We saw HERO

[ellenkushner]

a few days ago. If it's still playing at an Art House near you, rush to see it if you like:

• Swordfights
It averages more great duels per minute of total screen time - emphasis on *great* - my fave was the one in the grey stone rainy courtyard with the old blind musician playing in the background, closely followed by the one with the two women in floaty red flying all over a field of equally active bright yellow leaves . . . kapisch?

• E. R. Eddison
The grandeur! the heroism! of even the bad guys! who are not really bad - just grand, and, well, kinda nuts. So are the good guys.

• Slash
- the kind where you take the same characters and put them in the same situation over and over again only you make them do slightly different things each time (that's slash, right?), but they die beautifully every time.

• Romance
Oh my god. (See "E.R. Eddison," above)

• Eye Candy
Boys with long, long hair. A thousand votive candle that move as one. Flights of arrows that blacken the sky.

There you have it. Need I say more?

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I loved those duels--though my first fave was the two women--but the third one I liked was the aerial one over the water, when either feet or swords would just brush the water, sending out rills, in the same manner as a swan or egret taking off low over a lake.