There are many killer films, but no one is like Killer Joe. In many cases, killer films mainly described the cool killer who killed the enemies in cold blood, got things done in minutes, and showed their dazzling skills to Kill and rob. Killer Joe is a killer film combined with family tragedy and ethics that make the film different. In the film, a young man in trouble, a ramshackle father, a retarded sister, an unmerciful stepmother, and a feminine and handsome killer, become the protagonists of the story. The open story is that the son in trouble incites his father to employ a killer to kill his mother to get her insurance money, but the story behind is really worth scrutiny. Directed by William Friedkin, Killer Joe stars Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, and Thomas Haden Church.

There are two plots that associate the girl Dottie with Chinese martial arts.

The first is that the brother, Chris, meets his naked sister Dottie in his dream. Dottie plays with a lizard, and then comes to his room. Suddenly, Dottie takes off her pajamas and stare at him. Then Dottie poses a Wing Chun posture and disappears.

The second is that Dottie studies Chinese martial arts from TV. After talking, Chris and his father decide to kill his mother, and they invite the killer Joe to come for the negotiation at home. When Joe comes, he knocks at the door, but on one answer. Joe opens the door himself and finds that Dottie is at home by herself, and she is studying at home the Chinese martial arts from the Chinese motion film in TV. She studies seriously, and every gesture and motion are full of joy.

The Chinese martial arts are to underline the poor girl.

People would feel so bad and uncomfortable for Dottie’s story. Dottie is only 12 years old, abandoned by her mother, and lives with her brother and father in an abnormal family. She seldom goes out, as if she is in house arrest. From the film we know that Dottie is mentally abnormal. The brother Chris has an illicit relationship with his sister Dottie, and makes her pregnant. When Chris and their father hire killer Joe to kill the mother, Dottie is appointed as retainer by Joe and becomes his sex dolls. In the end, desperate Dottie shoots her brother, father, and Joe. So to speak, this handicapped girl experiences several terrible things that most people would never experience even one.

First, the Chinese martial arts plots are to underline the poor girl’s situation. We all know that film art comes from life, but above life. That is why art is called art. The desire, aspirations, and vision that cannot be completed in real life can be met through the film art forms. That’s the movie charm. But we all know that stories in film are not true, and something like Chinese martial arts in the film are not true, either. The Chinese martial arts after artistic adaption are for motion shows, and enrich the delight to watch the film, which is fit for both Chinese and other kinds of martial arts in the film. It is a basic common sense that you cannot learn martial arts from the film or TV. The film implies the girl’s tragedy with the learning martial arts from the film plot.

Second, the Chinese martial arts are the careful selection for the film, and it is determined by the practice feature of Chinese martial arts. There is a unique practice phase of non-confrontation single-man exercise called routine exercise in Chinese martial arts practice. People will practice in the fixed motion mode that was set as regular mode by former master. The routine exercise sums up and hints the smart forms to attack and defense. But the forms must be told, and then you know how to use it. I think the routine exercise gives the film people the inspiration, because when people practice routine exercise alone, waving their hands, kicking their legs, it looks like idiot in unknowing people’s eyes, just like the girl studies martial arts alone in front of the TV.

But, does it say that Chinese martial arts are fit for abnormal people in the film? I don’t know. It is just a speculation.

Every nation in the world has their own unique clothes & accessories that was long time evolved with the culture, environment and history. These clothes & accessories have different meaning as the time changes. Take Chinese chi-pao, or Cheongsam, for example. Chi-pao is the Chinese traditional costume, hailed as the quintessence of Chinese culture. Though there are still a lot of controversies about the definition and origin time, chi-pao is still one of the most gorgeous phenomena and forms in China’s long dress culture.

It is generally believed that chi-pao formed in 1920s when it became the most popular female costume in China. In 1929, it was decided as one of the national dresses. In 1950s it was criticized as Feudalism dross and was snubbed. After 1980s, as traditional culture was reevaluated in China, and with the influence of film and television culture, fashion show, beauty pageant, and so on, chi-pao began to revive till now. It even was designated as female diplomatic dress in 1984. From the 1990 Beijing Asian Games on, chi-pao was the ceremonial dress for Olympic Games, Asian Games, international conferences and exhibition held in China. In 2011, Cheongsam handmade craft has approved as the national intangible cultural heritage. In November 2014, at the twenty-second APEC meeting in Beijing, the Chinese government chose cheongsam as the dress of the leaders’ ladies of the participating countries.

