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

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Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema.

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Speaker 1: This is Roblam and this is Joe McCormick and who.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and apologize if I am not

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Speaker 1: at my best today because I just finished watching today's

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Speaker 1: movie and it is like it fired a poison dart

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Speaker 1: straight into my prefrontal cortex. This movie is awesome. It's

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Speaker 1: one of my favorites we've ever watched for this show.

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Speaker 1: But I feel like I have a significant impairment in

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Speaker 1: my ability to speak. Yes, Thrilling Bloody Sword will have

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Speaker 1: that effect on you. You should not drive after viewing

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Speaker 1: Thrilling Bloody Sword. You shouldn't attempt any kind of complicated

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Speaker 1: paperwork scenario. You should. You just have to let it

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Speaker 1: finish doing what it's doing to your brain. Yeah, if

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Speaker 1: you watch this movie, you should schedule nap time for afterwards. Yes,

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Speaker 1: some recovery time is required. After I saw it the

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Speaker 1: first time, I was rather proud of myself for thinking, like,

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Speaker 1: this is the first time I've watched a movie that

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Speaker 1: I would describe as face melting, which is usually um,

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Speaker 1: you know, how we might describe certain you know, metal

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Speaker 1: tracks and so forth. But then I've started looking around online.

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Speaker 1: I saw other people had the exact same reaction and

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Speaker 1: described it with the exacts the same terminology, of which

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Speaker 1: which means I wasn't as original. But this film is

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Speaker 1: having the same impact on so many people. Like there's

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Speaker 1: just something about it that just uh just utterly destroys

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Speaker 1: and so fast. Well, it's like in a Whoosha movie

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Speaker 1: when the heroes first encounter the villain and like they're

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Speaker 1: overwhelmed by their by the strength and speed of their

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Speaker 1: martial arts, and it's like, how will we ever defeat them? Yeah? Yes,

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Speaker 1: that it's this is this is quite a film, one thrilling,

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Speaker 1: bloody sword. We've we've covered a handful of Hong Kong

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Speaker 1: films on Weirdolt Cinema before, but this is gonna be

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Speaker 1: our first taste of Taiwanese cinema, which is closely linked

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Speaker 1: to Hong Kong cinema and often features a lot of

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Speaker 1: has a vibe all its own. Taiwanese cinema. Um I

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Speaker 1: I checked out some of the special features on the

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Speaker 1: Thrilling Bloody Sword disc, including some material from Justin d

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Speaker 1: Clue of Gold Ninja video talking a bit about the

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Speaker 1: connection between Hong Kong cinema and Taiwanese cinema and the

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Speaker 1: way he describes it is that Hong Kong had already

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Speaker 1: really established itself in Taiwanese cinema is kind of trying

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Speaker 1: to catch up to a certain extent, and also trying

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Speaker 1: to up the anti on things like action sequences in

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Speaker 1: various films, also like creative decisions, and I think this

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Speaker 1: film would suggest creative weirdness, like what is something different

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Speaker 1: we can do that we can try and try and

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Speaker 1: create a film that just has not been seen before.

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Speaker 1: That's absolutely what this is. I would say that this

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Speaker 1: movie is less rooted in pre existing genres like action

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Speaker 1: the Hong Kong movies we've watched so far. This is

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Speaker 1: This creates a new genre almost too. I guess the

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Speaker 1: closest you could call it is maybe fantasy action, but

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Speaker 1: with some elements of science fiction in there. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it also seems to draw heavily on from is we'll

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Speaker 1: discuss a few different nith and folkloreic cycles. I think

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Speaker 1: there are some connections to be made to the fantasy

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Speaker 1: films of Russian filmmaker Alexander Rue, especially when it gets

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Speaker 1: apart and gloriously so. Actually, I think that comparison is

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Speaker 1: incredibly apt. This is kind of like if you took

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Speaker 1: Morosco or Jack Frost and then added in a bunch

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Speaker 1: of martial arts action scenes. Yes, yeah, that's that's that's

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Speaker 1: definitely the vibe. So the title thrilling bloody Sword, I

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Speaker 1: much bloody. There's not really any blood in this per se.

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Speaker 1: Probably the grossest goryous things in it or right at

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Speaker 1: and then at the end there's a bunch of disembodied

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Speaker 1: attacking somebody. Yeah. The original title here is uh Shinjen

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Speaker 1: dong Shan, Who, which I believe translates to something like

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Speaker 1: the Divine Sword moves mountains and Rivers. But I've also

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Speaker 1: Like there is essentially a multi headed dragon at one point,

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Speaker 1: it's still very thrilling action. Uh it's it's still it's

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Speaker 1: still amazing to behold. But I can I can sort

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Speaker 1: effects are. This is a film that is very ambitious

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Speaker 1: in its use of special effects at times perhaps too ambitious,

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, yes, yes it is. It's a story full

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Speaker 1: heavenly swords, miraculous birth by comment. There's so many elements

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Speaker 1: But I think for the most part, this this feels

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Speaker 1: right now. A note on availability before we proceed here. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this recording, I believe they're out of stock and it's

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Speaker 1: unsure and when they'll restock. But you can preorder a

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Speaker 1: two pack that features Thrilling Bloody Sword plus Revengeful Swords

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Speaker 1: Woman Um. Otherwise, if you're Atlanta based, you can rent

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Speaker 1: movie music with like drums and bass, but then with

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00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,199
Speaker 1: a synthesizer leads and and had to kind of fantasy

429
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 1: flare about it. But then there was also just straight

430
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: up funk. Yes, when we're first introduced to the Dwarves,

431
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 1: we get this funky bass that sounds a heck of

432
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 1: a lot like David Bowie's track Fame, Like it sounds

433
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 1: like Fame's gonna start up at any second, but it doesn't.

434
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: There was one part where there was a baseline that

435
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: made me think it was gonna go, Hey, kids, rock

436
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:08,480
Speaker 1: and rule. There's there's another scene where they're real t

437
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: he vibes to the score. Um, other times, it's just

438
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: glistening psychedelic synth work that really works well with the

439
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: film's sorcery. And then there there's one part part two.

440
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 1: I don't know if you caught this. It's later in

441
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: the film, but the tune of the score gets dangerously

442
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 1: close to star spangled banner, like, way closer to star

443
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 1: spangled banner than you would encounter in an American film. Um,

444
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 1: it doesn't, it doesn't completely commit, but it almos it's

445
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: almost star spangled banner. It's a very shocking moment. Wow,

446
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 1: I did not catch that, But now I want to

447
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 1: go back and watch it all over again, just to

448
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: just to find that part it had. There's like the

449
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: has has the very sweet music that plays when something

450
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 1: emotional is happening. There's also a little romantic saxophone thrown

451
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: in there. Um. So, like you said, it's all over

452
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: the place, but it's it's never boring, it's it's always great.

453
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: All right. Well, I guess if we're gonna talk about

454
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: some things from the plot, I have to say I

455
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: was enthralled with this movie before the action even began,

456
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: because the credits alone are just within seconds doing a

457
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 1: symphony of violent eccentricity throughout your brain. Uh. You know,

458
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: while the credits are rolling, you see a gold sword

459
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: made of pure energy, emitting bolts of lightning through like

460
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: a field of stars. And then you see a bunch

461
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: of things in photo negative, like so photo negative figures

462
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: in battle, including a hero in like a mini tentacled

463
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 1: head dress with armor befitting a god. Uh, and then

464
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: a hero who's doing battle with a pair of disembodied

465
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: feathery big bird arms. That's what it looks like originally.

