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Clélie :)'s List: Wuxia movies and fiction

    • ZHANG Yimou's artistic life is over,” was Hong Kong movie director Zhu Yanping’s  unhesitating comment after watching his distinguished peer’s latest offering,  House of Flying Daggers
    • nonetheless a huge domestic box office hit

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    • this genre has consistently amazed audiences with its special effects,  choreographed fight scenes, and melodramatic stories
    • The wuxia genre is actually a sub-genre to the American action/adventure film.  US movies were imported by China in the early 1900's

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    • the Wuxia is not unlike the familiar Western hero - the lone cowboy  riding into town to exact justice and right wrongs. The world of the  Wuxia is different from that of society.
    • A constant theme of the Wuxia novels is that of surpassing your abilities  through practicing your martial art. You keep doing this, and fulfill the final  achievement, which is transcendence.

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    • Characters fly in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, often with  breathtaking poetic beauty. They do so not just to impress audiences and  celebrate physical grace. Defying gravity is a stand-in for spiritual striving.  A mastery of the self can, in certain cases, lead to an individual connecting  with the laws of nature. There is, in short, both a tradition behind the flying,  and a philosophy.
    • A Touch Of Zen
    • d'inspiration bouddhiste, sera le premier wu xia pian à rencontrer un  succès en Occident

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