Maybe there many films show the image of Chinese females in chi-pao, but there are few films show the image of white females in chi-pao. Kill Bill: Volume 1 is one seen up to present. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (or simply Kill Bill), a 2003 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, stars Uma Thurman Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah and Vivica A. Fox and David Carradine. The film tells the story of revenge. After the killers try to kill her and her unborn child, the leading lady begins her revenge. Her journey takes her to Japan, where she battles the Tokyo yakuza.

One of the female killers by Jules is dressed in chi-pao. Sorry, but it is really awful.

It is embarrassed for most foreign girls to put on Chinese chi-pao.

In China, there is a saying in the fashion world that God has written a “Bible” for every Western woman, but only one Chinese chi-pao for all the Chinese women. Think about it that this really makes sense. Western females really do not fit to wear cheongsam. The Western woman who put on the Chinese cheongsam is really a bit awful, because her body, temperament, and gesture are inharmonious with chi-pao.

Chinese and white females are both women, but why they look so different when they are in chi-pao? There are reasons.

In the eyes of the Chinese people, in addition to fit the body, the temperament of women wearing cheongsam is also very important. Chinese often emphasize being implicit and reserved, which coincided with the Western women, so even if the Western women body is very suitable to wear the cheongsam, but people will feel strange from the Chinese perspective.

Compared to foreign women, Chinese female body is relatively small. A Chinese female wearing cheongsam will be more delicate, with the flavor of a small woman. But with a wide shoulder, foreign women wearing cheongsam will give people the magnificent feeling, lack of the sense of the beautiful cheongsam.

Foreign females’ bodies are more buxom. When wearing cheongsam, although a woman with larger chest looks more feminine, but if the chest is too plump, the women will lose the elegant charm. Most China women’s breast size is still relatively moderate, so it is very fit to wear a cheongsam!

Gentle and graceful posture wearing chi-pao significantly fit the figure, and especially those women with slender waist and round hips look better-looking. Many foreign women’s buttocks are too large, and sometimes the chi-pao even deform when being dressed. And the body looks disproportional, and the original ancient charm of cheongsam is lost.

As a traditional Chinese dress, cheongsam is a Chinese characteristic, specially designed for Chinese women. It can best embody the charm and posture of Chinese women. If a foreign woman wants to put on a chi-pao, remember to choose the very right chi-pao.

Look at the picture below, you can find how beautiful the Chinese woman wearing a chi-pao is.

One typical nature of science fiction films is that it is very burning for the original authors, the film makers, and the audiences. Without sound and image, sometimes the original works are more unreadable. Take Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang for an example, in the story a nonlinear time language thinking model is constructed. The story about the communication between humans and aliens focuses on the most basic thing: Language. In the writing, the language of the alien seems to be a living creature. No one has ever made the language so detailed and charming. The unexpected but destined end gives the reader a great impact. Well received as Chiang’s short fiction works are, they have won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, four Locus awards, and others.

Story of Your Life is put on screen in 2016, i.e., Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Eric Heisserer, starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Tzi Ma. The film reconstructs the story of the original work that is beyond imagination. The rigorous logic, mysterious atmosphere, and unusual scientific theory give audiences tremendous shock. First, the octopus-shaped visual extraterrestrial creatures present a mysterious terror in the combination of music and environment. As the story progresses, the strange alien shapes somehow make people nonexclusive. Alien aircraft modeling is also very different and textured. With the strange sound effects, the effect is odd and good.

From the perspective of pure Linguistics, the film discusses relationships between different species and individuals, the paradox between linear time and free will, and the collision and fusion of thinking patterns in different language systems. The film is a response to today’s society i.e., the importance of communication. This is the exquisite part, the design of the alien language. In former science fiction films, all aliens speak fluent English, or make strange ah hum sound. Based on the description of the original story, the visual language of the seven-limbed aliens that is rich in meaning is very imaginative. Using the brush painting style in Chinese culture, language image that is artistic and corresponding to Chinese cycle philosophy thought is created, which makes the film successful.

The Chinese brush painting and Philosophy thought.

