It’s been awhile I know, but worth the wait I’m sure. Today’s movie, Big Trouble in Little China, directed by John Carpenter, was yes another 80’s movie, but I don’t care what anyone says I love it. It contains every stereotype in it from the Chinese, ancient magic man [Victor Wong], with the special potion that makes you strong, the evil Asian warlord [James Hong] and his lackeys [Carter Wong, Peter Kwong, James Pax] , the all American, kick ass, clueless, but with a heart the size of Texas white guy [Kurt Russell], the perky, full of spunk white girl [Kim Cattrall] and the Chinese childhood sweetheart [Suzee Pai] with green eyes who gets kidnapped by an evil Chinese gang.
The only thing that I didn’t really like was the end when he doesn’t kiss Kim Cattrall and just hits the road, it took away from the cheekiness of the whole film, it like so many other scenes was expected, but not received. I mean don’t get me wrong, I get the whole Humphrey Bogartness of it….I just don’t like it. Other than that I say go rent it, Netflix it, find it and watch it. I give it a four out of six super stars, my highest rating yet!
I leave you with these wise words from the film,
Wang Chi: Here’s to the Army and Navy and the battles they have won; here’s to America’s colors, the colors that never run.
Jack Burton: May the wings of liberty never lose a feather.
God bless America and Big Trouble in Little China!
-Cara
What would you have preferred Jack Burton do? Kiss Gracie Law and then hit the road? All Jack wants is to get his truck back. All Gracie wants is to get the story. All Lo Pan wants is a girl with green eyes. All Wang Chi wants is to get Miao Yin back. All Egg Chen wants is that “You leave Jack Burton alone!” And all Uncle Chu wants is to know,
– “What the hell is Gracy Law doing here!?!”
…and may the wings of liberty never lose a feather.
Ms. Gracie Law is a lawyer.
It is her friend Margo who wants to get the story and who Eddie Lee has the crush on. Plus if you remember at the end Gracie says to Jack, “The only way it might work is if you buy a bigger truck, one with a cozy little apartment in the back just big enough for two.”, which Jack responds with, “Sounds pretty great, but you know something, sooner or later I rub everybody the the wrong way…well, let me think about it…” Then end with a kiss and off on the open road…THE END!
Anyway, as Ol’ Jack always says . . . what the hell.
This is one of the best movies ever made, ever. To second-guess even a single decision that went into the filming of this masterpiece of immeasurable artistic virtue is tantamount to heresy. If the Lumiere brothers accomplished anything in those early, awkward days of cinema’s infancy, it was that they laid the foundations for works of unfathomable depth such as this.
Yes…this is true…but, that’s right I said it.
