Simon Rhee - Best of the Best (Action Talks #41) from Action Talks with Eric Jacobus

Simon Rhee - Best of the Best (Action Talks #41)

1 hour 56 minutes Posted Dec 28, 2023 at 9:00 pm.

Introduction

Origins of films like Best of the Best

Making real contact in fights

His first movie "Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave"

Inspirations and Kicking

Designing action for Best of the Best

Stuntwork in the early 90's

Koreatown Riots in 1992

Best of the Best 2 (1992)

Best of the Best 4 (1998)

Simon's Father

Buddhism can be brutal, i.e. Steven Seagal

Working with Wesley Snipes

Working with Hong Kong

Tom Cruise & Madonna

Working with David Mamet & Christopher Nolan

Lee Byung-Hun

Helping out Korean Pastor with orphanage (The Drobox)

On the Korean Action industry

What makes a realistic fight?

Director Park Chan-wook

Tauris Award Winning Fight scenes

On Fatherhood

Signing off

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Simon Rhee is an action star, martial artist, and pioneer in American

martial arts cinema with the Best of the Best series under his belt.

Lately he's been the stunt coordinator for Lucifer and American Horror

Story. You can see his IMDB here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722223/

Edited by Milan Swagers

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