466
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 1: I think you get a different idea later that they

467
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: might be a little gooey er um. You see a

468
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: flying ghost covered in ropes. You see a rapidly multiplying

469
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 1: vision of a horned demon with a gaping mouth of

470
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: all these teeth in it, and like a wizard smashing

471
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 1: what looked like clay pots with a staff. You see

472
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 1: a giant with a ash club doing you know, a

473
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: very righteous and bashioning of the camera lens, and then

474
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: a human shaped creature zooming around like a flying squirrel,

475
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 1: all still in photo negative. And then there's one part

476
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 1: where what it looked like at first to me was

477
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 1: a metal eyeball nipple shooting lasers into the blade of

478
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 1: a dagger. Uh. You see a giant pair of teeth

479
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: like those wind up chattered teeth flying through the air,

480
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: chomping at the hero. And then you see the hero

481
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: stabbing a giant in the butt with his sword. And

482
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 1: the meaning of all of these images will be revealed

483
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: in the film. Fortunately, these these are these are images

484
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: from the movie that we are about to view. It's

485
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: a clip show of the movie to come. And they

486
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: had the good sense to say, what's all the weirdest

487
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: stuff in the movie, let's put that in the credits.

488
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: But it it makes you question why, because it's not

489
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 1: like they needed to to get the weird out and

490
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: feel like, well, there's gonna be a break. It's not

491
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: gonna be weird for a while. No, it's almost immediately weird.

492
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: I can't imagine a scenario where they're like, I don't

493
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: know if people are going to stay in the theater,

494
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: they might try and leave. Uh. If the first thing

495
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: we show them is just a comment coming out of

496
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: the cosmos to impregnate a woman, let's address that. Okay,

497
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,959
Speaker 1: So the first thing that happens when the plot actually

498
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: begins is you see space and you hear what sounds

499
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: like a heartbeat echoing through the primordial chaos waters. You know,

500
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: it's like an underwater kind of sound. And then we

501
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: see a fiery meteor shooting through space. Then a king

502
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: and a queen in a royal palace, and the king

503
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: is pacing back and forth in his throne room while

504
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: all of his advisers are gathered. He's obviously concerned, and

505
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: the queen is about to give birth. And at this

506
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: point I need to to drive home that this film

507
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: is not dubbed in English. It has subtitles, but the

508
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 1: subtitles are burnt in, so they're they're just a part

509
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: of the footage, and they're in both Mandarin and English,

510
00:29:55,480 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 1: and they're very rough subtitles at the times that are

511
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: kind of confusing and the way they're written. Also, they're

512
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: white and sometimes they're set against white backgrounds, so sometimes

513
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: you just cannot read what the line of dialogue is

514
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: even in rough translation. Yes, these subtitles feel rushed. I mean,

515
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: it's a it's definitely enough to figure out what's going

516
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: on in the movie, but sometimes the actual phrasing is

517
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: quite funny, right, like it's you're on the verge of

518
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: baby delivery queen. That's the line of dialogue or when

519
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: they're talking people. Various people keep talking to the king

520
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: and they address him as his majesty, as as if

521
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: to say, we think we have found your daughter, his Majesty,

522
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: And it's kind of unrelenting like everything else in the movie,

523
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: and it can definitely impact the language center of your

524
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,479
Speaker 1: brain by the end of it. Yes, so the palace

525
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: starts shaking violently. Uh, there's the the approach of the

526
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: burning meteor, and then the meteor suddenly flies into the

527
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: palace and then flies at the queen and is seemingly

528
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: absorbed into her body, and then she immediately projectile gives

529
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: birth to what looks like a giant pill capsule made

530
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: of alien meat. And at this point you might wonder,

531
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: why are we in a Cronenberg film now, like this

532
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: is what what did I sign up for? Luckily, this

533
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: is about as as gross as it gets. Yeah, this

534
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: is the I don't know why they frontloaded it with that,

535
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: but that's the first thing, is the alien meat pill.

536
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: And then the king comes in and he sees it

537
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 1: and he's like a gross and he instantly concludes that

538
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: it is a devil, but an advisor says to him,

539
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: this is a quote from the subtitles. No he is

540
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: your son anyway. Uh. And the servants at the palace,

541
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: what they end up doing is that, I guess that

542
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: the King's orders, they take the alien meat pill and

543
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: they put it in a basket and set it in

544
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: a river where it is carried away by the current.

545
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: And I was like, wait a minute, this is the

546
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: story of Moses and also sort of of Perseus and Danny. Yeah. Yeah, Like,

547
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: like I say, this film cast a wide net for

548
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: its Folkloreican mythic influences, and very apparent by by what

549
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: happens next. Oh that's right. So it goes on down

550
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: the river and then we get a title says the

551
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: Seven Dwarfs of the Happy Forest, And wow, okay, so

552
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: the Seven Dwarfs here, Uh, just like snow White, the

553
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: Seven Dwarfs live in a forest in a hut with

554
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: a painted backdrop of like mountains and multicolored clouds. And

555
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: oh boy. I know I've probably babbled about this before,

556
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: but this is one of my all time favorite things.

557
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: I love a constructed indoor forest set. Like, uh, you know, overall,

558
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: the movie isn't as great as you'd want it to be.

559
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: But it's one of the best things about legend Ridley

560
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: Scott's legend is the built forest sets in that studio

561
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: or I think of Daego Bar or whatever. I don't

562
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: know why, but I just love a built forest. Uh So,

563
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: by the way, please right in with your favorite constructed

564
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: indoor forest sets and movies. I seek them out, so

565
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: send them my way. And yeah, they're creating this um

566
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: the you know, this rural habitat this this little farm

567
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: where all the dwarves live and they since it is

568
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: a farm, there is of course a rooster, an obvious puppet,

569
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: screeching and mandarin. It's fabulous. The rooster is horrifying. It

570
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: just it constantly cuts to it and it's like, I

571
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: guess it's a puppet. For some reason, I was thinking

572
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: of it as a robot. It's like a robot rooster

573
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: that is just screeching and screeching. It barely resembles it.

574
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: Like I'm not even sure now thinking back, is it

575
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: a chicken, Is it a female chicken? Is it a rooster?

576
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's at least a bird, and

577
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: it's a great puppet. It's not it's not like a

578
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 1: bad puppet, but yeah, it's it's just as logical to

579
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: think of it as a robot versus an animal. Yeah,

580
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: so when we first meet the seven Dwarfs, they are

581
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: marching and counting the numbers one to seven, and then suddenly,

582
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, the soundtrack changes to funk base and saxophone,

583
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: and we see the robot rooster squawking, and one of

584
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: the dwarfs with a fancy mustachh is dressed sort of

585
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: like Robin Hood, and he's shooting arrows in the sky.

586
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: And then one of them comes back down having skewered

587
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: a fish, and he looks at it and goes strange.

