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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob

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Speaker 1: Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And today's film for

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Speaker 1: Weird House Cinema is the nineteen eighty seven Taiwani is

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Speaker 1: action fantasy film Child of Peach, A truly special work

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Speaker 1: of art, without a doubt, I will say, one of

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Speaker 1: the most frenzied and feral movies we have ever watched

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Speaker 1: on this show. This movie is so bizarre, so much

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Speaker 1: and so fast, and it certainly has a reputation online

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Speaker 1: for being just a tornado of weirdness that I'm genuinely shocked.

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Speaker 1: I had never heard of this movie before you selected

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Speaker 1: it for today's episode, Rob, So how did you find

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Speaker 1: Child of Peach. Well, I think my earliest exposure to

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Speaker 1: it was and Everything is Terrible Bowl two minute clip

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Speaker 1: mash up of scenes from the movie. And I watched

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Speaker 1: this at some point and was just blown away by

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Speaker 1: the weirdness, but also just assumed, well, these are just

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Speaker 1: the highlights they took the You know, get a weird movie.

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Speaker 1: If you get all the weirdest moments, you probably got

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Speaker 1: about two minutes worth, and so I laughed and then

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Speaker 1: I kind of moved on. But then when we were

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Speaker 1: talking about Thrilling Bloody Sword, another Taiwanese fantasy film in

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Speaker 1: the last year or so on Weird House Cinema, I

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Speaker 1: ran across it again when I was looking into Taiwanese

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Speaker 1: cinema in general, and some of the extras on that

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Speaker 1: disc from Blue Justin to Clue of the Gold Ninja video,

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Speaker 1: and that put it back in my radar, and I

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Speaker 1: was like, oh, well, if we've enjoyed Thrilling Bloody Sword

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Speaker 1: this much, then I guess we've got to come back

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Speaker 1: around to a Child of Peach. There are certainly some

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Speaker 1: esthetic ways in which this movie did remind me of

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Speaker 1: Thrilling Bloody Sword, but I'm going to make a very

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Speaker 1: strange comparison. I kept thinking it had an other kind

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Speaker 1: of bizarre but familiar energy, and I finally realized what

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Speaker 1: it was, and it's that this movie kind of reminds

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Speaker 1: me of Morosco aka Jack Frost, the nineteen sixty four

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Speaker 1: Soviet fantasy film that we covered a couple of years

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Speaker 1: back around Christmas, and we can get into more of

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Speaker 1: the similarities and differences in a bit, But I was

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Speaker 1: trying to think why that isn't. I think one reason

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Speaker 1: would be, despite the fact that you could argue these

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Speaker 1: are both kind of, whether intentionally or not, a kind

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Speaker 1: of psychotronic cinema, they're both actually based on folk tales,

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Speaker 1: so they have a kind of old soul to them,

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Speaker 1: despite how weird they are. Absolutely, yeah, And there's something

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Speaker 1: we always have taken into mind when we're looking at

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Speaker 1: at a quote unquote weird film from another from another

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Speaker 1: country's film tradition, you know, like how much of it

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Speaker 1: is genuine weirdness? And I think there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: genuine weirdness in this movie. Oh yeah, yeah, But then

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Speaker 1: there are you know, there's certain aspects of it that

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Speaker 1: are entrenched within a different film culture than one might

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Speaker 1: be used to. And then there is this aspect of

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Speaker 1: it it comes from folklore, and of course folklore is

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Speaker 1: also it's a it's a rich twelve of wonder but

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Speaker 1: also weirdness. Well, yeah, fairy tales are like all fairy

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Speaker 1: tales are kind of weird if you're unfamiliar with them.

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Speaker 1: There's just like the set you grew up with, so

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Speaker 1: they don't feel weird anymore. But you experienced the fairy

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Speaker 1: tales of an unfamiliar culture, and you're like, whoa, that

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Speaker 1: is odd. Yeah yeah, and yeah the ones in your

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Speaker 1: strange stuff. Yeah. But anyway, the particular folk tale here

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Speaker 1: the heart of this is a Japanese folk tale, the

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Speaker 1: folk tale of Momotaro. This is about a hero child

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Speaker 1: born from a giant peach, and it's actually quite famous.

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Speaker 1: It was I was reading that it was utilized in

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Speaker 1: World War two war propaganda animation in Japan. It's been

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Speaker 1: it's been echoed in various video game adaptations. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I was astounded by this. My son super into Pokemon.

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Speaker 1: the latest switch game for Pokemon. And there's DLC coming

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Speaker 1: me that the three Guardians of the Garden in this

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Speaker 1: I also thought it was interesting because, Okay, in this

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Speaker 1: including in the twenty thirteen Studio Ghibli film The Tale

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Speaker 1: that's another thing that makes Child of Peach unique. It

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Speaker 1: There were moments there where we were genuinely like, this

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Speaker 1: pitch though this is one of those movies where you

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Speaker 1: where every your eyes take you. Their similarity I think

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm talking about here, Rob, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's kind of a feeling like you're hit with one

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Speaker 1: and you can feel a little struck by it exactly.

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Speaker 1: Love this movie, but it does have these major who

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Speaker 1: the hard baked subtitles. So it has these subtitles much

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Speaker 1: And I think there's a scene where your night Melon

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Speaker 1: general youth versus demon films, including Twelve Animals, sometimes with

427
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Speaker 1: the actor playing a female youth, other times of male youth,

428
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 1: and she seems to cross over into Hong Kong productions

429
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: for a while as well, which isn't surprising given the

430
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: apparent exchange that went on between the Hong Kong and

431
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: Taiwanese films seen during this time. As Justin Daclue discusses

432
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: and some of the extras, I'm thrilling bloody Sword, but

433
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: I think I've even seen one of the Hong Kong

434
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,639
Speaker 1: film she's in. I don't think it's a very big

435
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: role at all. But nineteen eighty nine's The Iceman Cometh,

436
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 1: a movie about frozen then thoughts swordsmen from the Ming

437
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 1: dynasty who then have to battle it out in modern

438
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: day Hong Kong. WHOA, that's a good premise. Yeah, I

439
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: don't remember much about it, but I remember I ended

440
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 1: up watching it because it became highly recommended from some

441
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,439
Speaker 1: particular like Hong Kong film enthusiasts who were like, if

442
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,880
Speaker 1: you want to see a sword fight, watch this movie.

443
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: Set your highlander aside because the ice man cometh. Anyway,

444
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: Peach Baby's tremendous, so much energy. Yeah, just wonderful charisma.

445
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 1: She's wonderful. Totally agree. Peach Kid rules all right. Now

446
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,239
Speaker 1: we have an old man and an old woman who

447
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 1: are going to be important to the plot. They end

448
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,400
Speaker 1: up raising Peach Baby, and the old man is played

449
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: by Tu Chen who lived nineteen thirty two through two

450
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: thousand and one. Beijing born actor known for such films

451
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: as Dragon Ball The Magic Begins. He plays Gohan If

452
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: that means anything to you dragon Ball fans. He was

453
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: also in Hello Dracula one, two, three, and five. Note

454
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: they to go up to six, so he's a very

455
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 1: fun actor in this. He has a lot of you know,

456
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 1: old man act kung fu comedy. Uh. He has one

457
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy acting credits on the Hong Kong Movie database.

