Kung Fu choreography from the 70s often feels more like theatre than fighting, which I'm sure is unsurprising to anyone who's had to sit through the probably hundreds of Letterboxd reviews that belabor the connection between early martial arts films and Chinese opera schools at the time, leading quite naturally to a style of fight choreography that emphasizes the aesthetics of various styles, rather than how they would actually look in a real tussle. I once, in college, I…
