1
00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,519
Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

2
00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,079
Speaker 2: Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

3
00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,040
Speaker 3: And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House

4
00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:21,640
Speaker 3: Cinema we're going to be talking about the nineteen eighty

5
00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:26,400
Speaker 3: eight Taiwani is fantasy martial arts movie Magic of Spell.

6
00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:30,880
Speaker 3: This movie is overwhelming, Rob. I'm so glad you picked it.

7
00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,680
Speaker 3: I was watching it with Rachel multiple times in the evening,

8
00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,720
Speaker 3: right before bed, and she was very tired and like,

9
00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:41,080
Speaker 3: I really need to go to bed.

10
00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:42,920
Speaker 2: But every new moment there.

11
00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,080
Speaker 3: Was something that like put the hook in was like no,

12
00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:47,680
Speaker 3: I got to watch for another few minutes. And it's

13
00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,159
Speaker 3: kind of relentless in that regard. So wow, what a

14
00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:51,960
Speaker 3: choice this was.

15
00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,160
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I was really conflicted on what sort of

16
00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:57,560
Speaker 2: movie to pick for today because we have several things

17
00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,480
Speaker 2: going on at once. You know, it's like Valentine today

18
00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,600
Speaker 2: almost here. So I was thinking maybe a paranormal romance

19
00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,800
Speaker 2: of some sort that we kind of got into that

20
00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,280
Speaker 2: a bit with the last selection, so wasn't heartbroken over

21
00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,560
Speaker 2: not going in that direction. But then also it's Friday

22
00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:15,520
Speaker 2: the thirteenth, so I was like, okay, maybe some sort

23
00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,560
Speaker 2: of a slasher. And then also I was thinking, well,

24
00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:20,720
Speaker 2: you know, we have Lunar New Year coming up here

25
00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,279
Speaker 2: as well, so maybe you know, something from Asian cinema

26
00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:26,880
Speaker 2: would be appropriate. And I was looking at some pretty

27
00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:31,640
Speaker 2: serious and artsy titles, you know, some stuff that was

28
00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,000
Speaker 2: already a little bit in the bummer category, you know.

29
00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,119
Speaker 2: And it was in the day that I had to pick.

30
00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,440
Speaker 2: The film was also just like the news cycle was

31
00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:45,319
Speaker 2: especially depressing and demoralizing, and I realized that a I

32
00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,400
Speaker 2: needed a hear b. They needed to be strong, they

33
00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,320
Speaker 2: needed to be fast, and they needed to be fresh

34
00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,280
Speaker 2: from the fight. And I needed a dumb fantasy movie

35
00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:58,360
Speaker 2: with very little connection to reality. And the answer came

36
00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,880
Speaker 2: to me like a divine p rising up out of

37
00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,520
Speaker 2: a well magic of spell, the sequel to Child of

38
00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,520
Speaker 2: Peach just staring up at me from my movie drawer,

39
00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,960
Speaker 2: with the promise of frenzied fight choreography, insane magic, and

40
00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,359
Speaker 2: essentially zero real world vibes to contend with.

41
00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,919
Speaker 3: So, as you said, this is a sequel to another

42
00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,799
Speaker 3: movie we've covered on the show, the movie Child of Peach,

43
00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,040
Speaker 3: which came out I think just the year before this.

44
00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,080
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they were able to reload the chamber and

45
00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,920
Speaker 2: give us another one pretty quickly. It's quite impressive.

46
00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,400
Speaker 3: There's not much of an esthetic gap between the two,

47
00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,120
Speaker 3: Like the second one feels very aesthetically tied to the

48
00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:40,720
Speaker 3: first one.

49
00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't even bother to reintroduce characters that are

50
00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,840
Speaker 2: brought back into the film halfway through. They're just like

51
00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:50,280
Speaker 2: you watched the last one. You watch Child of Peach,

52
00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,160
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know what's going on.

53
00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,160
Speaker 3: But for those who have not recently watched Child of Peach, rob,

54
00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,160
Speaker 3: can you remind us, like, what was the deal with

55
00:02:58,240 --> 00:02:58,959
Speaker 3: Child of Peach?

56
00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:03,160
Speaker 2: Yeah? Child of Peach eighty seven gave us the origin

57
00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,240
Speaker 2: of Peach Boy, So this is the Taiwanese film that

58
00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,680
Speaker 2: is giving us some version of a Japanese folkloric character

59
00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,600
Speaker 2: generally called Mama Taro, a child born from a giant

60
00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,520
Speaker 2: peach and then found by an old woman and raised

61
00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,080
Speaker 2: as her child. Then Peach Boy becomes a mighty hero

62
00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,560
Speaker 2: as a boy fighting alongside a trio of friends Little Dog,

63
00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,360
Speaker 2: Little Monkey, and Little Pheasant, who in these films are

64
00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,480
Speaker 2: portrayed as magical, youthful fairy type figures with animal hybrid

65
00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:38,160
Speaker 2: attacks and together, these four fight various only devils and

66
00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:42,880
Speaker 2: monsters that's in the original folk tale. Okay, yeah, and

67
00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,080
Speaker 2: so this is a Bonker's adaptation of all of that,

68
00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:53,160
Speaker 2: seemingly even further removed from reality. Like watching this film,

69
00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,720
Speaker 2: you may have passing questions about where this takes place.

70
00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,680
Speaker 2: Is this supposed to be Japan? Or is or is

71
00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,280
Speaker 2: this not Japan. It's really a kind of a fantasy

72
00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,640
Speaker 2: world unto its own. We're in a world of almost

73
00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,760
Speaker 2: pure myth here. So if you want, you can go

74
00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,800
Speaker 2: back and re listen to our episode on Child of

75
00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,320
Speaker 2: Peach before listening to this episode. But on the other hand,

76
00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,560
Speaker 2: it's absolutely not required. We'll catch up to speed here.

77
00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:19,839
Speaker 2: I guess one of the things that we've discussed in

78
00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,400
Speaker 2: the last episode that's important to to drive home here

79
00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:26,000
Speaker 2: as well is that there was an energy to Taiwanese

80
00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,440
Speaker 2: action films of this era. And the way this is

81
00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,320
Speaker 2: often interpreted, or I've seen it interpreted, is that they

82
00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,880
Speaker 2: were competing against films released by far more established Hong

83
00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,120
Speaker 2: Kong cinema studios, but they were making up for it

84
00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:43,799
Speaker 2: with greater risks, crazier stunts, and just in certain films anyway,

85
00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:48,120
Speaker 2: an absolute commitment to absurd elements. As such, Child of

86
00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,719
Speaker 2: Peach goes big, it goes weird. The same goes for

87
00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,960
Speaker 2: Magic of Spell, and the same goes for a thrilling

88
00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,520
Speaker 2: Bloody Sword, another Taiwanese fantasy epic that we've discussed on

89
00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:57,880
Speaker 2: the show.

90
00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a really good one too. I'm trying

91
00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:06,120
Speaker 3: to think about some common features these movies share. They

92
00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,960
Speaker 3: do tend to have, as you say, a real emphasis

93
00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:13,600
Speaker 3: on outlandish elements. There's no subtlety, there's no restraint. They're

94
00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:20,480
Speaker 3: going for bizarre characters and costumes, weird, just juicy set

95
00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,720
Speaker 3: action set pieces. You know, they're not trying to stay

96
00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,440
Speaker 3: close to realism or anything like that, just a pure

97
00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:32,919
Speaker 3: embrace of spectacle and weird fantasy and comedy. There's a

98
00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,960
Speaker 3: strong comedic element, very running. Yeah, slapstick. I would also

99
00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:43,279
Speaker 3: call out something about the pace of the editing and storytelling.

100
00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,520
Speaker 3: A lot of things just happen so fast. It's a

101
00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,279
Speaker 3: style that mostly cuts out connective tissue that would be

102
00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,080
Speaker 3: there in other stories and tends to kind of go

103
00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,400
Speaker 3: from one outlandish thing to another.

104
00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there is something about the Paine. This is

105
00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,279
Speaker 2: a movie where, at times seemingly every character can both

106
00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:07,159
Speaker 2: fly and teleport, and we'll do so. I mean it's

107
00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,560
Speaker 2: amazing to watch, but at times it's like, man, this

108
00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:14,760
Speaker 2: guy just teleported three times to move across a room. Essentially,

109
00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,520
Speaker 2: like a lot of work went into this effect. What

110
00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:19,679
Speaker 2: did it accomplish? I don't know. It keeps things moving

111
00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,080
Speaker 2: really quickly, and there's just it's something about the magical

112
00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,560
Speaker 2: nature of the world. And it is also worth reminding

113
00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,479
Speaker 2: her when the martial arts hits, it's amazing, like the

114
00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:34,920
Speaker 2: stunt works great, great fight choreography, great wire work, and

115
00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,160
Speaker 2: it just goes. It's just when the kicks start flying

116
00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,039
Speaker 2: and the blades are pulled out. I mean, it's just NonStop.

117
00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,839
Speaker 2: It's just all out, and I absolutely love.

118
00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,080
Speaker 3: It, especially the final fight scene, which is huge. I

119
00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,240
Speaker 3: mean it's the last twenty minutes of the movie is

120
00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:54,479
Speaker 3: one continuous fight scene, and it's really excellent, like not

121
00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:59,120
Speaker 3: cheap at all, great sets and props and really good choreography.

122
00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:03,640
Speaker 3: It's fast, it's interesting, they keep changing it up, excellent, excellent,

123
00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:05,360
Speaker 3: final showdown.

124
00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:07,640
Speaker 2: I think all three. I could be mistaken on this

125
00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:09,840
Speaker 2: because it's been a while since, certainly since we watched

126
00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,400
Speaker 2: Throwing Bloody's sword. But I think all three of these

127
00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:14,960
Speaker 2: Taiwanese fantasy films we've talked about, I think they all

128
00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,600
Speaker 2: have a climax that takes place in some sort of

129
00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,640
Speaker 2: a throne room somewhere like a massive, massive throne room

130
00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:27,080
Speaker 2: with lots of space for stunts and wire effects. All right, well,

131
00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:30,240
Speaker 2: let's briefly roll out the elevator pitch for this one.

132
00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,240
Speaker 2: It is an ancient evil Sorcer needs virgin blood and

133
00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,800
Speaker 2: thousand year old Jensen in order to retain his power.

134
00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:38,560
Speaker 2: Only Peach Boy and friends can stop him.

135
00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:44,320
Speaker 3: This movie, did you notice has strong themes of medicine, health,

136
00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:48,160
Speaker 3: and rejuvenation. Seems like it was on the screenwriter's mind.

137
00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:53,520
Speaker 3: So the main villain, his problem is that he is old.

138
00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:57,640
Speaker 3: He's sometimes called the Elder Demon, also called King Devil,

139
00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,840
Speaker 3: but he's depicted as very old and decrepit, and he

140
00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,840
Speaker 3: has powers where he can like launch beams at people,

141
00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,040
Speaker 3: but he is also shown as being feeble of body,

142
00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,240
Speaker 3: so he'll like, you know, shoot a ray at somebody

143
00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:13,480
Speaker 3: and knock them down and then do a villain laugh.

144
00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:15,600
Speaker 3: And then then in the middle of the villain laugh,

145
00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:19,040
Speaker 3: he starts coughing, you know, like he's having trouble. So

146
00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:24,560
Speaker 3: it's this interesting combination of potency but also aging and

147
00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,560
Speaker 3: weakness in the villain, and he needs to counteract the

148
00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,960
Speaker 3: march of time and his own aging with evil magic.

149
00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:34,040
Speaker 3: And so that's one theme. There's a kind of dark

150
00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,880
Speaker 3: arts of healing that is central to the villain's plot.

151
00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,400
Speaker 3: Like one of his main hinchmen we were just talking

152
00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,520
Speaker 3: before we came on, Mike is sort of a black

153
00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:46,640
Speaker 3: magic concierge physician, like he's a he is a you know,

154
00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:51,760
Speaker 3: he provides medical services to rich evil ghosts. I think, yeah,

155
00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,200
Speaker 3: so that's like one big theme. But then on the

156
00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,640
Speaker 3: other side, there's also just a lot of talk about

157
00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,319
Speaker 3: what's good for health. The gen saying is good for health,

158
00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,640
Speaker 3: and foods and drinks are good for health. I don't know,

159
00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,240
Speaker 3: I was just noticing that knocking around a lot in

160
00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:08,400
Speaker 3: the story. I'm not sure exactly what to make of it.

161
00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:09,920
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess a big part of it is,

162
00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:11,559
Speaker 2: you know, Jen Singh is going to play a role here.

163
00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:15,400
Speaker 2: So the first movie introduces us to Peach Boy, a

164
00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:18,880
Speaker 2: peach that becomes a child, and then they were like, well,

165
00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,480
Speaker 2: what should we team peach Boy up with for the sequel. Well,

166
00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,880
Speaker 2: let's go to Gen Sing, because Jen Sing, for those

167
00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,280
Speaker 2: of you are not familiar, you know, it has a

168
00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,120
Speaker 2: root like rhizome that grows in the ground that sometimes

169
00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,319
Speaker 2: looks kind of like it has limbs, and there are

170
00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:39,280
Speaker 2: folk traditions of Gen Seng becoming a child, and so

171
00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,600
Speaker 2: therefore it just makes perfect sense. And of course Jenseng

172
00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:46,040
Speaker 2: has all of these connections to traditional medicine. So this

173
00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:49,120
Speaker 2: story basically writes itself at that point. It's a movie

174
00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:50,160
Speaker 2: about wellness though.

175
00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:54,160
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, health and wellness, medicine, and also the power

176
00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,600
Speaker 3: of the Buddha. Power the Buddha really comes through in several.

177
00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,120
Speaker 2: Scenes absolutely all right. So for those of you who

178
00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,720
Speaker 2: now want to go out and watch Magic of Spell

179
00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:05,640
Speaker 2: and then come back for the rest of the episode.

180
00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:08,520
Speaker 2: Kind of a mixed bag here, because on one hand,

181
00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,640
Speaker 2: legitimate releases of this film, at least in the US

182
00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:17,760
Speaker 2: and elsewhere, it just seemed non existent. However, if you're

183
00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:21,920
Speaker 2: just looking for streams on various websites, it seems to

184
00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,520
Speaker 2: be widely available there in multiple formats and actually at

185
00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:29,000
Speaker 2: times in really good quality. I watched this on a

186
00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,440
Speaker 2: disc of unknown origin, and honestly, some of the streams

187
00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,959
Speaker 2: out there are better picture quality, but I don't think

188
00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,160
Speaker 2: it has had anything like as of this recording, anything

189
00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,960
Speaker 2: like an official DVD or Blu Ray release, at least

190
00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,439
Speaker 2: outside of its original markets. Yeah.

191
00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,000
Speaker 3: I watched a stream of it that had fairly rough

192
00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,959
Speaker 3: subtitles that felt like an unofficial effort to me.

