June 21, 2003
The Hulk
If you think this is just another spiderman-style, based on comic’s movie, you are wrong. You would not only get excitement over all the actions in the movie, you’d get more.
Ang Lee, the Taiwan director who directed The Hulk make the difference. I’ve just seen the movie. To sum all my feel, I enjoyed it very much. Let alone the special effect, the story itself is good. Bruce’s existence is full of conflict. And Lee’s way of controling the rhythm of the movie keep you concentrate all the time. He shows you the contrast of human’s weakness vs fear of the power, the doubt and loneliness of Bruce… And to talk about the computer-simulated Hulk, it was amazing. Perhaps some of the scene would let you feel un-natural, but what really important is: it made the Hulk human. It is so great that a glance of Bruce, his staring, his anger.…all presented so nicely. That isn’t much speech but you got it, that’s call acting.
Ang Lee is no doubt one of the best directors in the world. “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” is his most famous movie before The Hulk. I’ve seen all the Chinese movies directed by him and sure like all of them. He’s just kind of always able to find the balance between art and popularity.
To recall my memory of Hulk, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the comics, except the TV drama showed at 80s.
June 07, 2003
Steven Chow's Shaolin Soccer
It’s fun to watch Shaolin Soccer’s trailers in English(the first and the second). Steven Chow is my favorite comedy actor. He had been praticing many ways of performing comedy (I don’t appreciate all of them though). Shaolin Soccer is his latest film and is going to be showed in U.S.. I wonder would Western share the same type of humuor with Eastern? Moreover, it’s kind of fun to watch his speak in English (for me :-)… but his words and slang is kind of hard to replicate in other language. Anyway, hoping the film could achieve good result and he is more known to the world outside of Asia.
June 02, 2003
A call to God?
While I was driving to work this morning, I heard of this over radio: in movie Bruce Almighty, Jim Carrey has gotten a phone number, which someone page him to call back, and that “someone” appearred to be God! (played by Morgan Freeman). So what would you do if you got God’s phone number in the real world? I bet you’d at least make a call to say hello. That’s story, the phone featured in the film is a actual phone number. Thousand of calls have been made to the number over weekend, since the movie showed in cinema on Friday. Hollywood film usually don’t use a real number, instead they use prefix 555 which never used in U.S.
That’s fun. What’d you going to say to God if you got a chance to talk to him/her? “Hello, may I speak to God? I need some help…”
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May 12, 2003
Before Matrix Reloaded
Kid staring at monitor,
Somebody tell me.
Why it feels more real when I dream than when I am awake
How can I know if my senses are lying?
There is some fiction in your truth,
and some truth in your fiction.
To know the truth, you must risk everything.
Who are you?
Am I alone?
…
You are not alone.
The whole world is now waiting a few more days, for Matrix Reloaded. Before this, to be warmed up, I watched Animatrix — The Matrix Anime. Yes, it’s cool and fascinating, you got to have the feel of re-understand Matrix. It is a series of Anime short films, showing stories of Matrix, explaining what happened before Matrix. The Animatrix was directed by Japanese, Korean and American famous animators, combining of both cool Anime and creativity.
I used to be fan of Japanese Anime/comics, so it’s just match my style. Andy and Larry Wachowski’s writing is still enjoying. If you still don’t get “What is the Matrix?”, go watch their “Second Renaissance Part I & II”. Well, then cross your finger, the Matrix, is coming soon.
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