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Romance of the Three Kingdoms movie

PostPosted:Sun Dec 24, 2006 1:33 pm
by Julius Seeker
I think many of us have played the game based off of the story, now there is a movie with Ken Watanabe as Cao Cao and Chow Yun Fat as Liu Bei.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425637/combined

PostPosted:Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:18 pm
by Don
There are a lot of movies based on the ROTK period. It's the equivalent of WW2 for the Chinese.

PostPosted:Mon Dec 25, 2006 2:23 pm
by Blotus
That may well be, but this one actually has a chance of being released here.

PostPosted:Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:34 am
by Don
I don't think the ROTK story would be too interesting without the Chinese = Han = Liu Bei cultural bias in it. I assume they're not actually going to try to portray the actual history, and the novelized version is no different from your standard good triumphs over evil, and it's because Chinese identifies themselves with the Han. Otherwise Liu Bei is just a guy hiding behind some nasty terrain trying to become the next Emperor.

PostPosted:Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:57 am
by Julius Seeker
that's fine, the games are hardly accurate either =)

I have not seen a Romance of the Three Kingdoms movie before, I didn't even know that Ken Watanabe spoke chinese, I wonder if they plan on doing this in English?