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The Swordsman (2021) - Drunk Monk - 02-19-2021 (12-16-2020, 09:31 AM)cranefly Wrote: The Swordsman (2021) [Korean] Have I sung the praises of Hoopla lately? No? Hoopla rocks. It's free through our public library. My municipal tax dollars at work. I get like 8 films a month. I've had it for a year plus now and I've never hit the max in a month what with my other streaming services. Hoopla gets most all of the Well Go USA titles. They currently have over 200 of them. The Swordsman just came out. We did a sweeps promo for it on KFM for the BRDs that just ended today. And here it is, already available on Hoopla. This is a Korean film, set in the Joseon period when Korea was being oppressed by the Ming dynasty. Jang Hyuk is Tae-yul, a swordsman who is going blind, begging that age old question 'can I play with my sword until I need glasses?' He lives as a recluse in the mountains with his daughter. Jang is a TKD & JKD practitioner, so he can move. He mostly plays a stoic badass, with his bangs covering his eyes, but he's going blind so that's fine. Man-sik Jeong is Min Seung-ho, a senior rival swordsman. He's a good counterpoint to young Tae-yul, an older, more reserved swordmaster trying to do right in a decaying world. And the smarmy Chinese villain Gurutai is played by none other than the mighty Joe Taslim. Joe is great, as always. He mostly plays one note - a cocky grinning villain which he seems to relish playing - and displays a bit more range when the finale fight starts to turn. It's a far cry from the last time I saw him play Li Yong in Warrior. This film delivers. It's a rich tale of intertwining intrigues, oppression, villainy, revenge and honor, a battle to be the best sword in a selfish world that doesn't give a rat's ass about the way of the warrior. The Joseon world is well depicted, the crossroads between China and Japan. But y'all know what this is really about. It's called The Swordsman. It's about those sword fights. The fight choreo explodes whenever blades are drawn. It's swirling camerawork, and complicated exchanges, including one decent one-er when Tae-yul cuts down a line of riflemen. I'm always pleased when I see feints used as opposed to just swashbuckling play. The fighting style feels somewhere between Samurai chanbara and Kung Fu wuxia. It's mostly sword, but there's also a crutch-tonfa and weird ass deer horn knife. And there are ninjas. Everybody loves ninjas. DOOM recommended. RE: The Swordsman (2021) - cranefly - 02-21-2021 Saw this last night. Yes, very solid production on all levels. And if you're into swordfights, they're pretty much wall to wall. For me, beyond the swordfights, it's all about the hats. Umbrella hats, lampshade hats, hats ridiculously small (to a westerner's eye) and hats with wing-like flourishes or scroll-like projections. You name it, and this movie has it -- in terms of hats. And they all signify important stuff about allegiance and rank and who knows what else. Not that I know any of it. So for me it's like a Monty Python skit about funny walks -- only this uses hats. Not to make light of this movie, which is very serious and solid. Just pointing my own ignorance of historical Korean fashion. RE: The Swordsman (2021) - Drunk Monk - 02-21-2021 Funny you should mention this. While watching this, I kept wondering if I could get away with rocking one of those lids at a music festival. Cultural appropriation maybe? RE: The Swordsman (2021) - Greg - 02-21-2021 While watching Unorthodox, I renewed my love for the big round furry hat the men wear. RE: The Swordsman (2021) - Drunk Monk - 02-21-2021 The American contemporary hat game is weak. I keep wanted to break the mold but fear it would just accentuate my evil tong viilain look and I don’t need that right now. RE: The Swordsman (2021) - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 02-21-2021 DM: You totally need to do that. RE: The Swordsman (2021) - Greg - 02-21-2021 Seconded. You can practice around the house. RE: The Swordsman (2021) - thatguy - 02-21-2021 The Ukranian band Dahka Brahka (recommended) has awesome headwear --tg
RE: The Swordsman (2021) - Drunk Monk - 02-21-2021 SHOW US YOUR HATS! I have maybe two-dozen-plus hats, all baseball cap style, with various logos cool logos on them, artifacts from concerts, comic-cons, and my wayward lifestyle. I keep thinking I should wear hats more often because I look so much younger if I hide my receding hairline. I have a killer top hat. If that hat could talk, I'd have to slit its throat and sink it off the pier. I used to have a black hybrid sombrero cowboy hat but Tara stole it from me. I got that on an SJSU fencing trip to So Cal because it reminded me of the man with no name. I have a few toques, including a fav from Dublin's Teeling's distillery, and weird one that has a brim and earflaps, plus a built in pull down ninja mask. Surprisingly I do not own a rasta tam. Nor do I have a pith helmet. Scapino owned that at a Dead show and I cannot ever see me going there. The memory of the Grate-Scapino-tripper-pith-helmet swipe makes me smile even now. Perhaps Greg & KB remember? I'll never forget. One of my Kung Fu uncles collects Ming dynasty hats. He also has the most amazing collection of Chinese weapons I've ever seen, plus a few signed Dali prints. And a cherry red Ferrari. He's cooler than me. RE: The Swordsman (2021) - King Bob - 02-21-2021 I like the really wide brim fedoras that Orthodox Jews wear. It looks weird because they're oversized to fit over the yarmulke, but a well-fitting one is a good look. Paul Simenon of The Clash used to wear one sometimes. A straw boater is a great hat too, but I think a bit theatrical. I worry about getting a sunburn on my balding head - I don't want to be one of those old men where the top of their head looks sort of like a ham - so I usually wear a straw fedora when I'm out walking. In colder weather I wear a knit cap. They had so many more hat shapes in the 19th century. Ours is a sorry time by comparison. DM - surely there are some Chinese traditional hats for you? You've probably got connections who could help. RE: The Swordsman (2021) - Drunk Monk - 02-21-2021 You can totally rock a straw fedora, KB. I could see that. I think I wear enough Chinese stuff already. Too much. That's what I mean by 'evil tong villain.' RE: The Swordsman (2021) - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 02-21-2021 Evil Tong Villain is in for 2021. I wear knit caps and baseball caps. My Sunday Wandering Hat is some sort of outdoors full-brimmed hat. I call it my Old Man hat. Like Dr. Bob says I gotta keep the sun off my noggin. I have also had enough skin-things burned off my face by my doc that I have to keep the sun off my mug. Also, my head gets cold. RE: The Swordsman (2021) - King Bob - 02-21-2021 I don't do baseball caps. My ears stick out too much. I look like a simpleton or something. RE: The Swordsman (2021) - Drunk Monk - 02-21-2021 I moved this discussion to The official DOOM hat thread http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=6137 Back on topic. The Swordsman has killer sword fights. RE: The Swordsman (2021) - Drunk Monk - 03-11-2021 Here's a first. I've been translated into Korean! Quote:제목[Martial Arts Globe] 날카롭게 해외에 진출한 한국 무예 영화 ‘검객’ The English version is forthcoming. Also, I'm hoping they will add my azn name. In Chinese, I'm 陳興華. In Korean, that translates into 첸싱화 - That's Chen Singhwa, which I just discovered, just now, and am tucking away for a future pen name. Thanks interwebz! |