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Posted by ggull on 05/03/06 23:39
"NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com> wrote in
>> It sounds like you've seen it.
>> Doesn't the NYPL have an audio visual section? .
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> They do, but, like I was saying, I'm not up on DVD-ripping....
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>> To a computer, it looks just like another data disc.
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> Yeah, and to me, it's just a bunch of zeros and ones! Even the newbie
> sites on DVD-ripping are too technical. I feel like I should be
> studying Latin for all that effort....
You're making too big a deal of it. No need to "rip". If you have a DVD
burner, internal or external, it almost certainly came with utility software
such as Nero. Even the most emasculated version lets you make a copy of a
data DVD, copy the 'zeros and ones'. [If they don't have some special copy
protection, video DVDs are really just data discs with directory structures
and everything. Many Chinese and HK DVDs seem to be made this way.] Be
naive, try it, and the computer gods may hear your plea!
>> Oh dear, "not as incredible" (I assume you mean "lacking credibility"
>> incredible) as others?? That last segment is pure coincidence, over and
>> over. And such a letdown after the hard moral choice at the end of the
>> Hong
>> Kong segment.
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> Now that's interesting -- I actually liked the ending! I thought it
> was a very nice touch, and most fitting. I know the movie's full of
> these coincidences -- but it all fits, given the "love-as-destiny"
> theme, particularly with the South Chinese, you know.
I could go with the one final coincidence where they're brought together
again by Teresa Teng, but the whole New York segment is just a bit too far
fetched. Even more, it really dilutes what had been a well done film with
serious themes and realistic character development -- it feels tacked on,
almost as if written and directed by someone else, when the beancounters
decided the original ending was too 'tragic' (a very Chinese original
ending, it seemed to me). So maybe it was done for some imagined foreign
market, or for an HK audience just wanting a feel-good damp hankie ending.
Of course, YMMV.
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