It took me almost one year to get my hands on a copy of Tsui Hark‘s The Taking of Tiger Mountain – and the long hunt was well worth it.
The 2014 movie is a great adventure flick, straddling the line between historical narrative and pulp fantasy.
I’ll have to write a lot about it – so expect a post or three in the next days.
In the meantime, the trailer…
Now, ok, naysayers, haters, can’t judge a movie from its trailer, the effects are beautiful, great costumes, the leads are hot… but, seriously?
C’mon, seriously?
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(originally published by the Lovecraft eZine)
This is the sort of image that makes me want to start writing, right now.
The gorgeous art is by Noah Bradley.
A very different video for this Sunday – but it’s nice to cover a number of intersecting topics, right?
Emilie Wapnick’s TED presentation intersects two important points, for me.
First – it talks about me, and about “having too many interests”, a “defect” of mine that was often pointed out to me, from second grade to university and beyond. A “problem” that hindered me for decades.
And it does have a connection with pulp and genre fiction – as it describes what’s been called the omnicompetent hero.
This is, if you will, a lecture about Doc Savage.
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