Blood and Snowflakes

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House of the Flying Daggers was beautiful and inexplicable, as so many Chinese films are. It involved a great many frail layers of silk drifting over flawless skin, slow motion flying daggers splitting water droplets, bamboo forests, exquisite androgynous men and doomed love. It did not end well (they never do).

The music, of course, was haunting refrains in a minor key.

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[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

I really did like it, although some of the slow-mo camera shots were a little silly, I thought.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Everything about this post, from your title to the music, makes me want to see it. Onto my netflix list it goes.

[marri.livejournal.com]

a great many frail layers of silk drifting over flawless skin, slow motion flying daggers splitting water droplets, bamboo forests, exquisite androgynous men and doomed love

*singing* Theeeese are a few of my faaaaavorite thiiings!


I'm glad you liked it :) A new one's coming out in the same vein, called 'Legend of the Black Scorpion.' I'm going to see if I can't hunt it down and take a peek.

I can't remember if you've seen Curse of the Golden Flower, but if you haven't, DO check it out.

[lidocafe.livejournal.com]

Love your title. Have you ever heard Elvis Costello's "Blood and Chocolate?"

[intertext.livejournal.com]

I shall. It goes on my Zip list forthwith.

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Yes! Actually, the title is descriptive of one scene in the movie. It IS really gorgeous.

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I liked it a lot, too. And I think it was slightly more explicable than Hero, which I also liked. These movies are just to gorgeous to look at that you can forgive them quite a lot. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is still my favourite, though.

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Oh, yes. I'm sure you'd like it!

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And investigation of "Legend of the Black Scorpion" reveals that it's an adaptation of "Hamlet"!!! English geek's wet dream! And there's a bamboo forest in it, too!.