I don't think it was so much that he changed as a person, it was just that the situation brought out another side in him. That cold-blooded opportunism always existed within him. That's true to life. You can find someone completely amicable and even inspiring when you don't have any conflict of interests, but when issues of loyalty and interests are brought up you might find them putting a bullet in your pa's chest.
True, I guess the way he took a shine to Scott made him appear nicer than he was. He was still cold to the boy but he sort of took him under his wing after he met him. After that he was fairly hard on the boy though, he treated him more like a friend after he turned Scott into a man.
I forgot to add that Gemma was the only bright-spot in Sergio Corbucci's unbelievably abysmal The Whte, The Yellow, and the Black. Despite also starring Elia Wallach and Tomas Milan it's so bad that it's made me think less of Corbucci ever since seeing it.
Have you ever seen the movie "Burn Hollywood Burn" aka "An Alan Smithee film". In my quest to see every Jackie Chan movie I hunted it down and it was basically the story of a writer/director. The studio changes his script and forces him to use actors he doesn't like. His whole movie turns into a disaster and he takes his name off it.
I know nothing about "The White, Yellow, and the Black" but sometimes their are factors outside of the directors control that can ruin his movie for him.
Jay Sherman always had that problem on "The Critic" too.
I'm not sure about that. A lot of impovrished folk who do backbreaking manual labor tend to be small-built and wiry. Think the villagers in Seven Samurai's, for instance. Plus, considering how much they hated him, I don't think the townspeople feed him very well.
But the thing is -- it's not that he is big-bodied, it's that he is toned and muscular. You only get that sort of built from athletics, not hauling around a bunch of shit all day.
I suppose that's true. Japanese people are just like that though. I had a good friend who was half-Japanese and he could benchpress 300lbs when he was 16, he was a beast but he couldn't put on any muscle mass no matter how hard he tried. He even started taking creatine and it didn't help.
And some people are just natural genetic beasts.
While I think it's a soundtrack that works really well in tandem with the film, I don't honestly find it that sonorous on it's own.
While responding to this quote -- I tried formulating a top 10 spaghetti soundtracks of my own. It failed miserably.
There are just so many perfect ones that it becomes impossible to rank them. Morrocone has to many masterpieces for such a crude list.
That surprises me. I love the title track. It worked well in Kill Bill also.
I just checked discogs.com and they have 1020 Ennio Morricone albums listed, including compilations with him on them. I've never seen any artists with close to that many albums. There aren't many record labels that have released over 1000 records, let alone artists. He's done hundreds of soundtracks. I could probably compile a list but I know there's tons of his themes that I've never heard before.
Have you ever seen Kill the Wicked? It was one of those Z-grade Spaghetti's that I remember thinking had a really good main theme, though a rather corny one. The film itself was quite terrible though. One of those films that tried being atmospheric and gothic but just ended up feeling slow and trudging.
Nope, never heard of it.
That the song? It's good. I prefer instrumentals. The ballad of Hank McCain and Django are the only two Italian movie themes (with vocals) that I like, and are coming to mind right now.
You know... it does actually feel like a rather stock American B-western story. Unguided youth finds cool father figure that turns out evil and he has to make a stand against him. It's the Spaghetti moral ambiguity that gives the film it's identity. You're never sure about how Lee Van Cleef would react until the very end. In an American western the borders between good and evil would have been demarcated much clearer for the audience, while Day of Anger only shows the true depths of Van Cleef's callousness when he's finally forced into a corner and has to make a tough decision.
Yeah, I agree. It was reading between the lines that made it interesting. I knew from the description that Scott confronts Lee at the end of the movie. But up until he shot Scott's father-figure, it seemed so unlikely... and often those descriptions are wrong so it still was a little surprising when they finally had their duel at the end.
Lee was corrupted by the power he received from exacting his revenge.
It's not really slow. Episodic and scattered is more it's nature, really. That said, I have to say, the craftsmanship in Queimada deserves a discussion all of it's own. It has this really weird quality -- where I kept thinking that on a textbook level it should be considered rather bad and shoddy. However. in practice, the film works really well in the way it's going about it's buisness.
I don't mind slow as long as the story and cinematography's good. I just noticed there wasn't much dramatic, suspenseful or high-energy music on the soundtrack.
It`s got a 7.5/10 rating on imdb & a metacritic score of 72/100. It sounds very political, and the story is still relevant today. The USA armed the Taliban and paid for it later, as an example. It's a delicate balance.
I watched "Where the Green Ants Dream" by Werner Herzog not too long ago, and sounds like it might cover some of the same elements. The main character is a representative from a big corporation, trying to convince an aboriginal African tribe to sell the land to the company... but the aboriginals have no need or desire for money. The whole movie is about the cultural disconnect between the two parties and how it affects negotiations. They might as well have been from different planets.
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Tai-Chi? I watched that when I was like 10 and it was the most impressive thing I've ever seen. The story about those two brothers drifiting towards good and evil was the height of drama at that age.
I had completely forgotten the title though -- and whom starred in it -- and only rediscovered it about 13 years after that. It was quite a nostalgic moment rewatching it. Really good early Jet Li film. That said, Michelle doesn't really add much to the procedings I feel. It's not really strong on the Yeoh factor.
