The Forbidden Kingdom
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The Forbidden Kingdom is a 2008 Hollywood martial arts-adventure film directed by Rob Minkoff. It is the first film starring together two of the most well-known names in the martial arts film genre, Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
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[edit] Lu Yan
- Remember what I taught you.
- Praying Mantis, very good. For catching bugs, but not tigers.
- Kung Fu hard work over time to accomplish skill. A painter can have Kung Fu, or the butcher who cuts meat with such skill, his knife never touches bone.
- A musician can have Kung Fu, or the poet who paints pictures with words and makes emperors weep, this too is Kung Fu.
[edit] Monkey King
- [grinning impishly and merrily at the Jade Warlord] My turn!
[edit] The Silent Monk
- But do not name it my friend, for it's like water; nothing can overcome water, yet it can overcome rock. It does not fight; it moves around the opponent, boneless, nameless. The true master dwells within. Only you can be free.
- Learn the form, but seek the formless. Hear the soundless. Learn it all, then forget it all. Learn The Way, then find your own way.
[edit] Ni Chang
- How romantic. Men will tell you what you want to hear, Sparrow, but in the end they will leave you with nothing!
[edit] Dialogue
- Jason Tripitikas: I can't understand you!
- Lu Yan: [in English, when he previously spoke in a Chinese dialect] That's because you're not listening!
- Silent Monk: What about two tigers, one mountain?
- Lu Yan: We can kill each other when this is over.
- Lu Yan: "How can you fill your cup when it's full? Empty Your Cup."
- [Jason tosses tea out of his cup; it falls on the fire and puts it out]
- Lu Yan: "It is hopeless! Hopeless!"
- Golden Sparrow: How good is your kung fu?
- Lu Yan: He's got no kung fu. None!
- Jason Tripitikas: How long as he been imprisoned?
- Lu Yan: Five hundred years, give or take a few decades.
- Jason: So how do I get home?
- Lu Yan: You must return the staff you Five Elements Mountain, you must free the Monkey King!
- Jason: I don't wanna free the Monkey King I wanna go home
- Lu Yan: (ignoring Jason for the moment) Innkeeper, more wine!
- Jason: Don't you think you had enough?
- Lu Yan: In some areas I'm known as a poet and storyteller.
- [inkeeper arrives with the bill]
- Lu Yan: In other areas I'm known as a beggar. [gently moves the innkeeper towards Jason for him to pay]
- [Lu Yan is in bed, dying from his arrow wound]
- Lu Yan: When I was your age, I was a scholar-warrior in training. My arrow was good, so too my kung fu. I was chosen to take the several exams. To pass would place me among a short line of scholar immortals. I failed.
- Jason: You're not immortal?
- Lu Yan: If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. ....But then, does he ever truly live? I'd rather die a mortal, with a care for someone, than to live as an immortal free from his death.
- Jason: I don't wanna lose you.
- Lu Yan: Forget about me.
- Lu Yan: It is said that master and student walk side-by-side, sharing their fate, until they go their separate ways.
- Jason: I will never forget you.
- Lu Yan: I guess that's what being immortal truly means.
- Jason: Is this a dream?
- Lu Yan: No, where you come from is the dream, through the gate of no gate.
- Jason: What is that, like a wormhole or something?
- Lu Yan: No, either you are a Zen Master, or you carry something very special.
- Jason: [points to the staff] This? It was in a pawnshop waiting for a guy to pick it up, and return it to its rightful owner.
- [guards come into the inn]
- Jason: What are we gonna do?
- Lu Yan: How good is your Kung Fu?
- [Jason does not reply immediately]
- Lu Yan: Ah! He who speaks, does not know. He who knows, does not speak. Surely, you're masterful.
- Jade Warlord: The seeker from the prophecy. Not quite what I expected.
- Jason Tripitikas: A man is dying on Song Mountain. I need the elixir.
- Jade Warlord: The power to save a life for the power to rule a kingdom, a most generous offer. This man, a good friend?
- Jason Tripitikas: And a good teacher.
- Jade Warlord: The man who honors his teacher honors himself.
