васисуалий лоханкин в поисках варвары
(отредактировала теги; немного рябит,но зато хронология отражена)
в weblog of jason gray - tokyo можно прочесть любопытный отзыв о зебрамане;
много восхищения риисой прилагается
On Friday I caught a press screening of Miike Takashi's Zebraman 2 (Zebraman: Zebra City no Gyakushû,『ゼブラーマン -ゼブラシティの逆襲-』"> at the Akiba Theater (an excellent venue where I caught Kagerou Touge back in December) in Akihabara.
You can get a look at the latest trailer for the film posted on Twitch a couple of weeks ago, with a mini-debate on Miike's current merits as a director. My policy is to take each Miike film as it comes without expectations, but at the same time never underestimate what he can do. I don't think Zebraman 2 is going to convert anybody, and may not even preach to the converted, but it will certainly create a formidable army of Naka Riisa fans.
Spoilers Ahead
For those of you who don't follow me on Twitter, or use the blasted thing at all, these were some of my tweets about the movie on the day of the screening:
"Heading to Akihabara for screening of Miike Takashi's Zebraman 2. World premiere at next week's Okinawa film fest. General release on 5/1"
"Zebraman 2 『ゼブラーマン -ゼブラシティの逆襲-』 big bloated sequel, but fun. Full of CG but Naka Riisa's body is by far best effect. Miike fetishes intact"
"Zebraman 2 contains possibly the goofiest method of defeating a kaiju ever filmed. Would've been fun to see Miike's direction to Aikawa"
"Zebraman 2 also features a nod to the tentacles of Urotsukidoji, with Naka Riisa squirming as they probe. She's by far the best thing in Z2"
I'm a reasonable fan of Aikawa Show but he didn't really leave any impression on me in this sequel, not that I remember the 2004 original that well to be honest. But the circumstances Aikawa's character found himself in in that film created a certain amount of loser charm. There is a little buzz in the last act of Z2 when he finally transforms into full-power Zebraman (prior to that he plays a ragged semi-white then pure white version) but Aikawa seems to phone it all in. I'd blame a considerable part of that on Kudô Kankurô's sсript, which gives him memory loss and little to do but mug surprise for a large part of the film.
As you know, the sequel is set in 2025. Zebraman (Shin'ichi) is now homeless and sleeping on the streets of Tokyo, rechristened Zebra City. He awakens to see the metropolis veiled in a zebra pattern force field as pop idol Zebra Queen's #1 song pumps through the streets. It signals a twice daily 5-minute period known as "zebra time," when Storm trooper-like police marauders gun for regular citizens with heavy artillery. This time it's grey-haired Shin'ichi they fill with lead. It's the kind of suitably furious opening that Miike specializes in.
Stil alive, Shin'ichi is taken to a run-down commune outside of the city where zebra time victims are given shelter and treated. The young doctor (an incredibly bland Inoue Masahiro) who runs the place recognizes Shin'ichi as his childhood hero Zebraman. Even more excited is another commune worker (Tanaka Naoki), who once played Zebraman on a cheap tokusatsu TV show. His character's enthusiasm is amusing and gives Kudokan a chance to flex his self-reflexive muscles. Nevertheless, Shin'ichi himself has no recollection of his former herodom. It's only when he comes into contact with an enigmatic litle girl at the commune that his powers are rebooted. But why is his costume sans black?
A flashback shows us Zebraman being whipped around in a giant G-force contraption (Spies Like Us came to mind) until his innate darkness and lightness are separated into elemental black goo and white goo. Naka Riisa's black Zebrawoman emerges from the tar while Shin'ichi crawls out of his milky sac (shades of Gozu). "I'm the black part of you, freed from common sense, justice and morality. Evil made flesh!" Zebrawoman declares.
And Naka Riisa proceeds to blow him, and everyone else, off the screen. In a way, Fukada Kyôko as Doronjo in Miike's Yatterman (a movie I cared little for) laid the way for Zebrawoman but Naka trumps her in every way. She's white hot.
In Naka's pop idol guise of Zebra Queen aka Yui, she rules the music charts while her sociopathic father (Gadarukanaru Taka) runs Zebra City. Daddy is a former Japan Defense Agency worker gone bad who designed the aforementioned machine that gave birth to Zebrawoman. But she isn't satisfied with being his Zebra City shill -- she wants world domination, which will involve the bulbous green aliens of the first film.
Naka fuses sexuality and menace in a variety of outlandish and very sexy costumes, with a nice nod to the eye makeup of Pris in Blade Runner. The film's full-length music videos of her performing "Zebra Queen" and title track "Namida - Kokoro Abaite" is worth the price of admission alone. Lady who?
I'm now much more motivated to check out in-release Time Traveller (live action ver. of Toki wo Kakeru Shôjo) and maybe take another look at Cafe Isobe. But you still won't get me to watch Halfway. Just as I was about to post this entry I realized, in shock, Naka was also in Pandora's Box (Pandora no Hako, 『パンドラの匣』">. I really liked her cute character in that film but it didn't click it was the same actress. We may have a chameleon on our hands.
Ultimately Z2 is a pumped-up sequel packed with more action and CG and a couple social commentary bones thrown in, but there seemed to be a lack of humanity to the proceedings. But, and it's a big but, this decade has a new queen of ass kicking who may just keep her crown for years to come.「女が最強」indeed.
