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He also makes a pretty good bad guy, mouth stuffed full of gold teeth, in Let The Bullets Fly, a Chinese Western. I suppose that's really an Eastern, but the same tropes remain: a town full of cowed peasants ruled over by the criminal mastermind until the bluff anti-hero rides into town and ... starts bluffing, I suppose.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Let The Bullets Fly
I haven't seen Chow Yun Fat since he was in Shanghai. The slightly ponderous John Cusack film, that is, not the city. It's always odd to see him not sliding backwards down a flight of stairs, firing two pistols while some doves fly past in slow motion, but I guess as a man ages he finds such a descent more perilous.
He also makes a pretty good bad guy, mouth stuffed full of gold teeth, in Let The Bullets Fly, a Chinese Western. I suppose that's really an Eastern, but the same tropes remain: a town full of cowed peasants ruled over by the criminal mastermind until the bluff anti-hero rides into town and ... starts bluffing, I suppose.
He also makes a pretty good bad guy, mouth stuffed full of gold teeth, in Let The Bullets Fly, a Chinese Western. I suppose that's really an Eastern, but the same tropes remain: a town full of cowed peasants ruled over by the criminal mastermind until the bluff anti-hero rides into town and ... starts bluffing, I suppose.
