Master of the flying Guillotine

Master of the flying Guillotine 

Master of the flying Guillotine is a martial arts film like 'the street fighter', but beyond that,  is so far removed from any semblance of reality that existed in 'The Street Fighter'. This masterpiece of theatre starts off like no other film ever can. This movie can deliver on it's bad-ass-ness on it's opening scene alone. A blind old dude who is clearly a kung-fu master of some sort (because of the depth of his eyebrows), front flips in a rage out of his hut. He then decapitates a chicken, showing us the second ways he can decapitate a living being, and then blows his previous dwelling on fire with ninja bombs. This is significant because it shows he's a bad guy, but also really awesome. At this point I would like to defend against any attacks that I sound like I'm using my twelve year old voice, which I am most certainly not.

After this display, the most awesome music is most perfectly matched to what is going on screen. He did just front flip out of his hut, he then blows it up with ninja bombs, I reiterate this because it is important, and then, and then, and then, I reiterate this because it is imporant, and then he walks away from his burning cottage in the barren mountains, with the music of the kraut rock band Neu! playing, with a not-nazi swastika all over his chest. It has a heavier meaning because we are European, but it is obvious there is no pandering to western audiences in this film, and it adds an unintened gravitas to this bad bad dude.  Universally, throughout centuries and cultures, this dude must but bad, and not the good bad, the bad bad. 

Jimmy Wang directed, acted, and wrote this amazing film, reprising his role as the one armed boxer. He has two arms in real life, but found it comercially expedient, no, not because it was awesome to have a one armed dude beat the shit out of people, but because it was comercially exedient. He wasn't thinking that when he made this film, but that's how it would go today, which wouldn't happen. It would be mere coincidence, and the director and actor would not know how to handle such awesome skill, nor show it in any meaninful or awesome way. 

Again, this is all in the first 5 minutes of the film. Regardless of what happens next in the film, it doesn't really matter. This guy has just demostrated the limits of something. Just some limit, doesn't really matter what limit, he hit one here and made a new one, and no one is going to deny that. The blind guy then goes on a genocidal rampage against anyone with only one arm. His eyebrows do the talking from here on out, twitching up and down like the reactions of bat sonar.

Jimmy Wang, with his one arm, is not victim to this genocidal purging, purging similar to that which was carried out against disabled people under by the Nazi Party. This has no bearing on the film, but it unintendedly makes the bad guy just that much more bad ass, not bad ass in a good way, but bad ass in a bad way.  There isn't a whole lot more to say about this film, but one could go on for a few days on it. It's such a fun film to watch, every character is over the top. You just can't stop smiling at the film, and if you do just remember the first 5 minutes, and you'll smile again. In 100 years people will still view the film the same way, just call the bad dude just one bad ass dude, with a rad weapon that is totally implosable, but that doesn't matter because you are watching a film called "Master of the Flying Guillotine", so expect him to be awesome at the weapon, and people will smile and know that it is a true smile. Just enjoy this film because it's the only one of it's kind made, and it's a gem.