588
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 1: So I was trying to think, this movie never does

589
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: a thing where it like names all of the seven

590
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 1: Dwarfs and like introduces them individually. You just kind of

591
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: have to get a sense of them while it's rolling.

592
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: So there's like the goofy Robin Hood, who's the bow

593
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: and arrow guy, but I was also thinking of him

594
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: as handsome dwarf because he's, I don't know, he's got

595
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: a fancy mustache. But then there is the vain one

596
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: who is interested in his hair, and then there's the

597
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: guy who drinks a lot and has a big bald

598
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: spot and spits. And then there is the sleepy one,

599
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: and then there is the one who farts. There's like,

600
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: I guess he's he's farty friend, and like the rooster

601
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: literally has a line like the FARTI dwarf farts, and

602
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: then the rooster says it smells bad. And then I

603
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: think there are a couple of others and I don't

604
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: know what their deal was. One guy has a necklace

605
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: with like bagels or dumplings or something on it. Oh yeah,

606
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: he also has a mohawk. Mohawk, right, has the cool

607
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: hair style and he actually has more lines. He's one

608
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: of the more active fathers of the seven fathers. Here. Um,

609
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: there's also a guy with a tall hat. Um, but

610
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 1: I don't remember what he did as much. You gotta

611
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: have seven of them. They can't all have starring roles,

612
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 1: I guess. So the film seems to focus mostly on

613
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: on FARTI um, mohawk and also yeah, Robin hood yeah,

614
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 1: and baldy also the bald one. Yes. Yeah, Okay, So

615
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: we a couple of them are off in the river

616
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 1: and they discovered the alien space baby pill in the basket. Uh,

617
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: they like pick it up and they say, hey, we

618
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: picked up a big fleshball that's from the subtitles, and

619
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: they they discuss what to do with it. They they're like, oh,

620
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: you know, how should we deal with this? And they

621
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: said one of them says let's cook it, and another

622
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: says let's pickle it. But they eventually end up like

623
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: stabbing it with a knife, and then it steam pours

624
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: out of it, and then they realize, oh wow, it

625
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 1: is no longer an alien pill made of meat. Now

626
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: it's just a baby. It's just a regular human baby.

627
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: And they're like, oh wow, now now we're all going

628
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 1: to be it's now we're all gonna be fathers. And

629
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: they debate what to name it. They briefly consider the

630
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 1: name Demons, but then they settle on Yaoji, and then

631
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: we get seventeen years later. And by the way, a

632
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: thing that you must keep in mind while we're discussing

633
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: all of this is that everything in this movie happens fast,

634
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 1: and the cuts are very sudden, and the changes in

635
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: the action are very sudden. This movie does not do

636
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 1: I mean, occasionally it does, but most of the time

637
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 1: does not do a lot of like establishing new shots

638
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:56,720
Speaker 1: and locations is just one thing straight into the next. Yeah. Yeah,

639
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: And so instantly seventeen years go by, and this is

640
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: where we get a monster attack, a fabulous cyclops monster.

641
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 1: That's right, So it shows us. I think it's supposed

642
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: to be an inn, like an inn and a tavern,

643
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: and a cyclops monster just attacks it. It's like a

644
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 1: monster with horns, and it's got one eye and then

645
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: it's got kissy lips. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It has kind

646
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:22,879
Speaker 1: of a turtle vibe to it. Uh, it's it's it's

647
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 1: a nice effect. I like this cost him a lot.

648
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: It starts rampaging immediately. There's a great scene where there's

649
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: this drunk man kind of uh stumbling through the inn

650
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: and he looks over and there's a paper screen um um,

651
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: and behind it we see the silhouette of the monster,

652
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: and for a second, the silhouette, I guess, kind of

653
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: looks like a woman. And so the drunk man's like, oh,

654
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go check this out, and he pokes a

655
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 1: hole through the screen to peek, and then the monster

656
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: like reaches through and grabs him. It's wonderful, just eats him.

657
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: I think I don't know, it's hard to tell what

658
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: the monster is doing with people. I think it's eating people. Uh,

659
00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: and we see, Okay, can anyone stop this rampaging eyeclops.

660
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,879
Speaker 1: A couple of tough guys with weapons leap up, one

661
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: as an axe, one as a sword, but no, the

662
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: monster instantly dispatches them. So I guess that just establishes

663
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: that somewhere we I don't think it has told us

664
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: where this is, but somewhere there is an end with

665
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: a monster problem, right, and it's ongoing. Yeah, ongoing. Let's

666
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 1: go back to the to the forest. Just suddenly, uh,

667
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: we go back and now the alien meat pill has

668
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: become has grown up, and she's become a princess. And

669
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: now that she is is grown up, she lives in

670
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: the forest and she interacts with like magic stuff, like

671
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: a magic altar. Yep, the magic altar becomes important later.

672
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: I didn't understand what was going on with the magic

673
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: altar at first. I think it's described at first that

674
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,399
Speaker 1: the altar keeps the devil away, keeps the devil from

675
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: capturing the dwarves. Uh. And essentially that's it. It's apparent

676
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: it's apparently a ward to keep certain evil forces away

677
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: that have a role in the Dwarfdom of these Seven

678
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: end of the Jewels. Yeah. Yeah, So she is down

679
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 1: by the river's edge when suddenly she meets a handsome

680
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 1: prince with sideburns, and I gotta say them when we

681
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: first meet him, the combination of the sideburns and the

682
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: fact that he's wearing like a white suit with these

683
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: wide lapels with inlaid designs made me think Elvis. I

684
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: also found it funny that in a movie so full

685
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: of magic, the princess's first major threat here is she

686
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 1: She almost falls in the water, and he's here to

687
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: save her. So it's not not like a monster attacks

688
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: in this scene or anything. But he's here, he's handsome.

689
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: She's immediately snooting. Yeah, absolutely instant falling in love. So

690
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: she they introduced themselves. She is Yogi and he is

691
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: your June of the your Chin Kingdom, and uh, I

692
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 1: think he's he's on his way to the palace of

693
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,280
Speaker 1: the nearby king so that he can pay his respects

694
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: for the king's birthday. And so they walk back to

695
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: the seven Dwarf's hut, and immediately the robot chicken is

696
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: just mad, screeching, unleashed Um and the the the seven

697
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 1: dads here are initially quite skeptical of the prince when

698
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: they see him, but then Yeahchi explains that well, he's

699
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: royalty and he saved her life, and they soften up

700
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: real quick. They come around to the to the new boyfriend,

701
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: but of course the prince can't stay. He's he's on

702
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: a royal journey. He has to be on his way

703
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: to the palace, and so he leaves, and oh no,

704
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: the princesses, oh, she's pining for him, and the farting

705
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: dad says her daughter is sick with love and it's sad.

706
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 1: I think we get some of that sweet music playing here.

707
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: So next we cut back to the palace and the king,

708
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: and here we begin a sequence that is just bananas.

709
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: This is what I was talking about at the beginning,

710
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 1: where the part we're like, I mean, everything so far

711
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: has been great and weird and wonderful, but at this

712
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 1: part my brain kicked over into like a higher gear.

713
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: So we're in the courtroom of the palace and the

714
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: king announces he's troubled by a demon that has been

715
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: attacking the town. Is there any way they can defeat it?

