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From: "Joshua Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: Moulin Rouge
> Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Having seen Crouching Tiger recently on DVD, I was left wondering what
all
> >the
> >fuss was about. I thought the cinematography was excellent, but
everything
> >else just on the plus side of average. What did I miss?
>
> The fact that the American public doesn't watch a lot of kung-fu movies
and
> was enthralled by the fight scenes. They were nicely choreographed, but I
> agree with your assessment that the movie was merely above average.
>
Well, there were a lot of things besides that. I have not seen such a
beautifully understated love story before. I've seen kung-fu movies before,
and they did not have the wonderful pace of this movie. I've been told that
the movie was also true to a Chinese genru of storytelling by one of my
Chinese-American friends (parents are immigrants).
Compare that to any other action/romance stories that have come out in the
last 10 years.
> Um, well, dubbing is one of the baser evils of mankind. You lose the
emotion
> of the original. It's like the Cliff's Notes version of the movie. If you
> can read at a decent speed then reading subtitles becomes subconscious.
That I agree with. I think the captions did work very well.
Dan M.
