Gem of Childhood Memories...

Went out to a little shopping today, found some gem of my childhood memories. :D

Back in the day when I was still in Primary School, I would watch these kind of Chinese black and white movies before I go to school. :D

The one on the left is my favorite. It's called "The Goblet which glows in the dark" :D It's a Chinese legend / fantasy. It's a story in which Aladdin meets Cinderella meets the Wizard of the Oz meets the Iron Chef meets Lord of the Rings.. and what not.. :D hehe

Here are the reasons why this movie is so good.. :D

The Aladdin element: The story involves a little girl, Bobo who found this magic goblet in a cave. The goblet's magical power can be activated by dropping water into it. The 'Aladdin' in this goblet is a pretty genie lady who looks like Bobo's deceased mother.

The Cinderella element: There's this evil adulterous step mother who abused Bobo. She set about to murder Bobo's father and Bobo. Of course, fortunately, there's this faithful housekeeper who always tries to look after Bobo and her dad. The funny housekeeper is called "70%" :D He only does thing 70% instead of 100% :D

The Wizard of Oz element: When Bobo tries to look for a good step mom for herself, she asked the genie to look for someone who look exactly the same as her late mom. The genie found one in a princess; so she created a magical wind (a tornado) to deliver the princess to Bobo's house. :D

The Iron Chef element: There's a wedding celebration scene which shows a bunch of Bobo's neighbors all come around to cook for the wedding. There's a live chicken being slaughtered on the film! :D This won't ever happen in movies nowadays. :D

The LOTR element: There's this magical bowl that can see into other people's lives. Just like Galadriel can glance into her magical water bowl to see into the hobbit's torments... Also, in the end, the glow-in-the-dark goblet had to be melted just like the One Ring... :D Just like the Lord of the Rings, it's a long movie too and there's lots of CGI effects :D hehe

Well.. CGI back in the day of the 60's wasn't called CGI... It was primitive, but it's nonetheless effective, fun and inspiring... :D The effects include.. dead mom coming out of a painting, flying people (like superman's flying), giant trolls in a cave and teleporting people from one spot to another. This is why I enjoyed this movie so much when I was a kid .. some 25 years ago..

Here are some clips of the movie. :D Sorry, my English only readers, there's no subtitles available. :D But you get to see the genie and Bobo (the kid) in these clips. :D

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