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theactioneer · 20 days

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Chow Yun-fat, God of Gamblers (1989)

#chow yun fat #god of gamblers #80s #hong kong action #wong jing #mickey mouse #disney

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watching-pictures-move · 6 months

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Movie Review | God of Gamblers (Wong, 1989)

I remember hearing about this one back when I first started getting into Hong Kong cinema. I remember watching The Killer, thinking how cool Chow Yun Fat was in that one, and assuming he’d be similarly cool in this one. I remember reading the piece on David Bordwell’s site where he lists some titles he considers essential introductory viewing for Hong Kong cinema, and setting on the A Better Tomorrow, which also stars Chow Yun Fat and features him in the single coolest shot in movie history, and this one right after, and getting more confidence that this would offer similar pleasures. I remember seeing all these gifs of Chow in a tuxedo doing all these crazy moves presumably befitting of the God of Gamblers, and of all these crazy action scenes, and forming an idea in my head of how impossibly cool this movie must have been. I suspect others approaching this movie without reading any actual reviews may have formed a similar idea in their heads.

What Bordwell conveniently left out, and what was likely harder to distill into gif format, was that Chow is really only cool for the first and last half hours of this movie, and is in a very different mode for the middle hour. You see, Chow is the God of Gamblers, and you see him put his amazing gambling powers to use as he gambles better and harder than anybody he comes across. I personally don’t gamble and have little personal interest in card games and the like, but Wong Jing directs the hell out of these sequences, serving up ample style to compensate for the supposedly meager budget. (I was a little disappointed that Michiko Nishiwaki, who appears in one of these scenes and, as in My Lucky Stars, elicits some well deserved gasps when she reveals her muscles, doesn’t appear in more of the movie.) And you get a pretty sweet action scene on a train with triad member Charles Heung, who’s another person you’re gonna have to separate the art from the artist with.

But then Chow gets bonked on the head multiple times and reverts to a childlike state, retaining only his love of chocolate and his godlike gambling powers while falling under the care of low level criminal Andy Lau and his friends, a turn which suggests Wong watched Rain Man and decided he needed to fit that in with all the other movies he was cribbing from. What’s shocking is how well this works, in large part because of the total commitment Chow shows in the role. No, it’s not sensitive, and the scene where Lau watches a kid being yelled at by her mother on a bus and feels bad about yelling at Chow, only to run back to him and find him eating ice cream and holding balloons will elicit unintentional laughs more than anything else, but I respect the commitment to the bit. I guess scenes like this, or the one where Chow threatens to cut off Wong’s dick after being told men aren’t allowed to scream during sex, or the one where he chops up Ng Man-Tat’s tie are harder to distill into gif format, but they’re entertaining none the less.

So as long as you don’t expect the movie to flow together at all, there’s something to keep you entertained during the two hour runtime, especially as all the goofy stuff is interspersed with the usual acrobative and squib-heavy set pieces you can expect from classic Hong Kong action cinema. (Wong’s most distinct directorial flourish is the use of slow motion to emphasize particularly impressive or painful-looking stunts.) That being said, I’m still a little baffled that this was a big enough hit to have spawned as many sequels and spin-offs as it did, but I guess people just loved watching Chow gamble.

#film #movie review #god of gamblers #wong jing

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thatgeekwiththeclipons · 1 year

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Happy 68th Birthday to legendary actor Chow Yun-fat! ^__^

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boxersoftheangels · 3 months

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req from anon ; aventurine npts !!

quartz , jackpot , ante , banker , monte , roulette , celine , forum , cirque , mystère , sammy , sinatra , oasis

card / cards , boss / bosses , 🃏 / 🃏 s , 🎰 / 🎰 s , gamble / gambles , ve / gas , vegas / las , shu / ffle , vi / va

the gambler of ten stonehearts , the senior manager of the IPC , The stratagem , the blond(e) gambler , the one who wields preservation and the imaginary element , the imaginary gambler , the preserving gambler .

