The only difference is that this movie is huge in scale. Red Cliff shows he still have the similar trademark he use in his films. In this case, I choose to think the Hollywood system was the cause of it. After his last three films, i began to think whether John's losing his edge already or is it because the Hollywood system that was in the way. Beautifully shot, big on scale, action-plenty, great performances and a smart adaptation of the historical epic, The Three kingdom makes this movie one of the best Chinese epics in decades.(with the exception of Hero) True to his style. After nearly 18 years, John returns to Chinese cinema, with a big present install for all of us. His use of kinetic shots and slow motion gave a fresh look, if not, reinvented the action genre while Hollywood was still producing plain and boring action movies. In his movies, the elements he combined made his movie very unique and distinctive from any other Chinese films i've watched. Growing up in Malaysia, watching many Chinese movies, the one I most fond of was Wong Kar Wai, Tsui Hark, Stanley Tong, Jackie Chan and of course the masterful John Woo. You should feel ridiculous for not doing your research.Its been years since I last watched a great Chinese movie. This non-fictional documentary is incredibly eye opening and gives faces to the trials and tribulations of the Chinese sweat shop workers. Therefore, they had to start from scratch, in a whole new factory, with different characters, dodging and ducking police even more so than before. Him and his crew were finishing up the making of this film "a couple of years ago" and went to this girl's house (I think her name meant Little Fish) to finish up the final scenes, but they were caught by the Chinese police and all of their film was confiscated and his crew was thrown in jail. Here's the thing, Micha Peled would send clips back to the use for editing during his first unlicensed filming in China. The clip that you saw at Columbia University was about a girl in a sweat shop making clothes, yes, but her name was not Jasmine. The director, Micha Peled, was there to watch it with us and to discuss it afterwords. The movie was shown at our school just two Thursdays ago, May 14th, to kick off the Southwest Labor Studies Association's 35th Annual Conference with this year's theme revolving around the Labor's Role at the Grassroots Level.
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