Actually, not only have I never played chess, but (as with basketball) I don't even know the rules. Chinese chess pieces look the coolest, although the actual boards are often just skins or paper. But western chess set certainly looks cooler than the go set.
Peking opera or nails on a black--um, I mean, Italian opera?
laughs...well pompey, given I saw you said you live(d) in tapei (more on that later), im hesitant to say Italian...but ive never experienced peking opera, so maybe I'd go with that for the newness.
arwen or eowyn?
Arwen.
Italian opera for me. Verdi!
Folk or blues?
From the actresses, Arwen, since I have a thing about dark brunettes.
"Peking opera" is actually street opera by tradition, so it really can't be compared to Italian opera. To the uninitiated, though, it can sound awfully--foreign?
Blues.
Did you guys answer this before? Red Sox or Yankees?
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I can listen to folk all the time---the blues I have to be in the right mood for...but they are oh so important aren't they? a tough choice...
am going to say the blues...by a smidgen!
arwen or tauriel?
Yes - I said Wesley So over Hikaru Nakamura
Sci-fi or fantasy?
dag nab it! smiles...
Yankees---great history and tradition often on top.
red sox---great history and tradition often not on top.
gotta go with the underdogs! red sox.
arwen or tauriel?
dag nab it again!
sci-fi only if its star trek, otherwise fantasy.
arwen or tauriel (we'll get there eventually!)
Nymeria Sand
Billy Parham or John Grady Cole?
Seven Samurai. He was so famous by the time he made Ran that everyone was afraid to edit him.
Hidden Fortress or Kagemusha?
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Sacrilege!Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Kagemusha.
He was broke and unpopular when he made Ran by the way. I think Lucas and Spielberg, who were fans, funded the movie.
Ugetsu or Life of Oharu?
EDIT: Though you're right, he may still not have been edited much. Anyways, I find that the film's length is appropriate.
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Not in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he wasn't. We worshipped the very wind he broke at the time. He was considered a bit old hat in Japan, I think, but I never heard it described as unpopular. Lucas and Spielberg were trying to make him more mainstream over here (Hidden Fortress and Kagemusha were obviously influences on Star Wars), but somehow that got translated into: anything the genius wants gets left in. Beautiful looking movie, but in my opinion it was killed by kindness. I remember some fairly lukewarm reviews when it was released. It wasn't the length as much as the tightness (or lack thereof) that bothered people. Doesn't mean it was a bad movie--it wan't, but personally, I prefer his older stuff.
Don't know the other two, so someone else will have to answer.
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Fair enough. Ugetsu and Life of Oharu are both excellent Mizoguchi movies, but the right answer is Ugetsu, for that same reason of tightness. (I thought Ran was actually quite balanced!).
Startling recontextualization of cliche or subtler and more original phrasemaking? In poetry?
I like to play games with unstated cliches in my poetry, but I'm that sure original phrasemaking is a sign of a better poet.
Tragic or comic plays?
Tragic
1984 or Brave New World?
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