458
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: He's also in Magic of Spells. This is one half

459
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 1: of our Bamboo Forest Power couple who who end up

460
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: adopting Peach Kid from the Peach Oh yeah, they're they're

461
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 1: they're a lot of fun there. There are a lot

462
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: of nuances to them in their relationship. Yes, old Woman

463
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 1: and again there. I think these are their names, at

464
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,679
Speaker 1: least in the subtitles, because they refer to each other

465
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 1: as such, a like old man to do this, and

466
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,200
Speaker 1: then he's like old woman, do this, and so forth.

467
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,200
Speaker 1: But anyway, the Old Woman is played by Yo Ma

468
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,199
Speaker 1: Fong born nineteen fifty eight. She's apparently only in eight films,

469
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 1: including Magic of Spell and Hello Dracula three. But I

470
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 1: thought she was delightful and this very funny. Obviously a

471
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 1: much younger actor playing an older woman, but it was.

472
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: It's a very spirited performance. She does great. There's a

473
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: whole like chase scene between her and the peach where

474
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: it involves the peach peeing on her. It involves her

475
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,479
Speaker 1: butt catching on fire because she's going too fast at

476
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: one point. But it's great, and she and the old

477
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: Man have some really great exchanges that I don't know

478
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: exactly what is getting lost in the translation, but like

479
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: the moments where she says like I could born a

480
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 1: melane and the old man says, you can't even born

481
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: a potato. Yeah. Yeah, they're one of the main themes

482
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 1: with her character is that, yeah, she desperately wants to

483
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 1: raise a child, and at one point and their their

484
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: agent as they remind each other, but yeah, they're like,

485
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: should we just raise Melan Knight? What if we raised Melanknite?

486
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 1: What if Melan knighte was our son sent from the Buddha?

487
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: And they seem to entertain this idea until something better

488
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,360
Speaker 1: comes along. Melan Knight, who is a very large, full

489
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 1: grown man, yes, yes, but they do note that he

490
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: looks cute like a baby. Yes, yes, he does have

491
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: those big cheeks all right. One of the villains we

492
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: counter in this is Um. I've seen her credited as

493
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: Zombie Mother, but I think we can think of her

494
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 1: as the Witch. She's very much a witch character. There's

495
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:12,200
Speaker 1: some big Boba yaga energy to this role, and I

496
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: didn't realize it was a drag performance for the entire

497
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 1: my entire viewing of the film. It wasn't until I

498
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: started looking through the credits that I realized this was

499
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: the case. Played by actor Lindquang Young dates unknown to me,

500
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 1: but a stunt performer and actor who has a lot

501
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: of fun as are over the top hell Escape matriarch

502
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 1: of evil. Yeah, there are multiple really good cross gender

503
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: performances in this, and yeah, the witch is fantastic. She

504
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: wears a ziggy stardust wig. Basically, am am I right

505
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: about that? I believe, so yes, yeah, So she has

506
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of pizzazz. She's a fun

507
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: witch and basically she just wants to find a good

508
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: match for her her two sons, a nice princess for

509
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: one of them or both of them to marry. That's right.

510
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: She kidnaps a princess from a castle and like brings

511
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: the princess back to Hell and he's like, well you

512
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: will marry my two sons now, and the princess is

513
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: not interested, and then she yells at the printers. She

514
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: calls the princess some cuss words, but she also says,

515
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: you're engaging in fault finding with my sons. So yeah,

516
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: fun performance this particularly actor. I think it looks like

517
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: maybe did a lot of like smaller roles, but maybe

518
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: some bigger ones as well. So a lot of like swordsmen,

519
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: a lot of thug credits. So you know, in action films,

520
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: one of the underlings who gets into fights with the

521
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: hero that sort of thing. Oh, but then let's talk

522
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: about Night Melon, also sometimes credited as Watermelon Boy. This

523
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: is played by the actress Saan Ping. You know, sometimes

524
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: a movie like this will just cast a big guy

525
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: because they like he looks funny in the scenes, or

526
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: so they think, but it's it's not actually as funny

527
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: as they think it is. In this case, it is

528
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: like this guy has a lot of moment I mean,

529
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: his character is written in a hilarious way, but also

530
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: he has a lot of just kind of look into

531
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: the camera moments where I don't know it works, he

532
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 1: just looks funny. Yeah, yeah, I mean they also he

533
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: has kind of a ridiculous haircut. He's constantly in kind

534
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: of silly looking clothes, so it's really played out. But yeah,

535
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: so this is we're talking about a guy who's you know,

536
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: obviously a heavy set comedic Taiwan. He's actor, and you

537
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: look at the various roles he's played and you see, like,

538
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: for instance, in Hello Dracula, he just plays fat cop,

539
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: which there's no way that that's not just a comedic

540
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: bit part. You know, I'm imagining just a cop that

541
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: is frightened by a vampire and runs away. I would

542
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: bet money on that. Being the case. But in this movie,

543
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: while he is certainly the butt of jokes and pranks

544
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: by the demons and so forth, he's also a genuine hero.

545
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: So he's, like he is in this film both a

546
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: figure of fun and a figure of strength and courage. Yeah,

547
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: and I you know, I think something that really is

548
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: telling about this is that this actor also played the

549
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: character Pigsy from Journey into the West in at least

550
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: three films. Pigsy, for anyone who's not aware, this is

551
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: one of the major characters and Journey into the West

552
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: alongside the Monkey King. And you know, I think this

553
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: is that's kind of the energy of that character. It's

554
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: like a rotund, poor sign of a character who is

555
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: humorous but also is a hero, is also you know,

556
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: very much fighting on the side of good. So that

557
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: that might be part of it. And we was maybe

558
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: seeing some Pigsy energy in this role, because yeah, he

559
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: certainly gets to act cowardly at times, he some prat

560
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: falls and lots of humor, but he also gets to

561
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: just really kick butt too. He busts out of souplex

562
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: at one point, there's a part where he does like

563
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: a really killer Sinton drop. This is where like there's

564
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: a demon on the ground and he jumps and brings

565
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: all his weight down on the demon, like back first

566
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: onto him. So yeah, he gets to whoop some butt

567
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: as well. He also gets powered up for extra heroics

568
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: at the end of this movie, and I thought the

569
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: mechanism they chose here was interesting. The way they power

570
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: him up is they have the little fairy like do

571
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: a Cupid's arrow into him and the princess, so they,

572
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: against all odds, fall in love with each other, and

573
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: this brings him extra strength to fight the devils to

574
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: rescue her. Yes, yes, love is his energy source. And

575
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: then once she's out of her jail cell, they're just

576
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: like kissing through the entire final battle. Yeah. So lots

577
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: lots of fun with that character. I ended up. It

578
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: grew on me, Like at first I thought, it's like,

579
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: this is just going to be a one note, one

580
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: dimensional comedic character. But they're at least two dimensions in

581
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: play here. Oh totally. I love night Milan. I think

582
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: he's great. Okay, now, this is a much smaller character,