193
00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, say, the subtitles on mine were a little

194
00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:57,640
Speaker 2: bit cheeky, but it's also hard to tell, because this

195
00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,800
Speaker 2: movie's a little bit cheeky. Yeah, it's hard to tell, like,

196
00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:06,480
Speaker 2: at what point is the subtitle composer going in for

197
00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,600
Speaker 2: business for themselves and having a little extra fun, and

198
00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:13,120
Speaker 2: how much of it is an accurate translation of the

199
00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:20,800
Speaker 2: original dialogue? So yea, that being said, I think both

200
00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,280
Speaker 2: of I think the two of us watch slightly different

201
00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,120
Speaker 2: subtitled versions of this film, so at times we're going

202
00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,360
Speaker 2: to be comparing notes on what may or may not

203
00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:32,000
Speaker 2: have been said in this movie. Luckily, it is a

204
00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,360
Speaker 2: very visual film that mostly tells its story through stunts

205
00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:48,240
Speaker 2: and spectacle, so it's not as important. All right, Shall

206
00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:52,440
Speaker 2: we get into the people behind this film? Sure? Now,

207
00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:55,439
Speaker 2: this is one of those films where, at times, piecing

208
00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:59,559
Speaker 2: everything together across multiple movie databases is a little challenging,

209
00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:04,560
Speaker 2: but I was looking at IMDb, TMDb as well as

210
00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:06,920
Speaker 2: a Hong Kong movie database and a couple of other

211
00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,640
Speaker 2: sources here, all right. The director, also the writer and

212
00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:14,760
Speaker 2: the stunt coordinator once again is Chung Sing Chaw, Hong

213
00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,439
Speaker 2: Kong born director and actor who apparently came up through

214
00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:21,200
Speaker 2: the Hong Kong Yun clan of filmmakers. His stunt coordinating

215
00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:24,480
Speaker 2: and directing credits include both Peach films, as well as

216
00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:28,040
Speaker 2: ninety one's Twelve Animals, eighty five's Drunken Dragon, and eighty

217
00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:32,120
Speaker 2: five's Hello Dracula, That's a Hopping Vampire film. He received

218
00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,360
Speaker 2: a nineteen eighty three nomination in the Hong Kong Film

219
00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,280
Speaker 2: Awards for Best Action Choreography in The Miracle Fighters. It's

220
00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,480
Speaker 2: my understanding that this is a guy who went to

221
00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,320
Speaker 2: Taiwan to really capitalize on a lot of excitement that

222
00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:48,000
Speaker 2: was building there for locally produced Wu Shaw style fantasy

223
00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:52,360
Speaker 2: martial arts epics for the whole family. Yeah, big magical elements.

224
00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,880
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. And so you know, everything I've seen from him,

225
00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,480
Speaker 2: which is just two films at this point, is in credible.

226
00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,800
Speaker 2: It's just again just a real commitment to just over

227
00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,400
Speaker 2: the top action, laughs and absurdity.

228
00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:11,240
Speaker 3: We have enjoyed the other JUNGHI hopping vampire movies that

229
00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:13,560
Speaker 3: we've seen, and so now that I know this guy

230
00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,440
Speaker 3: has one, I would like to seek that out.

231
00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, hello Dracula. I love the title. Yeah, it's a

232
00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,679
Speaker 2: great title. It's like the Big Bopper is given a

233
00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:29,680
Speaker 2: given given Dracula ring. Yeah, what all right? Now getting

234
00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:34,520
Speaker 2: into the cast once more, we have Child of Peach.

235
00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,080
Speaker 3: Now, one thing I think people notice when they first

236
00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,920
Speaker 3: start watching these movie Child of Peach or Magic of

237
00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:45,440
Speaker 3: Spell is that the main character, Peach Boy, appears to

238
00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:48,000
Speaker 3: be played by an adult woman.

239
00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:49,280
Speaker 2: And that is correct.

240
00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,640
Speaker 3: The star playing Peach Boy is an adult woman.

241
00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,920
Speaker 2: Not a child. Absolutely. Yeah. It's much like you know,

242
00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,679
Speaker 2: various incarnations of Peter Pan and of course mister b

243
00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:03,040
Speaker 2: natural for MST fans out there, you know, knowing the

244
00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,480
Speaker 2: character is supposed to be a little boy, I still

245
00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:09,000
Speaker 2: end up processing Peach as a grown woman. So I'm

246
00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:10,640
Speaker 2: just gonna go and say bear with me because I'm

247
00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,319
Speaker 2: probably gonna use just all manner of pronouns when referring

248
00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:16,480
Speaker 2: to Peach here. And I think the film is pretty

249
00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,400
Speaker 2: self aware on this matter as well, Like, I think

250
00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:21,880
Speaker 2: part of its intended humor is like, yeah, peach Boy

251
00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,000
Speaker 2: is obviously like a twenty something meter a year old

252
00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,840
Speaker 2: woman playing the role, But that woman is sau Lao

253
00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:35,120
Speaker 2: ln aka lamsu Lao aka Sharon Foster. And then I

254
00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,080
Speaker 2: think her nickname was apparently peach Baby because of the

255
00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:43,080
Speaker 2: success of these films. Yeah, so born nineteen sixty seven.

256
00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:48,920
Speaker 2: Just again, a tremendous performance here, spirited, high energy, just

257
00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,600
Speaker 2: a real treasure here when she busts out the sword

258
00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,640
Speaker 2: or even when she's just going you know, punches and kicks,

259
00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:58,480
Speaker 2: amazing work here. She's great in this role for multiple reasons.

260
00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,360
Speaker 3: Number one, she's just really good and the action, the

261
00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:06,840
Speaker 3: fight choreography and the action scenes, she radiates lawful good

262
00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,720
Speaker 3: She's one of those people, yeah, just beams out rays

263
00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,840
Speaker 3: of goodness. So you really buy her as this as

264
00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,080
Speaker 3: this kind of angelic, cherubic hero. And then also she

265
00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:22,960
Speaker 3: has a groundedness and maturity, especially when compared to the

266
00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,320
Speaker 3: more clownish character. Is like the puppeteer character we'll talk

267
00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:28,760
Speaker 3: about in a minute. When the other characters are doubting

268
00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:31,560
Speaker 3: or panicking, the character peach Boy keeps a cool head

269
00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:33,480
Speaker 3: and she portrays that very well.

270
00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:37,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, true hero, and yeah, we'll have a lot to

271
00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,720
Speaker 2: say about her performance as we roll through here. But

272
00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,600
Speaker 2: as for the actress here active from nineteen eighty through

273
00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,520
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. According to the Hong Kong Movie Database, I've

274
00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,440
Speaker 2: seen her described as a Kung Fu wonder kind of

275
00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,600
Speaker 2: her time. She apparently attended a peaking opera school in

276
00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,840
Speaker 2: Taiwan but quickly made a name for herself as an

277
00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:59,400
Speaker 2: adorable fantasy action movie performer. On the various databases, her

278
00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,520
Speaker 2: acting credits go back to nineteen eighty, but her career

279
00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:05,200
Speaker 2: seems to really take off with eighty six's Kung Fu

280
00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:09,720
Speaker 2: Wonder Child, sometimes presented with the title Kong Fu Wonder Child.

281
00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,280
Speaker 2: And this was a Woosha film in which our youthful

282
00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,280
Speaker 2: hero battles evil forces. That seems to be that's how

283
00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:20,640
Speaker 2: she was type cast, but hey, she's great at it. Yeah.

284
00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,560
Speaker 2: Child of Peach in eighty seven was the big one.

285
00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,520
Speaker 2: This was a big hit, and we of course get

286
00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,000
Speaker 2: this Peach sequel. But I think there are other Peach

287
00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,840
Speaker 2: sequels as well. I'm not sure if they're like one.

288
00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,840
Speaker 2: Here's another adventure of Peach Boy or if it's kind

289
00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,400
Speaker 2: of just you know, playing with some of the same

290
00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,240
Speaker 2: themes when we have a you know, a youthful figure

291
00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,920
Speaker 2: fighting evil with a lot of crazy action. Yeah, riffing

292
00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,640
Speaker 2: on the on the central idea. Yeah. Her other credits

293
00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,720
Speaker 2: also include nineteen eighty nine's The Iceman Cometh, the movie

294
00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:57,240
Speaker 2: about Frozen, then Thoweds Swordsmen from the Ming Dynasty. Well

295
00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,320
Speaker 2: regarded sword play in that film. I've actually seen it,

296
00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,320
Speaker 2: but it has been a long time and I'm not

297
00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:05,040
Speaker 2: sure if she's still active in any way, depending on

298
00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:08,000
Speaker 2: the different databases you look at. Her last film was

299
00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,679
Speaker 2: possibly in twenty sixteen or twenty eighteen. All Right, So

300
00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,320
Speaker 2: that's our star, without a doubt. That's our title character.

301
00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,240
Speaker 2: But we have some fun supporting characters here as well.

302
00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:22,840
Speaker 2: First of all, Yaome Fong born nineteen fifty eight returns

303
00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:27,000
Speaker 2: playing Peach Boy's mother, the Old Woman. She only has

304
00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,960
Speaker 2: like eight films credited on the databases I was looking at,

305
00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,440
Speaker 2: including Child of Peach and Hello Dracula, But she's very

306
00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:34,560
Speaker 2: funny in this once more.

307
00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:38,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny they write a line because most of

308
00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,520
Speaker 3: her scenes are comedy scenes, Like there are several scenes

309
00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:45,439
Speaker 3: where it's funny because she doesn't understand what's happening or

310
00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,600
Speaker 3: doesn't understand that there's danger. For example, when the puppeteer

311
00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:50,560
Speaker 3: is attacked by a boxing skeleton and.

312
00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:52,120
Speaker 2: She thinks it's just a puppet show.

313
00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:56,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so that kind of thing is great. There's

314
00:17:56,119 --> 00:18:01,120
Speaker 3: also some humor at just her being kind of nagging

315
00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,320
Speaker 3: or harassing of people, like she harasses the clown character

316
00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,600
Speaker 3: in a funny way. But also you get some real

317
00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:14,200
Speaker 3: heart strings with this character. Like spoiler coming, she dies

318
00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,200
Speaker 3: in this film. She's killed by the King Devil's ghost soldiers,

319
00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:22,000
Speaker 3: and like the moment after that happens, you get kind

320
00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,480
Speaker 3: of a montage of her life raising Peach Boy, and

321
00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,520
Speaker 3: I was out of nowhere. I was finding myself feeling

322
00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,159
Speaker 3: very emotional in the middle of crazy movie.

323
00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,840
Speaker 2: Yeah. Same, absolutely, will we get those flashbacks to scene

324
00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,480
Speaker 2: from the scenes from the first film where she's raising

325
00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:39,040
Speaker 2: Peach Boy.

326
00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,960
Speaker 3: She's feeding him like a hundred plates of food in

327
00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,800
Speaker 3: a row to make him big and strong.

328
00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,600
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, it's a fun performance that does pull

329
00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:50,399
Speaker 2: up the heart strings when it gets serious, which is

330
00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,040
Speaker 2: something to say for this whole movie, because there are

331
00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:55,439
Speaker 2: times for this movie is just flapstick, you know, to

332
00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,679
Speaker 2: eleven and then other times, you know, quite sad and

333
00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,520
Speaker 2: emotional or a little bit gary, like it really manages

334
00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:02,040
Speaker 2: to do it all.

335
00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:05,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, ninety five percent hilarious with five percent tier jerkers.

336
00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, with stunt work that at times you can

337
00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,680
Speaker 2: feel in your bones. And and also just some of

338
00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,159
Speaker 2: the choreography just makes you like, I'm watching it by

339
00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,280
Speaker 2: myself and I'm essentially like fist pumping in the air,

340
00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:21,080
Speaker 2: you know, because it's just so intense. All right, let's

341
00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:24,680
Speaker 2: move on our other. One of our other main characters

342
00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,439
Speaker 2: here is I believe we can agree at this point

343
00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,479
Speaker 2: that he is some sort of a puppeteer or a

344
00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:31,520
Speaker 2: traveling bard.

345
00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:35,320
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, he is a performer. He explains this to

346
00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:38,679
Speaker 3: Peach Boy's mom, that he's been making a living as

347
00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,600
Speaker 3: a traveling puppeteer. But he's also I think a kind

348
00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:45,760
Speaker 3: of stock character from fantasy martial arts movies of this type,

349
00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:50,640
Speaker 3: who is the aspiring disciple of the great Master. He's

350
00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:55,239
Speaker 3: wandering around looking for a mentor to teach him, you know,

351
00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,280
Speaker 3: the to teach him courage and wisdom and martial arts.

352
00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,840
Speaker 3: And so he's he's where that Peach Boy exists and

353
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,399
Speaker 3: is out looking for Peach Boy to teach him something

354
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,400
Speaker 3: and take him on as a student, even though he's

355
00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,080
Speaker 3: obviously significantly older than Peach Boy.

356
00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,480
Speaker 2: Right and doesn't recognize Peach Boy when he finally meets

357
00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:13,000
Speaker 2: Peach Boy.

358
00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's been making a living as a puppeteer,

359
00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,879
Speaker 3: so he like walks around with this big backpack that

360
00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,119
Speaker 3: I first interpreted as a shrine or like sometimes in

361
00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,840
Speaker 3: these movies there's a scholar character who has a wooden

362
00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,679
Speaker 3: backpack like this in which they carry their books. But

363
00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:33,720
Speaker 3: I think his backpack is it functions as a shrine,

364
00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,760
Speaker 3: but may also work as like a kind of puppet stage.

365
00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:38,320
Speaker 3: I wasn't exactly clear on that.

366
00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:40,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, at first I thought he was a

367
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,359
Speaker 2: priest of some sort as well. But yeah, but anyway,

368
00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,760
Speaker 2: this character, his name is let's see sau Ye Don

369
00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:53,679
Speaker 2: And in my subtitles they translated his name as one short.

370
00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,240
Speaker 2: I don't know if they my subtitles.

371
00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,920
Speaker 3: As far as I could tell, my subtitles never gave

372
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,119
Speaker 3: him a name through in my notes, I was just

373
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 3: calling him the puppeteer or the disciple or the traveler.

374
00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,359
Speaker 2: Okay, so we may refer to him by a number

375
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,680
Speaker 2: of names, similar case with other characters here.

376
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,679
Speaker 3: But he is the lovable, naive, buffoonish clown of the movie.

377
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the guy who's going to get his

378
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,200
Speaker 2: butt bit by zombies, whose butt is going to catch

379
00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 2: on fire. He is going to be the butt of

380
00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:21,399
Speaker 2: many a joke.

381
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 3: So much happens to his nether regions. He gets a

382
00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 3: lot of testicular trauma, and a lot of stuff butt burning,

383
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,679
Speaker 3: butt biting, but boiling. It all happens to his butt.

384
00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:37,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah. Comedic character played by the Taiwanese actor

385
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,080
Speaker 2: and comedian Kupao Ming, who lived nineteen fifty through twenty

386
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 2: twenty two, and he was active on screen from seventy

387
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 2: nine through twenty twenty. His other credits include ninety seven's

388
00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,399
Speaker 2: Wolves Cry under the Moon, ninety two Secret Love in

389
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,520
Speaker 2: Peach Blossom Land Unrelated, and two thousand and sevens of

390
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 2: the Warlords. So yeah, he's the clown of this film.

