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Accented Cinema – Episode 120
I’ve always believed that this film is better than Kung Fu Hustle. A love letter to friends is better than a love letter to other movies.
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Thanks for this! I caught a few of the references, but as a westerner who has only seen a few of the previous films, and has pretty much no knowledge of things like Mandarin language with accents, those were lost on me until you shined the light!
And Uncle Tat definitely deserved the spotlight. He's truly an incredible actor. RIP.
Great video, the movie makes so much more sense now.
I don't speak the language, don't know anything about the culture let alone to read between the lines but Stephen Chow is always a legend is my eyes
Bruh, I love this movie. A friend of mine back in highschool had a copy and we passed it around. classic!
Woah the floating duet reference threw me off. That was really clever how he put it in.
New movie? Is it a remake or continuous????
I loved this movie as a kid. I need to watch it again as an adult
I grew up in africa(Rwanda)and i'm always surprised by how many refernces we get in common with the people outside the western influence, kungfu movies, bollywood, nolllywood so many things i couldn't find someone to discuss with when i first got to live in belgium,,,, any who all this to say thank you for your channel not only do i get the refferences i didn't get at the time i get free bonus nostalgia trip
theyre making a new movie??
There is only one thing better in the world that can make you enjoy a Stephen Chow film even more , and that is the stunning analysis by AccentedCinema of a Stephen Chow film! 😋👏
I think this was my introduction to Chinese films, ofc as a Chinese person, I would eventually watch Chinese film, but when I first watched this, it immediately became one of those movies that could never be replicated.
Ive watched stephen chow movies more so of Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle even though some of the jokes flew over my head as a kid even still do, it's still something i and my siblings always rewatch and never get tired of it
Your video feels like a journey.
11:24 😮
sadly Stephen and Ng's relationship went sour after this movie and they don't collaborate anymore since then
Eeeh… the kick reference wasn't the Matrix, but rather the Japanese Anime, Captain Tsubasa and his "Miracle Drive Shoot"… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op6bIiDeqUU
can't wait for Kung Fu Hustle 2.
I am a fan of shaolin soccer, for me a comedy gem .i am not the biggest comedy fan but comedy fans must know this film.
We used to watch this everyday on my neighbor’s dvd player because they’ve got a hold of a copy.
RIP Uncle Ng Man Tat. The best dynamic duo of all time.
"With a new Xiaolin Soccer film in development"…Excuse me WHAT?? Where did you hear this?. I need PROOF NOW!!!
It's really neat learning the inside scoop and cultural references that I would've never understood on my own. Thanks for deepening my appreciation for a classic!
oh man i cracked up when I saw the subtitles for the singing part heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, I'm dead
this movie was monumental to me in childhood. and brought me to venture into loving Kung Pow , Kung Fu Hustle and the Slapstick Spaghetti Shaolin Genre
WELL DONE! this has been one of my favorite movies growing-up in the Philippines! 🙂 My siblings and I would recreate the scenes.
You are spot on about Man Tat. Like you I have grown up watching Stephen Chow comedies and always seen them together. At the end of Shaolin Soccer, when the trophy was presented, I didn't see them as characters of the film, but as real life comrades.
百年周星驰
The best Anime Adaptation movie that never was.
they used the music from a really old hong kong wuxia movie called 如來神掌(上集) (1964), or Buddha's Palm. Also there are so many references to Louis Cha novels its hard to keep track
1:10 WTF? A new Shaolin Soccer movie in the making? Cool!
You know why I like Stephen Chow movies? Because you see an ever rereading cast. It is just like watching a Monty Python movie or one of those Spoof movies. Its the same guys making another cool and interesting movie.
Do you know much about Itami Juzo 伊丹十三 from Japan? Hilarious social satire. Are Chow's early movies like that?
You've added so much to my understanding of this great film. 感謝感謝
One of the best movies of my childhood hands down.
Great stuff – I can't believe I didn't notice the God of Cookery line 😀
thanks for single-handedly carrying the Chinese film community in English. Really easy for someone with Chinese ethnicity but bad Chinese to understand Chinese films and media.
Thank you so much for this. I'd LOVE the same kind of video on Kung Fu hustle <3
And thank u so much… this video made my day.