天涯歌女 The Wandering Songbird

Lust, Caution



One of the greatest moments in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution. She has no country; she has no family. She is a lonely soul drifting in the wartime. But she has the man's real-self and affectionateness when their hands hold. It's the moment two lonely souls come to attached to each other.

When I searhed for relevant clips on Youtube.com, I found two Chinese legendary actresses, Zhou Xuan and Li Xianglan, also sang the song. The song in different context delivers very different messages.

I never saw any movie starring Zhou Xuan or Li Xianglan in theaters, because they were great stars belonging to my grand parents' generation. But I often read stories about them when I read articles or references regard to Chinese film history.

天涯歌女(The Wandering Songbird) By 周璇 (Zhou Xuan)

Zhou Xuan on Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Xuan



The clip is from a movie called Street Angle. Zhou Xuan is very cute and her voice is sweet in this film.

天涯歌女(The Wandering Songbird) By 李香蘭 (Li Xianglan, a.k.a. 山口淑子)

Li Xianglan on Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Otaka

筷子的功能 The Function of Chopsticks

I recently watched King Hu's few classic films—Dragon Inn, Come To Drink With Me, Touch Of The Zen, and Legend Of The Mountains. After watching those films, I have an interesting idea of collecting classic scenes from some martial art movies. One of classic scens cross my mind is catching dart by using chopsticks.
最近連續看過胡金銓的幾部經典電影：龍門客棧、大醉俠、俠女和山中傳奇。看過之後，突發奇想地想蒐集一些經典武俠場景。閃入我腦海的經典場景的其中之一就是用筷子接暗器。

In many martial art films, chopsticks become a tool to demonstrate protagonists' outstanding Kung fu.
在許多武俠電影，中國人的筷子不再是單純的吃飯用具，往往變成展示主人翁高超的功夫的媒介。

龍門客棧(Dragon Inn)

大醉俠(Come To Drink With Me)

I vaguely remember that there are similar scenes from Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill and Kill Bill II, but I don't have enough free time to watch them again and pick out those scenes. I will update the pictures when I have more free time.

我隱約記得在李安的臥虎藏龍(Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)，還有在Quentin Tarantino的追殺比爾(Kill Bill)，追殺比爾II(Kill Bill II)有類似的場景，但是最近沒什麼時間重看這三部電影。等我比較有空，找到其他類似場景，再作更新。

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) 卡里加利博士的小屋

幾年前，Eric讓我看一部電影：「卡里加利博士的小屋」。這部1920年的無聲電影，是我第一部觀賞的德國表現主義電影。這部電影的故事，即使在將近90年後再看，依舊引人入勝。故事情節曲折離奇，同時它的結局出乎意料。而我特別喜愛場景設計非寫實的繪圖，扭曲的線條，光怪陸離的圖像；充滿想像與創造。

最近，不知什麼緣故，這部電影中某些場景不斷在夢裡出現。所以再跟Eric借這部電影的光碟來看。同時，因為英語聽力比以前好很多，所以準備花些時間聽這部影片中電影歷史學者的隨片講評，多作些功課。

印象最深刻，最喜愛的場景。