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June 20, 2023

TV Tuesday 6/20/23

Back in March I posted about the Japanese media franchise Lupin the Third. The main character is the grandson of the fictional thief Arsène Lupin from the stories by French author Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941). Last month, I posted about a Japanese live-action series that isn’t connected with the franchise and only implies the fictional French thief.

For TV Tuesday this month, I’m posting about the French standalone live-action series Lupin. Here the references are explicit. When he was young, the main character fell in love with the stories of Leblanc and based his own life (as a thief) on the fictional Arsène Lupin.

And, as usual lately, I’ll mention some movies I watched on television.

4 Comments | tags: Donnie Yen, French TV shows, Ip Man, Lupin (TV series), Lupin the Third, Sammo Hung, thieves | posted in Movies, TV Tuesday

March 29, 2023

It Takes a Thief

By Wyrd Smythe

I’ve been a fan of Japanese anime since the 1980s, but in the last decade or so I’ve come to appreciate it even more (because what’s been coming out of Hollywood lately so often has little redeeming value). As fans of the genre know, anime can be as creative and engaging as any form of storytelling you care to name.

Lately, I’ve begun exploring the Japanese media franchise, Lupin the Third (aka Lupin III or Lupin the 3rd). It began back in 1967 and comprises multiple manga, at least six anime TV series, over a dozen films, and other related media.

It taps into our love of master thieves. The fictional monkey-faced Lupin III is acknowledged worldwide as the greatest (and most fun) thief in the world.

16 Comments | tags: anime, Japanese anime, Lupin III, Lupin the Third, thieves | posted in Books, Movies, TV

September 18, 2016

The New Normal

By Wyrd Smythe

crazy-town-exit The 1991 movie Grand Canyon, which I wrote about recently, in large part is about how insane life has become. In the 25 years since, the insanity has grown. Perhaps most are so focused on just getting through their life or are so taken up by the distractions and toys of modern living, that they never stop to realize just how really crazy the world has gotten.

I don’t mean the apocalyptic reality presented by TV news, or by the GOP; I mean the sheer insanity of how we go about our business these days, what we accept as “the way things are.”

I mean what we’ve come to accept as normal.

8 Comments | tags: Best Buy, crazy life, crazy town, crooks, die die die spammers, die horribly spammers, die painfully spammers, die spammers, Hope Solo, insanity, normal, normality, thieves, vanish from the earth spammers, what is normal | posted in Politics, Society