583
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: but at one point, one of the demon underlings that

584
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: they battle is referred to, at least in the subtitles

585
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: as hercules. He's very much this kind of muscley ogre

586
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: character played by Huang Jin Wi. And if you're wondering, hey,

587
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: is this the same big muscled ogre dude there was

588
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: in Thrilling Bloody Sword that got stabbed up the butt

589
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: with the Thrilling Bloody Sword, Well, let me assure you

590
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: that it absolutely is no way, Yeah, it's him. He

591
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: has a sixteen bulging acting credits on the Hong Kong

592
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: Movie database, playing mostly like giants, musclemen and bodyguards, you

593
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: know the type. His earliest credit his nineteen seventy three's

594
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: Kung Fu Inferno, and this is actually his penultimate role

595
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: before nineteen eighty nine's King of the Children aka Hello

596
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: Dracula four. What does he play a vampire? I'm assuming

597
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: he plays a muscle dude. I don't know what kind

598
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: of muscle dude. Maybe a muscle vampire in this so

599
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: he's a muscle demon here. But in Thrilling Bloody Sword,

600
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: he was a statue that came to life. It was

601
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: in that scene where like each statue had only a

602
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: specific place on their body where they could be wounded.

603
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: And then with the I think he was the last

604
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: one left and it's like, oh wow, we cannot find

605
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: his weakness until finally The Thrilling Bloody Sword also had

606
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: a little fairy character that ya strange thing in common.

607
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: But the little the little fairy in that movie like

608
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: used her X ray vision on him to do herman

609
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: that he had to be stabbed and I think, I

610
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: think youphimistically called it the thigh and then but when

611
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: they show it, he stabs him in the butt. So yeah,

612
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: they had a different person on subtitle translation duties for

613
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: that film. Yeah, I feel like the subtitles for Child

614
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 1: of Peach would have been a little Cruider. But speaking

615
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: of that fairy, not the same actor playing the fairy

616
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: in this film. Shadau Lou plays the fairy born nineteen

617
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: seventy eight, a child actor who is in I think

618
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: mostly Hello Dracula movie. She played ten ten in Hello

619
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: Dracula's one, two, three, and five, and I think she

620
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: is actually a Dracula, a vampire, a hopping vampire. Oh

621
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: cham in that movie you mean the actresses in real life?

622
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe? And then finally, there are other wonderful cast

623
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,399
Speaker 1: members in this But the last one I'm gonna mention

624
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 1: is Huang Chung You playing the Demon King or the

625
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,879
Speaker 1: Spirit King their various ways. He has described the main

626
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: villain born nineteen sixty one Tai when he's actor who

627
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: seems to have played a fair number of wise masters,

628
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: vampires and so forth. He was also a martial arts

629
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: choreographer and director. King Devil also rules. The villains in

630
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: this just across the board have awesome Hellish charisma. King

631
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: Devil is great, The Witch is great, all the all

632
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: the little demon fighters. We should get into more about

633
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: the individual demon fighters as we talk about the plot,

634
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 1: but yeah, everything from Hell is good in here. All right. Well,

635
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 1: let's let's break down the plot here. All right, Well,

636
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: it gets right into it. We just start somewhere in

637
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: the mountains, and it is clearly it's an indoor set

638
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: meant to represent the mountains. It's kind of like, you know,

639
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: it's like the guts Agro Crag, but with with with

640
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: like trees and and happy vegetation everywhere. Yeah, yeah, we're

641
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: telling this is somewhere in the Himalayan Mountains. It's the

642
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,959
Speaker 1: peach garden. It's lush and warm due to the power

643
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: hour of the Sword of the Sun, which is embedded

644
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: in the hilltop. Ex Caliber style. Now pretty much right

645
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: off the bat, you start figuring out that you're not

646
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: going to be able to read some of the hard

647
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: burned subtitles because it tells you, you know, we're here

648
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: in the Peach Garden. And then you see, but right

649
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: there in the peak there is a different world, the

650
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: Peach Garden as the natural power absorbed by the Sword

651
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: of sun It. And then it's just a white text

652
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: on white background. So something about the garden, I'm not sure.

653
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: But then a song kicks off and I rewound and

654
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: listen to the opening song probably fourteen times. It's a

655
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,919
Speaker 1: it's a great tune, really puts you in the mood

656
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: for happy, happy, fighting, and we get to see all

657
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: of the Guardians of the Peach Garden going about their

658
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: business and doing transformations. So who are the guardians here? Well,

659
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 1: the subtitles tell us that they are. Well, the songs

660
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: that the song that sells tells us they are the

661
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 1: Naughty Angels, right that the Guardians of the Peach Garden.

662
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: It says, it says turning into rainbows. Something can't read that.

663
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: Dad and moms start playing magic. Naughty Angels dance on

664
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,399
Speaker 1: the roof. Yeah, that's that's exactlyurate. So, yeah, these three

665
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: Elfish guardians. The subtitles tell us that they are tiny cock,

666
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:23,919
Speaker 1: tiny dog, and tiny monkey. I believe in general these

667
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: characters are associated with the pheasant with a domestic dog,

668
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 1: and with a monkey of some sort, and we encounter

669
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: them in their animal forms, and then we see them

670
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: in this scene transformed into their human forms. And don't worry,

671
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: they have a third form that we won't find out

672
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,280
Speaker 1: about until the final battle. But they are the guardian

673
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 1: angels of the Garden. And the Garden is ruled over

674
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: by what is described as an intimate couple. I take

675
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: that demeano cult power couple who are raising a plump,

676
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: cute baby boy on the magic nectar of a giant

677
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: peach aka the Holy Peach. So Mother Peach tends to

678
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,919
Speaker 1: the baby while Father Peach makes swords fly around their

679
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: cavern home. Yeah, he does sword telekinesis in the cave

680
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: while the mother like harvests the nectar that drips off

681
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 1: of I don't know if there's a word for this.

682
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: What is the little nub on the bottom of a

683
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: peach called? Oh, that's a good question. I don't know,

684
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: but it's prominently featured in many of the peach designs

685
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: we see in this film. Yeah, okay, so the little

686
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: peach nub drips nectar into a big glass punch bowl.

687
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: It's a punch bowl, and then I guess she gets

688
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: it from the punch bowl and then does she feed

689
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: it to their baby? I believe so this is like

690
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: the sacred elixir that is making peach baby strong. But

691
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: these two are the masters of the garden. And then

692
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: so they're living in peace and harmony. It seems like

693
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: almost kind of like a perfect existence it's implied to be.

694
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: But then oh, they one day something something feels amiss

695
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: and they say, stranger is coming. What is this? And

696
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: then like four big balls just roll into the garden yep,

697
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,479
Speaker 1: and they explode, and out of them come Devil's where

698
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 1: this is the devil King or King Devil and his cronies.

699
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: They have come to claim the magic sword better protect

700
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: the baby. And just another myth note or folklore note here.

