wǔxiá - 2024 ACF Winter at UBC

Question

Cheng Pei-pei was a Shaw Brothers star in this genre, which developed stylized trampoline-and-wire choreography in the 1960s. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this genre of King Hu’s films Dragon Inn and A Touch of Zen. These films typically feature roaming heroes who practice martial arts and swordplay.

ANSWER: wǔxiá [prompt on kung fu, gōngfu, or wǔshù]

[10h] In A Touch of Zen, Hsu Feng spins through the air to dispatch two assassins in one of these places. Ang Lee paid homage to King Hu by filming a wire-work sword duel in one of these places in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

ANSWER: bamboo forest [or bamboo grove; prompt on forest or grove]

[10e] This Wachowski sisters film helped bring Hong Kong “wire fu” to Hollywood. This 1999 film used slo-mo “bullet time” effects to depict fights in a simulated reality.

ANSWER: The Matrix

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	67%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	5	24.00	100%	100%	40%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	9	17.78	100%	67%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


UBC A	SFU	10	10	10	30
UW B	UBC B	0	0	10	10