Notes
A Song of Determination
“The Wong Fei-Hung Theme,” aka, “A Man of Determination,” might be the best known Chinese song outside the Chinese-speaking world. Here it is, in Cantonese, as the opening to Once Upon a Time in China, in George Lam Chi-Cheung’s music video and as karaoke for George Lam fans who read the Roman alphabet, as an instrumental opening to Story of Drunken Master (used again in Drunken Master 2, where Jackie Chan plays a young Wong Fei-Hung), and a version from the 1940s-60s Kwan Tak-Hing/Shih Kien Wong Fei-Hung films.
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Tagged as: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, Beggar So, Cantopop, Casanova Wong, China, film history, George Lam Chi-Cheung, Hong Kong, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Kim Yong-Ho, kung fu, Kwan Tak-Hing, martial arts, movies, music, Shih Kien, Simon Yuen Siu-Tien, soundtracks, Wong Fei-Hung, Yeung Pan-Pan
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Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
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