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[petronia]

Sou ne, the fic. XD I just got back from a FantAsia movie (Returner, in which Gunner Yuna comes back from the future and hires Fujimiya Aya to help E.T. get back home and stop Judgment Day. No, really, that was the plot), upon which I gave it a re-read and... well. Mada ikiteiru kamoshirenai. But it needs to be finished before I share. I'm not riffing off of anything in the series so much as it's consuming everything else that happened in my life this week, so it's kind of WTF. Mind you that's only because I'm writing it. If it were canon no one would bat an eyelid, because canon is simultaneously classy and coked-out in a way I couldn't approach. (So Ban speaks German now, does he? Well, if he does, then Maria could just as well have spent the fifties in a Bueños Aires barrio. It makes as much sense as it does for her to be living in ura-Shinjuku. But for the love of bob, does anyone have any idea what year this is supposed to take place in? Or is it entirely AU?)

...Look, at least I haven't sent them off to retrieve the Holy Grail from renegade Rosicrucians. That's all I'm saying. And yes, the documentary yesterday (and the Q&A given by the filmmaker afterward) was unholy fun. It was... you know the sort of seminar that the main character is seen to give in the first ten minutes of a certain type of Hollywood action movie, right before his expertise embroils him as a reluctant detective in a supernatural murder mystery? Like that. Phrases were uttered such as "unknown Luciferian clique within the inner circle of Himmler" and "documents testifying to occult rituals conducted by NATO officers occupying Wewelsburg, referring to the left tower as the Gate between this world and the World of Darkness". Also, "Polaires Lodge strangely close to Harrod's", which I wish someone in geographical proximity would check out and post a digicam photo or something. It's apparently a bit of a landmark. ^^;

(The movie was trilingual, which as we all know is the future of Asian cinema. But I'm having trouble clearing the scoosh; ima atama kara deru serifu wa 'Koroshiya 1' no Karen-chan mitai. I can filter out the Chinese, because I never got into the habit of typing either hanzi or pinyin. Unfortunately Japanese is the language in which I mutter to myself - which is the pathetic and fundamental reason it's improved since I left school - so I had to go back in the entry and get rid of it for comprehension's sake. My brain works in odd ways when I'm sleepy. ;_;)

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[z107m.livejournal.com]

trilingual, which as we all know is the future of Asian cinema

that's sorta interesting when i think about it. so many b&w films of the 50's had this immense amount of bilingualism going on, not just between european countries, they're neighbors. but like french and japanese, or german and japanese, and not always in a gimmicky, fashionable manner. hm, the fleeting thought of globalization than and now has passed and i've lost all deep thoughts.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, war movies. ^^; But with a lot of these movies it's either pan-Asian trade or the ura-side of pan-Asian trade, i.e. pan-Asian organised crime. XD

[z107m.livejournal.com]

yes, have been noticing the same trend in the few asian movies i've been actually seeing these days. ah, nothing like organized crime to bring us all closer together.