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Jet Li's Hero: Beautiful fight scene

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i think you guys don't understand the whole concept of the whole "dipping the sword into the water" emphasis....

as much as we can try to interpret water as the emperor... that's really far fetched and such allegorical interpretations may not seem very likely. chinese martial arts have always employed something called "chi"... for those of you that have seen crouching kitten hidden monkey (don't worry, that was intentional), and thought that it was impossible for them to run up and down walls, fly through trees, bounce on water, etc... well..... that's "chi", or at least their attempt at explaining how that is so. this is also the explanation of the sword dipping the water... although they are master swordsman... blah blah... they can not stay in the air indefinitely... throughout the scenes you either see them bouncing along with their feet or swords... (in one case, Jet Li using his hand)... symbollism? doubt it... but their means of presenting "chi"...

hope that explains something.
 
well, one symbollism may be there... when Jet Li uses his hand, but it wasn't as "graceful" as the other moves... and being a master swordsman, he should've been able to do that flawlessly.... that shows that he was emotionally distracted (not concentrated)... presumably by the chick lying there... 😉
 
I have a copy of this movie that I haven't watched yet. I heard MiramAxe chopped a half hour off the movie. I f***ing hate that company.

I will be getting the extended DVD (the ORIGINAL movie) when it comes out (April methinks)
 
When I got home the other day... there's a package waiting for me... a VCD sent from my mom....

I hope it's not in crippled simplified chinese subtitles.
 
The movie is kinda "art", i guess its because of the director.
Note the different version of the second encounter between Jet and the fighters, with different color screen (Red, blue, white....)
I like the candle fume -> similar to the sword touching on water?
 
Some of the fight scenes and action in the movie are pretty good. But then I thought it was boring, badly-written, and a horribly anti-Taiwan.

And since I'm pro-Taiwan and pro-democracy, I don't see why the Academy likes this piece of crap political statement. It basically rewrites and re-presents history in a way more favorable to the mainland Chinese gov't's views.

Like others have said, other movies have done similar things better without making a bad political statement.
 
Originally posted by: KokomoGST
Some of the fight scenes and action in the movie are pretty good. But then I thought it was boring, badly-written, and a horribly anti-Taiwan.

And since I'm pro-Taiwan and pro-democracy, I don't see why the Academy likes this piece of crap political statement. It basically rewrites and re-presents history in a way more favorable to the mainland Chinese gov't's views.

Like others have said, other movies have done similar things better without making a bad political statement.
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oh please.... its just a movie, you're reading too much into it. this director has not been pro-communist in the past, no reason he would start now.
 
Originally posted by: KokomoGST
Some of the fight scenes and action in the movie are pretty good. But then I thought it was boring, badly-written, and a horribly anti-Taiwan.

And since I'm pro-Taiwan and pro-democracy, I don't see why the Academy likes this piece of crap political statement. It basically rewrites and re-presents history in a way more favorable to the mainland Chinese gov't's views.

Like others have said, other movies have done similar things better without making a bad political statement.
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The only films that are submitted to the Academy by China are films that are reviewed and approved by the Chinese Government.
 
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