History Film / IpMan4

** Geddes denies that he is a racist and says that he hates colored cowards to a downed marine.

* DrillSergeantNasty: Gunnery Sgt Barton Geddes portrays quite the negative stereotype of one; he constantly belittles the recruits under him (''especially'' coloured ones), shows very little respect for even his own peers just below his rank and does not hesitate to wake, then assemble his trainees in the middle of the night just to get them to watch him prove his point about their superior martial arts.

** In the beginning Geddes insults a downed marine that was being held-locked from Frater by saying he hates colored cowards while [[BlatantLies denying that he is a racist]].

** A group of karateka confront Bruce and his group to call bullshit on their kung fu. Three of them receive a rightful asskicking from him, who floors them all in seconds.

* VeryPunchableMan: Becky's boyfriend and his gang exist for no reason other than to demonstrate that they deserve an ass-kicking for their contemptible treatment towards Yonah.

* GradualGrinder: Geddes tends to be knocked down a lot during his fights, but his toughness and stamina make out for it, and in turn he uses clinched knees and repeated leg kicks to inflict accumlated damage.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The film series concludes with the death of Ip Man eight years after the events of the film.]]

* TraumaticHaircut: As vengeance for getting beaten at cheerleading, Becky has some boys pin down Yonah and cut her hair.

** Becky's boyfriend's gang don't hesitate to hit Yonah several times and even attempt to crush her with a gate before Ip Man intervenes.
** Colin Frater does not hesitate to fight the female Chinese Master Chiang.

** The villain is, as with the first movie, once more a karate-practising non-Chinese military man.

* CurbStompCushion: Though Geddes manages to knock out Master Wan, it's not before getting thrown a few times.

* ForceAndFinesse: The karate fighters in the film rely on athleticism and aggression, using a lot of lineal attacks and haymakers, while the Chinese kung fu stylists employ intrincante arm techniques and calculated strikes.

Ip Man goes to UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco at the invitation of one of his students, Lee Jun-fan "Siu Lung" (now called Creator/BruceLee), who has upset the local martial arts community and Chinatown leadership - the Chinese Benevolent Association (CBA) - by opening a Wing Chun school that accepts non-Chinese. While there, he attempts to find a school that will accept his recently-expelled son, a matter complicated by his guilt by association with Bruce. They also come to fight for the honor and respect of their martial art once again, this time against a local US military figure, Marine Gunnery Sgt Barton Geddes (Creator/ScottAdkins).

* LightningBruiser: Geddes, Colin and the other karate fighters, as they are all very nimble and hard-hitting at the same time. It is only through technical brilliance that Ip Man and Lee manage to score wins on them.

** After his earlier attempts to convince his direct superiors on integrating Chinese martial arts into Marine training fails, a Staff Sergeant (OR-6) Hartman massively goes over his superiors heads, seemingly straight to a ''General'' (OF-9) to propose the idea to him. Not only is this a serious disregard of the chain of command, something as trivial as showing of a different type of martial arts is something most Generals, let alone junior officers, wouldn't bother with compared to other more pressing matters in their respective stations.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: In the movie, the Chinese Benevolent Association is shown to welcome recent Chinese immigrants, including undocumented ones. In reality, the Association [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Consolidated_Benevolent_Association#History opposed new Chinese immigration]] starting in the 1870's, a policy that persisted into the 1960s.

* ActionGirl: Master Chiang, the sole woman of the CBA leadership, who manages to land a few good hits on Frater.

** Gunnery Sergeant Geddes seemingly wields a lot more power than an ordinary Marine Drill Instructor would. He has quite the final say on whether the local Marine Corps base can or will adopt another form of martial arts into their training program. He also manages to transfer criminal custody of a suspect being detained by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service to the Marine Corps, despite being under two different justice systems (military and federal) although he did have to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections personally threaten]] Walters to get him to hand over [[spoiler:Master Wan]].
** After his earlier attempts to convince his direct superiors on integrating Chinese martial arts into Marine training fails, a Staff Sergeant (OR-6) Hartman massively goes over his superiors heads, seemingly straight to a ''General'' (OF-9) to propose the idea to him. Not only is this a serious disregard of the chain of command something as trivial as showing of a different type of martial arts is something most Generals, let alone junior officers, wouldn't bother with compared to other more pressing matters in their respective stations.

** ''Every'' board member of the Chinese Benevolent Association is a master of some martial art style, but Master Wan, as head of the CBA, does better against Geddes than any of his cohorts.

* BlandNameProduct: The karate style used in the history is called "Kyokuten", an obvious replacement of the real life Kyokushin.