391
00:21:57,560 --> 00:21:59,240
Speaker 2: But it seems like he had a pretty long career

392
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 2: in pretty a staff bush career as a Taiwanese comedic actor.

393
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 2: All right, now we're going to get into more villain

394
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 2: territory here, our big bad our chief antagonist we already

395
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 2: mentioned him is King Devil, also sometimes called the Elder,

396
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,960
Speaker 2: an ancient withered evil who ultimately needs virgin blood and

397
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,920
Speaker 2: gen sing in order to attain all of his powers

398
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:23,440
Speaker 2: once more.

399
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a question, did you know if this

400
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:30,400
Speaker 3: character was played by the same actor in both forms?

401
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,719
Speaker 3: Because we see him for most of the movie in

402
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,239
Speaker 3: the withered aged form, where I don't know, we'll have

403
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 3: some comments later on how that form looks, but he's

404
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,719
Speaker 3: wearing a mask, like an old man mask, and then

405
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 3: later in the film he has a rejuvenated form, and

406
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 3: I didn't know if it was the same guy.

407
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,240
Speaker 2: Hard to say. As far as I could tell, only

408
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 2: one actor has like an actual credit for playing this character,

409
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 2: but it probably is, I guess, But there are other

410
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,640
Speaker 2: actors who on the databases I was looking at, their

411
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 2: names don't match up with a character, so it could

412
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 2: be two different guys for all we know. But the

413
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 2: credited actor playing King Devil is Chin Shan born nineteen

414
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 2: fifty nine, active from seventy nine through ninety four. As

415
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 2: far as I can tell. His other credits include Kung

416
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,400
Speaker 2: Fu Wonder Child, eighty seven's Ninja Hunter, and many other

417
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 2: action films, a whole bunch of like Ninja films and

418
00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 2: other WUSHA style adventures.

419
00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 3: Well, I really liked this guy, great villain energy, and

420
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 3: there was one part that was especially funny because it

421
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 3: made me wonder if he was, in addition to playing

422
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 3: King Devil, doing some voices in the movie, because do

423
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,880
Speaker 3: you remember this when it's the scene where peach Boy

424
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 3: has to fight the boxing skeleton that attacks the puppeteer,

425
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 3: and while he's fighting the boxing skeleton, the skeleton is

426
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 3: snarling and kind of going making noises like that, and

427
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,959
Speaker 3: then we cut to King Devil's palace and King Devil

428
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 3: laughs and it sounds exactly the same as the skeleton did.

429
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 3: So it's like ten seconds and I was like, wait,

430
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 3: is he King Devil doing these voices?

431
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 2: I had to wonder. Yeah. I mean it could also

432
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 2: could be just the same dub dubbing artists who's brought

433
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 2: it who was brought in to dub multiple characters, which

434
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 2: might be the case, especially when you're dealing with a

435
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,879
Speaker 2: lot of performers whose main skills are probably related to

436
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 2: action choreography and stunts. But yeah, this guy's pretty great,

437
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,719
Speaker 2: especially once he gets the full transformation at the end

438
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 2: and retains his youthful form, which you know he's going

439
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 2: to do. He takes on.

440
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,359
Speaker 3: I was going to say, he becomes the silver version

441
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 3: of the Goblin King Jara.

442
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of a cross between Goblin King seventy stage magician,

443
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 2: and it's kind of a typical, like wushaw, big Bad

444
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 2: kind of a character. Pretty amazing, all right. So, like

445
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 2: any any self respecting big Bad, you got to have

446
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 2: some underlings, and he has some great underlings. First of all,

447
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 2: there is this we've referred to him already, this warlock,

448
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 2: this sort of dark alchemists, dark Lama character. In my subtitles,

449
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 2: they kept calling him doctor Mongolia. I have also seen

450
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 2: him called doctor Demon in the various databases. I don't

451
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 2: know if he had a name in the version you watch.

452
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 3: Well, once again, like with one short, the version I

453
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 3: watched did not give this character a name, so I

454
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 3: didn't know what to call I was calling him like

455
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 3: the sorcerer, because he resembles these you know, evil magic

456
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,160
Speaker 3: sorcerers from some other movies like this, these fantasy martial

457
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 3: arts movies. But yeah, like we said earlier, he's actually

458
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 3: he does have sorcery powers, but he's very focused on

459
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 3: evil healing, like taking care of the health of ghosts

460
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 3: and demons.

461
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, and often busting out like strange gases and elickxus

462
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 2: and so forth. Yeah. So this master of substances, yeah

463
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,639
Speaker 2: for sure. So yeah, so strong sort of alchemist vibe here.

464
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 2: He's played by an actor by the name of Semi

465
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 2: And this guy was also an action director on Child

466
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 2: of Peach, martial arts choreographer on this film, and has

467
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 2: a handful of known acting roles including Kung Fu Wonder

468
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 2: Child and eighty nine's Magic Warriors. Just a deliriously fun character. Though,

469
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 2: every time this guy was on the screen, I was

470
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 2: having a great time. Like literally, this character is like

471
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 2: twirling his facial hair. He's that kind of over the

472
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 2: top villain.

473
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 3: It's also a great villain performance.

474
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So that's one of the underlings. And

475
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 2: then we have a character that has sometimes called Miss

476
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 2: White Demon or sometimes Miss White.

477
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,640
Speaker 3: My version called her a little ghost.

478
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 2: Little ghost. Okay, that'll work as well, played here by

479
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 2: Ping Li Cheang, one of only four credits for this actor.

480
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,680
Speaker 2: Tremendously fun, over the top drag performance clearly based on

481
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 2: the Yuki Ona character of Japanese tradition, you know, the

482
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 2: woman of the snow with various powers of the cold.

483
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 2: This is a tongue in cheek version of that.

484
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 3: Is that the same monster type or character type that

485
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 3: was in the dream sequence in Kurosawa's Dreams.

486
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're hiking up the mountain and.

487
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 3: There's that frightening woman with the soft close voice and

488
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 3: the snow.

489
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah, it's been Versions of this character have

490
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 2: been utilized to great success in various films. Here they're

491
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 2: mostly having a laugh with it.

492
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 3: Here it's played for comedy. She many times gets her

493
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 3: hair singed in fire and is upset by this, so

494
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 3: she takes She's very careful about her appearance, like she

495
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 3: doesn't like getting her hair singed. There's also a really

496
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 3: bizarre seduction of the clown character and maybe drinking of

497
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 3: his blood. During the final fight scene. She just kind

498
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 3: of leads him off with a scarf around his neck,

499
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 3: and then he shows up later being like, oh wow.

500
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 2: All drained of blood and loved up. Yeah, so I

501
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 2: think it was a successful seduction based on that. Yeah,

502
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 2: all right. Another Hinchman we have here is big rock demon.

503
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 2: This guy is is pretty fabulous. You want to describe

504
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 2: this character for our listeners.

505
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 3: He's huge, gray, like a rock, kind of granite colored,

506
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 3: has a bald head, and then he has green Ambrose

507
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 3: Burnside facial hair. So if you've never seen the Civil

508
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 3: War General Ambrose Burnside, he's got the sideburns that come

509
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,679
Speaker 3: down and connect to the mustache, but without a beard below.

510
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 2: It's that look.

511
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 3: But the hair is green and he's wearing a leather apron.

512
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 3: He's got big muscles, and he carries around a giant

513
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 3: rock cylinder on his shoulder that he uses to hammer people.

514
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 3: In my version, this guy did have a name and

515
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 3: he was called Stone Stone.

516
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think he may be in my subtitles, so

517
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 2: they called him Stone as well. Yeah.

518
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:50,959
Speaker 3: So, and he also has a transformed shape in the

519
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 3: final fight where he can like turn himself into this

520
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 3: rock that's just a rock with a face that goes

521
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 3: remember and then you know, how do you beat a rock?

522
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 2: It's difficult. Yeah. So this is essentially some sort of

523
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 2: an one type character here, a big, strong demon with

524
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 2: some sort of connections to rock and Mountain played by

525
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 2: Yong Sung. Pretty long career for this guy. He was

526
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 2: active from seventy two through twenty eighteen, and his credits

527
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 2: include eighty one's Thrilling Bloody Sword. I don't know that

528
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 2: he played a major character in that, but he was

529
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 2: in there somewhere. And then we have another henchman who

530
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 2: I don't know who played. I couldn't figure out who

531
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 2: actually plays this henchman, but I kept thinking of him

532
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 2: as Rocket Grimlin. He's some sort of almost Kappa esque

533
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 2: looking Grimlin orcish kind of a character, and he has

534
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 2: he either has some sort of a rocket launcher or gun.

535
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 3: I was him as a laser orc yeah. Yeah, but

536
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 3: he's got blonde hair. He's green skin, blonde hair, and

537
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 3: a laser or rocket gun.

538
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's just he fires this when he starts

539
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 2: firing this gun off, like the pyro technics are amazing.

540
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 2: He's like just blowing up the whole set. So a

541
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 2: lot of fun was that with this character.

542
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 3: I was excited though to see. You know, so in

543
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 3: the final showdown, a lot of the villain henchmen get

544
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 3: their own interesting come uppance, you know, when they're finally

545
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 3: beaten by the heroes, and this one has very anti

546
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 3: climactic end. He just they hit him with the sword

547
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 3: and then he disappears.

548
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 2: Well, but it was after I think Peach ends up

549
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 2: taking out his gun. Ye throws a peach at him

550
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 2: and it clogs up his gun and then it misfires.

551
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 2: And then yeah, then they make pretty short work of

552
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 2: him after they cut off his ears. I think they

553
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 2: pull his ears. I think do they cut them?

554
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 3: I remember them grabbing his ears and pulling them.

555
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 2: That's good, all right. I mentioned the pheasant, monkey and

556
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 2: dog friends from the first film. Well, they come back

557
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 2: without reintroduction, so they're going to be in play again.

558
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 2: And then we also have Gen Singh, the thousand year

559
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 2: old Gen Synh character is going to show up in

560
00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 2: this film, played by a child actor shin Ye Tah,

561
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 2: only known role for this actor as far as I

562
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 2: could tell, So I have to acknowledge the possibility that

563
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 2: this is just actual Gen sing in this film in

564
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 2: the same way that this just the Rocket Goblin could

565
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 2: just be the actual Rocket Goblin. It might not be

566
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 2: a performance at all.

567
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 3: The Gen sing child is another character like the mom,

568
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 3: who alternates between funny action set pieces and then genuinely

569
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 3: tugging at the heartstrings.

570
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a strange character to be sure as well discuss.

571
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 2: And then finally, the music is attributed to Chick You Lung,

572
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 2: who was also credited on Magic of Spell. I'm not

573
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 2: super clear this is Magic of Spell. You mean I'm

574
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 2: also credited on the Child of Peach. Yeah, so I'm

575
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 2: not sure exactly what the full origin story on the

576
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 2: music here is. However it comes together. I did really

577
00:31:51,160 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 2: like it. It's got some fun electronic vibes in there. Yeah,

578
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 2: all right, are you ready to talk about the plot?

579
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 2: Let's do it.

580
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 3: So the opening shot of the film pulled me in

581
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 3: many different directions at once. It's kind of throwing some

582
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 3: different feelings and tones in a blender because we open

583
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 3: on a shot of a dirt road cutting through this hazy,

584
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 3: overcast landscape with a blue gray sky. It kind of

585
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 3: reminds me of the gloomy, fogged over look of some

586
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 3: of the exterior scenes in Monty Python and The Holy Grail,

587
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. They're kind of just desolate,

588
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 3: gloomy gray. And then all around the road are tall

589
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 3: thickets of weeds blowing in the wind. But then within

590
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 3: this sad world, we see coming up the road a

591
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 3: young man carrying this big wooden backpack with a cloth

592
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 3: canopy mounted over his head, and at first we cannot

593
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 3: see his face because he is holding a giant, round

594
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 3: loaf of bread in front of his head like a

595
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 3: bread mask. So you've got this weird whimsical character image

596
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 3: within this desolate landscape, and then bouncy whimsical music plays

597
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 3: to match the character. So this young man makes his

598
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 3: way down the road, taking big bites of bread while

599
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,479
Speaker 3: he walks. And this is the character we were talking about earlier,

600
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 3: who at first I think we both thought maybe he

601
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 3: was a priest or scholar of some kind, but he

602
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 3: is supposed to be a traveling performer or puppeteer.

603
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 2: So he's got this backpack.

604
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 3: That he uses for shrine like purposes that we'll see later,

605
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 3: and he is going to be this type of character

606
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 3: who is an eager drifter who wanders around looking for

607
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 3: a master or mentor to train under, either in martial

608
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 3: arts or sorcery. And a lot of times this type

609
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 3: of character, the disciple seeking a master, is played in

610
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 3: these movies as a kind of dufis or bumpkin who

611
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 3: provides comic relief, and that is the case here. Yeah,

612
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 3: So he's walking down the road eating this big disc

613
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 3: of bread which is burned in the middle.

614
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 2: By the way, do you notice this.

615
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 3: It's like white on the edges, black in the middle,

616
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 3: and then it's got a ring of brown around it.

617
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 2: Interesting, Yeah, I wonder, Yeah, I don't know what kind

618
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 2: of traditional bread this might be, and you know, now

619
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 2: we're supposed to interpret it.

620
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:16,760
Speaker 3: I actually tried to look up what kind of bread

621
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 3: this was, and I couldn't get a solid answer. There

622
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 3: are multiple kinds of round loaves of bread in different

623
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 3: regional Chinese cuisines, or types of somewhat leavened or unlevened

624
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 3: Chinese flat breads. I don't think this is a flat bread.

625
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 3: This does look like.

626
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 2: It's you know, it's a disc shaped, but it's a

627
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 2: sort of puffy disc. So I don't know.

628
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 3: Anyways, walking down the road eating this bread until he

629
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 3: walks straight into a three foot deep pit in the

630
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 3: middle of the path, and then after he falls we

631
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 3: get the literal sad trombone music cue they use it,

632
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 3: and then we see there's a sign in the road

633
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 3: right on the other side of the pit, which is

634
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 3: a I think it's supposed to be a warning to

635
00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 3: watch out for potholes.

636
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 2: That would make the most sense comedically, yeah.

637
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 3: And then later that night, the puppeteer has made camp

638
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 3: in a forest, and I really like the spooky atmosphere

639
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 3: and the depth, the depth of composition, and the establishing

640
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 3: shot of this camp. Like, so we hear crickets chirping

641
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 3: on the soundtrack, and you have the camp with a

642
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 3: glowing fire in the foreground, and then these shadowy forking

643
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 3: tree trunks in the middle distance, and then in the

644
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 3: deep background there is an unidentifiable white light shining into

645
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 3: the fog, and I don't know, it makes for a

646
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:33,760
Speaker 3: really cool scene.

647
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, great setting here.

648
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 3: So the puppeteer is crouching scattering a line of white

649
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,280
Speaker 3: powder on the ground in a circle around his camp.

