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I'm a big Kung Fu movie fan and could talk about those for a few pages. Iron Monkey is a fun film, great fight scenes. It contains some Chinese legend and follows the traditional sort of Zorro format. It has the cyphers well known in Kung Fu movies which I'm currentlt at a loss to explain. If broken down into it's heroic and story telling components I think it would be a great viewing for a classroom. What makes a hero or heroine- attributes, actions, etc. What makes a good villain? Every culture has mythologies and their heroes are imbued with what they think human perfection would be and what they would aspire to. Obviuosly there are fight scenes, but no death or dismemberment. I say, "Go for it!"
DEAN