701
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: I think this character is generally referred to as an

702
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: one in the Japanese tradition and certainly has has ony

703
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: notes into the character design here. So how to describe

704
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: the King Devil He's wearing armor is this kind of

705
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 1: a Samurai armor. Yeah, it looks very very Japanese and

706
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 1: it's an inspiration, which makes sense given the origin of

707
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: the folk tale. And has big ony teeth, huge fangs

708
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: that it almost like fangs that look funny to try

709
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,760
Speaker 1: to fit inside his mouth. Yep, yeah, like it's a mouthful. Like. Luckily,

710
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: this guy's not actually having to too much live vocal acting.

711
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: I think he's just kind of goes ah and somebody

712
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 1: dubs over it. But he's got a huge wigs, a redhair,

713
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: gigantic bushy red eyebrows, he's got pale makeup on his face,

714
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: the sort of samuraish armor. His helmet has a big

715
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: oh what do you call that kind of the upward

716
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: facing crescent moon shape on it, like horns. Yeah, he

717
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 1: cuts a great profile. Oh yeah, King Devil is so stylish.

718
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:23,879
Speaker 1: And so he gets there and he says, I want

719
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: the sword, and of course, you know the master is

720
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 1: the gardener not just going to give him the sword.

721
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: So he manifests, he has his balls explode and they

722
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: transform into these devils with green hair and horns who

723
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: are wielding these long like polarm weapons. And then there's

724
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: a big battle that breaks out and the battle is amazing.

725
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: I watched the first ten minutes of this film multiple times. Yeah,

726
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: this is a film where I think a lot of

727
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: people you might not expect the martial arts action to

728
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: be this good, but the martial arts action and this

729
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,760
Speaker 1: is great. I think maybe the martial arts is stronger

730
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 1: in this film than Thrilling Bloody Sword that was still

731
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: really impressive and thrilling Bloody Sword. Like, now, no matter

732
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: what your issues are with like not being you know

733
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 1: they about to understand all the subtitles or know what's

734
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: going on plot wise, well at any given point, the

735
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: action sequences absolutely makes sense. Like they have they have

736
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: build to them, they have callbacks, They tell a story

737
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: with the action, and I think it's kind of a

738
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: testament to just the tradition of Taiwanese and Hong Kong

739
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: cinema at the time that this was just sort of

740
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: this was so important to making a film. So it's great.

741
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: Highly recommend the action. We'll keep talking about it. But

742
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: while the battle is going on with so you get

743
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 1: the Master, the man from the Cave, and the three

744
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: guardians fighting off the devils. The King Devil goes up

745
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: to the sword of Sun and pulls it out of

746
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: the stone, I guess, and then it's like shooting this

747
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: green electricity all over the place. So as soon as

748
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: he takes it, the garden turns dark and snow starts falling.

749
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: So again, I think it was established earlier that the

750
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 1: sword is what makes the top of the mountainhabitable and

751
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,280
Speaker 1: a lush garden instead of just a you know, snow

752
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: capped rock. Yeah, and then things go downhill from there. Yeah,

753
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: so the King Devil, unfortunately, he kills the man and

754
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: the woman, murders them, and casts the guardians off of

755
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: the mountaintop, but not before Mom makes a plan for

756
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,439
Speaker 1: Peach baby. She pikes peach baby, puts him inside, puts

757
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,439
Speaker 1: the baby inside of the holy peach, and the holy

758
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: peach flies off. That's right, So it is you know,

759
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 1: it's it's Moses in the basket, except it's a baby

760
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,479
Speaker 1: in a peach. Yeah. And you know, since the peach

761
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: is alive and his personality, it's not just like random

762
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: like where will this baby wash up? It's like, no,

763
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: the peach must find a suitable parents for the baby.

764
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 1: That's right, It's it does a sentient peach. Also, while

765
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 1: the peach is flying away. This is where we first

766
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: meet the fairy. I think fairy just randomly shows up

767
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: and just says, it's strange the peach garden is gone.

768
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: She's mostly here, I think to move the plot along, Yeah,

769
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: in multiple ways. Oh and also as the peaches leaving,

770
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: she goes and talks to the dying woman in the cave,

771
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: who she calls the woman landlord. I thought was interesting.

772
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 1: It was like, is the is the fairy paying rent?

773
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: But okay, we cut from here to meet the old

774
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 1: man and the old woman. They are living together in

775
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: the bamboo forest and they are going to a shrine

776
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 1: of the Buddha to pay homage. We see that they

777
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:39,320
Speaker 1: are a you know, they kind of crack wise, but

778
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,919
Speaker 1: they are also in many ways a pious and kind

779
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: hearted couple. And they go to the shrine of the

780
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: Buddha and have a conversation about how they are unable

781
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: to have children. But when the woman goes off to

782
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: wash clothes at the side of the river, she comes

783
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:59,839
Speaker 1: across a giant peach and from here unfolds an amazing

784
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: chase scene. Rob. I don't know if there's anything you

785
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: want to mention about this, but it well, it goes

786
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: over sea, not see over river, water, air and land.

787
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: It has like a sort of dragging scene where the

788
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: lady's butt catches on fire. It does involve the peach

789
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: peeing on her, but she also does sort of catch

790
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: it in the end, right right, It is a frantic chase.

791
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,240
Speaker 1: This this chase sequence is well represented in that two minute.

792
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 1: Everything is terrible cut and yeah, it's just includes a

793
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: lot of antics with indeed the peach peeing on her

794
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: to put out fire and so forth. But eventually she

795
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: catches it and kind of locks it in a room

796
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: back at the house, and so when the old man

797
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 1: shows up, she's like, old man, you gotta get in

798
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 1: here and deal with this peach. And he's like, oh,

799
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 1: old woman, you're just making things up. I can handle this,

800
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 1: and then goes in and encounters the peach. Yeah, he

801
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,320
Speaker 1: says he's gonna eat it up. I'm gonna go in

802
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: and eat the peach up. Oh. There's also a very

803
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: funny moment where in the foreground the old man and

804
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 1: the old woman are talking and he's saying, you know,

805
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 1: that's okay, I'm hungry, prepare a meal for me, and

806
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,800
Speaker 1: she's like, no, there's a haunted Peach. And then in

807
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,800
Speaker 1: the background, if you just see the Peach zooming around

808
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: like behind their backs, it's like a ghost and a

809
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 1: horror movie. Yeah, just just zooming around ominously in the back.

810
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: They have no idea what's about to happen, and it's

811
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: doing poultry gey stuff. It makes the furniture dance and

812
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: spin around in the air, almost exactly like Trumpy from

813
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: Pod People. It has similar powers. Yeah, but I think

814
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: the fight stops when the fairy shows up to convince

815
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: the Peach to stop doing satanic black magic. Is Yeah,

816
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: there's kind of a fight that happens where like the

817
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 1: old man jumps up on the rafters and the Peach

818
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: chases him and he's like, you stink Peach. Yeah, it's

819
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: so good. But yeah, then the fairy shows up and

820
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: she's like, hey, Peach, cut it out. These are some

821
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: good folks. I think you need to open up and

822
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: let them raise the baby. That's all right, he says,

823
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: this couple are good persons. And then so the peach

824
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: cracks open, it hatches this beautiful holy light comes out

825
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: of it, and then there's the baby, and so the

826
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 1: old woman grabs the baby and she says old man,

827
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: take a look at it. Real cute. And from here

828
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: they adopted the baby. They make it their own, and

829
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: it is actually shockingly sweet. Like there's this sort of

830
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 1: montage of her rocking the baby and singing to it

831
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,479
Speaker 1: as it falls asleep, and then we see the baby

832
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: growing older and in this bontage and Rachel and I

833
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 1: were watching this and she was like, what and why

834
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,879
Speaker 1: am I having feelings? I know I felt the same way,

835
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: like the baby is very adorable and she's there's the

836
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: part where yeah, she's singing, touching your head and touching

837
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,720
Speaker 1: your hands like a little lullaby, and it's very sweet's

838
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: legitimately sweet. Oh and we should mention earlier when they

839
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: were at the Buddhist shrine in the forest before they

840
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: get Peach Kid. This is when they meet night Melan.

