man what if we let the europeans brutally colonize everywhere else including china and then take each other out into massive world wars was was that what he was doing huh the actual line here is with the power of the ten rings he has long reigned over the world but it seems like he was just stirring in the background what did he actually do like how responsible is he for the state of the world don't tell me to go read the comics or watch other marvel movies and original movie is supposed to stand on its own the books he researches here have legit chinese in them talking about how according to legend the mystical creature ceiling will appear in their true form during the arrival and passing of sages and wise rulers as a sign of the beginning or end of prosperous times then in another section the ancients said the sky is held up by four pillars that separate the heavenly realms from the earth then he turns the page and there's more about shilling how it has a horse's head deers horns and dragon whiskers and how people lucky enough to catch sight of it will be bestowed fortune and infinite honor but if it meets someone with evil in their heart then it will become extremely angry these are legit chinese myths but i googled the text and found out that it wasn't copied directly from any chinese sources so this is original phrasing by the movie staff not bad i'm legitimately impressed by the effort put in for background material that only shows up for several seconds an extra dimensional realm called talo is not a real thing in chinese myth though that's a marvel original the actual lines here are it's a hidden village where a mysterious martial art has been passed down through generations legendary creatures and ancient magic still exist nothing about the magic coming from the gods as you can see the subs are kind of subpar i'm guessing it had something to do with the people writing the english lines and the people writing the mandarin lines not communicating perfectly with each other some of the mandarin lines sound like they were translated directly and awkwardly from the original english script while other mandarin lines sound fine but then the english subs are off like nitpicky gear but he's actually saying he's sending a scouting team instead of a singular scout honestly most of the older chinese actors in this movie are from hong kong or were based in the hong kong movie industry i'd rather they have spoken cantonese instead it wouldn't even make more sense story wise mandarin is a very young spoken language cantonese preserve more characteristics from ancient chinese so it would be more fitting as something spoken by an immortal tyrant tony lung's car crashes on his way to sliding into tallow and he somehow manages to avoid the sea drama trope that is dropping off a huge cliff and miraculously waking up several episodes later with amnesia can you imagine the alternate storyline in which he meets his wife this way instead he wakes up in her hut with no memories and they fall in love and then he suddenly remembers that he's a two thousand year old warlord the angst that would cause her narration here implies he rules the world at this point
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