Teenage Mutant Ninja Chaos Engine
Added 2022-01-05 12:38:26 +0000 UTCHooray, hooray, it's a wonderful day, for the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon video is edited! Hope you enjoy it (and the English dub isn't too jarring: I watched the subtitled version but I apparently did something funky with the settings when I ripped it to the computer. Next time...)
In other news, I just received one of the necessary parcels for Holiday Barbie Warrior Princess, so expect pictures in the next few days of me looking bewildered while surrounded by fabric.
Comments
It's a (slight) parody of a staple of wuxia. The world of wandering martial arts practitioners turns up in many of them and is sometimes referred to as "giang hu." It's important in this context because these are free spirits serving no master, only truth, justice and honour. They are a bit like chivalric knights, particularly knights errant. Jen feels she has kinship with them and wants to be accepted but of course it turns out they don't want her and she can defeat them handily.
Matthew Hambley
2022-01-13 13:57:34 +0000 UTCI mean I did wonder what was up with that…
Jill Bearup
2022-01-12 20:36:14 +0000 UTCBest team 😁
Jill Bearup
2022-01-12 20:35:49 +0000 UTCIt just occurred to me that anyone interested in learning more about story telling through fight scenes and particularly "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" could well seek out "Blowing Up the Movies" By Robin Laws. Available from Atlas Games, Drive-through RPG and probably other places too. It examines action films, particularly Hong-Kong action films, with an eye to stealing bits from them for your role-playing game. Extra particularly for your game of "Feng Shui 2", by Robin Laws. But it also provides a lot of interesting background about the films. For example it explains what the tea house full of martial artists with increasingly odd-ball weapons and grandiose titles is all about.
Matthew Hambley
2022-01-11 13:50:31 +0000 UTCLove this movie and basically any fight scene with Michelle Yeoh in it. Also, I am totally signing up for "Team Dorks in Love".
DrWex
2022-01-06 15:54:04 +0000 UTC*someone* should do that. Someone with access to the fight and editing software. Someone who's channel is dedicated to analyzing fight scenes.
Anders
2022-01-06 13:14:35 +0000 UTCThank you!
Jill Bearup
2022-01-06 13:10:42 +0000 UTCLike we're NINJAS, probably!
Jill Bearup
2022-01-06 13:10:38 +0000 UTCEverything can always use more bad puns :D
Jill Bearup
2022-01-06 13:10:26 +0000 UTCAwww :)
Jill Bearup
2022-01-06 13:10:11 +0000 UTCAm I the only one that gets a warm, comfy feeling every time Jill says, "The plot, it goeth thusly"? Surely not. [grabs popcorn, settles in]
Mighty Zeus
2022-01-05 22:44:08 +0000 UTCAnother banging analysis of a movie fight! Could use more bad puns though. 😉
Thane Greyhaven
2022-01-05 16:53:11 +0000 UTCJen sounds like a very expensive opponent to fight. Good weapons cost a lot. Now I also wonder how your fight with Tom would look if you sped it up a few percentage points.
Anders
2022-01-05 14:07:56 +0000 UTCGreat video, thank you.
Jim Sanderson
2022-01-05 13:57:03 +0000 UTC
