jinhan
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Post by jinhan on Jul 29, 2008 10:03:15 GMT 7
One of the distractions from enjoying this movie would be the casting choice and (largely to personal preference) some actors felt that they had been miscast, especially for the role of Zhu Ge Liang.
After watching Takeshi Kaneshiro’s portrayal of Zhu Ge Liang let me imagine that "What if Chow Yoon Fatt had played this role?". I bet the outcome would be much better, or at least Im not expecting Zhu Ge Liang has such great sense of humour...
Beside the miscast, it felt that various characters had been mishandled. It’s obvious that Zhou Yu is the central character in Red Cliff and Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Zhao Yun are just supporting characters. Yet this film made me felt that Zhou Yu and Zhu Ge Liang had been relegated....
Nevertheless, the film contented with breathtaking and astounding array of military war game... no wonder why John Woo insisted 2 split the show into 2 parts...
Im greatly anticipate the upcoming Part 2.. "Fire burning jointly fleets" (bad translation)
My Rate: B+
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Post by Smurf on Jul 30, 2008 17:26:24 GMT 7
I dont think its Takeshi fault, the movie actually presented with a style of light mood, thats y many characters had much sense of humour in them. Just some facts, Zhou Yu age had to be larger than Zhugeliang by some margin, thats y Chow Yun Fatt definitely not qualified for this role.
Red Cliff war actually is just a war between Wu Kingdom army lead by ZhouYu and Wei Kingdom lead by CaoCao, history facts are ZhuGeLiang and LiuBei's army merely just watch at aside, they wait until ZhouYu defeated CaoCao then only they chase on CaoCao lose army and grab as much land left by CaoCao as possible. With that, only later LiuBei had enough resources to compete with Wei/Wu and finally form the three Kingdoms. This war is most significant as it forms the three kingdoms, and delay the united of China for 80 years.
In this movie, ZhuGeLiang and LiuBei's army had play a much significant role if compare with history facts. Tats ok because of the book "Romance of the 3 Kingdoms", ZhuGeLiang and LiuBei's army are much more known, this will make the movie more likeable. Also although ZhuGeLiang plays a main role, ZhouYu still is the leading character of the movie, thats y Tony Leung doesnt want to cast as ZhuGeLiang in the first place, you remember initially ZhouYu character belongs to Chow Yun Fatt? Tony Leung give up the character to force Chow Yun Fatt to give up ZhouYu character, finally Tony Leung got ZhouYu & Takeshi replace him as ZhuGeLiang, smart move by Tony Leung.
For the movie, as my initial expectations for this movie is somekind of disaster, but it turn out ok.
My rating: B
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jinhan
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Post by jinhan on Jul 30, 2008 22:47:50 GMT 7
Anything disaster would turn to be good when the production cost equivalent of 70-million USD... hahaha...
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Post by Smurf on Aug 7, 2008 11:41:35 GMT 7
Better they gave me 1mil and i wrote em a better screenplay ;D
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Post by jinhan on Aug 8, 2008 10:47:16 GMT 7
sell ur idea 2 john wu, ask him 2 produce another part of story, instead of red cliff~!
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Post by Smurf on Aug 8, 2008 15:00:58 GMT 7
Ok, dun wan "Red Cliff" liao, i had came out with a brilliant screenplay, title "Red Underwear"
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Post by jinhan on Aug 11, 2008 10:36:21 GMT 7
goood... a combination of Superman and Red Cliff....
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