Sunday, August 14, 2011
How would you change Street Fighter 1994 film to make it better?
I seen a lot of negative reviews for the 1994 Street Fighter film which I would agree with given that there were inconsistencies between the movie and the Anime/game at least as far as character development goes. If I had been in charge of the film I would have allowed Ming Na to tell the story in first person narrative (much like she did in Joy Luck Club the year before) and have her character Chun Li as the protagonist. Her character would have focused on brining Bison down for killing her father and I would have opened the film with a tragic past sequence of Chun Li's village being destroyed and her father being murdered while she is still a child and Bison looks coldly at her before taking all those in her village captive. Then we flash to present day with her as a private investigator/spy/detective instead of a reporter and she's getting information on Bison's activities and whereabouts to bring him down and vanquish her past nightmares. That would be a more compelling story than the story they did with focusing on the taunting between Bison and Guile. Ryu and Ken should have been best friends instead of reluctant partners in the film. The character development was all wrong and I think it would have been cool if Jet Li had been Ryu. The movie was far more comical than suspenseful or dramatic with the dialogue and the goofy fight scenes. It was like watching 3 Ninjas for adults or something. It could have been better especially with better fight coreography like what was used in Romeo Must Die with Russell Wong and Jet Li or even in The Art of War with Wesley Snipes. I think Snipes should have been cast in the Street Fighter film too. I doubt there were any effective acrobatic fight coreographers doing the fight scenes given how goofy they looked compared to those in Blade II.
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