All these amazing martial arts we are watching at the Chinese movies is real?

Alot of the older movies all the marital arts are real, unfortunately through the "magic" of Hollywood much of the fights are done with wires (like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) and its loses its luster. None of the fights are actually REAL fights, they are choreographed like a dance, much like the WWE wrestling. Only the acting is better and steriods arent present LOL.

All these amazing martial arts we are watching at the Chinese movies is real?
Bruce Lee was a real and a gifted fighter.


The fight between him and Chuck Norris in Enter The Dragon is worth watching -- as are all his movies
Reply:There are real martial arts and techniques being displayed in the movies but they are not real fights.
Reply:older movies might have been more "real" using no cgi, probably not speeding up the videos, n wirework etc...compared to todays'. however they are choreographed therefore the techniques would probably not work in a real fight
Reply:A lot of the moves in the older Chinese movies are straight from the traditional forms often with exaggerated stuff mixed in (like the gravity defying 10 foot vertical leaps, somersaults and cartwheels...etc).
Reply:Yes and no. If they would do real martial arts, people would get killed, but many directors are aware of martial arts traditions and try to keep martial scenes as realistic and honest to style as possible. So, if a movie says it's doing snake style kung fu, it is definitely taking aspects of traditional snake style.
Reply:i belive alot of those styles is known as,wire fu...using wires to do impossible moves......


tho i belvei some are used to soem extent..like elektra,they usaed muai thai,shotokan and wu shu