At the 67th Venice Film Festival, which opened on September 1, the famous Chinese director John Woo is about to win the Lifetime Achievement Award. At the same time, he will also bring his first martial arts masterpiece "Sword Rain", which cost tens of millions of dollars, to the world premiere. On September 3, Pony Pentium Pictures, the filmmaker of "Sword Rain", exposed a "face-changing version" poster. The stars of "Sword Rain" appear in half faces. The concept of "face-changing" is more clearly visible in the film, and the names of several gold medal creators are also presented on the poster one by one. Woo praised "the use of face-changing elements," Sword Rain "is more suspenseful."
Wuxia also sci-fi "Sword Rain" "face change" is more suspenseful
"I don’t want to see this face anymore," as the voice-over of the final version of "Sword Rain" shows in a previously released trailer, a knife is thrust into the blood-stained face of Lin Xilei – a familiar makeover scene reminiscent of John Woo’s Hollywood blockbuster, which featured John Travolta and Nicolas Cage swapping faces and ended up raking in $200 million worldwide. "’Sword Rain’ actually puts the concept of chivalry into science fiction films," Mr. Woo said. "Sword Rain ‘does the opposite, introducing elements of science fiction into martial arts films." The theme of the two films is also different. If "Changing Face" is a story of "becoming you and killing you" to avenge the old life, "Sword Rain" is the yearning for a new life of "becoming her and saving me". Woo explained, "In" Changing Face ", the male protagonist wants to track down a murderer, so he changes his face and enters the life of the murderer. Although in" Jianyu ", he also has the same concept, but she is to avoid her past, to pursue a new ideal and a new pursuit to change his face." In addition, due to the addition of the screenwriter Su Zhaobin, and the use of face-changing elements, "Sword Rain" has more suspense. Woo Yusen praised, "Can the person in the play live the life she wants after changing her face as she wishes? Will it cause greater variables? These are all more suspenseful under Su Zhaobin’s design." Sword Rain "is very different from" Face-Changing "."
Dai Liren as a colorful playwright
Wang Xueqi as the wheel king
Starring all subvert the image of "sword rain" to create a costume version of "face change"
"Sword Rain" tells the story of a female killer (Michelle Yeoh) and a simple young man in a small town (Zheng Yusheng) who are married after washing their hands in a golden basin, but because they have a holy object and want to live an ordinary life, they are forced to suffer from the killers led by the "King of Wheels" (Wang Xueqi). In the process of creating the script, Su Zhaobin borrowed elements from John Woo’s classic film "Face Changing". This poster expresses this concept more directly, and completely builds "Sword Rain" into a costume version of "Face Changing". In the film stills and trailers, it is not difficult to see that the main characters in "Sword Rain" have also changed their previous makeup and played "face-changing": the youth idol Yu Wenle not only wears ancient clothes for the first time but also has a thick beard, with a murderous look; the Taiwanese gentleman Dai Liren plays a colorful playwright with white hair and a goatee, almost missing the appearance of the former handsome man; the big S is full of blood and slashes with swords. In the past, the "crazy" she has completely become a full "violent and beautiful" female killer.
On September 3, local time, John Woo’s first martial arts masterpiece, "Rain of Swords", will premiere globally in Venice.
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