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silveremulsion · 1 year

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The Five Venoms (1978)

#The Five Venoms #five deadly venoms #chang cheh #shaw brothers #chiang sheng #phillip kwok #sun chien #lu feng #lo meng #wai pak #johnny wang lung-wei #martial arts movies #kung fu movies #70s movies #hong kong movies #venom mob

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moviecinepelis · 4 months

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#the five venoms #the five deadly venoms #wu du #cheh chang

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891movies · 5 months

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Louisiana Story (1948, dir. Robert Flaherty): The setting is lovely and beautifully shot but man did this one bore me.

The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1966, dir. André Delvaux): The protagonist is such a wet tissue of a human being but that just makes this story of devastating, all-encompassing obsession work all the better.

Pierrot le Fou (1965, dir. Jean-Luc Godard): This project has fully Stockholm Syndromed me into enjoying Godard.

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978, dir. Lau Kar-leung): Not really my cup of tea but it's very well made and surprisingly funny.

Shoot the Piano Player (1960, dir. François Truffaut): Truffaut has always been a bit too esoteric for me but that wasn't the case here - I actually loved this movie! What can I say, I can't resist a pathetic male lead or witty, foul-mouthed waitresses, not to mention how beautiful the film looks - Paris in the 1960s is ever charming.

Bigger Than Life (1956, dir. Nicholas Ray): A beautifully crafted, nightmarish melodrama. Obviously the science is 100% bullshit but the anxiety and fear are very real. It also kind of shocked me how openly critical it is of at those at the time sacred concepts of the American Dream, the noble patriarch and the nuclear family.

Body Heat (1981, dir. Lawrence Kasdan): A very fun little piece of 80s sleaze. Kathleen Turner is mesmerizing, a modern day (at the time) Lauren Bacall. And people really aren't sweaty enough in modern day cinema.

The Five Venoms (1978, dir. Chang Cheh): Actually, I think I'm starting to get this genre. The structure felt strange to me but the plot was gripping and the characters fun, if not particularly complex (Toad was my favorite). The amount of awful wigs - and fake beards! - delighted me to no end.

#1001 movies #louisiana story #the man who had his hair cut short #pierrot le fou #the 36th chamber of shaolin #shoot the piano player #bigger than life #body heat #the five venoms

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watching-pictures-move · 6 months

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Movie Review | Five Deadly Venoms (Chang, 1978)

This is considered one of the most iconic Shaw Brothers movies I saw, and was certainly one of the first I ever saw, and upon revisiting this, I find it a little odd that it’s as beloved as it is. I am not knocking the movie’s quality, but instead noting the oddness of its narrative. I think when I first saw it, I didn’t really have a frame of reference for these things, so I kind of assumed this was pretty standard in such respects. The fact that it takes a mystery structure and withholds genre thrills didn’t stick out to me as unusual as it does now.

And when I first saw it, I assumed all classic Kung Fu movies were as dramatically rigid as this one, characters spouting exposition and declaring their current or changing allegiances either stoically or mischievously, depending on his sympathetic we’re supposed to find them. But having seen some of Chang Cheh’s earlier movies, which are more heartfelt and have blood running through their veins, this quality in his later films comes into focus as a more deliberate choice. These are less like stories you’re supposed to be swept up in and more like medieval tapestries that take on new meaning when viewed from different angles, not unlike the way the narrative shifts with different reveals.

The emphasis is on medieval. After a low key start, at around the midpoint we’re hit with a bunch of medieval instruments of torture and death as characters are tried in a kangaroo court. A coat of nails that resembles an iron maiden. Throat hooks and “brain pins” for discreet killing. If you were getting antsy early on about a lack of blood and guts, this stuff makes up for it.

And obviously we get the amazing fights with the titular Venoms, each of whom have distinct fighting styles (and cool masks to boot, although they sadly don’t wear them all that much). But the movie doesn’t overwhelm us with them, but instead metes out their abilities at key moments. As a result, the legendary final scene, which pulls out some last minute plot twists and throws in some off kilter editing to complement some of the styles, pops all the more.

I do not think this is the best Venom Mob film. Crippled Avengers and Five Elements Ninjas offer more bang for your buck, and the former might be my pick for the best choreographed martial arts movie I’ve ever seen. But as a transitional work towards the purer Kung Fu storytelling of those movies, I find it even more fascinating with my latest viewing.

#film #movie review #the five venoms #the five deadly venoms #five deadly venoms #Chang Cheh

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venomous-five · 1 year

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The Five Venoms 五毒 (1978) dir. Chang Cheh 張徹

#the five venoms #The Five Deadly Venoms #Venom Mob #Chang Cheh #kung fu #Shaw Brothers

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venom-mob-network · 2 years

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Why do they use swastika in venom movies?

