Dane Barbados Reviews: Big Trouble in Little China
I will tell the people about a film which I recently viewed on the DVD. This film is entitled "Big Trouble in Little China." It stars the incomparable Kurt Russell and is directed by the genius John Carpenter. Many of you would write this film off as a mere shallow comedy. Feh, I will illustrate the genius of the film and expose your idiocy...again.
"Big Trouble in Little China" speak volumes about this country America. The protagonist is a stereotypical American man. Loud, brash, macho, ignorant of other cultures and completely ineffectual. Jack Burton is the quintessenital American. He goes throughout the entire movie spouting loud one liners ("Son of a bitch must pay"...classic) and looking down upon Chinese culture because he cannot understand it. Though the first into the breach he actually accomplishes little more than being a nusance as the more enlightened characters do the large bulk of the work. Both the action AND the thinking.
Most, simpletons would never see deeply into the film to understand what it is saying.
Once Burton is FORCED to believe the differences in the Chinese culture depicted only then is he able to do more than blather pseudo-witty retorts.
You could learn a lot from the example of Jack Burton of the Porkchop Express. Talk a little less, think a little more, be a little more open and understanding to the cultures and nuances of other people. In otherwords, be less stereotypically American.
No go, I, Dane Barbados Jr., release you. View the film again now that the hilariously thick cloak of ignorance has been rendered void. Ladies you may offer yourselves to me at your leisure, gentleman you may leave me your zaftig daughters and sisters later.
Consider this lesson a rare "freebie."
It is also worth noting that Lo Pan is absolutely, positively, without a doubt the "coolest," greatest, most entertaining villain to grace cinema in the history of mankind. He is the ancient Chinese, celluloid, equivalent of Dane Barbados Jr. And well dressed at that.
"Big Trouble in Little China" speak volumes about this country America. The protagonist is a stereotypical American man. Loud, brash, macho, ignorant of other cultures and completely ineffectual. Jack Burton is the quintessenital American. He goes throughout the entire movie spouting loud one liners ("Son of a bitch must pay"...classic) and looking down upon Chinese culture because he cannot understand it. Though the first into the breach he actually accomplishes little more than being a nusance as the more enlightened characters do the large bulk of the work. Both the action AND the thinking.
Most, simpletons would never see deeply into the film to understand what it is saying.
Once Burton is FORCED to believe the differences in the Chinese culture depicted only then is he able to do more than blather pseudo-witty retorts.
You could learn a lot from the example of Jack Burton of the Porkchop Express. Talk a little less, think a little more, be a little more open and understanding to the cultures and nuances of other people. In otherwords, be less stereotypically American.
No go, I, Dane Barbados Jr., release you. View the film again now that the hilariously thick cloak of ignorance has been rendered void. Ladies you may offer yourselves to me at your leisure, gentleman you may leave me your zaftig daughters and sisters later.
Consider this lesson a rare "freebie."
It is also worth noting that Lo Pan is absolutely, positively, without a doubt the "coolest," greatest, most entertaining villain to grace cinema in the history of mankind. He is the ancient Chinese, celluloid, equivalent of Dane Barbados Jr. And well dressed at that.
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