I did, I like the comparisons with the Tempest but Shakespeare got beaten out of me by 'O' level English so I'm really more familiar with The Forbidden Planet :-)
The Japanese thing was more of a joke but I have big problems trying to classify the film at all (and am beginning to feel like my father-in-law who could never laugh at a movie untill he's been told it was a comedy). It's easier to see what it's not. More than one person had pointed out the missing Western elements, I was trying to pin down the thematic difference. But the ending is too happy for a horror movie and while the Operative could be a character in a martial arts movie (the whole blind duty thing) but it's not about him. The science doesn't make enough sense for hard sci fi but its' too gritty for Star Wars style fantasy and so on. Joss did say he was aiming for a Hong Kong sensibility a sort of genre chop suey. Maybe that's the answer.
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Date: 2005-10-21 03:49 pm (UTC)The Japanese thing was more of a joke but I have big problems trying to classify the film at all (and am beginning to feel like my father-in-law who could never laugh at a movie untill he's been told it was a comedy). It's easier to see what it's not. More than one person had pointed out the missing Western elements, I was trying to pin down the thematic difference. But the ending is too happy for a horror movie and while the Operative could be a character in a martial arts movie (the whole blind duty thing) but it's not about him. The science doesn't make enough sense for hard sci fi but its' too gritty for Star Wars style fantasy and so on. Joss did say he was aiming for a Hong Kong sensibility a sort of genre chop suey. Maybe that's the answer.