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In this post, this blogger will point out a few observations regarding some Tekken fighters. Particularly, with which real-life celebrity they might've been based on.
Let's start with the obvious ones.
Yeah, most Tekken characters are inspired by pop-culture martial arts heroes and anime cliches. With characters like Law and Lei, the reference is pretty obvious, but with some other characters it isn't quite that immediate. For example, anyone remember Cynthia Rothrock?
Yes, we know, Nina Williams is a whole lot hotter than Cynthia Rothrock, but given that most of Nina's peers in the very first Tekken were obviously based on late-seventies, early-eighties action heroes, so Cynthia gets the credit for Nina, the Tekken 1 Nina. The future versions of Nina in the subsequent Tekkens owe more to anime-stylings, and peer pressure from Dead or Alive than to Cynthia (due to Nina's hotter bod), but if the Tekken 5 costume is to be taken into account, the influence is still there.
Other influences to be found in Tekken characters? There's King, and if you've got an international wrestling channel on cable, you'd be able to sniff the Luchador influence. There's Gon, who is more of a guest character than a "reference" Tekken character, since Gon is also a character in a classic Japanese manga. There's Jack Who's obviously a terminating Arnie.
Baek resembles the a cliche suave Korean soap opera elder. Hworang resembles a Korean soap opera punk. Wikipedia claims that Feng Wei is based on martial arts B-movie actor Bolo Yeung. Bolo is that guy who got beat a lot by Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme.
But what is the Tekken reference of ultimate power and ultimate destiny? Well, Paul always said he was the strongest. That, and Paul's dynamic with Law reminds us of another martial arts hero who had an interesting dynamic with Bruce Lee.
We have Connan O'Brien to thank for this.
Given that the game already is infused with a huge number of in-game hollywood/movie references, the supposed 2009 Live-action movie version by Charles Stone III better be good. The characters are already based on stereotypes, how hard can casting be?
What about the Mishimas? Well, they're all a bunch of anime-induced emo-boys ('cept for old man Heihachi) so I won't bother with them. Of course that's just me being a bit too lazy to do some research on them. If you happen to know some odd factoid regarding the influences behind Heihachi and his progeny's character design, feel free to comment.
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His moves are like Van Damme's
Well it has already been said by a developer that it is based on Bruce Lee! But look at the fist cover http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/image_viewer/boxshot.php?pid=366755
GOD NO! Paul is A STREET FIGHTER AND CHUCK IS A JUDO KARATE PR*T!
y.. paul is jean cloud van damme
steve fox-brad pit from the movie snatch murduk-bill goldberg dragunov- hitler lolz bruce irving-billy blanks (lol jk i dont kno, would be nice if he was based on tony jaa from ong-bak) raven-wesley snipes
Chuck isn't a Judo Karate anything. Chuck learned JKD from Bruce and that's mainly what he does. JKD takes the good stuff from a lot of martial arts including Kung Fu, Judo, Karate and a lot of other arts. Chuck was doing full contact fighting long before it was popular. In some of the Bruce Lee movies the two of them fight without pulling blows or doing stage fighting, they are really going at each other.
Raven = Blade
I'd say that Draganov has a pinch of Jacko in him aswell
Reven= blade as they allrady said jecky goes for lei of course bruse will smith can play him mmm... jin can be kiano rivs :P it will be cool kazuya... just find a crazy looking korean guy and it will be good :P anna... there are alot! but you know you cant put all characters of the game in the movie... there are 30+ , you cant use every one... think about it
Heihachi=Mr. Miogi from karate kid
if kianu reeves had the body of the rock it would be perfect for him
stupid *****gots get some scrotum suackcing nuts im playing warcraft 3
You guys should put in Tony Jaa in that cast. That'd be pretty cool :P
yeah , but thats only if you feed him after mid-night
believe it or not Christie was based on none other that Jennifer Lopez! Weird huh?
I always saw him as brad pitt for some reason...
Just don't forget to eat.
hhhmmmmmmmmmm.... what about yoshimitsu????????
Dragunov - Johnny Depp (imagine Edward Scissorhands) Lili - Paris Hilton Anna - Carmen Elecktra Nina - Ashely Judd Michelle Chang - Jennifer Lopez Julia Chang - Eva Longoria Christie Monteiro - Jessica Alba Armor King - Batista with mask King - Kane with mask Baek Doo San - Steve Blackman (former WWE) Bruce Irving - Booker T Eddy Gordo - Tony Jaa Raven - Blade Ling Xiaoyu - Zhang Zhiyi Heicachi Mishima - Ken Watanabe (the Last Samurai with Tom Cruise)
I always thought Kiefer Sutherland would make a good Paul just in the looks department, now teaching Ol'Kiefer to do the martial arts sequences for the movie is another question.
About the females! JUN=YUKIE NAKAMA NINA=KRISTIANNA LOKEN MICHELLE=ROSELYN SANCHEZ CHRISTIE=TYRA BANKS(they look alike twins) XIAOYU=VICKY ZHAO WEI JULIA =JESSICA ALBA(they have exactly the same face and body) ASUKA=CHIAKI KURIYAMA
Raven:Blade Christie:J-LO Jin Kazama:Keanu Reeves Yoshimitsu:Predator Lee:Jesse Mcartny Wang Jinrei:My grandfather
I looked the pictures and i realised that chiaki looks a lot with asuka.And i agree with you about tyra banks(maybe she is older for christie but she look like a 19 old)Jessica alba for julia is a very good idea,i think she look very much alike her!
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