Monday, March 8, 2010

Mysterious "Secret" of Films

After the Academy Awards last night, which I did not watch, I thought to myself "there are some great (questionably) films that deserves a mention at the Oscars...some Asian films(refer to my interests in My Profile)." It seemed to me that most of the well known films on an international level are American films, say Titanic. While these acclaimed films deserved their success, there exists a great deal of excellent films in the Eastern half of the global that deserved the same praise (no Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is not one of them, in my opinion). Currently, I don't know many of them because I don't watch a lot of movies...sad. Thus, I shall embark on a journey of Asian films, soon.

My Asian Film List

  1. Secret (不能说的秘密): a 2007 film from Taiwan; directed by Jay Chou (famous singer and songwriter, and apparently director); starring Jay Chou (apparently actor too); reasons for wanting to watch this film - one piece of piano music and one epic piano battle (only in Asian films can one find a serious scene of two men having a battle of the piano, it is a very interesting clip)
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I have not yet figured out the rest of this list, but hopefully I will. Now, to find Secret on YouTube.

Here is the piano piece that has inspired me to watch the film. It is also by Jay Chou (I think). He does eveything (just to varying degrees of success, that's all).

1 comment:

  1. Lovely! The transition into a harpsichord (?) is reminiscent of something one would hear in a film version of a Jane Austen novel.

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