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Discuss “Hero: slashing with spirit”

Hero is better than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. That one sentence sums up the film pretty well, actually; If you liked Crouching Tiger you?ll love Hero.

Hero, directed by Yimou Zhang, was originally released in China in 2002. The film, which follows the story of a nameless assassin (martial arts legend Jet Li) on his trek to dethrone ancient China?s king of Qin (Daoming Chen), spent two years in production limbo while Miramax Entertainment fought to gain the rights to distribute it in North America. Finally, famed producer/director Quentin Tarantino put up money to get the film distributed.

The struggle to release the movie was only a shadow of the epic scope of the film itself. Hero is shot with an extraordinary attention to a sort...

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