Random stuff and HKmovie: The Banquet
Jan. 1st, 2007 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreParents invited me out to lunch yesterday and then I completely forgot about it until just a few minutes before Dad called to ask me to bid on something at ebay for him. Myles and Jen were there, too, which probably was my last chance to see them before Jackson's born(and I need to call them, since today's their second anniversary)
On the flipside, my project for this weekend was to organize my very disorderly manga collection. To give you an idea of what kind of prject that is, the collection is roughly the same mass of my couch(which is a small couch and closer to a love seat, but still...) and that was accomplished an hour or two ago. The collection is also a little smaller now.
I spent my Hastings gift cards that I got for Christmas today and got the Audrey Hepburn DVD collection(with "Sabrina," "Roman Holiday," and "Breakfast at Tiffany's") that I've been meaning to get for about 2 years now, as well as "Paris When It Sizzles." As I STILL haven't watched "Funny Face" or "How to Steal A Million," it seems there's a fair bit of Audrey in my future.
Since I have working speakers now, I've also watched the first 2 episodes of "Perfect Girl Evolution"(aka, Wallflower) on youtube, and if this thing gets licensed, it may be my first anime that I get as the DVDs come out in a good long while.
And finally, I watched my first movie of the year "The Banquet"(1) which is best described as the chinese version of "Hamlet." If you know the basic plot of Hamlet, then you know the basic plot of The Banquet...if the Queen(Empress here, of course) were actually Hamlet's stepmother and they were lovers before she married his father, and the plot at revenge was really her way of trying to take over everything herself. (Not that any of this precludes the existance of an Ophelia character...) It was pretty good, though it didn't knock any other favorites off their pedestals, and visually a little different from most of these movies. The coloring was rather stark, often with most colors in a scene almost blending, and one character or set piece standing out, and the morality is even more color coded than it is in "Hero."
And as a bit of accidental amusement, it was funny to hear a Ziyi Zhang character refer to herself as a "helpless woman"(which her character was anything but...) I know her charactersd aren't always martial arts masters(and I've seen a few of the roles...) but it IS what she tends to be most associated with.
And now, pictures:
On the flipside, my project for this weekend was to organize my very disorderly manga collection. To give you an idea of what kind of prject that is, the collection is roughly the same mass of my couch(which is a small couch and closer to a love seat, but still...) and that was accomplished an hour or two ago. The collection is also a little smaller now.
I spent my Hastings gift cards that I got for Christmas today and got the Audrey Hepburn DVD collection(with "Sabrina," "Roman Holiday," and "Breakfast at Tiffany's") that I've been meaning to get for about 2 years now, as well as "Paris When It Sizzles." As I STILL haven't watched "Funny Face" or "How to Steal A Million," it seems there's a fair bit of Audrey in my future.
Since I have working speakers now, I've also watched the first 2 episodes of "Perfect Girl Evolution"(aka, Wallflower) on youtube, and if this thing gets licensed, it may be my first anime that I get as the DVDs come out in a good long while.
And finally, I watched my first movie of the year "The Banquet"(1) which is best described as the chinese version of "Hamlet." If you know the basic plot of Hamlet, then you know the basic plot of The Banquet...if the Queen(Empress here, of course) were actually Hamlet's stepmother and they were lovers before she married his father, and the plot at revenge was really her way of trying to take over everything herself. (Not that any of this precludes the existance of an Ophelia character...) It was pretty good, though it didn't knock any other favorites off their pedestals, and visually a little different from most of these movies. The coloring was rather stark, often with most colors in a scene almost blending, and one character or set piece standing out, and the morality is even more color coded than it is in "Hero."
And as a bit of accidental amusement, it was funny to hear a Ziyi Zhang character refer to herself as a "helpless woman"(which her character was anything but...) I know her charactersd aren't always martial arts masters(and I've seen a few of the roles...) but it IS what she tends to be most associated with.
And now, pictures: