Word: lucked
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Vegas is the perfect setting for a story of destiny and magic. Day and night are indistinguishable inside a casino, and after a certain point, magic (in the form of luck) is the only way to win at gambling. Johnny (big-D) Destiny is, as Harry puts it, a "small-g, god" of luck, and is therefore the small-g, god of Las Vegas. Not only does he controls who enters and who leaves, and all they do while they stay there. We never see anyone come or go who is not driven in by Destiny or transported...
...writers do not do justice to their good ideas, leaving them underdeveloped and unused. The final product does no justice to anyone, actors, director, or the writers whose script seems to have gotten away from them. "Destiny Turns on the Radio" spells bad luck for everyone...
What if Harvard had known? How would they everknow? Not everyone has a nutcase "fan" who willsend a package of newspaper clippings to theadmissions office so that they know who's beennaughty. I guess luck or divine intervention isthe best we can hope...
These distracting stylizations do serve to distinguish the film from others which portray second-generation immigrant children's struggle to balance parental expectation's with their own goals. "Double Happiness" remains most successful when it stay within this genre (familiar from films like "The Joy Luck Club" and "The Wedding Banquet"). When it attempts to step outside of this boundary, the intrigue of Jade's romance loses its force to the distracting strangeness of Shum's style...
Piper's protagonist, Zedekiah Maine (Geoff Gladstone), is a high school English teacher with a great deal of bad luck. While walking to the apartment of his girlfriend Angela (Sara Smith), Zed is mugged by Ernest Bugger (Mike McGraw), who takes his wallet, money, overcoat and the flowers he was going to give Angela. Ernest is immediately arrested, but the process Zed goes through between the arrest and the actual trial is a trial in and of itself for Zed. The police harass him, he is mistaken for a transvestite and his students harangue him. Everything culminates in the final...