Thursday, July 24, 2008


Background

With a budget of US$80million, "Red Cliff" is the most expensive Asian-financed film to date. The movie is based on historical records of "The Chronicles of the Three Kingdom" rather than the novel, "Romance of the Three Kingdom". In the early third century, the land of Wu is invaded by the warlord Cao Cao and his soldiers. The ruler of Wu, Sun Quan (Chang Chen), calls on the rival warlord Liu Bei (You Yong) for help, but their two armies are still badly outnumbered. However, the strategists Zhou Yu (Tony Leung) and Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro) see that Cao Cao's army is unused to battling on the sea. With 200,000 men, Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang defeat Cao Cao's army at the Yangtze River.


my review

Character development is more often than not stereotyping. lecher cao. perplexed zhuge. simpleton zhanfei, etc. the drive behind the story is weak. the intrigue of the 3 kingdoms strategising and plotting is replaced by slapstick(Humour) dialogue. Of course a full replication of the original 3 kingdoms novel would be bad, but at least this abridged(edited) version should at least make some coherent(Logical) sense. Sending birds out to recce enemies playing soccer? Generals fighting all the time on foot? Perhaps not enough time for the actors to train to ride horses??? Is more to e one man show when the general like Guan Yu appear.. FIGHTING ON FOOT... BLOODY SHIT. Too bad that came in the form of the smug(self-satisfied) Takeshi Kaneshiro, always nodding away and ever so pleased with himself. The cast did well, come to think of it. They were only let down by the uneven direction of a monumentally expensive production.

Well, this will be worth watching to note its inadequacies. As like my uploaded picture, the main advertising picture is small but the character in the movie is bigger. Focus more on the actors/actresses.








7/24/2008 01:53:00 PM; undramatically.Y

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