Seeing the footage that they shot earlier in production was wild because it’s so completely different from the slower, melancholy tone that the final film has that it might as well have been for a different movie entirely.
Also Tony Leung and Maddie Cheung dancing together is one of those things that makes me extremely happy to be bisexual because my god.
Just hearing about how the train sequence was shot stressed me the hell out. The level of coordination required for eight cameras shooting at once, on an actual train, and the need to get as much as possible done perfectly in such a complicated scene in a single take, thinking about it alone makes my head hurt.
“You are my hope, for now and forever.”
Beautiful scenery? Stellar animation? Engaging writing? Endearing characters? Badass aerial action? Honor between foes? Airships? Forbidden love? Themes about the indifference and/or contempt of powerful people towards those under them?
What more could anyone ask for?
Most of the stories about Julie d’Aubigny were made up by people who hated her, who sought to defame her and turn public opinion against her.
Today, those stories make her a historical queer icon and a badass, which may be the greatest narrative backfire in history. Meanwhile those aristocrats and courtesans who were inventing those stories and trying to trash her public image are almost completely forgotten, but for d’Aubigny.
What Nova and Piccoli have done, taking one of…
