Need help on martial arts film triva

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I’m trying to put together one of those lame “X obscure triva facts you didn’t know about Y” for martial arts films. I’m pretty sure about these but if you could help fact check me that would be great.

  1. Catwoman 2003: While known for starting the trope “the Catwoman effect,” it is also one of the few Hollywood movies up to that point that featured capoeria, other than than The Mighty Quinn, Only the Strong, and Kickboxer 4.

  2. Of the real international martial arts champions who successfully made Hollywood films, the most successful is Jean Claude Van Damme.

2a. The next most successful would be Don “the Dragon” Wilson, Steven Seagal, and Cynthia Rothrock, in that order.

  1. There are no known martial arts today that originated in the US.

(part 2 coming soon after I wallk my mom’s chihuahua from hell.)

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    1. The Belgian kickboxer, Michael Qissi, in Bloodsport was a childhood friend of Van Damme, and they came to America together to star in action films. He would later go on to play Tong Po in the Kickboxer franchise.

My question: In Belgian-ese, how do you pronounce “Qissi?”

Question 2: What do you call your language in Belgium, in American-ese?

Thanks in advance.

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  1. I can’t think of another film that shows Capoeira, however, it was shown in an episode of the original Kung Fu series.

  2. What do you mean by most successful? As martial artists or as film makers? And what do you consider an international champion?

  3. I don’t know what you mean. There are American styles of boxing, wrestling, and other sports. Modern MMA is an American invention. Who decides what is and is not a martial art?

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  1. That would rock actually, got a season/ep?

  2. Not regional; world championships or olympics, e.g. Kurt Angle

  3. If you break it down, all US forms are derivatives of other forms. I tried tracking down boxing (GB), snipers (europe) and wrestling (greece).

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This came up randomly: In the west, we say Vincent Van Gogh as “go”, I learned it as “gochkk.” Today somebody posted it as “goff.”

WE NEED YOUR HELP BELGIUM!

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Maybe Barbary Housewhen he goes to work as a prizefighter. But I may not have this right, it’s been 40 years since then. I don’t know if Capoeira was named there, I think I put it together years later and I don’t recall if I ever verified it.

What international martial arts championships did JCVD hold?

That’s a meaningless statement. All forms of hand to hand combat and the use of weapons arose everywhere in the world that humans were.

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Op 5: The first film that Jackie Chan died in, as a hero, not as a fantasy, stunt man or dream, was Myth (2005).

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Wow. Ok, start with JVCD’s wiki page. That dude kicked serious ass in european kickboxing. From this point forward, I’m treating you like an adviceAnimal from reddit who doesn’t know how to use google before giving sass. For your second comment, i’m going to treat you like an imgur user who doesn’t know they’re reposting a well-known meme.

^^ meme fight. The last US martial art.

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You’re new here. You have to back up your claims, I don’t have to do the work for you.

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It’s pretty obvious from my posts above this isn’t my first international hollywood/shaw brothers martial arts trivia road show.

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I’d love it if you could, but so far you can’t. All i see is Kaine hitting his exercise sandbag.

Ps. What happens in Tarabon stays in Tarabon.

PPS. Man, I’d love to be an adviceAnimal. :frowning:

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Have fun with your short stay here.

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Dude, I got intellectual gold up there. If you think questions like these are grade B, you’re stay is definitely shorter than mine. These questions can’t be answered on the 2nd or even 3rd random goog search

The international martial arts Hollywood film questions just got realz.

Ps. I left “you’re” up there when I knew it was wrong because I’m grammar realz.

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I’m sorry:

A. Does asking questions require a PhD, and

B. How do you know i’m a Dope Virgin?

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Sorry for the delay, I was having problems with uPdog.

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Op 6: Kurt Angle (Warrior) and Mike Tyson (The Hangover) are the only Olympic gold medal winners to appear in a profitable film.
7. Jet Li only won awards in forms, not freestyle sparring, before he started his movie career.

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  1. Bruce Lee only starred in 4.5 films before his death. His last film, Game of Death, was not completed.
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No, let’s take Haka, the indiginous martial arts of the Hawaiian people. It is related to the haka of the New Zeland native peoples as well as the Samoan, but is not USA because they started it before the US claimed Polynesian territory, in the same way Filipinos took out marines in the 1800’s with escrima.

Look, I’m here for info. Level 7 info. If you don’t got it, i’d appreciate it if you kept out of my threads.

drops mike

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Above makes me wonder though, if a black belt Eskimo in Eskimo-ate wanted to kill you, would they beat you to death like a baby seal or skin you and eat your fat?

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This one is going to be rough, considering inflation: The only champion martial artist who achieved cinema success (Van Damme) is dwarfed by actors pretending to be martial artists. (Sylvester Stallone, Will Smith, Keanu Reeves, Jack Black, etc.)

This one is on the urban legend line: Bruce Lee was actually born an American, from his father’s side. When he was 18, he had to go America to claim it.