841
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: So they're like, they're saying, oh, we wish we could

842
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: have a son. And then I don't know where night

843
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: Melon comes from. It's like he falls out of the sky. Yeah,

844
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,399
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's on some sort of adventure, right, yeah,

845
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: and he drops down and at first you're like, who

846
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: is this? But they're like, oh, here's a big baby,

847
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: let's raise him. And then they realize like, oh, no,

848
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: he is cute like a baby, but this is a

849
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: grown man. And then we discovered this is night melon.

850
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: He's out hunting birds, i think, with his retainers, and they, oh,

851
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 1: he shows off his strength by chopping down a giant

852
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 1: stalk of bamboo, like a tree sized one with his

853
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 1: hands to get the bird out of it. Yeah. Now

854
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: there's a wonderful jarring transition because we have this wonderful

855
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,399
Speaker 1: lullah by you know, rocking my sweet, my sweet peach

856
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: kid into into slumber, that sort of thing. But then

857
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: immediately we cut and it's like, meanwhile in Hell, in Hell,

858
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: So the King Devil returns to Hell where there is

859
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: a frozen old witch and all her evil demon children.

860
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: And this scene is actually, I think quite atmospheric and spooky. Yeah,

861
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: so this is supposed to be one of the cold hells. Now,

862
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: there are numerous cold narakas in Buddhism. I've seen. I've

863
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 1: seen it listed that they're a total of like maybe

864
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 1: eight cold hells, and they're defined by the cold sounds

865
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: that the inhabitants make and or what sort of damage

866
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,840
Speaker 1: it does to the body. So, are your teeth chattering

867
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: at at in the cold, or are you going ha

868
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:36,440
Speaker 1: ha in pain? Is your body merely covered with cold blisters?

869
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: Are those blisters bursting and then the pus freezing over

870
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: your body? Or are you so cold that like parts

871
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: of your flesh have fallen away and we can see

872
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 1: your internal organs. I don't know. It's one of those.

873
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 1: It seems real bad here because the demons are crying

874
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: out for relief. You see the demon children walking up

875
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: to a mound, and then this old witch comes up

876
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: out of the mound, like she pushes away the earth

877
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: the top of it. And the demons are saying or

878
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:04,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're demons, that maybe they're damned

879
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: people that I don't know. The people there they're saying,

880
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: get up, mom, get up mom, And they say Mom,

881
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 1: we don't want to stay here. But the witch says

882
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: it's destined because we've done evil things before. I think

883
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: that means like in life, maybe they did evil things

884
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: so they're stuck here in jail. She says, we're all cursed.

885
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,359
Speaker 1: We're locked up in jail. And they say, Grandma, get

886
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:29,839
Speaker 1: us out of here. And then she says, it's impossible.

887
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:34,919
Speaker 1: Let's spend our life like this again. I think maybe

888
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,480
Speaker 1: something is getting lost in the subtitles here. But then

889
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: the King Devil shows up and he's got the sort

890
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: of son with him, and with the power of the

891
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: sort of sun, he turns Hell into a kind of

892
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: peach garden. Like He's like, Okay, now Hell isn't cold anymore,

893
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 1: y'all can chill out. Yeah, So he's recruiting himself some

894
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: nnions here with the power of the sort of the sun,

895
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 1: and yeah, instantly all of these newly won demonic minions

896
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: take on a new air, a new likeness. So the

897
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 1: old mom, the old witch here is suddenly suddenly has

898
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 1: the ziggy stardust Wig. We see Hercules, the big muscly

899
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 1: ogre dude. There's some other specialized demon troops as well.

900
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: I think one of my favorites is the wind guy.

901
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,760
Speaker 1: He's like this demon underling that has a big sack

902
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,320
Speaker 1: of wind that he uses in battles either to blow

903
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: his adversaries away or to create a really stiff wind

904
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 1: that they can't walk into, kind of comedically, and the

905
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 1: payoff on the wind bag demon is fantastic. Oh yes,

906
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:42,439
Speaker 1: But so the King Devil has defrosted the demons of hell,

907
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: and the Witch says, thank you, my King Devil, you

908
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: give us new life and interesting, interesting take on the

909
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: harrowing of hell here, and so the witch is obviously interested.

910
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 1: She's like, King Devil, what's the sword in your hand?

911
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: And the King Devil explains that he's taken it from

912
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: the peach garden. And I think he explains what he

913
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 1: plans to do with the sword, But most of the

914
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: subtitles here are against a white background, so I do

915
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: not know what he says his plan is, but it

916
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 1: seems to me that his plan is to do evil

917
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 1: maybe and to rule over the people of the world

918
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 1: and make them miserable. Yeah. I mean, not to get

919
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,399
Speaker 1: too deep on this, but in freeing these people from

920
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,240
Speaker 1: one of the hells, like in the from the Buddhist perspective,

921
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,320
Speaker 1: like he's interfering with like the natural order of the universe,

922
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: because again in Eastern traditions, the hells and hell realms

923
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 1: are more about transforming into something better like this is

924
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 1: No matter what the subtitles might say, I think we

925
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: might infer that these are people who are being processed

926
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 1: through this realm and eventually, in another incarnation will be

927
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: better for it. So he's interrupting that he's in. He's

928
00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: breaking them out so they can continue to be bad

929
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: in a way that's out of the line with the universe.

930
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: I think in one of the subtitles they do say, well,

931
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: we've got a thousand more years here. Yeah, but yes,

932
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,359
Speaker 1: he breaks it breaks it off short. They clearly are

933
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: not redeemed. They have not improved their souls at all,

934
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: so that they still just want to do evil and

935
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: they're gonna help King Devil in that regard by brutally

936
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: attacking a village. This is the next thing we see

937
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,359
Speaker 1: them do. Like the Witch shows up and she says,

938
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: m I get a thrill as I smell these people.

939
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: I want to taste their blood, and she gets all excited,

940
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: and they just attack all these people in a village.

941
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: That one part, they're like setting fire to houses and

942
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: beating people down and just slaughtering them. And there's one

943
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 1: part where I think a demon attacks some kids that

944
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: are swimming in a lake and their dad is on

945
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: the lake shore and he I think he calls them

946
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 1: like Bobby and Denny or something in these subtitles, and

947
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,800
Speaker 1: then he jumps into the water to save them. And

948
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: then they send like a mutant shark after him. Oh

949
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: have their shark demons, that's right, Yeah, those will come

950
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: up again later. Yeah. So they just they burn this

951
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: city to the ground or this town to the grounds village.

