{"id":7708,"date":"2005-01-14T23:05:15","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T06:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/14\/house-of-flying-daggers.html"},"modified":"2005-01-14T23:05:15","modified_gmt":"2005-01-15T06:05:15","slug":"house_of_flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/14\/house_of_flying.html","title":{"rendered":"<em>House of Flying Daggers<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" TITLE=\"House of Flying Daggers\" alt=\"flying-daggers.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/flying-daggers.jpg\" width=\"158\" height=\"234\" class=\"right\" \/>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0385004\" target=\"_blank\">truly, glowingly, gloriously gorgeous film<\/a>.  Less magically epic than <em>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/em>, this film is more personal, as two cops in Tang Dynasty China try to trick a blind courtesan into leading them back to the band of villains\/revolutionaries\/Robin Hoods that she runs with.  Suffused with love, betrayal, battle, blood, and tragedy, I&#8217;m convinced that Wm Shakespeare would have watched it with a big smile on his face, stolen the plot wholesale, set it in France, and tacked on a prolog and epilog.  But Bill never had access to wire fu experts, nor CG, and this movie is suffused with both.<\/p>\n<p>Fabulous stunts, amazing camera work, lovely costumes, gorgeous landscapes (in China and Ukraine), an amazing interior set, and if the drama gets more than a bit melo- at times,  it&#8217;s all part-and-parcel of the genre.  There&#8217;s a reason an opera singer covers the end title music.  <\/p>\n<p>Good stuff. <\/p>\n<p><small>(And many thanks to Jackie for watching Kitten while we went to it.)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truly, glowingly, gloriously gorgeous film. Less magically epic than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, this film is more personal, as two cops in Tang Dynasty China try to trick a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28175,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/tweets-from-2012-06-07.html","url_meta":{"origin":7708,"position":0},"title":"Tweets from 2012-06-07","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Jun-12 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Father\/Daughter TVpalooza: \"Sherlock: A Study in Pink\" - dark, funny, witty, Moffat, Mycroft, geekyjoy. 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