The Real Shaolin by Alex Sebastien Lee

[Lucas]

lucas knows what hes buying himself for the holidays

[solo1]

Ordered "The Real Shaolin" last week.

First the photography is amazing it further pressed my need to see China before i die. You get very close to the 4 guys in the movie and you develop incredible empathy for what they are going thru and what their lives are like. You are rooting for them very early on and want them to succeed at all costs, then the depression sets in. Its is tough to watch a ten year old whose mother left him at the temples gates be treated so poorly, the conditions that these guys live in will make you appreciate the west a lot more then we do. Sanda is an unbelievably violent and unforgiving event. Get hurt and cant train? you have very little left to turn to. I loved the movie will watch it again and again but be prepared. Its a wake up call of massive proportions. Mr Lee has produced a masterpiece it is the best 20 bucks I ever spent. CMA guys owe it to themselves to see this movie.

[Shaolindynasty]

Before i went to shaolin I watched some of those other documentaries like "myth and logic of shaolin kungfu" etc. After having been there I can't really watch those anyore. "the Real Shaolin" is the only one that captures the experince of training in Dengfeng. Excellent film

[therealshaolin]

Thank you Solo1 and Shaolindynasty! Hearing praise such as this makes the 5 years I spent working on the film all worth it!

Best,
Alexander Lee

[solo1]

Thank you brother for making it.

[David Jamieson]

I haven;t seen it yet.

Is it anything like Leslie Woodheads 1999 film "Kung Fu Business" which follows a couple of people as they enter the shaolin school to train and their different reasons for doing so. One guy can't complete the program and in it a guy from a wu shu university program is trying to get a job as a body guard and he is confronted with teh superior ability of a security guard who came from teh shaolin school etc etc. Pretty cool film as well.

I wonder if they are similar in flavour, but I guess I won't know til I see this one.

[Shaolindynasty]

For me one of the most powerful moments is when the french guy is explaining how that they were building character for buddhism but in terms of martial arts they were wasting their time. you could see him realising the myths he was chasing weren't real

[GeneChing]

Our biweekly online sweepstakes is offering REAL SHAOLIN autographed by director Alex Sebastien Lee. Enter for your chance to win. Contest ends 4/28/2010. Good luck everyone!

[GeneChing]

See our Real Shaolin DVD autographed by Alex Sebastien Lee Winners thread.

Thanks again for the great prizes, Alex!

[therealshaolin]

Thank you again Gene and thank you to the winners!