952
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: And this is something this film has in common with

953
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 1: Throwing Bloody Sword. Both films have, at least in my eye,

954
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: terrifying fire effects. Maybe I'm just more sensitive to this

955
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: kind of thing now, but I'm like, oh jeez, it's like,

956
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: like that's that's not just a magic staff shooting a

957
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,919
Speaker 1: little bit of flame. I think they're using a flamethrower

958
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:28,879
Speaker 1: that looks like jelly gasoline. Yeah, and we do see

959
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: what seemed to be unsimulated footage of like houses burning down,

960
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: so they burned some real huts and stuff for this.

961
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: So the Devil is up to some bad business and

962
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:51,360
Speaker 1: it really needs to stop. We need a hero, is

963
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 1: what we need. We need a hero. And what do

964
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,319
Speaker 1: you know, back in the bamboo forest, peach kids all

965
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 1: grown up, super strong. Now he's splitting wood with his

966
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: bare ends. He goes and he digs out a well

967
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: for his parents so they can have water. Now at

968
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 1: this point, yeah, that the fairy has intervened, sped up

969
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: the development of Peach Kid, because if she's the Fairy's like,

970
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 1: this isn't happening fast enough. We need to hear pronto.

971
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 1: And so by this point it is the grown actor

972
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 1: peach Baby playing the peach Kid. Oh yeah, I think

973
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: there'd been some earlier scenes where they were just like, wow,

974
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 1: peach kid sure eats a lot, but needs to grow

975
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:31,440
Speaker 1: up faster. Yeah. And the grandma and the grandpa, the

976
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 1: old man and the old woman, they couldn't be happier

977
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,800
Speaker 1: because there's like, oh, our son is so strong, he

978
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: can carry us around. Yes, So we see peach Kid

979
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: carrying are I think they work as like, I don't know,

980
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:46,719
Speaker 1: loggers in the forest. We see peach Kid, I think,

981
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: by himself carrying a whole tree that has been felled.

982
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 1: But then also just yeah, carrying the old man around

983
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 1: in the forest, and the old man says, this is

984
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:58,919
Speaker 1: my son. He bears me up. Yep, yep, he's very proud,

985
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:02,320
Speaker 1: very proud. Now somewhere in here, the King Devil and

986
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: the Witch attack a castle and kidnap a princess. I

987
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 1: recall this going by very fast, but suddenly they've just

988
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: got a princess captive. Yeah, And then I forgot about

989
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 1: the princess for a while until she becomes important again.

990
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, it comes by very fast. But the witch says,

991
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:20,319
Speaker 1: it's your luck to have a chance to marry my son,

992
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 1: and princess doesn't want to marry her sons, and which

993
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:29,439
Speaker 1: doesn't like this. She cusses the princess out as she says,

994
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 1: you're indulging in fault finding on my good sons. And

995
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 1: then the son say, mom, I want the princess. But anyway,

996
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,400
Speaker 1: the fact that the King Devil has kidnapped the princess

997
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:44,800
Speaker 1: leads to the organization of a gigantic rescue effort. So

998
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 1: they're like these armies as symbol they're going to go

999
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: to Devil Island to get the princess back. And who's

1000
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 1: in charge of this rescue plan but Night Mellon himself. Yeah,

1001
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 1: there are a couple of other kind of military individuals

1002
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 1: who there's one one guy that is referred to as

1003
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: Bowie in the subtitles for a smug priest, the Dallas Priest.

1004
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 1: He's very yeah, he's very like full of himself. When

1005
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:13,800
Speaker 1: he shows up, he's like, I will defeat you know,

1006
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: I will go with you. We will defeat the King Devil,

1007
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: and night Melon taunts him by saying, like, what, You're

1008
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:22,879
Speaker 1: going to defeat him by praying at him? Yeah? Yeah,

1009
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: he's very cowardly in this too. The first peeing scene

1010
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: comes about though, because our hero, the peach Kid, shows

1011
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: up and it's like, I'm strong, I'm ready to help.

1012
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: There's also a lot of back and forth where the father,

1013
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 1: the old man, is like, I will go to war.

1014
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 1: You shouldn't have to go to war and fight the tavil,

1015
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,279
Speaker 1: and but then they realize, oh, the old man is

1016
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: too old, he can't do it. It's got to be

1017
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 1: peach Kid. So tears in their eyes. Peach Kid goes

1018
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:50,480
Speaker 1: off to join the army, but then aren't The generals

1019
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 1: in the army are like, you're too young, you can't

1020
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,799
Speaker 1: do this. And then the three Guardian animals show up

1021
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: and they're like, how can they bully our master? Like that,

1022
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: let's go pee in their drinks and so that's all right.

1023
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 1: The monkey and the dog go and pee in their

1024
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 1: drinks that are set out without anybody, you know, looking

1025
00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: out for them. And then they show up and they're like, oh,

1026
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 1: let's have our our alcohol now, and so they start

1027
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: drinking their their drinks that now have animal urine in them,

1028
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: and they start making comedic gross faces about how weird

1029
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 1: it tastes. I think they have to run a night

1030
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: Melon and Priest Bowie have to run behind a curtain

1031
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 1: to vomit. Yeah, a good time has had by all.

1032
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 1: Oh but Peach Kid eventually, so yeah, we assemble the characters.

1033
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 1: So you've got night Melon and Priest Bowie in the armies.

1034
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 1: And then Peach Kid eventually proves his worth by wrestling

1035
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 1: a bull. I think, is that right? Yes, yes, slams it. Yeah,

1036
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 1: slams a bull down. And then also Peach Kid is

1037
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: joined by the three animal guardians from the Peach Shrine

1038
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: on the mountaintop. So they're allied with peach Kid. Now,

1039
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: I think maybe we're they recruited by the fairy. I

1040
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 1: think so yeah, yeah, because they were a part of

1041
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 1: the original guardian crew for the Peach Baby. So yeah, yeah,

1042
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 1: they're loyal. And they also eventually tell Peach Kid what'sop like,

1043
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 1: tells Peach Kid about Peach Kid's birth parents and so forth. Right,

1044
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 1: so they pee in the food and all that. But

1045
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:16,880
Speaker 1: eventually Peach Kid is accepted into Night Melon's retinue here

1046
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: and they're going to go attack the Devil Island together,

1047
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 1: but unfortunately, Night Melon's forces are decimated by a vicious

1048
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: witch attack on the army encampment that involves an attempted

1049
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: seduction of Night Melon the destruction of his forces. Rob,

1050
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have described this in some more detail. What

1051
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 1: all goes down here? Oh? I mean it's a frenzied

1052
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: action sequence. Well with also that seductive sequence of where

1053
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: the witch shows up pretends to be the princess Knight

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00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 1: Melon's like, oh, I will kiss you, and then she

1055
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 1: transforms into the witch before he can kiss her, and

1056
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 1: hilarity ensues. But then yeah, the Demon force attacks and yeah,

1057
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: it's a great action sequence. Stuff flaming in the night.

