[ SECRET POST #5723 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5723 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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02.
[365 days]


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03.
[Dragon Slayer]


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04.
[Pathologic]


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05.
[Sean Astin]


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06.
[The Path]


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07.
[John Barrowman]


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08.
[Our Flag Means Death]


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09.
[James Woods]


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10.
[Big Trouble in Little China]


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11.
[MCU]










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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, more or less. Although it's a slightly weird one, because it's not immediately clear what the non-kung fu parts are supposed to be pastiching.

There really aren't a lot of movies about fast-talking, rock-em sock-em truck drivers - there are truck driver movies from the 70s, sure, but Jack Burton isn't much like Kris Kristofferson or Burt Reynolds. Originally, it was supposed to be a combo of kung fu and Western, which would be straightforward enough, and then WD Richter got rid of the Western elements and rewrote it in a contemporary setting.

If anything I would say it ends up being a pastiche of Howard Hawks movies. Which isn't surprising given the massive and obvious debt Carpenter owes to Hawks in general, like, the guy has at least 3 movies that are just straight-up remakes of Hawks movies. Also interesting to note that one of Carpenter's changes to the script was rewriting the Gracie Law part, who ends up fairly Hawksian.