David Lo Pan

So I think there's something there that mix could make, give her a stronger role in the film.

You know, like, I know where at at some point her and Gracie Law get kind of, uh, stronger and get, you know, um, start fighting back, um, against Lo Pan.

But I want to see her do a little bit more, and I feel like she could add loads more to the action because she's got a little bit of those, um, kind of, uh, thriller, uh, crime movie, um, chops.

So she'd be well able to fight.

So there's just-

Oh my gosh

... um, which is, it's an interesting show, but the character that Léa Lewis plays in that is just someone who just kind of puts pe- just very assertive and puts people in their place, and I thought that's kind of, that would be useful for this particular role when, you know, she's up against Lo Pan.

So I reckon, look, I [laughs] if I was ca- if I was, if I was, if I was properly cast in this movie, I would watch the two movies you've just described and, and I reckon I'd pick your actor, but for now I have Léa Lewis in there.

Well, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll add that to the, to this video so people can see it.

Yeah, so you got, you've got, uh, Times Square with Lo Pan looming over the top of it instead.

And then right next to that you've got another street, which is, um, fucking Los Angeles, but it's, um, uh, the Aussie guy, um, fucking Paul Hogan.

[laughs] Crocodile, yeah, is it Crocodile Dundee?

Yeah.

He's kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan.

Yeah.

You must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.

But it is kind of like a Fulci plot where as soon as it's over, you're like...

What the hell's that movie about again? Cause you don't have

to be like, Oh, isn't that the movie with the green eyed fiance and the sorcerer who needs to return to the human realm?

Too many people around here.

If you don't understand that this is a comedy, the introduction of Kim Cattrall's character where she says, don't panic, it's only me, Gracie Law, as if she's talking to the camera.

And then they start talking about David Lopan and someone like says, you mean David Lopan who does this, this, this and this?

it's so reclusive no one has seen him in years yeah like

that is Carver to go look this is I'm going to give you that exposition there you go provide to camera you don't need to know that here we go move on you know it's and I actually quote this a lot there's a bit where Jack comes out the water tunnel and he goes everyone relax I'm here and it's like we weren't waiting for you yeah I really like the unexplained lore in this.

got marble.

Yeah.

And it's when he has this fight with David Lopan and all of a sudden you get the Pokemon two samurai figures.

Yeah.

And then there is Shang Tsung, the big bad of Mortal Kombat, who was an evil sorcerer who could shape-shift into the, the form of any other fighter in the game.

Yeah, and this character was clearly inspired, at least to some degree, uh, by the character of Lo Pan in Big Trouble in Little China.

Yeah.

Uh, now should we put this in the context of any other movies based on video games? We have done on Weird House the 1993 Super Mario Bros.

... except he doesn't have the mustache.

But [laughs] but, you know, certainly embodies that, that over-the-top vibe.

The character lacks the complexity of James Hong's Lo Pan, you know, one of the obvious inspirations for the video game character.

But yeah, Tagawa makes it his own, and, and in this film, essentially come- becomes the quintessential Shang Tsung moving forward.

Was

anyone else getting David Lopan vibes from the knife scene? Absolutely.

Absolutely.

It's a good knife.

ever he would do it he would he would peter pan would be winning and then something would happen where bert would knock like a house or something like dorothy was trying to do but just but did it more successfully

I mean, he ran over David Lopan with that truck.

I think he did do the same.

All right.