650
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 2: Rob, do you know what this white powder would be?

651
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 3: I mean, it could just be a magic circle made

652
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,720
Speaker 3: out of anything like chalk. But I was also wondering

653
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 3: could this be like glutinous rice meal or something.

654
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 2: That would definitely add up, you know, that would make

655
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 2: sense based on some of the topics we've covered on

656
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 2: the show before about like the sacred powers of rice.

657
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 3: So suddenly he hears a bunch of guttural coughing and

658
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 3: kind of horking.

659
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 2: Noises out in the woods. And we then hear the

660
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 2: howl of the wolf.

661
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 3: So evil is afoot and he is afraid, trembling with terror,

662
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 3: he yanks out some incense sticks and he prays to

663
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 3: his master for help, and then he goes to a

664
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 3: makeshift shrine that's in his backpack. This might be a

665
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 3: kind of puppet booth thing turned into a shrine, and

666
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 3: he offers his master a drink. Meanwhile, nearby, some undead

667
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 3: ghouls start popping up out of the ground and snarling,

668
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 3: and here begins what I was thinking of as a

669
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 3: Mister Magoo style fight scene where the puppeteer accidentally beats

670
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 3: up the attacking undead. So a few examples of this.

671
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 3: He's got this drink I think is probably an alcoholic

672
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 3: beverage of some kind. He throws his head back to

673
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,240
Speaker 3: take a drink, and he head butts and a zombie

674
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 3: that was sneaking up behind him. And then there's another

675
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 3: part where a zombie dives to him, but at the

676
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 3: last second, the puppeteer bends down to eat a meat skewer,

677
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 3: and so the ghoul misses him and crashes into a tree.

678
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 3: He he impales one on a stick that he just

679
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,280
Speaker 3: is throwing away over his shoulder.

680
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

681
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 3: And then finally at the end of the fight, he

682
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 3: accidentally falls down backwards and crushes a ghoul under his

683
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 3: his puppet theater backpack. And in my version, when this happens,

684
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 3: the crushed ghul looks at the camera with glowing green

685
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 3: eyes and croaks concussion.

686
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 2: So, in this scene, and also with some some upcoming

687
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 2: scenes with Peach's mom, we're having what I'm assuming is

688
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 2: some good natured fun with ancestor veneration, with like the

689
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 2: offering of various items to the spirit of the deceased,

690
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 2: but then also maybe having a little bit yourself and

691
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 2: so forth. Yeah, there's that.

692
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 3: Well, in this case, I don't know if it's the deceased.

693
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 3: I think he's making offerings to his master he hasn't

694
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 3: found yet, right right, Yeah.

695
00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 2: So essentially this will learn his master is Peach Boy.

696
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 2: He just doesn't know what Peach Boy looks like, right.

697
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 3: So Anyway, after this, we see the title you know,

698
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 3: Magic of Spell and Red on the screen, and then

699
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 3: we get a musical sequence where there is a recap

700
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 3: of everything you need to know about Peach Boy. We

701
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 3: see him working out. He's doing squats with a giant

702
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 3: log the size of a car. He is fighting bad

703
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 3: guys with a sword that throws electric sparks every time

704
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 3: it hits their armor. There's one part where he climbs

705
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 3: into a tree and there's a bird with just a big, bloody,

706
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 3: gaping wound on it, and he pours white powder on it.

707
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 3: I guess that's like sulfa powder. So he's tending to

708
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 3: the needs of the animals.

709
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's one sequence here. I honestly don't remember if

710
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 2: this was in Child of Peach or if this is

711
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 2: something new for this film, but it's pretty great and

712
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 2: I think it sums up the whole vibe rather well,

713
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 2: Peach Boy's vibe. So we see some hunters. Hunters see

714
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 2: some cute bunnies. Hunters shoot an arrow at the bunnies.

715
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 2: Peach Boy sees this flies through the air, are fast

716
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 2: enough to catch up with the speeding arrow. Peach raises

717
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 2: their hand as if to snatch it out of the air,

718
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 2: but then instead zooms ahead at an even greater speed

719
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 2: to scoop the bunny out of the way of the arrow. Instead.

720
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:20,439
Speaker 2: The hunters apologize and leave. Yeah, sorry about that, yes, Yeah.

721
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 2: And then there's also a scene where Peach Boy rescues

722
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 2: some children or a child from a river like the

723
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,919
Speaker 2: child is or it might be like a swimming hole,

724
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 2: but anyway, the child's out in the middle of the water.

725
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 2: And then Peach Boy does a weird thing. I was

726
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 2: wondering if is it part of.

727
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 3: The peach Boy lore that Peach Boy can't go in

728
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 3: the water, because why does Peach Boy not just swim out.

729
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 3: Peach Boy like throws these buckets out and uses them

730
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 3: like Super Mario hopping platform.

731
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, it's some crazy wire effects. I don't know,

732
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 2: it's just more impressive to watch Peach Boy. Peach Boy

733
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 2: doesn't have to get wet because Peach Boy can do

734
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 2: these things. Yeah.

735
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 3: But so that's peach Boy for you, Helping animals, helping

736
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 3: local children, keeping the local poachers on their toes, lawful,

737
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 3: good child with brutal, vicious magic powers.

738
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then we cut to Transylvania. That's right.

739
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 3: So first we see a model of the castle from

740
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 3: the outside with lightning peeling across the sky, and then

741
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 3: we cut to an interior hall in the castle where

742
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 3: a pair of heavy doors swing open and in walks

743
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,760
Speaker 3: a big parade of evil. So we've got a pale,

744
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,280
Speaker 3: long haired ghost woman dressed all in white with flared

745
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,720
Speaker 3: shoulder pads on her robe. I think this is Little

746
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,240
Speaker 3: Ghost or the pale devil woman that we were talking about,

747
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 3: probably based on the Yuki ona. And then we have

748
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 3: the character we were calling Rocket Grimlin or Laser Orc,

749
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 3: a green fleshed or light creature dressed in silver and

750
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,720
Speaker 3: gold with blonde hair. And then we've got the character

751
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 3: Rock Rock Demon or Stone.

752
00:40:58,880 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 2: This is the huge.

753
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 3: Muscle man with the ambrose burnside facial hair which is

754
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,240
Speaker 3: green again, the leather apron, the big rock on his shoulder.

755
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 3: And then you've got the character your subtitles called doctor Mongolia,

756
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 3: the sort of wusha sorcerer villain with a long black goatee,

757
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 3: wearing black robes and a cap. And then also just

758
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 3: a bunch of there's an army, a ghost army, we're told,

759
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 3: so there are ghosts. They are ghosts in armor with

760
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 3: pale makeup and fangs, sometimes so kind of vampire looking,

761
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 3: but dressed up like earthly warriors, wearing armor and carrying

762
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 3: flags and banners. The flags and banners are those of

763
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 3: the King Devil aka the demon Elder.

764
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, who has a great logo. By the way, yes,

765
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 2: some sort of we're describing it as possibly like a cowskull,

766
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 2: but also a little bit of a almost kind of

767
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 2: a cuddlefish vibe to it. It's very Yeah.

768
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 3: So there's a golden statue on the wall at the

769
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 3: end of the throne room here, and I was thinking, well,

770
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 3: it could be a cowskull with horns, because it has

771
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 3: these big lobes that go off the top of the

772
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 3: head and split and go out. But it even more

773
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 3: than horns. Really, it looks like a bunch of hair

774
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 3: parted in the middle going out to pigtails on the sides.

775
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 2: I don't think that's what it's supposed to be, but

776
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 2: that is what it looks like.

777
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 3: And then the face, Yeah, it's partially like a long

778
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 3: snouted bovine skull with glowing eyes, but it also looks

779
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 3: a bit like a squid head is like the snout

780
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 3: could be tentacles.

781
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

782
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 3: So the procession moves up to the head of the

783
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,439
Speaker 3: throne room and you've got the timpany drums going hard

784
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 3: on the soundtrack. The soldiers in this column are carrying

785
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:47,399
Speaker 3: something big cauldrons that look like cupped dragon hands, and

786
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 3: there is a rectangular pool on an elevated platform at

787
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 3: the head of the hall. When the soldiers reach the pool,

788
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 3: they tip their cauldrons out and pour just gallons and

789
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 3: gallons of red liquid, presumably blood into the pool. No,

790
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 3: it is blood, and they're spilling a lot of it.

791
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 2: Did you notice this.

792
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 3: It's there's getting a good amount in the pool, but

793
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 3: part of it is just spilling over the side. And

794
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 3: the pool is lined with the statues of golden fish

795
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:17,399
Speaker 3: that have.

796
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 2: Like jade eyes.

797
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,399
Speaker 3: These green eyes that are we learn later are light

798
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 3: bulbs that can light up.

799
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 2: Yeah. Essentially, they're all going to light up if this

800
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 2: blood bath reaches like maximum potency full power.

801
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the golden monster fish with green eyes light

802
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 3: up in accordance with the potency of the blood pool. Yes,

803
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 3: so we see the the black Magic Sorcerer. We see

804
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 3: doctor Mongolia here come up and scatter some green dust

805
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 3: over the blood in the pool. Did you notice Rob

806
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 3: that when we see his hand, he's holding this hexagonal

807
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 3: little canister of magic dust, and he's got the one

808
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 3: long fingernail, the pinky nail.

809
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I got to use that for maybe for

810
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 2: measuring out some of these various ingredients, yeah, the biological teaspoon. Yeah.

811
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 3: But so when he throws the stuff into the pool

812
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,760
Speaker 3: and then we get sparks and the golden monster faced

813
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 3: fish statues with the jade eyeballs, they start vomiting blood

814
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,919
Speaker 3: into the tank, and the Sorcerer turns around and says,

815
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 3: welcome elder, and then like a green energy ball zooms

816
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 3: into the hall from the outside. It electrifies the cow

817
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 3: squid head at the end of the room, and then

818
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 3: it spits out a human form, which is a wizened

819
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 3: old man in a blood red robe over some purple

820
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 3: undergarments who's got long white hair, a bald head, big

821
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 3: bushy white eyebrows and mustache and a lot of dark

822
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 3: eye makeup. His skin is gross. His skin is kind

823
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 3: of like an overcooked pizza. It's like you see a

824
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,800
Speaker 3: little sauce peeking through. It's kind of white and pink

825
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 3: and red again the heat, huge white eyebrows, in the

826
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 3: bushy mustache, his hair. When we first see him as

827
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 3: just billowing in these gales of magic, he looks really mad. Also,

828
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 3: I have to notice the texture on the King Devil's

829
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 3: bald head, so it's a mask of some sort or

830
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 3: at least some very thick makeup, But I think it's

831
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:21,720
Speaker 3: actually just like a rubber latex rubber. Yeah, it's a mask,

832
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,919
Speaker 3: and the texture on the bald head has all these

833
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 3: little lines and channels in it that don't look exactly

834
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,439
Speaker 3: biological in nature. They look almost like a machine. So really,

835
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 3: his head looks kind of like a death star made

836
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 3: out of raw chicken.

837
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he's pretty gross looking for sure.

838
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 3: But here the Elder gives a speech. He says, we

839
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 3: the Evil used to be powerful and almost control the

840
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 3: human beings, but ever since the Peach Boy appeared to

841
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 3: fight against us, there is no one survived except us

842
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,439
Speaker 3: out of the Boy's hand. So it seems like Peach

843
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 3: Boy has defeated all of the ghosts and the Devil's

844
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 3: and the Evil except them. This is the last bastion

845
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 3: of evil here at the castle, and they're going to

846
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,720
Speaker 3: make a bid to reassert control over the world. However,

847
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 3: here's something I alluded to earlier. In the middle of

848
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 3: giving this evil speech, the Elder Demon suddenly falters and

849
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:22,800
Speaker 3: he lets out this pathetic coughing fit. So we quite

850
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 3: early on learn that even though he is the devil

851
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 3: King and he is very powerful, and he has all

852
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 3: these magic powers. He is old and ailing beneath all

853
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 3: of the bluster, and then we see set out before

854
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 3: him kind of the answer to his ailing health.

855
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 2: It is the pool of Blood.

856
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 3: At this point I noticed it looks like it has

857
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 3: a frothy, pink foam floating on the surface, like a

858
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 3: bloody bubble bath. It's not exactly deep red and thick

859
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 3: like you would imagine blood is.

860
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 2: It's kind of a yeah, well, you know, we have

861
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,760
Speaker 2: doctor Mongolia put an additive in there, you know, clearly,

862
00:46:57,840 --> 00:46:59,760
Speaker 2: and that's probably when we get the frothing. The frothing

863
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,360
Speaker 2: means it's it's working. It's almost time to get in. Yeah.

864
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 3: If you ever like boil fresh, you know, ground up

865
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 3: perade tomatoes and you're trying to make a tomato sauce

866
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:11,359
Speaker 3: and reduce them, At first it kind of looks like this.

867
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 3: It's kind of frothy and pink, and then it deepens,

868
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 3: but his speech resumes. So the King Devil says, today,

869
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 3: I want you to swear to me that we're determined

870
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 3: to terminate the peach Boy. And in response to this,

871
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 3: one of the Devil's soldiers steps out of formation and

872
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:31,320
Speaker 3: he protests. He says, but Elder Peach Boy is too tough,

873
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:32,399
Speaker 3: oh man, And.

874
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 2: Then we get a dop zoom in.

875
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 3: No, he does not like to get this kind of feedback,

876
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 3: so no hesitation. He instantly emits death beams to annihilate

877
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 3: the complainer. That's really good and uh and at this point,

878
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 3: uh the sorcerer, Uh, doctor Mongolia. He pipes up with

879
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:55,800
Speaker 3: this toadying chant.

880
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,879
Speaker 2: He says, we shall follow the elder to kill the boy, and.

881
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 3: Then all of the ghosts aunt along and we get

882
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 3: a great villain laugh from the King devil. He just

883
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 3: laughs and laughs and raises his arms up to the heavens.

884
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 2: Everyone liked that. Yes, all right? So from here we

885
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 2: pick back up with Peach Boy's mom. There's some more. Again,

886
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 2: I'm assuming good natured comedy about ancestor veneration. I mean,

887
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,280
Speaker 2: as with anything, I'm sure somebody didn't like this humor,

888
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 2: but given that this is like a mainstream family comedy,

889
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 2: I'm assuming that this is all in good fun. And

890
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 2: then our puppeteer shows up. Wandering puppeteer shows up, and

891
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 2: there's a lot of great back and forth between him

892
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,720
Speaker 2: and Peach Boy's mom. Peach Boy is not here yet. Yeah.

893
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 3: Now regarding yeah, the comedy at the shrine, I think

894
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 3: I could be wrong about this, but I think maybe

895
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 3: it was not supposed to be an ancestor she was

896
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 3: talking to, but her deceased husband.

897
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 2: I think yeah, because there is a lot of talking

898
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 2: about it. She was talking about all I don't have

899
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 2: anyone to quarrel with anymore, and this quarrel with the

900
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:03,399
Speaker 2: old man.

