This Girl Is Bad-Ass (Jukkalan)
New from Jeeja Yanin.
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JUKKALAN With Jija Yanin Gets Appropriate English Title...
by Al Young, May 13, 2011 1:40 PM
Action, Asia, Comedy, Martial Arts
Ho ho, this is pure marketing gold.
Usually, we don't devote an entire post just for the sake of reporting the English title of a foreign film but this is just too fun to pass up. At the Cannes Film Festival, Sahamongkolfilm International was out promoting their films line-up and among them is Jukkalan, an action comedy with leading action star Jija Yanin (aka Jeeja Yanin) and Mum Jokmok (aka Petchai Wongkhamlao). The company has come up with a clever name for the international version which is being prepared for delivery in July and after hearing about it, I gotta say they really hit the nail on the head. Can you guess what it is? Alright, let me tell you. The English title is...waaiitt for itttt....waaiitt for itttt....This Girl Is Bad-Ass. How cool is that, eh?
To help illustrate why this title is appropriate, I have embedded two fight workshop video below, courtesy of Jeeja Yanin's News facebook. The resolution ain't so great but it gives us an idea how Yanin is able to kick some ass with a bike.
Thai trailer: จั๊กกะแหล๋น (Official Tr.)
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Midgets do nothing for you, Jimbo?
Did you watch it with sound?
lol. Yeah, that's exactly how I imagined it.
That's one of the reasons I turn the volume off sometimes. There's just something about Thai that can be very grating. It can be a very musical language too, but it can amplify that nasal whine and I just can't take that. Plus with the sound off, I get a better sense of the choreography. Sometimes sound effects mask crappy choreography.
Actually, these are just intellectualizations. I tend to watch my ultravi after my family has gone to bed and if there's subtitles, I keep it super quiet.