Learning the Chen style kung fu will, apparently, save his life. When the horn turns black is when Lu Chan will die. So, essentially, every time someone hits on him this 'horn' it gets him closer to death. The thing is that it also comes with a killer nosebleed. Every time he's hit on this 'horn' he becomes like the hulk, super strong and deadly. How they explain this is silly, really, and that is that Lu has Horn of the Three Blossoms, I think they call it, on his forehead. In the middle of all this fits in Lu Chan, who has come to Chen village in order to learn their style of kung fu so he won't die. The film does mix in a surprising steampunk element in the film what with Eddie Peng's character trying to install a railway station through his former village and the villagers, obviously set in their ways, resisting and fighting back against the western technology. I think they do mix it up from the usual martial arts films, while also paying tribute and including many martial arts legends, trainers and practitioners. With that said, I did think that this was actually quite a fun martial arts films. I'm not even suggesting that Kung Fu Hustle is the best kun fu film I've ever seen, because it is not, it's just that that film has an unmatched sense of style and silliness that is hard to duplicate. Honestly, once you've seen Kung Fu Hustle, it's kinda hard to be surprised, shocked or enthralled by a film attempting to be silly, goofy and sometimes even video-game inspired.
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