stuff-and-thangs-and-eclecticism:
when-did-this-become-difficult:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon- Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi
when you see hollywood action stars groaning about how hard their physical regime and stuntwork is, remember that asian movie stars have long been expected to act, sing, and fight with very little body-double work. (honestly, it makes hollywood’s tendency to cast asian roles with less qualified white actors even more infuriating – i’m look at you danny rand.)
while i’m here, check out one of zhang ziyi’s last fight scenes before she decided “fuck it, i’m not doing this again” (and who can blame her): the train sequence from the grandmaster.
THE TRAIN SEQUENCE FROM THE GRANDMASTER IS FUCKING POETRY
never not reblog that fight scene. it is one fucking masterful ride of a fight scene. (and so is the one from the grandmaster.)
That was so intense ohmygod