Red Cliff (film)

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Movie
German title Red Cliff
Original title 赤壁
Chìbì
Country of production China
original language Standard Chinese
Publishing year 2008
length 280 or 142 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director John Woo
script John Woo
Khan Chan
Cheng Kuo
Heyu Sheng
production Terence Chang
music Taro Iwashiro
camera Yue Lü
Li Zhang
cut Hongyu Yang ,
Angie Lam ,
Robert A. Ferretti
occupation

Red Cliff is a Chinese monumental film directed by John Woo . The film was made in 2008 and is set in AD 208 during the Three Kingdoms' era .

In Asia , the film was released in two parts. The first part was released in July 2008, the second in January 2009. In Germany it did not come to the cinemas, but was released in November 2009 in a heavily abbreviated compilation of both parts on DVD and Blu-Ray . With a budget of around $ 80 million, Red Cliff is currently the most expensive Asian film. The first part grossed $ 124 million in Asia and broke Titanic's box office record in the People's Republic of China .

action

The Prime Minister Cao Cao , who seized the northern kingdom the real power, brings the Emperor Xian to Shu and Wu to declare war. With an army of 800,000 men he sets out to destroy the two empires. Zhuge Liang , close advisor and strategist to Liu Beis , the king of Shu, uses skillful diplomacy to bring about an alliance between the two kingdoms. The young Sun Quan and the experienced Liu Bei now face the enemy at the Red Rock . Through Zhuge Liang's ability to assess Cao Cao, the allies win a victory against the Prime Minister's cavalry. As a result, he now shifts to the tactics of a ship fight, although his soldiers become seasick in large numbers. Finally, a typhus epidemic breaks out in Cao Cao's camp. The minister sneakily sends the dead across the river to the enemy camp, where the disease also breaks out. Liu Bei sees his troops so decimated that he withdraws. Only his advisor Zhuge Liang stays with Sun Quan.

In order to replenish the scarce supply of arrows and at the same time reduce that of the enemy, Zhuge Liang has several ships padded with straw and sails out onto the river in the fog. Just out of sight of Cao Cao's troops, the crew draws attention to itself with drums and ineffective volleys of arrows. Cao Cao's general swallows the bait and lets fire back, but the arrows get stuck in the straw and are now being reused by Sun Quan's troops.

On the night Cao Cao's final attack is expected, the wind is blowing from Cao Cao's direction, allowing Cao to use the fire to his advantage. Zhuge Liang, who has carefully studied the behavior of the weather, predicts a change in wind direction at two o'clock at night. In order to delay the attack, Zhou Yu's wife Xiao Qiao went to see Cao Cao, who had adored her since he was a teenager, and had tea with him. When Cao Cao notices the ruse, it is already too late and the wind has turned. Cao Cao's ships, connected with wooden planks to prevent rocking, now turn out to be an obstacle because they are unable to maneuver. Sun Quan's fleet sets fire to the sulfur- laden ships. Meanwhile, Liu Bei, whose trigger was only a feint, attacks Cao Cao's camp from the land. The prime minister is pushed back and ultimately has to surrender.

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged the film to be "almost classic cinema of the old Chinese school, with the tempo changes between action and almost contemplative scenes being carefully balanced."

Remarks

  • The film won eleven awards and was nominated for a further six awards. He received the Hong Kong Film Award five times alone . At the “3rd Asian Film Awards” he won the prize for the best special effects.
  • As the Lexicon of International Films writes, the film is "a turning point in the bio and filmography of John Woo, who returned to his homeland after 15 years in the United States."
  • In many cases, fans and critics criticized the fact that the originally two-part film was cut by almost half for the Western audience and cut into a film, which led to illogical storylines and missing backgrounds.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Red Cliff . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2009 (PDF; test number: 118 370 DVD).
  2. ↑ A. Dawtrey, E. Guider: Berlin star power eclipses click pics. ( Memento of September 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Variety , September 30, 2009. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  3. ^ "2008 Overseas Total Yearly Box Office" , Box Office Mojo . Retrieved March 2, 2009
  4. ↑ a b Red Cliff in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used