In the film, the alien language is shown in the way of visual Chinese brush painting, which is creative and imaginative. Just like Chinese characters written in square, the alien words are written in circle. With the mixture of water and ink, the alien language expresses the meaning in the painting image that is an amazing work of art if without the bizarre and horrible background of alien war.

The Chinese brush painting, the picture drawn by regulating the concentration of water and ink, is a form of painting. More often, it is considered as a traditional Chinese painting. The basic brush painting uses water and ink, painting in black and white. The advanced brush painting includes colorful flowers-and-birds painting. The latter is also called as color ink painting. As the unique materials, Chinese brush and Chinese ink mixed with water, and depending on the amount of water, could be divided as thick ink, light ink, dry ink, and wet ink, and different shade level as black, white, and ash could be drawn. There are two major features. One is the artistic effect of complete blend like milk and water in a flowing and lucid style, because of mixture of water and ink in the dense-and-thin level drawn. The other is that it is fit for analogous and ambiguous image feature that gives people rich imagination, and it is the most fascinating artistic conception.

Below is a typical Chinese brush painting. You can see why the alien language in Arrival makes great success.

The film uses the circle to present the mystery with the Chinese philosophy thoughts. The circle, which has a close relation with Chinese cosmic consciousness and sentiment of life, is an important circle of spirit in traditional Chinese philosophy. And it is the factor that cannot be ignored in revealing the secrets of Chinese art life. The circle, without protruding and defect, has no start and no end. Standing in the center of it, you will have no direction, and the results are the same in every direction. The circle is the same in both sides, and it exists in all things in the world. All these construct the basis of Chinese thinking and observation of the world, from which they gradually form the philosophy thoughts.

The circle also can be seen in many ancient Chinese cultures in different areas. Below are some cultural relics found in different Chinese cultural areas. With the help of the circular cultural symbols, the design of the alien language is made.

The foreigners all know that Chinese is the most difficult language, not only because it is the only hieroglyphic that is still being used, but also because the meaning of Chinese language is rather quirkish, depending on the context. The context is the language environment, including the language factor and the non- language factor. Factors relating time, space, scene, object, premise of discourse, and other use of words, are all contextual factors. Sometimes, the Chinese applies to express the unspeakable meaning, because of its complex context relations. These are the subtleties of Chinese cultures. But it is hard for foreign films to use it, and there are few. But, Romance is an exception.

As a 1999 French art house drama film written and directed by Catherine Breillat, Romance stars Caroline Ducey, Rocco Siffredi, Sagamore Stévenin and François Berléand. It features explicit copulation scenes, unpresentable maybe. Marie loves with her boyfriend Paul, a model, but he would like to read books to kill the time rather than have sex with her. She searches for intimacy beyond the bounds of traditional sexual limitations, a journey that proves to be both fulfilling and empowering.

The film uses the Chinese Character “忍” tattoo on Paul’s left chest that is easily overlooked to show the core artistic conception. Those who know the exactly meaning of the word will praise the detail that is artistically aware.

The meaning of the Chinese character and the implication in the film.

The Chinese character “忍” means to endure, to bear, to tolerate, or be cruel in English. When a word goes into translation, all those linguistic subtleties get lost. But we can still get the basic meaning of the word and understand the heart of the film.

It is well accepted that the desire for food and sex is part of human nature. As a normal young woman, Marie is eager to get sexual love from her boyfriend Paul for a long time, but Paul refuses her for a long time. Marie has made a lot of effort to coordinate Paul, but fails. She loves the wrong guy who has no interest for sex. Though Marie has a strong will to stay in the normal and moral sex relation with Paul, but any man’s will gets weaker and weaker as the time goes by, and especially in the case that no hope can be seen. She is despair and gives up all the attempts. She can’t endure the life without sex.

The most popular among foreigners is the Chinese characters on their skin.

It is unknown when it begins that the most popular operation among foreigners is the Chinese characters tattoo on the skin, and no one knows what the characters mean. It is seen from a lot of European and American stars who love Chinese characters, like a pilgrimage.

Thirty years ago, if people in the world did not know English, they would be stuck in a corner and held a hard place. But thirty years later, if they did not understand Chinese culture and Chinese, you would be held a hard place. Not to mention how well it’s reflected in the tattoo.

Most foreigners with Chinese characters tattoo are probably looking for a tattoo artist who is of Asian origin and can’t even speak Chinese. They offer a very misleading translation because they are stupid foreigners who don’t understand Chinese.

