Writer's Block: Film therapy
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Samurai movies will cure what ails me every time. The mechanism at work is still not fully understood, but I believe it is one or more of the following:
1.) I love me some medieval and/or early modern Japan and I'm always up to lose myself in that era and culture. (Which reminds me: dude, why are there not more movies about the ancient world? Or about late tsarist/early Soviet Russia? Because I would be all over those too. Anyway.)
2.) I'm going to die (or fail, or have a bad life for a little while). But whatever happens, chanbara films remind me that I can still man up, give it my best shot, and die with both swords swinging like a samurai, preferably after having taken out my adversaries. That's the great thing about samurai flicks: you get points for trying, even if you ultimately bomb out. I guess the message I take away from all this is that I might fail, but I can choose to fail well or badly.
3.) One of King Zeus' finest creations EVAR, Toshiro Mifune, features prominently in many of these triumphs of cinematic art, sometimes with various of his body parts clearly visible. Hey, I never said I wasn't a shallow fangirl with a crush.
This is why I like samurai movies, by l33, aged twentysomething going on seventeen. :D
Samurai movies will cure what ails me every time. The mechanism at work is still not fully understood, but I believe it is one or more of the following:
1.) I love me some medieval and/or early modern Japan and I'm always up to lose myself in that era and culture. (Which reminds me: dude, why are there not more movies about the ancient world? Or about late tsarist/early Soviet Russia? Because I would be all over those too. Anyway.)
2.) I'm going to die (or fail, or have a bad life for a little while). But whatever happens, chanbara films remind me that I can still man up, give it my best shot, and die with both swords swinging like a samurai, preferably after having taken out my adversaries. That's the great thing about samurai flicks: you get points for trying, even if you ultimately bomb out. I guess the message I take away from all this is that I might fail, but I can choose to fail well or badly.
3.) One of King Zeus' finest creations EVAR, Toshiro Mifune, features prominently in many of these triumphs of cinematic art, sometimes with various of his body parts clearly visible. Hey, I never said I wasn't a shallow fangirl with a crush.
This is why I like samurai movies, by l33, aged twentysomething going on seventeen. :D
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Date: 2010-04-01 08:59 pm (UTC)Big Trouble in Little China lifts my spirits
The first half of Bram Stoker's Dracula makes me feel creative, calm and wistful. Then I stop it before Mina's fiance returns and all hell breaks loose.
And of course, Nightbreed makes me happy.
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Date: 2010-04-02 01:21 am (UTC)I have yet to see Big Trouble in Little China, but would probably like it, judging by the Netflix blurb; I'm unlikely to see Nightbreed, being a horror non-fan. XD
The first half of Dracula is in fact pretty good, but yeah, the rest...I dunno, man.
oooh man!
Date: 2010-04-02 01:03 pm (UTC)80's monster effects.
Nightbreed is indeed horror, but also cheezy - where the humans are pretty much the ignorant bad guys and the monsters are the victims, alternate races prosecuted by humans for thousands of years. More cheesy fantasy horror less slasher horror.
Re: oooh man!
Date: 2010-04-02 11:18 pm (UTC)Still probably not something I'd watch, but I feel some white liberal guilt over our treatment of the Monstrous-American community. XD