#;; the jester submits his perfomance . 🎭#npt #hsr npt #hsr icon #honkai star rail #hsr aventurine #aventurine icon #quartz #aventurine #honaki star rail #aventurine honkai star rail #star rail aventurine #BLOND MEN #OH MY GOD #gambler npt #casino npt

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illuminatedferret · 6 months

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I imagine one of the hardest things to work around when writing coffin fics is justifying hua "killed 33 gods for bullying dianxia once" cheng not immediately destroying lang qianqiu

#illuspeaks #tgcf #hua cheng #guoshi fangxin #lang qianqiu #it wouldnt even be hard. we all saw how lqq was in the gamblers den #boy has no sense of danger #hc killed 33 gods(+aimed for 2 more) without waiting to ask dianxia #but you think hed wait for lqq? until xl could give his 2 cents?#especially in more realistic aus where he HAS to wait bc xl is so fucked up??#i love coffin fics let me make this clear. but thats the one elephant we are all ignoring #except for naamah_beherit i mean -gestures at 4+1 fic-

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lautakwah · 1 month

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YES. YES!!!! YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!

most important scene in all of cinematic history!!!!

the way chicken feet (andy lau) desperately searches for lin (wu chien-lien) after he's Literally been blinded by the neon light used as a weapon, the way he's too late to save her bc she saved him first, the way he's holding her lifeless body, anguished, hoping against hope to revive her, their silhouettes merging into one, backlit by explosions of the speedboat he crashed into the pier earlier, AND ALL THIS WHILE THEEEEEEE CANTOPOP ANTHEM OF ALL TIME, 一起走過的日子/THE DAYS WE SPENT TOGETHER, IS BLASTING AT FULL VOLUME!!!!!! NO FUCKING MOVIE DOES IT LIKE CASINO RAIDERS II!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#it's a heroic bloodshed it's a melodrama it's an action film it's a romcom it's a gambling film (à la god of gamblers) it's-#listen casino raiders 2 rewired my fucking brain chemistry it is one of The andy lau films to me #more than a moment of romance more than infernal affairs more than a simple life i cannot stress enough how much i love this stupid film!!!!#ling.txt

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romanceyourdemons · 8 months

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hi ok what’s up with this movie. why did they just casually drop that young babyfaced stephen chow’s character reported his father to the police and as a result his father was the first person executed in the cultural revolution(?) and everyone is just kind of chill with it(??) and also chill with him having x ray vision(???)

#i gave up on handsome siblings lmao this movie is all for the winner #i’ll probably watch the god of gamblers films soon #ryddles

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whisperinggbreeze · 4 months

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Eight hundred years ago, a powerful martial god— the god of wealth, luck and gambling— ascended.

After he was mortally wounded because of a selfless act in an intense battle to save his people, he ascended and his healing was personally seen to by the Heavenly Emperor himself.

This god, Hua Cheng, is as mysterious as he is powerful. Nobody knows where he came from, or what battle he was in that caused him to ascend.

Only a couple of centuries after he first ascended, Hua Cheng destroyed the lair of one of the four Heavenly Calamities, causing it to rain blood. He earned the title Crimson Rain Sought Flower when he used an umbrella to shield a lone flower from the bloodbath.

Now, he is as feared as he is revered. In some locations, he is respected and prayed to as an all powerful being. In others, he is a story to keep children in line. No matter where you fall on the spectrum, one thing is for certain:

You don't want to make Crimson Rain Sought Flower angry.

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HC's part of the prologue is here! it's a lot shorter than XL's, but that's because there's meant to be a lot more mystery surrounding him and his origins

also a clarifying note for if I do post the first few chapters of this fic in full: XL's calamity story is very well known, but I very deliberately didn't put his actual name in his story (and mentioned that it had been forgotten over time). this is why HC is confused and thought he hadn't heard of XL before (this is implied in the chapter 1 excerpt I posted)

