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Re: The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 27, 2023, 5:06 pm
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I have been trying to find the ultra-obscure No Regret, No
Return for years; finally the full movie is online:
HTML https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1mK411y7Tz/
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Re: The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 25, 2023, 9:59 pm
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Return of the Condor Heroes 1995 full episodes now online!
HTML https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUxlohmoXranczb_inTOG8O1TQwgiQXYB
In contrast to:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/the-archetype-of-the-warrior-how-films-help-empower-us-all/msg17399/#msg17399
which has no historical relevance, this one is set during the
collapse of the Song dynasty under Mongol invasion and is a
historically consistent fantasy retelling of the events
preceding:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Xiangyang
hence is a good example of history spontaneously becoming legend
over time (a phenomenon which only ended under the influence of
Western academia). This one has it all: anti-Turanism,
anti-Taoism, anti-Confucianism, teacher-student romance, etc..
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8st5SGISeuc
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Re: The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All
By: SirGalahad Date: July 25, 2023, 11:28 pm
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@90sRetroFan Do you know Chinese? I’ve been curious about this,
because you tend to post Chinese media without English
subtitles. I’m currently studying Mandarin, and I hope to
eventually know Cantonese as well
The Condor Trilogy sounds amazing. You also mentioned that the
third book featured Manichaeans, so I’ve been obsessed with the
whole idea of reading it ever since. I just don’t know whether I
should read one of the fan translations of the trilogy and
reread it in Chinese once I’m good enough, or read the
(currently unfinished and still ongoing) official translation,
or just wait so that I can read it in the original language the
first time around. I’m progressing really fast in Chinese, but
it still might be a long while before I can just pick up a book
series like that, and enjoy it without it becoming a Chinese
lesson. I checked out the Journey to the West rendition that you
showed me already, and it’s pretty good so far. I need to finish
it
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Re: The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 26, 2023, 12:36 am
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"Do you know Chinese? I’ve been curious about this, because you
tend to post Chinese media without English subtitles."
Yes, though if I could find subtitled videos I would post those.
If you happen to find subtitled versions of the same series,
please post them!
(I have considered softsubbing some of them myself in .srt
format (which I have done for other dramas in the past), but the
timestamping is time-consuming. If you (or someone else) could
help me out by doing the timestamping, I would be willing to
type out the subtitle text itself. Let me know if you are
willing to volunteer.)
"The Condor Trilogy sounds amazing. You also mentioned that the
third book featured Manichaeans"
This is correct. However, the first and third parts are not
nearly as good as the second in terms of story and characters.
(Full episodes of the first part are also available on the same
channel, but I deliberately decided to not post the playlist
here.)
"I checked out the Journey to the West rendition that you showed
me already, and it’s pretty good so far."
Which video are you on at present? Please feel welcome to post
it together with your thoughts! This is what this topic is for!
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Re: The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All
By: SirGalahad Date: July 26, 2023, 6:13 pm
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I’d definitely be willing to help, depending on what skills are
necessary. What would time-stamping entail in this context? I’ve
only ever heard of time stamps in relation to YouTube videos
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Re: The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 26, 2023, 6:59 pm
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HTML https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/srt-file
[quote]An SRT file (otherwise known as a SubRip Subtitle file)
is a plain-text file that contains critical information
regarding subtitles, including the start and end timecodes of
your text to ensure your subtitles match your audio, and the
sequential number of subtitles.
...
HTML https://blog.hubspot.com/hs-fs/hubfs/srt-example.jpg?width=675&name=srt-example.jpg
The timestamp is formatted like so with the milliseconds rounded
to three decimal points:
Hours:Minutes:Seconds,Milliseconds
The timeframe is formatted like so with an arrow denoting range:
[First Timestamp] --> [Second Timestamp]
The arrow must consist of two hyphens and a right-pointing angle
bracket (also known as the greater-than sign or carrot).[/quote]
Either I can give you untimed subtitle text for you to
timestamp, or you can give me blank timestamps to fill the
subtitle text into. Do you have a preference?
Which drama would you like to work on? If you want, we can try a
short clip first.
