Bourne

[lesbiassparrow]

I have a lot of things to do today. A lot. Am I doing any of them? No. I am instead stealing gathering pictures from the internets to do a Wuxia Bourne post.

But sadly I cannot find images of necrokissing which I feel are essential.

Comments

so basically it's like Grand Opera

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

well...they are KOREAN doomed wuxia love, so naturally, one dies...

only with way better fight scenes and outdoor landscapes?

I mean, I would TOTALLY pay to see Cavalliera Rusticana or Lucia de Lammermoor with wire work duels onstage and sweeping vistas of mountains instead of people dueling offstage and just talking about the romantic mountains around them that we can't see because the sets are made of cheesecloth...

Re: so basically it's like Grand Opera

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

hmmm...yes...with underwater kissing.

oh, and somehow, in this movie(and another bythe same director( really solid hits of the sword can result in explosions. i just remembered that...

Wow...

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

I want one of those swords! That would be awsome for the Nibelungenlied, too. And the underwater kissing would totally work for Wagner - you could have a scene where Brunhilde has to rescue Siegfried from the River Maidens, and I'm sure we could find somewhere else to stick one in, what with all the Rheingold stuff!

Re: Wow...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

So now that Wuxia Bourne has been done, It is time for Western Epic Wuxia?(vast generalization, but hey...)

btw, the movie with underwater kissing and swords that cause explosions is Shadowless Sword.

thanks

[bellatrys.livejournal.com]

I would really like to see a wuxia version of Orlando Furioso, though. It has the Manpain! It has the reformed by prettiness! It has the angst! It has the unstoppable swordswoman! It has the blonde Chinese princess being chased by hordes of deranged suitors! It has magic talismans and intrigue and old wizardly mentors, and while there are no flying carpets there is a hippogryph ex machina who fits the bill. And Roland loses his mind and forgets who he is out of his great love for the Chinese princess, and wanders about in much, much manpain.

I suspect it is very wrong of me to wish that this source for a great deal of old-tyme Western fanfic and fanart would get a wuxia treatment...