{"id":146,"date":"2021-09-03T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2022-02-18T12:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T11:30:19","slug":"shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/03\/shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When I saw the promotional posters for this Shang-Chi<\/em>, it immediately piqued my curiosity. I am not a MCU fan except for very concrete works, mainly because the superhero theme isn’t quite my favourite fruit, but I was very willing to go check this one out. First of all, because it initially looked like it could deliver a satisfactory WuXia<\/em>\/Chanbara<\/em> experience (which are of my favourite subgenres in action flicks) with all the power of Marvel-Disney’s Hollywood money on its side; and more secondarily because most surely it would not be a fully ‘Murican-styled superhero story. I was more willing to give it a chance than with other sibling works from the factory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turns out, the creative head of Shang-Chi<\/em> Destin Daniel Cretton is by no means an Ang Lee or a Zhang Yimou. Whilst I respect to death the overall intention put within making this movie, perhaps I had my expectations too intensely focused on the possible WuXia<\/em> aspect, and somehow I didn’t acknowledge enough<\/em> that the product I was going to watch was a MCU entry, by all means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what can you expect if you go to watch Shang-Chi<\/em>? Action, of course. I admit I had my good doses of fun with some action scenes that perfectly could have been taken from a John Wick<\/em> entry, especially in the first half of the movie. These were flawlessly executed and with a taste on their cinematography where I could perfectly perceive the power of Disney’s money behind them. However, when the movie tries<\/em> to imitate<\/em> the WuXia<\/em> kind of action, it’s just… not. You know the feeling when America remakes a foreign work, where you can taste<\/em> the Americanness in it? That’s exactly the same here. And also, too over-the-top and dense. Objectively, it’s good action, really well shot. But as a matter of taste… I feel it takes too much effort on imitating the clich\u00e9s<\/em> whilst painting them over with a Hollywood Blockbuster CGI Epic varnish rather than trying to just, you know, depict Chinese-styled fights bluntly, just like that. I can respect the people that enjoy this, and I admit I am too accustomed on stylism<\/em> in this genre, so this kind of effect I described puts me off. But it’s a personal view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I digged Tony Leung appearing here. He’s an actor I really like, and you can notice his magnificent presence, because he even displaces the titular character in importance for half the movie. I liked that, but it’s also sad that a movie supposedly about the titular character finding himself and gitting gud<\/em> leaves precisely that premise aside for making him passively carried by the circumstances executed by another character. I feel that, if Shang-Chi’s character had had the same presence and relevance through the whole movie than in the first third of it, the overall result would had been much better. However, I also feel that Awkwafina acting all as comic relief, deuteragonist and significant other of the main character at the same was cool. I still find it hilarious that she entered the MCU. Where can’t you find her nowadays?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about the rest of the movie, out of action and characters? Feels like a quick mishmash of Western views on Chinese folk, anarcho-traditionalism and CGI. The rest of characters played their supporting roles with dignity, even if some Disney-class humour moments felt a bit odd sometimes. But of course, it must be remarked that this is a MCU entry, so it must feel<\/em> like one at times. Again, photography and cinematography and props were really nice<\/em>. I just miss more props and less CGI, but that’s a lost battle for me and I admit it. Would I recommend this movie? I had both good and bored moments in the experience, mainly divided by the two halves of the movie. People seem to like it and I know I am weird. Consider that I found some aspects I really enjoyed, even if it was only Tony Leung’s performance and the first John Wick<\/em>-styled fights. So, I am sure everybody will find cool aspects in Shang-Chi<\/em>. It’s like a hamburger. Regardless of the quality of the materials employed to make it, everybody will find a tasty thing in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USA, 2021 Action\/Fantasy Mainstream Trailer When I saw the promotional posters for this Shang-Chi, it immediately piqued my curiosity. I am not a MCU fan except for very concrete works, mainly because the superhero theme isn’t quite my favourite fruit, but I was very willing to go check this one out. First of all, because… Continue reading Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37,28,154,152,151,93,56,55,156,155,153,72],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corners","tag-37","tag-action","tag-awkwafina","tag-destin-daniel-cretton","tag-fantasy","tag-mainstream","tag-marvel","tag-mcu","tag-shang-chi","tag-simu-liu","tag-tony-leung","tag-usa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymoviecorners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}