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Both the Man of Tai Weibo site and ent.cn.yahoo have released movie stills of various fight scenes with Chen Hu and some of his opponents.
You can view the individual photos here. Thanks to the MOTC weibo site for sharing the photos on their site.
Update: Ent.southcn has a post up that talks about this batch of movie stills.
I am not familiar with martial arts and some of the terms used for it. The best I can do is give you the gist of the translation. Both the google and bing translators give an incredible alphabet soup some of which everyone’s guess is as good as mine. No copyright infringement is intended.
Keanu Reeves’ directorial debut Man of Tai Chi will be released this summer in theaters through the country (China). There are reports that Chen Hu will play the ‘son of Tai Chi’ and will have many fight scenes including 18 fighting matches that account for nearly 30 min. of the film. The son of the ‘Tai Chi’ will face different martial art experts from all over the world, each who use a different form of martial arts.
Director Keanu Reeves showcases Tai Chi martial arts and Chen Hu’s expertise is highlighted in the film. It is reported that martial art experts in taekwondo, karate and Sanda, Brazil Jujitsu and other martial arts will appear in the film. They will use flips, flying kick, wrestling, exhaustive downward moves, and other techniques to try and defeat the son of ‘Tai Chi’. Additionally, Mr. reeves was successful in snaring martial arts experts from all races to culminate a final martial arts competition. Chen Hu, who deals with these multiple challenges from these martial arts experts smoothly. In the interview, Keanu praised Chen Hu’s performance saying that he is vibrant and domineering.
With respect to the movie’s martial arts, Yuen Woo-ping said, “the essence of Kung Fu is strong and when it is used for different purposes, the results are not the same. In this case, Chen Hu participated in Tai Chi in the black underground fighting environment led him astray.”
The article is here.
Photos are in the gallery.