Girard Tecson of Dayside Productions wanted to make a Super Mario fan film in a style that hadn't been done before. Tapping the talents of the Team PTX fight choreography group, he directed a Chinese cinema version of the suspenders-clad everyman's adventures.
It follows all the Asian movie tropes, too. Bowser is the local crime lord, Mario is the reformed criminal, and Peach is the mayor's daughter. We've got fast Wing Chun strikes right out of Donnie Yen's Ip Man, the goofy second banana to the protagonist's straight man routine, and even the English-speaking character who forces his lines as though he doesn't know English to begin with.
Oh, and I love Peach's shoes! It's like she doesn't give a f*ck!
I haven't watched this(yet) but it reminds me of a funny story...
So I'm watching MHz network and some history documentary from China is on about some guy in the gobe dessert( or somewhere around there... whateves ) well, these documentaries usually have music playing in the around shoot the guy talks about history stuff and the music starts sounding REALLY familiar...
So I'm thinking "that sounds a lot like the music from 'halo'.... Damn would that be funny...
...wait a minute...O.o"
I'm guessing they just grab music from wherever for these things... but I can't help but find it a little humorous that they managed to take music from a sci-fi game and use it as background noise for a documentary about an old bandit...^_^
@Ronin4life haha that's great. For years a national tv channel here in Brazil used Killer Instinct's soundtrack as a background music for a lot of their tv announcements. I wonder if they even paid for its use.
BTW @ Mikolaj - learn to spell and I think my coache(s)/instructor(s) AND my friend's instructor(s) are going to have to disagree with you on that one *achem*
- Hen Zee (head of Team PTX, and guy who plays Bowser)
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