A cleric who is the Team Mom and only heals by kissing you on the forehead and buffs you by licking her thumb and rubbing away some schmutz on your face
someone’s like “you know that’s not actually required for your job” and she’s like “shhhhh my beautiful child, my healing my rules, I made you a potion, it’s chicken noodle mana”
Their holy sigil is a macaroni necklace you made in second grade. You didn’t know them in second grade. You’re not sure how they got that macaroni necklace. You ask them about it, and they just slip you a twenty and tell you to get whatever you want at the food court. “What is a food court?” you cry, but it doesn’t matter because they summoned a hero’s feast and everything tastes wonderful, and at some point you crawl into their lap to cry about something you thought you were adult enough to handle.
“This is you handling it,” they say. “You’re never too big to ask your mom for help.”
“You’re literally not my mother,” you sob.
“But metaphorically,” they say, and you’re like truuuuuuuuuu and sob a little more before they tuck you into a bedroll because you’ve got a big day tomorrow stopping an assassination at a royal palace
endless evidence that peter parker is most interesting as a former teen superhero defending and dispensing advice to current teen superheroes
Peter Parker, by near all accounts, was the ORIGINAL teen superhero so seeing him age like this so perfectly is phenomenal and I hope all the kids listen to him because he’s so relatable.
Seriously. Team Iron Man and Team Cap America can suck it I’m Team Spider-Man.
I won’t lie, I still get goosebumps/choked up. Possibly the best fight scene of all time.
These aren’t attractive young loner dudes with stubble murdering people because they’re rebels and bad-asses. A coolie (we don’t ever learn his name), a gay middle-aged tailor, and a balding guy who makes noodles for a living write their own death sentence by defending their neighbors against a vicious gang, not for glory, or romance, or wealth, but because it’s the community that they live and work in.
Most westerners only know “Kung Fu” films, and don’t realize there are many genres of Kung Fu films. Kung Fu Hustle is a Wuxia 武侠 or “martial heroes” film.
In Wuxia, heroes are often mask their true strength (I.E. the terms “crouching tiger” or “hidden dragon”) and live as common people until oppression forces them to stand up. It’s like a whole genre of Robin Hood stories, where heroes use martial power in order to defend the poor and powerless against the oppression of Warlords, Tyrants, Gangsters, Police, and the Nobility.
Wuxia is inherently radical and anarchistic because its heroes are almost always facing an enemy in the government, police, or ruling class. The heroes are almost always either Daoists or Buddhists, often women, and often live at the total fringes of society.
Unfortunately, Marxist and Nationalist values are often forced into the films because Chinese film censors love that shit. Nevertheless—next time you watch one of these films—look for the radical.
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Its an amazing movie. :3 ❤
The badass landlady is my favorite. Everyone thinks she’s annoying and loud and then they realize…her loudness is one of her actual superpowers!
YESSSSSSSSSS
This is my favorite movie. For being largely billed as a comedy, it’s a super faithful rendition of wuxia. Much of the plot (at least Sing’s fighting style) is based off a wuxia called Palm of Lu Rai. It’s really difficult to find now but we watched it in Film Study when I was at Davis. Wuxia was really big when Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon came out and is usually people’s first exposure to it!
If you like Kung Fu Hustle you will probably like wuxia!
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