901
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love Yeah, the good old day is when

902
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 3: we would fight about things. She says, they're all a

903
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 3: sweet memory now. But she's tender to the shrine. She says,

904
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 3: I make the best cakes for you. I leave the

905
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,839
Speaker 3: best cakes for you. She offers him tobacco products, and

906
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:21,760
Speaker 3: then the puppeteer wanders into peach Mom's yard in the forest.

907
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 3: He shows up looking for water. She gives him water.

908
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 3: He drools everywhere while he's drinking. It's kind of like

909
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 3: the psychic and deep red again. Then she also gives

910
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 3: him food, and he hungrily wolfs down the food she

911
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 3: gives him. She actually gives him the cakes she originally

912
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 3: put at the shrine. She like goes to the shrine

913
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 3: and says, you get to eat every day. I'm going

914
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,280
Speaker 3: to feed this guest, so she's being generous, a good,

915
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 3: good host, hospitable, and then the puppeteer asks her if

916
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:53,240
Speaker 3: he can offer some of her cakes to his master

917
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 3: at his shrine. But he also is like cheating a

918
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 3: little bit at this. He's like offering the cakes to

919
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 3: his master at the shrine, taking bites.

920
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 2: Of them as his one.

921
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 3: And Yeah, I was wondering, like, I can't tell if

922
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,280
Speaker 3: this is a kind of serious theme of the movie

923
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 3: or just a random gag about taking food away from

924
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 3: like those venerated in spirit after it has been offered

925
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,720
Speaker 3: to them, or is it trying to say something about

926
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 3: I don't know, people shirking on traditions in favor of

927
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 3: their hunger or something.

928
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 2: I don't know. I would kind of assume that this

929
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 2: movie is not getting too serious with any of its themes,

930
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 2: but it could be wrong.

931
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 3: Peach Mom is kind to the traveler and she likes him,

932
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 3: but then they get into an argument because they have

933
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:42,320
Speaker 3: a disagreement over who is the greatest hero. The traveler

934
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 3: says his master, who he hasn't found yet, is the

935
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 3: greatest hero, and Peach Mom says no, her son, Peach Boy,

936
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 3: is the greatest hero. So peach Mom is one of

937
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 3: these moms who is jealously guarding her son's reputation. You know,

938
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 3: She's like, he's the best. You're not gonna argue with

939
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:03,720
Speaker 3: me about that. And then Peach Boy happens to return

940
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 3: home while the traveler is still scarfing food there, and

941
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 3: this leads to the revelation that the master the traveler

942
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 3: has been seeking on his journey is Peach Boy. What luck,

943
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 3: very very lucky, And then crying, he says, Master, it's

944
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 3: really hard to find you. And he falls down and

945
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 3: crushes some of the furniture. But I think Peach Boy

946
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,280
Speaker 3: is going to take him on as a student.

947
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, out in the Haunted Forest, the evil dead or

948
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 2: fixing each other up so they can continue to hunt

949
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 2: down the puppeteer.

950
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 3: I liked this scene a lot. We were really laughing

951
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 3: at zombie Hospital. So like the skeletons are taping each

952
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 3: other up with bandages and like testing joints for mobility,

953
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,240
Speaker 3: and then one of the zombies looks at a hole

954
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 3: in the other zombies' head and says, what a big hole,

955
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 3: but it's like in this deep, echoing, scary voice, and

956
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 3: then patches it up with gauze. They tie a bandage

957
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 3: around the top of his head to pull his jaw

958
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 3: up like Jacob Marley, and the skeleton says, it hurts,

959
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 3: I'll revenge, and so he heads off to get his revenge.

960
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 2: And so then we of course picked back up back

961
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 2: at the forest hut of Peach. We get some more

962
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 2: character building and some more jokes. There's this bit where

963
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 2: the priest is making a hot bath for Peach, and

964
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 2: there's some jokes about giving Peach a bath, but Peach

965
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:25,280
Speaker 2: manages just fine without his help.

966
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 3: I interpreted the joke is that the puppeteer is now

967
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 3: being too much of a supplicant. You know, he's trying

968
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 3: to take care of Peach boys every.

969
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 2: Whim and this is a little bit annoying. Yeah, And

970
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 2: when he's kind of like pushed aside, then he goes

971
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 2: back to Peach's mom and it's like, oh, let me

972
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 2: help you with everything.

973
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 3: He starts giving her a massage with these feathery drumsticks

974
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 3: or he's like drumming on her back and he talks

975
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 3: about his backstory in the scene. He says, as a child,

976
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 3: he was always bullied and made fun of, so he

977
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,280
Speaker 3: has been seeking a teacher who can give him great powers.

978
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 3: Then he's gonna once he has these powers, he's going

979
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 3: to go back and get even with his bullies. And

980
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 3: Peach Mom says, okay, good reason, and then she asks

981
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 3: how does he make a living. He explains that he's

982
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 3: in show business. He does puppet shows. He's very good

983
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 3: at it, and he offers to give her a demonstration.

984
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 3: So he sets up like a shadow puppet theater. But

985
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 3: while he's getting ready to do the puppet show, he

986
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 3: is attacked by the skeleton from the forest.

987
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:28,399
Speaker 2: And this is a.

988
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 3: Scene played for comedy because Peach Mom thinks that the

989
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:32,479
Speaker 3: attack is the puppet show.

990
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 2: She's like, oh wow, this is great.

991
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 3: And eventually they tumble through the screen and Peach Boy

992
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 3: gets kind of pulled into the fight.

993
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, pretty hilarious sequence here. Let's see the puppet

994
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 2: here manages to get his butt bitten by the skeleton

995
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 2: by the zombie.

996
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 3: In my version, the skeleton says bite your bottom, gets

997
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 3: him right on the butt cheek.

998
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:58,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then when peach jumps into help, she like

999
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:02,280
Speaker 2: flips him around, and then the puppeteer and the zombie

1000
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 2: end up like lip to lip and then is Peach

1001
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 2: like moves the puppeteer out of the way. The puppeteer

1002
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 2: gets slammed crotch first against a support pole in the hut.

1003
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 2: So a lot of a lot of damage is being

1004
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 2: done to our puppeteer character here. But then Peach makes

1005
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 2: short work of the skeleton, just takes him apart with

1006
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 2: chops and pulling off limbs and so forth. Yeah, snapping

1007
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 2: limbs off the skeleton one at a time while the

1008
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 2: skeleton makes these hilarious yammering sounds. Like.

1009
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 3: Eventually though, Peach Boy has victory. Did you notice that

1010
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 3: while they're squaring off and boxing, the skeleton's arms moved

1011
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:44,240
Speaker 3: like the arms of that little type of like boxing puppet,

1012
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 3: you know, Yeah, yeah, I thought that was interesting, And

1013
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 3: I didn't know if that had something to do with

1014
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 3: the the disciple here being a puppeteer.

1015
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:53,959
Speaker 2: Yeah maybe, so they also could have just been having

1016
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:55,840
Speaker 2: fun with the nature of the special effect, you know.

1017
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, But then we gotta we gotta check back in

1018
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 3: with King Devil. Right, what's going on? How's the bath

1019
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 3: building up?

1020
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 2: Well, the doctor is still getting the bath just right.

1021
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 2: We see him dump a plate full of like snakes

1022
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:11,240
Speaker 2: into the blood path and it seems to be going well.

1023
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 2: We see the lights on the monster fish light up,

1024
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:16,319
Speaker 2: but oh it doesn't light up all the way. The

1025
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 2: blood bath won't fully power up in King Devil is

1026
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 2: not pleased, that's right.

1027
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 3: It fails at the fourth fish. You get three fish

1028
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 3: light up, fourth one. It kind of it peters out.

1029
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 3: So Doctor Mongolia is like, I need more. I need

1030
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:30,240
Speaker 3: some more blood.

1031
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 2: That's right, the blood of a thousand versions to be clear,

1032
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,439
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe the spirit of some gin scene

1033
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 2: as well added to that blood bath. This is all

1034
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 2: he need. So he sets out with the ghost Army

1035
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 2: and we see them immediately sacking towns and collecting the

1036
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 2: children of the villagers and putting them into carts, dragging

1037
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:52,320
Speaker 2: them away.

1038
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,400
Speaker 3: This was one of those tonal whiplash scenes because the

1039
00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 3: comedy of the previous scene is immediately gone and it's

1040
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 3: just this horrifying scene of like children being stolen from

1041
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 3: a town. Yeah, but then you're also thinking, like, what

1042
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 3: is King Devil doing In the meantime, He's just sitting

1043
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 3: in the bath, just having a bath ory soak in

1044
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 3: the blood tub.

1045
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean absolutely, he's in the tub. He's waiting

1046
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 2: for it. To heat up power up. He's not going

1047
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 2: to get back out again, and he's going to be

1048
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 2: cold if he does that.

1049
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,920
Speaker 3: So the next big thing after this is the Gensing

1050
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 3: ambush scene, which I loved, Rob Can you describe this all?

1051
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 2: Right? So we're in the mountains and I have to

1052
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 2: have to mention that this this scene really got me

1053
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 2: interested in Jen singh as a topic. We may in

1054
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 2: the near future do some core episodes of stuff to

1055
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 2: blow your mind about Jenseyng because I started reading Gen

1056
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 2: Sing The Divine Root by David A. Taylor, which is

1057
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,320
Speaker 2: a great great book thus far and I think is

1058
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 2: very well regarded and talking about gen sying like just

1059
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 2: as as a global topic. But one thing that the

1060
00:56:55,080 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 2: Taylor mentions in the book is that Jen sing harvesters

1061
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 2: Jen singers, if you will have I think in various

1062
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 2: parts of the world traditionally been a father son duo.

1063
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 2: Where we see that here and we see that here

1064
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,800
Speaker 2: as well. Yeah, we see I think unnamed gin singers

1065
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 2: out one's an old man, one's a younger adult man.

1066
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 2: They're out there looking for gin sing. They've been tracking it.

1067
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 2: And that's one of the things about Jin sing wild

1068
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 2: gen sing like true wild gen sing, especially the older varieties,

1069
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 2: they're gonna be harder to find. You really have to

1070
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 2: know what you're looking for. It can be very subtle,

1071
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 2: and so there does seem to be a certain skill,

1072
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 2: almost an art to it.

1073
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 3: And this setting appears to be a secluded, almost hidden

1074
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 3: or protected kind of setting. It's this forest clearing in

1075
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 3: the mountains, surrounded by tall cliffs, and the Ginseng harvesters,

1076
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 3: the old man and his son are setting out a

1077
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 3: bunch of toys on the ground, and then they go

1078
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 3: hide in the bushes to watch what happens. And so

1079
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 3: what's the logic of the toys here?

1080
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 2: While the older.

1081
00:57:56,560 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 3: Man explains to the younger one the gen sing king

1082
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 3: is a kid. Only the toys can attract it, can

1083
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:07,439
Speaker 3: attract it. And then the Gensing harvester's son says, your

1084
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 3: experience always fails.

1085
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 2: But yeah.

1086
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 3: So they're sitting there waiting and then the moon glows yellow,

1087
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 3: it zaps the ground with lightning, the earth cracks open,

1088
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 3: a child in a giant root costume comes up, starts

1089
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 3: like coming out of the out of the soil with

1090
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 3: tindril snaking out everywhere, and then obviously the Gensing harvesters

1091
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 3: are excited because here's like the big Gensing this is

1092
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 3: the one that this is the real payday. But unfortunately,

1093
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 3: our evil doctor arrives on the scene. He kills the

1094
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 3: Gensing harvesters with flying needles, and he tries to catch

1095
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 3: the Gensen Kid but fails and ends up just pulling

1096
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 3: up a giant radish or turn up that's like bigger

1097
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 3: than his own body.

1098
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 2: Right, hitting enormous turn up instead, and yeah, that's when

1099
00:58:57,240 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 2: the gen singers laugh at him, and he kills him

1100
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 2: with needles, and he's like, oh, the boss is not

1101
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 2: going to be happy with this. I need something else instead.

1102
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 2: A thousand year old Gensing Peach boy, that's what I

1103
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:11,760
Speaker 2: need to collect to put into the soup.

1104
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 3: But he does say that the Gensing Kid would be

1105
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 3: good medicine.

1106
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:16,560
Speaker 2: Yes.

1107
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 3: In this scene, and this is a recurring theme in

1108
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 3: the movie many times, the doctor observes that there is

1109
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 3: a thing or person which, if chucked in, would improve

1110
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 3: the restorative power of the King Devil's bloodpool, and he says,

1111
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 3: that's good medicine. So the next scene, we're going to

1112
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 3: go back to Peach Kid's house. All of the villagers

1113
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 3: show up there it's a big crowd of people, and

1114
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 3: they're saying, help us, our kids have been taken by

1115
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 3: the elder demon. Peach Boy here's what they have to say,

1116
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 3: and promises to help them. And then he talks to

1117
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 3: his mom. In my translation, the subtitle said, Mom, the

1118
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 3: devil is raging again. Those kids are pathetic. We have

1119
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 3: to help them.

1120
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:58,919
Speaker 2: So yeah.

1121
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,480
Speaker 3: So after and then after this, peach Boy goes and

1122
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 3: prays to a statue. I think this was supposed to

1123
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:05,880
Speaker 3: be a Buddha. They didn't say that.

1124
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 2: They just say a god refers to the statue as

1125
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 2: a god, but the goodness of the Buddha is repeatedly

1126
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 2: referred to in this movie. And whoever the statue is.

1127
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,640
Speaker 2: He prays that the god will sweep the raging devil

1128
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 2: from the edge of the world and leave the innocent

1129
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 2: to live in peace. Yeah. Subtitles and dubbing for films

1130
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 2: of this nature, you know, for like Hong Kong action films,

1131
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 2: Taiwanese action films and so forth, they often really simplify

1132
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 2: things to sort of a Buddha versus devil dichotomy that

1133
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 2: is probably not you know, accurate even to what is

1134
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 2: presented any given film. Yeah, but you roll with it

1135
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 2: because it's just kind of this kind of the culture

1136
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 2: of these things. There you go.

1137
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 3: So then we get some preparations for adventure. Of course,

1138
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 3: the one short the puppeteer is sitting there getting ready

1139
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 3: and he's obsessively sharpening one knife that we will get

1140
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:04,160
Speaker 3: to see him use against the bad guys. He is

1141
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 3: a coward, he is naive, but he does kind of

1142
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 3: put up a fight in a few scenes, and he's

1143
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 3: going to use this knife.

1144
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:12,360
Speaker 2: He will show great courage. Yeah. Yeah.

1145
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, peach mom is helping prepare them for the adventure.

1146
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 3: She's wrapping some kind of food I think maybe dumplings

1147
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 3: or rice cakes or something in leaves for the road,

1148
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 3: and she starts telling one short about how the ghosts

1149
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 3: will drink his blood and boil him in oil, and

1150
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 3: he doesn't like this and gets really scared.

1151
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 2: Yeah. It starts off with her saying you need to

1152
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 2: look after him, you need to look after Peach boy,

1153
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 2: make sure he's warm at night. And then but then

1154
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:41,080
Speaker 2: it becomes like, oh, yeah, the devils are going to

1155
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:42,840
Speaker 2: come for you too. They're going to eat you and

1156
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:47,919
Speaker 2: drink your blood, and it really takes its toll on him, so.

