Rattle wrote:
] k wrote:
] ] [ I think this movie is gonna totally kick ass. -k]
]
] I've seen it via bootleg DVD. It first came out in China
] about 2 or 3 years ago. It is very good, in a Chinese
] Spaghetti Western kind of way. Great use of color.
]
] Its also one hell of a propaganda film in disguise. You will
] walk out of the movie theatre repeating "One China" to
] yourself over and over, and not knowing why.. Hero is
] extremely political, pro-dictatorship, pro-unification by
] force, pro-imperialism, etc. I remember reading somewhere
] that the PRC specifically cracked down on pirated copies of
] (just) this movie as a reward to the director in return for
] making a "historical" plot so favorable to the state. Its
] sort of like Mel Gibson's "The Patriot", only for a one-party
] dictatorship. I bet that intellectuals in China _hate_ this
] movie. There is a reason this one took so long to make it to
] the USA. It will be interesting to see if the version we get
] here contains all of the same dialog with the King that drives
] these points home..

[ Now i want to see it even more... i had been thinking of it primarily as a cinematography treat, something visually beautiful, with a fairly traditional plot. I can't wait... -k]

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