Bang, Marry, Kill: The Wachowski Siblings

 

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Subject(s): The Wachowski Siblings

We look like the villains in our own movies.

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Birth dates: One on the same day as Chinese Astronaut, Yang Liwei. The other during Star Trek’s “Trouble with Tribbles” episode (which inspired some of Orci & Kurtzman’s biggest unintentional laughs).

Hometown: They grew up in the same mean streets that created some of history’s greatest monsters: Al Capone, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck, and Jenny McCarthy.

Occupations: Former Jay & Silent Bob cosplayers. Current Eastern European rave-club owners. Directors.

Best known for: The Matrix

47 Ronin: A Below Average Samurai Movie in English (For Some Reason)

Director Carl Rinsch has created a Samurai film that has the big Hollywood glitz but firmly entrenched in the conflicting lower-grade but more interesting Japanese-style. This ultimately proves that if you are going to make a Samurai movie using that classic Japanese aesthetic just do that. Not this.

Premise: A band of samurai and a “half-breed” set out to avenge the death and dishonor of their master. Result: Lots of money spent to make a film that feels like it had no budget.  Not impressed.

Despite being in English and using a Western lens to view its characters and relationships, audiences will be largely baffled by much of what takes place in 47 Ronin. It is “based on a true story” in that it is loosely based on Japanese folk lore, centering, sort of, on two competing plot lines (that never really mesh all that well).

There is Kai (Keanu Reeves), a “half-breed” raised in shame and among witch-monks.  Kai loves Mika (Ko Shibasaki), the daughter of Lord Asano (Min Tanaka), but his half-breed status keeps him in the shadows.  This even in the eyes of Assano’s loyal servant/Samurai Ôishi (Hiroyuki Sanada).  But after treachery by Lord Kira (Tadanobu Asano) and his Witch (Rinko Kikuchi), all forces loyal to Assano but save their honor and also Mika, to a somewhat lesser extent.