Anodyne
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
 

A long grinding workday finally wound down, and a yellow legal pad exhausted, right hand cramped & spasming from the blue Bic stickpen permanently clenched between my fingers. Scouting in the suburbs or a late night widescreen b-movie? Hmm...

Off to Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, a visually generous film with a good heart, which effortlessly quotes from Leone, the Matrix, Chuck Jones' Wile E. Coyote shorts, and zillions of other genre references I didn't catch. Physics and other earthly laws are violated so early and often that it's impossible to predict what's coming next. A Chinese harp that launches CGI daggers and screaming flying zombies at its foes; a secret kung-fu style that punches huge, Godzilla-style handprints into buildings; an unlikely blue collar couple who turn out to be the Bernd and Hilla Becher of the kung-fu world, & etc.

SGB and I kept punching each other on the shoulder the whole way through, pointing out favorite details.

"The hustle is a kind of dance." Posted by Hello
- posted by cjb @ 9:27 AM


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