I read an article about an interview on Mr. Ahnold...excerpt below...
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What do you think of the Hong Kong style of action films? Is that something you¹d like to incorporate into your work? I don't. No. I love the Hong Kong type of action movies but that only looks good for smaller guys. I think that the reason why that whole style was developed over there was because those guys were very puny guys. They are not powerful looking guys. They are also not powerful guys. There's no weightlifting champion coming out of Hong Kong. They may be in a lightweight division or something like that but normally you don't have really strong men coming out of the eastern countries. Russia, Hungary, and Bulgaria and Germany and stuff like that, England also, but not from over there. So in order for them to be equal in a fighting situation they had to learn a technique that small people can do that is as effective as a big guy having strength. That's where the martial arts came from and all those styles of fighting and all that. So therefore, it was always a smaller person's trick, that a Bruce Lee kind of guy, he looks very ordinary and small but is very quick, flies through the air, kicking and all this stuff looks great.
Full interview