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Re: The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All
By: SirGalahad Date: July 26, 2023, 7:21 pm
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I think I could do it. I’m fine with whatever approach,
depending on which approach you think would be best for us to
take. I’m willing to try a short clip first
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Re: The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 26, 2023, 8:53 pm
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Continued over here:
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Re: The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 1, 2023, 2:45 am
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I could hardly do Lupin III Month in the music topic:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/recommended-music-to-listen-to/msg23301/#msg23301
without over here paying tribute to the mythos itself!
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eSMLKDhm8M
To me, Lupin III belongs strictly in the Counterculture era.
Forcing the franchise to continue into the 21st century, and
moreover not setting the new material back in the Counterculture
era*, but instead actually mostly setting the new material in
the ongoing present-day (which requires suspending the
characters' aging), has led to its inevitable degradation in
quality and meaning. For this reason, I myself ignore the TV
series after Part 3. With the TV specials, movies and OVAs it is
even more complicated due to overlapping retconning issues (e.g.
First Contact), but basically I take less seriously anything
beyond the early/mid-2000s at the latest.
(* The exception is Lupin Zero, which is a separate discussion,
with even worse retconning issues. )
Other than the above reservations, there are further retconning
issues with some Part 1 episodes but not others. So, in my mind,
the canonical Lupin III mythos consists of only those Part 1
episodes which are strict causal prerequisites for subsequent
stories, followed by Castle of Cagliostro as well as the
complete Part 2 and Part 3, and then subsequent movies, TV
specials and OVAs, with Part 2 prevailing over anything else in
the event of contradiction. I should add that I would not have
minded at all if the mythos had wrapped up after Farewell to
Nostradamus** (trailer above), which was by far the most
intuitive timing (voice actor death) for conclusion. The Lupin
gang were inherently mysterious, almost aeonic characters who
were meant to one day just vanish into thin air and never be
seen again. Had this happened in the 90s, it would have been
perfect. Now after decades of delay, they have become so
overexposed that it is too late for a final disappearance to
work well even if it did happen, but even worse that it
continues to not happen.....
(** Note that although produced in 1995, the story occurs in
1999, thus still allowing inclusion of the late 1990s TV
Specials, most importantly In Memory of the Walther P-38 which I
definitely consider to be essential to the mythos.)_
Part 2 full episodes here:
HTML https://9animetv.to/watch/lupin-iii-part-ii-823?ep=14264
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Re: The Archetype of the Warrior – How Films Help Empower Us All
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 1, 2024, 11:52 pm
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Similarly, I could not do Sailor Moon Month in the music topic:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/recommended-music-to-listen-to/msg24632/#msg24632
without saying something about the mythos as a whole. The best
thing about it is that the story was already completed by 1997,
so the problems with endless continuation (see previous post)
fortunately do not apply here. Instead, the main thing to worry
about is remakes. I cannot emphasize this enough: avoid Crystal
at all costs. Crystal not only got rid of everything that made
the original series great, but added every possible ugliness
from the current era. Example:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABh7pOiNAwM
On the other hand, the live-action PGSM is a highly respectable
alternate take on the plot of Season 1:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZMc1PQO5KE
I would have infinitely preferred additional seasons of PGSM
instead of the artistic abomination that was Crystal.
Still, the original series (200 episodes + 3 movies + 5 shorts)
should definitely be taken as the canonical series:
HTML https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyaono
(SPOILER WARNING)
The full content is easy to find online, so I will not bother to
post links. While it is true that the movies and shorts are not
essential to understanding the main series, I find that the
first movie in particular adds perspective to the characters
(e.g. showing that Usagi and Mamoru met for the first time
during their current life not in the Episode 1 random encounter:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB7qZL_vuU8
but actually shortly after the car accident ten years earlier in
a much more meaningful encounter:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk3NriEOV98
that seems to be a more fitting continuation to their
pre-reincarnation relationship (though neither of them
recognized the other by the time of their Episode 1 meeting)). I
can go into a lot more detail if required on this and other
points. Overall, I am firmly in the camp that appreciates the
original series precisely for not sticking to the comic book
source material (unlike Crystal).
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