* BondVillainStupidity: Geddes manages to land a massive throw on Ip and kick him a few times, leaving him temporally out of commission... and then, instead of capitalizing on the advantage as he did against Wan, he steps back and starts taunting him with racist slurs, giving him time to recover and a reason to be fired up afterwards. When they re-engage, the tide turns predictably against Geddes, who this time does try to capitalize on another knockdown - only that it is useless now because Ip has a new strategy and is energized by the taunts. This eventually makes Geddes lose the fight.

* CombatPragmatist: Ip Man capitalizes on Geddes' no rules warning to hit multiple low blows and eye rakes during their fight, ultimately winning the match thanks to it. Geddes also focuses his high kicks on Ip's injured arm when he finds out about it.

** Barton Geddes is blatantly racist and brutal even to defeated enemies, and doesn't get so much as a PetTheDog moment or other redeeming quality to offset this.

* {{Hypocrite}}: The viciously racist and Eaglelandian Frater and Geddes seem blind to the fact that the karate they hold in such high regard is itself not originally a white man's martial art like boxing or Greco-Roman wrestling, or at bare minimum a non-East Asian style like Krav Maga.

* ImmediateSelfContradiction: When punishing a black soldier, Geddes claims not to be a racist... only for him to use a racial insult on the soldier immediately afterwards. Given that later in the film Geddes has no problem openly voicing a long racist lecture, this instance was possibly just a sick joke.

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: All by Geddes

* MadeOfIron: Geddes' main assets, aside from his athleticism and strength, are his great toughness and ability to recover. This is demonstrated in his duel with Wan, as the Chinese master knocks Geddes down ''six'' times with apparent ease, yet is ultimately unable to inflict any real damage on the American, who constantly springs up with more attacks of his own. Ip Man later bypasses this with the help of eye rakes and low blows, a kind of attack no amount of toughness can make you easily shrug off.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Geddes putting in 'no rules' for the fight would be his undoing as he never uses it while Ip Man was able to turn this rule against Geddes by kicking him in the crouch and throat punching.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Combined with LaserGuidedKarma, Ip Man ends [[spoiler: his bout against Sergeant Geddes]] the same way Geddes ended the fight with Wan: By breaking his arm. For a bonus, he also punches Geddes in the throat.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Happens twice in the film both from Chinese giving it to racist westerners. First is Yonah towards Becky, see IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance, and the other is Hartman towards Geddes in the climax of the film.

* ShoutOut: Possibly with Barton Geddes, a western hand-to-hand instructor who adopted a Japanese martial arts 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.
* SickeningCrunch: Wan's shattered knee lets out a loud one in his fight against Geddes while Geddes's broken arm lets out a quiet one in his fight against Ip Man.

* WaifFu: Master Chiang, the female kung fu master, manages to land a few strikes on Colin and make him feel them, which his previous male opponent had failed to do. Possibly justified, as said male master was substantially older than both Chiang and Colin.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Geddes would've won when he had Ip Man on the floor and could've finished him off, but instead he chooses to insult him and let's him get back up, which then leads to his own defeat. Also because of his 'no rules', Ip Man was able to turn this rule against Geddes and had he not put it in, he would've won.

Previews: [[https://youtu.be/V4qmd7DE5tk Trailer 1]], [[https://youtu.be/W6kENxxxLVI Trailer 2]], [[https://youtu.be/PalBSeEgJJI Final Trailer]].

!!This film provides examples of:

* DeadlyDistantFinale: [[spoiler: The film ends with a montage depicting Ip Man's funeral several decades later]].

''Ip Man 4'' (or ''Ip Man 4: The Finale''), is a 2019 Hong Kong {{martial arts movie}}, the third sequel to ''Film/IpMan'' and the fifth film in the ''Film/{{Ip Man|Film Series}}'' film series, starring Creator/DonnieYen once again in the title role.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: In the movie, the Chinese Benevolent Association is shown to welcome recent Chinese immigrants, including undocumented ones. In reality, the Association [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Consolidated_Benevolent_Association#History opposed new Chinese immigration starting in the 1870's. This policy persisted into the 1960s]].

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: In the movie, the Chinese Benevolent Association is shown to welcome recent Chinese immigrants, including undocumented ones. In reality, the Association [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Consolidated_Benevolent_Association#Immigration_in_the_1960s opposed new Chinese immigration starting in the 1960's]].

** Yonah resents her father for not taking her own interests to heart and his mindset of knowing what's best for his daughter because he is the parent. She makes up with him, however, after the Marines take him into custody.

* TheCheerleader: Becky.

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown:

** When he had Ip Man on the floor during the fight, he insults him y calling a little yellow chink.