There's a bunch of potential future posts embedded in yesterday's Friday Fun & Games. Let's take a look and see who they all were, eh?
Y'know - you don't really appreciate the gravitas that Peter Dinklage brings to the character in Game Of Thrones until you've watched him toss it away to embrace other roles as in UnderDog and The Knights Of BadAssdom, especially the latter, with a LARPer in contrast to the types of characters they would be role-playing. (LARP = Live Action Role Playing. Think D&D with costumes & props)
But the first thing we'll be looking at is #5 - The Guardians. Superhero Team fun from Russia, maybe even with love. I've already done a first pass to grab stills, so hopefully this week.
#2 - The Champions, is an old personal favorite. It's not a movie, it's a British TV series from Monty Berman and Dennis Spooner, whom you might know from The Avengers tv show from the same period. We've even got a little bit of comics for them coming up.
#19 - The 3 Fantastic Supermen, might look pretty goofy at first glance. And second. And upon review. But that goofiness worked for them - the film spawned 10 sequels over the next two decades.
#25 - That's Chin Kar-Lok as The Green Hornet. In Lam Ching-Ying's version, they basically ditched the goofy white guy and moved Kato up to the title spot. There's a special appropriateness to this in that Lam Ching-Ying was Bruce Lee's fight/action choreographer, in addition to being an international star in his own right, and his work in training others, such as turning dancer Michelle Yeoh into the #1 female action star globally. Chin Kar-Lok was Lam Sifu's protege. We'll be looking at him quite a bit, as he and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo are responsible for one of my favorite Hong Kong film genres - the Spooky Comedy.
Y'know - you don't really appreciate the gravitas that Peter Dinklage brings to the character in Game Of Thrones until you've watched him toss it away to embrace other roles as in UnderDog and The Knights Of BadAssdom, especially the latter, with a LARPer in contrast to the types of characters they would be role-playing. (LARP = Live Action Role Playing. Think D&D with costumes & props)
But the first thing we'll be looking at is #5 - The Guardians. Superhero Team fun from Russia, maybe even with love. I've already done a first pass to grab stills, so hopefully this week.
#2 - The Champions, is an old personal favorite. It's not a movie, it's a British TV series from Monty Berman and Dennis Spooner, whom you might know from The Avengers tv show from the same period. We've even got a little bit of comics for them coming up.
#19 - The 3 Fantastic Supermen, might look pretty goofy at first glance. And second. And upon review. But that goofiness worked for them - the film spawned 10 sequels over the next two decades.
#25 - That's Chin Kar-Lok as The Green Hornet. In Lam Ching-Ying's version, they basically ditched the goofy white guy and moved Kato up to the title spot. There's a special appropriateness to this in that Lam Ching-Ying was Bruce Lee's fight/action choreographer, in addition to being an international star in his own right, and his work in training others, such as turning dancer Michelle Yeoh into the #1 female action star globally. Chin Kar-Lok was Lam Sifu's protege. We'll be looking at him quite a bit, as he and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo are responsible for one of my favorite Hong Kong film genres - the Spooky Comedy.
stills are my caps from the vids as labelled
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