house 'o the flying daggers
ANDY LAU!
ANDY LAU!
ANDY LAU!!
When we were 12 (in 6A2) there was this girl in my class... i forgot her name. She was dark skinned yet chinese, with short hair tied in two bunches. She was also short in stature and not known as a beauty (although she is probably very beautiful now, as most of my classmates are when they grow up). Answers on a postcard please. Anyway she was the one we mocked because she loved Andy Lau and she spoke chinese real well and had pictures of him all over her scrapbook. Us arrogant english-as-a-first-language-speaking snobs thought it was so uncool to like andy lau because he was far too chinese and not cool and 'western'. As i started growing up I gravitated towards chinese as 'too cool' and tried to date various chinese speaking men to perfect the language (i told you: learning 'on the pillow' DOES NOT WORK!), but now i have sort of gravitated away from any one society in particular, trying to be the perfect objective historian with no prior bias. The perfect economist reduces humans to this: wants are unlimited, despite the scarcity of resources. Screw culture, we're all selfish bastards, all of us, even those who dabbled in communism.
(as an aside, desperate housewives is on and one of the men is leaving his wife, and she is packing his suitcase for him! awwwww perfect housewife).
Anyway, i shall eat my words, spoken in haste all those years ago. Andy lau is hot and what's-her-name was spot on in 1991. Another hot chick in this film, which i was inefficiently trying to review before i was sidetracked by my own wonderful character (or lack of) analysis was Takeshi Kaneshiro. Now that explains why the accents in the film were funny. Andy Lau speaks cantonese and Takeshi Kaneshiro speaks... Geez, i don't know much about him except that he is Jap (or half) and babyflite adores him, and though he is fluent in mandarin he didn't sound regular one bit. Go on! post some decent pics of this one, with no clothes on, thanks.
For some reason, the film didn't inspire me. I am a fan of Zhang YiMou but the characters he created in this film were too unbelieveable and rather psycho. None were likable and they were all intent on suicide. There was some 'Infernal Affairs' plotline going on as well, and things started getting confusing between all the Chinese films that have made it into the ,: Infernal Affairs, Crouching Tiger, Hero. Andy Lau plays a double agent in 2 films. Zhang Ziyi has a penchant for suicide. Takeshi is new to the scene and looking yummy. Treetop fighting scene? Check. Sex without taking off trousers? Check. Colour combinations of clothes to fit surroundings? Yup. Sudden weather changes to conveniently change the colour of the scene? Check. Loads of flying arrows/daggers, and now bamboo poles that far outnumber the targets? Check.
The really interesting bits of plot, like who exactly was the leader of the bandits? and what happened in the ensuing war? were cut in favour of a long fight scene , where the boys fight it out in a manner that reminded me strangely of Celebrity deathmatch , where the combatants continue to hack off each other limbs after being mortally wounded themselves. Or perhaps Akira, where flesh and guts are splashed about beyond reasonable limits?
Another thing that struck me was that parts of the film were filmed in Ukraine. Has Central Europe overtaken China as being the cheapest filming location? Should all fast moving consumer goods be thus made in Ukraine? What is the world coming to. Goodnight then.
ANDY LAU!
ANDY LAU!!
When we were 12 (in 6A2) there was this girl in my class... i forgot her name. She was dark skinned yet chinese, with short hair tied in two bunches. She was also short in stature and not known as a beauty (although she is probably very beautiful now, as most of my classmates are when they grow up). Answers on a postcard please. Anyway she was the one we mocked because she loved Andy Lau and she spoke chinese real well and had pictures of him all over her scrapbook. Us arrogant english-as-a-first-language-speaking snobs thought it was so uncool to like andy lau because he was far too chinese and not cool and 'western'. As i started growing up I gravitated towards chinese as 'too cool' and tried to date various chinese speaking men to perfect the language (i told you: learning 'on the pillow' DOES NOT WORK!), but now i have sort of gravitated away from any one society in particular, trying to be the perfect objective historian with no prior bias. The perfect economist reduces humans to this: wants are unlimited, despite the scarcity of resources. Screw culture, we're all selfish bastards, all of us, even those who dabbled in communism.
(as an aside, desperate housewives is on and one of the men is leaving his wife, and she is packing his suitcase for him! awwwww perfect housewife).
Anyway, i shall eat my words, spoken in haste all those years ago. Andy lau is hot and what's-her-name was spot on in 1991. Another hot chick in this film, which i was inefficiently trying to review before i was sidetracked by my own wonderful character (or lack of) analysis was Takeshi Kaneshiro. Now that explains why the accents in the film were funny. Andy Lau speaks cantonese and Takeshi Kaneshiro speaks... Geez, i don't know much about him except that he is Jap (or half) and babyflite adores him, and though he is fluent in mandarin he didn't sound regular one bit. Go on! post some decent pics of this one, with no clothes on, thanks.
For some reason, the film didn't inspire me. I am a fan of Zhang YiMou but the characters he created in this film were too unbelieveable and rather psycho. None were likable and they were all intent on suicide. There was some 'Infernal Affairs' plotline going on as well, and things started getting confusing between all the Chinese films that have made it into the ,: Infernal Affairs, Crouching Tiger, Hero. Andy Lau plays a double agent in 2 films. Zhang Ziyi has a penchant for suicide. Takeshi is new to the scene and looking yummy. Treetop fighting scene? Check. Sex without taking off trousers? Check. Colour combinations of clothes to fit surroundings? Yup. Sudden weather changes to conveniently change the colour of the scene? Check. Loads of flying arrows/daggers, and now bamboo poles that far outnumber the targets? Check.
The really interesting bits of plot, like who exactly was the leader of the bandits? and what happened in the ensuing war? were cut in favour of a long fight scene , where the boys fight it out in a manner that reminded me strangely of Celebrity deathmatch , where the combatants continue to hack off each other limbs after being mortally wounded themselves. Or perhaps Akira, where flesh and guts are splashed about beyond reasonable limits?
Another thing that struck me was that parts of the film were filmed in Ukraine. Has Central Europe overtaken China as being the cheapest filming location? Should all fast moving consumer goods be thus made in Ukraine? What is the world coming to. Goodnight then.