Maybe I have to watch this again but I thought it was clearly implied that Yuen Biao's character kills Sammo Hung's character. Yuen tells Sammo to drink this medicine, not this other one, and seconds later, Sammo drops dead. But this is never touched upon later in the movie. Thoughts?
shareI don`t think so, but i suggest you to change the headline to just SPOILERS or something instead, since you have revealed he does die. You should also use the SPOILERS tag, like i did.
"We are going to eat you!"
Zombi 2, tagline.
Unless you were watching it under some really bad translation I don't see how hard this film can possibly be to understand.
Yuen Biao served the first medicine but Sammo did not drink it as he's too focused in teaching the students. The medicine got cold. Yuen Biao saw this and went back to heat up another medicine. Sammo was about to drink the cold one but Yuen Biao stopped him and told him that he should drink this hot one instead. Sammo died wasn't because Yuen Biao poisoned it. His old age simply gave in regardless if he had drank the medicine or not. He was supposed to die as Chan Wah Shun died 3yrs after accepting Yip Man as his disciple.
The scene is question:
Sammo Hung is about to drink his medicine but is stopped by Yuen Biao.
Yuen Biao: "Drink this one, Master. This bowl is freshly made. (hands Sammo the new bowl of medicine) You're so busy. The medicine won't be as effective if it's reheated."
Sammo Hung: "Chung So, you are dedicated and dutiful, I'll be happy to see you inherit this school. [Ip] Man is gifted in martial arts. Give him the best after I am gone.
Yuen Biao: (nods) Yes!
Sammo Hung: (coughs) Go watch them!
Yuen Biao: (nods and leaves)
Sammo Hung drinks from the bowl. Less than five seconds later, he drops dead.
If the implication wasn't that Yuen Biao's character poisoned Sammo Hung's character, the editing was incredibly sloppy.
If he were trying to poison his teacher, he would have poisoned both batches rather than just the second. He made them both, and being medicine, it's unlikely anyone but Sammo's character would be drinking them.
Poison never crossed my mind, only the part about it being more effective hot and fresh. If anything, the implication is that his health was failing and he was too focused on teaching to pay proper attention to it...thereby leading to his collapse/death.
I really don't see how the editing was sloppy at all.
agreed. there is no implication of poisoning.
shareI guess you could sorta see why someone could make that assumption, but I doubt it is true.
If Chung-sok (biao) poisoned his master in order to take over, things would have been different when he was in charge.
Instead Chung still kept everything the way his master wanted it.
Chung didn't start creating his own rules or methods or changing the way things are done.
All those things are typical of something that a person who did a "hostile takeover" would have done.
Exactly. He also wouldn't ask his dead master for advice in times of need.
Also, this wasn't the only scene with medicine and tea. He was servicing him tea/medicine before, implying that this is something he does daily, maybe for years. When he drops dead, it could very well be yet another occasion, not the one where he got a second bowl.
And that's not bad editing, in asian movies it's normal to show a sequence of short scenes like this and then the viewer has to make the connection.
A different year was shown when the master actually died, it didn't happen immediately after he drank the tea that was replaced in the timeline.
"Even though I'm no more than a monster - don't I, too, have the right to live? " -Oh Dae-Su