716
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: I think they're talking about the you know the cyclops

717
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: from earlier, and uh, there there are notes of sort

718
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: of Bayo wolffish stuff here, like, you know, the king's

719
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 1: hall is under relentless assault. Can no one kill the monster?

720
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: And then enter a powerful warrior from far away. So

721
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,280
Speaker 1: one of the advisors in the court says, his majesty,

722
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: a woman exorcist and named g R in the Wuchian

723
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: kingdom is overpowerful, which that sounds like a problem, but

724
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: I think they're just saying she's very strong. And the

725
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: king says, all right, you know, let's get her to

726
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: come in and deal with the demon. But she's already here.

727
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: Just crazy, witchy laughter fills the hall and the sorceress

728
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: appears in the middle of the throne room and then

729
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: instead of walking up to approach the throne, she repeatedly teleports.

730
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: She makes quite an entrance. Yes, she assures the king

731
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: that she has the power to defeat the demon. And

732
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: here's the part I was talking about where one advisor

733
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,479
Speaker 1: is like, I'm concerned about the safety of civilians. Maybe

734
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 1: we don't want to trust a sorceress. And then she

735
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: just like twists his head off, like twists his head

736
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: around on his neck and kills him. I guess to

737
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: prove her trustworthiness. I don't know, but she curses him

738
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: to death, and then there's a guard who's like, hey,

739
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to kill the imperial ministers, and he

740
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 1: draws his sword, but then she uses her magic to

741
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:30,760
Speaker 1: make the sword fly from his hand through the air

742
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 1: and then back through his chest. But I guess she

743
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 1: turned it into a spectral sword or something, because he

744
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: appears unharmed. He's just very shocked. So she's ultimately just

745
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: proving what she could do if she needed to do it.

746
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 1: I don't I guess she didn't actually kill anybody here. Well, no,

747
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: I think she did kill the first guy. I think

748
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,240
Speaker 1: she just didn't kill the second guy for some reason.

749
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: That the neck twisting guy. Okay, yeah, I mean I

750
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: could be wrong, No, I I the impression I got

751
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: was she actually twisted his head off, but she did

752
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: not actually skewer the guy with his own sword at

753
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 1: any rate. She makes a strong statement, I've got the

754
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 1: goods I can handle this demon, but by the way,

755
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: I also need to bring in another person on this one.

756
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: That's right. So she says she's going to capture the demon,

757
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: but she has a friend called Shacker who has magical

758
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: powers and he's going to help her, and the King's like,

759
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: oh great, another sorcerer will send for him, but once

760
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,439
Speaker 1: again he's already here. So we get the shock her

761
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 1: reveal and wow, it's like a wrestling entrance. He has

762
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: his own funky theme music. The lights start flashing, and

763
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: he appears in both live action bodily form, but also

764
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,760
Speaker 1: in animated form and an animated form, he's like blue

765
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: and he looks like a Marvel Comics dark wizard with

766
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: glowing eyes. It's like they're they're flashing to still images

767
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: from a glorious van mural of a wizard. Yes, and

768
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: I every time both times that I watched this and

769
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: I'm watching this film a couple of times I was

770
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 1: it was just like what, Like who should I know

771
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: that that image? Like what's going on? Uh, it's such

772
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: a strange to me choice, but it absolutely makes an impression. Yeah,

773
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: I know what you mean. It's almost like it was

774
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: intercutting with like a famous painting that we should recognize,

775
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: Like it's with like, you know, the Bosch painting of

776
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: Terror and Madness or something. Yeah, I don't know, but

777
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: I love it and again, he makes quite an entrance

778
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 1: and he's got this wonderful magic staff with that like

779
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: what a demon head on top of it. So you

780
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: instantly can tell this guy knows his exorcisms. She knows

781
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 1: her exorcisms. This, this is the occult power couple we

782
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: need to invest in as a kingdom. You do not

783
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: need to mess with these two. And the king says,

784
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: so you are powerful exorcists. Hope that you make it

785
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: um so onto business. They go out to beat the monster,

786
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: but also in doing so they do a sick costume change.

787
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: They look so cool. Yeah, the sorceress especially, like suddenly

788
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: she's wearing this terrific Egyptian themed out fit with this

789
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: like Egyptian like ancient Egyptian hairstyle. Absolutely wonderful. And then

790
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: how do they kill the demon? It's over very quick. Yeah,

791
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: Like they basically show up. There's the demons rampaging in

792
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 1: the streets, and uh, the sorcerer uses this kind of

793
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: napalm demon staff strike. He like does a few flourishes,

794
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 1: throws his demon staff and it just explodes in a

795
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:27,399
Speaker 1: big fireball when it hits the demon boom. Done one

796
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: and done. It's over, and then they're right back in

797
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: the courtroom. Yeah, and she has another costume change. She's

798
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: wearing all red though she's gonna be back in the

799
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: Egyptian outfit again like the following scene. But she's a

800
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,320
Speaker 1: sorcerers she can do what she wants. So for killing

801
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 1: the Cyclops demon, the king rewards them with official posts.

802
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: I think he makes the well, actually, I don't know

803
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 1: if this is fair. I don't notice that he rewards

804
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: the sorceress only the male sorcerer. Uh. He rewards Schaker

805
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: by making him a general. And the King's advisor has concerns.

806
00:45:58,200 --> 00:45:59,759
Speaker 1: He's like, I don't know if we should make these

807
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: for his generals. That would be kind of giving them

808
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,760
Speaker 1: a lot of trust. But the King just dismisses these worries.

809
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,800
Speaker 1: It'll be fine, and they seem great. And then literally

810
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: in the next shot, they're both cackling about what a

811
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: great idea it was to send the one ied demon

812
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: to terrify the people so that then they could gain

813
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:22,240
Speaker 1: access to the palace by defeating it. Yeah, the advisor

814
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,399
Speaker 1: is the only sensible person in the entire film. Um

815
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: that that basically the king never listens to him, except

816
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:30,839
Speaker 1: a little bit maybe at the beginning concerning the child,

817
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 1: but for them. But when it comes to these the

818
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,839
Speaker 1: sorcerer and the sorceress, he's like, no, no, no, I'm fine.

819
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: I trust them completely. Didn't you see how powerful they are?

820
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: And now we know they're up to no good? Right, right?

821
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be fair to the advisor. I think later

822
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:46,240
Speaker 1: on he does get his advice followed somewhat like after remember,

823
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: after he finds out about who the princess is, and

824
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: he want he tells the king. He's like, hey, I

825
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: think that's your daughter. Actually he's consistent. He has sound

826
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:57,839
Speaker 1: counsel throughout the entire picture. Sometimes they listen to him,

827
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 1: sometimes they don't. That's right, But oh man, there is

828
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 1: such eye popping demon activity in the next scene. So

829
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: they go down in what I was thinking of the

830
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: whole movie as the basement. The sorcerers go to the

831
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: basement where they've got a big statue of a demon

832
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: with two faces, one face on the head and then

833
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: one face in like the belly or the crotch, and

834
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: like they talk about this because at one point the

835
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: sorcerer says to their demon, he's like, you've got too

836
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 1: many faces or something. Yeah, And then there are these big,

837
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 1: like paper machee giant human heads that may represent the

838
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: sorcerer and the sorceress that are like clutched in hands.

