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Gong Er: No news is news.
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Gong Er: My father would always say, people who practice martial arts go through three stages: seeing yourself, seeing the world, seeing all living beings.
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Gong Er: Remember when I told you that there is nothing to regret in life? It's all bullshit. If life had no regrets it would be really boring.
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Smoker: In the old days, if someone offered a smoke, the other had to accept even if he didn't smoke because otherwise, the man offering would lose face. Ip Man, please have a smoke.
[Ip Man takes the cigarette...]
Smoker: You have the gift. Had I been a few years younger, we would have sparred. It's been an honour...
[walks off]
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[Ip Man thrashes a goon who demands money allegedly for his mother's funeral]
Ip Man: [gives money] This is prayer money. Sooner or later, you'll join your mother.
Goon: Come to think of it, you remind me of my dad. Do you need a disciple?
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Ma San: Gong Yutian spoke to me about his last move: Old Monkey Hangs Up His Badge. He said the secret of that move was to turn back. I didn't understand his meaning at the time, I thought he was unable to keep up with changing times...
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Gong Er: I had considered a career in opera years ago, I had received training. I had thought about it a lot: me on stage performing, and you in the audience watching...
Ip Man: What if your performance had sold out?
Gong Er: [smiles] You flatter me. I would have reserved a seat specifically for you.
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Ip Man: I have watched you perform in the opera of life. You have shown great timing and skill; however you never went beyond the role you played.
Gong Er: I had no idea I have such an ardent spectator.
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Gong Er: Every great age presents a choice: to go forward, or stay back. I prefer to stay back, in the happiest times of my life.
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[last lines]
Ip Man: They say I spread wing chung throughout the world. I hope that's true. I didn't do it to acquire renown. The martial arts should be open to all, everyone should walk the same route. It all comes down to two words: Horizontal, Vertical.
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Gong Er: This opera of mine, applauded or not, will play on to the end. I asked you here to bring things to a close and say what needs to be said.
Ip Man: Are you going somewhere?
Gong Er: We have a saying in the North - a tiger never quits the mountain. We've both been living on foreign soil. I'm so very tired. I want to go home. But I wanted to return this to you first. As for the 64 Hands, I've already forgotten them. I was lucky to meet you in my prime. Sadly, my time is running out. To say there are no regrets in life, is just to fool yourself. How boring it would be without regrets. Mr. Ip, to tell you the truth, I cared about you. I don't mind telling you that. It's not a crime to love. But that's all it can ever be. I never said that to anyone before. Seeing you tonight, I don't know why, it just came out. Let's say we suspend this game of chess between us. Take care.
Ip Man: In life, as in chess, a move once made stays on the board. What we have is simply fate. Your father once said, never give up the faith. Keep the light burning. I hope that one day I'll see the 64 Hands once more.
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Gong Er: My father said mastery had three stages - being, knowing, doing. I know myself. I've seen the world. Sadly, I can't pass on what I know. This is a road I won't see to the end. I hope you will.
The Grandmaster Quotes
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Erika 2022-03-17 09:01:07
Still the best Wang Jiawei and Zhang Shuping and Tony Leung are the great Zhang Ziyi. It’s the light, shadow and lines that are familiar and long-lost, it’s love, it’s life, it’s just a little hypocritical that I just want to be drunk but not awake~~~ Looking back at the ten or two decades of watching movies, it turned out that the Chinese-speaking director who had the most influence on me was Wong Kar-wai. . It's really an honor for me.
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Keegan 2022-03-29 09:01:07
To Qifeng said that Wang Jiawei only made one movie of Ah Fei, and after the evil in the east and the west, he was in a drunken world. Ye Wen and Gong Er are both lonely people lost in the game of time. Fragmented action clips, rain and snow are all freehand, ambiguous light and shadow, staring expressions, collage and narration. Fate, missed and met again. Each scene has its own flavor, especially art performances, sound and music.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Language: Mandarin,Cantonese,Japanese Release date: August 30, 2013