Thank you so much for this ask! It gives me the opportunity to clear up a common misunderstanding.

This is the symbol shown in Venoms films (this screenshot is from Shaolin Rescuers)...

...and this is the swastika associated with Nazis.

The symbol seen in Venoms films is an ancient symbol of divinity and spirituality, and predates the Nazi party by an untold number of years. The Nazi party later corrupted and bastardized the swastika and appropriated it into a symbol of hate. You'll notice that the Nazi swastika is the right facing swastika, whereas the most commonly seen spiritual sauwastika in media is left facing. Not only that, but the Nazi swastika is also on its corner, which personally gives me the sense of imbalance and unease, whereas the original swastika is steady on its base.

Here is a direct quote from the wikipedia article that also addresses the different facings. "The word swastika comes from Sanskrit: स्वस्तिक, romanized: svastika, meaning "conducive to well-being". In Hinduism, the right-facing symbol (clockwise) (卐) is called swastika, symbolizing surya ("sun"), prosperity and good luck, while the left-facing symbol (counter-clockwise) (卍) is called sauwastika, symbolising night or tantric aspects of Kali."

Regardless of which way it faces, it doesn't change the fact that the swastika was a symbol of spirituality first and foremost, and continues to serve as such in many Asian countries to this day.

Venoms films are not the only Chinese films that show the left facing sauwastika, and you'll notice it has a high chance of appearing on screen if the film's location is in a temple. Because, once again, it is a holy symbol first and foremost.

Venoms films are not the first piece of media to contain the left facing sauwastika, which has also caused confusion and offense in the West due to western people's ignorance to the fact that it is still a religious symbol held in reverence in Asia. Because of this, it has been censored multiple times, even when it was not the Nazi's swastika that was being depicted.

For examples from some Japanese anime, here is Naruto's Neji in the manga...

...and here he is in the anime.

Likewise, here is One Piece's Ace in the manga...

...and here he is in the anime.

In both of these instances, it was the left facing sauwastika that was being shown, not the right facing swastika. But, since not enough people in the west know the difference, it had to be censored regardless.

If you live in the West then it's very likely you have been ingrained with a knee jerk reaction to seeing a swastika--which is not unfounded! It can never be stressed enough the amount of horror and hatred the Nazi swastika represents, but what is unfortunate is the fact that it has managed to completely drown out the good and holy qualities of the original religious sauwastika.

Once again, thank you so much for coming to us about this, as I think it's very important that people know why they may see the swastika in pieces of media that come out of other parts of the world, and why it may not always be as bad as it at first seems. Like it said in the wikipedia article, "Reverence for the swastika symbol in Asian cultures, in contrast to the stigma attached to it in the West, has led to misinterpretations and misunderstandings." So thank you so much for giving me the chance to clear things up!

-Mod Tiger

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jovuuu · 5 months

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#venom #venom symbiote #venom fanart #springtrap #springtrap fanart #springtrap fnaf #william afton fanart #william afton #five night at freddy's #five nights at freddy’s fanart #fnaf 3 #mortal kombat fanart #mortal kombat 1 #mk1 #mk1 2023 #johnny cage #johnny cage fanart #digital art #fanart

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pinchofsadness · 11 months

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You know what i put this here. I made this a while ago cos "I thought it would be funny!!!!!" and I also just really like that venom meme. (and also five nights at freddy's but we dont have to talk about that part)

#art #five nights at freddy's #fnaf #funny #fnaf meme #meme redraw #venom #two motherfuckers #charlie emily #fnaf 1 #fnaf 2 #golden freddy #cassidy fnaf #evan afton #our pronouns are they them

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dankovskaya · 2 years

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#I could not get this idea out of my head so I did this in like. One five or six hour sitting.#It would've been shorter if I don't always insist on using watercolors so nothing can overlap 😞#myart #guilty gear #gg #venom #venom guilty gear #millia rage #zato-1 #zato one #zato 1 #zato=1 #um.#Well I guess in terms of completion this is. Technically the first 'comic' I've actually made #my favorite part is. Eddie's drawing ok AAAND POST

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abookwasallittooktomakemeacrook · 1 day

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symbrock must be made canon in venom 3 because i overhyped the first two movies to my straight friend and she surprisingly liked them and asked me to keep her updated and now she needs to see them kiss on screen so she can reduce her internalized homophobia and i can come out to her

#also for context she's roughly a five foot four delicate girl #who's obsessed with and loves psychopath movies and characters #so either she's going to become a monster or a monsterFUCKER #and it needs to be the latter because society won't survive if she starts plotting #symbrock #veddie #eddie brock #venom symbiote #venom #venom 3 #venom the last dance

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bloodof-leaves · 5 months

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BEEN REWATCHING OK KO WITH MY LITTLE SISTER AND.