"I didn't understand back then. Why? We've been shooting films for so many years, I've been teaching as well as training in martial arts for 20 to 30 years, yet I was still required to go there for training." says the puzzled Xu Xiang Dong
"I've been training in martial arts in Beijing since the age of 7, the director kept asking what I had been learning. He told me where the faults of my moves were, admonished me for clenching my fists too tight, for keeping my legs too straight... He kept telling me all these." says Xie Miao.
Owing to his strictness and demands, director Tsui Siu Ming, who is a practitioner of Praying Mantis Boxing, earned himself the nickname of devil coach. Tsui Siu Ming sees this as a compliment: "I felt it an honour. For, this is a way to honour someone." Movie Report
Duo Biao is in post-production right now and Tsui Siu Ming is taking pains to ensure that the fights are shown in unadulterated form. Tsui Siu Ming believes that the audience's love for wushu movies lies in wushu per se, and exhilarating wushu is not represented by trickeries or rapid editing. So, the editing must let the audience witness the realism of wushu, rather than often abused modern techniques. NetEase