11-21-2021, 12:10 PM
That's kinda how I feel about all MCU films. They're enjoyable. Great pastimes.
If you want to see Aquafina stretch, check out The Farewell. http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=5075 Oh wait. You've already seen it KB. Well, I think that's about as much of a stretch as we'll get our of her for a while as her typecasting is tightening.
And I totally agree about Xialing. That actress, Menger Zhang, came out of nowhere. I'll be curious to see if they follow up with her story.
I had a piece that I queried for Den about the mythology behind Ta Lo. They nailed the representation of the yaoguai world, right down to the chicken-pig, which is a dijiang, which I had to look up. We were going to wait on that piece, along with a Michelle Yeah retrospective, until the film dropped on D+ but I didn't follow up. Since then, several pop websites have covered the mythology. The only thing they've missed that I would've pointed out - and this was my main observation that inspired the idea for the article - was the carp scales on the dragon. That's something everyone misses but true to the legends. Chinese dragons have carp scales. But I was too busy to get around to following up on those and as my YMAA responsibilities expand, my moonlighting time for Den decreases. As Stacy points out, I don't make that much writing for them when all the time is factored in. I do it for the perks - my beloved screeners and the occasional promo package. Plus it's my loudest platform, so someday it might be a stepping stone elsewhere.
If you want to see Aquafina stretch, check out The Farewell. http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=5075 Oh wait. You've already seen it KB. Well, I think that's about as much of a stretch as we'll get our of her for a while as her typecasting is tightening.
And I totally agree about Xialing. That actress, Menger Zhang, came out of nowhere. I'll be curious to see if they follow up with her story.
I had a piece that I queried for Den about the mythology behind Ta Lo. They nailed the representation of the yaoguai world, right down to the chicken-pig, which is a dijiang, which I had to look up. We were going to wait on that piece, along with a Michelle Yeah retrospective, until the film dropped on D+ but I didn't follow up. Since then, several pop websites have covered the mythology. The only thing they've missed that I would've pointed out - and this was my main observation that inspired the idea for the article - was the carp scales on the dragon. That's something everyone misses but true to the legends. Chinese dragons have carp scales. But I was too busy to get around to following up on those and as my YMAA responsibilities expand, my moonlighting time for Den decreases. As Stacy points out, I don't make that much writing for them when all the time is factored in. I do it for the perks - my beloved screeners and the occasional promo package. Plus it's my loudest platform, so someday it might be a stepping stone elsewhere.
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