Hero

This movie became so culturally influential that the Rashomon effect entered the vocabulary for situations in which witnesses give contradictory but seemingly sincere descriptions of the same event.

The British Film Institute noted that the film's enormous influence made its way to later narratives like Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Zhang Yimou's Hero.

But television is really the medium that uses Rashomon's um to the fullest extent so star trek the next generation did an episode called a matter of perspective which was reconstructing conflicting testimony on the holodeck frazier did it with perspectives on christmas the x-files had the episode bad blood where molder and scully remember the same vampire investigation very differently king of the hill did it with a firefighting we will go where each character remembered himself as considerably more competent and heroic than the others remember him CSI actually did an episode called Rashomama, which is kind of funny that a TV series could release something called that.

The TV show Leverage had the episode called The Rashomon Job, and the miniseries The Affair built much of its storytelling language around different characters remembering the same encounters differently.

And coming in as the director was Chung Shao-Tung, a director but also a vaunted action choreographer.

He's known for movies like Hero or House of Flying Daggers.

And just a heads up, I'm doing my best with all the pronunciations of these names.

I'm not a native Chinese speaker in any way.

I don't know if it's number 43 cool, but we'll see.

Number 42 for 2002, Hero.

Jet Li?

Yeah, Jet Li.

Except don't talk about Hong Kong.

The Raid is one of the greatest action movies of all time.

And if Hero is here, then the Raid and Dread might be here somewhere, which will make me very happy.

Not Sylvester Stallone's Dread, but the Carl Urban.

That kind of like historical romance martial arts movie that has like the wires.

Like Hero.

Hero.

House

of Flying Daggers is the best one with the blind shit.

i watched them like one of the big chinese blockbuster from like a year ago that was about some battle in the korean war um about like a small band like it was like 300 it was just like a little band of chinese verse the american army and it had like wuxia elements in it like the way they were using sniper fire and stuff like that yeah that's pretty sick bullet bending

I miss that.

I think Hero is one of the most beautiful films ever made.

yeah so that's one of my favorite Jet Li movies so Jet

Li was he did he was in Hero right oh

yeah

yeah he was he was in Hero I love that movie yeah it's such a good movie yeah My favorite.

They don't make...

And Romeo Must Die.

Well,

yeah.