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What
inspired Sifu Waller to study taijiquan?
Sifu Waller watched David Carradine in the TV series Kung Fu in the early 1970's
and this prompted him to commence martial arts practice.
It also inspired an interest in the philosophical/spiritual side of training.
He later saw The Silent Flute and eventually the BBC documentary The Way of the
Warrior.
Films can affect you
Watching films can affect you in a positive way or a negative way.
Just like reading a book.
Your brain experiences the emotions of the film and records the memory of what
you have seen.
e.g. composure and courage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f81_F16rDlI
I have crossed the horizon to
find you
I know your name
They have stolen the heart from inside you
But this does not define you
This is not who you are
You know who you are
(Moana)
Martial arts movies?
People ask Sifu Waller what he thinks about martial arts movies.
This is a pointless question.
He is an instructor. He can do internal martial arts himself...
Why would Sifu Waller want to watch an actor?
Examples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGblsNXkJog&list=PLkhk5zAkm5jfajha2XFw72VheIYDKTGMR
Must see
We think that a teaching assistant/indoor student with our school should make an effort to watch these
movies:
300
The 13th Warrior
Blade
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Fountain
Highlander (1986)
Holy Man
I Love Huckabees
The Illusionist
The Karate Kid, the (part 1)
The Karate Kid, the (part 2)
Kubo and the Two Strings
Kung Fu TV series (pilot episode)
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Lost In Translation
The Matrix
Ramen Girl
Remo: unarmed and dangerous
The Silent Flute
Solaris (remake)
If you watch the films/clips they will help to create a richer sense of context for what you are exploring...
Movement art
Taijiquan is a movement
art.
As such it is essential to seek out examples of superlative body use.
Flashdance
Hello Dolly!
The Pyjama Game
Strictly Ballroom
It
doesn't matter whether you like the artists or even the movies.
Just watch how Cyd Charisse uses her legs.
Astonishing...
Broadcast TV
Sifu Waller and Rachel do not watch any
broadcast TV.
They do not even have an aerial.
They only purchase DVD films and occasionally box sets of TV series that appeal
to them.
The TV/DVD player is only switched on for a few hours a week...
Discriminating
When it comes to DVDs, we switch off anything that does not meet their
entertainment criteria.
We like to watch films that inspire, educate and unlift.
There are no depressing, sad, unpleasant movies on the list. Torture and tragedy
are not our forte.
Example DVDs
This sample of DVDs should provide some idea of what Sifu Waller and
Rachel find entertaining:
10 Things I Hate About You
12 Angry Men (1957)
27 Dresses
4400 (TV series)
10000 BC
Abraham Lincoln: vampire hunter
Adaptation
The Adjustment Bureau
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Aeon Flux (TV series)
The African Queen
Afro Samurai
Agatha Christie's Crooked House
The Age of Adaline
The Age of Innocence
Agent Carter (TV series) (season 1)
Airplane
Alita Battle Angel
Almost Famous
Always
Amelie
The American
America's Sweethearts
Anchors Aweigh
Animal House
Annie get your gun
Ant-Man
Apocalypse Now (original)
Aquaman
Arabian Nights (full version) (2000)
Arrival
Arthur and the Invisibles
As Good As It Gets
Atlantis (TV series) (season 1)
Atlantis The Lost Empire
Austenland
Avatar (Extended Collector's Edition)
Avengers Assemble
Avengers Infinity War
Avengers Endgame
The Awful Truth
Babylon 5 (TV series) (seasons 1-4)
Bad Santa
Batman Begins
Batman Versus Superman (Extended version)
Beat the devil
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Being John Malkovich
Being Julia
Ben-Hur
Best In Show
BFG
The Big Lebowski
The Big Sleep (1946)
Black Narcissus
Black Panther
Blade Runner (US theatrical release)
Blades of Glory
Blazing Saddles
Bleak House (TV series) (2005)
Blithe Spirit
The Blues Brothers
Bobby
Bolt
The Book of Eli
The Book of Life
Bored To Death (seasons 1 & 2)
The Boxtrolls
The Brass Teapot
Breakfast At Tiffany's
The Breakfast Club
Brother Bear
Bruce Almighty
Buffalo Soldiers
The Burb's (uncut)
Burlesque
Burn After Reading
Calamity Jane
The Campaign
Captain America
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain Marvel
Carnage
Carry On Nurse
Carry On Sergeant
Carry On Teacher
Casa de mi Padre
Casablanca
Cashback
The Cat Returns
Central Intelligence
Charade
Chasing Amy
