Talk:Seven Swords

The Seven Samurai

Just to note: someone added this: The movie is based on the Kurosawa's masterpiece "The Seven Samurai" That is inaccurate because Liang Yusheng wrote the script, and it has been acknowledged that the film was based on one of his books. --mh 13:09, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I want to add to this that there is a valid link between Seven Swords and the movie 'The Seven Samurai'. While it's true that the movie was based on an entirely different novel and not on the movie The Seven Samurai, Tsui Hark did state that one of his all time favorite classics is The Seven Samurai and with Seven Swords he tried to create a similar piece. (Blade0817 (talk) 03:48, 27 April 2017 (UTC))

Wire fu

Unlike most wuxia movies Seven Swords makes little use of wire fu, as Tsui Hark claimed he wanted to bring the wuxia genre more down to earth. Nevertheless, there is still much martial arts action as choreographed by acclaimed action director Lau Kar-Leung (Drunken Master II).

I removed this paragraph because it doesn't seem true. While the wire fu in this film is much less vertical than contemporary wuxia (no jumping over trees here), it still uses extensive amounts of wire choreography for various fantastical acrobatics, even more than House of Flying Daggers or Hero. Therefore I think it is disingenuous to claim that the movie has a notable reduction in wire fu, or is any more down to earth than its peers. VanishingUser 13:29, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually this statement is true, both Tsui Hark and Donnie Yen stated in separate interviews that Tsui Hark wanted to use as little wire work as possible. Wires on flying objects were used more - which is also common even in Hollywood movies - but little on people. Less wire work was one of Tsui Hark's objects in the making of this movie. (Blade0817 (talk) 03:47, 27 April 2017 (UTC))

Improvements

Thank you all, who have expanded on my page/article i set up (The Seven Swords/Seven Swords), but we need more infomative links on the cast, at the moment the links are blank,please help research and fill in the missing parts of the article. Wongdai 12:36 6 April 2007 (UTC)

May I comment on!

I'm sorry if I may seem rude but why, (who ever sorted the page into what it is now), did you change my words on the storyline to the 'Seven Swords'?,It was gathered through my findings and research,and the blurb on the back of the film box. It now seems to sound very fictional,as all that was done was the augmentation of my words adding personality to the article, when it is supposed to be clearly factual. Wongdai 12:43 6 April 2007

Final cut

Under the 'Release' section I would also like to add some more information: the first cut was actually over four hours after which Tsui Hark suggested to make the movie into two parts by shooting additional scenes, modify already existing scenes and then editing the first part to 90 minutes long with the rest made into a sequel. Tsui Hark tried convincing people of this idea but he was told the contract with the buyer only allows him one full feature length film from beginning to end, so after additional cutting the current version was finally released as one film. (Blade0817 (talk) 03:48, 27 April 2017 (UTC))

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