The Girl from the Naked Eye

[GeneChing]

I poached this thread off our Jason Yee's Dark Warrior Movie thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38735). Looks like it's gained enough traction to stand alone.

Jason has a new one coming out soon - The Girl from the Naked Eye. It looks sort of noir. I mentioned it on the US Open International Martial Arts Championship XII thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showpost.php?p=895048&postcount=62).

[Lucas]

ah, thanks for the merge. I'll be keeping my eye on Jason's film career.

[GeneChing]

Odd review but good for a ttt here.

The Girl From the Naked Eye: R-Rated Kung Fu Fun for Everyone! (http://technology.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981377037)
by Con Chapman
June 05, 2012 09:02 AM EDT (Updated: June 05, 2012 12:21 PM EDT)

They laughed when I said I wanted to be an entertainment lawyer. "Hmph," I could hear them hmph as they turned away and snickered among themselves. "Maybe he'll pick up a walk-in rapper off da streets, or an odd folksinger here and there, and some of them are really odd," they'd say. "But he'll never rep a martial arts film set in Boston's notorious adult entertainment district, The Combat Zone."
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Well, to all the scoffers I can now say--phooey on you! The Girl From the Naked Eye, starring Jason Yee, opens in the top ten markets June 15th! Take that Speilberg!

Apart from business and professional considerations, The Naked Eye Cabaret in Boston holds a special place in my heart. For years, the . . . uh . . . boit de nuite in the Combat Zone advertised an "All-College Girl Revue." In other words, the exotic dancers in the place weren't just . . . strippers. They were working girls, studying hard between turns at the pole, struggling to educate themselves, in love with learning--just like me! Still, I could never bring myself to overcome the inhibitions of my Catholic boyhood and actually go to the place. As everyone who has ever performed what the Baltimore Catchism refers to as an "Examination of Conscience," the Sixth Commandment--"Thou shall not commit adultery"--by implication strictly prohibits slipping a $5 bill beneath a stripper's garter. Especially if you're going to ask for change.

And so when the time came for me to settle down and get married, my groomsmen, in the time-honored tradition of the bachelor party, decided to introduce me to some of my fellow intellectual wannabes on the distaff side.
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After drinks and dinner at a steak joint (note to groomsmen for my second marriage, if at first I don't succeed: I don't like beef), we made our way to the Combat Zone, so named not because of the many men who are knifed by pimps there, but from the many men in uniform who spent their pay there while off duty during World War II.

We turned as one into the Naked Eye, where we were overwhelmed by the sanitary smell, like that of a well-scrubbed elementary school boy's room. No social disease is getting out of this place alive!

My friends made way for me to take a seat of honor at the bar, where I was immediately greeted by a sultry brunette in a low-cut dress. "Hi," she said as she placed her hand on my thigh. "My name's Tiffany Chandelier." For some reason exotic dancers are named after light fixtures. "What's yours?"

I told her, and then I popped the question I'd been longing to ask a Naked Eye dancer for oh so many years.

"What's your major?"

[MightyB]

This looks surprisingly watchable

Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTklzWCjXr4) Moderately NSFW (contains glints of boobies)

[GeneChing]

I've been eager to see this movie since Jason mentioned it to me five years ago (see link above). Good on him!

Movie Review
Call Girl Dies, Manhunt to Follow
‘The Girl From the Naked Eye,’ a Noirish Martial Arts Movie (http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/movies/the-girl-from-the-naked-eye-a-noirish-martial-arts-movie.html)
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Jason Yee in “The Girl From the Naked Eye.”
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Published: June 14, 2012

There’s a lot to like about the action film “The Girl From the Naked Eye,” especially some crisp martial arts fight sequences and the subtle sense of humor that surfaces now and then. But the filmmakers make a mistake in telling the story via flashback and a voice-over by Jason Yee, who plays Jake, the main character. As graceful as Mr. Yee is in those fights, he proves that delivering a compelling voice-over is harder than it seems.

The movie is trying for noir, but Jake mostly sounds awkward talking us through his efforts to avenge the killing of Sandy (Samantha Streets), an under-age prostitute for whom he developed a soft spot while working as her driver. Jake took that job to pay off a foolishly incurred debt, and it puts him in the midst of an underworld centered on a club called the Naked Eye, where men connect with escorts like Sandy.

Apart from the voice-over, Mr. Yee makes a pretty good vigilante, and the script (written by Mr. Yee; David Ren, who directed; and Larry Madill) features some unconventional choices that give the film a distinct personality. The chief villain ought to be a man named Simon, who books Sandy and the other women, but Ron Yuan plays him with a likability that keeps things refreshingly off-kilter. Mr. Yuan also directed the fight sequences. One of those, staged in a narrow hallway, is a particular gem.

“The Girl From the Naked Eye” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has moments of nudity and gore.

[mickey]

Greetings,

Though this looks good, for the whole time I was watching this, my cells were screaming, "TAKE THE MOTHERFRUCKING COLOR OUT!!! IT IS NOT NEEDED!!".


mickey

[doug maverick]

Greetings,

Though this looks good, for the whole time I was watching this, my cells were screaming, "TAKE THE MOTHERFRUCKING COLOR OUT!!! IT IS NOT NEEDED!!".


mickey

color=having your movie at the AMC in timesquare

B&W=having your movie at village cinema in the ass crack of manhatten or the angelika.


and not on one of the biggest stages "movie theatre wise" in the freaking world...Ron, Jason and the rest worked hard on this movie...but its still very raw looking in terms of the fact that it feel a bit digital..hard to get a film like this in a theatre period...let alone having a screening in select theatres. and not ****ty little arthouse theatres but REAL movie theaters.

[mickey]

Gretings,

I never saw Sin City as an art house theatre flick. I mention black and white because it has that claustrophobic Sin City feel. The voice overs add to that feeling. I still know how to remove the color from my television.

I hope the movie does well.

mickey

[doug maverick]

Gretings,

I never saw Sin City as an art house theatre flick. I mention black and white because it has that claustrophobic Sin City feel. The voice overs add to that feeling. I still know how to remove the color from my television.

I hope the movie does well.

mickey

sin city was def. an art house movie...it just had alot of big named actors... so people say its a hollywood movie..but it had a low budget for a film of that scope and was literally shot in robert rodriguez's garage. it does have that feel..but like i said for a film with no big name actors. they made the right move.