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247. Frame Rate: Legend of the Mountain (Feat. Alex Shifman)

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Comedy

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Michael and Abe sit down with Alex Shifman, co-host of Science! The Show, to discuss this 1979 Taiwanese fantasy horror mystery film. This film's climax involves a drum battle between a ghost and a holy man. So, I'm not convinced it's not a Slayer song. Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans SB Merch: https://smallbeans.bigcartel.com

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0:00.0

And the Hey everyone channeling Tom Riemann there.

0:25.0

If you listen to Gamefully Unemployed, welcome to Frame Rate the show where we raid frames.

0:29.6

I'm one of your intrepid hosts.

0:32.0

Michael Swaim. and with me is

0:34.4

Abe Epperson as always. That's true, always. We're never far from one another and

0:41.1

uh... It's true and we have a special guest with us today our

0:46.0

resident who shot expert please state your business sir my business is my

0:51.2

business is I'm just a dorky white guy who likes Kung Fu movies and I guess I guess that makes me the Wushai expert but um and what does that make me the right guy for today's movie?

1:03.0

I don't know.

1:04.8

You're definitely not the right guy.

1:06.2

Some commenters took issue with us calling at Wu Shah,

1:09.2

saying that Wu Shah more refers to not the magical wirework leaping through the air motif, but the classic

1:16.4

like a hero's journey, like the Campbell.

1:20.3

I thought we touched on that.

1:22.1

Did we? I thought we touched on that. Yeah, no, if you're talking about, if you're talking about a Kung Fu movie that has any of those elements in it, is like calling anything that anything that

1:33.8

anything that includes the jangu who motif of like the rivers and lakes and

1:38.1

shit is who's shot if we're talking about kung-kung-ku hustle still like there's a solid argument for yes, it's Wushon a modernistic setting.

1:45.9

If we're talking about this movie, I don't fucking know what this is, but I like it.

1:49.7

All right.

1:50.7

Well, I guess my broad point is we could be wrong about nuanced terms and in fact borderline,

1:59.0

like I don't know, problematic, but we're super not trying to be we're trying to show an

2:03.9

appreciation for the form so we'll do our best and I also wanted to stay that this

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