{"id":61,"date":"2013-02-18T22:27:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T22:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mylast365days.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2014-01-11T01:06:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T01:06:55","slug":"movie-kung-fu-meets-reality-kung-fu-faq-short-film-featuring-wang-zhenwei-the-bully-from-the-karate-kid-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfredrocks.com\/blog\/movie-kung-fu-meets-reality-kung-fu-faq-short-film-featuring-wang-zhenwei-the-bully-from-the-karate-kid-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Kung Fu meets Reality: “Kung Fu FAQ” Short Film featuring Wang Zhenwei from The Karate Kid (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After months of hard but enjoyable work our\u00a0Kung Fu FAQ: Movie Kung Fu meets Reality<\/strong>\u00a0is now completed! I hope fellow martial artists<\/strong> can relate to these questions– I know I am always asked these questions.<\/p>\n

How Did It All Start?<\/strong>\u00a0It started with an idea and 2 guys who had the desire to make it happen. It\u2019s funny how easy that sounds, but in reality there are so many steps along the way where people can back out or shelf their ideas. I met up with\u00a0Vivian Ye<\/strong>\u00a0of the One Foundation and was introduced to Van Yang<\/strong> who was working on something for the One Foundation. After dinner we were all relaxing at Van\u2019s studio when Vivian with a huge grin on her face suddenly asked me \u201cHey Alfred, since you practice wushu\u2013 if I suddenly punched you, could you block it?<\/em>!\u201d I looked at her– flabbergasted\u2026 this was not the first time she had asked me such a question. She was also not the first person to ask me such a question. I suddenly blurted out an idea.. \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be funny if we filmed a series of answers to these frequently asked wushu questions?<\/em>\u201d Van immediately added to the discussion and we kept coming up with jokes and scenarios where a martial artist ran into extraordinary circumstances and was expected to be the wushu hero seen in the movies. See.. this is where this project could have ended.. with a few laughs and a fun night at Van\u2019s studio. I was curious if Van meant what he said when he said he was \u201cdown\u201d to shoot this. I went home and wrote a series of martial arts FAQ questions and strung the situations together into a short story. I sent it to Van and he immediately started up a \u201cbasecamp\u201d. This meant business<\/em>. Anyways, I won\u2019t bore you with the details, but we started showing people the script and people loved it so a lot of friends jumped aboard. This was my first time producing a project in China so it was pretty exciting!<\/p>\n

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How many people could you take on at one time? (Gang lead by Wang Zhenwei, from The Karate Kid)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I want to thank everyone that came out to help. This was completely a project for fun, to see what we could do, and to see if we could bring a funny idea to life.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to\u00a0Wang Zhenwei<\/strong>\u00a0from the Beijing Wushu Team<\/strong> and of\u00a0Karate Kid\u00a02010<\/strong>, (starring Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith) fame for starring as our gang leader. Thanks to\u00a0Meihan<\/strong>, super China national all around wushu champion<\/strong>, who was a great sport with the fight scenes and who brought her skilled stunt friends to assist. Thanks to\u00a0Jun Trinh<\/strong>\u00a0on so many levels; Jun is a celebrity chef<\/strong> with his own show and restaurant, and here he is getting chased down an alley way and getting kicked in the chest.. on top of that he (along with family friend Tavey) let us use\u00a04Corners<\/strong>\u00a0as our first and major shooting location (The Vietnamese sandwiches we had the first day on set were amazing!).<\/p>\n

Also big thanks to producer\u00a0Joanna Wong<\/strong>\u00a0who was a constant source of positive radiant qi as well as a source for our day 2 shooting location. Thanks to\u00a0Anne Trinh<\/strong>\u00a0who is the perfect blend of cool and awesome as a person and as hair and make up artist that made us look good! Thanks to\u00a0Jeremy Yung<\/strong>\u00a0and my classmates from\u00a0Beijing Film Academy<\/strong>\u00a0that came over to support and add to our cast! Thanks to\u00a0Zhu Ning<\/strong>\u00a0our second editor and\u00a0Zhou Le<\/strong>\u00a0who totally pulled through on our one major special effect! Everyone involved was awesome!<\/p>\n

Of course, it goes without saying, but must be said still<\/em>\u2026 biggest thanks to our director and editor\u00a0Van<\/strong>\u00a0the man\u00a0Yang<\/strong>. He is already a director of huge brand name companies and commercials (see his work at\u00a0www.flowcs.com<\/a>). Van is such a great guy to work with and really brilliant behind the camera\u2026 once again thanks Van!<\/p>\n

Without further ado, here is the film:<\/p>\n