While they might not be quite so popular with Western audiences in this day and age, martial arts films have a secure place in pop culture history, whether we’re talking about Jackie Chan or Bruce Lee, The Karate Kid or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. As the genre’s name suggests, these movies are founded upon some form or forms of martial arts, but that doesn’t mean everything depicted within them is entirely true to life. Sorry kids, karate doesn’t make you into some kind of indestructible superhero. Let’s look at five myths about martial arts that these movies promote. Winners escape a fight undamaged. If the hero wins a fight, he
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