Quentin Tarantino is no stranger to violence in films, with the director employing some of the most iconic, old-school techniques in his films. He is also a connoisseur of old-school martial arts films, something that was visible in his approach to his two-part Uma Thurman starrer, Kill Bill. In a recent interview, the veteran director has singled out one martial arts director whom he considers can portray violence perfectly.
Quentin Tarantino praises Lee Tso-Nam’s brutal ‘death blows’ in movies
Quentin Tarantino is an avid fan of martial arts movies. He has endorsed the genre time and again before. The influence of the genre is also visible in the works of Tarantino, especially in Kill Bill, which heavily leans on the style.
Even when his films are not related to martial arts, most of them at least employ a healthy dose of violence, even in the most uncommon of ways, like in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
In his recent appearance on the Pure Cinema Podcast, Tarantino shared his opinion on Martial Arts films and singled out one director above the others. He claimed that Lee Tso-Nam, a veteran director who made many old-school martial arts films in the 1970s and 1980s, was an expert in depicting fight scenes.
What appealed to Tarantino the most in Tso-Nam’s films was the “fastness” in the fight sequences. Back then, most directors employed the same technique of speeding up the camera to make the fight scenes look more endearing. But Tso-Nam mastered this technique.
Tarantino also claimed that he was the only director to use this common technique in an “artistic” way, which made Tso-Nam’s films visually appealing.
The Pulp Fiction director added that the action scenes in Tso-Nam’s movies are “painful.”
Lee Tso-Nam remains one of the most prolific directors in the history of the Hong Kong film industry. Many of his films have become cult classics and continue to allure fans around the world.