A Vietnamese tattoo artist has been arrested in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo for inscribing Chinese characters on customers who do not speak Chinese, with a message that does not match their requirements. The customer wants to print Chinese characters, he is always free to express in other words, and even he is not as good as Google translation.

China is a country with long long history, and many mythical animals of remote ages that have been passed down by word of mouth or documents. There are four Saint Beasts in Chinese myths and legends of the ancient times, i.e., Taotie, Hundun, Taowu, and Qiongqi. The origin of the four Saint Beasts are four Immortals, i.e., Sanmiao, Huandou, Gun, and Gonggong, who who had done all kinds of evil without virtues. And after the death, the four Immortals were debased from Heaven to Earth, and then Sanmiao, Huandou, Gun, and Gonggong transformed into Taotie, Hundun, Taowu, and Qiongqi respectively. To be practical and realistic, the history of four Saint Beasts in Chinese myth is much richer than the Beasts in King Kong, Godzilla, and Alien series. The Chinese Beasts always cannot prove their presence and strength to film fans for lack of stages. The Taotie in The Great Wall (film) is a good start, which means that the movie road of the four Chinese Saint Beasts become smooth.

The Great Wall is a 2016 epic historical fiction action-adventure monster film directed by Zhang Yimou. The film stars Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe and Andy Lau. In ancient China, the man-eating monster, Taotie, will gather together to invade the human territory to eat people every 60 years. Human Legion has to build the Great Wall to resist the invasion of monsters. Because of an accidental opportunity, the Foreign Mercenaries who look for gunpowder accidentally enter the Great Wall where they get to know the shadow troops who are against the Taoties. And together they resist the beasts hand in hand.

As a monster film, The Great Wall constantly emphasizes that Chinese invented gunpowder and compass. And The Great Wall makes another contribution that it presents the Chinese traditional Saint Beasts to the world audiences. The Great Wall, the ambitious work of Zhang Yimou, shoulders an important mission to introduce the Chinese cultural landmarks and mythical monsters to the world. Like that the shadow troops affect outsider Matt Damon with their indomitable spirits, Zhang Yimou uses his recreation of Chinese culture to influence more people to concern Chinese native cultures.

What is the Saint Beast Taotie?

Taotie only has his head and big mouth, and it eat everything, including its body. Taotie dies from overeating, and it becomes the symbol of greed. There are several versions of the origin of Saint Beast Taotie.

According to the ancient Chinese work, Shanhaiching, or the Classic of Mountains and Rivers, the Gouwu Mountain was rich of jade, and copper mine underground. There was a Beast on the Mountain that had the goat shape, and human face. Its eyes were under its armpit, and its teeth were like tiger teeth and its paws human hands, and it sounded like human infant. Here the Saint Beast Taotie is shaped as Humanoid beast. Below are two sketches of Taotie, according the description of Shanhaiching.

But somebody believes that Taotie was the transformation of Chiyou, the mythological warrior engaged in fighting with the Yellow Emperor who was the ancestor of Han nationality. In the decisive battle, Chiyou was killed, and he became resentment lingers, and his head was cut and fell to the ground to become Taotie. It is said that Chiyou looked thin, but infact greedy, which happened to coincide with Taotie.

In another story, Taotie was the fifth son of the Dragon. It had the shape of wolf, and was always desperate to eat. Because Taotie was extremely greedy, people in China call those persons that are greedy of food and fortune as Taotie persons. And in The Great Wall, Taotie is sent from God to punish the human because of the insatiably avaricious King Zhou, so human and Taotie are engaged in war every 60 years, which lasts 2000 years.

But Taotie was not the symbol of greed at the beginning, and it was once deemed as the mythical animal of deterrent to the nine regions of ancient China, so its image was engraved on many bronze wares, especially bronze tripod that was very important for ancient Chinese. Taotie pattern on the bronze wares dated from the Liangzhu Culture jade carving, 5000 years ago in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Traditionally, Taotie pattern on the bronze wares are not only an animal face images design, but also means Sun God. And the eyes are especially important for Taotie. In The Great Wall, the eyes of Taotie are given importance. Once the eyes are wounded, Taotie is seriously injured or dies. That may be the reason why the eyes are under its armpit.

