, dynamite, or a playground the same way. 
  
  
  Video: http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvWNIIEovvU
  

  
  
  Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tmEMnClhsc&feature=related
  
  
  On The Blood Bond we had a very special team led by Ken Yip and Louis Fan Siu Wong.
  
  I was so happy to have front row seats every day watching the stunt and action team go at it.  And to develop friendships with them was even better.  My friends and I back home used to try to choreograph stuff and it was fun and it was really great to see that we were doing similar things just we didn't have the kind of training or knowledge and experience like the team had.
  
  
  
  I learned tons watching, observing, and discussing with them and the best part was how
  great people they were.  Thank you German and Ken, Robert, Alan, Paul, Sunny, Mai Ling, and the whole gang for making me feel at home with you guys.  I know wherever we go I look forward to cracking jokes with you guys! 
  
  
  
  
  Fondest memory:
  
  1. While setting up for the Bar Room Pool Scene I sat with Ken sharing a talk.  In between us was one of the pictures hanging on the wall.  (see below)
  
  
  2. Every time I spoke with German. 
  
  3. Working on Ken's dialogue, "Hey, Bartender get us some drinks you lazy bastard!'  hahaha
  
  
  
  Below: A picture I drew during one of the fight days