Crouching Tiger, Hidden Candidate
Oct. 20th, 2008 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerFor your amusement: a spoof of the presidential campaign. Written as a D&D campaign.
MCCAIN: OK, seriously. Why does he have so many henchmen? I'm a level 72 ranger and he's only a level 8 paladin.
OBAMA: Well, if you'd bought the Grassroots Organizing and Oratory/Colgate Smile proficiencies you could min max it so that you...
It’s beautiful. It really is.
Also, I expect you’ve all seen this before, but: the JibJab video about the 2008 presidential campaign. HILARIOUS. I like political humor best when it pokes fun at the inherent silliness of politics, rather than going after particular parties or candidates because that usually devolves into mean-spiritedness.
It’s not that parties/candidates never deserve it (and the idea that politics now are dirtier than ever before is ridiculous. The Democratic-Republicans accused John Adams of being a hermaphrodite, of all things), but it’s just so pointless.
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I finally saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon this weekend. I still have no idea what the title means, given that the movie lacks both tigers and dragons (but makes up for it in swordfights)—but wow, that’s a trippy movie. This is the same guy who directed Brokeback Mountain? I am amazed.
There’s nothing wrong with Brokeback Mountain that flying kung-fu sword-fight sex wouldn’t have fixed. But it would destroy the realism! you say. I scoff at your gritty realism! Everyone knows that true art involves beating people up while bouncing off the surface of the water in shiny silk clothing!
My favorite Ang Lee movie is still Sense & Sensibility, though. I am slowly working through all the movie adaptations of Austen’s books. But I have heard that all the Mansfield Park adaptations are terrible, which saddens me.
MCCAIN: OK, seriously. Why does he have so many henchmen? I'm a level 72 ranger and he's only a level 8 paladin.
OBAMA: Well, if you'd bought the Grassroots Organizing and Oratory/Colgate Smile proficiencies you could min max it so that you...
It’s beautiful. It really is.
Also, I expect you’ve all seen this before, but: the JibJab video about the 2008 presidential campaign. HILARIOUS. I like political humor best when it pokes fun at the inherent silliness of politics, rather than going after particular parties or candidates because that usually devolves into mean-spiritedness.
It’s not that parties/candidates never deserve it (and the idea that politics now are dirtier than ever before is ridiculous. The Democratic-Republicans accused John Adams of being a hermaphrodite, of all things), but it’s just so pointless.
***
I finally saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon this weekend. I still have no idea what the title means, given that the movie lacks both tigers and dragons (but makes up for it in swordfights)—but wow, that’s a trippy movie. This is the same guy who directed Brokeback Mountain? I am amazed.
There’s nothing wrong with Brokeback Mountain that flying kung-fu sword-fight sex wouldn’t have fixed. But it would destroy the realism! you say. I scoff at your gritty realism! Everyone knows that true art involves beating people up while bouncing off the surface of the water in shiny silk clothing!
My favorite Ang Lee movie is still Sense & Sensibility, though. I am slowly working through all the movie adaptations of Austen’s books. But I have heard that all the Mansfield Park adaptations are terrible, which saddens me.