#hua cheng is here!#i was always planning to make hc the god of gambling but was never sure what to do with the concept of ghost city #i dont think ghost city itself is going to exist in this world #actually maybe it will it just wont be run by hc or xl. im not sure who itll be run by if anyone #maybe jun wu that would be funny LMAO #anyways im wondering if i should keep the gambling den... if i do ill just stick it in some made up city that worships hc #(if that town comes into existence itll most likely be an allusion to ghost city)#obv hc cant really go there and announce himself because you know. hes a god. but maybe he has a mortal persona he runs it with #n he just goes there to hang out and laugh at the gamblers sometimes #just a completely normal pastime!#mxtx #mxtx fanfic #mxtx tgcf #tgcf #tgcf au #tgcf fanfic #tgcf fanfiction #tian guan ci fu #god hua cheng #heaven official's blessing #heaven officials blessing #OOPS JUST REALIZED I DID NOT MENTION THE EYEPATCH #sorry guys this is a first draft ill add that in to the finished thing lmao #but i probably wont post it here (i am definitely seriously considering officially posting this fic on ao3 now so if i do itll be cleaner)

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luckquartzed · 4 days

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What flavour is your soul?

Honey

“ Sugared mel e lingua serpentis . ” Sugared honey from a serpent's tongue . Oh dearest , look how you gleam . How the sunlight dances off your shoulders , how the heavens shine across your wingtips . But you are hollow , hollow , hollow . Even the taste of nectar can choke a man . Sometimes the sweetest flowers hide the sharpest poison . You lie to yourself , the worst lie of all . You needn't be so obsessed with perfect . The greatest beauty lies in our faults . Do you think the moon apologizes for their mara ? No , their craters add to their glow . My dear , breathe . You are not an island , breathe , before the honey drowns you . You wish to be lovely , you long to be loved . But did Aphrodite trade her powers for perfection ? She did not . You can be beautiful , & also whole . Be whole above anything else dear . A heart of diamonds is worth nothing if inchor oozes from it . Inward . Look within & question how well do you know yourself ? Little petal are you trying to be a god ? Why ? Can a god bloom from sullen soil ? No . You are whole as you are .

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Tagging : I apologize in advance for this ya’ll . @fortifice @gemkun ( Ratio! ), @dupliciti @protcg ( Stelle! ) @barxlupin ( Leblanc! ), @vulpesly ( Yanqing! ), @crimsonbesotted @finalism @ofscalesanddatabanks @sciamachys @spadilled @wingspiked

#I’m going to KILL my self oh my god #This is SO him. Deep down he’s an insecure perfectionist riddled with anxiety over his luck running out bc luck is all he’s EVER had!#Remember what Aven’s ‘future self’ said to him in ‘All The Sad Tales’?#‘You know who you really are Mr. Cavalier Gambler.’#‘Uptight overcautious massive inferiority complex. You've won so much & you're still SO afraid of losing.’#‘They only see your big bets your bravado the full house the straight flush.’#‘They don't know the other hand is below the table clutching your chips for dear life.’#♦️ ⸻ ɪ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴛᴜʀɴ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴀ ᴄʜᴀʟʟᴇɴ��ᴇ ❮ ᴅᴀsʜ ɢᴀᴍᴇs ❯

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deaththeyamikid · 2 months

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Finally continuing my watch of the PJO Disney+ show and literally all the scenes in the Underworld are so dark I cannot SEE anything

#also the night scene in Santa Monica when Percy walked into the ocean to talk to the sea deity #couldn't see any of that either #also WHY is Lin Manuel-Miranda the strongest actor among the gods #They are all missing something #as sense of gravitas #presence #And speaking of Hermes they did him SO DIRTY #What he has one bad encounter with Luke gets told off by Poseidon and then decides he doesn't get involved anymore #and drinks and gambles himself into a stupor?????#I get it he's worshipped by gamblers due to being the god of luck and wealth but hOLY fUCK #Why did they do him like that?????#did him dirty and did all the gods dirty tbh #but I digress #that whole sequence in the Underworld is ?????#Annabeth getting stuck in the Fields of Asphodel????#what the heck was that???#I have so many questions #pjo tv show

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hella1975 · 10 months

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for a popular band i dont see nearly enough people freaking the fuck out about the lumineers on here! i have to do everything my damn self! anyway listen to their album III in order WITH the music videos and maybe you'll feel significantly worse about everything ever

