http://redclifffilm.com/ VOD 10/22 and In Theatres 11/18. Legendary action-cinema master John Woo and international superstar Tony Leung reunite for the first time since the 1992 classic HARD BOILE...
http://redclifffilm.com/ VOD 10/22 and In Theatres 11/18. Legendary action-cinema master John Woo and international superstar Tony Leung reunite for the first time since the 1992 classic HARD BOILED in RED CLIFF, the epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. RED CLIFF opens as power hungry Prime Minister-turned-General Cao Cao (Zhang Fengyi) seeks permission from the Han dynasty Emperor to organize a southward-bound mission designed to crush the two troublesome warlords who stand in his way, Liu Bei (You Yong) and Sun Quan (Chang Chen). As the expedition gets underway, Cao Cao's troops rain destruction on Liu Bei's army, forcing him into retreat. Liu Bei's military strategist Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro) knows that the rebels' only hope for survival is to form an alliance with rival warlord Sun Quan, and reaches out to Sun Quan's trusted advisor, war hero Zhou Yu (Tony Leung). Vastly outnumbered by Cao Cao's brutal, fast-approaching army, the warlords band together to mount a heroic campaign unrivaled in history that changes the face of China forever. A massive hit in Asia and the most expensive Asian film production of all time, RED CLIFF is a breathtaking war epic that marks the triumphant return of John Woo.
RED CLIFF is the third film in Magnet Releasing's "Six Shooter Film Series V2," a series of six films focusing specifically on action cinema, featuring some of the most exciting action films available today from around the globe. RED CLIFF will be preceded by ONG BAK 2: THE BEGINNING and BRONSON, with three other films to follow over the coming months including DISTRICT 13: ULTIMATUM and THE WARLORDS.
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Because there ain't any incentive for them to expand their empire further...... Why go on full scale war whereby you can receive tribute from the west every now and then........ There are historical evidence that countries in the middle east does pay tributes to the Chinese empire..........
Scholars on Ancient Rome and China did make comparisons, and the consensus was that if they armies ever meet, the Romans would be killed. Han China had better technology (cross bow), Tactics (1/3 of Han army was infantry), and man power. The most the Roman ever field was close to 100,000 - Cao Cao's army alone in Red Cliff was close to 800,000. Do the math.
They did, during the Han dynasty they invaded and drove out the Huns, who went to Europe and attacked the Romans, and the ancestors of modern day Hungary. They didn't have any real desire for more since, well, the rest of the world were Barbarians. The Mongols didn't come to power until more than 1500 years later, and Song Dynasty at the time was a weak state. Did you know that the Mongols went West BECAUSE they can't take Song China easily? And didn't take China until they had an Empire?
This movie is not historically accurate. And the Han army was completely different from the Roman army so that you can't really make comparisons either.
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Why go on full scale war whereby you can receive tribute from the west every now and then........
There are historical evidence that countries in the middle east does pay tributes to the Chinese empire..........
And they got sodomised by the Mongols, they only managed to reisst because the Empire was rather large.