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Actors: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Jacky Cheung, Yee Kwan Yan
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Once Upon a Time in China |
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA is a movie directed by Tsui Hark in 1991. The film won the Hong Kong film Award of the year.
Late XIXth century in China. Jet Li, a martial law teacher, organizes the civilian resistance against the foreign countries that slowly invade China and destroy its identity. He will have to face an american slaver, the local government and a Kung-Fu master who's sold his skills to the foreign forces. Can Kung-Fu win against bullets ?
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Once Upon a Time in China |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Civilian Resistance
Combat acrobatics/martial arts?
Yes
Kind of movie
- traditional karate
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- teacher/professor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Chinese
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Chinese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- slaver
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Specific kind of enemies?
- big business interests
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- China
Water?
Yes
Water:
- warship
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- karate chop
- guns
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- hanging
- perforation--bullets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Chinese
Subtitles?
- Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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