[Sca-cooks] OT: I feel ill...

[Carper, Rachel]

Here let me pour you one. 

However I will no have to go find "The God of Cookery". 

Do you ever watch anime? Ranma has a great avoa (?) about the Combat
Cooking contest. Very amusing in the anime way. 

Elewyiss

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[mailto:sca-cooks-bounces at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Phil Troy / G.
Tacitus Adamantius
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:55 AM
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Subject: [Sca-cooks] OT: I feel ill...


<hullo, the list>

For some time, one of my favorite "foodie" movies has been Steven 
Chow's somewhat trashy, Hong Kong comic-book comedy, "The God Of 
Cookery", which spoofs both "Iron Chef" and martial arts movies. Made 
for about 49 cents, it tells the story of an arrogant Hong Kong food 
icon and long-reigning champion chef-competitor, who is brought low 
by a consortium consisting of a dodgy food wholesaler and his evil 
pet chef. Stripped of his title and business empire, and barely 
avoiding prison, our rather unpleasant hero acquires honesty, 
humility, and true creativity (not to mention true love) with help 
from a local gangsteress whose actual trade is a noodle-soup stall. 
After an accidental but obviously fated stint as a scullery cook in 
(I kid you not) the Shaolin Monastery, our hero returns to Hong Kong 
to restore the kharmic balance, win back his title, and kick bad guy 
butt.

Combine all this with cheesy special effects, dubious subtitles, the 
kind of feverish overacting common to most of Tsui Hark's 
productions, surprisingly avante-garde camera work, not to mention 
the aforementioned spoofing of televised chef competitions judged by 
pompous and unqualified celebrities, and cheesy martial arts movies, 
and what's not to love?

What could possibly ruin this formula?

How about this throwaway line in today's New York Times review of 
Chow's long-awaited American release of "Shaolin Soccer" (a 2001 Chow 
movie which was to have been released in the US a year ago, but 
became mired in test-marketing of an experimental dubbed version, 
later abandoned in favor of a shortened, subtitled version)?

>His perfectionism is much on display in "Shaolin Soccer," a film
>that makes perhaps the best comic use of computer-generated images 
>since "The Mask" with Jim Carrey in 1994, a movie that greatly 
>influenced Mr. Chow. Mr. Carrey has since returned the compliment: 
>20th Century Fox has purchased "God of Cookery," a 1996 Stephen Chow 
>film, for a Jim Carrey remake.

It's not yet 8AM and I feel like I need a drink...

Adamantius



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