Post by ceonni on Jun 20, 2009 10:00:33 GMT 3
The Hong Kong Genghis series are actually not as bad as I remember them to be. At least they found a good spot to film them (the Lau Wing version?), perhaps somewhere in Australia back in the 1980s. But they are still bad nonetheless.
The 1986 Chinese version with Delger, Schingowa, was a classic. It is the ONLY Genghis movie without a boring plot and absurd fantasies. The Jiang Wen version (2004) is such a joke compared to it. The original classic has the kind of grandeur and historical realism characteristic of many Chinese films of that period, most notably the Burning of the Yuanming Palace, which left strong impression. It was a period that gave us the original Zhang Yimou, one with directors coming straight out of the regional backwaters, experimenting with something they passionately identified with from great world directors, uncorrupted by the later commercialism of Chinese cinema.
Only one copy of the 1986 classic is left online for streaming. Very little is reported of it online.
The 1986 Chinese version with Delger, Schingowa, was a classic. It is the ONLY Genghis movie without a boring plot and absurd fantasies. The Jiang Wen version (2004) is such a joke compared to it. The original classic has the kind of grandeur and historical realism characteristic of many Chinese films of that period, most notably the Burning of the Yuanming Palace, which left strong impression. It was a period that gave us the original Zhang Yimou, one with directors coming straight out of the regional backwaters, experimenting with something they passionately identified with from great world directors, uncorrupted by the later commercialism of Chinese cinema.
Only one copy of the 1986 classic is left online for streaming. Very little is reported of it online.
I also like the fact, that they use bow in almost satisfactory amount. No suicide ambidextrous squads, no strange masks bearing resemblance to certain slavic ritual masks and to that only, finally much less head on charges without softening a meal with a couple of arrow volleys; and even if this movie has as many faults as Bodrovs, it leaves much less distaste and still provides hectolitres of liquorlike pleasure to wash it away (battles! nature!).
