AnimeGamer183 wrote: I completed Die Hard 1-3 for the first time yesterday. I had no idea they were such Christmas movies as well.
It's like losing your virginity...
AnimeGamer183 wrote: I completed Die Hard 1-3 for the first time yesterday. I had no idea they were such Christmas movies as well.
OL wrote: Just saw Big Trouble in Little China for the first time.
So uh... that was a thing.
Absolutely silly beyond belief, gotta say, but damned if it ain't entertaining as all hell. Funny thing is, it actually does have some really cool action in it regardless of the silliness. And it is kind of cool that even though Kurt Russel is clearly billed as the "protagonist," the real main character may as well be his Chinese buddy played by Dennis Dun. I once read an article that described the movie like that, as kind of stealthily making an Asian guy the main hero in a big Hollywood movie in the 80s without the studio realizing it, and that actually rings pretty true.
Good flick, silliness and all.
Carpenter envisioned the film as an inverse of traditional scenarios in action films with a Caucasian protagonist helped by a minority sidekick. In Big Trouble in Little China, Jack Burton, despite his bravado, is constantly portrayed as rather bumbling; in one fight sequence he even knocks himself unconscious before the fight begins. Wang Chi, on the other hand, is constantly portrayed as highly skilled and competent.
On a commentary track for the DVD release, Carpenter commented that the film is really about a sidekick (Burton) who thinks he is a leading man. According to Carpenter, the studio "didn't get [his film]"[13] and made him write something that would explain the character of Jack Burton. Carpenter came up with the prologue scene between Egg Shen and the lawyer.
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