Yep, Michelle Yeoh turns out to be very funny indeed. In fact her whole performance was spectacular. It is pretty sad that she never got better roles, but this goes a long way to make up for it. I was also wowed by her on screen daughter.
Some modern film making with loads of detail and fast cuts slammed together I feel like I'm too slow to enjoy it, it makes me feel a little nauseus or tired. I didn''t feel the same about EEAAO. I loved it. I think they got a lot of important things about Asian Cinema that a lot of directors really miss when they try to incorporate them and do the over-stylised / mashed up style. It's a love letter to countless films, performers and directors, and just counting the people and films it bought to mind makes me want to get back into that scene very badly.
It's like someone making a Jazz album, I think, or an old school hip hop record. Originally Jazz wasn't safe. Neither was hip hop. It became safe over time. You could make something dead, numbing, horrible, either by just going through the numbers, or even worse, by trying to recreate the sort of chances and raw edge those genres had back in the day and missing the mark, missing the inspiration and genius.
To get something as crazy and legit as the originals, still with a real and individual character you can't ignore, is beyond rare. It's pretty much a miracle. That's sort of what this film is.
