Tears of the Black Tiger Preview
Magnolia Pictures
Movie Preview Posted on January 12th, 2007

I'm a huge Western fan, and while I was doing some research on a few other movies for some upcoming previews I came across this film coming out of Thailand: Tears of the Black Tiger. At first I thought it was a Frank Miller concoction with the awesome array of color, a la Sin City and 300, but I was wrong. While it may seem ironic that a "Western" film is coming from Thailand, I really like the direction they're taking with the visuals. Will the acting hold up? Who knows. I do know that this film should be on every Western fan's watch list, because I'm sure it will hit the States sometime within the next few months. Do not miss the pics and trailer below! I'm looking forward to reviewing this movie! Here's the official synopsis of "Tears" from Magnolia Pictures:



Tears of the Black Tiger takes a journey back to a lost past – the heroic years of Thai genre cinema, when influences from Hollywood and everywhere else were subsumed into rollicking Thai melodramas for an audience of avid fans. Sasanatieng's film is a brilliant pastiche of vanished themes, styles and characters, almost all of them easily recognizable as variants on the prototypes from other popular cinemas. But the film's project is not simply nostalgic. Sasanatieng uses the tricks and tropes of film style from the 1960's- iris shots, wipes, obvious back-projection – but combines them with a startling, modernist approach to color and storytelling. The result is not only unique in Thai cinema but also an entirely new way of looking at genre entertainment. Tears of the Black Tiger offers nostalgia as future shock.

When Dum, a young peasant boy, falls in love with Rumpoey, the daughter of a wealthy family, they vow that, whatever happens, they will one day be together. When they meet again ten years later, their rekindled passion is thwarted by the murder of Dum's father by outlaws and by Rumpoey's betrothal to a smooth-talking police captain. Dum soon transforms himself into the gunslinging bandit, "Black Tiger," in order to infiltrate the gang who murdered his father. Fate will reunite the lovers one more time, but will they be able to continue their romance? Or will tragedy strike again?



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