Dragon Wars

This Hollywood Hopeful has probably one of the best special effects I have seen in recent years, yet also fatal defects most Asian movies share: a terrible screenplay and bad acting.

Nevertheless, I am so pleased to see at the end the traditional "Asian" rendition of a dragon: horns of a stag, scales of a carp, wingless body of a snake, and four legs with claws of an eagle.

(I can't use the word "Chinese" so lightly, as in "Chinese rendition of a dragon", after a series of acts of desinicization by the South Korean government including successfully demanding the Chinese government to change the Chinese name of the Korean capital Seoul from its 500-year-old name "汉城" (with the ostensibly meaning of "Han Chinese City") to "首尔" (a Korean transliteration meaning the Capital City). No, you didn't read it wrong. The Chinese government agreed to change the Chinese name of Seoul. It's like the German government demands our beloved George W. to stop the usage of "Munich" in the US and replace it with the fatherlandish "München". Poor George W., how can he ever say it right this time?)

Anyway, the "Asian" dragon is beautiful, and that's the point of this post.