Matt Damon studies Filipino Kali Martial Art, for his movie The Bourne Identity Options

[dalawapo]

Action-Adventure Movies

Behind Bourne 

Part One - Matt Damon on The Bourne Identity 
 
The Bourne Identity introduces film audiences to Jason Bourne, the hero of three Robert Ludlum novels. Matt Damon plays Bourne in the film, an amnesiac who soon discovers he has the powers of a superspy. He then has to use those powers against his former colleagues, rogue CIA operatives who want to eliminate him before he remembers too much.

Here's what Damon had to say about becoming action hero Jason Bourne:

Did you have to get into extra good shape for this? I was in probably as good shape as I've ever been in because I was boxing and doing martial arts and all this weapons training. I really went overboard because I had a few months, I had like four or five months. Also, because of the way we talked about him, Doug said he wanted him to walk like a boxer, with the directness that a boxer walks with. He wanted him to move just in a very efficient way. When I first saw Doug, he said, "Pull up your shirt." And I pulled up my shirt and he said, "Oh God, oh God." I said, "No, in three months, don't worry. It's going to be hard as a rock."

What fighting style did you learn? Kali, it's a Filipino style. It has a lot to do with clubs and knives and a trapping technique is actually what they call it. To watch these guys do it is beautiful. It's like if somebody throws a punch at you, there are these destruction movies. Where I do it is with the pen. When I take the pen out, that's kind of what this style is, which is rather than go directly for somebody's throat, you just slowly take them apart. Each of those hits to the guy are designed as that's in the bicep, that's in the tricep, that one's in the forarm, that one's in the hand. To those guys, they like that sequence because they think it's true to their style.

http://actionadventure.about.com/library/w...2/aa061402a.htm

Here is another movie called the Hunted staring Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro where filipino martial art is also used in the movie and talked about in the clip section.

http://www.huntedmovie.com/home.html

Did anyone watch any of these movies and notice the Kali Martial Arts used in the films?

This post has been edited by dalawapo: Sep 26 2004, 11:19 PM

[anjing]

hehehe, something to be proud of again ha....

[dalawapo]

too bad many filipinos are clueless that they even have a native martial art or even a writing script!

[Horitaka]

they are?

[Ek-ek]

Kali is more popularly known as "Arnis"

[PervertBurger]

What does Arnis mean?

[dalawapo]

another spanish word that is replacing indigenous terms! as though the spaniards invented our martial art!

[Jasel]

Ya that movie got me interested in Filipino martial arts. To bad i can't afford any classes atm

[dalawapo]

how come u rarely post in Pi chat jasel? you know we filipino are your brother! we got negritos, arent u interested to learn about the blacks of Asia?

This post has been edited by dalawapo: Sep 27 2004, 09:15 PM

[HutFlip]

Kali is more popularly known as "Arnis"

Yes you are right Ek-ek!

Oh god look at dalawapo's sig.

[dalawapo]

u are what break down philippine unity, cause u never take the issues of our country serious!

[HutFlip]

USA is a nice place ain't it dalawapo? No such problems like in the philippines.

[BatangDamo]

Kali is more popularly known as "Arnis"

Yes you are right Ek-ek!

Oh god look at dalawapo's sig.

hmmmm, Those 8 rose and fought against the spanish but i dont think the muslims really did anything to aid the rebellion.....

[Horitaka]

USA is a nice place ain't it dalawapo? No such problems like in the philippines.

makes me think about tree huging hippies that don't have any REAL problems like in third world countries :genius:

hmmmm, Those 8 rose and fought against the spanish but i dont think the muslims really did anything to aid the rebellion.....

The reason being, they never let the dirty spiks conquer them

This post has been edited by Horitaka: Sep 27 2004, 10:14 PM

[dalawapo]

muslims fought to keep from being conquered! they have been fighting since day one!

anyways, it is for philippine unity to include the muslims and the indigenous. These people are not included at all in the philippine flag. only their ancestral land is recognized, Luzon and Mindanao...

i think the flag is deficient in representing these people! how can they feel a sense of nationalism when they are not even represented on the freaking flag???!

you guys have static thinking, i know it is hard and scarey thing for you to do something that is different, but look at the past, is everything the way it should be? maybe we can be doing something better!

philippines is known to be corrupt government through history, does that mean we should continue to be corrupt? or is someone going to stand up and actually think of ways to fix it!

why keep voting for actors etc? the only thing u can do on the personal level is educate yourself and know better than to vote for actor!

[HutFlip]

It is easier to be said than done dalawapo. Considering you don't live there, you don't have to endure all the sufferings our filipino brothers experience everyday.

[Horitaka]

I think an ordinary muslim in mindanao or Manila's last worry is about adding an extra ray to the flag. I think they have more important problems like finding their next meal.

Dalwapo, would you think the people of the US would vote to make Puerto Rico the 51st state?

A couple of years ago that was in the ballot in it didn't pass

[HutFlip]

Yes dalawapo, i dare you to live USA for philippines. You are proud nationalist filipino right? I wonder how are you gonna survive in the philippines.

[Shinigami]

bet he don't last long there

[dalawapo]

i know i would not, because i would be facing descrimination because of being mixed filipino and pacific islander.

i would live just like my cousin who is half black and half filipina who recently came to america to live with me and tell me of the horror descrimination she face because her skin is a little too dark than "normal" despiting being a beautiful and very smart person.

i would not go back to thephiilppines, there are too many problems and i do not feel belonging.