Youth is the time of life when one is young, but the spirit of the heart is more important. Everybody gets old one day. How do we look upon life with a peaceful and graceful mind when we are old and we find the conflict between youth and old, desire and fear? Youth tries to tell a story of getting old and facing the concomitant loneliness, a story of the eternal struggle between age and youth, the past and the future, life and death, commitment and betrayal, but not to find the answer. It is a 2015 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It is the director’s second English language film. The film premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d’Or and had a positive critical response.

Stars, Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel as best friends, Fred Ballinger and Mick Boyle, who reflect on their lives while holidaying in the Swiss Alps. The two friends are old, and Fred is a retired composer and conductor, but Mick still works as a film director. Fred’s daughter and Mick’s son are of a couple whose marriage is on the breaking edge. Fred and Mick observe all guests curiously in the hotel, the beautiful Miss Universe, the enthusiastic young writer, the monk, and so on. From the beginning to the end, the film dexterously handles such strong comparison between young and old as the wrinkled and smooth flesh, the energetic and dispirited movement, the slim and fat posture, in the same place, at the same time, but never conflicting. Just in a quiet and luxury hotel, far from noisy cities, everything happens reasonably.

Stars skillfully use chopsticks for Chinese food.

There is a meal in the film, Chinese food. All stars, Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, and other actors and actress, skillfully use chopsticks for Chinese food. That is amazing. For most westerners, they seldom have the chance to use chopsticks at home or outside, so they can’t practice the skills. There is a saying that diligence redeems stupidity, but an almost useless skill is really not worth practicing. And, there’s rarely anyone who’ll take the time to teach them the correct form or motions. Even for Chinese people, they have to exercise for years from the childhood to master the profound skill.

The meal may be a breakfast. The film doesn’t mean to show what they eat, but show the atmosphere and mood, so it can’t tell what the foods are. But from the glimpse of the picture, some exquisite Chinese snacks are shown. Chinese snacks are of very important part of Chinese food. They may be made from flour, rice, meat, vegetables, and other unnamed eatable things to strengthen the flavor, which increases people’s appetite considerably. It is very pleasant for talking, and story goes smoothly to reveal the plot.

Western fare and Chinese food, a comparison of young and old?

The film brightly makes things of sharp contrast together to highlight the theme of the story, and something is dealt with metaphors, maybe. Take the Chinese food for an example. Located at the foot of the Alps Mountain, in Eastern Switzerland, the Waldhaus Flims hotel is the main location for the film, where is a splendid place for vocation. I have checked the hotel menu, and find that no Chinese food is served. Of course, further on-the-spot investigation might be required to confirm that. And the film directors rack their brains to arrange a Chinese meal, and why?

Well, the knife and fork for west meals has a short history. In the early stage, people just used a knife which was not exactly tableware but multifunctional. It was used to kill, anatomize or cut the prey. When the prey was cooked, the knife was used to eat meat. Until 15th century, because the knife was sometimes dangerous to take the meat into the mouth, the fork was invented to replace the knife to take food into the mouth. From then on, the knife and fork formed a dinner service. Until 17th century, England upper class began to use three-point fork, and modern four-point fork was used until 18th century.

The Chinese chopsticks have been in use for thousands of years. According to recorded history, the chopsticks history can be traced back to the11th century B.C., when the King used the ivory chopsticks which was first documented. The Chinese chopsticks which simply contain two small slender sticks are based on the lever principle. They can be made of bamboo, wood, plastic or metal, or luxury ivory, gold and silver.

In the film, the short-history knife and fork and the long-history chopsticks are just like a young man and an old man, just like the youth and the old. In one way, the comparison is part of the artistic conception in the film. The knife and fork and chopsticks have their path and experience, but along the way they meet somewhere to look up each other. They have different ways of doing things, where the conflict arises, and it’s part of life. On the other hand, the knife and fork and chopsticks were used in the past, are being used now, and will be used in the future. Just like that the conflict and comparison of the young and the old is always there. They exist, and they must be reasonable, but we have to look through the conflict and comparison to look into the future.

Who are our ancestors? Who is the first to walk on earth? Who are their nearest relatives? Why do they survive while others tend to die? Human never stop exploring the human origin. Since Darwin created biological evolution theory, most people believe that human is the product of biological evolution, and modern people and modern apes had a common ancestor. Even so, people keep studying every trace that points to the origin of human.

