{"id":16863,"date":"2024-10-12T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16863"},"modified":"2024-10-11T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T19:35:45","slug":"the-blade-1995-tsui-hark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16863","title":{"rendered":"The Blade (1995, Tsui Hark)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apprentice blacksmith Vincent Zhao is set to become the new shop master when he learns details of his father&#8217;s death at the hands of a heavily-tattooed Clubfoot, so he takes dad&#8217;s broken sword and heads off on a revenge quest.  But the boss&#8217;s daughter likes him and tries to follow, and when he tries to help her he loses an arm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/theblade1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/theblade2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Long frustrating recovery\/training process ensues, Vincent now with some girl in another town.  Sure enough he gets his revenge after inventing a one-armed half-sword whirling fighting style, and stays with the new girl, the boss&#8217;s daughter still pining for him into old age.  After the increasingly safe cookie-cutter comedy-action style of the <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16842\"><em>Once Upon a Time<\/em> series<\/a>, the most notable thing here is the electrifying anything-goes filmmaking technique, turning the action into abstract jags (as opposed to the abstract smears of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1257\">Ashes of Time<\/a><\/em>), matching the brutality of the story.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/theblade3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/theblade4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apprentice blacksmith Vincent Zhao is set to become the new shop master when he learns details of his father&#8217;s death at the hands of a heavily-tattooed Clubfoot, so he takes dad&#8217;s broken sword and heads off on a revenge quest. But the boss&#8217;s daughter likes him and tries to follow, and when he tries to [&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":[451,1766,1829,144,1979,3301],"class_list":["post-16863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-kung-fu","tag-missing-limb","tag-revenge","tag-tsui-hark","tag-vincent-zhao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863","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=16863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16889,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions\/16889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}