ROTTEN TOMATOES: Come Visit Yimou's City of Gold Armor

Come Visit Yimou's City of Gold Armor

by Scott Weinberg | April 13, 2006

The City of Golden Armor, number three of Zhang Yimou's action epic series (following Hero and House of Flying Daggers), is presently under production in and around China. Click here to check out some impressive on-set video footage, courtesy of a website called MonkeyPeaches.com.

Starring Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Liu Ye, and Jay Chou, The City of Golden Armor is about "the ill-fated romance between an imperial bodyguard and a prince (that) takes the lovers on a dangerous journey where royal family secrets are revealed." (That's what the IMDb says, anyway.)

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ommega writes:
on Apr 13 2006 08:56 AM

I'm assuming the imperial bodyguard is a woman, right?

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nogard64 writes:
on Apr 13 2006 09:05 AM

[b]oh no[/b]
we dont want to see no gay chinese brokeback mountain movie!

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ninjaandy writes:
on Apr 13 2006 10:00 AM

But I bet that's what we're getting. So now that Ang Lee did it, every Chinese director has to?

I hope I'm wrong.

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nogard64 writes:
on Apr 13 2006 01:17 PM

[b]welll[/b]
since chinese men aint getting it from the other sex they might as well start doing each other.

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Aoiboy writes:
on Apr 13 2006 01:22 PM

And that would be the solution to the overpopulation of the planet... :-P

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Aoiboy writes:
on Apr 13 2006 01:24 PM

Nah, seriously now, I am dying to see the final product. I think Yimou is a brilliant director, and I like the work of the leads as well. Hopefully he will work once again with the cinematographer of "Hero"

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PrecentorEpsilonXVI writes:
on Apr 13 2006 01:55 PM

In reply to this comment (#833685)
Well, Gong Li is a woman, and seeing as the second actor/actress listed on a film title is either the co-lead or the primary supporting actor/actress, I don't think we have to worry.

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nogard64 writes:
on Apr 13 2006 02:26 PM

I'm just laughung my AZZ off because we've already pigeon holed this movie was being a gay movie without knowing anything at all! haha, this is halrious!

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ICP writes:
on Apr 13 2006 03:33 PM

I can't wait. Hero is one of my faves.

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t-joint writes:
on Apr 13 2006 04:21 PM

[b]GEEEEEZ!!!![/b]
Isn't gender bias fun?

Even though it's based on a modern play, Yimou set the story during the Tang dynasty, which is after the legend of Mulan became popular in China. Female warriors were not uncommon during this period.

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insanemansam5 writes:
on Apr 13 2006 06:27 PM

In reply to this comment (#833694)
sorry I thought men had more testerone

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ninjaandy writes:
on Apr 13 2006 08:56 PM

You're right, of course. We don't really know anything about it. My apologies.

I'm just about brokebacked out, though, so I'm ready to jump the gun. Too much of a mediocre thing. Too much movie, too many jokes, too much Ledger, too much Gyllenhall, just way too fraking much.

I'm actually more nervous because I loved Hero, but hated Flying Daggers, so I'm hoping he pulls it back together for this one.

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t-joint writes:
on Apr 13 2006 10:18 PM

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Hated "Daggers"? Wow...really? I usually hate love stories myself, but really liked that film. Not nearly as much as "Hero", but it was still one of the better action flicks I've seen. I also appreciated the fact that even the regular soldiers in it were competent and highly trained, and not just a bunch of red shirts.

Can't wait for this one.

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eye_of_the_pyramid writes:
on Apr 14 2006 01:24 AM

Daggers was truly terrible. The second half is the stuff of, er, legends. I still remember it as one of the worst examples of self-destruction (it began well, I'll give it that) in cinema.

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lavatory love machine writes:
on Apr 16 2006 10:42 AM

daggers is wonderful

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proptart writes:
on Apr 18 2006 07:17 AM

Oh, no...no, not the vague possibility of another movie giving a gay love story the same kind of treatment straight ones receive all the time! Anything but that!

Seriously, whether or not the movie is gay (doubt it; China doesn't even want to show Brokeback Mountain, let alone let one of their directors tell their own gay-themed love story), that was an ugly little show of homophobia up there. If you didn't like Brokeback, that's your business, but why go around crying about the possibility of another gay love movie?

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