Member daisho2004 Posted June 5, 2010 Member Share Posted June 5, 2010 I'm trying to find this Sammo Hung movie where he plays his real life Kung Fu Master when Sammo was growing up. I cannot remember the name of the movie I thought it was Painted Faces but I was wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Morgoth Bauglir Posted June 5, 2010 Member Share Posted June 5, 2010 How do you know it isn't Painted Faces? If I'm remembering correctly he even calls one of the kids Sammo in the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member daisho2004 Posted June 5, 2010 Author Member Share Posted June 5, 2010 Morgoth: It is called Painted Faces I was getting it confused with Painted Skin that is a supernatural thriller. Amazon.com This engaging biopic is a fact-based story of three students from poor backgrounds who grew up as "martial brothers" at a draconian Peking Opera Academy in Hong Kong in the 1960s and early '70s. (Kids get their education free in exchange for a period of indentured servitude as novelty performers.) For 12 years the lads stoically endure the harsh training, feeling as painfully out of step at the height of the swinging '60s as military school cadets. In the meantime the staunchly traditional Peking Opera style has fallen out of favor with the public; only old men show up for the boys' flamboyant shows. The youths finally graduate with prodigious skills that the society no longer has any use for. In real life the story had a happy ending: the three pals applied their hard-earned training to stunt work in martial arts movies, eventually evolving into the HK movie superstars Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao, who often appeared together in movies like Chan's exhilarating Project A. The young actors who play the future stars are amazing simulacra for their adult counterparts, and Hung himself turns in a textured, complex portrayal of the school's harsh taskmaster, Sifu Yu. Cheng Pei-pei, the high-flying swordswoman in '60s King Hu flicks like Come Drink with Me, is Sammo's love interest, a teacher at a nearby girl's school. Painted Faces isn't gracefully constructed (it shifts focus from the students to their teacher halfway through), but it's neat to see where some of the defining characteristics of HK cinema came from: the showmanship and the risk-anything physicality. --David Chute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Morgoth Bauglir Posted June 5, 2010 Member Share Posted June 5, 2010 Easy mistake to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Space Posted June 8, 2010 Member Share Posted June 8, 2010 I finally watched this movie on YouTube, it was great, but are there any DVD versions? I've found used VHS only, for $30+, anyone got a version they can copy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Asmo Posted June 9, 2010 Moderator Share Posted June 9, 2010 It's only been released on vcd, vhs and laserdisc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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