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...paper, Kill Bill sounds dangerously close to Charlie’s Angels: there are many martial arts action sequences, all of the main characters are women and one of them is played by Lucy Liu. Upon closer inspection, however, the two films couldn’t be more different. Whereas Angels was just mindless fun that may have offered female viewers a sense of empowerment and certainly supplied the male audience with lots of eye candy, Quentin Tarantino’s newest film is a thoughtful and beautiful homage to classic themes and styles while remaining the most...
...Thurman. "He's a tough character, but he's not stupid, and he grants it when you score a point." Still, during the eight weeks of shooting required for Kill Bill's 20-minute finale--a blood orgy that pits the Bride against O-Ren Ishii (played by Lucy Liu) and 88 yakuza--Thurman confesses, "I kind of treated it like a silent film...
...with cosmetics companies: they were happy to hire her on a job-to-job basis but, in contrast to the rewards given her white colleagues, never signed her to a contract. Companies are more likely to link their products to known personalities, like Revlon with Halle Berry and Lucy Liu or L'Oreal with Beyonce Knowles...
SHANGHAI TRIAD. A gangster movie without the classic Western romanticism by director Zhang Yimou. Shuiseng (Wang Xiaoxiao), a small town boy, is brought to the Shanghai of the 30s by his Uncle Liu (Xuejian Li). Uncle Liu takes him to work for a very wealthy mafia boss, Tang (Baotian Li) and his mistress Xiao Jingbao, played by the timeless Gong Li. Overwhelmed by the glitzy life of the big city and the opulence around him, Shuiseng also witnesses inter-triad betrayal, Xiao’s tumultuous love affair and vicious gang wars. The plot carries director Zhang?...
...Economy Before Liberty Political commentator Baopu Liu's viewpoint on China's President, Hu Jintao [July 7], noted that the Communist Party vowed to quadruple China's per-capita income by 2020 but made no promises about advancing democracy or civil rights. The Chinese have learned some lessons from the former Soviet Union. In the 1980s Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, encouraged by Western assurances, pursued glasnost (openness) before perestroika (restructuring) and saw the Soviet Union split apart in 1991. Like the U.S.S.R., China consists of many cultures and ethnic groups. Chinese leaders have decided, very wisely, to pursue their policies...