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NOW LIVE! Into the Woods--new character species, eerie monsters, and haunting villains to populate the woodlands of your D&D games.
I don't know whether to cry like a baby or jump for joy!
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Zoatebix
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Ooh! This thread reminds me - Channing Tatum (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1475594/) is playing Ghenghis Khan in the upcoming Mongol. Very much not a mongolian...
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I'm not sure how mongolian Genghis Khan himself looked, to be honest with you. At least compared to modern mongolians. He was described as having reddish hair and greenish eyes in contemporary sources from China. Which just goes to show you; there were all kinds of mysterious population groups among the trans-wall barbarians known to the Chinese without much understanding on our end of how they all congealed together to form modern ethnic groups.
The Wu-sun and the Kucheans were also described as having red hair, blue and green eyes and looking like monkeys, which many historians believe point towards Caucasian physical features, and they live in the same general area long before the Mongols and almost certainly contributed to the ethnic makeup of the region. There's still plenty of folks that roughly fit that physical description amongst the Uighur and other Chinese Turkestan groups.
The Wu-sun and the Kucheans were also described as having red hair, blue and green eyes and looking like monkeys, which many historians believe point towards Caucasian physical features, and they live in the same general area long before the Mongols and almost certainly contributed to the ethnic makeup of the region. There's still plenty of folks that roughly fit that physical description amongst the Uighur and other Chinese Turkestan groups.
JimAde
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I just saw Constantine recently and Keanu Reeves was good in that. But it called for wooden underacting and emotionally dead delivery. Good casting.
I honestly expect the main reason they're setting it in China is to have lots of good wuxia wire-fu work. I can see the production checklist:
1) Wire-fu martial arts...check
2) Pretty-boy lead...check
3) Expesive FX...check
4) Plot, characters and tension....meh.
I honestly expect the main reason they're setting it in China is to have lots of good wuxia wire-fu work. I can see the production checklist:
1) Wire-fu martial arts...check
2) Pretty-boy lead...check
3) Expesive FX...check
4) Plot, characters and tension....meh.
funny!reveal said:I finally figured out the reason to bring back Ray Harryhausen! Even todays modern CGI can't make Keanu Reeves and Hayden Christiansen act life-like!
Mystery Man
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Canis said:
One is quite a bit more pleasing to look at than the other however.