Movie: Hero

No..... can't say I liked the movie. It's one of those movie that I didn't think I'd like, but had to see it anyway because it has so much publicity. By the way, the director was a Chinese fellow, was Quinten Torentino just the financial sponsor?

Sure, a lot of the scenes were pretty. There were no denying it. But I generally don't appreciate movies that mangle up my culture. People used to say Hong Kong was the "desert of culture." Boy, do they need to understand the Americans. In this country, classic is Stephen King and James Patterson, and majority of the population are convinced that Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, and possibly even Mulan were entire creation of Disney. The first three at least still kept the gist of the stories. Beauty and the Beast has too many versions. Little Mermaid. Ugh. The ending was only altered. She was supposed to DIE, for crying out loud. All these classics have hundreds of versions floating around because they have been around for so long. And in every single version, little mermaid DIED in the end. And Mulan, don't even get me started on Mulan. Hubby argues that Disney kept the gist of the stories and therefore it is not important to know who was the original author. Funny how nobody says that about Shakespeare eh? Even modern interpretations will still credit back to Shakespeare. Nonetheless, how did Little Mermaid kept the gist of the story when love didn't really conquer it all at the end? And Mulan, Mulan was about this girl who loved her father so much she went to war for him. It was never meant to be a love story. Or that she and that jackass of a guy (who wanted to kill the girl who saved her life. Some kind of loyalty eh?) single-handedly saved the emperor. Speaking of which, why was the emperor alone in the palace? What happened to the tens of thousands of guards? Was that budget cut of the imperial palace, or budget cut on Disney's part (too expensive to draw extra background characters).