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[Weekly Update] Fashion in movies
🕑 Added 2023-05-14 22:12:44 +0000 UTCLast update before I fly my butt to Hong Kong and scavenge for obscure movies in Portland Street! Update will continue, but it'll be sharing more of my journey rather than just general movie talks!
CHANNEL UPDATE
Our last video on America's Monkey King was loads of fun to make! It's probably one of the most obscure piece of American media I've seen, and I'm happy to be able to introduce it to tens of thousands of people out there. There are viewers who started reading Journey to the West because of the video. I think that may be the best possible outcome I can hope for.
Originally, our next video will be a short one, in which I share my favourite fight scenes from Chinese cinema. However, I realize I don't have much original thoughts I want to share. They are all famous fight scenes that most of my audience has probably saw.
For those who are curious, I wanted to talk about Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi's sword fight in Crouching Tiger, Jet Li and Donnie Yen's fight in Hero, and the final battle in Drunken Master 2. They don't need any introduction, so I decided to put this video topic on hold. Let me know if you still want to hear my thoughts about it.
Instead, I'll be making the total opposite video: 3 bad fight scenes from Hong Kong action cinema. It's a topic that's surprisingly hard to research. If you google "bad fight scenes in Hong Kong cinema", the only results you'll get are lists upon lists of GOOD fights.
Now that is a unique topic.
Finally, in our last update, I said I'll be talking about Dune and Avatar 2. That video turned out to be kinda negative, and I decided to shelf it. Instead, we'll be talking about Blues Brothers. It seems a lot of you enjoyed classic comedies from the 50s and 60s. If you do, I think you'll love Blues Brothers, too. Give it a watch!
MEDIA TALK
Spoiler for our next video, be one of the bad fight scenes featured will be from the movie Dragon Tiger Gate (2006). I remember two things from this movie: The climax fight ruined by unnecessary and distracting CGI. And the hair. Oh my god, the hair.
If there is a movie that screams early 2000s emo-hair, it'd absolutely be this movie made in the second half of the 2000s. Trust me, it was out dated even back when it came out. This movie was made after X-Men 2. But it feels like it was made in 1999.
Also, props to the Steven Universe shirt.
It does make me wonder, though. Will we always look back at these hair and thing it is bad?
I remember during the promotion of Terminator Dark Fate, Linda Hamilton went to, I think, Conan, and talked about her experience working with Arnold. And she said the first Terminator is the one with bad hairs. And I have to agree. It is so, so 80s. Good lord.
But like, will we one day look back at this and think it is classy? I mean, if you look back at movies from the 50s, their hair is no less silly.
So, maybe, it's the time and distance that makes it feel classy. We do like to imbue old things with abstract value.
Or perhaps 80s hair will be perceived as the powder wig of the 20th century, and be forever relegated in the silly looking category.
Anyway, this summer, I've noticed a lot of baggie low waist pants everywhere. It seems our sense of fashion has looped back to the early 2000s, when Spider-Man 2 was a new movie. Most of my friends are old enough to hate that, because it reminds them of their teen years I presume.
So, that was a strange little rant. Which era of movie fashion do you enjoy the most? What's your opinion on 80s hair style? Comment and let me know. I'll see you next time when I'm on the other side of the planet!
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Comments
MCBiohazard
I remember really wanting to like Dragon Tiger Gate, as it was an adaptation of Tony Wong Yuk Long's long running HK manhua comic Oriental Heroes. I was just fascinated about how his art style evolved from primitive and ultraviolent looking Osamu Tezuka knockoffs with too many cartoon muscles to the refined style that HK (and Korean manhwa) comics sport today. Oriental Heroes represented the transition point in his storytelling from ground level street gang stories to fantastical pseudo ancient China settings, brought on by the HK comics code getting on his case for all the ultraviolence. The excessive CG that represented the made up martial arts he tried to incorporate into his new narrative to keep things interesting in lieu of not being Hokuto no Ken or Story of Riki made Dragon Tiger Gate kind of unwatchable but it at least was trying to be true to the source material. I think the only redeeming factor was the soundtrack by Kenji Kawai. Even when the action was lackluster his soundtrack still tried to be frenetic and dynamic when it was called for and that helped. I also liked his ambient and expository tracks and leitmotifs, it helped solidify the comic book feel that the movie was trying to adapt.
Panoat
"House of Flying Daggers" has several memorable fight scenes for me. Not in term of physical prowess but more emotionally charged.
José Luis Porfírio
Just... poor Confucius...
Jordan Neo
I remember enjoying the cgi-filled movies The Storm Riders and A Man Called Hero. I remember Aaron Kwok in the former also sporting some sort of blue hair. I wonder if they were actually good, or if they were just the sort of thing any young audience would have enjoyed.
Jim Ng
Oohh, I think if you want to look at "bad" fight scenes from HK, you just have to look at people that are a bit outside of the Jackie/Sammo, Lau Kar Leung, Yuen Clan circles, and see what guys were doing to compete with their peers! ^,^
