For more on Kung Fu Hustle's debt to Hong Kong film history, see Ross Chen, “The Six Degrees of Stephen Chow and Kung Fu Hustle”
For reviews of the film, see Dave Thomas, “THE STORY OF WONG FEI-HUNG: PART I,” Steamed Prawn Buns ( February 19, 2004 );
Yves Gendron, “The True Story of Wong Fei-Hung: Whiplash Snuffs the Candle Flame,” I am basing this account not on the film, but on the history I've pieced together from Internet sites, including :
“Hong Gar Bible" ;
"Hung Kuen Net" ;
and the "European Hung Gar Association",
Since the names of the Hung Gar ancestors are Romanized differently, I am including some of the more frequent spellings of the Chinese here.
Po Fung, “A Hero Reinvented: Wong Fei-Hung's Cinematic Odyssey,” The Hong Kong-Guangdong Film Connection, ed. Wong Ain-ling (Hong Kong : Hong Kong Film Archive, 2005), p. 252. (248-260)
Information on the casting of Kung Fu Hustle is taken from the film's Web site |