{"id":16561,"date":"2024-06-30T21:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16561"},"modified":"2024-06-27T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:25:33","slug":"once-upon-a-time-in-china-iii-1992-tsui-hark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16561","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Time in China III (1992, Tsui Hark)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set in Beijing leading up to a grand lion king dance event.  For a friendly sporting competition, a lot of guys sure get set on fire or catch spears through the chest.  Focus is less on individual kung-fu, more on lion-head spectacle, though enemy-turned-ally Clubfoot (Xiong Xinxin, villain of <em>The Blade<\/em>) is the breakout star of the former.  The comedy and romance get pretty bad &#8211; in fact anything that isn&#8217;t a lion-head dance is wasted time, and Foon is the worst offender.  The photography is sharper than ever though, especially when Rosamund is around, and there&#8217;s some good shadowplay.  Rosamund&#8217;s Russian motion-picture supplier turns out to be an assassin, caught in the act by his own tech.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/once3china1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>New stunt coordinator Yuen Bun did <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16483\">Dragon Inn<\/a><\/em> and the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/536\">Royal Tramp<\/a><\/em> movies the same year, later went on to work with Johnnie To on greats like <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14157\">Throw Down<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14466\">Sparrow<\/a><\/em>.  Interesting to hear Tsui in the blu extras complain about lack of originality in modern film &#8211; everyone studies the same references and produces the same movies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/once3china2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/once3china3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set in Beijing leading up to a grand lion king dance event. For a friendly sporting competition, a lot of guys sure get set on fire or catch spears through the chest. Focus is less on individual kung-fu, more on lion-head spectacle, though enemy-turned-ally Clubfoot (Xiong Xinxin, villain of The Blade) is the breakout star [&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":[451,200,91,639,1766,181,1979,3193],"class_list":["post-16561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-china","tag-filmmaking","tag-jet-li","tag-kung-fu","tag-sequel","tag-tsui-hark","tag-wong-fei-hung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561","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=16561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16602,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561\/revisions\/16602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}