By Jaime Perales Contreras
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The Green Hornet. The name cross Britt Reed, editor of The Sentinel , and his valet Korean martial arts expert named Kato provide a special nostalgic flavor to the next generation of American baby boomers who remember fondly the serial sixty that launched to stardom by actor Bruce Lee. Therefore, the idea to make a film based on this character seemed like a good and, above all, profitable idea.
is amazing to learn that the project lasted over twenty years to crystallize and to include names like George Cloney, Mark Walberg, Greg Kanner, Jason Scott Lee and Jet Li, among the list of several of candidates to star in that Don Quixote and Sancho Panza of the modern era.
The project was consolidated as of July 2007, when comedian Seth Rogen hired to be the leading actor, screenwriter and executive producer of the film. Rogen, although at that time had not written the script, would have predicted that the tone of comedy and action movies Lethal Weapon and 48 hours.
The film, despite the high expectations and the time for gestation, it is pretty bad. True, it's a less dark than it was the serial of the sixties. However, the film is neither funny enough nor development the film has a sufficient interest in an action movie.
The film is a mixture of jokes isolated. Very few of them are good. Especially two are brilliant, (the gag of using gas gun) but outside of those two, the film becomes tedious. Seth Rogen looks like a fish out of water with his characterization of Britt Reed. For its part, the singer and actor Jay Chou, performs best in the film as Kato. When Chou saw the famous driver costume, looks strikingly similar to Bruce Lee. However, the fight scenes, Chou, or the person who dubbed it, do not fill the shoes of the martial arts star. None of the scenes believable. The spectacular choreographies that Bruce Lee was riding in the series and its films are supplemented in this film with digital technology If there are many actors and actresses in martial arts expert because doing something computer-generated? What is trying to do? "Reinventing the character? In fact, if the idea was to remake certain elements of The Green Hornet, why not taking the idea of \u200b\u200bone of the original scripts, I had in mind Kato transform into a beautiful, statuesque woman? - Something that actually got two of the graphic novels - The idea would be more attractive for this movie, because now, with actresses like Maggie Q and Gong Li, who can act and that in turn, are expert martial arts, I would have a more interesting and creative.
The soundtrack is used, it is not convincing. It's a shame, since it was made by James Newton Howard (talented collaborator Hans Zimmer). Italian director Sergio Leone mentioned on occasion that a movie can go from mediocre to good and from good to exceptional for the original band. What can be said of The Graduate, or Last Tango in Paris and The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Leone itself? The success of which owes much to the background music that makes them memorable adaptation of The Flight of the bumblebee on trumpet, made by Al Hirt, defined by The Green Hornet, as William Tell Overture in The Lone Ranger , or the distinctive music made by Lalo Schfrin for Mission Impossible. The issue touches very Hirt to last until the end of the film, and that makes the film also loses tone Why did not Newton Howard Danny Elfman with the film Mission: Impossible, which left the opening theme in jazz and added Lalo Schifrin simply additional music? Mystery. The sad
Rogen and Goldberg's script is that it is observed that there was historical research on the character and most likely was a major effort to make a film memorable. In the locker room shows that not only is a tribute to the television program of the sixties but the two serials of the forties. We see The Green Hornet and Kato, in their original costumes, which take elements of the costumes of the protagonists of the serial. Also, in the script, is the rivalry that began to be between Van Williams and Bruce Lee. By all accounts, Van Williams was feeling overshadowed to the martial arts skills and histrionics of Bruce Lee. Also, Lee is constantly complain that Kato was a character too submissive, something contrary to the person of Bruce Lee - and that did not contribute to a positive image for the Asian community. In addition, Lee has always claimed that the success of the series is largely due to him. All this served as an additional element to that ABC decided to close the series quickly. The Solomonic solution was that both Van Williams and Bruce Lee were democratically run to the canceled series and thus ended the rivalry.
rivalry, real or fictional between Williams and Lee, the film was part Bruce Lee biography titled, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993). This item is used in the film when Rogen and fist fight Chou and Chou Rogen berates her sick ego, saying that Kato is the person who takes the lead in this particular anti-crime partnership.
really the actions of all actors is so bad that only saves a female character in the film. And it's not Cameron Diaz also does a very convincing, but the Green Hornet's car, called the black beauty. This poor performance is combined with the screenplay for the movie!
The film was a box office hit is true. However, the reason is most likely by the high expectations generated by the time it took to crystallize the project because there had been a big budget film that had dealt with the character and the obvious relations campaign millionaire public. However, the film is forgettable, the modest number of the sixties is far above. As an anecdotal
end, as mentioned above, There was a radio program in the thirties called The Green Hornet and two serial in the forties. One of them played the role of Kato to Keye Luke, who later became known as the blind master Po, in the series Kung-Fu (1973). Also, the author of The Green Hornet was Fran Striker, who along with George W. Trendle, created nothing less than another famous masked. Britt Reed, aka The Green Hornet in the world of fantasy, it's great grandson, neither more nor less than to John Reed, the incorruptible Texas Ranger, better known as The Lone Ranger . Hi-Yo Silver!
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