John Woo's "Red Cliff" Trailer is up

[Mistwell]

http://tw.movie.yahoo.com/videoplayer.html?id=2556&type=movie

Some summaries:

Based on the events during the Three Kingdoms period in Ancient China in which specifically told in the title, The Battle of Red Cliffs.

In the early third century, the land of Wu is invaded by the warlord Cao Cao and his million soldiers. The ruler of Wu, Sun Quan, calls on the rival warlord Liu Bei for help, but their two armies are still badly outnumbered. However, the Wu strategist Zhou Yu sees that Cao Cao's army is unused to battling on the sea, which may just give them a chance if they can exploit this weakness properly.

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale, led by the Prime Minister, himself. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance. Numerous battles of strength and wit ensued, both on land and on water, eventually culminating in the battle of Red Cliff. During the battle, two thousand ships were burned, and the course of Chinese history was changed forever.

Apparently the movie is over 4 hours long. Asian audiences will see it in two parts, while the U.S. will get a reduced version at 2 and a half hours.

I'm looking forward to it.

 

[possum]

http://tw.movie.yahoo.com/videoplayer.html?id=2556&type=movie

Some summaries:







Apparently the movie is over 4 hours long. Asian audiences will see it in two parts, while the U.S. will get a reduced version at 2 and a half hours.

I'm looking forward to it.

I do hope that 1.5 hours will be restored for the DVD release...

 

[frankthedm]

My gaming group will be pleased.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

That's annoying we don't get the full-thing, hell if whatever American studio is bringing it over here thinks its too long for the audiences here, then give us a intermission half-way through, but to cut out more then 1/4th of the movie is ridiculous.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

I learned my lesson from Hero the cinematography will probably be beautiful but Chinese ideas of grand epic plot and story tend to make me go WTF?

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I learned my lesson from Hero the cinematography will probably be beautiful but Chinese ideas of grand epic plot and story tend to make me go WTF?

You should check out House of Flying Daggers amazing Chinese martial-arts and cinematography, but with a very Western story; it is essentially a Romeo and Juliet story.

 

[Blastin]

You should check out House of Flying Daggers amazing Chinese martial-arts and cinematography, but with a very Western story; it is essentially a Romeo and Juliet story.

Well....without giving spoilers.......I'd say it still has a fair bit of "Chinese style" in the ending. 'course, I kinda like that style....

 

[trancejeremy]

I dunno, a lot of the HK/Chinese films that get shown in the US theaters here are too artsy for my taste. I prefer their trashier, mainstream stuff (which ironically doesn't get released here, well on DVD but not on theaters).

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Hrm. Could be cool.

I always did like Pang Tong.

Brad

 

[frankthedm]

I want mass combat and lots of it, a smattering of court intrigue and as little love story as possible.