Japanese film highlights film industry absurdity

"full of over-the-top graphic violence, and a would-be action star wears a yellow jumpsuit"

Wow. Such originality.

Acrobatics may be a crowd-pleaser, but is never a substitute for drama.

Well done, Sono-san!

Tarantino is a master of hommage. The lazy media should know better.

Agree with Get Real. The way Sono's comment is translated makes it soundlike Tarantino takes credit, when it's just people thinking incorrectly. ALL of his films carry a whole lot of hommage, whether it's the entire movie paying respect to the spaghetti Western, or more specific Bruce Lee and Kung Fu movie hommages like when Uma is training in the second Kill Bill movie.

Anyway, this should be worth a watch, though I wonder how good it will be.

The word is "homage".

"Homme" is French for man, so the non-existent word "hommage" sounds like "being of men" or the like.

Great. A script writer / director pointing out that he didn't steal his ideas from "this" guy, he stole them from "that" guy, and how dare anybody confuse the two.

I'm pretty sure Bruce Lee didn't come up with the idea of an underdog good guy kicking the crap out of a bunch of bad guys.

The way Sono's comment is translated makes it soundlike Tarantino takes credit, when it's just people thinking incorrectly.

Umm...

"Everyone is talking about the yellow tracksuit as something from Tarantino, but that is very sad for me. The original idea was Bruce Lee's, and now everyone thinks it came from Tarantino."

No, Smith. The translation implies nothing of the sort.

Who cares? What a non-story!

In my area in USA, every Saturday morning, two Green Hornet are shown before Batman. Bluce Lee's Martial Arts, we can watch. He created many kind of martial arts. Yellow or Green, I just watch and go back to sleep skipping Batman reruns.

How does the film illustrate film industry absurdity? I didn't catch that.

As Stranger said I don't know the what does the title say about the article...

But when i read the 3rd paragraph "telling the story of a young filmmaker aiming at cinematic greatness is full of over-the-top graphic violence, and a would-be action star wears a yellow jumpsuit,"

The first thing that came to mind was "pulp fiction" and the "Kill Bill". Leave to Sono that the comments are too literal...