1058
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,360
Speaker 1: We get to see the wind Demon and yeah, I

1059
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 1: think one of my favorite mini battles in the whole

1060
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: picture is Peach Kid versus Wind Demon, And we see

1061
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 1: this first tussle between these two in this sequence, and

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00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:15,520
Speaker 1: Wind Demon kind of gets the better of Peach Kid

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00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 1: by blowing the wind out of the bag through a pipe,

1064
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: right yeah, and we realize like this isn't over. These

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00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 1: two have a score to settle later on. So Night

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00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: Melon survives this tag I think, does Priest Bowie just

1067
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 1: run away? I think he's like, I better pretend to

1068
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: be dead so I can survive, and then he does

1069
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: that and then he kind of crawls away. Yeah. So

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00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: the forces that are going to pose the Devil King

1071
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: are decimated, but our key hero survive. And at this

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00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 1: point it becomes clear that this this effort is not

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00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 1: going to succeed as a as a pure military venture

1074
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: with siege equipment like it originally was was headed. Now

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00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 1: this is going to be have to be a hero

1076
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 1: squad oriented action. We're gonna have to send our heroes

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Speaker 1: in to the inner sanctum of the Devil King and

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01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: stop him. That's right. So for the final for the

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Speaker 1: Final showdown, Peach Kid, Night Melon and the three Animal

1080
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:12,440
Speaker 1: Guardians mountain assault on Devil Island. And I don't know

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01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: we can talk about the various elements of this, but

1082
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:17,920
Speaker 1: I will just say the final battle is a religious experience.

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01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 1: It will open eyes you did not know you had,

1084
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: oh Man so much. There's so much to talk about

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01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 1: it just for starters. Since I mentioned the first part

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01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 1: of it already, we get the second half of the

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01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 1: Battle of Peach Kid versus the wind Demon. And in

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01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 1: this one, like Peach Kid has learned the tricks and

1089
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:38,320
Speaker 1: like the language, like the physical language of the fight

1090
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: sequence is so great. And eventually peach Kid gets the

1091
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 1: upper hand and they do this bit where they both

1092
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 1: have this tube and they're blowing into the tube and

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01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,479
Speaker 1: Peach Kid can blow harder and stronger at this point

1094
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:55,439
Speaker 1: than Wind Demon, and she makes the Wind Demon's head

1095
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 1: explode scanner style and we get a freeze frame of

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01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 1: head chunks and gore exploding from this creature's head. Peach

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01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:10,840
Speaker 1: Kid as Michael Ironside as Darrell revoc Yes, Yes, absolutely wonderful.

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01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 1: Like if the movie had ended at that point, I

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01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:14,680
Speaker 1: would have been like, fine, that's great, I can go

1100
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:17,480
Speaker 1: home happy. Oh. Also, before the fight starts, to get

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01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: a return of the mutant sharks, yep, there's a brutal

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01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 1: fight with them in which one of the sharks has

1103
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 1: the Shark mutants, has their fin sliced off by Peach Kid.

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01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 1: And then after the battle they're like, hey, where where'd

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01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 1: Melan go? And then Melan comes swimming up with like

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Speaker 1: a bunch of shark fins from the Shark demons, and

1107
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 1: he's like these are nutritious. I'm going to eat them.

1108
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 1: So we get a shark fin soup joke in there,

1109
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 1: which you know, I wasn't crazy about that. I guess

1110
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: we have to keep in mind this was the eighties,

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01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 1: and I think the messaging against the you know, the

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01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 1: ecologically harmful and ethically problematic practice of shark finning, it

1113
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 1: didn't really come into like two thousand and five or so,

1114
01:02:02,200 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 1: and so yeah, and then also, I guess it's better

1115
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: in that at least it's played up. Is kind of

1116
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 1: a dufus move on Melon's part, because they're like, don't

1117
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 1: eat that melon, You're gonna poison yourself. And he's like, oh, okay,

1118
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: oh yes, because they're demon shark fins, not regular shark fins.

1119
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, oh I didn't think of that. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: they get him to leave the shark fins and then

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01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:23,760
Speaker 1: they keep going into the inter sanctum for this big battle. Yeah,

1122
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 1: and then the battle ensues. The action is just sizzling.

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Speaker 1: We get that that final encounter between Peach Kid and

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Speaker 1: the wind Demon. Meanwhile, we have Melan going to rescue

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Speaker 1: the princess, and we mentioned earlier how that the Faery

1126
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 1: uses love to power him up and and it's also

1127
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 1: in this sequence where he has to battle Hercules. Hercules,

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01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: remember is the is the demon from hell who's got

1129
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:51,880
Speaker 1: big muscles and like a spiked club. Yeah, very much,

1130
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:55,760
Speaker 1: this kind of ony ogre, kind of a figure brute strength,

1131
01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:59,640
Speaker 1: and it's it's ultimately a really fun fight because Melan

1132
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 1: holds his own his own pretty well against Hercules, but

1133
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 1: he's he's just not getting it done. But after the

1134
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 1: love sinks in and takes effect, he's able to just

1135
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:14,000
Speaker 1: kind of like casually kill Hercules like he's walking away

1136
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,120
Speaker 1: with his princess, and then he kind of like flicks

1137
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 1: a spear with his foot back behind him and impales

1138
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 1: Hercules through the heart. Is beautiful. That's the power of love. Yeah,

1139
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:27,960
Speaker 1: they could have played it and it would have fit perfectly.

1140
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:31,800
Speaker 1: But but but we haven't gotten yet to the most

1141
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 1: amazing thing that happens in this film, which is the

1142
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 1: emergence of Mecca Peach. Oh. Yeah, because everybody's at this

1143
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 1: point trying to tell I think the Witch gets dispatched.

1144
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:43,360
Speaker 1: She gets blown up with a rocket shot by one

1145
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 1: of the three Animal Guardian kids, and then it's so

1146
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:49,640
Speaker 1: it's just them against the demon. King. But the Demon

1147
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:52,960
Speaker 1: King has this magical sword, and it's quickly becoming obvious

1148
01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:56,080
Speaker 1: that the crew cannot take him out. Like he's busting

1149
01:03:56,520 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 1: busting out against Melan. Melan hits the dirt. The three

1150
01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:02,720
Speaker 1: kids take on hybrid forms, which are hilarious because one

1151
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: has long monkey arms, one has like a dog claws,

1152
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 1: and the other one has a single of pheasant wing.

1153
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 1: And so they jump into battle. And these these sort

1154
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:18,120
Speaker 1: of wild form path of the Beast of weapons seem

1155
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:20,240
Speaker 1: to work well against the demon underlings, but they are

1156
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 1: no match for the king. The he's punching him with

1157
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:28,840
Speaker 1: the wing. Yeah, and so in even wings are good

1158
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 1: for I don't know, but they can't they can't do it.

1159
01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:34,480
Speaker 1: They can't pull it off. And even Peach kid it

1160
01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 1: seems unable to get the upper hand against demon King.

