Big Trouble in Little Plotline
A coworker recently went supernova upon discovering that I'd never seen Big Trouble In Little China. "How can you possibly be the person that we see in front of us, and NOT have seen Big Trouble In Little China?!" Apparently something in my character suggests that the film was an integral part of my history, in the same way that something about a fish suggests that he is familiar with water.
Always up for 80s culture, I made a point to check it out- and a fair part of that was hearing that it was the spiritual successor to The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension, a film I had seen and am quite fond of.
I suppose that little embodies 80s kitsch in the way that Big Trouble does- Kurt Russell is the archetype of American Bravado, as a knife-fighting street-wisdom looks-out-for-number-1 trucker, drawn into a centuries-old magical gangwar in Chinatown- but only because they stole his truck, and he wants it back. Some of the effects are pretty groovy, too, particularly the lightning-dude. And Kim Catrall is not hard to look at, unless she's speaking, in which case she makes her performance in "Mannequin" seem Oscar-worthy.
There's also a Chinese sasquatch, so, you know, it's got that going for it.
But exemplary of my character? It's true, I thrive on exaggerated stereotypes and enjoy modern-setting myths, and have a true love of comedy when lampooning such things. But somehow... I'm not sure how it is that this movie should have been the hands that formed me from primal clay.
I don't take offense from it, mind. And perhaps these movies really have to have been seen in some formative heydey to cultivate a lasting passion- would I be a fraction as fond of Buckaroo if I saw it now? Probably, if only because John Lithgow is timelessly hilarious in it.
What movie would you say best exemplifies your personality? And if you feel like stroking my ego (do not worry, it is massive but velvety, like a pool-table), what movie would you have figured exemplifies mine?
Always up for 80s culture, I made a point to check it out- and a fair part of that was hearing that it was the spiritual successor to The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension, a film I had seen and am quite fond of.
I suppose that little embodies 80s kitsch in the way that Big Trouble does- Kurt Russell is the archetype of American Bravado, as a knife-fighting street-wisdom looks-out-for-number-1 trucker, drawn into a centuries-old magical gangwar in Chinatown- but only because they stole his truck, and he wants it back. Some of the effects are pretty groovy, too, particularly the lightning-dude. And Kim Catrall is not hard to look at, unless she's speaking, in which case she makes her performance in "Mannequin" seem Oscar-worthy.
There's also a Chinese sasquatch, so, you know, it's got that going for it.
But exemplary of my character? It's true, I thrive on exaggerated stereotypes and enjoy modern-setting myths, and have a true love of comedy when lampooning such things. But somehow... I'm not sure how it is that this movie should have been the hands that formed me from primal clay.
I don't take offense from it, mind. And perhaps these movies really have to have been seen in some formative heydey to cultivate a lasting passion- would I be a fraction as fond of Buckaroo if I saw it now? Probably, if only because John Lithgow is timelessly hilarious in it.
What movie would you say best exemplifies your personality? And if you feel like stroking my ego (do not worry, it is massive but velvety, like a pool-table), what movie would you have figured exemplifies mine?