Briefly.
Budget: $52,000,000
Box Office: $176,345,966
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Production: China, Hong Kong
Premiere: December 19, 2019
Directed by: Wilson Yip
Screenplay: Edmond Wong, Chan Tai-Li
Facts.
1.
While actor Chris Collins plays an American sea karate champion in the film, who surpassed Yip Man’s Wing Chun master, in real life Collins is a Wing Chun student of Grandmaster Lung Ting, one of Yip Man’s real senior students.
2.
The film broke the box office by 100 million yuan in China on its first day of release, topping the total for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which opens in China on the same day.
3.
During the fight in the alleyway, Mark Strange performs a backward jumping kick against a solid door to show off his skills. This gets the answer “Doors don’t bite back, but I do” from Bruce Lee, referencing the memorable “Lee’s boards don’t recline” quote from ENTER THE DRAGON. Not only that, but if you look closely at Mark Strange, he bears more than a passing resemblance to Robert Wall, who plays the character in ENTER THE DRAGON that Lee makes a statement to.RELATED:
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4.
When Frater calls his student Mr. Kreese, it is a nod to the bad guy Kreese in the Karate Kid series.
5.
Donnie Yen has officially played the IP MAN character 4 times but played a lighthearted take on the character in the comedy GOLDEN CHICKEN 2 where he dons an outfit that sported IP MAN’s image of Tony Lung in THE GRANDMASTER but originally played IP MAN in an abandoned project alongside Steven Chow Sing-Chi from Kung Fu Hustle, who started filming in the mid-1990s but exploded after a few days of filming.
6.
The film reunites Scott Adkins with choreographer Yuen Wooping for the third time, having previously worked together on BLACK MASK 2: CITY OF MASKS, and DANNY THE DOG/UNLEASHED starring Jet Li.
7.
Donnie Yen was 56 years old when the film was released; The real Ip Man has died at the age of 79.
8.
As shown in the ending scene, the real Yip Man asked his “Díchuán” (the official heir/lineage of the master/martial arts sect) to film himself demonstrating his Wing Chun techniques, including the wooden dummy forms. Although he was in pain and physically weak due to health complications, his sincere desire to insist on speaking in order to maintain an archival track record in order to pass on his teaching firsthand and pass it on to posterity. It was filmed in 1972 just 2 weeks before he passed away from throat cancer. A clear video of this rare footage is available on YouTube posted by Samuel Kwok, a Wing Chun master with pedigree under the Ipa Man branch. Kwok was authorized to publish it on the Internet, granted through Yip Man’s two sons and his “Sifu” (teacher/master), Ip Ching and Ip Chun.
9.
Chris Collins, who plays US Marine Sargeant Colin Frater, who claims that the film’s plot of a Marine trying to introduce Wing Chun to the US military is based on his life and time in the Marine Corps, often spoke about his various combat missions, assignments, and about being “stabbed, shot and blown up” while serving his country, was expelled by @stolenvalor_thetruth in late December for a series of false claims about his time in the military, being revealed as having served only 6 months as a radio operator and never I’ve seen Combat that is at odds with everything he talks about in various interviews.
10.
When the IP man comes home, the thermostat make – wakson – of course, another reference to the karate kid
11.
The only Ip Man film in the franchise in which Ip only fought the main antagonist in the final fight scene without speaking to him for the entire film.
12.
While this film is centered around the style of Wing Chun and Bruce Lee, who were previous students of Ip Man, Lee eventually abandoned the style after his infamous “secret underground” fight against Wong Jack Man in 1964. As in this film, the Chinese martial arts community was unhappy that Li was teaching Wing Chun to non-Chinese students and flew to Wong Jack Man to challenge Li to a “combat” to determine if Li could be allowed to continue teaching. After the fight, Lee came to the conclusion that Wing Chun had limitations and sought to create his own style called Jeet Kune Do (Way of the Fist Interceptor). This is why Lee’s fighting style in the karate scene is markedly different (for example, his footwork takes it from American boxing rather than the classic Wing Chun fixed triangle stance).RELATED:
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13.
In many ways, the character of Master Wang (played by Yue Wu) in this film mirrors that of Master Hung (played by Sammo Hung) in Ip Man 2, in terms of their roles, outcomes, and relationship with Ip Man in their respective films. Both were minor characters in relation to the main role of Ip Man; both were leaders in their respective local associations; Ip Man also started off on the wrong foot with both of them, but eventually earned their respect due to his strong values; Yip Man dueled both of them, and both duels ended in draws; and Finally, both also battled the main antagonist of their films and lost. The only difference was that Master Hang’s defeat was fatal, while Master Wang’s was not.Cast:
- Donnie Yen as Ip Man (葉問)
- Wu Yue as Wan Zonghua (萬宗華),
- Vanness Wu as “Van Ness”)
- Scott Adkins as Barton Geddes
- Kent Cheng as Fat Bo (肥波),
- Danny Chan as Bruce Lee (李小龍)
- Simon Shiyamba as Billy
- Ngo Ka-nin as Liang Gen (梁根)
- Vanda Margraf as Yonah Wan (萬若男),
- Ye He as Ip Ching (葉正)
- Lo Mang as Law Chun-ting (羅駿霆),
- Grace Englert as Becky Walters,
- Andrew Lane as Andrew Walters
- Nicola Stuard Hill as Gabrielle Walters,
- Linda Jean Barry as School principal.
- Mark Strange as Karate champion
- Dbo Funds as Rapper