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Mardi, juin 22nd, 2010
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For those exclusive, ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’ is one of the four pillars of Chinese literature. It’s a massive and rich part of work spanning over a hundred years of turbulent history, and making a single movie out of it is no easy task.
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The directors of Resurrection of the Dragon decide to center the memoir around one of the greatest generals of the day: Zhao Yun “Zilong”. Unfortunately, they botch his background, don’t bother telling his dependable legend, and choose to fit everything in a measly 100 minutes. A imprint here: you may want to check out Red Cliff, which is another Three Kingdoms movie but actually has a sense of scope.
What ‘Dragon’ does is speed at breakneck hasten through a couple (well, one, really) of the principal military accomplishments in Zilong’s career, before spinning headfirst into pure fantasy and making an embarrassingly half-hearted attempt at being “deep”. Ouch! This is a richer and more complex epic than to have to rely on hackneyed Hollywood formulas.
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Exhibit A: Cao Ying. I’m positively baffled that with as many famed heroes and villains as ‘Romance’ provides, the scriptwriters felt a need to beget one of their gain. Ying is the daughter of the enemy king Cao Cao, who looks like a magnificent princess but packs a lethal punch. (What a new character idea? …) Additionally, I can not catch that a cheaply fabricated character such as Ying manages to outsmart Zhuge Liang, the most intelligent military strategist of his time, as easily as she does. A cookie-cutter role with no depth and ridiculous powers? You’ve got to manufacture the villains compelling!
Exhibit B: the fleshy Luo Pingan, the story’s narrator. A foot soldier who gets to know Zilong from the inaugurate of his career who plays a gigantic role in the beginning, drops out completely, and makes a huge comeback at the raze, with a suddenly acquired complexity because he’s bitter for not having achieved success through all these years. Sorry - it doesn’t work. Tip to the directors: no shortcuts. You cannot impartial write in a scene where a character cries and resolve, “well, that’s really deep proper there.”
The ruin result is a movie that has zero depth to it. None of the broad personas around Zilong - Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Cao Cao - are given more than a passing introduction. Positive, Zilong is vast, but the record is not without a compelling surrounding cast.
I don’t understand. The directors have some really knock-out material to work with, but decide to ignore it. Zhao Yun was but one player in a centuries-long saga that started before him and ended (mighty) after him. The directors need to realize it’s OK to obtain that they can’t sing the whole legend in one movie. But they suppose on trying. You can memoir an entire history, or you can paint a single describe in glorious detail, but you can’t do both.
I will give credit where credit is due: visually, it’s fine. I’ll even forgive them for deciding to employ World War 1-era helmets for AD200. The cinematography is helpful, and the combat scenes are definitely well done.
Unfortunately, a trusty telling of Zilong’s mighty narrative needed to be 3 solid hours of fable story-weaving. Instead, what we have is a poorly scraped-together highlight reel that tries more to send a message (”war is harsh”) than picture this legendary man. But hey, tidy swordplay.
It is a nice to have movie for a kung fu movie fan but it is not up to the level of Red Cliff. And it does not stick to the staunch memoir. In the reality, the general fair died accomplish faded age and Cao Cao never had a daughter that was a martial art expert.
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