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<blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 1111490" data-attributes="member: 505"><p>Here's something someone posted at a Yahoo Group I belong to. Sorry for not putting it in official quotes, but I seem to be having bad luck with it. Sometimes it only prints a paragraph and others, just a sentence.</p><p></p><p>""Sex and the Samurai" (The Guardian's report re the Venice Film </p><p>Festival -- </p><p></p><p>scroll to the middle for a rave review of Takeshi Kitano's "Zatoichi"):- </p><p></p><p>"http://film.guardian.co.uk/festivals/news/0,11667,1035574,00.html</p><p></p><p>"Halfway through the festival, however, and after a slow start, things</p><p>looked distinctly promising. And it was that old festival favourite</p><p>Takeshi Kitano, actor, writer and television personality as well as</p><p>director, who livened everyone up. If Woody Allen's Anything Else, in</p><p>which he more or less plays himself, opened the festival with a minor</p><p>flourish, Kitano's Zatoichi, which might best be described as the first</p><p>samurai musical, had the press cheering. </p><p></p><p>"Inspired by the 1962 Kenji Misumi classic about a blind swordsman that</p><p>spawned some two dozen sequels, it has Kitano as the white-haired</p><p>veteran samurai who is still capable of dispatching a dozen assailants</p><p>just by listening to their likely moves. The fights are as funny as they</p><p>are bloody but Kitano's best trick is to accomplish the shafts of humour</p><p>without turning the melodrama into mere parody. Added to that, we have</p><p>workers in the paddy fields tap-dancing in the mud and a finale that</p><p>suggests that Kitano must have seen Riverdance. The old man's last words to a delighted audience are "the more you open your eyes, the less you see" - a moral that probably fits life more than the film itself."</p><p></p><p></p><p>Okay, so the blonde hair appears to look white on the screen. However, I have to say, "Samurai musical?! Tap dancing in mud?! A Riverdance finale?!"</p><p></p><p>To quote Homer Simpson from their Halloween episode's Shining parody, "Urge to kill...rising!" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Villano, post: 1111490, member: 505"] Here's something someone posted at a Yahoo Group I belong to. Sorry for not putting it in official quotes, but I seem to be having bad luck with it. Sometimes it only prints a paragraph and others, just a sentence. ""Sex and the Samurai" (The Guardian's report re the Venice Film Festival -- scroll to the middle for a rave review of Takeshi Kitano's "Zatoichi"):- "http://film.guardian.co.uk/festivals/news/0,11667,1035574,00.html "Halfway through the festival, however, and after a slow start, things looked distinctly promising. And it was that old festival favourite Takeshi Kitano, actor, writer and television personality as well as director, who livened everyone up. If Woody Allen's Anything Else, in which he more or less plays himself, opened the festival with a minor flourish, Kitano's Zatoichi, which might best be described as the first samurai musical, had the press cheering. "Inspired by the 1962 Kenji Misumi classic about a blind swordsman that spawned some two dozen sequels, it has Kitano as the white-haired veteran samurai who is still capable of dispatching a dozen assailants just by listening to their likely moves. The fights are as funny as they are bloody but Kitano's best trick is to accomplish the shafts of humour without turning the melodrama into mere parody. Added to that, we have workers in the paddy fields tap-dancing in the mud and a finale that suggests that Kitano must have seen Riverdance. The old man's last words to a delighted audience are "the more you open your eyes, the less you see" - a moral that probably fits life more than the film itself." Okay, so the blonde hair appears to look white on the screen. However, I have to say, "Samurai musical?! Tap dancing in mud?! A Riverdance finale?!" To quote Homer Simpson from their Halloween episode's Shining parody, "Urge to kill...rising!" :mad: [/QUOTE]
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