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went to watch the warlords. hmm. what to say. yueyun went to watch before me and her comment was that it is quite bad. and i cant really say i was anticipating this film; i went in with more of a 'let's try watching this film' feeling. rather different from perhaps love though there is still takeshi kaneshiro. actually there's a lot of films out there that uses takeshi kaneshiro as a narrator or with parts where takeshi kaneshiro will narrate. haha. he makes a.. very good narrator. his voice obviously has a taiwanese accent but it's not very taiwanese.



most of this film has this black feeling. i dont know how to describe it. like the black parts in 'hero'(the one with jet li, tony leung and maggie cheung).everyone wears black and there's this certain brown/yellow hue in most of the scenes. it changes after they took down nanking. the hue went away and it started to have more colours. and it kinds of remind me of jet li in hero.the way that he speaks, the black clothings..



and the 3 leads all have different accent. one with china accent, one with hongkong accent and the other with taiwanese/japanese accent.



it's good except the music. and i think that's why it's hard to focus totally on the film. and it doesnt make u think abt it again; unlike like maybe watching chungking express will make u think of california dreamin' and you will start to recall like faye wong dancing around, tony leung's smile or maybe takeshi kaneshiro sitting in his kitchen eating canned pineapples.



but this film makes hing dai look so bad. both talking abt brotherhood, warlords is so much better than hing dai. at the end of it, what strikes me most is still each character's character: takeshi kaneshiro's innocence, jet li's ruthlessness and andy lau's loyalty.

making of warlords