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The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action pictures like the 'Once Upon a Time in China' series, where the fights have the eye-popping panache of dance sequences from a musical.

— Elvis Mitchell

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✓Similar Perspectives

We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.

— Benedict Wong

Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.

— Daniel Wu

The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.

— Nick Frost

In the heat of the battle, it's always different than when you go back and look at it on film.

— Colin Kaepernick

Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

— Simon Pegg

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

— Andy Lau

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

— Donnie Yen

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

— Martin Scorsese

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

— Martin Scorsese

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.

— Harry Shearer