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Three Kingdoms (San guo)

Once again, no not the anime. Although I should check out the anime and make a com­par­i­son against this…

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The new Romance of the Three King­doms live-action TV series pro­duced by main­land China began air­ing just a few days ago on May 2, 2010. Con­trary to my orig­i­nal expec­ta­tions, this series was not actu­ally pro­duced by CCTV, which might be the fun­da­men­tal cause on why I haven’t enjoyed it as much as the orig­i­nal 1994 adaptation.

As they had adver­tised, the new series began with Cao Cao’s attempt to assas­si­nate Dong Zhuo, instead of start­ing at the begin­ning of the orig­i­nal nov­els with the Peach Gar­den Oath (which was only dis­played with a short scene). This meant that the story was cut down sig­nif­i­cantly to only its most inter­est­ing parts. How­ever, Direc­tor Gao Xixi also saw it fit to change numer­ous other minor aspects of the sto­ry­line, rang­ing from Liu Bei’s first war­lord bene­fac­tor to speed­ing up the devel­op­ment of his rela­tion­ship with Cao Cao. It seems he wants to focus the devel­op­ment on the main cast as much as pos­si­ble, even at the expense of minor log­i­cal con­sis­ten­cies. This is a bit sad since one of ROTK’s great­est aspects is how well it man­aged to sculpt its huge cast of characters.

The sig­nif­i­cantly higher bud­get invested is evi­dent in the series. The stage set­ting, the cos­tumes, and espe­cially the bat­tle sequences they’ve shown thus far are all notice­ably bet­ter than before. The bat­tle­field scenes have been a bit short and fran­tic, although that’s expected since there hasn’t been a notable field engage­ment yet. But to make up for it, the gen­er­als’ fight scenes have been thrilling and well-choreographed, espe­cially the Lu-Guan-Zhang ver­sus Lu Bu fight in episode 5. The cam­era angles do need some work though, as they’re often too close and change too quickly.

My main com­plaint with the new series lay with the actors and their char­ac­ter por­trayal. From the sharp voice Zhang Fei has which makes him sound like some clas­sic vil­lain­ous Asian offi­cial, to Liu Bei who shows barely any human emo­tions even though he’s meant to be a very expres­sive per­son, to the young and hand­some Lu Bu who lacks the pas­sion and fury his char­ac­ter is meant to con­tain, to Cao Cao who always sound like he’s short on breath… not to men­tion, none of the char­ac­ters thus far has the sheer pres­ence and aura of author­ity they should have (and they did in the 1994 adap­ta­tion). Their speeches sim­ply lack the back­ing of that nat­ural tone of a leader and doesn’t leave much impres­sion on the lis­tener. The poor act­ing was made worse by the bland audio sound­track, with the back­ground music not only being sim­plis­tic, but they’re also extremely cheesy and poorly inte­grated, stick­ing out like a sore thumb as if this was some aver­age Hong Kong mar­tial arts movie.

After how much I’d been antic­i­pat­ing this, it’s actu­ally been a bit of a downer. Hope­fully it’s just me still being biased towards the 1994 series and that I’ll like this bet­ter with some time…

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Release Date: 2 May 2010 (China)
Country: China
Box office: Budget: CNY 150,000,000 (estimated)

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