Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Re: Hero

[quote name="Lurker Shoomoser"][quote]...he goes from 'Chinese Martin Scorsese' to '<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235060/">Chinese Roman Polanski</a>'...D'OH! (Also: yes, she is hotter than Gong Li was. He calls her Li Gong, he calls the director of Crouching Tiger Lee Ang, and the Fight Choreographer Yuen Wo-ping, and he corrected me if I used the Americanized pronounciation. Weird guy.)[/quote] Chinese put their surnames first, then the given names. "Gong" will be the surname, and "Li" will be the given name, so suppposedly she is called Gong Li. You should just call that Chinese programmer of yours a FAG, because he clearly likes to have things backwards. OTOH the other two names are what they should be, Lee Ang and Yuen Wo-ping ("Lee" and "Yuen" being their surnames respectively). [quote]A real Pool of Radiance 2, eh? I guess I'm used to directors cashing in a bit, Spielberg alternates between profit movies and art movies, Scorsese had to make Bringing out the Dead before Disney would even consider paying for Gangs of New York, and rumor has it even Kubrick had to direct Cruise and Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut to get the studio to finance AI. if this guy is trying to break into american cinema, there's worse ways to do it than making kung fu movies.[/quote] If Zhang Yimou used the money he earned in Hero to finance his next movie, which is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385004/" target=yourass>this</a>, then the new batch of Chinese execution in football stadium should include him as well. Creativity has returned at the expense of COMMON SENSE. Spoiler: one moment Jin and Leo (due to a very contrived plot) are dueling in mid summer and the next moment there is a fucking snow storm. SNOW STORM![/quote]