Hero - Flying Snow and Moon duel amid cascading autumn leaves. (HD)

This is a wonderful surreal scene from the movie Hero. The young apprentice Moon tries to avenge the death of her master by challenging Flying Snow to mortal combat. The choreography of this fight scene is terrific as the ladies leap amid the cascading autumn leaves.

Hero is a wonderful historic tale set in ancient China. It is crafted with fantasy to bring these fabulous majestic combat scenes. The work that goes into it all provides for smashing escapism.

A district prefect (policeman) comes before the mighty emperor to tell a tale of how he defeats the ancient nations most notorious enemies. With each story, the prefect is bestowed honour and allowed to move his table a little closer to the emperor's throne. Gradually the table, where the prefect sits get closer with each captivating tale.

As each tale is told we see the endeavour unfold. Then the emperor relates the tale from his perspective and we see the same tale with a twisted and different presentation. The whole movie is an absolute masterpiece. Brilliant from beginning to end.

Dreadful Manifestation ( Dark violin Instrumental )

From YouTube Jacekdupa

This tune makes me think that some apocolyptical thing is brewing - under the noses of everyone - all of whom are oblivious to the dreadful thing manifesting itself. Whoooooooo!

It all sounds so dreadful yet compelling. There is something diabolical within the tune. Something vulgar and menacing. Yet still we feel compelled to listen to this splended, foreboding music.

Spiritual Flute: The Beauty of Nature

Great piece from YouTube. I'm on a little journey at the moment with all these wonderful sounds. I find that some of these sounds help you to make scenes in your head and create moods that you might want to put into narative if you write. You look for all sorts of things as tools when you write and music is often a very good source.

Autumn Ladies and Sad Violin

Autumn tears and ladies with sad violins. This is another moving work - from the haunting sound to the montage of atmospheric and Gothic pictures taken from YouTube under 'Sad Violin.'

It's enough to make any red blooded bloke jump on his horse and go out looking for dragons to slay - especially if one of these ladies was waiting on the battlements, when you returned. 

This Beautiful Sadness

This beautiful sadness is something to behold. Wonderful arts combined - fabulous violin sounds and glorious pictures make this little YouTube piece very special. I could not resist putting it on the blog. Listen - look and let your mind wonder... :)

I wished I could play like this in an isolated room with a big window over looking woodlands, a field and a river.