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* WorfHadTheFlu: Ip Man is essentially both sick and injured throughout the film. Not only does he have throat cancer from smoking but he's also sporting an injured wrist for most of the movie through defending Yonah from a gang that Geddes later tries to take advantage of.
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* WorfHadTheFlu: Ip Man is essentially both sick and injured throughout the film. Not only does he have throat cancer from smoking but he's also sporting an injured wrist for most of the movie through defending Yonah from a gang that Geddes later tries to take advantage of. However, it doesn't slow him down as a fighter much, as he's still able to go for the entire film. It's only after eight years later that [[spoiler: Ip Man finally succumbs to the cancer]].
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* WorfHadTheFlu: Ip Man is essentially both sick and injured throughout the film. Not only does he have throat cancer from smoking but he's also sporting an injured wrist for most of the movie through defending Yonah from a gang that Geddes later tries to take advantage of.
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* DeadlyDistantFinale: [[spoiler:The film ends with a montage depicting Ip Man's funeral several decades later]].
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* DeadlyDistantFinale: [[spoiler:The film ends with a montage depicting Ip Man's funeral several decades 8 years later]].
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* DrugsAreBad: Ip Man is diagnosed with throat cancer because of his chronic smoking in the previous films.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Despite taking place in San Francisco, much of the movie was filmed in the UK and it shows. All of the white American characters that speak use various English accents. The only actor who uses an American accent is Creator/ScottAdkins, who is likely the only actor who has had to use it in the past.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
** Geddes is inevitably the best fighter Ip has to face, even more so than Frater, the designated karate instructor reporting to him.
** ''Every'' board member of the Chinese Benevolent Association is a master of some kung fu style, but Master Wan, as head of the CBA, does better against Geddes than any of his cohorts.
** Geddes is inevitably the best fighter Ip has to face, even more so than Frater, the designated karate instructor reporting to him.
** ''Every'' board member of the Chinese Benevolent Association is a master of some kung fu style, but Master Wan, as head of the CBA, does better against Geddes than any of his cohorts.
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** Also Sergeant Geddes, whose MotiveRant near the film's climax sees him wanting to weed out "inferior cultures" from the Marines.
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** Also Sergeant Geddes, whose MotiveRant near the film's climax sees him wanting to weed out "inferior cultures" from the Marines.Marines.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking:
** Geddes is inevitably the best fighter Ip has to face, even more so than Frater, the designated karate instructor reporting to him.
** ''Every'' board member of the Chinese Benevolent Association is a master of some kung fu style, but Master Wan, as head of the CBA, does better against Geddes than any of his cohorts.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking:
** Geddes is inevitably the best fighter Ip has to face, even more so than Frater, the designated karate instructor reporting to him.
** ''Every'' board member of the Chinese Benevolent Association is a master of some kung fu style, but Master Wan, as head of the CBA, does better against Geddes than any of his cohorts.
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* ExperiencedProtagonist: The fact that Ip Man is more or less an [[InvincibleHero invincible hero]] aside, the fact that he manages to defeat Colin Frater so handily can be objectively explained by his experience fighting against karate practitioners as seen in [[Film/IpMan the first film]].
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** Though Geddes brutalizes and eventually knocks out Master Wan, the tai chi master manages to throw Geddes several times, is able to check most of the marine's blows initially, and generally gives tai chi a respectable treatment in the process.
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** Though Geddes brutalizes and eventually knocks out Master Wan, the tai chi master manages to throw Geddes several times, is able shown to check most of be the marine's blows initially, more skilled fighter between the 2 with Geddes not getting any hits in when he was fresh, and generally gives tai chi a respectable treatment in the process.
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* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts:
** The film features a faithful recreation of Lee's famous demonstration of his one-inch punch in 1964, with the almost insignificant detail that the strike Lee's actor does in the scene is not an one-inch strike at all, but a punch torqued from the hip at almost the entire arm's length, which is rather the technique's complete opposite in concept and execution.
** Oddly, the big karateka Lee fights in the street wears a ''judo'' gi. You can note it not only on how thick the fabric is, as those are designed to be pulled around without ripping, but also on the color, as blue gis are also much more common in judo than karate, existing basically to tell apart every fighter's bodies and limbs during close grappling exchanges.
** The film features a faithful recreation of Lee's famous demonstration of his one-inch punch in 1964, with the almost insignificant detail that the strike Lee's actor does in the scene is not an one-inch strike at all, but a punch torqued from the hip at almost the entire arm's length, which is rather the technique's complete opposite in concept and execution.
