04-08-2022, 12:50 PM
Yeah, Beijing. That was the night I was grappling with a brutal bout of Mao's revenge. I was sick as a dog. O came up to my room and beckoned me down to join you guys, but I was spent. I just didn't have anything left to do that and needed to recover so we could get into that car crash.
I regretted that for years. That was until I spent a weekend with Chen in FL and wrote this cover story - https://www.kungfumagazine.com/index.php...ticle=1020. He was such a gentleman. It was such an honor.
BTW, The Gallants is definitely worth the view, if you can find it - http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=2179
The original was a better film because it was more serious and original. Wang's film is better because it's ridiculous and unabashedly rips off the original - same weapon, same usage (Qing assassins quashing Ming rebels). But it firmly establishes the weapon as fair game for everyone to rip off, starting a wonderfully campy franchise. I now regret not bringing this point up in my Den retrospective but I banged that out quickly, and it's a huge topic, so it is what it is.
I'd say that the flying guillotine needs a reboot, but they tried that (I did mention that in the retrospective) and it was horrible. Well, not totally horrible, but they messed up by not including the star of the franchise, the flying guillotine itself (I did mention that). Another note I left here http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=2940
I regretted that for years. That was until I spent a weekend with Chen in FL and wrote this cover story - https://www.kungfumagazine.com/index.php...ticle=1020. He was such a gentleman. It was such an honor.
BTW, The Gallants is definitely worth the view, if you can find it - http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=2179
The original was a better film because it was more serious and original. Wang's film is better because it's ridiculous and unabashedly rips off the original - same weapon, same usage (Qing assassins quashing Ming rebels). But it firmly establishes the weapon as fair game for everyone to rip off, starting a wonderfully campy franchise. I now regret not bringing this point up in my Den retrospective but I banged that out quickly, and it's a huge topic, so it is what it is.
I'd say that the flying guillotine needs a reboot, but they tried that (I did mention that in the retrospective) and it was horrible. Well, not totally horrible, but they messed up by not including the star of the franchise, the flying guillotine itself (I did mention that). Another note I left here http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=2940
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