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Mar. 5th, 2005
Muay Thai in the Movies
Mar. 5th, 2005 01:50 amTony Jaa Offers Martial Arts Unplugged in 'Ong-Bak':
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akaspeedo, sounds like we should see this as our follow-up to Million Dollar Baby. Maybe I'll finally learn to pronounce "Muay Thai" correctly.
(Also forfionagh and stevendj, among others.)
Rejecting the CGI effects and "wire fu" of recent martial-arts films, Thai production "Ong-Bak" relies solely upon the raw physical talent of star Tony Jaa to tell its tale of a simple country boy sent to the big city to retrieve a precious religious artifact (primarily by kicking much bad-guy butt). IFC News’ Dan Persons spoke with Jaa.
akaspeedo, sounds like we should see this as our follow-up to Million Dollar Baby. Maybe I'll finally learn to pronounce "Muay Thai" correctly.(Also for
fionagh and stevendj, among others.)