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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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[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

...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)

I have to admit I loved "Returner". Mainly because Takeshi Kaneshiro is a dish and in my fantasy cast for a Wild Adapter movie. ^_^; The aliens were funny though, ne?

hee, I simply must see that documentary now. (Rosicrucians relatives on the German side of the family, but they don't do anything more exciting/odd than eat health food (exclusively) and refuse to have their pictures taken - something about "spiritual energies" - ^_^;;)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, Richard Stanley thinks the Rosicrucian higher-ups have the Grail, or at least what the Cathar heretics thought was the Grail. He makes a pretty good case for it. (Says quite cheerfully that he keeps sending letters to them asking them to put it on display, but they never answer... OTOH apparently he gets approached by regular-joe Rosicrucians all the time, because just by going to all these locations and jumping through the requisite hoops to make his documentary - a work-in-progress BTW - he's inadvertently fulfilled their initiation rituals. ^_^;;)

[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

...he's inadvertently fulfilled their initiation rituals. ^_^;;...

::wipes tears of laughter away::

Oh boy, I've GOT to see this now....

^o^

[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.

[kickinpants.livejournal.com]

Mainly because Takeshi Kaneshiro is a dish and in my fantasy cast for a Wild Adapter movie.

Wow, who would he play in your mind? Kubota?

I have to agree on the dishy-ness of him. Returner was good in a cheesey-kind of way, although I think one of my favorite films of his is Space Travelers, mostly because it's fun and has both him and cutie-pie, Masanobu Ando. (who I'd love to marry if I wasn't already marrying Google.)

(Wow, this film festival sounds so awesome.)

[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

who would he play in your mind? Kubota?

Hee, you read my mind. ^_^

He doesn't exactly look (http://www.dragonsdenuk.com/reviews/returner3.jpg) like Kubota. But he's almost got the hair in that movie. And it's not like he can't act. Maybe if he lost about 5 pounds for the requisite scrawniness and shaved the guido mustache....

::muses happily::

...and cutie-pie, Masanobu Ando

Oooooh - you are much better at this than I am. Ando would make a nice Tokitoh (http://www.geocities.com/andosan4ever/masanobu_ando_4ever.htm), I think...

::runs to order Space Travelers::

Wow, this film festival sounds so awesome.

Agreed - I'm positively green with envy ^_^;

[ayabai.livejournal.com]

this will probably make no sense because i just got back from a bjork concert AND read the latest gb chapter in shonen mag so my brain is utterly fried

anyway, lemme beta fic? <3 because i am a getbackers h0 and i love asian cinema XD and i love to beta, raawr <3

yesh, i never type in chinese. ._. but i also mutter to myself in japanese. it's kind of sick, really.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

The documentary itself was quite historically rigourous (and Tarkovsky-inspired, so at times it was like watching an extended version of the cursed video from Ring). 'Twas the information session at the end when the wild 'n' wacky came out, so make sure you see it at a filmfest where the director's tagged along. :D

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know him! The metal bat kid from Drive! "You wouldn't happen to have a condom in that first aid kit?" Sou, sou. XD Yeah, they're both pretty cute, and wouldn't look out of place in a manga adaptation (though Returner was like half a dozen mangas smooshed together anyway).

There are more FantAsia reviews at Ain't It Cool News, they send a guy up every year. :P

[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

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Sure, once it's readable. (I've sent unfinished fics out to be beta'd, and typically it makes people want to kill me. :P)

[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.