Jonah Jeng
@JonahJeng
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Contour is one of my favorite martial arts movies...plus the late Dennis Ruel put on a kicking clinic here. He had another fight against dudes with baseball bats which was one of the greatest displays of Hapkido I've seen in film
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Jacobus and Ruel’s timing and chemistry is absolutely amazing and have given us some amazing fight scenes over the years that harken back to 80s and 90s HK cinema! Must see stuff for action movie fans!!
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@JonahJeng That's me in the black hoodie in Ed's fight. We were watching a lot of Lau Ka-Leung movies at the time, so it made sense for the American warehouse thugs to know praying mantis and choy li fut
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Pure fucking magic whenever Jacobus squares off against Dennis Ruel.
Eric was sending me dailies every night from the set while I was living in Boston. For this fight I said “this fight needs to end on ONE clever move” (without offering any actual idea lol). two days later @theericjacobus IM’d me and all he said was “Ed got it” and boy did he.
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action columnist extraordinaire @JonahJeng makes his debut in @FilmmakerMag , writing on Eric Jacobus, who imparted a Hong Kong sensibility to DIY DV movies in the 00s, just before the dawn of YouTube:
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"Twenty years ago, a movie filmed for a couple thousand bucks in the Bay Area delivered action sequences that left most Hollywood offerings in the dust."
Read @JonahJeng 's appreciation of CONTOUR, Eric Jacobus's low-budget action masterpiece:
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Read Jonah’s great piece and then come see @theericjacobus’ new opus, BAG LADY on the big screen August 23rd.
Don’t think Ferrara would approve, but Bad Lieutenant becoming an auteur anthology is pretty sick imo
Kenji Tanigaki posted two days ago a sick previz montage for The Furious on his insta stories which some chinese user on bilibili saved.
You get a glimpse of some changes from the movie. For example they cut down a whole bit from the beginning of Joe vs Xie involving shirt judo.
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Thinking about this shot from SHE SHOOTS STRAIGHT again
this shot sends electricity through my body everytime i see it
LAST HURRAH FOR CHIVALRY (John Woo, 1979)
Martial Arts Choreographer: Fung Hak-On
“I’ll take care of it…”
I was hooting and hollering when this happened. That’s the good shit.
This piece put together by @JonahJeng should be getting more love. A great summary on Kensuke and some film recommendations on top of that.
Joe Taslim fights his brother, Peter Taslim, in HIT & RUN (2019)
Finding the pocket #TheFurious# #Paklung# Exclusive bts Joey Iwanaga
FINALLY!! New HiGH&LOW movie, coming 2027!
@MrDrippy6 This hammer shit ain’t new to him 😅
