Details about Ip Chun, Ip Man and the film by Wong Kar-Wai

08.02.2010EvilDollaR

After the success of last year's action movie "Ip Man" (Ip Man), a biographical film about the legendary and greatest teacher Wing Chun, as well as a mentor Bruce Lee, a wave of similar projects literally swept Hong Kong.

In this video we meet Sifu Ip Chun (Ye Zhun), the son and successor of none other than Ip Man himself. These days he is busy giving lessons at the modest headquarters of the Ving Tsun Athletic Association, located in Mong Kok and founded in 1967. Ip Chun prefers to regard Wing Chun as a health system rather than simply as a form of combat.

The energetic 84-year-old Ip Chun talks about Wing Chun and shares his thoughts on the future of martial arts in modern society.

Discussions about names

There was a lot of controversy associated with the original name “Ip Man”. Discussions began when director Wong Kar-Wai, during the filming of 2046, announced his plans to create his own Ip Man film starring Tony Leung Chu Wai. Wong wanted to make his own biopic of Ip Man called The Great Master, starring Leung as Ip (Leung, after Stephen Chow turned down the role, began training under Ip Chun, Ip Man's son). However, production, announced in 2004, has stalled. Producer Raymond Wong wanted to give his film the title “Grandmaster Yip Man”, which had a clear resemblance to the title of Wong Kar-Wai.

To settle the dispute, Raymond Wong publicly retracted the intended title, saying that the film was originally called “Ip Man,” but investors insisted that Yip Man was the greatest master of his time, so, in tribute to the teacher, the title had to be changed to “ Great Master Yip Man." It was later announced that Wong Kar-Wai's five-year rights to adapt the biography had ended and Mandarin Films had dropped the project. However, in a later interview, Raymond Wong admitted that work on “The Grand Master,” which chronicles Ip Man's life from the moment he left Foshan in Guangdong province for Hong Kong to spread Wing Chun, was ongoing.

Source: Wiki, Wu-Jing.org
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