The Beginning
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" It all started back in 1992 when my best friend and I met at least three times a week to watch our favorite Kung Fu Movies. My generation grew up watching Kung Fu Theater on Saturday mornings. The stories we watched was Chinese movies that had the English voice over so that an American audience could enjoy them. The movies were old and dated and poor quality but what we got out of them spoke volumes. During a discussion about up to date kung fu movies coming out is when we sparked the idea. How bout making a movie in which the old school kung fu we love could be featured in it. My friend was excited. I suggested we do something different something never thought of. So the seed was planted in my mind and I went to the library everyday to research Kung Fu and Chinese mythology what I discovered was a rich culture in which we could frame our idea. I discovered all the things that a martial artist could actually achieve threw conditioning and practice. For example you can actually walk a wall by placing a board against a structure at an angle then progress the incline of the board till the board is no longer required. Or with enough practice walking on rice paper you can walk across sand and grass without leaving footprints. And with my vivid imagination I came up with the world of Deadly Forms. This was before Blade became the first successful Marvel Comics adaptation into a live action movie. Which paved the way for X-men then Spiderman. Before Jurassic Park changed the game on computer generation. Before Lords of the Ring when it was too hard to create a world or the creatures in it that you could only read about J.R.R. Tolken's creation. (I'm still waiting for Peter Jackson to do The Hobbit.) Before The Matrix and before Kill Bill. The story that I would envision would not be possible until technology could perhaps make it possible. Deadly forms is not the only book or story that I want to do. It is the start of something bigger that hopefully will grow. The message behind Deadly forms is that if you believe then anything is possible. I decide to take a leap of faith and turn my dream into a reality. By far this is the hardest challenge that I have partaken. |