839
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: There's all this glorious red gel lighting. It is this

840
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 1: wonderful demon layer. And one thing I particularly loved is

841
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: that the design of this demonic altar it um, it

842
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: has a style like the artistic style here is not

843
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: It's not something you would necessarily I think see in

844
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 1: like traditional uh Chinese iconography, but it reminded me very

845
00:47:56,360 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: strongly of of decorations that I saw in Ending, China

846
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: at a haunted house, like a like a tourist attraction,

847
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: you know, at one of the parks there. It was

848
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 1: the same sort of style of outrageous looking demon head.

849
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 1: So I don't know if if this kind of uh

850
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 1: this style of decoration has a name, but you might

851
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: think if it I guess is like sort of like

852
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: Chinese halloween stylings. Um, but it it has. It's it's wonderful. Yeah,

853
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: this whole, this whole demon layer, and we learned the

854
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 1: demon's name. They serve Ah, do they say we are

855
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: your loyal lackeys for long? Yes, lackeys forever. But Okay,

856
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: what are they going to do down here. Well, they

857
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: do some rituals and they pledge their loyalty to the

858
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: demon ah do, and then they're like, hey, let's create

859
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: a nine headed siren. We need another monster. That's right,

860
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: I mean they've gotten so far with one uh monster,

861
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 1: con they've got to take it to the next level

862
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 1: introduce another monster that, of course they will have to

863
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: fight and then reap the benefits of having slain. But

864
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 1: it doesn't exactly go that way, does it. But we'll

865
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: get there in a second. So, first of all, there

866
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: is a scene where she's dad's try to make her

867
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: happy again, because you know, she's back in the forest.

868
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:07,800
Speaker 1: She's love sick. She's fallen in love with the prince

869
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: but he's gone off on his own path and and

870
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 1: now all she can do is sit around in pine

871
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: for him. So she's so sad, and they, you know,

872
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: these are these are kind dads, these these are they're

873
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,359
Speaker 1: good dads, and they want to help her out. So

874
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: they're like, I know, let's try to make her laugh

875
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: by doing animal impressions. Um. So they they spend a

876
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: long time seeing who can like be the funniest, like, uh,

877
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: rooster or ape. Yeah, the scene. This scene maybe goes

878
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 1: on a little too long, not that that I got

879
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 1: sick of it, but you can tell the music transition

880
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: to the sweet stuff while the comedic shenanigans were still

881
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: going on. But then they cut over and yeah, she's

882
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: feeling sad, and they realize it's not working. We've got

883
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: to help her in another way, right. I think they're

884
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:53,240
Speaker 1: starting to get the picture. It's like, look, the only

885
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: solution here is we've got to get her together with

886
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: her prints. That's the only way she's gonna be happy.

887
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 1: But they know where the prince is. He's at the capital,

888
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,280
Speaker 1: so they'll be able to follow up on that. Okay,

889
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: so what are they What are they gonna do to

890
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: kill the nine headed Siren? The King's like, there's more monsters?

891
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 1: Why why are we getting more monsters? Um? And this

892
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: time they suggest, I know, let's let's not waste our

893
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 1: best sorcerers on the monster. This time, let's send the

894
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: heroic young swordsman, the prince you're June, who is here

895
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,400
Speaker 1: from a foreign land to celebrate the king's birthday. He

896
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: can kill the demon for us. And there's initially some concern.

897
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: I think they're like, oh, but he's like he's actually royal, Like,

898
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: we don't want to risk his life. But your June

899
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: comes out and says, no, no, I am skilled in

900
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 1: self defense. And you can tell the Sorcerer and the

901
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:42,359
Speaker 1: Sorceress do not like this idea. This is um, this

902
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,240
Speaker 1: is a kink in their plans. Uh. They are supposed

903
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:47,879
Speaker 1: to be the go toos for dealing with demons, right,

904
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:52,359
Speaker 1: So the young Prince goes out with uh several other

905
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 1: soldiers to fight the monster, and then there's this cool

906
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: scene where the the evil sorcerer Schacker is sort of

907
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: puppet control owling the nine headed Siren from the demon

908
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: basement while the Prince is fighting him. Yeah, the sorcery

909
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: in this film is all fabulous because there's a lot

910
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: of um, a lot of hand movements and moodras and

911
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: so forth, with wonderful kind of martial arts sound effects

912
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:19,240
Speaker 1: to each movement, and then also the creation of magical

913
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: circles in the in the air in front of the

914
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: sorcerer or sorceress that they'll stick their hands through to

915
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: do the various incantations. So the magic is just richly

916
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:33,720
Speaker 1: visually of fun to watch, and of course the Prince

917
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:37,280
Speaker 1: wins the sword fight against the monster, and it's interesting

918
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 1: that the violence against the monster actually translates back to

919
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 1: the puppet master at actually to Chakur. Like at the

920
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: end of the fight, he's in his demon basement spitting

921
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: up blood. It's intense. So once again things are not

922
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: going according to plan. This this monster was was theirs

923
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: to slay and they couldn't even use this monster then

924
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: to slay this metlesome hero. So then we cut back

925
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 1: to the forest for a bit and here we get

926
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: the bunny fairy seed. Do you want to describe this, Well,

927
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: you know, she's she's doing what a princess may may

928
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: do oftentimes, just setting there, a bunny comes up to her.

929
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 1: She's feeling sad, so she picks up the bunny and

930
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 1: then she puts the bunny back down instead of I

931
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:21,720
Speaker 1: guess what, killing the bunny. I don't beating it because

932
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:25,240
Speaker 1: the because the thing is the bunny then transforms into

933
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: the fairy of the forest and did this tiny little

934
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 1: bubbly woman who then is like, yeah, you save me,

935
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,239
Speaker 1: this is great. Let me make it up to you,

936
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: or maybe not save You didn't save me, but you

937
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: like spared me. I'm not I'm not really sure what

938
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: the trans The details of the transaction are here, but basically,

939
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:43,840
Speaker 1: she's I am a fairy and now i am fully

940
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: introduced in this film, and I'm here to help you.

941
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: That's right. So I think the fairy is saying, I'm

942
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: so glad you didn't kill and eat me as a bunny. Um. So,

943
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 1: so anyway she gets she says, hey, I'll grant you

944
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: a wish. And what is the princess wish for? She

945
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: tells her she can win for a gym or a pearl,

946
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: but the princess says, no, all I want is to

947
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: be with my prince. And so together her, her dad's

948
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:13,160
Speaker 1: in the forest, and the little Fairy, they conspire to

949
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: help Yogi win the heart of the prince. But let's see,

950
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: the fairy magically gives her a gown that would, let

951
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: you know, it's like Cinderella like. She can wear this

952
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 1: to the palace. And then the seven Dwarfs come up

953
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: with a plan to sneak her into the palace because

954
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 1: one of them knows the guards at the palace, and

955
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,800
Speaker 1: they can sneak her in pretending to be a maid

956
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: so she can meet the prince again. Now you might

957
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 1: wonder why did the dwarves have all these connections it

958
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 1: They kind of begin to trickle the information here and

959
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 1: about the dwarves, but we eventually learned that they are

960
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 1: dwarves because they were cursed. They were seven generals. So

961
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 1: they even though they're in hiding and they're using a

962
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:57,359
Speaker 1: magical altar to keep evildoers from finding out where they are,

963
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: they still have connections to uh, military individuals at the

964
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 1: palace and so forth. So I guess he was once

965
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 1: like the fartie general. I guess. Alright, So the princess

966
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 1: in filth rates the palace pretending to be a maid.