#every time one of the songs from this album came on in the car id so casually go to boom like 'oh so this one is about ___'#and it's just an album about a dysfunctional family. like that is literally the plot of the album. they r called the sparks #it starts with donna and follows her alcoholic daughter who starts the abuse (it's technically started by donna but the album doesnt #focus on her so it 'starts' with gloria)#and how her addiction and abuse bleeds into her son who becomes a gambler and how his son then turns out etc etc #all to the most boptastic sounds and vocals you ever heard #like oh my fucking god the way they released this album was SUCH an experience #because it was done in three parts (gloria to her son jimmy to his son junior respectively)#so you had to like. wait for the rest of the album with each part and each part added a generation to what you knew from the beginning #was going to be tragic like you know from donna's song at the very start when it's said 'you hate the name junior'#that the rot will travel all the way down to junior's generation #they're doomed from the start. they're a family. they tried. they failed #and also 'leader of the landslide' as a song alone is batshit insane and one of my favourite songs ever #but as an expression on generational trauma? HOLY SHIT?#like looking at the person who started the trauma and caused this constant awful cycle #and instead of saying all those clinical overused words instead calling them THE LEADER OF THE LANDSLIDE #LIKE YEAH ACTUALLY? THEY GOT BURIED TOO BUT THEY FUCKING STARTED IT #AND WE'RE ALL CRAWLING THROUHG THE DIRT BECAUSE OF IT JUST TRYING TO FIND OUR FEET #IN THE WAKE OF THIS DISASTER THAT YOU CAUSED. YOU LEAD US HERE #going insane #the lumineers #'why r u talking about this album specifically when u heavily implied to aiaia about writing a touya fic' shhhhhhhh

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thegreatyin · 3 months

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Seeing your old posts and actually do want to know what did you think of the Blind Pianist plotline because it apparently affected the scoundrel A Lot

it did!!

from a meta/personal perspective, i really liked the blind pianist storyline. i knew about the dawn machine before finishing it, but only knew it was a sunless seas thing and never expected it'd make a cameo in such an earlygame quest. i don't have a lot to say on either her or the spirifer, but i liked both enough to follow along with it pretty well. this whole venture was also the scoundrel's first ever foray into parabola (and getting momentarily stuck in there). oh how the tables have turned.

i don't remember all the exact details of the ending the scoundrel got, but in the end they chose to forgo both the dynamite and hell's interests in favor of saving the pianist and spirifer. this isn't something i thought much of at the time, but makes sense for their character in retrospect. a lot of the choices you can make in early-game storylines end in tragedy (the comtessa being the most infamous example) and i like to think their early memories of neath life are... mildly scarred by it all. particularly the cherry man vs last constable storyline, which saw them take a chance and gamble (as they are wont to do) and the constable...

well. they most certainly resolved to be far, far more careful since that particular little incident. they turned down the chance to rig the odds in their favor, and look where it got them. they're spiteful. bitter. and not just because they hate to lose. they were close to her, and they left her life to chance, and now they're alone. and she's dead. forever.

so they've decided to never allow such a thing ever again. if they have the opportunity to cheat and shift things their way, they'll always take it. no matter what.

obviously, in actual game terms, the pianist's ending doesn't involve rng at all. but in-universe, the ending they got is but a product of the lessons they learned from the constable. it's a victory, at least in their eyes. they didn't take any chances, didn't risk any lives, and as a reward they finally saved her. they finally got to move on.

tldr; the pianist herself didn't necessarily affect them insomuch as being a product/culmination of their arc from the constable storyline. but i like to think they do still see and love her. try as they might, they have a few soft spots in their wretched little heart.

#i keep getting asks about the pianist and forgetting to answer them ty anon #ask #fallen london #the scoundrel is a gambler to their core and they are a cheater and god's favorite princess and the most beautiful future bat in the world #they are awful though. they will take all of your echoes and call you a bitch

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chocolatecakecas · 2 years

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thought about bobby singer for 2 seconds