Word: wanning
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...another month or so," says Jiang Yulan, a trading aficionado, "but in a long term, the price will be going up by the end of this year." So confident are the assembled san hu that they don't even consider trading to be serious business. Instead, they use wan, the Chinese word for "play," to describe their activity. If the market tanks, the san hu won't be the first to discover that investing is not a game...
...left with such wan and infrequent holidays today? The answer, simply put, is that in one historical setting after another, traditional celebrations were deliberately suppressed. The ancient Roman élite slaughtered worshippers of Dionysus with as much zeal as when, in later years, they went after Christians. Reformation Protestants criminalized carnival. Wahhabist Muslims, the ideological antecedents of al-Qaeda, battled ecstatic Sufism...
...Because it's as ingenious, and remorseless, as its twisted villain. The brilliant, devious psycho-shadow, dreaming up ways for his victims to kill themselves, is a sepulchral stand-in for the writer (Whannel on all three films) and the director (James Wan on the first, Darren Lynn Bousman on the next two). They are playing the same murderous mind games on the audience - which is trapped, not in a urinal dungeon or a booby-trapped house, but in the darkness of a movie theater or rec room...
...director] would be like, 'What do you think you are - Kubrick?'" Somehow, though, these two kids from an Australian film school, working on their first feature, got it done, and matched the ingenuity of the plot with a slick, sick visual style. (The film's green pallor suggests that Wan, an ethnic Chinese born in Malaysia, had been watching a few of the Hong Kong dramas shot by Christopher Doyle...
...MOVIE SAW THE DEVIL'S REJECTS HOSTEL THE HILLS HAVE EYES THE DESCENT SAW III THE FILMMAKERS Leigh Whannell and James Wan Rob Zombie Eli Roth Alexandre Aja Neil Marshall Darren Lynn Bousman THE GORY DETAILS An ill villain pushes victims to value their lives by forcing them into grisly traps in the 2004 hit Cost: $1.2 million Box office: $103 million A clan of serial-killer hillbillies take off on a gory road trip as they run from police Cost: $7 million Box office: $20 million Young backpackers unwittingly stumble onto a pay-for-torture club in Slovakia Cost...