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Based on a novel...

posted 11 years ago by j-z-o
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... that some Chinese writer wrote after seeing X-Men?

Whatever the source material, the film clearly adapted from a recognizable Western franchise, while also mixing in a number of other obvious movie tropes.

The cross-pollination of Eastern-Western film-making has been occurring for quite some time (if not all time) but this film might mark the the ultimate dilutive outcome. Some Western audiences look to Eastern film-makers for original story-telling, but as Eastern film-makers see more Western movies, they adopt those Western stories for Eastern audiences, so now Western audiences see cliches they are familiar with regurgitated back to them in Eastern cloaks.

Truly we are becoming one world, one global village, but the ultimate outcome of that fantastic meshing may be that all entertainment will resort to the obvious, trite & cliche.

[–] lightningcows 8 years ago

old thread, but it might be worth mentioning that the film is mostly based on the wuxia genre, which doesn't have a fixed definition, but generally resembles the chinese version of fantasy and superheroes . It is usually martial arts mixed in with some super-power elements.

So, the film itself isn't based on X-Men as it based on prior Chinese wuxia influences.