Chow Si-Kit is an author of pulp fiction in Hong Kong. He's writing serialised
adventures about a hero called Dr. Wai, the Adventure King. He works under
constant pressure. The booklets are published twice a month, and the deadlines
wait for no man.
Chow has a problem. His wife wants to divorce him. As a result he's suffering
from writer's block. His colleagues want to help him, so they write the next
instalments on his behalf. What they write is also a not so subtle attempt to
help him win his wife's love back. In each instalment Dr. Wai is wooing
Yvonne, a fellow adventurer. However, they can't agree on Yvonne's
personality, so in each instalment (which is presented cinematically) Yvonne
is acting like a different person.
According to what I've read, the original version, which I watched today, was
completely re-edited for the international version. Chow Si-Kit is completely
removed from the international version, and all we see is Dr. Wai in his
adventures. That sounds weird. I need to watch the international version at
least once.
I had no clue that they chopped up the international version like that. My tendency is to get the HK versions usually, and that's all i see. Like you, i might have to grab the mangled version to see how it scans.
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I can check for myself. The Blu-ray that I watched also contains the International Version. I have a certain aversion to watching a mangled version, but I'll probably watch it in the next couple of weeks.
DeleteI'll look forward to your comments when you watch rather than try to track it down myself. Like you, i have an aversion to those versions. Even to the dubs since they too often feel the need to play with other parts of the sound, including the music.
DeleteBTW - Google cut me off from my old account because i don't do phone. So that email is gone, and i can never update the old blog again.
That's terrible. Isn't there any way you can get your old email address back? It doesn't matter much for updating, because you haven't updated for ages anyway. What matters is that your blog will be deleted if you don't log in to your account for two years.
DeleteThere doesn't seem to be any way to actually contact humans at google/gmail so it seems pretty permanent. It happened over a year ago, right as i was putting together a keep-alive update for the site. I've had terrible luck trying to leave comments here, too, over the past year. They usually choked & died when trying to post them. Seem to be going through these days though.
DeleteI've wondered about the deletion. Brian died 7 years ago and his Slay, Monstrobot blog is still up. So i'm hoping.
I've thought about trying to find a decent site archiver to copy VOO! to a local drive and then re-uploading it to preserve it, but i don't know if there's any good site-ripper software out there any more.
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