“The cameraman didn’t really know what was going to happen in the shot.
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“It’s how he made the movie - the fact that he wanted to have something like a documentary,” says Layani. It’s a nightmarish reimagining of Chang Cheh’s 1967 movie The One-Armed Swordsman that takes a different, notably improvisatory approach to story and action, which is precisely why Layani likes it so much. The Blade (1995)Ĭonsidered a classic of Chinese martial arts cinema, Layani describes this as his “favorite” from the Tsui Hark archives. It’s tempting to think of video games as only ever being influenced by films, and not vice versa, but titles like The Raid and now Sifu show a much more symbiotic relationship between the two mediums - each one pushing the other to ever-more adrenaline-pumping ends. This is no accident: “I fucking love videogames,” director of The Raid Gareth Evans told IndieWire. It shows traditional martial arts as an efficient way to survive a hostile situation.” The action of The Raid, set in the slums of Jakarta, also exists within a structure that mimics a video game - linear, level-based, culminating in a fearsome boss. “For me, it has a really good balance of choreography, combat, and credibility.
“This is the most important influence in terms of movies for Sifu,” says Layani. In this interview, Layani, alongside executive producer Pierre Tarno, tells Input several movies that were central in establishing the tone, aesthetic, and story of Sifu, from Gareth Evans’ monumental The Raid to revenge thriller Old Boy, and beyond. You’re in the Zone, and so, it seems, are Layani and his colleagues, even if the jury remains out on the extent to which these films are theirs, a team without a single Asian studio lead, to appropriate. This mastery also applies to Sloclap, which has seamlessly channeled an entire universe of martial arts movies into Sifu. As your thumbs unleash flurries of volleys and takedowns, you slowly assume a state of trancelike mastery.
The notably deep combat system of Absolver has been distilled to its essence in Sifu, rebuilt around an ultra-fast, no-nonsense strain of kung fu known as pak mei. While its story might sound derivative - your character is out to avenge the death of their father who was murdered of by a menacing crew of martial artists - the execution is anything but.
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