in article , Chris Hornbeck at
wrote on 12/11/04 6:36 PM:

Thank you very much. I'm a big Zhang YiMou fan, and it will likely
be very much like _Hero_. The American release title is _House of
Flying Daggers_ and hasn't reached this far into the boonies yet.

WoW! I didn't know this was even out there. Thanks for the heads-up! It's
on my Christmas list, right next to "Hero." However, reading the film's
description puts it at the end of the Tang Dynasty, c. 750 AD, and it sounds
like the plot is different from what the song title is actually about.
Perhaps they just borrowed the title. It's all cool, though, and anything
by Ang Lee or Zhang Yi-Mou is fine by me. Always another way to practice my
Chinese listening skills.

By the way, if you're at all a fan of Chinese music you ought to check out
Shi Mian Mai Fu. It is THE classic Pipa song. Almost 7 minutes of
pyrotechnics depicting flying arrows, flashing swords, war drums, dying
soldiers - the whole shebang.

Carlos

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 06:57:55 -0800, Carlos Alden
wrote:

It's
on my Christmas list, right next to "Hero."
Always another way to practice my
Chinese listening skills.

www.edaymovie.com has very affordable Chinese (?) versions of
both of these. Also unobtainium like _Raise the Red Lantern_
and _The Story of Qui Ju_.

Navigation is pretty funny for an illiterate like me, but
English subtitles for the feature. They play and look just
fine.

By the way, if you're at all a fan of Chinese music you ought to check out
Shi Mian Mai Fu. It is THE classic Pipa song. Almost 7 minutes of
pyrotechnics depicting flying arrows, flashing swords, war drums, dying
soldiers - the whole shebang.

Thanks much. Will do.

Chris Hornbeck
"If we gave your unit armor, we'd have to give
it to everybody" -Big Don