The film Prometheus begins with the search of human origin, but it turns to be an Alien film. The Alien film series is very popular all over the world, which was started in 1979. The terrible procedure of the Alien growth that it is oviparous but finally grows up to a powerful monster after parasiting in the human body is very impressive as a typical screen image. But the past Alien film series never tell the cause where the Alien comes from. Prometheus is a 2012 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof, and starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron. It is set in the late 21st century when the crew members of the spaceship Prometheusas that follows a star map discovered among the artifacts of several ancient Earth cultures find the Creator’s planet. In the underground cave which turns out to be a spaceship, with the help of the robot named David, the crew members find the Creator’s remains, and the Creator’s DNA matches human’s. And the crew finds a survival of the Creator, but the Creator is to destroy human with the biological weapon that is stored in the spaceship. At the moment when the Creator launches the spaceship towards Earth, the crew crashes up to the spaceship. The Creator vents his anger on Doctor Shaw who is one of the initiators to begin the trip to the Creator’s planet. In the fight, the mutated biological weapon kills and parasites the Creator, and the first Alien is born.

The beautiful Doctor Shaw eats Chinese food after exploration.

After the first exploration from the Creator’s ship, Doctor Shaw finds that the Creator’s DNA matches human’s, which really makes her excited. When the DNA matching experiment is done, she picks up chopsticks to eat Chinese food, recording the important discovery with the recorder. And Doctor Shaw’ husband comes in with a fresh rose. American always find romance everywhere. In the two-year-long journey in the space, how could people get a fresh rose for flirting? Maybe we are interesting with the question, and the husband gives the answer. He says the rose is frozen with the champagne, and when they find what they came for, he will pick out to give to the wife. But Doctor Shaw’ husband is more interested in lovemaking with Doctor Shaw. The Chinese food, or the rose, is just a snack before sex. But this is the very intercourse that gives birth to the Alien. Well, audients cannot help wondering that the Alien would not be born if Doctor Shaw doesn’t have the spirit for the intercourse without the Chinese food. So, why do they carry the Chinese food with them?

The film does not show the detail of the Chinese food, and we just can barely catch a glimpse of the food between the chopsticks. They look green, like some kind of vegetables. Considering the two yeas long journey in the space, only the robot David drives the ship, and others are asleep, so the vegetables are not fresh, and they must be preserved food.

The reason people carry Chinese food with them in the space.

The film deliberately shows the chopsticks twice in the narration. The first time is when the crew are woken up by the robot David to have their first meal, and the second is when Doctor Shaw eats Chinese food and then make love with her husband. I don’t know why, as it is not necessary in the space. The chopsticks are easy and portable to carry, but the Chinese food is difficult to preserve. Maybe they just carry chopsticks with them, because the film never shows the Chinese food. But if there is not Chinese food, what they carry chopsticks for? For eating steak?

The first reason maybe is that there is one American Chinese on the ship. American always advocates democracy and love, and the same spirit is expressed in the film with the specific particulars. Everyone who sees the film would be deeply moved that the crew is so thoughtful to prepare for everybody, and feels that everybody is equally respected, and feels love. Analysts say that American films successfully implement American values and humanistic concern, and that is how they achieve the goal in every tiny thing.

The second reason maybe is the same as the rose, for it is just a stage property to make the film more comfortable. After the landing on the planet, the crew members wear the space suit to go out. Doctor Shaw’ husband asks robot David why David wear the space suit because he doesn’t need breathing. David says that people feel more comfortable to interact with their own kind, so he is designed to do that. It is the same reason that people feel more comfortable to live in their own environment under which they can complete the mission better, including the food and the way they eat the food. Just like the rose before the sex makes the sex more exciting.

The killer theme has been put on screen for dozens of years. It is easy to make the killing processes and scenes good, but difficult to make the difference. Unfortunately, Bangkok Dangerous makes no difference from other killer films. The Hollywood leading man, the Bangkok story place, it is really not stimulating, except the other Asian actors, because you know the end when you know the beginning. Our killer, Nicolas Cage, starts in the so cool voice-over, a little lonely, and with the cold and indifferent look. The film is meant to shoot a man in the night, so whole film is almost shot in the Bangkok night, but it is never thought that the killer dies silently in Bangkok, without value.

