In the coming days, three television documentaries seek to wade through the rapture and nostalgia and explore the man who inspires them.
But we also see the traces of something else — something avoided, perhaps, a reluctance to explore the man fully while paying him tribute.
For all his talk of exploring "the man behind the legend", it's hard not to conclude that Wong is more interested in the indomitable Gong Er than Ip Man, whose story has recently fired a rash of movies, from 2008's Ip Man (and its sequel) with Donnie Yen to 2010's The Legend Is Born from Herman Yau, who also directed 2013's Ip Man: The Final Fight.
"I want to explore the man, his working life, his relationships and how he lived.
These controversies could not overshadow the strength of the film-making, or the wealth of elegiac material that explored the men's friendships with uncommon patience and tenderness.
Disabled athletes have been considered as such, too: South African Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius is known as the "Blade Runner" because he competes with the aid of carbon-fibre artificial limbs Such definitions sit quite happily with Manfred Clynes, who, at the age of 85, continues to explore the man-machine relationship through his creation of a music software program called SuperConductor.
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He recently traveled to Cuba to explore the men and women who have made ballet such a staple of their lives. .
The interviews enabled the interviewer (first author) to explore the men's perceptions and allowed the opinions of the respondents to emerge freely in a pattern that was not predetermined by the interviewer [ 13].
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