Hacker Cinema
2046
2004 · Film · 128 min
Part of Love Trilogy
Directed by Wong Kar-wai
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
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Here is a dramatization, er extrapolation, starring Meryl Streep, of where this could lead if we ever do gain real understanding.
https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/2046-whale-fall/umc.cmc.2gda86hw4npz5dxuviq3evisp?showId=umc.cmc.4uoqxmxlnipm9zsc88bkjyjx4
The movie that was in many ways its sequel, 2046, was also a masterpiece.
I definitely think his movies with Doyle are worth watching, but without . . . he just seems lost. Chungking Express, Fallen Angels etc. through to 2046, are cinematographic first with anything else a very distant lower priority.
What seems so unusual is the reverse is also true. Doyle without Wong Kar-wai is not the same.
These few favorites from my days of being wild into Wong Kar Wai movies:
- Love is just a matter of timing, from 2046, with Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song https://youtu.be/F-J0P9K9BJc
- Meeting, from In the Mood for Love, with Nat King Cole's Te Quiero Dijiste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w62qQQVaREU
- Missed chance, from In the Mood for Love, with Nat King Cole's Aquelos Ojos Verdes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDS8hJBVJUM
- The End, form In the Mood for Love, with Nat King Cole's Quizas, quizas, quizas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NMmgKPiAhw
2046 is a movie by Wong Kar-wai and was recently shown as part of a scifi series at Metrograph called "The Singularity" here in NYC.
I mention it because part of the plot revolves around a place called 2046, where nothing ever changes and in which people try to travel to in order to find lost loves.
1. 2046 by Wong Kar Wai (Cantonese film) 2. In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai (Cantonese film) 3. Baraka by Ron Fricke (No story, no language, just photography)
still a few more (some are in the works)
* Stargate
* "startup.com" - about the formation of 'govworks.com' i wonder what these guys think about Obama.
* Takedown - 'Kevin Mitnick's story'
* Serenity
* Star Trek: the Voyage Home
* The Last Starfighter
* Johnny Mnemonic
* Short Circuit 1 & 2
* Crest of the Stars (anime)
* Fahrenheit 451
* Equilibrium
* Batman (begins, dark night, the tim burten one)
* Edward Scissor Hands
* Space Balls
* Avalon ( http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/2000-current/avalon/#comments)
* LAIN: The Serial Experiments (anime)
* Cherry 2000
* Dune
* Ender's Shadow (in the works)
* Ender's Game (in the works)
* Diamond Age (in the works for sci-fi, 'a young girls illustrated primer')
* The Arrival
* The Terminator 1,2,3
* The Sarah Conner Chronicles
* D.A.R.Y.L
* Flight of the Navigator
* Explorers
* AI
* Batteries Not Included
* Blade Runner
* IRobot
* Appleseed (anime)
* Bubble Gum Crisis (anime)
* Ergo Proxy (anime)
* Virtuosity
* Metropolis (all of them are good)
* The Last Exile (anime)
* Cherry 2000
* Robocop (this so hold up)
* Primmer
* Probe ( the TV series, it took me 3 months to find the copies of this Issac Asimov based TV series on ABC ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probe_(TV_series)
* Infest Wisely
* Logan's Run
* Planet of the Apes
* Star Trek: First Contact
* CQ ( if you get it, you'll get why this is a hacker movie , 'la resistance')
* Amelie
* 2046
* Trigun (anime)
* Escaflone (anime)
* Tank Girl
* Twelve Monkeys
* THX 1138
* Bicentennial Man
* The Philadelphia Experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Experiment_(film)
* Seaquest ( some episodes )
* Strange Days ( new yeas hacker style )
* Freejack
I think that is part of it, but Hollywood does not explain all of it. Chow Yun-Fat was big in Europe long before 'Anna and the King'. When we put him into video games, we put him in the roles that he played in his HK films, the roles that he played in his american films were far less memorable. Zhang Ziyi is an amazing actress and the world knows this because of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon', though 'Rush Hour 2' was really good, as you said. And women the world over LOVE the film '2046'. I take that DVD with me where ever I go, in case I get a date. It is ALWAYS a winner. With a name like 'caligula' you should make sure this movie is in your collection too.
Having been obliged to eat at crappy Chinese restaurants from China Town in Havana, Cuba to Hong Kong, I have to say that it all tastes the same to me. That said, I am sure if I set my sites on the higher end restaurants I would probably find the difference in the 'experience' that you spoke about.
I think maybe you might be right about Hollywood pushing martial arts though. This still leaves open the question of the worldwide fixation with things like Chinese medicines for example.