"Ip Man - The Legend Is Born" Movie review (Part 2)

When Ip Man got back to the pagoda, he test fought with his friends in the pagoda, everyone lost the match with him. Even his adopted brother (Ip Tin-chi). But when the first student in the pagoda (Ng Chung-sok-the one that was counted on by the passed away master) came home and found out that Ip Man had been studying martial art from Luong Bich he beaten up Ip Man and grounded him to kneel down in front of the maste's picture and think about what he had done. Ip Tin-chi fell in love with the girl in the pagoda that was the girl who also had a crush on Ip Man(Lee Mei-wai). However, Ip Man had fallen in love with the rich girl (Cheung Wing-shing, the daughter of the vice-mayor of Foshan). They accidently met each other when Ip Man and his friends were going to see a movie. Ip Man went out with Cheung Wing-shing and when Lee Mei-wai found out that Ip Man had a relation ship with Cheung, she accepted Ip Tin-chi. Ip Tin-ch worked for a group of martial artists in Fohsan that was ran by Lee Mei-wai's father. One day, a group of Japanese broke into the group's place and demanded to have a contest between Chinese martial art and Japanese martial art. The daughter of the ruled man in the Japanese group had a fight with Ip Tin-chi with a Katana and she lost the fight. Finally, Ip Tin-chi had celebrated a wedding with Lee Mei-wai. At night, Lee Mei-wai's father was drunk and Ip Man had to help him to get home safely. But he attacked Ip Man (because he was drunk) and a guy saw them fighting with each other. On the morning, they found the dead body of Lee Mei-wai's father on the floor and they concluded that Ip Man killed him because someone saw them fighting last night. Ip Man knew that he was not the one that killed Lee Mei-wai's father. Ip Man saw fingers mark on Lee Mei-wai's father's throat just like the move of his martial art that he used with Ip Tin-chi and he had taught that move for Ip Tin-chi. So he knew that it was Ip Tin-chi who killed Lee Mei-wai's father. After that, Ip Man was being locked in the prison and Cheung Wing-shing and her father lied to the officer that Ip Man was at Cheung Wing-shing's house last night and he was not the one who killed Lee Mei-wai's father. Ip Man was released. At the night after the day of the wedding, Lee Mei-wai found a letter from the Japanese to Ip Tin-chi that he had a mission to kill Lee Mei-wai's father. Lee Mei-wai was trying to suicide but was stopped by Ip Tin-chi. He convinced her to run away with him and she agreed, but on the way, they were stopped by the Japanese that broke into the martial art group's place. They captured Lee Mei-wai and Ip Tin-chi had to fight for them to get her back.
   "At the martial arts association, Ng Chung-sok was defeated by Ip Tin-chi and the Japanese. Ip Man arrives in time to save Ng Chung-sok from being killed and then subsequently defeats the Japanese and Ip Tin-chi. Ip Tin-chi then reveals that he is actually a Japanese and was sent to China to infiltrate and work as an undercover agent. He then performs seppuku to end his life. Ip Man rushes off to the pier to rescue Lee. He defeats the Japanese and rescues Lee. At the pier, they discover that the Japanese have been smuggling Japanese children to China, possibly as future undercover agents, similar to Ip Tin-chi."
                               Author: Wikipedia. Year:  unknown. The Legend Is Born - Ip Man. Website.        Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_Is_Born_%E2%80%93_Ip_Man [5 Jan 2012]

"Ip Man - The Legend Is Born" Movie review (Part 1)

In this movie, they tell us about Ip Man. It is the story about how he had grown up when he was just a boy. He and his adopted brother turned to age of thirteenth and they both wanted to learn martial art so his father find them a master in the village to teach them Wing Tsun since it is a calm martial .
So his father found him a great master of Wing Tsun in the village. His father sent both of them to live in the pagoda with the master to let him teach them the martial art. But, one day, his master got a heart attack and passed away, since then, the first student that had him as master stood out to teach all of the students what he had been taught. So Ip Man put all his focus in martial art and he grew up with all of his friends in the pagoda. In a festival, He met a girl which is from a rich family and they started to like each other from then but Ip Man acted as a cold guy. He saw a group of local gangsters in the village that was bullying a girl so he stood out and fight against the gangsters to protect the girl with his friends in the pagoda. The girl that had a crush on Ip Man saved his life from a gangster that was holding up a knife and try to stab him. He finally beat all the gangsters and saved both of the girls. The "crushed girl" started to make a move on him by asking his name to thank him but he didn't answer to her and he said that she doesn't need to do that and he walked away. But his friends gave the girl Ip Man's name and also told her where he lived. So the girl started to write a letter to him and told her sister to deliver it to Ip Man but she gave to another girl also in the pagoda that also had a crush on Ip Man and so the letter never reached to his hand. And one day, he had to go to Hong Kong to study and he also met an old man and he realized that he is the son of his passed away master. So they had a test fight with each other. Eventually, Ip Man lost. So they had a little talk together and the old guy (his name is Luong Bich) had decided to teach Ip Man to use Wing Tsun freely and more flexible. It was tough for Ip Man to study university and to practising Wing Tsun. However, he finally graduated his colleague and farewell to Luong Bich before he left Hong Kong. Luong Bich also warned him that his Wing Tsun was not original Wing Tsun, he had converted it to be more flexible. However, in Wing Tsun's traditional, no student can convert the original Wing Tsun to something else.

Author: Unknown. Year: Unknown. DVD Photo ."Ip Man- The Legend Is Born ". Available from: http://www.blogomatic3000.com/2010/09/21/dvd-review-the-legend-is-born-ip-man/#.TwLD5VtuTjw [3 Jan 2012].