Bangkok Dangerous is a 2008 crime thriller film written and directed by the Pang Brothers, and starring Nicolas Cage. Killer Joe (by Nicolas Cage) is a quiet man, he disappears quietly somewhere in the world after he finishes the job. This time, he goes to Thailand in the name of vocation to launch the new job. In Bangkok, he meets a deaf-mute girl, Fon. He fabricates new identity to get close to Fon. In order to reduce his chances of exposure, Joe chooses Kong as his assistant, a corner boy, to do some dangerous liaison work. Joe finds Kong smart and capable, and he accepts Kong as his student and friend. Because of his beloved Fon, it is a violation of the regulations for Joe to abandon the assassination, which greatly infuriates the buyers. The buyers begin to insanely assault Joe. Joe fights back the gangsters, for his new life, lover and friend.

After all, Nicolas Cage is good actor, not handsome, but sexy. He treats actor’s lines well. When watching such an unpopular film, most people don’t know Thai language, and the leading lady is deaf and mute, so the Nicolas Cage actor’s lines is very important. Especially his voice-over sounds very aesthetic. He will add his creativity to the role in the film. He is the kind of charismatic actor who handles and grasps the role appropriately.

But, his hairstyle is a real failure in the film, because the hair scatters scruffy. I don’t know why the girl would fall in love with such an old sloppy bald-headed man.

Nicolas Cage teaches Kong Wing Chun.

In the film, Nicolas Cage teaches Kong Wing Chun, which is commendable melee action scene. It is said that Steven Seagal and Robert Downey Jr. all studied Wing Chun. Now, it is found that Nicolas Cage studied Wing Chun, too. There are two plots.

One is the dagger lesson. In the beginning, Kong asks Nicolas Cage to teach him to fight, but Nicolas Cage takes up a dagger to try to kill Kong who knows too much. Kong is so agile to block Nicolas Cage’s hand when the dagger is next to his neck. After several trials, Nicolas Cage finds him a man of great potential, and accepts him as student. The other lesson is the chi sau training, a way of dual practice of Wing Chun. But here we know that Nicolas Cage is not familiar with the Wing Chun theory. The Wing Chun theory is to withdraw the chest, erect the back, loose the shoulders down, and punch out in the middle line of the body. But Nicolas Cage raises his shoulders, and punch out in the side line of the body.

The Chinese Wing Chun.

Wing Chun, a traditional Chinese martial art, belongs to the southern China school of fist martial art and is based on the “Central Line of Human Body” theory. With its focus on defense, Wing Chun develops an active and concise system of defense and the proper use of force in necessary circumstance. The basic Empty hand forms of Wing Chun are Siu Lim Tao, chum kiu and Bil Gee, and major practice method is chi sau, a way of dual practice, and the main instrument used include man-shaped wood stool, sword and sticks, and auxiliary equipment include sandbags on walls, and three-star stools. It advocates the flexible movement of four limbs under the guidance of right concept and mindset.

The true origin of Wing Chun remains mystery now and is highly disputed. The history of Wing Chun is not seen in written documents, but passed on orally among people as folk-legends. It is widely believed that it originated in border areas in Sichuan and Yunnan Province, then gained prevalence in Fujian Province and eventually established itself as a prominent school of martial arts in Foshan, Guangdong Province.

It is explicit that Yip Man learned Wing Chun from Chan Wah Shun who was an accountant in an old-time Chinese private bank. As Chan Wah Shun charged a high fee, the art of Wing Chun did not reach out wide then. Yip Man showed prodigious ability for martial arts but was poor in physical health. In the hope of boosting his health, Yip Man was allowed to be one of Mr. Chan’s followers. Yip Man was both talented and diligent, so he was favored and instructed by Chan in person more often. And Chan Wah Shun asked his elder disciple Wu Zhongsu to practice with Yip Man a lot, further improved Yip Man’s skills.

After Chan Wah Shun died from stroke, Yip Man followed Wu Zhongsu and practiced hard for three years before he was even 15. After that, Yip Man went to St. Stephen’s College in Hong Kong as demanded by his father. And during his college time, he was able to meet Leung Bik, the Wing Chun master, with whom he practiced Wing Chun together. In 1949, Yip Man left Foshan for Hong Kong to teach Wing Chun art to make a living for the following 20 years.

