The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.
There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.
I enjoy doing action a lot more because my films have a sense of violence. That's because I have a broad structure, and if I hit someone, it looks believable. Maybe my contemporaries are meeker-looking in comparison.
The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action pictures like the 'Once Upon a Time in China' series, where the fights have the eye-popping panache of dance sequences from a musical.
Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.
Doing fight scenes in movies is a lot different than in WWE, but it was still relatively easy.
As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.
The interesting thing about film fighting is that it's very different to the kind of fighting we do in pro wrestling.
Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.