Childhood's End (TV series)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chocolat
Chronicle
The Chronicles of Riddick
Christopher Robin
Cinderella
City of Ember
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cloud Atlas
Clueless
Coach Carter
Collateral
Coming to America
Conan the Barbarian (original)
Contact
Continuum (TV series)
Cousin Bette
Cowboy Bebop (TV series)
The Crow
Cry Baby
Dark City (Director's Cut)
The Dark Knight
Dark Shadows
Dave
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Day The Earth Stood Still (remake)
Deadpool
Defiance (TV series) (seasons 1 & 2)
The Descendants
Detroit Rock City
Dial M For Murder
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Grandpa
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
District 9
Doctor Strangelove
Dr Strange
Dracula (TV series) (2013)
Dune (1984)
Earth: Final Conflict (TV series) (season 1)
Easy Virtue
Edge of Tomorrow
El Cid
Election
Elektra
Elizabethtown
Elmer Gantry
Emma
Empire Records
The Empire Strikes Back
Enemy of the State
The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain
Enterprise (TV series) (seasons 1, 2, 4)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Euology
Evan Almighty
Evolution
The Family Man
Fantastic Mr Fox
Father Brown
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Fifth Element
Fight Club
Finding Forrester
The Fisher King
A Fistful of Dollars
The Flash (TV series) (season 1)
Flash Gordon
Folly to be Wise
For A Few Dollars More
For Love Or Money
Forbidden Planet
Frequency
The Frighteners
From the files of Police Squad (TV series)
Frozen
Fur
Futurama (TV series) (seasons 1 & 2)
Galaxy Quest
The Game
Garden State
Gattaca
Gentlemen prefer blondes
Geordie
Get Over It
Ghostbusters
Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past
The Girl Next Door
Gladiator (3 disk Extended Special Edition)
Gods of Egypt
The Golden Compass
The Good Catholic
The Good German
Good Night, And Good Luck
A Good Year
Gorky Park
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Grease
Great Expectations
The Green Man
Groundhog Day
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
A Guy Thing
The Guns of Navarone
The Guru
Hail, Ceasar
Hamlet
The Handmaiden
The Hangover (parts 1 & 2)
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
The Happiest days of Your Life
Harvey
Heartbreak Ridge
Hellboy (re-make)
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Her
Hercules (Dwayne Johnson)
He's Just Not That Into You
High Fidelity
High Plains Drifter
High-rise
The Hitcher
The Hobbit Trilogy (Special Extended Edition)
Holiday (original)
Hook
Hot Shots (parts 1 & 2)
Hotel Transylvania
The House with a Clock in its Walls
Housesitter
How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
How to marry a millionaire
How to murder your wife
How to Train Your Dragon (parts 1 & 2)
Howl's Moving Castle
Hulk
Human Nature
The Hundred foot journey
The Hunt for Red October
The Huntsman: Winter's War
I Robot
An Ideal Husband (remake)
The Importance of Being Earnest (original)
In the Heat of the Night
In Time
The Incredibles
Incredibles 2
An Inspector Calls
Into the woods
Intolerable Cruelty
The Iron Giant
Iron Man
Iron Sky (dictator's cut)
The Island
The Italian Job
It's A Wonderful Life
Jack the giant slayer
The Jane Austin Book Club
Jesus of Nazareth (TV series) (full version) (1977)
Joe Dirt
John Carter
Julie & Julia
The Jungle book, the
Jurassic World
Just go with it
Just Visiting
Kelly's Heroes
Kick-Ass
Kiki's Delivery Service
Kind hearts and coronets
The King's Speech
Kingsman
Kingsman 2 - The Golden Circle
A Knight's Tale
Kubo and the Two Strings
L A Confidential
The Ladykillers (remake)
Land of the lost
Laputa Castle In The Sky
The Last Castle
Last holiday
The Last Samurai
The Last station
The Last supper
The Last witch hunter
Laughter in paradise
Lawrence of Arabia
Laws of Attraction
Leap Year
Leatherheads
Left right and centre
Leon
The Life and death of Colonel Blimp
The Life Aquatic
Life of pi
Lincoln
Little Italy
The Little Prince
Little Shop of Horrors
Logan's Run
Lois & Clark (TV series) (season 1)
The Lorax
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Special Extended Edition)
The Lost Boys
Love and Friendship
Love's Labour's Lost
Lucky Number Slevin
Luis and the Aliens
Made of honour
The Magnificent Seven
Maid In Manhattan
Maleficent
Malice
The Maltese Falcon
The Man from Uncle (remake)
The Man in the white suit
Man of Steel
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Manchurian candidate (original)
Mannequin
Marnie
