Ip man history biography of leonardo dicaprio
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Grandmaster Yip Man did not actually fight any British boxing champion. In real life, it was actually Yip Man's student, Wong Shun Leung ("Wong Leung" in the movie), who fought a lbs Russian (not British) boxer in Hong Kong. Wong Shun Leung won that fight by KO in three punches.
While filming a scene, Sammo Hung (Master Hung Chun-Nam) was struck in the face by co-star Darren Shahlavi (Twister). He insisted on completing the shoot before going to the hospital. Not wanting his injuries to hinder the production progress, Hung spent five hours trying to complete the scene before going to the hospital for four stitches.
Although Darren Shahlavi is presented in this film as being in perfect health and in prime condition, only five years after this film he passed away from a heart attack.
Ironically, Darren Shahlavi (the Twister) had been a big fan of Donnie Yen and, before him, Ip Man's student Bruce Lee. Another irony is that the actor playing this fictitious British champion is ethnic Iranian, a group that along with other Asians were once looked down upon by the British Empire.
Yu-Hang To, who played the character of Hu Wei in this film, played the character of Ip Man in The Legend Is Born: Ip Man ().
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The former child star who grew from a teen heartthrob in one of the biggest blockbusters of all time, to one of the most talented and bankable actors of his generation, has been nominated for five Academy Awards as an actor and producer, and won his third Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the drama, "The Revenant."
By senior producer David Morgan
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from the film "The Revenant," directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. It is based on Michael Punke's novel inspired by a true-life tale of a frontiersman's fight to survive in the early 19th century American wilderness.
DiCaprio told CBS News' Charlie Rose it was one of the toughest films he's ever made. "There for nine months in sub-zero temperatures in Calgary, real locations, far-off locations, we looked at this as a grand sort of artistic experiment," DiCaprio said. "We rehearsed meticulously all day long with (cinematographer) Chivo Lubezki and Alejandro to pull off some very crucial and hard-to-do shots. And then we'd have an hour-and-a-half of natural light and it became like live theater at the end of the day, this frenetic pace and intensity that we needed to keep up with."
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