Cheng Pei-pei obituary | #film #wuxia #china #martialarts
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/aug/01/cheng-pei-pei-obituary
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The #cdrama #wuxia hit series Blood of Youth has a Prequel coming in May by the same director.
It will be based on the animated YouTube series The Young Brewmaster’s Adventures.
https://dramapanda.com/2023/09/the-blood-of-youth-prequel-wraps-filming.html
Red Alert for #wuxia #cdrama fans!
Marcus Here posted a weibo rumour that #JoyofLifeS2 is coming May 15!
Begin revving your popcorn machine engines!
Leia quoted The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang
In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.
Lin Chong is …
Content warning Minor sporilers for the Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang ~ 40%
It's not us at fault, though—not us, and not her. It's everything. The whole hierarchy. The marshals and the nepotism and the magistrates, the bribes, pettiness, favoritism ... we're not to blame for Commander Yang being here. That was Gao Qiu—again—again—he put her in this place, disgraced her and banished her to this mountain where we now meet...
...I don't think this is a commentary on just the Northern Song dynasty.
Leia commented on The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang
In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.
Lin Chong is …
Lu Da's staff weights "60 jin". A Jin is a little more than a US pound, so it's about 54.5 pounds. Which seems heavy as fuck for a staff.
A modern Chinese Gun (Staff) is six feet long and an unspecified on Wikipedia thickness. At an inch thick, a six foot oak staff would be like, 2 pounds. Even an inch thick staff of pure lead (the most common "really heavy, yet fashionable" thing I can think of,) would only be 23 pounds.
Now, given this is wuxia, so fantasy, and I don't know what kinds of metals were available during the Song dynasty, it could be something fantastic rather than real, but were it real, it might be an inch and a half lead core with a quarter inch of iron around that for support.
That is fucking big.
Another reason to watch the Moving #kdrama series on Disney+ is that it is full of cultural easter eggs.
One is a scene where one of the MLs is shown reading #wuxia novels esp Fox Volant.
The novel, by Hong Kong journalist Louis Cha, is Rashomon-like, telling a story from different character perspectives. Each chapter has a phrase to introduce it.
It is the very same style & structure as #Moving! Moving is a Korean take on a #wuxia - heroes, loyalty, family& love!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Volant_of_the_Snowy_Mountain
New Year’s Eve ONLY —
THE WATER OUTLAWS ebook is $2.99!!!!
🗡 Genderdiverse bandits.
🌟 A female protagonist in her 40s.
🏮 Like a Hong Kong martial arts movie, but super, duper queer.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250180421/thewateroutlaws
#epicfantasy #sff #fantasy #reading #books #bookstodon #wuxia #queer
Ok…. The #wuxia #cdrama A Journey to Love from iQiyi is now on my Utterly Fab list!
I’ve reached episode 18 and the pacing, script, ost, directing, acting and glorious fight choreography are still so great!
I love this misfit band of super martial heroes so much! Great great story. Hope it gets picked up by more streaming sites.