Brilliantly concevied and executed, Kung Fu Panda soars as a Fantasy compared to The Forbidden Kingdom. And essentially, they have the same plot. Take a fan of martial arts and make him the only one who can stop the big villain in a martial arts film. The post-modernism of films is actually a delight to [...]
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How Kung Fu Panda Gets Fantasy Writing Right 1 comment
How not to write Fantasy: The Forbidden Kingdom 2 comments
The movie is based on one of the oldest known novels, Journey to the West, a Chinese Epic. Written down finally in the 1590s from oral stories dating much farther back, it’s 100 chapters long and is one of the four classic novels of Chinese literature, so any screenwriter would have challenges in writing up [...]
