The Best Chop Sockie in the West!
Date AddedJuly 30, 2009 08:32:46 PM
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The best kung fu movie I ever saw, interestingly enough, was not filmed in the East. No Bruce or Jackie or Jet, or even Tony. No, it was an American movie filmed in the fifties, with high production values, American actors, and a plot that put the Eastern cinema to shame.
Stewart Granger is the actor who out kung fus the East, and Scaramouche is the name of the movie. In the movie he plays a French commoner, who becomes one of the best fencers of the world, who has to hide from a despicable nobleman, who is elected to the French parliament, who becomes the toast of society as a clown, who…and it is all done smoothly, with finesse and panache.
Granger is swilling beer with his brother at a roadhouse in the opening of the movie. It turns out that Stewart’s brother has been, oh horrors, passing out inflammatory political writings, and an evil count pushes him into a fight. Stewart’s brother is killed in a bully of a duel, and the die is cast when Stewart picks up the sword.
Now, problem, how can weaker brother Stewart win when his brother, who has been killed by the count, was the real fighter in the family? He answer is that he can’t, and he manages to escape certain death through the cowardly act of running away. In escaping, however, he takes with him a fierce determination to kill the evil count.
Now, how the heck are you going to kill best swordsman in France? Simple, you go get lessons from his teacher. Towards this end Stewart becomes a clown and takes on the stage name of Scaramouche in a traveling show.
Through the country he travels, having antics, and Scaramouche manages to get fencing lessons from the teacher of the evil count. He practices diligently, driven by revenge, and having a girlfriend along the way. Still, when the duel comes, he is not able to beat the evil count, and so must run like a cowardly dog.
Beaten, distraught, feeling a bit down, he asks his teacher how can he ever manage to beat the count. The teacher says he simply must go to the teacher of the teacher. Scaramouche sets off to find the teacher of the teacher, and Paris, and, along the way he picks up another girlfriend, becomes a notorious killer of nobles, and is elected to the French parliament because, doggone it, it is the best way to make duels and kill nobles.
Now comes the exciting conclusion, and plots unravel, and girlfriends unravel, and the whole French government starts turning over, and it is a delight of delights. Along the way we have methods of fencing revealed, thrilling duels to the death, and a plot that kicks up notch after notch. So for the best kung fu movie, head west, not East, to the fifties and a delightful scoundrel named Scaramouche, and give up your rice and vegetables for Popcorn and soda, yowza!
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