Yes, before the days of imdb it was a nightmare. Sometimes I would buy an imported $30 HK VHS version of a movie I already had, or that I could buy for $10 under it's American name... The descriptions were in Chinese and the names were different, if you didn't recognize the picture sometimes you'd screw yourself out of $30
It's called Twin Warriors over here. They probably thought the name Tai-Chi would sound too "fruity" to western audiences
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The first Jet Li movie I ever saw was "Black Mask", at the time it was the worst movie I'd ever seen. I hated it. I avoided Jet Li for a while. One day (after seeing Yeoh in Supercop) I bought this movie, solely for Michelle Yeoh, and was blown away by it. I hated wire-trick movies at the time, but this one changed my opinions on them, and on Jet Li.
I barely remember Michelle Yeoh in it, she had one cool fight scene on top of tables at a restaurant I remember, but mostly the two brothers made the film.
Two Supercop movies? Are you referring to Police Story 3 and Once A Cop? Michelle is awesome in Police Story 3 and goes fist-to-kick with Jackie Chan for the entire runtime. Once A Cop I found rather average. An alright but rather typical HK-action flick. Jackie Chan's cameo in the movie was completely pointless though.
This is what I was talking about before. Things got all messed up in North America. There were several Jackie chan movies that their North American movies deemed wouldn't work in North America, later after Jackie's triumphant success they decided to release some of his older movies, thatthey had previously rejected and everything became a mess.
For example, Police Story came out here, then they skipped Police Story 2, so they released part 3 as "Supercop" since there was no part 2 in America it made no sense to make it a trilogy. Later they released Michelle Yeoh's Supercop, which they had to call Supercop 2 since Police Story 3 was already called Supercop.
To play off the success of Operation Condor in North America, "The Armour of the Gods" which wasn't released in North America at the time, came out as "Operation Condor 2: The Armour of the Gods"... so part 2 was filmed in 1986 while part 1 was filmed 5 years later, in 1991... confused yet?
Often different distributors would change the name so you'd see the same movie with three different names and covers on the boxes. When I went to Scotland on vacation I noticed they had a much bigger selection of HK Kung-fu films as well, which surprised me.
A bunch of Jackie movies were never released here on VHS. Several I bought in the UK, then got a guy at my moms work to convert them to VHS (from PAL) for me. Those were the days, the wait really made the movie seem that much more special though. It's too easy nowadays. It's hard not to take them for granted sometimes.
I liked Once Upon A Cop (aka Supercop 2), I read the small print but it was still disappointing to see Jackie's cameo was so short and pointless. Her partner in the movie David (played by Rongguang Yu) did a really good job, he has some great kicks and I'd never seen him before. The story was darker than almost every Jackie Chan movie (except for Crime Story and The Prisoner)
Michelle had some solid stunts in that movie. In one scene she jumps from a roof top onto a cherrypicker. She messed up, broke her rib on the cherry picker and fell 18 stories. She was fearless back then. It doesn't compare to Supercop 1 (aka police story 3) but it was a solid 6/10 imo.
I just noticed on imdb that Michelle Yeoh plays the Judo instructor in Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars. I've seen that movie at least 3 times and I've never noticed.
Ever seen Yes, Madam? It's another Michelle Yeoh flick where she teams-up with Cynthia Rothrock. Their fights in that film are downright spectacular -- their best work. However, unfortunately, the majority of the plotline focuses on 3 annoying and unfunny side characters. Had it been a buddy-cop movie between Yeoh and Rothrock it would have been an action classic.
No, but thank you for asking. I've been wanting to know what that movie's called for close to 20 years now. As soon as i saw the pic on imdb I recognized it.
I've seen clips of it on this VHS compilation. It shows clips from all best of HK kung fu movies, and has interviews with the actors and stuff. They clips of two good clips of Cynthia Rothrock movies, one from "Righting Wrongs" (epic movie) and the other one I never knew what it was from until now....
Rothrock looked amazing in some movies, and in other she looked like a total amateur in her fight scenes. That documentary exposed me to the importance of good directing. Jackie Chan's my stunts took it even further, that's an interesting video too, my cousin in Scotland bought two copies by mistake and gave me one.
I miss the organic feel that VHS's used to have. The loading-noises and the slight blurring in the beginning of every tape.
So did I, then I watched "Back to The Future 2" on VHS in the winter... Maybe I just need a new VCR, it couldn't get the tracking right and was a total mess. It's not a bootleg VHS either, and I'd only watched it once before. Pretty sure it's my VCR. I have three and they all suck, I got given a fourth one last year, I'll have to check it out.
That is... incorrect. Plenty of awesome Shaw Brother's productions by filmmakers like King Hu, Chang Cheh and Lau Kar-Leung.
And your racism towards weapons-based martial arts is holding you back, bro. Plenty of amazing films in that category. My favorite Kung Fu film is probably
The Right Diagram Pole Fighter and that's 90 minutes of a couple of guys swinging poles around.
Fair enough, I should've worded it better. There are good HK KF movies from before the 80's, but none of them (imo) can hold a candle to Police Story or the Project A movies that came out in the 80's. Jackie took kung-fu films to a whole new level with his big stunts, extremely creative fight choreography, and his use of everyday objects in his fights... and the car chases.
Knockabout, Magnificent Butcher, Encounter of the Spooky Kind, The Odd Couple, and Ol' Dirty Kung Fu are all examples of 70's HK kung-fu films that I liked a lot.
It's not like I'm opposed to pole-fighting movies or gun-fight movies, I just rarely go out of my way to see them, and usually don't enjoy them as much. I've seen some bits and pieces of Chow-Yun-Fat films and some of those gun-play scenes are badass.