How Wong Fei-hung Defeated the Tiger on the Opera Stage
Dir: Wu Pang The rapport between martial arts and regional opera is vividly animated in this film. Kwan Tak-hing, the actor who personifies the legendary Wong Fei-hung in dozens of movies, was an opera star before he became an even bigger star on screen, and one of his famous stage roles was the tiger-taming hero Wu Song. The ‘Tiger' in the film's title can be the beast in the legendary tale or the film's villain, a town bully named Flying Tiger, as always played by the wonderful and always villain-ready Sek Kin. Having Wong defeat it/him on stage is therefore a multi-dimensional self-reflexive wink at the audience. The film also features an amusing double-take of the lion's dance, first performed as horseplay, then in the most serious and demanding fashion. |
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This version of the film was copied from an incomplete 35mm print. To present the film as complete as we could, scenes from a 16mm print were added, resulting in differences in image quality.
| Date | Rescheduled Date | Venue |
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| 2/8/2020 (Sun) (2pm) | Rescheduled to 2/5/2021 (Sun) (2pm) | Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive |
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