967
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: She meets the prince again, and things are going sort

968
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: of well in that regard, but then the sorceress g

969
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 1: r Is jealous. She goes to the demon statue in

970
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: the basement and she's like, I thought you said I

971
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: am the most charming girl, and the demon statue was like, uh, well, well,

972
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: well sorry, you were not the most I guess this

973
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: is supposed to be a kind of a mirror mirror

974
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: on the wall. Who's the fairest. Well this this leads

975
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 1: to a sort of cascade of political machinations in the palace,

976
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,440
Speaker 1: but they all end up with the prince being transformed

977
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: into a bear, yes, transformed into a bear and caliported

978
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: into the forest by the Sorcerer. And oh my goodness,

979
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: this bear transformation, I absolutely love it. I think I'm

980
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 1: becoming a big fan of bad bear costumes and films. Um.

981
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 1: I recently watched the three film Adam and e Versus

982
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 1: the Cannibals that I briefly mentioned in our Fruit of

983
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: Paradise episode that has a tremendously bad bear costume in it.

984
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 1: I watched that just the other week. This film's bear

985
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: is much better than than the one in Adam and

986
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 1: e Versus the Cannibals. It's still kind of reminds me

987
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 1: of the mutated bear in the Prophecy, but also is

988
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 1: very much this um kind of I don't know, sloth bear,

989
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 1: sun bear. He's not very threatening, he's kind of cuddly. Um,

990
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 1: it's a it's a fun bear costume, but also it's

991
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: clearly a bear costume. Yeah. Yeah. And of course strong

992
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: connections here to Alexander rose Russian fantasy film Jack Frost,

993
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: because in that we also have a prince who has

994
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: turned into a bear where his voice sounds like Zoidberg. Right.

995
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: But in this one, like the bear is almost immediately

996
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 1: marching up to the farm house there of the seven dwarves,

997
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,839
Speaker 1: and everybody's like, oh, I don't know what that's all about. Look,

998
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: there's a bear coming this way. We should be afraid.

999
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: But the Fairy she can tell. She can tell in

1000
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 1: this kind of hilarious sequence where she sees that the

1001
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:20,279
Speaker 1: bear is not like a dancing bear, it's actually the

1002
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,240
Speaker 1: dancing Prince, and she's like, no, no, it's the prince.

1003
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 1: We've got to help it. Yeah, that's what so she

1004
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: so yeah, they reveal the backstory that the seven dwarfs

1005
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 1: are originally generals, and then she and the fairy and

1006
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: the generals are like, we know what to do. We

1007
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 1: have to boil the bear in a magic potion and

1008
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:41,919
Speaker 1: a cauldron with the lid on for seven days. Yes,

1009
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: he has to suffer in there for like seven days,

1010
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: and he can't come out, you can't take the lid

1011
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:49,880
Speaker 1: off of it. But at the end he will be cured. Now, meanwhile,

1012
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:53,719
Speaker 1: there's another scene with the sorcerer and the Sorceress and

1013
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 1: they're they're like, you know again, they're plotting, and they're

1014
00:56:55,719 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 1: realizing we've got to do something about these um these

1015
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 1: generals or the prince, the prince us and so forth,

1016
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 1: and there's some talk of like, oh, we need to

1017
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 1: find where they are and they're they're like no, no,

1018
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:09,240
Speaker 1: they have an exorcist alter, so we can't pinpoint their position.

1019
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,240
Speaker 1: We should send someone to destroy the altar, and pretty

1020
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,839
Speaker 1: much the next scene is the princess accidentally knocking over

1021
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 1: the altar and thus incapacitating it. It was like, it's

1022
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 1: a weird set up there, Like I thought they were

1023
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 1: going to send some sort of lackey uh to you know,

1024
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: to some sort of a spy or a magical animal.

1025
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: But no, it just this problem solved itself, no additional

1026
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: lackey required, right, And as soon as it happens, they

1027
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: appear and they abduct the princess. Oh and then they

1028
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 1: magically blow the top off of the cauldron too. So

1029
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: now it's revealed that the prince is going to be

1030
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: paralyzed because he didn't complete his bear bath. Oh but

1031
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: wait he's not for some reason, right, Don't they do

1032
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: something to help him the princess, I mean not the princess.

1033
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: The fairy then says, oh, don't worry about it, I

1034
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 1: have a solution, and she has some sort of a

1035
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: potion that she gives him and he's fine. See, she's

1036
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 1: just she solves problems. That's what a good fairy does. Yeah,

1037
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: she's on top of it. But but but uh so

1038
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: they so the sorcerers have kidnapped to the princess because

1039
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna use her in their plan for

1040
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 1: usurpation of the throne. Because what do they want? Ultimately,

1041
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: they want power, right, they want to be in charge.

1042
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 1: So they take her to the demon basement and they

1043
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 1: do a ritual and this scene will make you lose

1044
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:28,600
Speaker 1: your mind. Yes, there's dancing fire. The scynth just gets

1045
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 1: really intense, flashing eyes, flying heads as they ask their

1046
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: demon lord to quote dead in her soul. The goal

1047
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: of this is to hypnotize her to say that she

1048
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:45,280
Speaker 1: will marry shack her the sorcerer. Um. So they take

1049
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: her up to meet her father again, and by this

1050
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 1: point the king has been convinced by his adviser that ah, yes,

1051
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 1: this princess was the baby we put in the basket

1052
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 1: and sent down the river. This is your daughter. So

1053
00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: the King's like, oh wow, it's wonderful to see you again. Daughter,

1054
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 1: I'm so happy you're here. But the first thing, she's like, look,

1055
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 1: I gotta marry the evil sorcerer. And the King's like, well, okay,

1056
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,120
Speaker 1: if that's what you want. But again it's only because

1057
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 1: she's hypnotized. Uh. And here kind of begins a journey

1058
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: of Adventures section of the movie because the Prince now

1059
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: he's back at the in the forest. He becomes aware

1060
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 1: of this via Bunny Fairy reconnaissance, and he's like, oh,

1061
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 1: I've got to stop this from happening. So I've got

1062
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: to make a journey to recruit several kinds of magical

1063
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: help in order to save the princess. But the Bubbly

1064
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: Fairy realizes he's not ready for this right now. He

1065
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 1: needs he needs you. He like any hero in a story.

1066
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 1: He needs special weapons, he needs special armor, and I've

1067
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:42,320
Speaker 1: got to send him on a side quest to get

1068
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: those things. Okay, So I I've I think I forget

1069
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 1: some of the quests. He goes on, what are these

1070
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: quests that happened in rapid succession? Well, he has to

1071
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 1: he has to swim right some sort of subterranean cave

1072
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: in order to get the armor and the sword from

1073
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 1: a skeleton he doesn't fight the skeleton or fight any

1074
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: kind of Ardian It's just I guess, difficult to get there.