1157
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:52,640
Speaker 3: He gets upset until another traveler arrives at the house.

1158
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 3: So this is somebody who claims to be the father

1159
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 3: of a boy who has taken from the village, asking

1160
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:01,920
Speaker 3: for Peach Kid's help. But uh, oh, it's somebody in disguise.

1161
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:05,360
Speaker 2: Yes, it is the doctor Doctor Mongolia or doctor Demon

1162
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 2: who shows up and does this kind of like spin

1163
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 2: around and disguises himself as his father seeking the return

1164
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:14,919
Speaker 2: of a devil stolen child, and she meets with Peach's mom.

1165
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 2: Peach isn't there yet and says, here, give Peach this.

1166
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 2: It's a special keepsake, a doll perhaps, but it's just

1167
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:25,520
Speaker 2: this little box and you just want to yell at

1168
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 2: the screen. Don't trust him, mom. Yeah, he says, it's

1169
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:32,400
Speaker 2: his family's lucky doll. And then so Peach Boy shows

1170
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 2: up and she's like, oh, here, you know this is

1171
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:36,880
Speaker 2: from the sky, but it's a trap.

1172
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:40,480
Speaker 3: When he opens it, it is a little devil skull

1173
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:42,960
Speaker 3: with light up eyes, and the eyes flash and then

1174
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 3: there's a puff of gas.

1175
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, puff of toxic gas right to Peach Boy's face

1176
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 2: and oh man, now we get a big fight scene

1177
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 2: and it is amazing. So you had notes on this one. Right, yeah, yeah,

1178
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 2: all right, go ahead. So Peach is down. At this point,

1179
01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:03,080
Speaker 2: Doctor Mongolia transforms back into his normal form and he

1180
01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 2: laughs maniacally and one short decides, Okay, I need to

1181
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 2: do what's right. I need to run up and protect

1182
01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:15,040
Speaker 2: Peach and Peach's mom, at which point Doctor Mongolia delivers

1183
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 2: one of the most thorough butt whoopings in cinematic history.

1184
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 2: It's amazing. So he kicks the puppeteer into the stairs,

1185
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:26,240
Speaker 2: and then the puppeteer has that knife we were just

1186
01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:28,960
Speaker 2: talking about. He stabs the doctor with it. But then

1187
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 2: the doctor pulls the blade out of himself clean I think,

1188
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:36,800
Speaker 2: snaps the blade, administers a flurry of attacks that include

1189
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 2: a kick and a face chop, and then he punctuates

1190
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 2: all of this against the puppeteer by lifting him up

1191
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 2: in a dead lift power bomb, spins him around, and

1192
01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 2: drives the puppeteer through a wooden barrel, shattering the wooden

1193
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:55,800
Speaker 2: barrel in slow motion, just absolute perfection. Was not expecting

1194
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 2: a full blown power bomb in this movie, but there

1195
01:03:58,280 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 2: you have it.

1196
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 3: I'm always glad when we look at action movies like

1197
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 3: this that you you are there to know the names

1198
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 3: of the moves. I don't reckonize, I just know he

1199
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 3: slammed him into furniture.

1200
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah, it's amazing. So at this point, the

1201
01:04:12,880 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 2: action continues because the Doc moves into attack Peach because

1202
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 2: again he wants to take Peach Boy back and throw

1203
01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 2: him into that bloodmath. He busts out a bottle of

1204
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 2: noxious gas that that he sprays Peach Boy with. This

1205
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 2: causes Peach Boy to stumble and begin to like kind

1206
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:30,760
Speaker 2: of foment the mouth or even vomit.

1207
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:36,040
Speaker 3: He's vomiting some white milky substance like like ash an alien.

1208
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Peach, Peach is tough. Peach mounts to comeback

1209
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:44,760
Speaker 2: by doing a series of standing backflips that allows her

1210
01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 2: to then launch herself off the wall with a flying

1211
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 2: punch to the doctor's forehead. The Doc then is back

1212
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 2: on his feet. He busts out a pair of these.

1213
01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 2: It's an actual like ancient Chinese flail type weapon called

1214
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:04,840
Speaker 2: flaming meteor hammers, and these are indeed flaming, well they're

1215
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:07,680
Speaker 2: meteor hammers, but then his version is a flaming meteor hammer.

1216
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,280
Speaker 3: And so like there's the sort of like little metal

1217
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 3: cups that are on fire and attached to chains. Yeah,

1218
01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:16,600
Speaker 3: throws them out to try to hit Peach boy with them.

1219
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:20,560
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so, you know, a fantastic variation on some

1220
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:23,800
Speaker 2: sort of an actual flail weapon, and we get this

1221
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 2: tense battle. Peach is wounded, crashes through a table, but

1222
01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:31,400
Speaker 2: then manages to catch both meteor hammers, overpowers the dock

1223
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 2: smashing the weapon, pulls him to the floor, and then

1224
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 2: lifts him up over her head, spins him around, and

1225
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:40,440
Speaker 2: throws him out the front door into the yard. Now,

1226
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 2: at this point, the doctor needs to bust out a

1227
01:05:43,240 --> 01:05:46,360
Speaker 2: new strategy. He's all about strategy. We see that later

1228
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 2: as well. So time to play some music. Yeah, he

1229
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:52,000
Speaker 2: busts out this little horn. He kind of he dances.

1230
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 2: He does this kind of like traditional dance. It almost

1231
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:57,880
Speaker 2: seems like a break dance. At one point, this Summon's

1232
01:05:57,960 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 2: lightning along with a squad of Ghost soldiers and two

1233
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,800
Speaker 2: additional underlings. We got Stone, the big rock Demon and

1234
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 2: then also the Rocket Goblin and Rocket Goblin just starts

1235
01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:13,920
Speaker 2: blowing stuff up all over the place, and Peach busts

1236
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:17,919
Speaker 2: out her katana sword and uh oh, the action really

1237
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:21,360
Speaker 2: gets intense here. So Peach is attacking enemies. Mom gets

1238
01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:23,760
Speaker 2: in on it. She's like, she like busts a ghost

1239
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:26,640
Speaker 2: soldier over the head with some pottery or something. We

1240
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 2: get some grapes. Yeah, Mom's doing a part. She's you know,

1241
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:33,960
Speaker 2: she's brave. But in the midst of this combat, like

1242
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:36,160
Speaker 2: first of all, it's a numbers game, Like Peach is

1243
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 2: fighting really hard, but they're just too many enemies and

1244
01:06:39,080 --> 01:06:42,400
Speaker 2: eventually Mom is tragically stabbed in the back by a

1245
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:46,440
Speaker 2: random ghost soldier. Very emotional scene as Mom dies in

1246
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:47,560
Speaker 2: Peach Boy's arms.

1247
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:50,480
Speaker 3: Around here is the part I mentioned earlier that actually

1248
01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 3: made me sad, with the montage of like the mom

1249
01:06:53,360 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 3: growing up with Peach Boy and you know, feeding him

1250
01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 3: all the plates of food while Peach Boy and sitting

1251
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 3: on top of the log while Peach boys doing the squats.

1252
01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:06,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was watching or rewatching this scene early afternoon.

1253
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:08,280
Speaker 2: My child's at school, and I'm just like, oh, I

1254
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 2: just want to hug them. I need my Peach child.

1255
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:14,640
Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, so things are looking grim. Peach is

1256
01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 2: wounded but keeps fighting. But we reach the point where

1257
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:21,840
Speaker 2: Stone and the Rocket Goblin have her all but defeated

1258
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 2: the remaining soldiers. These two enemies. Also, the doctor is

1259
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:30,960
Speaker 2: there as well. They're moving in to get her. She collapses,

1260
01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:33,320
Speaker 2: But then what rises up out of the well but

1261
01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 2: a giant, floating, glowing peach, which takes out most of

1262
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:42,560
Speaker 2: the remaining soldiers with a flurry of laser blasts like

1263
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:45,280
Speaker 2: Star Wars, and the bad guys just have to run

1264
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 2: for the hills. Yeah, laser Peach.

1265
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then the Peach just disappears, doesn't it does?

1266
01:07:52,440 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 3: It doesn't remain for the rest of the adventures.

1267
01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:57,000
Speaker 2: Right right, Peach goes away. I guess this is like

1268
01:07:57,040 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 2: sort of like the Guardian Peach spirit because with then

1269
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:01,680
Speaker 2: then we cut to the others and it looks for

1270
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:04,360
Speaker 2: a minute here like everyone has been killed, like Peach

1271
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:09,360
Speaker 2: is laid out, the puppeteer is laid out. We we

1272
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:12,440
Speaker 2: we believe that Peach's mom is dead as well, and

1273
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 2: then we cut to her funeral, to the to Peach

1274
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:18,800
Speaker 2: Peach's Mom's funeral, and this is where we get to

1275
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 2: learn that, Okay, it does look like like child of

1276
01:08:21,280 --> 01:08:23,599
Speaker 2: Peach is okay. It looks like the puppeteer is okay,

1277
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:28,439
Speaker 2: And out of nowhere pheasant, dog and monkey are here

1278
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:33,320
Speaker 2: as well, the sort of animal hybrid fairy children friends

1279
01:08:33,360 --> 01:08:36,720
Speaker 2: from the first film, and they are absolutely not reintroduced

1280
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:37,559
Speaker 2: for the audience here.

1281
01:08:37,760 --> 01:08:39,639
Speaker 3: It does not tell you who they are. Suddenly, they're

1282
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:42,519
Speaker 3: just here at the grave and they're along for the adventure. Yeah,

1283
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,519
Speaker 3: and the person crying the most at the grave side

1284
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:48,479
Speaker 3: is one short the puppeteer.

1285
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:50,320
Speaker 2: But he's a sensitive soul. And then he loved her

1286
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:54,680
Speaker 2: to everyone loved mom. Yeah. Yeah, and flash more flashback

1287
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:56,760
Speaker 2: scenes here to sad stuff for the first film. It's

1288
01:08:56,840 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 2: it's it's a it's a tear jerk.

1289
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 3: Here the movie transitions into Okay, it's time for us

1290
01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 3: to go confront the bad guys. So they're going to

1291
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 3: start traveling to the bad guy's castle, and we get

1292
01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 3: to see them walking through some genuinely beautiful locations, like

1293
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:22,559
Speaker 3: excellent use of the landscape in this movie.

1294
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:28,440
Speaker 2: Absolutely like a great shoreline scene, rocky shoreline, a wonderful

1295
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:32,240
Speaker 2: antique bridge. Some great scenes here for sure. And then

1296
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 2: meanwhile the evil henchmen are up to something as well.

1297
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:38,759
Speaker 2: At first, it seems like maybe they're setting an ambush

1298
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:42,519
Speaker 2: for Peach, but no, it is an ambush for Gin Singh.

1299
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:45,080
Speaker 2: They're putting out this time instead of I mean there

1300
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:49,440
Speaker 2: are some toys, but they've put out some shoes, some pinwheels,

1301
01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:52,160
Speaker 2: some articles of clothing, and some sort of like a

1302
01:09:52,200 --> 01:09:54,960
Speaker 2: hobby horse. And then they hide in the bushes.

1303
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 3: And once again the lightning electrifies the ground and the

1304
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:02,400
Speaker 3: gin singking comes out, and it is this child who

1305
01:10:02,479 --> 01:10:04,599
Speaker 3: is very excited to play with his new toys.

1306
01:10:04,920 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 2: At first, though first he dances a little bit. Oh

1307
01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 2: he's a good dance. And he goes on a lot

1308
01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:11,800
Speaker 2: longer than you think it will. But you know, he's

1309
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:13,479
Speaker 2: been in the ground a long time. He needs to

1310
01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:16,280
Speaker 2: he needs to move, and so I support.

1311
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:18,439
Speaker 3: It in my version when he I wonder what it

1312
01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:20,680
Speaker 3: said in yours. My subtitles when he came out of

1313
01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 3: the ground said I'm too dull. When he starts dancing.

1314
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:27,040
Speaker 2: I got that as well. Okay, yeah, so yeah, he

1315
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 2: has to dance a little bit. But then he starts

1316
01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:31,639
Speaker 2: checking out the stuff that's been left out, and he's like, oh,

1317
01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 2: some shoes, I'll put those on, you know, some clothes,

1318
01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:37,200
Speaker 2: I'll put those on. When he checks out the pin wheels,

1319
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 2: Doctor Mongolia does something with one of his poison canisters

1320
01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 2: and it causes poison gas to shoot out of the

1321
01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:47,800
Speaker 2: pin wheels at gen Sing Boy here, but Jensing Boy

1322
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:49,599
Speaker 2: just kind of like coughs a little bit and then

1323
01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:52,519
Speaker 2: just keeps checking out the gusts. He says, ooh, it stinks,

1324
01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:55,320
Speaker 2: and then goes over to one of the other things. Yeah,

1325
01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:57,360
Speaker 2: the ship, the trap is already sprung, but he's still

1326
01:10:57,439 --> 01:11:00,240
Speaker 2: checking out the bait. But then finally he realized is

1327
01:11:00,280 --> 01:11:03,559
Speaker 2: it and he says, my subtitle said, anyway, seems bad

1328
01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 2: guys are after me. Yeah, and the Hinchman attack.

1329
01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:10,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, So they go up and sort of capture him.

1330
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:13,759
Speaker 3: They capture him on a pole, but then the Gensing

1331
01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 3: kid does an awesome move where he extends out of

1332
01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:23,000
Speaker 3: his arm a giant like whip or vine sort of thing,

1333
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:26,839
Speaker 3: and like Indiana Jones swings across the chasm, Indiana Gensing

1334
01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:29,920
Speaker 3: swings to the other side of the cliffs.

1335
01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:33,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, all while rocket Goblin blasts at him and like

1336
01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 2: causes all these explosions in the cliff side. So it's yeah,

1337
01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:40,879
Speaker 2: it's it's overpowering. The Gensing escapes.

1338
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:43,800
Speaker 3: He escapes and actually meets up with our heroes in

1339
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 3: the next scene. So Peach Boy one Short and the

1340
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:50,640
Speaker 3: three animals are making camp in the mountains, and I

1341
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:53,599
Speaker 3: think it's that they see like a little root reaching

1342
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:55,519
Speaker 3: out of the leaves to try to take a cake

1343
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:58,960
Speaker 3: from their basket, and Peach Boy stops it. But then

1344
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:02,160
Speaker 3: they realize, oh, it's you know, Jenseng kid is hurt here.

1345
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:06,599
Speaker 3: So Peach Boy gives him some kind of medicine they have.

1346
01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 3: It's like a really potent kind of medicine that he

1347
01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:11,559
Speaker 3: was supposed to be saving for himself, but he's very

1348
01:12:11,600 --> 01:12:14,000
Speaker 3: selfless and kind, so he gives it to the injured

1349
01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:17,080
Speaker 3: gen Sing boy, and Genseng boy is like, hey, you

1350
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:18,920
Speaker 3: are really nice and maybe I'll see you again.

