Monday, December 26, 2011

Detective Dee and the Out of Context Clues




Don't have time to give Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame the review it deserves, but this is well worth seeing, Tsui Hark brings that old wire-fu magic yet again. The translation is good enough that I could follow the plot, but not SO good that I was denied classic HK moments like the above. Perfect.
at 12:45 PM Posted by Joe Iglesias
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5 comments:

  1. Derek GuderDecember 26, 2011 at 12:59 PM

    Yeah, Doc and I saw this in the theater. Pretty awesome ride.

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  2. Joe IglesiasDecember 26, 2011 at 1:01 PM

    YOU NEED TO TELL ME THESE THINGS EARLIER

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  3. Andrew CunninghamDecember 26, 2011 at 1:04 PM

    But all of these statements are literally true! Dude's name IS Donkey Wang, apparently. There really was a magic deer! Dee fucked it up.

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  4. Joe IglesiasDecember 26, 2011 at 1:05 PM

    No, these things all make total sense in context. I'm just saying, there are ways to make these sentences far more euphonious to native speakers, eh?

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  5. Joe IglesiasDecember 26, 2011 at 1:06 PM

    But to be fair, there is no way to make "Dr. Donkey Wang" anything less than hilarious.

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