Jadewarrior

[sivullinen]

(Note: I talk about movie Jadewarrior here, but I don't suppose enough for it to need a spoiler-cut. More like general stuff...)

I saw Jadewarrior yesterday, and I liked it very much. It's certainly something you've never seen before: a Finnish kung-fu movie that happens partly in modern Finland and partly in ancient China and mixes Chinese and

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[silverharmony]

Sorry, I don't know much about the film you're talking about (seeing as I haven't watched it) but I wanted to tell you that I heart your icon. x3

[sivullinen]

I suppose only Finns have heard of it at this point :D But I think it's going to be in theatres around the world quite a lot, so maybe it'll come to Australia eventually, as well :D

I adore my icon as well, not least because Oscar Wilde is a genius and wilshirist made them to me ;) And yours is so cool as well - to my dismay, I don't have any H/D icons! I should remedy that...

[mara_202]

I suppose lenta_85 saw some slash in it, because she laughed in a totally inappropriate place
Lol! ^^

Re: national epics: *blank expression* I don't think we actually have one. o_o (I've read about the Kalevala, though. ^^ ) But I suppose that can't be true. I mean... why wouldn't we have a national epic? I Googled 'national epos' + 'Nederland', and funnily only Dutch websites about Finland, haha. I asked my parents, and they couldn't really think of a national epic either. Except maybe a story about some guy who put his finger in a hole (gap?) in a dike (...which sounds very disturbing in English, lol). Although that was apparently originally an American legend. (Link.) Whatever.

I think this (or last) week the 'Dutch canon' was made public. It's very historically dubious, though... (lol, the newspapers are still talking about it.)

[mara_202]

and funnily only Dutch websites about Finland
*sighs* I meant, 'and found, funnily enough, only blah blah blah' *face palm*

[sivullinen]

I suppose lenta_85 saw some slash in it, because she laughed in a totally inappropriate place
Lol! ^^
Well, that's the best sign of slashing! ;)

I Googled 'national epos' + 'Nederland', and funnily only Dutch websites about Finland, haha.
Oh :D Any idea why Kaleva is so famous there, then? I know for sure that there's a national epic or something similar in France and Germany, at least... Maybe nationalism wasn't so popular in Netherlands? Because at least ours was born (or collected) because of that.

I think I've heard of about that legend you mentioned about the dike. Hmm. Can't remember where, though...

[firescribble]

Darling! Me be missing you. *hugs*

I've heard so many good things about Jadewarrior. I need to see it. Yeah, right. I still haven't seen V for Vendetta.

Kalevala is really cool. We read little snippets of it in school but I don't remember much. We don't have anything like that. I mean, there are a bunch of texts and authors that are considered important, but nothing that feels even remotely related to Kalevala or Beowulf. :/

[sivullinen]

I miss you too! Why are you never around?

You don't care much about movies, do you? Seriously, V is something you REALLY have to see. And Jadewarrior is a plus.

At school we were told that practically every country has an equivalent of Kalevala, but apparently that's not the case... But the stories in Kalevala are really great. And I love Gallela's art of it!

[firescribble]

I've been trying to spend less time online. I need to stop procrastinating and get on with RL. So that's why I'm not around much. I'm not going to be on msn much, but that means I might be a bit more on LJ, because I'm sure as hell am not going to leave fandom. *clings* MSN is just very shiny and distracting.

I do care about movies. I just haven't had any money for the last 6 months which means no movies. I am going to see it though. I'm sure it will love it :)

I don't think every country has something like Kalevala. I'm sure there were similar stories but no one ever bothered to write them down. Or maybe they were lost. But we don't have anything like that.

[lunaste]

That sounds like a fun movie ^^
I have a weak spot for martial arts movies.

National epic-story-thingies...

Well, if you mean stories that everyone knows...
Well, there's the story of Anne Frank, but that isn't fiction.
You have the guy with his finger in the dyke, which cracks me up for no reason.
And there's this 'classic' (I read about it in the Donald Duck years ago xDDD) in which nothing happens except a boy gets a pair of iceskates, or something.

*shrugs* I think we rely on Disney for epic stories that everyone knows.

And yes, apparently Dutch history is 'canon' now O.o
but is there an option for me to ship non-canonically?

[sivullinen]

Then you should see Jadewarrior if it comes there ;)

National epic-story-thingies...

Well, if you mean stories that everyone knows...
Um, no. I mean national epics? As in... we have this one "poem book" that is considered national epic, and in France it's Chanson du Roland and in Greece Ilias and Odyssey.

What is this canon history thing?