A historical film is a broad genre, generally defined as any movie dramatizing events or people from a past era. These films blend fact with varying levels of creative license. While aiming for some degree of historical accuracy, filmmakers also strive for drama, emotional resonance, and compel...
The article explores the constitutive elements of the good-to-be-looked-at-ness, considered to be a Zhang Yimou hallmark, and Zhang's transformation of the well-established martial arts (wuxia) genre into a Zhang-brand blockbuster in the film "Hero (Ying xiong)." Particular focus is given ...
aCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film. A Taiwanese-Chinese-Hong Kong-American co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen. The film was based on...
It was also refreshing to see a heroine that was truly an equal to the hero in a Chinese fantasy drama (both Wuxia and Xianxia). I have only seen 3 Wuxia/Xianxia so far, but in the other two the hero was powerful and talented from the start while the heroine started off weak and ...
they go to another café and have more drinks with Heejungâs acquaintances. When asked if he is married, Chunsu is forced to reveal the fact that he is, and Heejung gets deeply disappointed⦠In the second part of the film, a similar story of âmeeting...
An anachronistic pastiche of wuxia and sci-fi that is executed unbelievably well, it combines thrilling spectacle with cultural specificity to correct the comics’ racist past. A metatextual antithesis to the racism and whitewashing in Marvel’s own history, and a cinematic celebration of the Chinese...
aher is a card for you 她是一张卡片为您[translate] aIn 1979 Tsui Hark bid farewell to the TV station, to the highly explosive enthusiasm to join the film, film making from the beginning, Tsui Hark strange thinking emerges. 1979 debut \"Butterfly\" advocate \"bold futuristic Wuxia films...
Joseph Kuo’s Taiwan-set wuxia is a film of coincidences and clashes. When Tsai Ying-jie (Tien Peng) takes out a bullying martial arts master and his gang, he may contingently be helping defend a street performer and his daughter, but his only real motive is revenge against the master wh...
*a wuxia drama, Heavenly Sword and Slaying Dragon Sabre, soo good! It’s based on one of Jin Young’s trilogy that I love so much, so this latest adaptation made with great fight coreo and charming characters is a happy camp for me. The Tony Leung’s version eons ago would always ...
The precession of the equinoxes or of the earth’s axis may be part of a much larger cosmic context than we have so far believed. Here is a video that, based on the electric view of universe, explains this. It is my view that celestial motion is subject to two distinct forces. ...