1161
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 1: So they've got they've got a power up. We get

1162
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 1: we get a power up here. Yes, it's the return

1163
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:47,920
Speaker 1: of the Holy Peach. Peach comes flying back in um

1164
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,960
Speaker 1: Demon King. What slices the Peach up with the sword

1165
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 1: and the slices become other peaches. I forget exactly how

1166
01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 1: we get the transformation into Mecca Peach? What what is

1167
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: the sequence here. Yeah, I think Peach shows up, Peach

1168
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 1: gets sliced by the sword, but then the Peach pieces

1169
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: a symbol vultron style into this large kind of like

1170
01:05:11,280 --> 01:05:16,760
Speaker 1: a peach golem, like a big Peach marionette. Every time

1171
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 1: Mecca peaches on screen and on the screen in this movie,

1172
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:22,439
Speaker 1: it manages to be the weirdest scene ever committed to screen.

1173
01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 1: It's just such a god Balker's presentation. I couldn't believe it.

1174
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 1: It's and it looks so weird but also so familiar.

1175
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:33,600
Speaker 1: This is something we were talking about before we started.

1176
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:37,440
Speaker 1: I was like, Mecca Peach feels like something I've seen before,

1177
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:40,320
Speaker 1: even though I know I haven't. I think it's just

1178
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 1: that Mecca Peach in its puppet form has like some

1179
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 1: visual similarities to other objects. Yeah, Like I was getting

1180
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:51,240
Speaker 1: notes of mister Bill, notes of a cupie doll, and

1181
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 1: notes of Panic Peach, that squeeze toy with the bulging eyeballs.

1182
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:59,640
Speaker 1: That's really good. But then very much is its own

1183
01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:02,720
Speaker 1: thing as well off. And it's it's got a weird

1184
01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 1: energy too, because it laughs with a Donald Duck laugh

1185
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:07,960
Speaker 1: or something very much like a Donald Duck laugh, going

1186
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 1: like so like the King Devil tries to rush it,

1187
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 1: but Mecca Peach blows a bunch of I don't know,

1188
01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:17,600
Speaker 1: the fog in his face and knocks him back. And

1189
01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:22,040
Speaker 1: then Mecca Peach peas on him. Yeah, but peas right,

1190
01:06:22,160 --> 01:06:25,439
Speaker 1: and the Devil King's face and he makes he makes

1191
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:28,680
Speaker 1: a weird face about it, and the subtitles say piss

1192
01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 1: off and that. But the Devil King's not gonna, not

1193
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:36,120
Speaker 1: gonna stop. He comes in again with the sword. This

1194
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:38,320
Speaker 1: time there's some like back and forth with the sword,

1195
01:06:38,360 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 1: and then the Mecca Peach like bites the sword out

1196
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 1: of his hand and seems to swallow the sword, and

1197
01:06:46,040 --> 01:06:49,000
Speaker 1: then we get this awesome moment so that there's like,

1198
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:51,720
Speaker 1: I think the first thing that happens is Mecca Peach

1199
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 1: just like knocks the Devil King away and like slams

1200
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:58,160
Speaker 1: him through a pillar, which is a pretty spectacular looking

1201
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 1: stunt on its own right. And then he gets up.

1202
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 1: He's standing in front of his devil throne and Mecca

1203
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:08,240
Speaker 1: Peach opens its mouth. Out of his mouth comes flying

1204
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:11,720
Speaker 1: Peach Kid with the Sword of the Sun in hand,

1205
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 1: and Peach Kid violently skewers the Devil King like through

1206
01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:19,320
Speaker 1: his torso and steers him to the throne in just

1207
01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:25,560
Speaker 1: an absolutely quality kill. Magnificent. I don't know what else

1208
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:28,640
Speaker 1: we could say, just great, Like the only really way

1209
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:31,040
Speaker 1: to close things out at that point is to have

1210
01:07:31,200 --> 01:07:36,200
Speaker 1: a jumping freeze frame ending, which they do. They do, Yeah,

1211
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 1: and the credits are all we get the song again, yes,

1212
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 1: oh my god, and it's just so yeah, so delightful

1213
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 1: to end on that note where here are heroes, here's

1214
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:49,960
Speaker 1: the peach monstrosity still standing behind them. Which again, is

1215
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:55,240
Speaker 1: this this perfect balance of like awkward weird. I guess

1216
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:59,240
Speaker 1: it was a marionette, like a large marionette that they

1217
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 1: used like cranes or scaffolding to to create Like this

1218
01:08:03,760 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 1: was not a it's not stop motion, it's not you know,

1219
01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 1: certainly not CGI. So it has a it looks kind

1220
01:08:11,160 --> 01:08:14,280
Speaker 1: of bad as you might expect, but also wonderful, and

1221
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:16,920
Speaker 1: it definitely has a physical reality that you can get behind.

1222
01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 1: Naughty Angels dance on the roof once again. Yes, okay,

1223
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:23,160
Speaker 1: do you have anything else? Or should we wrap it

1224
01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:25,640
Speaker 1: up there? Oh? We should probably wrap it up there.

1225
01:08:25,680 --> 01:08:27,920
Speaker 1: But there's I mean, there's so many little details in

1226
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:30,120
Speaker 1: this movie. It's like, I say, you can watch the

1227
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:33,080
Speaker 1: two minute cut, but you won't. You certainly won't get everything.

1228
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,200
Speaker 1: And then once you watch it you may have to

1229
01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:37,480
Speaker 1: go back through it and watch it again to appreciate

1230
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:40,000
Speaker 1: all of the stuff that they just pack into this

1231
01:08:40,479 --> 01:08:44,679
Speaker 1: this picture. Child of Peach truly a monumental achievement. I've

1232
01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 1: never seen anything quite like it. Yeah, yeah, a lot

1233
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:50,840
Speaker 1: of fun. So you know, maybe it's not the most

1234
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:54,320
Speaker 1: um Saint Patty's Day of movies we could have picked,

1235
01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:56,439
Speaker 1: but a lot of fun. And you know, also like

1236
01:08:56,640 --> 01:09:00,439
Speaker 1: today is also this is my fifteen year working aniversary

1237
01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:02,560
Speaker 1: since I started with house stuff work, so you know,

1238
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:06,200
Speaker 1: this movie is a party, so it's my party. Congratulations.

1239
01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:09,000
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. All right, well, we're gonna go ahead

1240
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:10,400
Speaker 1: and close this one out, but we'd love to hear

1241
01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:12,719
Speaker 1: from everyone out there. Are you familiar with Child of Peach?

1242
01:09:13,240 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 1: Were you familiar with it? Or are you familiar with

1243
01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 1: it now? What are your thoughts on it? We'd love

1244
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:19,120
Speaker 1: to hear from you. Also love to hear from anyone

1245
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:22,439
Speaker 1: who's just more more expertise in like Taiwanese cinema in general.

1246
01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 1: If you want to see a complete list of the

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Speaker 1: can go to a couple of places, like I said,

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Speaker 1: a blog about visa samudamusic dot com. It's a personal

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Speaker 1: blog of mine. And then also the show Weird House

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Speaker 1: of what we're covering in the week to follow. Huge

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