Comments on: Big Trouble In Little China: Oriental Absurdity and Transnationalism

By: Crap

Crap — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:43:41 +0000

Thanks! quite flattered.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:12:55 +0000

That’s about the best scholarly defense of a film I’ve ever read.

By: Crap

Crap — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:31:48 +0000

I feel you. But the thing is I think most of what is at work here is how the director took the screenplay and injected his own commentary into it. And no Carpenter isn’t subtle and as sure as hell he isn’t here neither.

If there is satire at work, it isn’t hidden by any means but is rather explicit and blown up to super proportions. Its a similar thing to They Live actually, which I found equally campy but hard to ignore its blatant critiques of consumerist culture.

By: witkacy

witkacy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:41:03 +0000

I don’t know, Eugene - you make a persuasive argument; but I can’t bring myself to imagine that either Gary Goldman and David Weinstein (the original writers), or WD Richter (the rewriter/script doctor) were capable of that kind of tricky allegorical satire…And Carpenter, for all his virtues when he was great, was never subtle, never much of a thinker, nor the type who plays tricks with established form. The foibles of the Jack Burton character here remind me completely of the kind of anti-hero Russell & Carpenter created in Snake Plissken…

By: Kurt Walker

Kurt Walker — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:13:07 +0000

Amazing, almost makes me want to re-watch it… despite disliking it!

keep up the good work Eugene.

By: Adam Cook

Adam Cook — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:20:55 +0000

Incredible writing. As far as how you view the film, I’ll just take your word for it.