Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Sunday, March 13, 2005 The Pitch: It's like The Office meets Kung-Fu Hustle! I liked Kung-Fu Hustle. Edi and I watched it last night. Interestingly, I didn't love the movie, but was strongly tempted to re-watch it today. It's a very watchable movie--Stephen Chow is a hell of a visual filmmaker and it's been a while since I've seen a movie I wanted to watch again immediately just to rewatch certain sequences. I find that comofrting in a way, because I remember watching some of my beloved HK movies over and over again in a way I just don't anymore--there's usually one movie I'll watch a few times in the course of a year (last year was the remake and the original of Dawn of the Dead, each of which I saw three or four times) but it's spread out over a period of time not like when I was watching The Killer every other month for a year.This has come up a few times in the course of the relationship. Edi finally saw Planet of the Apes with me last year, and I still haven't shown her The Killer. Or Hard-Boiled. She's seen Drunken Master II (in its American Legend of Drunken Master incarnation) but I still haven't shown her the other Jackie Chan classics: Project A, parts I and II; Armor of God 2; Police Story 1; Wheels on Meals or Dragons Forever (ehh, those last few are minor classics but you know what I mean). And Swordsman II! I was trying to tell her what it was like to watch Swordsman II with an entire audience of people who had no idea what they were getting into, and realized how much more punch the story would have if I actually, you know, had shown her the movie. As I mentioned in a previous post, Edi called me a proselytizer, and I think that's very true. I guess I try to show how much I care for her by not exposing her to all my geeky passions, particularly those that are more past than present. But there are times when I think: how can this person really understand me if they haven't seen The Killer? And yet, there's something genuinely silly about that statement, isn't there? It's sort of saying like you can't make out the whole jigsaw just because two of the pieces are missing. And I do think I like to show people stuff because I think they'll enjoy it, not because it'll help them understand. I can safely say Main Hoon Na has contributed not a whit to my psychological make-up, and yet I'm totally eager to spring it on Edi very soon. Anyway, Kung-Fu Hustle is a very fun, very slight little film. But at least if it somehow becomes the cornerstone of my new philosophy, Edi can say she was right there at the beginning. posted by Jeff Lester | 10:17 PM | |
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