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Many people had identified silat for its dance-like movements, for its beauty and its grace. But 'The Raid' shows it in a fighting situation. It's a very efficient, fast, hard-hitting form of martial art.
“Many people had identified silat for its dance-like movements, for its beauty and its grace. But 'The Raid' shows it in a fighting situation. It's a very efficient, fast, hard-hitting form of martial art.”
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“Many people had identified silat for its dance-like movements, for its beauty and its grace. But 'The Raid' shows it in a fighting situation. It's a very efficient, fast, hard-hitting form of martial art.”
“I'm just grateful that I have a chance to introduce traditional Indonesian martial arts to a worldwide audience.”
“Really, everything can be a weapon. It can be a pen, it can be a shoe; everything is usable.”
“Silat is like kung fu, but close combat, and it has its own traditional character. In a lot of movies in Indonesia, it had become mystical: people flying or pretending they can push fireballs with their hands.”
“Getting calls from Hollywood has been quite surreal to be honest.”
“I really hate the movies that you can see the stunt double.”
“In France, they call the beauty of youth 'the evil beauty.' You don't have it because of you but because you're born with it. The other kind of beauty is your own work, and it takes forever.”
“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
“A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.”
“Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.”
“No doubt boxing's brutal beauty lies in the eye of the rooting beholder.”
“The beauty of my journey is that it's always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.”