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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 3064251" data-attributes="member: 9213">I also think that fighting the fighters of different nationalities is a staple in martial arts films quite frankly. I mean the same thing is done at the end of Game of Death, and most recently in Tom Yun Goong w/ Tony Jaa. Heck, look at all of the fighting video games for petes sake. Tekken, Virtua Fighter, I even think that Dhalsim uses the East Indian fighter from Master of the Flying Guillotine as it's template. Anyway I way trying to avoid commenting on the whole "evil foreigners" thing. I think it's really kind of silly being that there are fair amount of US made action movies use the evil foreigners idea especially the british villian. You know Rocky IV (Russian), Die Hard (European), Marked for Death (Jamaican) and the list can go on an on and on if I bother to go digging and not use the examples off the top of my head. Like I said before I saw this movie several months ago and watched it again a few weeks ago and the entire conflict with the foreign chamber of of commerce takes place via flash forward in the first 5 - 10 min of the movie and then the last 30 min of the movie. If the movie has a real antagonist it's Yuan jia huo HIMSELF. He sees some thing happen as a child that molds him into a not so nice adult. For a large portion of the film he's his worst enemy until he's forced to take a good look at himself and what he means to his friends and country men. The other thing to consider is how films are marketed and sold, we've sent more than our share of jingoistic action movies over seas and relied on the universal theme of mindless violence to sell tickets. To be annoyed that a movie made by the chinese mainly,for a chinese audience is a little..well I dont know what it is, but it seems a little strange. I'm a black man born in brooklyn NY and grew up watching predominately white heroes (until I discovered Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan in the early 70's) save the world for most of my life. So I really dont see what the problem is here.But hey maybe it's just me...</blockquote>

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