The way Danny, Hing, and Jim interact with each other and Carter in their old age is hilarious. The dialogue of this movie may very well be my favorite thing. This leads to them having to reunite with Jim, catch him up to speed, and find out the truth about the death of their Sifu We Love Some Unique Dialogue and Action Carter then informs that their Sifu’s death wasn’t as simple as a heart attack. At the funeral, they meet Sifu Wong (Raymond Ma) and his disciple, their old rival Carter. Danny is willing to come to the funeral but not if Jim is going to be there. Hing enters his life again to inform him that Sifu Cheung has died. We jump ahead to see Danny is a divorced dad that’s charming but not great at balancing his work life and child life. We jump ahead again to present-day, and things done changed. We see a scene where Danny inherits the seal making him the inheritor of the dojo. These are the only three disciples of Sifu Cheung, his Three Tigers. Danny is so good that he’s called “Danny 8 hands.” He has numerous matches with a kid named Carter (Matthew Page), who seemed to be perhaps bullying him when they were younger kids, and is a martial arts too (this white kid dressed in the whole traditional Chinese garb for these matches too) and cannot beat Danny, Jim, or Hing. We learn here that all three of these kids are nasty with the hands. Teen boys in the 90’s not fighting and testing their skills? Nah man. We fast forward 5 years later and these boys out in these streets running the Beimo game for they set. He don’t wanna hear bout these cats fighting anymore. Sifu Cheung then tells his disciples that fighting without honor is just fighting. We learn that the boys have been taught Gung Fu and been out here fighting in duels or “Beimo.” Beimo matches are one on one skill comparison-type fights in a sense like going to someone’s dojo to challenge them. ![]() ![]() We then see the old man at the beginning as their teacher, Sifu Cheung (Roger Yuan). It’s here we are introduced to Danny ( Alain Uy), Hing ( Ron Yuan), and Jim ( Mykel Shannon Jenkins). The audience is then taken back in time seeing three young kids training in a garage. We open up with an old man fighting a shadowy figure then slowly succumbing to his injuries. Hollywood gonna learn the hard way that main characters being ethnic doesn’t hinder, it can only help. Oh shit, there’s a Black dude in the main cast too? Well, I’m six feet underground at this point. It’s got a comedic element too? I’m even more in. The majority of this film is Asian, and it involves martial arts, I’m in. What got me interested was the sight of a Gung Fu (proper pronunciation and spelling of westernized word “Kung Fu”) movie where the main cast is ethnic. Lemme tell you that I’m very glad that that’s the route taken. Tran wasn’t bout that shit so The Paper Tigers became a DIY (do it your (an implied damn) self-project. Tran if you nasty), and you can tell this is a labor of love as Hollywood was interested in this but wanted the main characters to be white. This movie was directed and written by Tran Quoc Bao (Mr. What? We doing this for the indie darlings? You damn right we are. Then I got on my Lois Lane investigative reporting and saw how The Paper Tigers was a movie ten years in the making. “Yeah, man that movie been in the works for a good while.” Well shit, lemme apologize for being late first of all. When I told my friends about it they were, already aware. It’s going to be a painful tape to watch for everybody,” Swinney said.I just found out about The Paper Tigers about two days before the movie came out. “They were clearly the more physical team. The previous high was 206 yards by Florida State. Logan Diggs rushed for 114 yards on 17 carries, Estime had 104 yards on 18 carries and the Irish compiled 263 yards rushing, the most rushing yards allowed by Clemson this season. With winds of 20 mph, and Drew Pyne struggling in recent games, the Irish leaned heavily on their run game, even though Clemson entered the game ranked seventh nationally against the run, giving up 87.9 yards a game. Uiagabele returned in the next series and drove the Tigers to the Irish 19-yard line before Morrison intercepted the pass to Joseph Ngata at the 4-yard line and returned it for a TD. The Irish scored three plays later on Audric Estime’s 2-yard run to make it 21-0. ![]() This time it backfired, though, as Klubnik was pressured by Justin Ademilola and his pass was intercepted by Morrison at the 14-yard line. Swinney pulled DJ Uiagalelei for a second straight game, even though he had completed 13 of 19 passes for 78 yards when he was replaced by Cade Klubnik late in the third quarter.
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