Growing up, Brad developed an innate love of movies and storytelling, and was instantly enamored with the world of adventure while following the exploits of Indiana Jones, Japanese kaiju, and superheroes. In the end, The Forbidden Kingdom would ultimately stand as a fantastical kung fu fable with Jackie Chan and Jet Li joining forces for the first (and to date only) time. The unutilized idea of Li playing Jason's sifu in the contemporary Boston setting is fascinating to look back on in how it would've altered the movie's story.
Since its release, The Forbidden Kingdom remains a timeless and action-packed adventure of a teenager living his dream of mastering kung fu, as well as a highlight of Jet Li's English-language movies. Though Chan and Li's characters Lu Yang and Silent Monk are allies guiding Jason through his training and adventure, The Forbidden Kingdom also delivered the pair's first on-screen fight, much to the delight of martial arts fans around the world.
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As Fusco mentions on the commentary, Chan and Li's involvement came about due to the then-unfulfilled desire by millions to see the two in a movie together. There's no sanctimoniousness or even self-awareness to it Clement got it down and it came out right.The Forbidden Kingdom was based by Fusco on a martial arts story created and told to his young son, which he then hit upon turning into a screenplay. Remarkable performances from the two children. It comes vividly to life, and as an evocation of childhood is up there with Selznick's Tom Sawyer and "Spirit of the Beehive". Their every movement is bursting with rough humour and vitality and we are being shown something interesting in every frame. The father has a hilarious running feud with his neighbour the daughter is having an illicit affair with the neighbour's son the elder son succumbs to a tragi-comic demise after an innocuous accident the second is a good-natured hick and the youngest boy gets clouted by his father at every turn ("Take that!", says the father as he smacks him across the head ".and that!" says his sister as she plonks some flowers into his hand). When they start pinching crosses from the real cemetery though, they are in for it. There's nothing macabre or sinister about this, nor (as the blurbs maintain) is it particularly a statement about the effect of war on children - it's simply the sort of thing kids might do. She becomes attached to the boy at the farm and they start to expand her dog's grave into a little cemetery of dead animals. A little girl, whose parents are killed in an air-raid at the beginning, wanders into a nearby farm clutching her dead dog and is taken in. This must be one of the best examples of poetic realism much better than any Renoir you'll see it's alive and humane, comprising a hundred little iconic cinema moments and several major ones. Wonderfully wry, ribald, and ironic look at children, life, and death in the provinces.
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