1351
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:22,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. So Peach and gen Sing are fast friends, and

1352
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:25,880
Speaker 2: we have some great comedy here as well, because once

1353
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:29,360
Speaker 2: because Jensing reveals that he is in fact a thousand

1354
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:32,920
Speaker 2: year old gen Sing, which the idea here is that

1355
01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 2: genseyng grows for a very long time, becomes more potent

1356
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:41,360
Speaker 2: the longer it is in the ground, especially in wild varieties. Now,

1357
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 2: I will say that it is I think broadly thought

1358
01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:46,360
Speaker 2: and could be mistaken in this because I haven't really

1359
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:48,840
Speaker 2: done all my gen sying research yet, but I think

1360
01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 2: there is like a tipping point in the gin Sing

1361
01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:53,559
Speaker 2: where once it's been in the ground for like twenty

1362
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:56,919
Speaker 2: years or so, it's kind of reach maybe maximum potency,

1363
01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:00,760
Speaker 2: but older gen sing is worth more. The idea that

1364
01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:03,400
Speaker 2: a thousand year old gen Sing would just be almost

1365
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:07,040
Speaker 2: a miracle product is I think wrapped up more in

1366
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:10,559
Speaker 2: the folklore and the superstition. But the idea that this

1367
01:13:10,600 --> 01:13:13,360
Speaker 2: is the thousand year old gin Sing almost irresistible. That's

1368
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:18,240
Speaker 2: good medicine. And one short realizes this and he keeps

1369
01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 2: sort of trying like he can't resist. He's like like,

1370
01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:24,000
Speaker 2: can I just have a bite of gensey? Can I

1371
01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:27,080
Speaker 2: nibble the roots just a little bit? And they're all like, no,

1372
01:13:27,360 --> 01:13:30,960
Speaker 2: leave him alone. Yeah, they keep him in line. Yeah,

1373
01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:34,719
Speaker 2: So Jensing leaves and the crew continues their journey towards

1374
01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:38,040
Speaker 2: the castle. But then this is kind of confusing. It's

1375
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:40,120
Speaker 2: kind of felt like maybe a scene out of sequence

1376
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:42,840
Speaker 2: or something. Yeah, because the gen Sing then shows up

1377
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 2: at a Buddhist shrine during a lightning storm, and then

1378
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:50,880
Speaker 2: the ghost army with the henchmen and King Devil himself

1379
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:52,240
Speaker 2: show up to claim him.

1380
01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:55,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the doctor i think in the scene explains

1381
01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:57,360
Speaker 3: to King Devil like, hey, you need to eat that.

1382
01:13:57,479 --> 01:14:01,840
Speaker 3: It will rejuvenate. You tried to catch the Gensen kid,

1383
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:06,519
Speaker 3: but the Jensen kid very cleverly runs to a Buddhist

1384
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 3: shrine with it with a big statue of a Buddha,

1385
01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:13,160
Speaker 3: which protects him by shooting laser blasts at the ghost army.

1386
01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:18,520
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, much Buddha magic ensues. A sacred Buddhist script

1387
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:21,800
Speaker 2: from a glowing stone ends up I think teleporting the

1388
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:25,200
Speaker 2: enemies away after the initial laser blasts, and then the

1389
01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:28,439
Speaker 2: stone does something to Gensing like draws him in like

1390
01:14:28,479 --> 01:14:32,120
Speaker 2: a magnet. But I don't know. Something good happens as

1391
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:33,000
Speaker 2: far as I can tell.

1392
01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, my subtitles did not say what the writing on

1393
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:39,200
Speaker 3: the stone said, so I'm not sure the significance of it.

1394
01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:41,799
Speaker 3: But it seemed to be a kind of blessing, blessing

1395
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:44,400
Speaker 3: from the Buddha. Maybe that was going to power up

1396
01:14:44,439 --> 01:14:45,559
Speaker 3: the gen sing even more.

1397
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:49,559
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe so Buddhist magic intensifies as well. I can,

1398
01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:52,760
Speaker 2: I can, I can figure out this part also has

1399
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:55,320
Speaker 2: This part also should be a whare it has use

1400
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 2: of the swastika, but obviously it is the traditional religious

1401
01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:02,559
Speaker 2: use of the swast not the Nazi appropriation. Correct. Yeah,

1402
01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:05,479
Speaker 2: so we're doing assume this is a positive image tied to,

1403
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:10,320
Speaker 2: you know, ideas of equanimity and infinity. Yeah. We cut

1404
01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:13,000
Speaker 2: back to the castle at this point and King Devil

1405
01:15:13,040 --> 01:15:16,320
Speaker 2: has learned is told that hey, Peach and crew have

1406
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:18,720
Speaker 2: made it as far as the Evil Woods, which I

1407
01:15:18,720 --> 01:15:22,559
Speaker 2: assume is like maybe just right outside, too close for comfort.

1408
01:15:22,840 --> 01:15:26,839
Speaker 2: And so King Devil says, all right, miss white White demon,

1409
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:30,639
Speaker 2: Lady of the Snow, you go out and deal with them,

1410
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:32,960
Speaker 2: and she's like, all right, i'll be I'll go take

1411
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 2: care of it.

1412
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:36,000
Speaker 3: This scene where she's stalking them in the trees over

1413
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:38,760
Speaker 3: their camp actually has some quite creepy looking shots. There's

1414
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:41,479
Speaker 3: someone where she leans out from a tree limb and

1415
01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:43,280
Speaker 3: she looks like, I don't.

1416
01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 2: Know, it's spooky.

1417
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:47,760
Speaker 3: But then it's funny because that is immediately contrasted with

1418
01:15:48,479 --> 01:15:51,160
Speaker 3: comedy scenes where like her hair gets singed and she's

1419
01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:53,000
Speaker 3: very very self conscious about that.

1420
01:15:53,280 --> 01:15:55,640
Speaker 2: Right right, Yeah, And so then at that point seems like, oh,

1421
01:15:55,640 --> 01:15:57,160
Speaker 2: this is just gonna be played for laughs, but no,

1422
01:15:57,320 --> 01:15:58,880
Speaker 2: this is the sort of movie where you can have

1423
01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:01,800
Speaker 2: laughs and then just furious action because we get a

1424
01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:04,840
Speaker 2: great battle in the woods here at night, you know,

1425
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:09,679
Speaker 2: very atmospheric lots of frost blasts from the demon, flying

1426
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:14,880
Speaker 2: attacks from all concerned. Peach ends up inhaling the campfire

1427
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:18,760
Speaker 2: and then breathing fire out at the White Demon to

1428
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:23,679
Speaker 2: seal the victory. Amazing, and then Jensing finds them again,

1429
01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 2: and then we just kind of cut to the crew

1430
01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:31,479
Speaker 2: busting down the doors to King Devil's inner chambers. It's like,

1431
01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 2: all right, we're here now. And I think at this point,

1432
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:37,599
Speaker 2: it's like we had maybe twenty minutes left in the film,

1433
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:40,240
Speaker 2: maybe thirty, but you realize at this point, like, oh wow,

1434
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:42,599
Speaker 2: it's just going to be NonStop from here on out.

1435
01:16:42,920 --> 01:16:45,080
Speaker 2: This is just going to be one big boss battle

1436
01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:48,080
Speaker 2: and it does not disappoint. I ended up making a

1437
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:52,920
Speaker 2: whole list like bullet point notes when I rewatched this

1438
01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:55,559
Speaker 2: action sequence. I don't even know if it makes sense

1439
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:57,519
Speaker 2: to go through all of these, but I have them

1440
01:16:57,560 --> 01:17:00,920
Speaker 2: in the notes here. Let's go through as many as

1441
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:03,439
Speaker 2: makes sense. So one thing we have to mention is

1442
01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:05,639
Speaker 2: the Peach bowling scene. Oh god, yes.

1443
01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:09,680
Speaker 3: So the soldiers start running at our heroes in different formations.

1444
01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:12,760
Speaker 3: They're calling out formations, you know, formation number one, and

1445
01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:16,280
Speaker 3: so they organize in one way and charge and each time,

1446
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:19,840
Speaker 3: the peach kid creates a giant peach bowling ball that

1447
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:22,320
Speaker 3: bowls into them and knocks them over like pins.

1448
01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:24,240
Speaker 2: So that's very good.

1449
01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:27,240
Speaker 3: And then eventually one of the bad guys is like,

1450
01:17:27,280 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 3: stop doing formations, I think because the formations are causing

1451
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:33,640
Speaker 3: them to line up like bowling pins. Yeah, so just

1452
01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:36,080
Speaker 3: run at them. So they do that and that works better,

1453
01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:39,439
Speaker 3: and then there's just a big melee fight with some

1454
01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:43,439
Speaker 3: really excellent fight choreography once again, like some great stunts

1455
01:17:43,479 --> 01:17:45,960
Speaker 3: and good fast paced fighting.

1456
01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:48,120
Speaker 2: But then lots of comedy thrown in there as well.

1457
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 2: There's a great bit where one short is trying to

1458
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:54,479
Speaker 2: get in on the combat and the ghost soldiers won't

1459
01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:57,720
Speaker 2: attack him, and he says, hey, why won't you attack me,

1460
01:17:58,120 --> 01:18:01,320
Speaker 2: and the ghost so just says something like well, there's

1461
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:03,320
Speaker 2: not a light above you, so I don't attack you.

1462
01:18:03,640 --> 01:18:05,360
Speaker 2: And then one short it's like, who whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

1463
01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 2: You've got to explain this to me. Explain yourself, what

1464
01:18:07,479 --> 01:18:08,280
Speaker 2: are you talking about?

1465
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:10,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the ghost is like, well, we only attack

1466
01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:14,720
Speaker 3: people who are surrounded by light. And in my subtitles,

1467
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:17,759
Speaker 3: he says, light means you have hope in your life

1468
01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:19,800
Speaker 3: and so because you don't have hope in your life,

1469
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:23,040
Speaker 3: there's no light around you, so you're not worth attacking. Yeah,

1470
01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:26,240
Speaker 3: which it kind of reminds me of in Treehouse of

1471
01:18:26,240 --> 01:18:29,000
Speaker 3: Horror when the zombies are going around looking for brain

1472
01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:32,200
Speaker 3: and then they go to Homer and he's trying to

1473
01:18:32,200 --> 01:18:34,040
Speaker 3: sacrifice himself but they just move on.

1474
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they're like nothing here, I'm not interested. So

1475
01:18:37,320 --> 01:18:37,880
Speaker 2: it's like that.

1476
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:41,240
Speaker 3: But then the ghost finally decides, okay, I'll kill you anyway,

1477
01:18:41,280 --> 01:18:43,800
Speaker 3: and he's about to stab him with the trident, but

1478
01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:47,479
Speaker 3: then I think it is the ghost, the demon woman,

1479
01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 3: the ghost ye intervenes. She's like, no, no, no, don't

1480
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:52,719
Speaker 3: you hurt him. This boy's mind.

1481
01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:56,520
Speaker 2: He complimented my hair earlier. Yeah, and then she seduces

1482
01:18:56,600 --> 01:18:57,560
Speaker 2: him successfully.

1483
01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:00,080
Speaker 3: We don't follow them into the bedroom, but she he

1484
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:02,559
Speaker 3: just like wraps a scarf around his neck and slowly

1485
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:05,400
Speaker 3: leads him out of the room into an adjoining chamber.

1486
01:19:05,680 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 3: And then you're gonna see him. You're gonna see them

1487
01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:11,760
Speaker 3: both emerge separately later looking I don't know, very self satisfied.

1488
01:19:11,960 --> 01:19:15,479
Speaker 2: Yes, So at this point we get just more crazy

1489
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:20,120
Speaker 2: sword play, more just insane wire martial arts action. The

1490
01:19:20,200 --> 01:19:25,200
Speaker 2: three kids, their pheasant, monkey, and dog are just absolutely

1491
01:19:25,280 --> 01:19:28,880
Speaker 2: kicking butt. There's more shenanigans, like one of the three

1492
01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:32,040
Speaker 2: kids uses some sort of like a seesaw action on

1493
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 2: the crotches of the of the ghost soldiers.

1494
01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:39,639
Speaker 3: I think it's monkey. The bird kid, the pheasant kid

1495
01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:44,240
Speaker 3: or chicken kid gets very violent because one of their

1496
01:19:44,320 --> 01:19:46,960
Speaker 3: hands is a wing and the other hand is a

1497
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:50,080
Speaker 3: bird like a chicken head, a bird head, and starts

1498
01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:54,080
Speaker 3: pecking out ghost Soldiers' eyes, like pecking holes in them,

1499
01:19:54,120 --> 01:19:54,960
Speaker 3: and they're all bloody.

1500
01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:58,960
Speaker 2: It's gross. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty amazing. Peach meanwhile, just

1501
01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 2: killing it, just just furious action. Cannot overstress that goblin

1502
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:08,679
Speaker 2: is blowing stuff up with this rocket launcher or whatever

1503
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 2: it is.

1504
01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:14,040
Speaker 3: How about when Stone the Stone Warrior transforms into a

1505
01:20:14,040 --> 01:20:16,480
Speaker 3: literal stone, just rock with a face.

1506
01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:19,519
Speaker 2: Into like a giant rock muppet head that begins sliding

1507
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:22,200
Speaker 2: across the floor and they all have to hammer it.

1508
01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:24,920
Speaker 2: It eats a club that one of the kids tries

1509
01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:25,720
Speaker 2: to use against it.

1510
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:28,519
Speaker 3: A little dog, Yeah, little dog is trying to beat

1511
01:20:28,560 --> 01:20:31,000
Speaker 3: it because of course Peach Boy has a sword and

1512
01:20:31,040 --> 01:20:33,080
Speaker 3: the sword doesn't work against a rock. As we know

1513
01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:35,160
Speaker 3: from the same rock, paper scissors. You can't beat a

1514
01:20:35,680 --> 01:20:38,639
Speaker 3: beat a rock with a blade, but maybe the bone

1515
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,280
Speaker 3: will work because the dog's bone is like a hammer.

1516
01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:42,800
Speaker 2: So it starts hammering on the rock.

1517
01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 3: But then the yeah, it just chomps up the bone

1518
01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:48,639
Speaker 3: like the little rock mouth grinds it up until Peach

1519
01:20:49,280 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 3: magically transforms his sword into a giant sledgehammer and then smashes.

1520
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:56,800
Speaker 2: Up the rock. Yeah, just absolutely destroys this rock with

1521
01:20:56,840 --> 01:20:57,639
Speaker 2: a giant hammer.

1522
01:21:00,080 --> 01:21:02,160
Speaker 3: This they defeat the rocket Grimlin as well. They end

1523
01:21:02,200 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 3: up pulling his ears and doing something. I think there's

1524
01:21:05,040 --> 01:21:08,559
Speaker 3: a Peach related attack. And then there is a horrible

1525
01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:12,080
Speaker 3: scene where the King Devil is like, you know these

1526
01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:15,200
Speaker 3: three animals, I'm gonna absorb them and does something like

1527
01:21:15,439 --> 01:21:18,519
Speaker 3: like yanks them magically into the blood pool, and I

1528
01:21:18,520 --> 01:21:20,080
Speaker 3: guess they just get melted down.