1075
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,120
Speaker 1: And then the skeleton talks to him. He is like, hey,

1076
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 1: here you go. Take this is great armor, great sword.

1077
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:10,920
Speaker 1: I'm so glad somebody can use this. Oh yeah, I

1078
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,560
Speaker 1: think what it's the thunder sword and the magic armor.

1079
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 1: And I think what the skeleton says is every trinkle

1080
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: in my collection has magic power. I think that might

1081
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 1: be a typo, yes, but the ideas that like every

1082
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:26,919
Speaker 1: detail of it, every cuff link, every every jewel uh

1083
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 1: in the armor has some sort of a magical power.

1084
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't know about it till later, Like later

1085
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 1: on you'll hear more narration from the skeleton that will

1086
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: inform our hero of how he can better utilize this

1087
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 1: fabulous armor. That's right, And then he travels more. He

1088
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: travels like into this strange desert with these spires of

1089
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 1: rock that the ferry purchase on and they talk, and

1090
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 1: at one point he goes into a cave and ends

1091
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 1: up battling what I thought, we're bat demons. But then

1092
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 1: also some of them look like frogman like they literally

1093
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 1: have a diverse flippers on their hands, and feet. Um,

1094
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: so they were doing what they could with the costuming here,

1095
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 1: but I still think it looks it's it's pretty good.

1096
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 1: Um And I was like, what are these supposed to be?

1097
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:13,920
Speaker 1: But according to the captions they were, they're not bats.

1098
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 1: They were a bird and frogs Yeah, three frog sirens.

1099
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 1: This is the second time that that siren is used

1100
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 1: in the subtitles to note some sort of a monster.

1101
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 1: So I feel like there's probably some sort of interesting

1102
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:31,080
Speaker 1: connection about like how monster becomes the word siren or

1103
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 1: what word in Mandarin eventually becomes siren in this context.

1104
01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, some sort of bird monster, some sort of

1105
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 1: frog monsters. The bird monster looks better than the frog monsters.

1106
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 1: I feel like they were they were running out of

1107
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 1: funds or time or both to create these frog creatures.

1108
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 1: But I don't know. The lighting is weird. The physical

1109
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 1: performance of the frog sirens is is humorous, so it

1110
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: it works. You were entertained by it. One off their

1111
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 1: heads gets cut off and it's like it's like going

1112
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:03,120
Speaker 1: on my head and trying to grab it. It's wonderful.

1113
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 1: Huh oh. And then while all this is going on,

1114
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 1: the people back home are in peril because the sorcerers

1115
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 1: imprisoned the king and the princess and their allies in

1116
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 1: a magic circle and they're like, you must renounce your

1117
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:18,960
Speaker 1: throne and turn it over to me. And there he's

1118
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:24,560
Speaker 1: slowly like burning his advisors alive until he relents. Yeah,

1119
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:28,960
Speaker 1: it's the situation has has gotten rather intense at the capitol.

1120
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:34,600
Speaker 1: And then meanwhile they've also sent out warriors to battle

1121
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:39,400
Speaker 1: the prince for immortals. Okay, so maybe you caught more

1122
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 1: of the context here. This is the battle where um,

1123
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 1: where the prince and then some of his allies end

1124
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 1: up fighting these these like statues or these automata. Yeah,

1125
01:02:50,440 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 1: and this might be something that's kind of connected or

1126
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: inspired by the eighteen Bronze Men film that I mentioned

1127
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 1: earlier from seventies six, because when they first encountered them

1128
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 1: that they're clearly at her standing still, you know, brandishing

1129
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: their weapons, but they're kind of moving a little bit. Yeah,

1130
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:06,920
Speaker 1: they touch them, they hit them with their weapons, and

1131
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:09,640
Speaker 1: they just grew weapons. They seem useless against them, and

1132
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 1: then they start battling and this is a this is

1133
01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 1: a fun uh fun group of villains here. For for

1134
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 1: our hero, he also has like a few lackeys with him.

1135
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 1: At this point warriors from the capitol who came to

1136
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 1: get him and be like, hey, you should come. There's

1137
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 1: a whole situation going on. Yeah, that's right. So among

1138
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 1: these warriors, there's a big ogre with the club, there's

1139
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: a guy with a mace that has a rotating drill bit,

1140
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 1: there's a teleporting fighter with a spear and a shield,

1141
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:37,960
Speaker 1: and then I think I lost track of who the

1142
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 1: fourth guy was. But for this this fight, the Prince

1143
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 1: gets his thundersword charged up and he's trying to fight him,

1144
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 1: and he's a very skilled warrior, but he just like

1145
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 1: he can't beat him until the little Fairy of the

1146
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 1: Forest uses her magic vision to see their weak points

1147
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 1: and he's and she's like, oh, I see, you have

1148
01:03:57,120 --> 01:03:58,960
Speaker 1: to hit this one in the armpit. You have to

1149
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 1: hit this one in the mouth. And then the last

1150
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 1: one is one who has to be hit in the anus.

1151
01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: Even though the subtitles say his quote hip, but that

1152
01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: is not what has shown. No, Nope, he clearly he

1153
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:12,440
Speaker 1: has to stab this one up the butt with the

1154
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 1: Heavenly sword. And the scene in which this happens is

1155
01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 1: absolutely amazing because he does this fabulous martial arts Hong

1156
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 1: Kong wire back flip thing, then slides underneath the monster

1157
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,160
Speaker 1: and then upward thrust with the sword and then picks

1158
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 1: him up off the ground with the sword and then

1159
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: the warrior explodes in a burst of brilliant fire. It's great.

1160
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 1: And so after this there's another part where he has

1161
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 1: to go into a temple and fight another magical guardian

1162
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 1: of some kind. It's like hard to describe what it is.

1163
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 1: It's like a flay. It's flayed body parts that don't

1164
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 1: have the whole body with them, and they're flying around

1165
01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 1: attacking him. So like like bloody skinless legs and like

1166
01:04:57,320 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 1: arms and teeth. Yeah, the the limbs they look they

1167
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:04,840
Speaker 1: look like, you know, gore, like fake gore, but they

1168
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 1: also kind of look like fur. So I kept thinking

1169
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 1: of them as the limbs of the meat muppet. They're

1170
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:15,520
Speaker 1: moving around, they're flying around, they're also being sneaky around him.

1171
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 1: And this whole sequence where he's battling this guardian that

1172
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:23,720
Speaker 1: is all these pieces that then eventually comes together. Um,

1173
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:26,040
Speaker 1: it made me think of like the works of Clark

1174
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard, where you know, one

1175
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: of the things that when you mess with ancient sorcery

1176
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 1: and ancient magic, you just have no idea what sort

1177
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:37,040
Speaker 1: of madness you're messing with. And this sequence just felt

1178
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:41,280
Speaker 1: just authentically just so weird, like this is some weird

1179
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 1: magic that our heroes encountering here, and oh, we should

1180
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:47,360
Speaker 1: say why he's here. I believe the fairy has said,

1181
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:49,760
Speaker 1: oh yeah, if you want to defeat the evil sorcerer

1182
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 1: and sorceress, you're gonna need some help. You need to

1183
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: get this magic box. They imprisoned somebody, they betrayed some

1184
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 1: magical being. The magical being is in the box. Go

1185
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 1: here at the box, bring that with you to the

1186
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 1: capitol when you go to defeat them. Okay, So he does.

