by pjshimmer » Tue Jan 23, 2001 4:02 am
First of all, I never said anything about KFCM making perfect sense. In fact I'm the one who mentioned that it didn't make much sense, although not as confusing as e.g. Legend of the Liquid Sword.<br><br>One thing to always keep in mind when reading my materials is that I am Chinese (one of the few mainland natives here), and I can speak/write/understand/read simplified and traditional Chinese rather well still. So for me, memorizing the prologue to KFCM was quite easy after watching it over and over a couple of times. But for foreigners, I'd imagine it being of a slight more difficulties; it'd be like me memorizing words to an Italian opera - which BTW I would not even try!<br><br>Well now just for reference to the series = KFCM, which is mostly known as "Heaven Sabre and Dragon Sword", the story there still involves around Zhang Wu Ji, however, I was not aware of the fact that he was the grandson of Zhang San Feng. (better known as 'Jumbo' in the Tai-Chi Master) Anyway, and this is off my somewhat misleading memory, something happens to him and he is brought to Muo Jiao (evil sect), and eventually becomes the master there. Meanwhile and before that takes place though, he meets a lot of women, some of whom are students of other clans and sects; others simply wanderers. Anyway, I think he was betrayed by a few of them, and some of these females die along the way. But that's the early part of the show. In the later half, Zhang becomes the mater of the evil sect and has a lover, but there are some resistence and resentment within. And guess who the leader of these local rebels is - Zhu Ruan Zhang - who would become the first emperor of the next Chinese dynasty, which the sect was trying to overthrow anyway. Anyway, Zhu Ruan Zhang eventually takes over the position of master and Zhang Wu Ji and his lover is forced to flead, after Zhu Ruan Zhang has made evil, bad rumours about them. Fortunately for them, one of their 'grand tutors' finally saw Zhu Ruan Zhang's lies and helped Zhang reclaim back his master position. Zhu Ruan Zhang became THIS CLOSE from being stabbed in the chest, in the series anyway, but Zhang Wu Ji spared him. Of course at the end, Zhu Ruan Zhang commanded armies and overthrew the Yuan dynasty and established the Ming dynasty in China.<br><br>**** I just noticed a mistake I made: Zhu RUAN Zhang is in fact supposed to be: Zhu YUAN Zhang. I just didn't wanna change every word above.<br><br>Anyway I'll try to describe a little bit of Maidens of Heavenly Mountains, which is, if you didn't know, based on a well-known wuxia series that's been remade several times and shown in China more than any other wuxia series in the 90s.<br><br>
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