The Proud Youth
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
Sombre, kinetic, measured wuxia / shaw-brothers, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Sun Chung had made a name for himself directing satirical comedies and modern day crime thrillers when he started exploring the kung-fu genre with this fascinating tale which mixes music and martial arts. Revered choreographer Tang Chia leads a great action cast in a tale of conflicting clans and a mysterious song called "The Proud One" which leads to slowly blossoming love as well as sudden death.
Our read · The Proud Youth (1978) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive wuxia · shaw-brothers · jin-yong entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The Proud Youth
What watching it is actually like.
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