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Putting my insanity aside for a moment I think there is a definite chance that the live action version of Crying Freeman may possibly be one of the biggest freaks of nature in the history of cinema. Even perhaps outside of my head. I think it has some of the best acting you will ever see. The whole cast seemed more `into it’ then almost anything I have ever witnessed before. Right after my first viewing I was in such complete shock I could not help but wonder if maybe it was just me projecting my fucked up `anime and music’ world onto the film. So I went online and looked for reviews. The first website I came across was a person literally going off in all caps. Ranting something like “THIS IS THE BEST ACTION MOVIE EVER MADE! MARK DACASCOS DOES ALL HIS OWN STUNTS AND ACTS 1000 TIMES BETTER THEN VAN DAMN, SEGAL AND THE 100 OTHER GUYS BELOW THEM…” and then so on and so forth. I did not read the whole thing. My partial viewing of that web page was just a good quick fix in terms of a third party reassurance that I was not crazy and the film was in fact that amazing. Don’t get me wrong even if I did not find any text like that on the internet I would still love the movie but I guess that just gives me a little more fuel and courage to write the following knowing that you will probably find a few other rants about how fucking awesome this film is out there somewhere and I am not the only one. Crying Freeman I think had one of the smallest distributions runs in history. I know that it was never released in the United States. Hell I think it was only released in Canada, France and Japan. Or maybe it was even just Canada, UK and France. Whatever I’m not sure the point is its fucking obscure. The whole thing was filmed in British Columbia I think on god knows how small of a budget. But I am not one to talk about technical things. I never want to sound like a film critic or something. I know this is PROBABLY not the case but in my fucked up little perfect world I think Crying Freeman had too much love and magic in it fo |
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magic in it for the world to understand. And that’s why no one ever bothered trying to mass distribute it or heavily promote it. In my imaginary universe all the parties involved with the film realized that this art was just something that needs to stay inside the hearts of the people involved and the odd person who might truly get it and understand. Probably not the case but whatever I am not a movie reviewer I am a person who raps all day about living inside anime. When Crying Freeman played by Mark Dacasco was in the back of the car with Emu O'Hara as she was injured and half conscious laying with her head on his lap. There was something about his voice when he pushed the gun away from Koh and beckoned “Please Koh! …Don’t” Something about that moment stayed with me and made me feel that I was watching more then just a movie. The scene ended with Emu’s haunting voice laced with fear and sorrow whispering with labored breath “I’m so cold” … Emu O’Hara played by Julie Condra spoke every line in that film in a soft, feminine and beautifully eerie voice. When she spoke it gave me a creepy feeling in my brain that is normally reserved for feelings of guilt about ex girlfriends. A sensitive place that you never tell anyone about. A weird place that you don’t like to think about but you know is always in your head. When Julie Condra played Emu O'Hara for some reason every piece of dialogue wrapped around me like a loving but almost unwanted ghost and made me pay attention to the film. It felt like an ex-girlfriend whom I don’t speak to anymore be sitting next to me on the couch but I could not see her. It was like that from the very start when she said “Today is my birthday and for the first time in twenty years….” Right to the end when she gives us her parting word that for some creepy unreal reason made me feel so good and helped me sleep soundly that night. When Masaya Kato plays Ryuji Hanada he plays the BEST ANIME BAD GUY I HAVE EVER SEEN! I can’t believe that after all the anime |
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I have watched the best anime bad guy turns out to be a real person from a real life movie. Also the best `ruthless, merciless anime style innocent person slaughter’ was in this very film as well. My heart is beating heavily in my chest right now because moments like these reinforce my feelings that my anime world can be just as real as the actual `real world’. Masaya Kato made Ryuji Hanada REAL in a way that leads me to believe that he perhaps read the original Manga as a kid or maybe a similar Manga if the original Crying Freeman comics are not in fact that old. Watch the scene as Ryuji’s gang slaughters the Chinamen in the Soya factory. Feel that inhuman self-loathing tingling sensation in your spine as you imagine you are a huge ruthless Yakuza mobster boss with a gargantuan demon tattoo on your back. Close your eyes for a minute and let your imagination shoot you across time and space shattering apart reality behind you and transport yourself into the pages of the original Crying Freeman Manga. For Masya Katio is doing the same as he marches into the Soya factory with a camera filming him in slow motion to his back. Look closely at his face and his eyes right after he says the words below and slices that poor old mans ear off. “Look at me! I have a message for your protectors. The Dragons, Listen. I am Hanada Ryuji boss of the Hanada Clan. I declare war on the Dragons. I want the freeman or I will return to China.” Look at that sneer and evil smirk on his face as he turns to walk away from his victim as the camera slows down. Crazy enough to truly believe in the power of anime to a point that crosses the line. Because that was no actor and that was not Masaya Kato that was RYUJI THE RAZOR KILLER as we was meant to be when pen first touched paper to bring him to life. Years ago in my parents semi-finished basement I constructed a fort under the stairwell. It was made for the purpose of the having an ideal place to read my comic books. I was down under there with my two full comic |
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comic boxes, a desk light, which I had to make a hole in the drywall to feed the cord through to give it power, snack food and a dozen other trinkets, and accessories I deemed necessary to enhance my comic reading pleasure. I took two huge nineteen seventies rugs and rolled them up to make an `armchair like giant pillow mechanism’ for me to do this sort of sit~lounge~lean thing. I could go on describing that room for hours. The surreal mystical worlds manifested in me from the contents of these comics were intense. At times it even caused what was perhaps a mild form of vertigo. I will never forget those feelings. I drifted so far away from reality under those stairs that I think another dimension was created deep behind my eyes. Never has anything I watched on a screen moved me to my core and forced me to travel back within myself and remember that place under those stairs. That was until I saw Byron Mann play Koh in Crying Freeman. He MUST also have had a place he read comics as a kid. He must have had a spot just like the one I had where images and other worlds floated off the pages and created a whole new dimension behind his eyes. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe I am crazy …but I swear I saw that place in his eyes when he came out of the darkness and said… “ The Dragon has taken you. Your mind your body. His image marks you freeman. It is the image of your soul. The longing for freedom There is no freedom on earth. True freedom is in the spirit, in the skies where the dragon soars. Let the dream of soaring through the skies sustain you. I am Koh. Your guide. You serve the sons of the Dragons the guardians of the Chinese people Those who trespass against our race must die. You will obey us. Our laws. Our rules. Our demands. For we own you now. You were born a killer. It is a power that belongs to you. I will shape it I will make you stronger I will make you faster I will make you deadly. Our enemies will feel The Dragon’s claws pierce their dead hearts. Come, now You are reborn. |
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You are the freeman” .... If you or anyone you know would like to maybe make really weird IDM HIP-HOP with my raps please see or refer them to this link Thank you proteus |
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well thats pretty raw i guess |
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do you know where i could possibly get an engllish version of avalon... ive only the polish version and everyone sounds like Ali g |
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