《The Shadow of Tragedy (Short 1914)》Storyline
Neo first entered into a tea room in Chinatown, where he was confronted by the Oracle""s bodyguard Seraph (Collin Chou) - who delivered a quick flurry of blows, kicks, flips, etc.The camera dips into a green, wooded valley with steep cliffs that descend into a snow-fed lake.Reflections of the hills are viewed in the mirror-like images on the water""s surface.As the camera moves over the European landscape and village, it discovers an open, green area nestled between he peaks.]The major themes of the film include the struggle for survival on the primitive, fog-enshrouded, tropical Skull Island between the ardent and energetic filmmakers (led by Robert Armstrong), he hero (Bruce Cabot in a part originally offered to Joel McCrea), he voodoo natives, and the forces of nature (the unique Beast creature); unrequited love and the frustration and repression of violent sexual desires.]This was Katharine Hepburn""sonlyscrewball comedy role - it pushed all its characters to the utter extreme, aking them into absurd, embarrassing, and destabilizing, humiliating circumstances (including sex-role reversals, such as frilly cross-dressing and the search for a lost dinosaur bone and a pet leopard named ""Baby"") hat are wildly and ruthlessly fun.Flynn did most of his own dueling and other action stunts except for the expert archery shooting, and was coached by fencing master Fred Cavens.