Word: fisherman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dining The package includes three meals each day, which can be taken at either the hotel's main restaurant or at the Nelayan (Malay for fisherman), which specializes in barbecued seafood. There are also snack bars located next to the pools...
...like your typical Japanese comic. No saucer eyes, robots or schoolgirl outfits can be found. With Hokusai and Gustav Klimt as his influences Atangan has adapted a pair of Japanese folk tales into a gorgeous hybrid of comix and prints of ancient Japan. The titular story begins when a fisherman collects a yellow jar in his net. Somewhat disappointed that it contains no treasure, instead he finds that it holds a sleeping woman. She agrees to be his wife, but upon discovering that he has hidden her jar, she disappears. Searching for his wife, the fisherman finds her captured...
...fisherman's wife begins to drown in her own tears...
...showing off carefully arranged landscapes, Atangan gives us highly dynamic action sequences. Even when two characters are talking he charges the scene with visual energy. He does this by careful attention to exiting color patterns and vibrant "camera" angles, but mostly he creates action with the hands. When the fisherman and his wife are reunited we see only a close-up of their hands, with their distinctively chubby, curled fingers dancing with each other. Clearly referencing ancient Japanese theater's use of hand positions, Atangan puts more care into the arrangement of fingers and palms than a less interesting artist...
...Better--but it's hard to argue with his point. The question with Die Another Day is not whether it will be a hit but how big? Predict Bond's demise at your own risk. How many of his critics has he outlived already? In Dr. No, the fisherman Quarrel warns, "It don't do for a man to tempt Providence too often." Always a gambler, 007 seems to have taken those words as a dare. And 40 years later, it's safe to say we have a response: It don't do for a man to bet against Bond...