![]() ![]() But getting my name in print began with a twist on Sherlock Holmes. As well as short stories featuring Solar Pons, and others with Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. And they’d be solving one of Watson’s untold cases! I’ve since gone on to write ‘straight’ Holmes pastiches – several of them published. The part that made it really clever, was that he would be assisting William Gillette as Holmes. For some reason that escapes me now, I thought it would be clever to have a story in which Arthur Conan Doyle plays Dr. Their initial book outing was a little collection called Curious Incidents. Campbell had not yet put out their four Gaslight collections of Holmes horror stories. Twenty years ago, I had a short story published for the first time. The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes: “The Adventure of the Tired Captain” The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes: “The Adventure of the Tired Captain” Which is to say I no longer need to wonder what it’d be like to see him play Wilson Fisk. On the other hand, Hung’s playing a fat crimelord who’s actually both a mass of muscle and a skilled martial artist, a man the cops can’t legally touch but whose weakness is the wife he truly loves, and who keeps a psychopathic-but-supremely-skilled assassin as his enforcer. Watching Yen, in fact, I found it hard not to think what it would have been like to see him as Superman at around that time - a forceful but good man, one who the audience is drawn to emphasise with due to a mixture of warmth and strength. Add to that some strong performances: Sammo Hung’s alternately sinister and sympathetic, while Donnie Yen gives a convincing portrayal as a basically decent man trying to decide what to do in a compromised world. This gives the story enough heft, enough moral complexity, that the melodrama becomes more interesting and the story becomes far more than a collection of set-pieces. The cops are dirty, and you understand why they’re dirty, but you’re not allowed to forget that they’re dirty. So they cheat, trying to use the tape to frame Wong, even if that means taking out witnesses who know the truth. Chan’s our main character for the first part of the movie, building up our sympathy for him as we see Wong’s ruthlessness - but then after the introduction of Ma, we come to see things from Ma’s perspective, and we see how Chan’s obsession with Wong leads him not just to push boundaries but to shatter them entirely.Ĭhan leads a small unit of cops trying to get the goods on Wong they get their hands on video tape that seems to incriminate him in a murder, but doesn’t tell quite the story they need it to tell. Yip leans strongly into the melodrama of the story, holding most of the fight scenes for later in the film. Mayhem ensues.Īlthough, in truth, there’s a little less mayhem than you might expect. Unfortunately for Wong, the man about to take over from Chan, Ma, is played by Donnie Yen. Unfortunately for Chan, Wong’s played by Sammo Hung. ![]() Written by Yip with Szeto Kam-Yuen and Jack Ng, it follows Hong Kong cop Detective Chan (Simon Yam), who’s trying to settle a personal score by taking down mobster Wong Po before Chan retires. While my own inefficiency with scheduling meant I ended up missing Johnnie To’s A Hero Never Dies, I saw many of the others, including Wilson Yip’s 2005 movie SPL: Kill Zone (also just Kill Zone, originally SPL: Sha Po Lang, 殺破狼). Again in 2020, notwithstanding its streaming-only nature, Fantasia revived a number of great films from prior years. One of the lovely things about covering Fantasia is the chance to see genre classics I missed the first time around, often brought back to the screen in a restored version. A unique tale!įantasia 2020, Part XXI: SPL: Kill Zone Fantasia 2020, Part XXI: SPL: Kill Zone No bold samurai or powerful sorcerer fights against it - only a lone foxkin and a willful old woman stands in its way. There is a horror worming its way into the world of feudal Japan in this outstanding story. ![]() The search for vengeance exacts an even greater one.įo x Hunt, by Rebecca Buchanan, with artwork by Simon Walpole and audio by Karen Bovenmeyer. ![]() The wounded apprentices of a corrupt teacher must gather what little power and skill they have to attempt to wrest the stolen parts of themselves from their corrupt master. What have we got? This is what we’ve got: Fiction ContentsĪssailing the Garden of Pleasure, by Danial Ausema, with audio by Karen Bovenmeyer. Four works of fiction, one outstanding poem, plus artwork and audio. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #45 was released on an unsuspecting world on the second of August. ![]()
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