"Soon The Flash would face his ultimate crisis, shedding his last blood for the Universe. Years later, and by more tortous route, Green Lantern would meet his own end. Two men gone, one eternal bond. I still feel it. Hear it. Their endless talk, obsessively comparing the smallest details, a way of keeping a score. Hal's fascination with The Flash's freedom and Barry Allen's discipline. Barry's fascination with Green Lantern's discipline and Hal Jordan's freedom. I hear Barry prying into Hal's love life, and Hal prying another twenty-dollar loan to be repaid... sometime. No hurry. They'd have their whole lives to even things out. They joke, make plans, and punch each other's shoulder, an akwward schoolboy goodbye. And turning away they map their separate routes by the setting Sun and boldly launch themselves... into red skies."
Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave & The Bold (1999-2000). "Running On Empty."
The figurative paintings of Soey Milk combine the raw power and confidence of her bold brushwork with the profound intimacy she infuses into the rendering of her stunning protagonists. A master at making opposites sing together in harmony, Milk interweaves realism with abstraction, innocence with maturity, sweetness with devilishness, to create beautifully intelligent imagery, offering multi-layered dimensions of not only an aesthetic nature, but on an emotional level also. Her often large-scale works serve as a means for Milk to process meaningful life events, discoveries and emotions, and upon each works completion, her library of mark making becomes a library of thoughts and feelings, a diary if you will, only one which has the ability to speak to us in ways where mere words would fall short
Director: Li Xing
Screenwriter: Murong Zhong
Starring: Li Guanzhang / He Yuhua / Wu Layyun / Yang Yuefan / Wen Ling / Lin Lin / Yang Changjiang / Niulang / Hou Wan
Country/Region of Production: Taiwan, China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Date: 1959-08-01 (Taiwan, China)
Also Known as: Pigsy and Monkey / 豬八戒與孫悟空 / Two Friends
Type: Retelling
Summary:
This film is also called "Journey to the West" and is part of a series with its next film "Zhu Bajie Saves Beauty vs. Leopard". The story of this film is based on "Old Mother Lishan", "Pansi Cave", "Lady White Bone" and "Princess Baihua".
Tang Sanzang and his disciples Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing were ordered to go to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures. One day, they were passing by Mojiazhuang and wanted to stay overnight. Mrs. Mo said that her husband died early, leaving no one to inherit the property and fields. She and her three daughters were the only ones to depend on, and she intended to marry the four masters and disciples of Tripitaka. Seeing that his daughters were young and beautiful, Zhu Bajie became lustful, and Sanzang quickly objected. When Mrs. Mo was refused, she kicked them out. The master and his disciples slept in the countryside, and Bajie returned to Mojiazhuang at night, just about to embrace the beauty. Suddenly, the surrounding scenery changed, and Bajie's cry for help was heard again. It turns out that Old Mother Lishan came down to earth to test them and punish Bajie. Bajie realizes his mistake and embarks on the journey with Master and others again.
The climax of the plot is when Sanzang and others are trapped by the yellow-robed monster, and Zhu Bajie rushes to Huaguo Mountain to seek help from Sun Wukong. It shows Tang Sanzang leading his disciples Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing on an arduous journey to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures.
“If Gene was endowed with total talent, so too, was he endowed with total integrity. His fierce urge for perfection, his almost fanatical need for success, have always been matched by his need for justice for the less gifted, or less advantaged, whose paths crossed his. Gene climbed to the top but he didn’t step on any hearts on his way up. If they ever get around to handing out Oscars for outstanding performance as a human being, you’ll know where to find Ol’Blue Eyes - on the nominating committee rooting for his old buddy, Gene.”
-Frank Sinatra about Gene Kelly: a foreword to ‘Gene Kelly Biography’ by Clive Hirschhorn