There is a disappointing lack of giant tongues, monster trees, journeys down to Hell, demons, prayer incantations and so on. Yip Shai Wun fails to replicate almost everything that Ching Siu-Tung blew our minds with in the original. It is hard to say what a thorough and utter disappointment the remake is. Yu Siu Kwan undergoes temptation from Liu Yi Fei In other words, we have gone from a groundbreaking work to one that has simply rehashed moves from every other film in the genre. The problem is that since the original came out these have become a regular part of Chinese fantasy cinema and are no longer remarkable.
The remake conducts a few flying, bouncing moves but these are desultory. It only emphasises how little this comes anywhere near approaching the original. Moreover, despite technical advances of nearly twenty-five years, A Chinese Ghost Story 2011 does them umpteen times less imaginatively than the original did. There seems something just too easy and unimaginative about seeing them being conducted by CGI. In the original, which predated the CGI era, the amazement was that all of these were being conducted by wirework and physical effects. When it comes to A Chinese Ghost Story 2011, the immediate disappointment is that these have been replaced by CGI effects. One of these was it was such an insane film to discover – monks and callow young tax collectors going into battle with giant trees and demons the size of houses, combatants flying through the air and bouncing of trees while wielding prayers on pieces of paper and other aspects of Eastern religion, all combined with some of the wildest and most way-out action poses. The original A Chinese Ghost Story was a classic for a number of reasons.
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At the same time as he took on A Chinese Ghost Story, Yip also rebooted the popular Happy Ghost series with Happy Magic/Magic to Win (2011). The greatest successes he has enjoyed came with the popular martial arts biopic Ip Man (2008) and several sequels to it.
Yip has been directing since the 1990s and has delved into Wu Xia on several occasions with the likes of 2002 (2001), The White Dragon (2004) and Dragon Tiger Gate (2006), as well as delivered several other genre films such as the ghost comedy 01:00 Am (1995), the horror anthology Midnight Zone (1997), the horror comedy Bio-Zombie (1998), the fantastical action film Skyline Cruisers (2000) and the comedy The Mummy, Aged 19 (2002). The remake comes from Yip Shai Wun, better known back during the original Hong Kong cycle as Wilson Yip. Tax collector Yu Siu Kwan meets Liu Yi Fei Amid these, this was the inevitable remake of A Chinese Ghost Story. The Hong fantasy genre faded away by the end of the 1990s but soon found a new revival in the 2000s following Hong Kong’s incorporation with China with successes such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Hero (2002), which remade the old Wu Xia films employing much more lavish budget and CGI effects. Such a success naturally spun off several sequels, including A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990) and A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991), even an animated film A Chinese Ghost Story: A Tsui Hark Animation (1997), along with numerous imitators. It wasn’t the first among the genre of films that wound in flying swordsmen, Buddhist monks battling demons and madcap elements of Eastern mythology but it was the one that became noticed in the West and the one that broke the ground that all the subsequent films would follow. At the same time, Yin Che Hsia, a demon hunter who previously loved Nieh Hsiao Tsing but chose the path of forgetting, comes hunting her, only to start to remember the love they shared.Ī Chinese Ghost Story (1987) is one of the crowning moments of Hong Kong fantasy cinema. Ning Tsai Shen tries to take her away from the mountain with him. The two are attracted and she tries to protect him from the wrath of the tree demon Lou Lou who keeps them all in thrall. Ning Tsai Shen meets the lovely Nieh Hsiao Tsing, unaware that she is also one of the demons. The group stop for the night at the Lan York Tse temple, only for the other men to be wooed away by women who are in fact demons that suck out their lifeforce.
The villagers then decide to send him up the mountain along with a party of convicted murderers to see what can be done about the drought.
After stopping to drink from the town’s well, he is arrested by the villagers for stealing their dwindling supplies of water and is just about to be executed when it is discovered who he is. The tax collector Ning Tsai Shen comes to Black Mountain Village.
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