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I believe that the existence of this blog constitute to perfecting my English. I am born on 27 July 1989 thus making me a Leo. My dressings are often out of touch with modern fads or trends. Required self discipline and more discipline but I think if I have more wealth or fortune or both will be as good. Prefer to spend money over enterainment rather than materialistic possession. Am in loved with bowling equally as pooling anyway it still playing with balls. Adore cam-whoring equally as web making. Does not believe that violence can rule over toleration but too much toleration is just as equally bad.
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Red Cliff
There are so many letdowns on that movie. The casting seems weird, the screenplay seems crazy enough and there is XingBa, YunChang, Yide and Zilong all as mere tools for Zhou and Zhuge in killing.
There Zhang FengYi as Cao Cao which I felt that is extremely being miscast. He is a brilliant actor but still I couldn’t sense Cao’s deviousness and that Hero of Chaos aura coming out of the actor. In fact, I couldn’t even sense Guan Yu magnificent aura there as well. He is being reduced as a mere mortal perhaps to make it more real? His blade isn’t really fanciful as well compared to every source out there. The worst is Zhang Fei, which doesn’t even carry its trademark the Snake Headed Spear.
Of course there are cool fighting scenes for Guan Yu and the rescuing of Liu Chan by Zhao Yun but it isn’t much of that “Epic” either. The pivotal Zhu-ge and Zhou have been apocryphally depicted as rivals, but Woo's decision to follow history and turn them into potential soul mates weakens dramatic power. The movie also made Zhou Yu into a much better person compared to the novel which is petty and always doing small things to harm Zhuge.
What I can say is, the movie isn’t that bad nor is it that good. There is still cool strategic formation that is used in battles against Cao's 200,000 cavalry assault. The masterfully varied cinematography captures an astounding array of military pageantry, martial arts sequences and ancient weaponry that could be a part of that “EPIC” thing going on.
Bottom-line still goes its watch able but if you’re into Romance of the Three Kingdom, it will be a disappointing let down.
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