![]() ![]() It took me three tries to get through it. Definitely agree about the Red Cliff movie. What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments section. ![]() ![]() Decide for Yourselfīoth series are available online with English subtitles: For people who already know how the story pans out and are familiar with the main characters, the 2010 version offers an interesting (if sometimes frustrating) spin on the way these characters are typically portrayed. Verdictįor relative newcomers to ROTK who want to learn about the saga by watching a TV show, I would recommend the 1994 version. If you are not familiar, however, it leaves you hanging. If you are familiar with the novel, which most Chinese viewers are, that’s not a big deal. In either case, there are some major departures from the novel, and I admit that I am a bit of a traditionalist in wanting an adaptation to be more faithful to the original.Īnother shortcoming of the 2010 series is that it stops about 8/10ths of the way through the novel. The 2010 series also contrives plots and character motives to try to make the key players more interesting. The 2010 TV series goes out of its way to give them a bigger part, but the effort comes across as strained and smacks of merely trying to give a minor character something to do right before they are swept off screen and forgotten for the rest of the show because, well, they are minor characters in the novel. In the novel, female characters didn’t have major roles. This is especially true where female characters are concerned. In some ways, it makes the characters perhaps more realistic than in the novel, but often times, the changes just don’t work for me. Not so good: The series takes some pretty big liberties with the characters and plots. Good: The cinematography is beautiful, and the battle scenes are much grander and more impressive (though you can clearly tell they reuse some of the CG footage for multiple battles). Battles that are supposed to involve hundreds of thousands of soldiers come off looking more hundreds of soldiers sometimes.Īlso, because the series was filmed over a period of years, some of the secondary characters changed actors midway through, and it’s kind of strange to see two totally different looking guys being identified as the same character. Not so good: The battle scenes are a bit underwhelming at times. The characters are pretty spot on compared to their counterparts in the book, and the actors do a good job capturing the essence of their roles. Good: It is the more faithful adaptation of the novel. They both have pros and cons, but overall, I think I prefer the 1994 version because it is more faithful to the novel. The first is a 1994 version, and the second is the 2010 version. I’ve watched two Chinese TV series for ROTK. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments, too. I figured it would a topic of interest for other listeners, so I’m rehashing my reply to the question and expounding on it here. A listener recently asked me what I thought about the 2010 TV adaptation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. ![]()
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