Word: kong
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...band's 1993 debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) was rough and rambling, combining ragged street beats with lyrical imagery and audio samples drawn from Hong Kong martial-arts flicks. At a time when West Coast gangsta rap was dominating the hip-hop scene, the arrival of Wu-Tang of Staten Island, N.Y., announced that the East Coast was not to be ignored. The group's last major album, the ambitious 1997 double album Wu-Tang Forever, was a challenging, complex work of urban sprawl, spilling over with rude wordplay, goofy ideas, bad attitude and mumbled philosophy...
...Reported by Stephen Short/Hong Kong...
...Hidden Dragon may gasp with childlike wonder and delight. Who is brilliant and daft enough to choreograph these nonstop battles? The answer is Yuen Wo-ping, stunt master supreme and, not incidentally, the director of a couple of dozen films--among them some of the most exciting in Hong Kong movie history. "He's directed more movies than I have," says Ang Lee. "And better ones...
...master, 55, doesn't mind collaborating with younger auteurs--like the Wachowski brothers, whose The Matrix, that kung fusion of Hong Kong technique and Hollywood technology, featured some prime Yuen sorcery (he is now preparing the two sequels). "When I'm working with good directors," he says, "they'll often come up with ideas that profoundly inspire me. And then if I can make them workable, we'll shoot them...
...Wolf); a heroine battles a predator on the top of, on the side of and nearly under a speeding ambulance (In the Line of Duty 4); and at the end of a Yuen movie, nearly anyone is likely to catch on fire. Yuen revels in the Hong Kong rule: these are moving pictures. In one Yuen thriller, a policewoman somersaults through a suspect's window. Why? Because...