![]() ![]() Zhangs new film, House of Flying Daggers, again revisits the Chinese martial arts epic for a story that challenges tradition by meshing period history, romance and cutting edge vfx into a dynamic film that pushes visual boundaries. theaters in August 2004, stunning critics and audiences with its rich, lyrical take on the classic martial arts epic a genre the majority of American audiences finally became familiar with when Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon landed back in 2000. Hero was already an international phenomenon for more than a year when it finally reached U.S. ![]() ![]() While his films have achieved praise outside of his native country, primarily in art house circles, the release of his martial-arts epic, Hero, last year launched the director into a new realm of cinematic storytelling, as well as mainstream Western recognition. In his acclaimed 20-year career, director Zhang Yimou has evolved into one of the most significant and prolific voices of contemporary Chinese cinema with his lush, historical themed period films, such as Judou, Raise the Red Lantern and Shanghai Triad. She helped to create symbolic visual devices to aid director Zhang Yimou with his storytelling. Kirsty Millar (right) of Animal Logic served as co-vfx supervisor on HoFD. For absolutely stress free film watching that is wall to wall laughs with no chance of an Oscar worthy moment, this film still fits the bill.Animal Logic and Digital Pictures Iloura created 115 vfx shots with a crew of 40 working six months. At any rates laughs are hard to come by these days. and that's *my* job!" Notice that Jon Cryer costars in this film 12 years before he and Sheen starred in the TV series "2 1/2 Men". And Lloyd Bridges does a hilarious rendition of a clueless and completely incompetent Admiral, with one particularly great line to the villains of the film - "You risked the lives of some damn fine pilots. And there is a send up of the food scene in "9 1/2 Weeks" (1986) that will have you never looking at olives quite the same. ![]() There is a welcome home banner that actually says "Welcome Home Banner". Because then they'd have to inject some science into this film and it would ruin everything. In this film Topper Harley's love interest is his therapist, Ramada (Valeria Golino), instead of a physicist and Top Gun instructor. Charlie Sheen plays the troubled pilot Topper Harley that is the equivalent of Tom Cruise's character in Top Gun. I'll just say, don't think that if you find this film in the middle of the night and say "this will be a good oldie to fall asleep to" that you will do any such thing. It is probably one of the ten funniest films I have ever seen, but nothing is ever going to top Young Frankenstein or Blazing Saddles. This is the Abrahams & Abrahams style ("Airplane", "Naked Gun") parody of the 1986 Reagan era military action film, Top Gun. It will make this film much funnier plus, Top Gun has not aged well and will seem cheesier than normal if you watch it last. If you are going to watch "Top Gun", please watch that film first before this one. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |