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From Xinhua we learn that Ridley Scott has purchased the rights to two screenplays—Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇) and Genghis Khan (成吉思汗). According to that and other reports, Scott is intent on making a historical epic type film about China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, with the help of Zhang Yimou, whose film Hero featured the first emperor as a character. According to Chinese reports, Scott will probably get down to some serious work on this after the 2008 Olympics, in part because Zhang Yimou's a little busy with the opening and closing ceremony preparations. Though we respect Ridley Scott, we really can't feel an ounce of excitement about yet another historical epic full of grandiose themes that will ooh and ahh us for two, maybe three hours, and then you leave you feeling just about as empty as you did before.
Ridley Scott to make movie about first Chinese emperor
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Why not just wait and watch the movie and then see what you think?
Because we already know how murderous he was and how he was a mercury junkie, and yet with the "help" of the cultural ministry, Qin will be portrayed as a reluctant conquerer who embodied the spirit of harmoniusness, unity and prosperity as promoted by our favority political party.
And of course there will be beautiful, busty girls, magnificent costumes and the use of ancient Chinese cruise missiles with time delayed fuses to show yet another amazing technological development unfurled long before the white folks crawled out of their caves.
Well, let's hope not. :)
Personally
Crouching: loved it.
Hero: liked it.
Daggers: liked it.
Banquet: tolerated it.
Curse: eschewed it.
So you saw the same movie 5 times, liked it for a while and got really tired of the same stuff.
Then you realized you were watching overpriced Gordon Liu TV shows, and that HK kung-fu is deliberately hokey and that makes it more fun to watch.
hero and daggers were two of the worst films I have ever seen. Almost every single Chinese person I know hates those films too. They are embarassing.
no one will ever make movies as good as Stephen Chow anyway ... I don't know why they even try.
I just watched Fight back to School ... hilarious
Mr Chen, your comment regarding respecting Sir Ridley Scott rings totally hollow as your following cheap remarks illustrate.