It is funny and endearing in its own inimitable manner, and you get to see super celebrity, Bing Bing Fan, before she became then superstar she is right now, as an alien princess, and fan favorite, Charlene Choi as the lizard-imp (ugly duckling) who falls in love with the monk and transforms into a beautiful princess to save him. ![]() The earliest of the three is A Chinese Tall Story which is sort of like a Goose Girl / Ugly Duckling fairy tail, but uses Chinese folklore about lizard imps, demons and monk demon-hunters as its romantic characters. If you have study group scheduled this weekend, you can actually sneak this in as your guilty pleasure after getting all of the work done and enjoy the Halloween week coming up. After you gorge on the food and the booze or whatever you're celebrating with this year, take time to ready your copies of the following Wuxia spooky fairy tale movies: Once Upon a Time (2017), A Chinese Ghost Story 2 (2013), and A Chinese Tall Story (2004). Or if you are new convert to celebrating Sam Hain Harvest Festival with an American Pilgrim Thanksgiving kind-of-feast, then that has its own superstitious and good luck rituals that also are fun, harmless and even illuminating as a turnaround on what has imposed on us as Christians for quite a while now. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's that time of the year again when we celebrate Halloween with whatever corny rituals we feel like doing.
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