| David heads back to the subcontinent for…
The film starts off with a family of six; that is Mum – Radha, Dad – Mohan and four children — Chandan, Raju, Bablu and Pappu, paying a visit to their bedridden Grandpa. Gramps is old and frail, and as the family present him with a gift, which happens to be a sculptured bust of his long since passed wife, he almost has a heart attack. This spurs Gramps into action. He has some family business to attend to before he dies. |
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| And I have nice things to say about Raul Julia…
I can’t say for sure whether or not this was the first movie based on a video game whose primary plot was “two characters fight each other,” but I think it might be. If not, it’s pretty close. Street Fighter is best known for being the final film of well respected, Academy Award winning actor Raul Julia, whose final gift to society was himself in a red leather fascist get-up, cackling and flying around and shooting lightning out of his hands. Some people lament the unfortunate timing of this movie and Julia’s death conspiring to turn Street Fighter into his memorial movie. I don’t really see things the same way, though. |
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#1 by Darkwing on September 23, 2010 - 5:47 pm
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Years later, someone would decide that the Street Fighter story needed to be retold in a grim, depressing, and “realistic” fashion, and that M. Bison should wear a business suit instead of his awesome red leather Hitler duds.
Those people, of course, were idiots.
Should anyone ever make another Street Fighter movie, this should be posted above the door of their office.
The only thing that bugs me, is why is Balrog one of the good guys and Dee Jay one of the bad guys? The shouldn’t that have been the other way around?
#2 by DamonD on September 24, 2010 - 7:14 am
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The day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me…it was Tuesday.
#3 by Blake on September 24, 2010 - 7:17 am
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I do love the part where Bison berates Chun Li, going on about how she’s never proven herself as a fighter and whatnot, after which she just ups and kicks the s*** out of him. Beautiful scene. Just beautiful.
#4 by Darkwing on September 24, 2010 - 12:54 pm
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Anything that Raul Julia did in that movie was beautiful. He knew exactly how the role should be played, and he played it perfectly. Pick any scene of his at random from this movie, and I bet he’ll be deleviring a memorable line.
#5 by Blake on September 24, 2010 - 1:28 pm
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I like his opening scene, where he snaps the two soldiers’ necks in a split second. That’s bad-a**.
#6 by The Rev. on September 24, 2010 - 5:37 pm
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You know, I have never seen this in its entirety. I have seen a bit in Bison’s lair where Blanka’s getting made, and Julia was a lot of fun in that small part. I also saw the sadly aborted fight between Vega and…was it Ryu? Anyway, as soon as I saw the guy they got to play Vega, my first reaction was, “Oh my GOD he’s PERFECT.”
Not just for his attitude and body language, either. I know there are lighter-skinned people in Spain, but when I first pictured a Spanish ninja, I did not picture a skinny-ass bishonen pretty boy paler than myself. I pictured that guy in the movie, more or less. Movie Vega–he could kick my ass. Video game Vega–I’d knock the claw off him after he got done flipping around and then swing him around by his ponytail until he cried uncle.
Keep in mind, I say that as someone who had Vega in his top three most-played characters in that particular game series.
#7 by lyzard on September 25, 2010 - 4:02 am
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I love our spam queue just now. Apparently Keith shouldn’t have mentioned “thighs”.
Street Fighter has one of my all-time favourite lines of dialogue, namely, “Tell you what: as soon as I’ve crushed my enemies, we’ll see about getting you published.”
#8 by Darkwing on September 26, 2010 - 11:17 am
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Not to mention his speech about his dream of creating an army of gentetically altered supermen. If any mad scientists need funding, this is the man to look up!