Mars Attacks
The Martian
Mary Poppins
The Mask of Zorro
The Mask
Mathilda
A Matter of life and death
Me, myself & irene
Mean girls
Meet Joe Black
Megamind
Memoirs of a Geisha
Men In Black
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
A Mighty Wind
Minority Report
Miss Minoes
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day
Miss Potter
Missing Link
Monkey Business
Monster in Law
Monsters
Monsters versus Aliens
Moon
Morituri
Mortal Engines
Mr Deeds goes to town (original)
Mr Holmes
Much Ado About Nothing
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy
Murder ahoy
Murder at the gallop
Murder most foul
Murder, she said
Mushi-shi (TV series)
The Musketeers (TV series) (season 1)
My Best Friend's Girl
My Fair Lady
My Neighbour Totoro
The Naked Gun
The Name of the Rose
Napoleon Dynamite
A New York Winter's Tale
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
North By North West
Not another teen movie
The Nutty Professor (remake)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Oblivion
Odyssey 5 (TV series)
Office Christmas Party
Office space
Old School
On the town
Orlando
Othello
Our idiot brother
Out of Sight
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Paint Your Wagon
Pale Rider
Pan
Pan Am TV Series
Parks & Recreation (TV series) (seasons 1-6)
A Passage To India
Passengers
Payback
Pecker
Perfume
Pete's Dragon (remake)
The Piano
The Picture of dorian gray
The Pink Panther (original)
Planet of the Apes (original)
Pleasantville
Populaire
Porco Rosso
Powder
Predator
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
The Princess and the Frog
The Producers (original)
The Quick and the Dead
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window (original)
Red riding hood
The Red Violin
Rise of the Guardians
Rising Sun
Road Trip
Robocop (original)
Roman Holiday
Rome (TV series) (season 1)
Ronin
A Room With A View
Roxanne
A Royal Night Out
The Royal Tenenbaum's
Rushmore
Salmon fishing in the Yemen
School for scoundrels
The Secret Life of Pets
The Secret life of Walter Mitty (remake)
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Sense and Sensibility
Serendipity
Serial Mom
Seven brides for seven brothers
The seven year itch
The Seventh Seal
Sex drive
Sex, Lies and Videotape
The Shadow
Shazam!
She's Having A Baby
Sherlock Holmes TV series (Jeremy Brett)
Shoot 'Em Up
A Shot in The Dark
Sideways
Silk Stockings
Sin City
Sin City 2
Singin in the rain
Sirens
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sky High
Sleepy Hollow
Sleuth (original)
Smart People
The Social Network
Some Kind of Wonderful
Son of Rambow
The Sound of Music
Spartacus
Spider-man Homecoming
The Spirit
Spirited Away
Stage fright
Stand By Me
Star Trek (TV series) (seasons 1 & 2)
Star Trek - Deep Space Nine (TV series)
Star Trek - Voyager (TV series)
Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek 3 The Search for Spock
Star Trek 4 The Voyage Home
Star Wars
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series) (2003)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series) (2008)
Star Wars: Rebels (TV series)
Stargate SG-1 (TV series)
Starman
Starship Troopers
The Stepford Wives (remake)
Stoker
The Storyteller TV Series
Strangers On A Train
Submarine
Suburgatory TV Series
Supergirl TV series (season 1)
Surrogates
Sweet Home Alabama
Tales From Earthsea
Tarzan (Disney)
Teacher's Pet
Ted
The Ten Commandments
The Terminal
They Live
The Thomas Crown Affair (remake)
Thor
Thor: Dark World
Thor: Ragnarok
To Catch A Thief
To Die For
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tombstone
Tomorrowland
Total Recall (original)
Trading Places
The Trouble With Harry
Troy (Director's Cut)
True Grit (original)
The Truman Show
Trumbo
Two Mules for Sister Sarah
The Ugly Truth
Unbreakable
Unforgiven
The Usual Suspects
Van Helsing
Vertigo
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viva Las Vegas
Wag the Dog
Warm bodies
Watchmen (Ultimate Cut)
The Waterboy
The Wedding Planner
Weird science
We're No Angels (original)
Westworld (movie)
Where Eagles Dare
Wild Wild West
Wimbledon
The Wisdom of Crocodiles
The Witches of Eastwick
The Witches
Without A Clue
Wonder Woman
Wonderboys
The X-Files (TV series) (seasons 1-8)
X-Men: First Class
You can't take it with you
You Don't Mess With The Zohan
The Young Messiah
The Young Victoria
Your highness
Youth
Zombieland
Zootropolis
You will notice the lack of martial arts movies?
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18 April 1995
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