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Fah talai jone (2000) -- With its loud acting style, exuberant sets and stunning shots in pastel colours, this Thai cult film is as much a parody as an homage to the Western and the romantic tearjerker.
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Release Date:
9 August 2001 (Singapore) more
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With its loud acting style, exuberant sets and stunning shots in pastel colours, this Thai cult film is as much a parody as an homage to the Western and the romantic tearjerker. full summary | full synopsis
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3 wins & 8 nominations more
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Original, funny and alarming more (47 total)

Cast

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Chartchai Ngamsan ... Black Tiger
Suwinit Panjamawat ... Dum (Black Tiger Youth)
Stella Malucchi ... Rumpoey
Supakorn Kitsuwon ... Mahesuan
Arawat Ruangvuth ... Police Captain Kumjorn
Sombat Metanee ... Fai
Pairoj Jaisingha ... Phya Prasit
Naiyana Sheewanun ... Rumpoey's maid
Kanchit Kwanpracha ... Kamnan Dua
Chamloen Sridang ... Sergeant Yam
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Philip Hersh ... Dum (voice: English version)
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Also Known As:
Tears of the Black Tiger (International: English title)
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Runtime:
110 min | UK:101 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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The original Thai title is almost impossible to translate into English. A rough translation would be "Sky Destroys Thief" (Fah = Sky, Talai = destroy, Jone = thief). However, "fah" can also figuratively means a higher force, in this case, a noble, beautiful, righteous, and virtous woman. more
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Mahesuan: By everything sacred in this world, I, Mahesuan, swear, with the Buddha as my witness, I'll always be true and loyal to my blood brother, Dom, the Black Tiger who saved my life. If I break this oath, may his gun take my life. more
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10 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Original, funny and alarming, 18 September 2004
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Author: george-367 from Norfolk, England

Actually I caught this movie on TV as I was about to go to bed, and

it grabbed me immediately. Sure, it's parody and genre, but it's

other things too. It is visually eye-grabbing for a start. The odd

candy colors are partly reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and The

King and I, but the total effect is disorientating, colder, more high

pitched: its clashing colors dominated by the piercing fuschia red,

but sometimes slanting off towards yellows, or sepias and soft

blues. In European terms it's like seeing the paintings of

Pontormo and Bronzino - a Mannerist palette on film. There is, I

imagine a lot of filtering and digital enhancement here. It's

self-conscious but no more so than any consistent vision has to

be. So the color comes first.

Immediately, you are pitched in an alternative reality of westerns

(Sergio Leone mixed with Zorro) and romances, but comic as the

'western' scenes are, these are not merely 'cool' parodies. The

style everywhere refers to memory, of period, of genre: if it is irony it

is a strange poignant irony in the service of poetry. The palette

changes with the genre, as does the framing. Parts of it are

presented as scenes in theaters.

The story is simple enough but acute in its balance of belief and

distance. It makes sense as an adult take on the feel of childhood.

I thought it marvelously original, funny and alarming. Oh far far far

better than the vastly cerebral Greenaway whose work might make

a reasonable aesthetic analogy.

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