Mar 10
Masked Avengers (1981)
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Masked Avengers (1981)
I put together some Lo Mang and Kuo Chui duo/not-duo clips🐸🦎ft. Chiang Sheng. Obviously there is limited content to use on youtube, so sad
Who's your favorite Venom?
Five Deadly Venoms (1978)
I thought I would provide some insight into how things worked behind the scenes on Venoms films when it came to action sequences. All of the following information was taken from interviews.
Kuo Chui, Chiang Sheng, and Lu Feng would typically meet with Chang Cheh on set to discuss things before shooting. Then, they would get to plan out the action sequences and shoot the move sets of three people together (as the interview put it). The three of them decided how many people were in the move set since there could be anywhere from 2 to 3 people or more in a sequence. Having more than 3 people was the hardest thing to complete since you had to have more maneuvers. Chang Cheh left it entirely up to them when it came to making decisions like that.
Before shooting sessions, they would meet to talk about the general direction of a sequence. Lu Feng gave these examples: how many people hit him; who was the last to get killed; or how his character died. He said the length of time given to the middle portion of the fights all takes a lot of time. Kuo Chui estimated that a large-scale fight could take 7 days minimum. When it came to final fight scenes, they could take up to 10 to 14 days total!
The pictures above are from a video that showed them filming behind the scenes of Masked Avengers (1981).
- Mod Fox
The Venom Mob
[from left to right] Kuo Choi, Lo Mang, Chiang Sheng, Lu Feng, and sitting is Chang Cheh himself.
Some edits I made of Chin Siu-Ho, Kuo Chui, and Lu Feng!!
Tony Leung and Philip Kwok in Hard Boiled (1992)
Fun fact: Philip Kwok played The Lizard in Five Deadly Venoms.
Fun fact: Kuo Chui said the scenes with the dirty water were the hardest thing he had to do while filming Marco Polo. He said being in water made it more difficult to do somersaults/flips, but he was able to get used to it eventually!
I absolutely adore this scene. I could watch it on loop.