I suspect there will be little of me to make of the martial arts. Wuxia and reality are not closely related. Beauty and magic are paramount.
Numfar! Do the dance of joy.
Elder ,'Power Play'
Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned
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§ ita § - Aug 29, 2004 3:42:27 pm PDT #3311 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dana - Aug 29, 2004 4:08:37 pm PDT #3312 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I was a little sleepy when I saw Hero, and it was perfect. I just let all the visuals wash over me.
tommyrot - Aug 29, 2004 4:11:22 pm PDT #3313 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I am watching Showgirls. How long before my head explodes?
Betsy HP - Aug 29, 2004 4:22:15 pm PDT #3314 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Beauty and magic we have in spades and notrump. Lovely, lovely movie, and I shall be dashing out to buy the DVD when I can. I don't love it quite as much as CTHD because I love CTHD's plot more. But the colors... manoman.
sumi - Aug 29, 2004 4:45:30 pm PDT #3315 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I saw Ned Kelly on dvd today and that scene in the bar, where OB speaks in Chinese? I couldn't help but suddenly think OB in BDM3! Silly, I know.
I also saw Big Fish to which I had an unexpectedly intense reaction. I cried my guts out as soon as Will starts telling his dad the story of how he is going to walk into the river. And I couldn't stop. I had been thinking how good it would have been to see this on the big screen -- but now I'm feeling kind of relieved that I didn't.
sumi - Aug 29, 2004 4:45:46 pm PDT #3316 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Frankenbuddha - Aug 29, 2004 5:03:49 pm PDT #3317 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Ed McMahon (of all people) slapped on a portentious voice over and it was finally released years later as Daughter of Horror.
I've read about this movie! It got a big write-up in the RE SEARCH's book "Incredibly Strange Movies". And they also mention TOUCH OF EVIL in terms of the setting.
I don't love it quite as much as CTHD because I love CTHD's plot more.
As a friend of mine said, it's not as much fun as CTHD - everything about the movie is a bit more distanced and abstracted, very deliberately I think. But, oh YEAH! Eye candy deluxe. Beautiful acting, too.
Dana - Aug 29, 2004 5:13:00 pm PDT #3318 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
sumi, I pretty much had the same reaction. And it really got me in the heart when the old man said "Story of my life."
Betsy HP - Aug 29, 2004 5:14:05 pm PDT #3319 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Hmm. I thought Hero was supposed to be a Great Patriotic Movie whereas CTHD is explicitly a Great Adventure/Romantic Movie. The patriotic theme of Hero didn't work as well for me; I loved the inner stories, but not the framing stories. I had tears streaming down my face for several of the inner stories.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 29, 2004 5:18:15 pm PDT #3320 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hmm. I thought Hero was supposed to be a Great Patriotic Movie whereas CTHD is explicitly a Great Adventure/Romantic Movie.
It may very well have been intended as such (or perhaps, pitched as such so it could get made), but it struck me as a far more universal meditation on the subject of sacrifice