1187
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:08,120
Speaker 1: He defeats this monster, he gets the box, he opens

1188
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 1: it up, and then a guy comes out who is

1189
01:06:11,120 --> 01:06:13,520
Speaker 1: kind of scary in his own right, and he's got

1190
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:17,200
Speaker 1: uh these two big like bald camel humps in the

1191
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:21,800
Speaker 1: middle of his head. Yeah, yeah, strong fengi vibes to

1192
01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:24,360
Speaker 1: the head. Though to be clear, the farrengies wouldn't be

1193
01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:27,480
Speaker 1: introduced told like eighty seven. I think, so no way

1194
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:30,120
Speaker 1: that was a connection. It reminded me a bit of

1195
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 1: various illustrations of the divine farmer Shinnong, who has you know,

1196
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:38,480
Speaker 1: kind of like an ox like appearance to his otherwise

1197
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 1: humanoid body. So he's like some often like little horns

1198
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 1: poking through the top of his skull. So I kind

1199
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 1: of got a vibe of of that character from this being.

1200
01:06:48,760 --> 01:06:52,000
Speaker 1: But also clearly this is some sort of a gin

1201
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 1: because it's you know, very much some sort of a

1202
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:58,560
Speaker 1: genie you trapped inside of a container. And now the

1203
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:01,000
Speaker 1: being has been freed and he's going to do a

1204
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 1: solid for the individual who freed him, right, so they

1205
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:07,960
Speaker 1: together go back to the palace. Magically, there's like almost

1206
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 1: a chase scene then where the genie like grabs the

1207
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:13,920
Speaker 1: guy pulls him into the box and then flies to

1208
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:17,200
Speaker 1: the palace with the fairy struggling to keep up. Oh yeah,

1209
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:19,080
Speaker 1: and then she's like wait, wait, I can't keep up,

1210
01:07:19,120 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: and so the the gin hand comes out of the

1211
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 1: box as it's flying through the air on obvious wires,

1212
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:28,320
Speaker 1: grabs her and it pulls her into the box as well. Again.

1213
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:31,320
Speaker 1: Just so the the the effects in this were just audacious,

1214
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:33,440
Speaker 1: like they're very ambitious in what they want to do

1215
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:36,440
Speaker 1: accomplish here. Now, of course, There is a big final

1216
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:39,760
Speaker 1: battle involving the Prince doing his his sword fighting, and

1217
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:43,080
Speaker 1: then also involving this this wizard genie being who has

1218
01:07:43,080 --> 01:07:46,680
Speaker 1: been freed from the box fighting his fighting the the

1219
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:50,320
Speaker 1: wizards who betrayed him, and it's uh. I don't want

1220
01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:52,959
Speaker 1: to describe it in too much detail. It's just a

1221
01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 1: absolutely wonderful showdown. It does involve the uh, the guy

1222
01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:01,880
Speaker 1: freed from the box pointing at things with his middle finger. Yeah,

1223
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:05,600
Speaker 1: he starts using all sorts of crazy gin magic. Our

1224
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 1: sorcerer and Sorceress who are now cornered. They have at

1225
01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:12,440
Speaker 1: least one major costume change that occurs, and they're doing

1226
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 1: a kind of tandem fighting. We get an awesome wizard

1227
01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:19,120
Speaker 1: sword that's busted out by the Sorcerer, and the sorceress

1228
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 1: also has like a fancy black magic dagger that she uses.

1229
01:08:23,400 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 1: Just an epic battle proceeds uh to play out here

1230
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:31,479
Speaker 1: in the uh the Hall of the King. I think

1231
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:34,280
Speaker 1: I can say no more about thrilling Bloody Sword except

1232
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:38,840
Speaker 1: that it was absolutely wonderful, one of my favorites we've done. Yeah,

1233
01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:41,559
Speaker 1: it should. You absolutely have to see it. It's just

1234
01:08:41,800 --> 01:08:44,639
Speaker 1: a complete visual spectacle. And also the music is great

1235
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 1: as well. Uh so see it, listen to it, learn

1236
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 1: from it, be changed by it, be melted and remade,

1237
01:08:51,439 --> 01:08:54,679
Speaker 1: and its likeness become an eternal lackey if the demon

1238
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:58,559
Speaker 1: I do. Yes. Oh man, there there's so many great

1239
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:01,040
Speaker 1: but like there's some wonderful, big caring moments between the

1240
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:04,519
Speaker 1: sorcerer and the sorceress and do Like the sorceress has

1241
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:06,040
Speaker 1: the bit of course where she's like, I thought you

1242
01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:08,080
Speaker 1: said I was the most charming, and then there is

1243
01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:10,479
Speaker 1: this whole bit where a dudes like, hey, Sorcerer, I

1244
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:12,639
Speaker 1: thought I told you to kill the prince and the princess,

1245
01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:14,439
Speaker 1: and he's like, I have my own plan. I'm gonna

1246
01:09:14,439 --> 01:09:16,160
Speaker 1: do what I want here, and then they get into

1247
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:18,120
Speaker 1: a big argument and it kind of comes to blows

1248
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:22,280
Speaker 1: um with the with various like demon icons sent out

1249
01:09:22,280 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 1: against the sorcerer and he's having to battle him off

1250
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 1: with his staff until finally the demon is the one

1251
01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:29,040
Speaker 1: that's like, WHOA, well, we shouldn't be bickering. You know,

1252
01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:30,679
Speaker 1: you need to get out there and fight that prince.

1253
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:36,920
Speaker 1: We're on the same side here, thrilling bloody sword all right,

1254
01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:40,720
Speaker 1: So yeah, strong recommendation on this one. Uh, you have

1255
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:43,000
Speaker 1: find a way to see it and see it. All right,

1256
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 1: We're gonna go and close the book on this one.

1257
01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:46,120
Speaker 1: But I'd love to hear from anyone out there who

1258
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 1: has thoughts on Thrilling Bloody Sword, if you've seen it recently,

1259
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:51,240
Speaker 1: or I'd love to hear from anyone who saw it

1260
01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 1: back in the nineteen eighties. Uh, definitely right in about

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Speaker 1: it happens every Friday in the Stuff to Blow Your

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Speaker 1: Mind podcast feed. We're primarily a science podcast, but on

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Speaker 1: Friday's we set aside most serious concerns and we just

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Speaker 1: focus on a strange film. I will blog about these

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Speaker 1: movies over at SMUTA music dot com and if you

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Speaker 1: are a letterboxed user, that's l E T T E

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Speaker 1: R B o x D dot com. Uh, you'll find

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Speaker 1: us there. Our user name is weird House. We have

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Speaker 1: a fabulous list of all the movies we've covered thus far,

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Speaker 1: and we'll also generally sprinkle in the next one or

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Speaker 1: two movies we're going to cover, so you can sort

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Speaker 1: of get get a drop on what we're going to

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Speaker 1: discuss in case you want to watch something ahead of publication.

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Speaker 1: Huge thanks as always to our excellent audio producer Seth

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Johnson. If you would like to get in touch

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Speaker 1: with us with feedback on this episode or any other,

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Speaker 1: to suggest topic for the future, or just to say hello,

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