【聖石傳說】在美國發光！
美國最著名的音樂雜誌【滾石雜誌 (Rolling Stone)】，一向以走在流行最前線為報導原則，且對美國娛樂界的消息具有指標性的意義。在今年美國最新一期八月份的滾石雜誌『熱門事件（Hot Issue）』中，特別以專欄介紹了台灣【聖石傳說】製作的精緻與浩大。文中提到目前美國青少年有透過網路訂購聖石傳說ＤＶＤ的現象，引起了滾石雜誌的密切注意，也因此採訪到霹靂國際多媒體的海外代理商，進而了解雄霸武林數十年的霹靂布袋戲，如何的風靡台灣，播出時萬人空巷、擁有廣大戲迷的情況，以及霹靂布袋戲最大的原創者－黃氏家族如何由祖父開始的世代傳承。此專欄作者不但對於霹靂布袋戲能夠以如此大手筆拍攝出【聖石傳說】首部由電視跨向大螢幕布袋戲深深的贊許之外，滾石雜誌也對於霹靂布袋戲能夠走向國際舞台給予高度肯定。
以下為該期滾石雜誌【聖石傳說】專欄報導的原文摘錄：
Legend of the sacred stone
Hard-core fans of the Hong Kong action movie have in recent years watched what was once a geek obsession go mainstream, what with the success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the rise of HK stars such as Jackie Chan and Jet Li. But in the world of Asian cult cinema, there is always a weirder and more obscure Next Thing, and this year, that thing is Legend of the Sacred Stone, a Taiwanese film with all the trimmings of classic HK flicks： gleaming swords, gravity-defying kung fu, decapitations, indecipherable plotlines.
Oh, and one fairly major twist： It's done entirely with puppets. Though the trippy Sacred Stone is the first feature film to use Taiwanese glove puppetry, director Huang Wen-tse is just continuing with the family biz-his grandfather, 104-year-old Huang Hai-tai, introduced glove puppetry to Taiwanese TV audiences thirty years ago, and Sacred Stone uses characters from a wildly popular TV series in Taiwan.
"People stop work to watch the show," says Brian Cox of the Distant Horizon film company, which plans to release an English version of Sacred Stone next year. Fans are already ordering import DVDs on the Internet, and the hip Atlanta theater company Dad's Garage has been showing clips from the movie's climactic volcano-battle sequence before shows. Still, the skeptical might say：puppet fu? We say：Trust us. -M.B.