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Feng shen Di yi bu: Zhao ge feng yun (2023)
You will never regret watch China's best mythological epic movie
Let me share more background.
The story of the Creation of God (Fengshen in Chinese) was passed down over 3000 years ago in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Then, about 2500 years later, a writer from the Ming Dynasty wrote a book, "Fengshen YanYi," for sale to collect money for his daughter's dowry. Nobody could prove if it is true that the writer wrote it for his daughter, but this is the 1st book to build the Chinese epic system. Later, all excellent Chinese epic novels were based on its design.
The movie combined the novel and fundamental historical research.
Creation of God is an imaginary myth with the Shang and Zhou dynasties as its background and Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and folk beliefs as its connotations.
Various settings are based on the past dynasties of China, mainly bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, landscapes of the Song dynasty, and Taoist culture of the Yuan and Ming dynasties. The integrated innovation after reorganization essentially expresses a myth and legend with an epic temperament, so it isn't very meaningful to verify it from the perspective of historical textual research.
'Feng Shen bang,' the white jade roll in the movie, means a list of people to be sent/hired to the God positions in Heaven.
The movie has two storylines. One is about finding "God" to send to Heaven. Another line is in the transition of the Shang Dynasty to the Zhou Dynasty. In the first movie, the young man had been PUA by the Ruler of the Shang Dynasty. He was woken up by what his biological father told him: It doesn't matter who your father is; It does matter who you are. The young man, JiFa, will become a hero and the only Ruler of all realms. And those parts will be in the 2nd and 3rd movies.
It took over nine years to bring the movie out, and over 10 thousand people have been working on it; some passed away before the movie came out.
If you are still trying to figure out how sincere this movie is, please search more on YouTube or other video introductions.
If you see gold, you won't be attracted by bronze.
This movie is gold.