{"id":13412,"date":"2020-02-12T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T02:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13412"},"modified":"2020-02-12T18:59:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:59:44","slug":"shadow-2018-zhang-yimou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13412","title":{"rendered":"Shadow (2018, Zhang Yimou)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <em>Three Kingdoms<\/em> adaptation, but the third kingdom must&#8217;ve been cut for time.  The Shadow is Deng Chao (star of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11264\">The Mermaid<\/a><\/em>), trained as a public replacement for the military commander (also Deng Chao) hidden in a <em>Parasite<\/em> basement.  Their boss is Pei king Zheng Kai (<em>The Ex-Files<\/em> trilogy) and their wife is Sun Li (Chao&#8217;s real wife, the blind girl in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/168\">Fearless<\/a><\/em>) and it&#8217;s not always clear who&#8217;s fooling who.  Anyway, the shadow starts a fight with the next city over, and before the neighbors can strike, Pei launches a sneak attack featuring their new umbrella-based weaponry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/shadow2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Only a pretty good royal-intrigue movie, for the most part &#8211; too many stabbings with exaggerated SHINNNNG-SPLORT! sound effects &#8211; but with a couple of inimitable Zhang touches.  The assault on the rival kingdom begins with Pei fighters skating down a hill inside twin bladed umbrellas, deflecting enemy fire and shooting crossbows from inside their spinning shields, and continues with their new dueling technique: dodging enemy blows with a feminine umbrella sway.  Then there&#8217;s the visual design, with complex black and white patterns and explicit yin-yang effects.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/shadow1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/shadow3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Three Kingdoms adaptation, but the third kingdom must&#8217;ve been cut for time. The Shadow is Deng Chao (star of The Mermaid), trained as a public replacement for the military commander (also Deng Chao) hidden in a Parasite basement. Their boss is Pei king Zheng Kai (The Ex-Files trilogy) and their wife is Sun Li [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1767,338,212],"class_list":["post-13412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-doubling","tag-umbrellas","tag-zhang-yimou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13431,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412\/revisions\/13431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}