dollaward

Muchos Gracias to my friend Miss Guimba for giving me this “You’re a Doll” award. Thanks dahling! I do feel like waving my right hand now ala-Precious Quigaman. Dolls always bring to mind beauty queens with their flawless skin, pretty peepers, and perfect bod.

The rules:

1. Remember to link back to the person who awarded you.
2. Select 5 more bloggers that you think are dolls and link them at the bottom.
3. Tell about a character from a book/ movie/ drama that you like most.
4. Post the picture and title on your blog  permanently if you like.

Writing about my favorite female movie character is a bit challenging. I cannot pinpoint with absolute certainty who that is and I guess it goes for most people who are born Gemini. We are afflicted with a deadly disease called indecisiveness. The twins are said to have conflicting/dual personality yada-yada. In short, we are a breathing paradox. Oh, but please forgive me for this shallowness. Its definitely convenient to put the blame on the zodiac rather than undergo a series of psychological tests. Hehehe!

Will it be Zhang Ziyi in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or Lea Bustamante in Bata, Bata, Paano ka Ginawa? I want my heroines to be realistic yet phantasmal and enigmatic, wise but erring. For instance, its easy for me to appreciate and enjoy films by directors Ang Lee, Quentin Tarantino, Bertolucci, Lino Brocka, and Celso Ad Castillo because they feature a bevy of quirky characters.

Then it came to me. Beatrix Kiddo! Also known as the bride, she’s the spunky, assassin-heroine from the movie “Kill Bill”.  The film may be shouting pure violence but with class and style (they call it aestheticization). Did you see how artfully O-ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) decapitated men? Every scene that Beatrix does to execute her death list is simply powerful. Violence aside, I am drawn to Beatrix’s character because of her strength in all aspects: emotionally, mentally, physically. Methinks any woman who suffered brutally under the hands of her very same group (the Deadly Vipers) deserves a good revenge. Her willpower is amazing.

Musical scoring is likewise superb. Too bad, the man who played “Bill” is gone.

kill

Some of my favorite Beatrix scenes include the confrontation with Vernita Green aka Copperhead, the training she went through under Pai Mei who taught her the five-point palm exploding heart technique, her breaking out of the coffin and digging her way up to the surface, the fight scene with Elle Driver (where she discovered that Elle poisoned Pai Mei prompting her to pluck Elle’s other eye), and the last scene in Kill Bill Part 2 where she finally used the exploding heart technique.

(Trivia: the 3rd part of the movie will be shown some time in 2014 exactly four years from now. Since Bill (David Carradine) is dead, I wonder if its still appropriate to have “Kill Bill Part 3″ as a title. Nevertheless it’s making me excited.)

- – - – - – - – - – - – -

Its time to pass this award to these ladies – Marien, Rachelle, Marge, Jessica, and Karen. :-) Tell us about your favorite characters too.