Midnight Screenings 2018 / Big Trouble in Little China / USA 1986
Never take a guy’s wheels. Ripped-off truck driver Jack Burton sets out for Little China in order to do battle against the aged Chinese demon Lo Pan and rescue two green-eyed beauties. And, actually, save the world to boot. All in a day’s work.
“It’s all in the reflexes.” Kurt Russell as a wisecracking, cool-hand truck driver, who sports a wife-beater and a well-groomed mullet and has a solution to every problem. After his friend Wang’s girlfriend is kidnapped (and Jack’s truck is stolen), they head to San Francisco’s Chinatown to take back what belongs to them. What follows, however, is no atmospheric neo-noir but a B-grade fantasy horror flick that never takes itself seriously, not even for a moment. Thousand-year-old Chinese demons, flying kung fu fighters, thunder, lightning, machine guns, and exploding bad guys – everything demanding audiences expect from quality cinema. Round that out with loads of lowbrow humor and even lower-brow synthesizer music. Leave logic behind and just enjoy yourself.
Nikola Paggio
99 min / Color, DCP
Director John Carpenter
/ Screenplay Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein, W. D. Richter
/ Dir. of Photography Dean Cundey
/ Music John Carpenter, Alan Howarth
/ Editor Steve Mirkovich, Mark Warner, Edward A. Warschilka
/ Art Director Les Gobruegge
/ Producer Larry J. Franco
/ Production 20th Century Fox
/ Cast Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun
/ Sales Park Circus Group
John Carpenter (b. 1948, Carthage, New York, USA). Selected filmography: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Halloween (1978), Escape From New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Starman (1984), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), They Live (1988), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Vampires (1998), The Ward (2010)
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