Thursday, December 1, 2005
Elephant boy action
At MBK Centre yesterday, I wandered past a music and video store that was heavily promoting a Thai action movie. A poster covering the entire storefront, television screens playing the movie continuously, even a PC video game and plastic action figure on sale. So of course I had to see it. How could I skip a movie in which a fellow picks up an elephant with his bare hands and tosses it aside? Even if it was only a baby elephant?
The VCD cover was all in Thai. No DVD until next year, the store clerk said. “But what about subtitles?” “English speaking, Thai subtitles,” he said.
The movie’s name is “Tom-Yum-Goong”. No, seriously, that’s the name. It was also the name printed on the cup of noodles I had in the morning. I took the disc home, played it, and discovered it was in Thai after all. However, I didn’t need to know any Thai to understand it. I could have been deaf for all that it mattered. The storyline was straightforward: boy grows up with elephants, elephant gets kidnapped, boy goes on killing rampage ending with destroying the abductor’s empire, or at least all the henchmen it was built of. Simple.
The action choreography, however, was excellent. Well worth 140 minutes. Better than any Jackie Chan movie. Even Chan himself makes a cameo appearance.
The VCD cover was all in Thai. No DVD until next year, the store clerk said. “But what about subtitles?” “English speaking, Thai subtitles,” he said.
The movie’s name is “Tom-Yum-Goong”. No, seriously, that’s the name. It was also the name printed on the cup of noodles I had in the morning. I took the disc home, played it, and discovered it was in Thai after all. However, I didn’t need to know any Thai to understand it. I could have been deaf for all that it mattered. The storyline was straightforward: boy grows up with elephants, elephant gets kidnapped, boy goes on killing rampage ending with destroying the abductor’s empire, or at least all the henchmen it was built of. Simple.
The action choreography, however, was excellent. Well worth 140 minutes. Better than any Jackie Chan movie. Even Chan himself makes a cameo appearance.
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latelyontime — Dec 2, 2005 12:51:25 PM — # ↩
you seem to be having fun.
Kiran Jonnalagadda — Dec 2, 2005 3:57:10 PM — # ↩