![]() I mean, Shang-Chi himself is based on Bruce Lee, so beyond being a fictional superhero version of him, what else can be expected? ![]() Before they were popularised in Hollywood, these styles were rife and synonymous with Asian action films. The creators of the film were inspired by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Jackie Chan fight sequences, and from the short trailer these inspirations are evident, but again, not new to anybody. The problem with this though, especially when Shang-Chi’s main superhuman abilities are “master martial artist” and “master of chi” and not much else, is that these are concepts seen time and time again by many. But mix that with the exhilarating and top-notch visual effects and technology the MCU is famed for (that China, as mentioned when reviewing Vanguard, is not) and the modern-day Western world backdrop in some scenes, and you’ve got a big slice of Eastern culture thrown out there for Western audiences to lap up. Visually, it looks like Shang-Chi draws on the traditional martial arts and wuxia films that are so popular but plentiful in Asian cinema. The premise of the film is that it will tell the story of Shang-Chi, living his life in the States with a past that for the last ten years he has tried to separate himself from but must now face a choice – embrace the past to let it become his future or endanger his life by cutting himself off for good and fighting against it? This is certainly the feeling many Black Panther fans had. What the Asian (predominantly the Chinese) community are more excited about is the fact there is finally a superhero that looks like them and one they can, on some level, hopefully relate to, particularly the younger audiences. But that’s not the main point I’ll be discussing in this post. ![]() Upon first impressions, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings looks to have all the right makings of a great, action-packed, and dramatic thriller of a superhero film (with nods to Kill Bill and a familiar-looking rehashed fight sequence lifted from Captain Marvel, plus the fact the idea behind the “Ten Rings” sounds quite similar to Thanos and the Infinity Stones).
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