The "Kiss of the Dragon"
I am always confused at the end by the needle-in-the-neck trick. Can someone explain it?
shareWhen he puts the pin in the guy's neck Jet Li mentions a load of stuff about a very certain pressure point in the neck.If a pin is put in then the victim starts bleeding from every orriface and is totally paralysed, not surprisingly this eventually leads to death, though why he only uses this rather handy trick right at the end of the film when it would have been very useful against the "bros" lookalikes is anyones guess!!
Dan-Solo 22.03.03
Apart from the thing about preassure and so on, Li also mentions that it's a very certain very forbbiden point. And if he would be using that trick on the bros...well that fight would have been to easy and therefor less entertaining :)
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I would have thought that once the needle was removed your system would return to normal. That's how accupuncture works.
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When jet li removed the needle from tcheky karyo's neck, logicaly you'd expect him to recover. That part didnt make sense to me. It would have been more believable if the needle was left there. Still a great martial arts movie though.
You guys should check out jet li's "Fist of Legend" too.
Power points don't work like that. That would also explain why it is a "very forbidden" place, you better be sure you want to kill the person you're doing that move to because you can't go back over, it's an instant death attack. When the needle is put in the neck it causes paralysis, then if it is taken out it starts the bleeding. I guess you could say it's a two step death attack.
"No you foolish foolish boy, that's how it all starts!"-Stumpy
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he KNEW he could easily kick the ass of the big mastermind, so he wanted to try something different...and its the title of the film, you cant use the "kiss" on any of the henchmen.
he wanted a challenge thats why he went hand to hand with the twins, and throughout the film the twins are the muscle that kill anyone easily...its just setting up for a great tagteam match against li.
the entire film is absurd and its consistent in this nature, you didnt get it if you pick out one part and say "hey, thats unbelievable, come on!"
watching this in the theatre was great, there was such a good audience that really got into it...a great audience always makes a film better...half the crowd did a collective "uh-oh" when li walks into the room full of blackbelts, which got everyone laughing.
did anyone else have a good experience during a theatre screening of this (and before you begin you can leave the blow job comments out of this)
space pan: what was once a great camera shot is now just a toilet for lazy astronauts
I think he really wanted the guy to suffer for everything that he's done. The "kiss of the dragon" is obviously a very painful way to die, so I would think he wouldn't usually enjoy using it. For most of the movie he was fighting for his life and only killing in self-defense. He didn't hate most of his enemies, so he had no interest in making them suffer.
shareHi Guys,
while i was reading this plot, i asked myself---
you do NOT really BELIEVE in this way of murdering, do you??? lol
Well, I'm taking Chinese history right now, and if I've learned somnething so far, it's that the Chinese civilization made quite a progress in certain areas.... It's absolutely believeable to me that there were tricks like these. Chinese approach to medicine and anatomy in general was completely different from that of the West. While western doctors studied arteries, muscles, etc., the Chinese were finding the so-called "energly streams" which could be affected in certain ways. Thus, the acupuncture. It was laughed at by western professionals, but when they took time and examined it, it turned out that it actually worked.
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