{"id":2288825,"date":"2026-02-19T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2288825"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:56:09","slug":"jet-li-and-wu-jing-speak-the-same-martial-arts-language-says-yuen-woo-ping-of-new-hong-kong-film-blades-of-the-guardians-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jet-li-and-wu-jing-speak-the-same-martial-arts-language-says-yuen-woo-ping-of-new-hong-kong-film-blades-of-the-guardians-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet Li and Wu Jing \u2018Speak the Same Martial Arts Language,\u2019 Says Yuen Woo-ping of New Hong Kong Film \u2018Blades of the Guardians\u2019 (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">When <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0950759\/\">Yuen Woo-ping<\/a> needed horses, he used real horses. When he needed desert landscapes, he shot in actual deserts. And when he needed actors who could perform Hong Kong-style wirework and martial arts sequences without relying on digital enhancement, he assembled a cast of wushu champions \u2014 led by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12696035\/\">Wu Jing<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001472\/\">Jet Li<\/a> \u2014 who could deliver the physical authenticity his vision for \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32649961\/\">Blades of the Guardians<\/a>\u201d required.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting shots in camera has always been my way of working,\u201d the director tells Variety. Yuen\u2019s influence on martial arts cinema spans decades, from choreographing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000329\/\">Jackie Chan<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080179\/\">Drunken Master<\/a>\u201d to defining the visual language of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0133093\/\">The Matrix<\/a>\u201d trilogy and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0190332\/\">Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/a>.\u201d For \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32649961\/\">Blades of the Guardians<\/a>,\u201d that meant returning to practical filmmaking methods. \u201cIn Hong Kong filmmaking, many stylistic choices were born from necessity and limitation. We invented wirework because we didn\u2019t have visual effects and that became&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Yuen Woo-ping needed horses, he used real horses. When he needed desert landscapes, he shot in actual deserts. And when he needed actors who could perform Hong Kong-style wirework and martial arts sequences without relying on digital enhancement, he assembled a cast of wushu champions \u2014 led by Wu Jing and Jet Li \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2288826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2288825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jet-Li-and-Wu-Jing-\u2018Speak-the-Same-Martial-Arts.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288827,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288825\/revisions\/2288827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}