[專題] Varity -Taiwan movie update台灣國片升級
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/kaijushakedown/TAIWAN-MOVIE-UPDATE
Dec 05 2007
Taiwan movie update
Despite having a domestic film industry that's in such bad shape it's almost
generating negative grosses each year, Taiwan seems to be some kind of
strange, government-sponsored lab that grows arthouse directors by the truck
load: Ang Lee, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang. But despite all
these eggheaded brainiacs, the country still can't seem to make a movie for
which actual real live human beings are willing to buy a ticket. Sure there
was the lousy SILK and the under-rated and genuinely unnerving DOUBLE VISION
but otherwise it's a country practically devoid of filmmaking with a pulse.
But a slew of new movies make it look like someone, somewhere is trying to
figure out the problem.
First up is BROTHERHOOD OF LEGIO. 24FramesperSecond tries to force the plot
synopsis into making some sort of sense, but it's beyond even their great
powers. There's something about chosen people, and folks who have
superpowers, and fancy bracelets...it makes more sense to just watch the
trailer which, despite some cheap-looking, CGI shouty faces, makes it seem
that no matter how silly the movie itself is, the filmmakers really, really
mean it. They're serious.
The fluffy-looking art film, AMOUR LEGENDE , from director Wu Mi-sen, stars
J-pop idol Yowusuke Kubozuka and looks like a road trip/love story/angsty
gumdrop with some nice cinematography and it's been resoundingly rejected by
most film festivals. Wu's well known for his documentary work, including
EXPERIMENTAL TAIWANESE about two Chinese Nationalist Party veterans one of
whom wants to learn Taiwanese for his karaoke and the other of whom claims he
was China's No. 1 spy and his next movie is THE END OF THE WAR from Taiwanese
sci-fi author Chih Ta-wei.
EXIT NO. 6 came out earlier this year and it's about kids going wild in
Taiwan, and features an abduction, Japanese rope bondage, butt-launched
bottle rockets and some nice Mando pop tunes. Here's the trailer.
Finally, there's THE WALL PASSER, an ALPHAVILLE-esque sci-fi story about a
guy who can walk through walls into another world. Shot on a tight budget,
it's hard to get a handle on. You can look at the official site which makes
it look all hardcore sci-fi, or the distributor's site where the trailer
makes it look like a cute teen romance or just read a review from an early
screening which makes it sound like an art flick. Variety has a cautiously
enthusiastic review.
If all of that feels like a bit too much, you can always kick back and enjoy
one of the unhinged masterpieces from Chu Yen-ping, Taiwan's most popular
filmmaker, and the genius behind SHAOLIN POPEYE 2: MESSY TEMPLE and KUNG FU
KIDS.
It's kind of exciting to think that he's directing the new Jay Chou movie.
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