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• Takin it old skool

  2009-10-15 7:16AM / 標準BLOG / 會員可以看
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  I was bored so I decided to watch one of the most popular trilogy's of all time.  You guessed it...The Condor Trilogy.  If you guessed wrong, then....you suck haha jay kay jay kay.  I was never a real fan of the new school trilogies.  I guess cuz I'm not used to all the magic and ppl flying around.  Cuz ya know, back then they didn't have that kinda technology for those effects so the fights were actual fight choreography.  Plus the lead roles were perfect in my eyes.
  
  Legend of the Condor Heroes
  
  I really thought the cast for the lead roles were perfect.  Felix Wong and Barbara Yung RIP =(.
  Guo Jing was kinda lost most of the time which Felix displayed wonderfully.  And Barbara was smart and tricky just like Huang Rong should be.  And put the two together made an adorable couple hehe.  Michael Miu, who played the villainous Yang Kang, was also a good idea.  You almost like hating the guy haha.  I've never read the novel so I can't compare the two, I just know the TVB adaption is good.  The story starts out with two hunters who become closest of friends.  The promised that when their sons are born (Guo Jing and Yang Kang) they would be sworn brothers as well.  During the Invasion of the Jin Empire, the two friends and their wives split up.  One of who died trying to run away and the other disappeared.  So Guo Jing and his mother live in Mongolia while Yang Kang and his mother live in the palace of a prince of the Jin Empire.  That's all Ima say.  Go watch it! or read it!
  
  Return of the Condor Heroes
  
  I like the story in this one even more than the first.  Yang Guo, the son of the evil Yang Kang played by Andy Lau, is orphaned at a young age.  He is found by is uncle,  Guo Jing, and taken to Quanzhen Sect to learn martial arts.  But because his father was so evil, everybody always bullied him.  Eventually he ran away and found a new teacher, Xiao Longnu played by Idy Chan.  After living together for a long time, romance developed between the two.  But according to society, teacher and student must never fall in love.  So throughout the whole story, Yang Guo and Longnu go through trials and tribulations to test there love.  I won't say anything else about the story, cuz Ion't wanna ruin it for folks who never read or saw the series.
  
  The Heaven Sword and The Dragon Sabre
  
  I felt like this one didn't really have any connections to the previous stories.  The two swords were forged from a sword in the Return story and Guo Jing and Huang Rong's youngest daughter is the founder of the Emei sect here in this story.  But that's about it really, unless I'm forgetting something else (anybody?).  Still, the story is well put together.  The lead roles this time is Tony Leung as the orphaned Zhang Wuji, and Kitty Lai (who by the way is hella cute) plays the mischievous princess, Zhao Min.  Oh and Simon Yam is also in here who plays Zhang Wuji's father, Zhang Cuishan.  Wuji's mother is from the Eagle sect while his father is from the Wudang sect.  The story is makes you feel pity towards Zhang Wuji.  His parents were killed because they refused to give up information about this godfather, Xie Xun (The Golden Lion).  He grows up learning various martial arts and powers.  When Wuji was discovered to know the whereabouts of his godfather, he too was being pursued.  He also helped saved the Ming Cult from the other righteous sects claiming that the Ming Cult was "evil".  During Wuji's adventure, he finds himself in a 5 sided love triangle, something like that.  He loves one girl but she turns to hating him and he falls in love with another girl who was once considered his rival.  Crazy huh?
  
  So if you haven't watched these three old school TVB series, I recommend you do so.  And if you pay attention closely, you'll find Stephen Chow and Francis Ng as extras, specially Francis.  He's in all three playing soldiers, minions, villagers and so forth.  Haha kinda weird looking back and him playing such small parts and now he's up there with Andy Lau and the rest of em. 
  
  Well I hope you all enjoyed reading this essay haha.  So now go out there and find these series!!!