{"title": "Chocolate", "timestamp": 1701367885.077364, "description": "Asian cinema is different from American cinema. When in America filmmakers are often armed with enormous budgets, Asian cinema is trying to survive with what it has while still delivering the same, if not more, entertainment value. It's not that hard when dealing with dramas. There most of the time the story is about a few people in few locations, talking and crying with one another. Which is not expensive. But it's an entirely different challenge when you are trying to compete within the action-film market.", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. 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When in America filmmakers are often armed with enormous budgets, Asian cinema is trying to survive with what it has while still delivering the same, if not more, entertainment value. It's not that hard when dealing with dramas. There most of the time the story is about a few people in few locations, talking and crying with one another. Which is not expensive. But it's an entirely different challenge when you are trying to compete within the action-film market.\r\n\r\nYou can do low budget action, it's called [tokusatsu](https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/budget_is_not_needed_in_action__gavan_proves_it)", "username": "Troler", "id": 0, "timestamp": 1774040608.8973722, "p_index": {"2": 1}}, {"text": "> There are two approaches. One is illustrated by the Indian cinema perfectly and is the source of success of such directors as S.S. Rajamouli. Basically to make everything as over-the-top and stylistic as you can. In such a way you can use a lot of not so good CGI to cover whatever you don't have the money to shoot. And if your style is cartoony enough, you can get away with it.\r\n\r\nWait... is that why tokusatsu is so absurd?", "username": "Troler", "id": 1, "timestamp": 1774040699.8357024, "p_index": {"2": 3}}, {"text": "> The other approach is to sacrifice as much people as possible and focus on fight scenes and stunts. This is the way people like Jackie Chan and Tony Jaa became successful. Chocolate is from the second category. It even has a during credits montage of failed stunts and injuries. Similar to Jackie Chan's Chinese movies.\r\n\r\nOr or you can do both. Can't think of an example. Kill Bill maybe?\r\n", "username": "Troler", "id": 2, "timestamp": 1774040767.2399235, "p_index": {"2": 5}}, {"text": "> I saw it without translation. It has Thai, Japanese and sometimes English. But I had to rely on the visual storytelling to understand the movie for the most part. The director of the film is good enough that I didn't need much verbal communication to understand things. So even if you can't find a translated version of the film, don't worry about it. Pinkaew is good enough at his job. You don't need to understand what they are all saying to enjoy the movie.\r\n\r\nBy this logic, the best directed films are from the silent era. \r\n\r\nI swear, talkies killed good cinemaking.", "username": "Troler", "id": 3, "timestamp": 1774040903.3348782, "p_index": {"2": 9}}, {"text": "> The film is structured like a video-game. The main character goes to different places just for a fight scene to happen there. And each of those places has a boss person that is a kind of boss level. This movie would have been very well translated into a video-game.\r\n\r\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolatier_(video_game)\r\nClose enough", "username": "Troler", "id": 4, "timestamp": 1774040992.8096213, "p_index": {"2": 13}}, {"text": ">  She wears regular kosher clothes. She wears baggy pants. And she looks like a child. \r\n\r\nI know the use of the word *kosher* is used in other contexts other than food. But common, no way you don't want to eat Zen. Or at least take a nibble from her [chocolate](https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/Chocolate) covered fingers.", "username": "Troler", "id": 5, "timestamp": 1774041144.1032689, "p_index": {"2": 15}}, {"text": "> When the movie ended I immediately wanted more. It's that good!\r\n\r\nThe director did more movies, they're also in Thai. And they may be good. Haven't seen them.", "username": "Troler", "id": 6, "timestamp": 1774041203.6791553, "p_index": {"2": 17}}]}, "tab": "reviews", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/reviews/Chocolate", "likes": ["Troler"]}