"Kung Fu" was my favourite tv show ever. I was probably 8 or 9 when I first saw it and it changed my life. Which sounds like a ridiculous exaggeration, but it's true. And now I'm reliving the experience with the dvds. Anybody else enjoy this wonderful show?
Yeah I liked it too. When I left home I fancied myself the man and treked around southern callifornia barefoot, the liberator of oppressed people. I just got thru watching some martial arts movie and think I have an idea why I like this kind of violence opposed to a lot of other violent films better. It looks to me that when they fight it is like we used to play as kids. One of us making theatrical motions when we got shot in cops and robbers or indians and cowboys. It is like a dance when they fight. I can sense a preplanned movement. In a way it is like the live wrestling matches. Those guys, most of them, are trained in martial arts and know how to fall too. It's like gymnastics the way they flip sometimes, although you can see there is some camera magic involved. Yeah, Kung Fu was cool.
It was quite different. They liked to do those unusual camera angles and effects that would sort of put you in a trance. It was philosophical at times too. There was a big Kung Fu martial arts craze around the early to mid 70s. .
There was a TV commercial a few years back with David Carradine of Kung Fu and his elderly bald master. He got into a scuffle with some cowboys and you thought there would be a big Kung Fu fight. Instead, everyone broke into an eye-poking and face slapping campaign like the Three Stooges. Then he went back and told his master the story who responded with "Coitenly! nyuk nyuk nyuk" (like Curly from the Stooges). It was a soda pop commercial if I remember correctly. The jingle was 'It's not polite to slurp!" .
U reminded me with that elderly bald master......I was looking in the mirror a while back, I think after I went outside into the night and threw up my arms and told the whole universe I loved them.....I came back inside and looked at my eyes and the blue part around the black turned to that milky white color the elderly bald master had in Kung Fu. peace Honor The bird gets the grasshopper.
Fascinating experience with your eyes there honorseed. I trust they went back to normal again? I remember watching "Kung Fu" with my mother when I was a kid. I said to her," I wish I didn't have to wear shoes and socks." My mother, who was a bit of a hippie herself, said, "You don't, if you don't want to." I took 'em off there and then and have never worn shoes or socks voluntarily since. Which is not the only thing the show left me with, but it's more obvious than the rest.
Yeah. I saw it only once. Sometimes they run these things very briefly. Maybe youtube or someone has the video of it. .
Same here CAptain Britain, left home and walked aroun most of the time barefoot, over sidewalks with broken glass, everything......many years too. The balance one gains from walking barefoot is true coordination with the earth, been tougher in a cold wet climate tho.
I don't want to deceive anyone, the blues of my eyes turning milky white may have been caused by the screen of fine black energy particles between my eyes and the mirror, they may have not changed color really.
David Carradine was a major loadie in those days. He's a veteran of over 500 acid trips! He was often stoned when he was shooting Kung Fu. I told an old girlfriend about this and she got really mad at me. She idolized the man, and this smudged the mental image she had of him. x
Jim Nabors grew up close to where I grew up in Alabama. He used to cruise our loop when he was a teen. We had the best one around. x
I don't remember Kung Fu, but I do remember the movie Lone Wolf McQuade starring Chuck Norris and David Carradine, in which Carradine displays his prowess in martial arts, and I've seen the pilot for the original TV show Hotwater
I loved Kung Fu but didn't like the Legend Continues as much. My boyfriend and I like most of the same shows so I was surprised that he absolutely hated this show ... he says Cain was a vagrant with no work ethic and try as I might, I can't get him to look at the show again or in a different light.
The thing I loved about it was that Cain rarely bothered to strike or kick anyone who wasn't armed, he mostly just avoided them, slipped their "charge", and let them fall on their asses under their own power. That was a big contrast to the typical Japanese hard-style karate approach that was popular at the time, and I liked it much better. It seemed more like true self-defense than just counter-attacks, much better approach for us hippies.
Somehow, the gentleness of Eastern philosophy and the brashness of the Wild West didn't mix very well. .