There are many renowned disciples of Yip Man, in particular Bruce Lee who enjoyed worldwide reputation for being a master of Chinese martial arts and a movie start. Bruce Lee learned Wing Chun from Yip Man since he was young, and then left to study in the United States when he was 18. After his graduation, he founded the Jun Fan Gung Fu Instituteto pass on Chinese martial arts. During this time, he conducted in-depth study, drew on the strength of both Chinese and foreign martial arts, and eventually established his own martial art sect, Jeet Kune Do. In 1971, he returned to Hong Kong and started staring in films, and many of his films about Chinese Kung Fu were huge successes, earning the title of “King of Kung Fu” for himself and made Wing Chun world renown which he learned in his early days.

Nowadays, Wing Chun becomes the most famous Chinese martial arts in the West. In some countries, Wing Chun is the standard martial art for police and military forces. Though karate, Taekwondo, Brazil Jiu Jitsu are very popular with the Western Folk, there are many fanatical Wing Chun practitioners. With its rapid, efficient and practical style, Wing Chun greatly influences the world fight ring.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a 2016 British-American action horror comedy film based on Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2009 novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which parodies the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The film is directed by Burr Steers, who wrote the adapted screenplay.

In 19 century, England, a mysterious plague breaks out, and the undead wander around and damage the countryside. Even the noble ladies are sent to China or Japan to learn the art of weaponry and martial arts. In a ball thrown by the rich Bingley family, Elizabeth Bennet meets Fitzwilliam Darcy, but they get into Pride and Prejudice against each other, for kinds of reasons. In a plague, many people are infected and become Zombies. Competitive Elizabeth Bennet decides to save the home land and annihilate the Zombies with her exquisite martial arts and excellent swordsmanship. In the tough fights, she and Fitzwilliam Darcy put aside personal and social prejudices, and put aside Pride and Prejudice, and fight together. They finally become the true love of each other.

The Chinese Shaolin Temple Martial arts and The Art of War.

In the film, Elizabeth Bennet says that she learned Shaolin martial arts in Shaolin Temple, Henan Province, China. The film is set in 1700~1800 when it as Qing Dynasty in China, under the rule of Qianlong Emperor, and China and England established trade relationship that time. And it was possible to go to China to learn Shaolin martial arts.

But the fact is that during the Qing Dynasty, China was an isolated country. The foreigners were not allowed to go around themselves. Although doing business with China for years, the British just went to one city, i.e. Guangzhou. And in Guangzhou, they just went to one place, i.e. the Thirteen Hongs. And they were only allowed to stay in the Street of Thirteen Hongs, and they could not go outside without permission. Because the Chinese government scorned to make contact with the British directly, the he Thirteen Hongs, the thirteen government-appointed Chinese traders, played the role of brokers. They were only allowed to come in summer, without wife or children together. All of the actions of the British were under the monitoring and constraints from the Thirteen Hongs, just like prisoners. So, Elizabeth Bennet would never be able to go to Shaolin Temple, because of the supervision of the Thirteen Hongs.

Further More, Shaolin Temple would not recruit female students that time. The members in the Shaolin Temple were mainly monks and male laity students. The female were even not allowed to go inside the door, as its institution stipulated.And, in the movie, when fighting with the Zombies, Elizabeth Bennet’s martial arts are not Shaolin style at all.

Elizabeth Bennet says that she knows The Art of War, an ancient Chinese military treatise, dating from the 5th century BC. Attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu (“Master Sun”, also spelled Sunzi), the text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly thought of as a definitive work on military strategy and tactics. It was placed at the head of China’s Seven Military Classics upon the collection’s creation in 1080 by Emperor Shenzong of Song, and has long been the most influential strategy text in East Asia. It has had an influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond.

The book was first translated into French in 1772 by the Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot and a partial translation into English was attempted by British officer Everard Ferguson Calthrop in 1905. The first annotated English translation was completed and published by Lionel Giles in 1910. Leaders such as Mao Zedong, General Vo Nguyen Giap, General Douglas MacArthur and leaders of Imperial Japan have drawn inspiration from the work.

So, Elizabeth Bennet will never live up to 1910 to read the English translation version of The Art of War. Of course, Elizabeth Bennet will say that she knows the original works in Chinese. Ha-ha, forget it.