I was doing a little “research” for a Father’s Day “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” column, and when you have a dad like mine (he had his own kung fu school for a while, and one of my favorite things is a picture of him breaking a cinderblock with his fist), that “research” means watching old kung fu movies on YouTube. And that kind of research leads inevitably to this, from the 1978 classic Eagle’s Claw
That’s sort exactly what I need in my life right now — so much so that I learned to make animated gifs from YouTube videos just so I could post this. It’s a skill that will no doubt come in handy should I want to waste time in the future.
I think I remember watching this movie with my dad. There’s a scene where the Praying Mantis sifu, a classic kung fu movie villain with long white hair and beard, is meditating on a bed of nails, and it is very familiar to me. It’s probable I did see this with him — we watched kung fu movies together a lot when I was little, and this would have been one I liked, since it has a couple of women who show off kung fu moves while wearing pretty outfits.
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