(не перевожу:
любви к риисе хватает на чтение,но не на литературный перевод,за который не стыдно)
в weblog of jason gray - tokyo можно прочесть любопытный отзыв о зебрамане;
много восхищения риисой прилагается
On Friday I caught a press screening of Miike Takashi's Zebraman 2 (Zebraman: Zebra City no Gyakushû,『ゼブラーマン -ゼブラシティの逆襲-』"> at the Akiba Theater (an excellent venue where I caught Kagerou Touge back in December) in Akihabara.
You can get a look at the latest trailer for the film posted on Twitch a couple of weeks ago, with a mini-debate on Miike's current merits as a director. My policy is to take each Miike film as it comes without expectations, but at the same time never underestimate what he can do. I don't think Zebraman 2 is going to convert anybody, and may not even preach to the converted, but it will certainly create a formidable army of Naka Riisa fans.
Spoilers Ahead
For those of you who don't follow me on Twitter, or use the blasted thing at all, these were some of my tweets about the movie on the day of the screening:
"Heading to Akihabara for screening of Miike Takashi's Zebraman 2. World premiere at next week's Okinawa film fest. General release on 5/1"
"Zebraman 2 『ゼブラーマン -ゼブラシティの逆襲-』 big bloated sequel, but fun. Full of CG but Naka Riisa's body is by far best effect. Miike fetishes intact"
"Zebraman 2 contains possibly the goofiest method of defeating a kaiju ever filmed. Would've been fun to see Miike's direction to Aikawa"
"Zebraman 2 also features a nod to the tentacles of Urotsukidoji, with Naka Riisa squirming as they probe. She's by far the best thing in Z2"
I'm a reasonable fan of Aikawa Show but he didn't really leave any impression on me in this sequel, not that I remember the 2004 original that well to be honest. But the circumstances Aikawa's character found himself in in that film created a certain amount of loser charm. There is a little buzz in the last act of Z2 when he finally transforms into full-power Zebraman (prior to that he plays a ragged semi-white then pure white version) but Aikawa seems to phone it all in. I'd blame a considerable part of that on Kudô Kankurô's sсript, which gives him memory loss and little to do but mug surprise for a large part of the film.
As you know, the sequel is set in 2025. Zebraman (Shin'ichi) is now homeless and sleeping on the streets of Tokyo, rechristened Zebra City. He awakens to see the metropolis veiled in a zebra pattern force field as pop idol Zebra Queen's #1 song pumps through the streets. It signals a twice daily 5-minute period known as "zebra time," when Storm trooper-like police marauders gun for regular citizens with heavy artillery. This time it's grey-haired Shin'ichi they fill with lead. It's the kind of suitably furious opening that Miike specializes in.
Stil alive, Shin'ichi is taken to a run-down commune outside of the city where zebra time victims are given shelter and treated. The young doctor (an incredibly bland Inoue Masahiro) who runs the place recognizes Shin'ichi as his childhood hero Zebraman. Even more excited is another commune worker (Tanaka Naoki), who once played Zebraman on a cheap tokusatsu TV show. His character's enthusiasm is amusing and gives Kudokan a chance to flex his self-reflexive muscles. Nevertheless, Shin'ichi himself has no recollection of his former herodom. It's only when he comes into contact with an enigmatic litle girl at the commune that his powers are rebooted. But why is his costume sans black?
A flashback shows us Zebraman being whipped around in a giant G-force contraption (Spies Like Us came to mind) until his innate darkness and lightness are separated into elemental black goo and white goo. Naka Riisa's black Zebrawoman emerges from the tar while Shin'ichi crawls out of his milky sac (shades of Gozu). "I'm the black part of you, freed from common sense, justice and morality. Evil made flesh!" Zebrawoman declares.
And Naka Riisa proceeds to blow him, and everyone else, off the screen. In a way, Fukada Kyôko as Doronjo in Miike's Yatterman (a movie I cared little for) laid the way for Zebrawoman but Naka trumps her in every way. She's white hot.
In Naka's pop idol guise of Zebra Queen aka Yui, she rules the music charts while her sociopathic father (Gadarukanaru Taka) runs Zebra City. Daddy is a former Japan Defense Agency worker gone bad who designed the aforementioned machine that gave birth to Zebrawoman. But she isn't satisfied with being his Zebra City shill -- she wants world domination, which will involve the bulbous green aliens of the first film.
Naka fuses sexuality and menace in a variety of outlandish and very sexy costumes, with a nice nod to the eye makeup of Pris in Blade Runner. The film's full-length music videos of her performing "Zebra Queen" and title track "Namida - Kokoro Abaite" is worth the price of admission alone. Lady who?
I'm now much more motivated to check out in-release Time Traveller (live action ver. of Toki wo Kakeru Shôjo) and maybe take another look at Cafe Isobe. But you still won't get me to watch Halfway. Just as I was about to post this entry I realized, in shock, Naka was also in Pandora's Box (Pandora no Hako, 『パンドラの匣』">. I really liked her cute character in that film but it didn't click it was the same actress. We may have a chameleon on our hands.
Ultimately Z2 is a pumped-up sequel packed with more action and CG and a couple social commentary bones thrown in, but there seemed to be a lack of humanity to the proceedings. But, and it's a big but, this decade has a new queen of ass kicking who may just keep her crown for years to come.「女が最強」indeed.
(не перевожу:
любви к риисе хватает на чтение,но не на литературный перевод,за который не стыдно)
на Риису в этих облаченияхфильм? )недавно прочла где-то,что на репетиции танцев и вокальные тренировки ушло 3 месяца - вот не знаю,много это,или мало?
хочу мейкинг зебрамана,бууу