"Accented Cinema - Episode 120
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From Youtube channel Accented Cinema: The References in Shaolin Soccer | Video Essay
if you haven't seen Shaolin Soccer, I reallu suggest you give it a go. It's such a fun movie
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Deciphering, pages 30-37
And the imagination theater begins!
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We almost caught up to the last pages at the moment. Ah, it so... I don’t know, a little bit sad, that 4 months of work can be read so fast x’) Than there will be updates every Friday.
Deciphering - a story about two friends solving a murder case and finding out a true nature of their relationship. Based on Ace Attorney.
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Tiny Review: Kung Fu Panda 4. Wholesome passing of the staff.
I went into this with very low expectations. The franchise has been quite lacklustre. The previous movie barely had any story.
But this one, like its theme, brings change. It’s commendable that they are transitioning the franchise past Po and into a new generation.
I love Po’s slow acceptance of passing on the staff. And look forward to Zhen’s heroic growth arc, in the next one.
Edit: OMG, I realized this so late... Po's awkward transition into bad jokes is a reflection of him slowly becoming a father-figure(dad jokes)!
Hmm, I can’t help but think of the MCU’s transition as well. I think this succeeds where Marvel failed, because Zhen is a wholly different personality than Po.
Whereas in the MCU, the successors were mostly gender/race-bended bland copies of the originals.
Kung Fu Panda 4 is a 2024 American animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation. It features Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, James Hong, Bryan Cranston, and Ian McShane, with Awkwafina, Ke Huy Quan, Ronny Chieng, Lori Tan Chinn, and Viola Davis.
Similar to the “Cornetto Trilogy”, an anthology trilogy in which the main connecting feature is the cast and a joke that is split up between all three movies. What I mean is that:
1) the first movie starts a long joke, but the character gets cut off before they can finish it.
2) the second movie has a scene where a character is in the middle of telling a joke. Keen viewers will realize that the joke is picking up where the first movie left off. The character is cut off again.
3) the third movie does the same thing as the previous movie, but the character finally finishes the joke.
We can call this the “Finish The Punchline!” Trilogy.
A hypothetical outline of this trilogy could be:
1) “The Fist of San Diego”: Martial arts comedy film. A young girl (Jenna Ortega) who grew up in a hidden island of warriors is told by the island elder to find the reincarnation of the society’s founder before their enemies do. She ends up in San Diego, California, where she confuses a celebrity martial artist (Pedro Pascal) as the reincarnated founder. Shenanigans ensue as the real reincarnated founder (Steven Yeun) is actually an ordinary Starbucks barista who the young girl just missed.
2) “The Cursed Blade of Muramasa”: Period/historical action adventure movie. In the 1960s, an infamous grave robber (Steven Yeun) discovers a map that leads to the Cursed Blade of Muramasa. Since he can’t decipher the map’s puzzles, he hires an expert (Pedro Pascal), who brings along his daughter (Jenna Ortega). Shenanigans ensue as the father and daughter, who have never been in a dangerous adventure, have to tag along with the grave robber. Along the way, the trio deals with the Yakuza, who are also looking for the blade.
3) “Blood Heist”: A fusion of a heist film and a horror comedy. In a society where supernatural beings and humans coexist with each other, a vampire (Jenna Ortega) stages a heist on a blood bank that is said to have the highest quality of blood in the city. She recruits several vampires to help her. Among them is a hacker (Steven Yeun) who claims he is a vampire, but is actually a werewolf. Along the way, the robbers are being watched by the lead human detective (Pedro Pascal), who has a soft spot for the vampires.