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Nguyen now lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attends a small private boys' school and takes Calculus, Physics, French, English, and Computer Science. He restarted his school's chess club, and hopes to continue playing in college. But most of his extracurricular time is not spent at the University School...
...told, the main force behind the crusade is the mercenary and bloodthirsty Countess Interruptus (Zak Klobucher), who reads Soldier of Fortune and has all the men cowering. The appearance of this motley band is one of the funniest scenes in the show. Dressed like red-white-and-black chess pieces, they march down the aisles singing...
Kurosawa visualizes his great battle scenes similarly. They begin in heartbreaking beauty, the banners and uniforms of the soldiers vivid against the dark ground where they maneuver for position in patterns as stylized as chess moves. This naturally intensifies the horror of the ensuing carnage, the mad tangle of flailing, falling bodies, of spurting blood and hacked-off limbs, in which the question of whether a man lives or dies is entirely a matter of chance. In what is perhaps his greatest coup, Kurosawa plays much of the film's central battle in a total silence infinitely more terrifying than...
...junk food store," said one observer, who asked to be called "a local chess player...
Referring to the overhead sign, the chess player noted that "That's merely stupidity on the part of the designers...