Wisit Sasanatieng to make another awesome movie (RED EAGLE)

[Sycophant]

Okay, so apparently Wisit Sasanatieng has a problem getting his projects made, like a more fun, still more successful Aronofsky. His next film actually looks to be a go and is a revival of a seventies, Thai Batmanesque superhero named Red Eagle. Anyone who understood any of the above sentences knows that this movie is going to rock hard.

Twitch says this (http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/afm-wisits-next-revealed/).
Grady Hendrix says this (http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/component/option,com_myblog/show,THESE-MOVIES-WILL-ROCK.html/Itemid,/).

This better happen soon and then be on a DVD I can watch. Because I'm a little giddy at the mere thought here.

[Rowland]

The man has talent. I just hope this movie works better than Tears of the Black Tiger, which I admired more than I liked.

[lovejuice]

after slightly disappointed by his horror flick, i hope this turns out good. red eagle is a classic thai jame bond knock off, so yeah, there's lot of potential.

i like the project, but somehow at this point i want him to do more "artsy" stuff along the line of joe's and pen-eak's. i wish the world acknowledged his artistry instead of cultish sensibility. in short, i don't want him to be the next QT or park chan woon.

[Sycophant]

If Sasanatieng (what's his nice, short nickname again, LJ?) continues in the vein he is, which is slightly cultish, he will still be quite unlike any cult director the world currently has. His first two films pop and sizzle with an idiosyncratic voice that I would like to see carried into different areas. Sure, I'd like to see him attempt something more... less what he does. But his projects have all been different enough, I think, to avoid being pigeonholed just yet.

But then, I avoid labeling directors as cult at all, and tend to ignore appraisals of simply the cult. Why I love Sasanatieng is because of his artistry. Citizen Dog is roughly the best film ever made.

I, too, found The Unseeable a little too tired (though quite pretty and hardly all bad).

[lovejuice]

If Sasanatieng (what's his nice, short nickname again, LJ?) continues in the vein he is, which is slightly cultish, he will still be quite unlike any cult director the world currently has. His first two films pop and sizzle with an idiosyncratic voice that I would like to see carried into different areas. Sure, I'd like to see him attempt something more... less what he does. But his projects have all been different enough, I think, to avoid being pigeonholed just yet.

let me clarify why i don't want sasanatieng (i'll check his nickname later) to become a cult master. unlike joe or tom (pen-eak), sasanatieng is still a slave to studio system. joe is an able marketeer who always finds an outside funding, and tom is a celebrity, so people always give him money to do shit. sasanatieng never achieved that level of fame and popularity both in thailand and international. he thus has to depend largely on studio money.

cult films are easy to market in thailand, and i'm afraid he'll become more and more a slave of the studio. the unseeable is i believe a victim of such system. sasanatieng needs something like last life in the universe (which i don't like) or tropical malady (which i do) which will put him on the map and keep him afloat from the greedy studio executives.

[lovejuice]

He just finished shooting this today!!!

[number8]

Took him 3 years.

Funny, I admired Tears more than I liked it, but I liked The Unseeable more than I admired it.

[lovejuice]

Funny, I admired Tears more than I liked it, but I liked The Unseeable more than I admired it.
The Unseeable works much better if you know the stories behind it. it's based on a series of tales-from-crypt-like novels by one of thailand's finest artists and writers, Kru Hem.

it sucks that most his work posted on the net is of poor quality.

http://image.dek-d.com/13/1152155/13636885
this is among better ones. not from his ghost series though.

[Sycophant]

I might see this before I die!

[lovejuice]

a new teaser poster
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KeMzCUsxtYo/TFFBzykO3gI/AAAAAAAAEwc/0s35Sfr4hIs/s1600/red-eagle-teaser.jpg

the tagline is "The hero is returning."

[Sycophant]

So this is coming out in Thailand in 2.5 months? HELLZ YES.

:pritch:

[Sycophant]

Picture of Ananda Everingham (http://twitchfilm.net/news/2010/07/first-image-of-ananda-everingham-in-wisit-sasanatiengs-red-eagle.php) in the title role.

[lovejuice]

trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxLyo_PmdeY&feature=player_embedded)

I like it. Weirdly enough, while I'm not a big fan of Nolan's super-hero, I like it that Wisit seems to gear his movie toward more grittier tone than the usual colorful one.

[Sycophant]

Oh, man! Those images look really good!

It looks a lot, um, straighter than I'd expected. It's definitely a departure for Sasanatieng. I'm pumped, though!

[lovejuice]

Oh, man! Those images look really good!

It looks a lot, um, straighter than I'd expected. It's definitely a departure for Sasanatieng. I'm pumped, though!
indeed, and i'm glad for that. as mentioned earlier, i am not too happy with his going cult full-stream. and don't worry about his wackiness. i have this guy on facebook, and he's among the funniest people i've ever known.

and yes, i am bragging that i have the director of tear of the black tiger in my friend list!

[Sycophant]

indeed, and i'm glad for that. as mentioned earlier, i am not too happy with his going cult full-stream. and don't worry about his wackiness. i have this guy on facebook, and he's among the funniest people i've ever known.

and yes, i am bragging that i have the director of tear of the black tiger in my friend list!

I'm not gonna lie. I'm jealous.

[B-side]

Allow me to be the buzz kill and say it looks bland.

[Sycophant]

I hope that music in the trailer's in the movie. I dig it.

[lovejuice]

from wisit's facebook

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs220.snc4/39363_1495780188230_1045848014 _1449356_1039260_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs281.snc4/40399_1495767347909_1045848014 _1449327_5196663_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs132.ash2/39955_1495777748169_1045848014 _1449355_1079389_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs286.snc4/40631_1495657345159_1045848014 _1449180_1768754_n.jpg

[lovejuice]

http://thaifilmjournal.blogspot.com/2010/09/red-eagle-is-wisits-farewell-to-film.html

This will probably be Wisit's last movie (for a looooong while.)

the new trailer at the end of this article is pretty cool, i think.

[lovejuice]

First things first, like Ong Bak 2, the movie doesn't end. Unlike Ong Bak 2 though, it's unlikely we'll ever see the next Red Eagle, especially one directed by Wisit. :cry:

The movie does something extraordinarily well, and terribly missteps in certain parts. The acting is horrendous. Many people complains about the over-use of score, but imo, it's quite fitting considered the source material. You see, that's actually the problem. Like Black Tiger, the movie is an homage to certain kind of cinema, but it's not very clear what Wisit is trying to achieve here, so the end product appears half-baked. It commits the oldest post-modern sin of using bad movies as a springboard for a good one.

I especially like how gore it is. Red Eagle kills. He fucking shoots people and cuts their head off, including some menial bastard who messes with his girlfriend. Wisit successfully portrays a troublesome anti-hero. It's actually when we see Red Eagle as a person that the movie fails. Paradoxically the movie works best when the title character is pushed into the background. Wisit probably know that since it's almost the second half before we get personal with Red Eagle.

The movie gets extra cookie point for being relevant with its politics. So relevant in fact that if the script were written three months ago (before the massacre) I wouldn't be surprised.

That being said, I'm sorry, Sycophant, but I don't think you will like it very much.