Talk:House of Flying Daggers

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Contents 1 Soundtrack 2 Ruby characters crashing 3 Poster 4 Ending 5 POV 6 Mortally wounded?

[edit] Soundtrack

two questions:

• i've found music of the song in the sound track. But does anyone know if the version that actually sings the lyrics is in the soud track?
• in the ending credit there's an song sung in English. What song is that? is it in the sound track?

Xah Lee 21:33, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)

• • The end credit song is sung by Kathleen Battle, called Lovers. Mandel 19:11, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ruby characters crashing

I moved the ruby characters out of the table to above the table because when nested within wikitables, the ruby template crashes Internet Explorer 6. See Template talk:Ruby. —Lowellian (talk) 23:06, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Poster

the older poster used here is much better. What's the logic with the new one? Xah Lee July 2, 2005 16:50 (UTC)

[edit] Ending

We need a good summary of the ending. It's very complicated, but essential to the summary. The current summary just stops without much of a resolution.

I felt that the ending was good, it made the audience use their approximation of what would have happened like with the battle with the general and the house of flying daggers,it is used to make you think,e.g a rhetorical question that requires no precise answer but just thought..user:wongdai

I think the current interpretation is overly simplified. It says that Leo would rather see her die but right in the above sentences, it says that she threatens to kill Leo if he throws the dagger. I see this as Leo wanting to know what her feelings were--as in, was she willing to kill him in retaliation? Or did she love him still to some degree (albeit not as much as she loves Jin), and perhaps to Leo, the consequence was worth finding out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.231.217.70 (talk) 07:58, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] POV

The section about the negative response to the film in China should be reworked to make it clear that we're describing and not endorsing the response. The last line, negatively comparing Flying Daggers to Hero, in particular makes it sound like we think Flying Daggers lacked an underlying message. I personally think that's quite wrong, but in any case it's not the sort of judgment a Wikipedia article should make. I don't know enough about the response to attribute these ideas to the relevant parties. Nareek 07:36, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I tend to agree. I saw an underlying message or theme to it, which the commentary essentially supported, and I think it'd almost be difficult not to see one. I can see why the message might appear too "Western", but as in many traditional Chinese stories chucking it all for love results in death or tragedy. If he'd gone totally "Hollywood" with this the ending might have had both of them survive even if they couldn't be together.--T. Anthony (talk) 08:24, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mortally wounded?

Um . . . are we sure Liu and Jin's wounds (I'm thinking especailly of Jin, really) were mortal ones, as the article currently says. Liu admittedly didn't look like he was in particularly good shape there at the end, but Jin hardly seemed on the verge of death. And if indeed his wound was already mortal, then what would have been the point of Mei sacrificing her only chance to live in order to save him from Liu's (ultimately phantom) dagger? If Jin was already a goner, then Mei's sacrifice had no meaning.

I suppose one could say that indeed that's the point; it makes the whole thing all the more tragic: Mei's sacrifice was doubly for nothing. Not only because Liu hadn't really thrown his dagger, but also because even if he had, her intercepting it still would not have saved Jin's life. But I really didn't get that sense of it when I watched it. I didn't get the sense that Liu was necessarily going to die as he staggered off — maybe, maybe not. Definitely got no sense that Jin was going to die of his wounds. Did I miss something that makes their deaths more definitive, as the article seems to indicate? Mwelch 09:06, 18 April 2007 (UTC)