Prince of Persia was a cheesegasm. Since it was based on a nearly impossible rotoscoped video game, the only true nods to the game I could figure out was the fact he jumped a lot, avoided deadly traps, and lived in Arabia. My friend asked if this were a sequel and if so, why hadn't they made a film version of the first one. I told him the first movie is called "Aladdin". As far as I can tell, it's the same plot. Evil wizard kidnaps a girl and the hero tries to rescue her. If we raise a protest about the handsome hero being white, we'll also have to protest the movie where David Carradine plays an Indian chief. Maturity is when we finally realize that movies are not an accurate reflection of real life. We will not meet that special someone by knocking over their bag of groceries at the grocery store, every planet does not look like a California redwood forest, and when cowboys shoot white guys in Indian costumes, there are supposed to be gunshot wounds where the bullets hit. Not every plane looks like a DC-10 on the inside, and you can't make a car blow up unless you shoot the gas tank. In Korea, all the Americans shown in their movies are Asian. In Africa, they're black. It's cheaper that way.
My friend asked if this were a sequel and if so, why hadn't they made a film version of the first one. I told him the first movie is called "Aladdin". As far as I can tell, it's the same plot. Evil wizard kidnaps a girl and the hero tries to rescue her.
If we raise a protest about the handsome hero being white, we'll also have to protest the movie where David Carradine plays an Indian chief.
Maturity is when we finally realize that movies are not an accurate reflection of real life. We will not meet that special someone by knocking over their bag of groceries at the grocery store, every planet does not look like a California redwood forest, and when cowboys shoot white guys in Indian costumes, there are supposed to be gunshot wounds where the bullets hit. Not every plane looks like a DC-10 on the inside, and you can't make a car blow up unless you shoot the gas tank.
In Korea, all the Americans shown in their movies are Asian. In Africa, they're black. It's cheaper that way.
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