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Oct. 6th, 2008 02:14 pmOdd Couple (aka Bo ming chan dao duo ming qiang) (1979), Chia Yung Liu. October 4, 8pm. View count: One.
This is a pretty cute movie wherein a couple of kung fu badasses wear hilarious fake beards and eyebrows, and each actor additionally plays the part of the other's student. The fighting is not excessively thrilling, but there are entertainingly translated lines and lots of aggressively wacky characters and situations (this includes a fellow called 'Potato' who looks like a member of Devo in buck teeth with weird patchy fake fur glued to his scalp).
One of the masters, Sammo Hung, burns down the house of his prospective student (gleefully) so that he won't have any reason not to put himself under his (Hung's) tutelage. This is especially impressive when you consider that the only reason the masters decided to take students at all was explicitly to fight in their stead.
I forget who this guy was supposed to be, but he ended up with a large proportion of his body in a cast.
This is a pretty cute movie wherein a couple of kung fu badasses wear hilarious fake beards and eyebrows, and each actor additionally plays the part of the other's student. The fighting is not excessively thrilling, but there are entertainingly translated lines and lots of aggressively wacky characters and situations (this includes a fellow called 'Potato' who looks like a member of Devo in buck teeth with weird patchy fake fur glued to his scalp).
One of the masters, Sammo Hung, burns down the house of his prospective student (gleefully) so that he won't have any reason not to put himself under his (Hung's) tutelage. This is especially impressive when you consider that the only reason the masters decided to take students at all was explicitly to fight in their stead.
I forget who this guy was supposed to be, but he ended up with a large proportion of his body in a cast.
