Kung Fu Panda & Engineering

Technical content does not have to be boring, or un-interesting. But to make technical content interesting, editors need to ask the right questions and then listen carefully to the responses. The responses can lead to other questions that get to the interesting aspects of stories.

Once, while rearching a story about Hewlett-Packard computers and servers used to make the movie Kung-Fu Panda, we found an unexpected part of the “engineering” story. It was about the man behind the movie’s main character Po.

Po struggles with becoming a master of kung fu. But not many people know that Mr. Ping, Po’s goose father and the owner of a noodle shop in the movie, is voiced by James Hong, an actor with a long history of playing a variety of amazingly different roles in more than 600 movies. Hong himself is actually the son of a noodle maker. His father had a noodle shop, just like the character he voices in the movie. And so, as a kid, Hong made noodles. He totally understood the experience that Po was going through because Hong’s family wanted him to be an engineer.

Our editors though the Hong portion of the story was so intersting, that we developed a second piece around Hongs story, and both were published together in the same magazine issue.

To read more about Hong and Kung-Fu Panda, send an email to Editor@TechContentEditors.com

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