1529
01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:23,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, suddenly they're part of the blood pool. Oh and

1530
01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:26,960
Speaker 2: did we mention that the White Devil lady she also

1531
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:31,960
Speaker 2: was taken out by the three kids in particular, Pheasant

1532
01:21:32,040 --> 01:21:34,720
Speaker 2: use that pheasant arm to like peck her eye out. Yeah,

1533
01:21:34,760 --> 01:21:36,720
Speaker 2: and then she turns into a puddle of white goo

1534
01:21:37,320 --> 01:21:39,880
Speaker 2: right right after all three kids use some sort of

1535
01:21:39,920 --> 01:21:43,519
Speaker 2: triple triple team energy blast effect on her. But yeah,

1536
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:45,720
Speaker 2: it's not long after that the King Devil's apps all

1537
01:21:45,720 --> 01:21:49,080
Speaker 2: three of them into the blood bath and absorbs their power.

1538
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 2: Peach jumps in, drives her sword through Devil's mouth, like

1539
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:57,400
Speaker 2: all the way up to the hilt, but he's already

1540
01:21:57,400 --> 01:21:59,759
Speaker 2: too strong for that to stop him. He just spits

1541
01:21:59,800 --> 01:22:03,640
Speaker 2: this sword back out. Yeah. Yeah. Doctor Mongolia at this

1542
01:22:03,720 --> 01:22:06,720
Speaker 2: point pronounces he's like, Devil King has now absorbed enough

1543
01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:09,880
Speaker 2: power to be young again. Hooray. But then at this point,

1544
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 2: a returning loved up one short trips accidentally knocks the

1545
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:17,559
Speaker 2: doctor into the bath, and the Devil absorbs his power too.

1546
01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:19,639
Speaker 2: He's like, you're part of this now too. He has

1547
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:24,519
Speaker 2: become good medicine. Yes, yeah, and so we knew we

1548
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:27,160
Speaker 2: were going to get here. At this point, the Devil

1549
01:22:27,479 --> 01:22:30,720
Speaker 2: is fully charged. King Devil has full power again and

1550
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:35,719
Speaker 2: will transform into his youthful form once more. Yeah again.

1551
01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:38,360
Speaker 2: Looks like a like a wushaw villain and a seventy

1552
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:44,799
Speaker 2: stage magician matched together. It's got the vampire fangs, big hair,

1553
01:22:45,280 --> 01:22:48,840
Speaker 2: and just a lot of furious energy. The wind blown hair,

1554
01:22:48,920 --> 01:22:51,240
Speaker 2: wind blown costume. All the stops.

1555
01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:55,719
Speaker 3: So I think Initially, there's a battle between King Devil

1556
01:22:55,880 --> 01:22:59,920
Speaker 3: in this rejuvenated form and Peach Boy, and it's tough.

1557
01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:04,160
Speaker 3: Peach Boy can't really withstand it. But a quite bizarre

1558
01:23:04,200 --> 01:23:07,880
Speaker 3: intervention occurs. So one short I think after this love

1559
01:23:07,960 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 3: making session with the ghost Woman has been also she

1560
01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 3: sucked his blood. I think he's drained of blood. So

1561
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:17,880
Speaker 3: he says, I need blood. So he drinks blood from

1562
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:22,280
Speaker 3: the blood pool, the magic rejuvenating blood pool, which then

1563
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:27,040
Speaker 3: transforms him into a giant baby with a lollipop, and

1564
01:23:27,080 --> 01:23:30,280
Speaker 3: then he starts. He thinks King the King Devil is

1565
01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:33,559
Speaker 3: his dad and runs around saying like, I love you dad.

1566
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:36,200
Speaker 3: You know I need a kiss, and King Devil is

1567
01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:38,439
Speaker 3: so weird it out He's like, no, I'm not your dad,

1568
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:40,479
Speaker 3: just running around from him.

1569
01:23:41,200 --> 01:23:43,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah. At this point we get full blown

1570
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:48,840
Speaker 2: Benny Hill Shenanigans with flying and teleportation. We've gone in

1571
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:50,280
Speaker 2: just a full comedy mode.

1572
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:56,000
Speaker 3: And this is when the intervention of gensing becomes becomes unavoidable.

1573
01:23:56,080 --> 01:23:58,519
Speaker 3: You've got to have some gensing power up in order

1574
01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:02,519
Speaker 3: to defeat this rejuvenated devil. So the gen Sing Boy

1575
01:24:02,720 --> 01:24:05,000
Speaker 3: walks into the room and is like, I know what

1576
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:07,240
Speaker 3: you gotta do, Peach boy, you gotta eat me.

1577
01:24:07,560 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 2: That's right. There's a moment of sadness for those who

1578
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:13,640
Speaker 2: have passed. But yeah, Jensing makes the ultimate sacrifice. He

1579
01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:16,960
Speaker 2: like uses one of his root tentacles to like pop

1580
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:20,040
Speaker 2: Peach in the throat, making her mouth open, and then

1581
01:24:20,280 --> 01:24:24,920
Speaker 2: gen Sing like becomes small again like becomes the size

1582
01:24:24,920 --> 01:24:29,040
Speaker 2: of an actual gen Sing root and then launches himself

1583
01:24:29,160 --> 01:24:32,679
Speaker 2: into Peach's mouth. Peach swallows the thousand year old Gen

1584
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:36,040
Speaker 2: Sing and then takes on the full Buddha power of

1585
01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:40,439
Speaker 2: the root. We get a full like mystical Buddhist power

1586
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:43,599
Speaker 2: up scene where we see the gen Sing root kind

1587
01:24:43,600 --> 01:24:47,719
Speaker 2: of like growing and glowing inside her. She goes into

1588
01:24:47,760 --> 01:24:50,040
Speaker 2: a meditative pose and we get all sorts of cool

1589
01:24:50,160 --> 01:24:53,960
Speaker 2: light effects. But now we have finally reached the point

1590
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:57,280
Speaker 2: where where Peach has taken on the full magic of

1591
01:24:57,360 --> 01:25:01,400
Speaker 2: spell and proceeds to just administer a massive butt whooping.

1592
01:25:01,600 --> 01:25:05,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, Peach Boy now destroys King Devil, just beating him

1593
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:07,920
Speaker 3: against the pillars of the room and smashing through rocks.

1594
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:11,160
Speaker 3: And there's a lot of electricity in this fight. I

1595
01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:15,120
Speaker 3: think the beouta power gives him electrical energy yep.

1596
01:25:15,560 --> 01:25:19,200
Speaker 2: There also the pillar gets knocked over destroyed. She throws

1597
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:22,400
Speaker 2: the pillar at King Devil and then the pillar is

1598
01:25:22,520 --> 01:25:26,960
Speaker 2: like cartoon steamroller style. It's like rolled over King Devil

1599
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:29,520
Speaker 2: as well. Yeah, very good.

1600
01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:32,840
Speaker 3: I don't actually remember what is the final move that

1601
01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 3: Peach Boy uses to kill the King Devil?

1602
01:25:35,479 --> 01:25:39,479
Speaker 2: What's the She administers a few more electrical strikes and

1603
01:25:39,520 --> 01:25:42,000
Speaker 2: then she finishes him off with like a super powered

1604
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:46,000
Speaker 2: infinity strike where we get that symbol on the palm

1605
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:48,920
Speaker 2: right before she strikes, and the strike is just so

1606
01:25:49,600 --> 01:25:53,559
Speaker 2: potent that it knocks the spirits of a dog, pheasan,

1607
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:57,600
Speaker 2: and monkey out of King Devil and then they rematerialize

1608
01:25:57,640 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 2: on the ground behind him. King Devil's by falls over

1609
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:04,680
Speaker 2: dead instantly, ages to like a thousand years and then

1610
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:08,080
Speaker 2: turns to dust that scattered to the four winds. Awesome.

1611
01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:11,720
Speaker 2: And then we just have our surviving heroes, which are

1612
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:15,960
Speaker 2: again the three kids, Peach Boy and the puppeteer, and

1613
01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:19,200
Speaker 2: they're like, where should we go? And depending on the subtitles,

1614
01:26:19,240 --> 01:26:21,960
Speaker 2: they either say to Paradise or to the peach farm.

1615
01:26:22,400 --> 01:26:24,840
Speaker 3: My subtitle said, let's go to Paradise. And then they

1616
01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:26,080
Speaker 3: jump up in the air and fly.

1617
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:28,639
Speaker 2: Away, yeah, freeze frame, and then we get this cool

1618
01:26:28,680 --> 01:26:32,680
Speaker 2: theme music playing over the credits. It's a satisfying end

1619
01:26:32,960 --> 01:26:35,599
Speaker 2: as long as you don't stop for a second and say, hey,

1620
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:38,559
Speaker 2: what happened to all those children that were kidnapped for

1621
01:26:38,680 --> 01:26:41,160
Speaker 2: the blood bath? And then you realize, oh, I guess

1622
01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:44,439
Speaker 2: they couldn't save any of them that. No, yeah, they

1623
01:26:44,479 --> 01:26:47,759
Speaker 2: became the bloodbath because it was all powered up. Yeah. Yeah,

1624
01:26:47,800 --> 01:26:50,479
Speaker 2: So they don't really address that. But I'm like, oh, man,

1625
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:52,519
Speaker 2: I think they got there too late to help out

1626
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:53,799
Speaker 2: with that particular problem.

1627
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:56,559
Speaker 3: But the three animals were saved. They save by the

1628
01:26:56,560 --> 01:26:58,679
Speaker 3: power of the Buddha, so they were recover.

1629
01:26:58,960 --> 01:26:59,719
Speaker 2: Now, wait a minute.

1630
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:02,320
Speaker 3: If the power of the Buddha could unmelt the three

1631
01:27:02,479 --> 01:27:04,920
Speaker 3: animals out of the blood pool, couldn't the power of

1632
01:27:04,960 --> 01:27:09,080
Speaker 3: the Buddha also unmelt all of the other children, Because

1633
01:27:09,120 --> 01:27:10,680
Speaker 3: that does happen and we just don't see it.

1634
01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:15,240
Speaker 2: This is a larger theological question we've wandered into. That

1635
01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:18,280
Speaker 2: is that is beyond the scope of magic of spell.

1636
01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:21,720
Speaker 2: But I think the main take homes here are that

1637
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:27,479
Speaker 2: friendship has won, vengeance has been achieved, and evil has

1638
01:27:27,479 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 2: been defeated. Yeah.

1639
01:27:30,120 --> 01:27:33,320
Speaker 3: Maybe that good medicine is not always the answer, and

1640
01:27:33,840 --> 01:27:36,160
Speaker 3: there are there is good good medicine, and there's bad

1641
01:27:36,160 --> 01:27:39,400
Speaker 3: good medicine. And sometimes the only way to beat bad

1642
01:27:39,439 --> 01:27:43,000
Speaker 3: good medicine is with good good medicine. And the only

1643
01:27:43,040 --> 01:27:47,639
Speaker 3: way to make good good medicine really good is by

1644
01:27:48,439 --> 01:27:50,639
Speaker 3: friendship and sacrifice and the power of the Buddha.

1645
01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:55,000
Speaker 2: I would say, I think so, I think so. All right,

1646
01:27:55,080 --> 01:27:58,519
Speaker 2: there you have it, Magic of Spell. It is a party,

1647
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:02,160
Speaker 2: a party worth attending in my opinion, very much. So, yeah,

1648
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:05,360
Speaker 2: this is a hit. All right, Well, we're going to

1649
01:28:05,400 --> 01:28:07,880
Speaker 2: go ahead and close out this episode of Weird House Cinema,

1650
01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:10,520
Speaker 2: but we'd love to hear from everyone out there, especially

1651
01:28:10,560 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 2: if anyone else has seen Magic of Spell or other

1652
01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:18,920
Speaker 2: works of Taiwanese fantasy adventure right in. We would love

1653
01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:21,680
Speaker 2: to hear from you, so always, of course, happy to

1654
01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:24,880
Speaker 2: hear from anyone who has some sort of a story

1655
01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:27,759
Speaker 2: about seeing any of the pictures that we discuss, seeing

1656
01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:30,639
Speaker 2: them like during their original rollout, seeing them in the wild,

1657
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:33,600
Speaker 2: seeing them in theaters, or even your experience is like

1658
01:28:33,680 --> 01:28:35,720
Speaker 2: being exposed to these films for the first time through

1659
01:28:36,080 --> 01:28:38,840
Speaker 2: you know, vhs or DVD rental stores. Or you know,

1660
01:28:38,920 --> 01:28:42,040
Speaker 2: wandering around online sort of in the heyday of weird

1661
01:28:42,080 --> 01:28:46,120
Speaker 2: films online and finding them there. Whatever the case, Yeah,

1662
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:48,439
Speaker 2: right in, we'd love to have those conversations with you.

1663
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:50,800
Speaker 2: Just a reminder that Stuff to Blow Your Mind is

1664
01:28:50,840 --> 01:28:53,880
Speaker 2: primarily a science and culture podcast, with core episodes on

1665
01:28:53,960 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 2: Tuesdays and Thursdays, but on Fridays that's when we set

1666
01:28:57,280 --> 01:28:59,840
Speaker 2: aside most serious concerns to just talk about a weird film.

1667
01:29:00,040 --> 01:29:02,840
Speaker 2: You're on Weird House Cinema. We've been doing this for

1668
01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:06,040
Speaker 2: years at this point. If you want to go into

1669
01:29:06,040 --> 01:29:08,439
Speaker 2: our audio archives, just go go look up Stuff to

1670
01:29:08,439 --> 01:29:10,200
Speaker 2: Blow your Mind. Wherever you get your podcasts, you'll find

1671
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:13,599
Speaker 2: all those episodes there. If you're on letterbox dot com,

1672
01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:15,760
Speaker 2: you can find us there as well. Our username is

1673
01:29:15,800 --> 01:29:17,720
Speaker 2: weird House, and we have a nice list of all

1674
01:29:17,760 --> 01:29:19,960
Speaker 2: the movies we've covered over the years, and sometimes a

1675
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:21,559
Speaker 2: peek ahead at what comes up next.

1676
01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:25,920
Speaker 3: Huge thanks as always to our excellent audio producer Jjposway.

1677
01:29:26,200 --> 01:29:27,720
Speaker 3: If you would like to get in touch with us

1678
01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:30,160
Speaker 3: with feedback on this episode or any other, to suggest

1679
01:29:30,160 --> 01:29:32,160
Speaker 3: a topic for the future, or just to say hello,

1680
01:29:32,479 --> 01:29:34,920
Speaker 3: you can email us at contact at Stuff to Blow

1681
01:29:34,960 --> 01:29:35,400
Speaker 3: Your Mind.

1682
01:29:35,479 --> 01:29:45,040
Speaker 1: Dot com Stuff to blow your mind is production of iHeartRadio.

1683
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:48,360
Speaker 1: For more podcasts from my heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app,

1684
01:29:48,479 --> 01:29:51,720
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.