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Come Drink With Me
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
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Come Drink With Me
Wed Jan 09: 7.30pm

King Hu
Hong Kong
1966
1h 31m

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** Sponsored by Confucius Institute of the State of Washington, co-presented with Grand Illusion Cinema **

The premise of Come Drink with Me is straightforward. There are bandits, theyre a menace, and the government cant stop them. When the bandit leader (Chan Hung-lit, in a ghostly Lee Marvin-esque role) learns of Golden Swallow, the only warrior who could stand in their way, he grins and declares, I look forward to meeting him. The outlaws are blithely unaware that that Golden Swallow is, in fact, a woman. Hu favors a light-footed dance between actors and camera over realistic combat, so he wisely cast 19-year-old ballet dancer Cheng Pei-pei in the lead rather than a seasoned martial artist.

Come Drink with Me was the first commercial success for director King Hu (Dragon Inn, A Touch of Zen), despite the Shaw Studio having rushed Hu through his fastidious, perfectionist process to complete the film. Its tempting to dream of what an unhurried Come Drink could have become, since even the Shaws rush-job is already wonderful: beautiful and ruthless, bloody and refined, with sweeping lateral camera movements, choreography thats delicately integrated with space, breathtaking location photography, rhythmic metric editing, and a musical number with singing orphans (Jackie Chan claims to have been among them  good luck confirming that one). The film established a new class of wuxia films and set both King Hu and the Shaw Studios reputations in stone as forces in filmmaking to be reckoned with.

Description by Morgan Akana.

Peipeis performance set the standard for the cinematic xia nĂ¼ (lady knight-errant) model. Though a warrior, she never loses her femininity even when disguised as a male, and this is what constitutes Hus breakthrough in the genre: the female sex is entirely comfortable as warriors and accepted as such by their male counterparts.  Stephen Teo, Senses of Cinema

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Northwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States

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