Pete Lee - The Art of Hong Kong Action Cinema (Action Talks #30)

Pee Lee is a writer, producer, and director known for his Sundance short film Don’t Be a Hero as well as Death Grip and the Rope A Dope series. We talk all about martial arts, action cinema, and trends. You can see his IMDB here: Edited by Joey Min Action Talks on YouTube: Action Talks on Spotify: Action Talks on iTunes: Telegram: My studio SuperAlloy: Blog: Timestamps 0:02:07 Love of HK films 0:02:53 Watching Jackie Chan movies 0:04:20 College Life 0:05:15 Censorship in Taiwan 0:06:37 Biolence in Japanese Anime 0:07:29 The Fantasy of Jackie Chan 0:09:25 Jackie’s shooting style vs others 0:10:10 Jackie’s use of zooms 0:10:31 Cost of Jackie’s shooting style 0:11:14 History of cameras 0:12:22 Woo Ping’s style of shooting 0:12:46 Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-tung’s style of shooting 0:13:25 Difficulty in shooting wides 0:14:56 Shooting military thrillers 0:15:49 Jackie’s use of location 0:17:48 Shapes and spaces 0:21:12 Sammo Hung’s sense of space 0:23:34 Martial art trickers and choreography 0:26:54 Healthy Jealousy 0:30:28 Dick Wei story 0:31:38 Heart of a Dragon dolly shots 0:34:52 Police Story finale 0:36:07 Barry and deadpan shots 0:40:40 Police Story escalator stunt 0:42:51 Project A vase stunt 0:44:03 How Jackie’s shooting style changed 0:47:55 Intellectual climate of HK cinema in the late 90s 0:48:48 Project J 0:50:35 KWOON forum 0:52:57 Stunt People forum 1:00:00 From forum to pro filmmaker 1:01:52 Vlad Rimburg’s short films 1:03:45 Manny Manzanares’ short films 1:05:22 Insincerity in modern choreography 1:07:08 Chinese sticky hands 1:09:09 The New Matrix fights 1:11:23 Matrix long fist choreo 1:12:09 Woo Ping’s diverse choreography 1:13:32 Eric wanting to train in martial arts / TKD 1:15:49 Hans Zimmerfication of action 1:18:15 Action in 2004 - 2006 1:22:20 Kicking off a new era 1:25:41 Chemistry with choreography 1:28:22 NPC-ness of stunt people 1:58:40 Parting advice