** Oddly, the big karateka Lee fights in the street wears a ''judo'' gi. You can note it not only on how thick the fabric is, as those are designed to be pulled around without ripping, but also on the color, as blue gis are also much more common in judo than karate, existing basically to tell apart every fighter's bodies and limbs during close grappling exchanges.
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* {{Homage}}: Bruce takes on a challenger in a fight clearly intended to evoke the nunchuks vs katana fight in ''Film/FistOfFury'', albeit with a metal rod in place of the katana and the nunchuks wrested from the challenger. His retort to the challenger's posturing in the same scene ("The door won't fight back") also evokes the famous line "boards don't hit back" from ''Film/EnterTheDragon''.
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* {{Homage}}: {{Homage}}:
** The way Bruce taunts the karatekas, by pointing a finger to two of them and turning it into a BringIt, is the same taunt he does in the dojo in ''Film/FistOfFury''. He also takes on a challenger in a fight clearly intended to evoke the nunchuks vs katana fight in''Film/FistOfFury'', the same film, albeit with a metal rod in place of the katana and the nunchuks wrested from the challenger. challenger.
** His retort to the challenger's posturing in the same scene ("The door won't fight back") also evokes the famous line "boards don't hit back" from ''Film/EnterTheDragon''.
** The way Bruce taunts the karatekas, by pointing a finger to two of them and turning it into a BringIt, is the same taunt he does in the dojo in ''Film/FistOfFury''. He also takes on a challenger in a fight clearly intended to evoke the nunchuks vs katana fight in
** His retort to the challenger's posturing in the same scene ("The door won't fight back") also evokes the famous line "boards don't hit back" from ''Film/EnterTheDragon''.
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* ShoutOut: Possibly with Barton Geddes, a western hand-to-hand instructor who adopted a Japanese martial art in karate. This echoes Edward ''Barton''-Wright, a little known western hand-to-hand instructor who was one of the main popularizers of Japanese judo and jujutsu in Europe (and created the style known as Bartitsu), which would make Geddes a sort of EvilCounterpart to him.
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* ShoutOut: Possibly with Barton Geddes, a western hand-to-hand instructor who adopted uses a Japanese martial art in like karate. This echoes Edward ''Barton''-Wright, a little known western hand-to-hand instructor who was one of the main popularizers of Japanese judo and jujutsu in Europe (and created the style known as Bartitsu), which would make Geddes a sort of anachronistic EvilCounterpart to him.
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* WasTooHardOnHim: When Ip Man reconciles with his son over the phone, he apologises for slapping him at the beginning of the film and admits to being in the wrong.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The film concludes the series with Ip Man dying from his throat cancer, but before his death Ip leaves behind a remarkable legacy: He contributed to the Chinese in the United States being accepted, as symbolized by the Marines accepting Chinese Kung Fu teachers into their training regimen and Bruce Lee being allowed to teach non-chinese Kung Fu. Ip's son also reconciles with his father and learns martial arts from him, and with Ip's school remaining steady, Wing Chun will remain a prominent art in Chinese for the years to come.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The film series concludes with the death of Ip Man, after eight long years of battling throat cancer.]]
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* TheCheerleader: Becky and Yonah are cheerleaders in their school.
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** Bruce Lee handily defeats his challengers, but the last one manages to slightly injure his arm.
** Though Geddes manages to knock out Master Wan, it's not before getting thrown a few times.
** Though Geddes manages to knock out Master Wan, it's not before getting thrown a few times.
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** Bruce Lee handily defeats his challengers, but the last one manages to slightly injure his arm.
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** Though Geddesmanages to knock brutalizes and eventually knocks out Master Wan, it's not before getting thrown the tai chi master manages to throw Geddes several times, is able to check most of the marine's blows initially, and generally gives tai chi a few times.respectable treatment in the process.
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* OldMaster: Most of the kung fu masters who have fight scenes, including Master Law, Master Chiu and Master Wan. Ip Man himself would count at this point in his life.
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* WeakButSkilled: When Masters Chiu, Chiang and Wan fight their younger, stronger opponents, they are able to fight more or less evenly and even land multiple blows by using their experience and speed to their advantage, but when they try to meet the Americans' blows strength to strength, they are quickly overpowered. Even Ip Man, who can inflict more hits than any other kung fu master, has to either get in a large volume of strikes or several crippling ones like one-inch punches or groin and throat strikes to incapacitate the larger marines rather than through pure strength alone.
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* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Master Wan tells a Chinese variant to justify not teaching Chinese martial arts to westerners.
