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1. • • Serial swindler Bernie Laplante (Dustin Hoffman) makes the first selfless gesture of his life when he helps save injured passengers from a roadside plane crash and then vanishes into the night. Hoping to find the hero who pulled her out of the wreck, reporter Gale Gayley (Geena Davis) announces a $1 million prize for stepping forward.
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     Jet Li

     Nameless
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     Tony Leung Chiu-wai

     Broken Sword
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     Maggie Cheung

     Flying Snow
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     Donnie Yen Ji-Dan

     Sky
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     Chen Daoming

     The King of Qin
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     Zhang Ziyi

     Moon

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3. thecinemaarchives.com › 2021/09/26 › hero-2002-yimouHero – 2002 Yimou Zhang - The Cinema Archives

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   Sep 26, 2021 · It was one of the most expensive Chinese films made to date in 2002. The prologue introduces the scenario. There are seven warring nations in China. “In any war there are heroes on both sides.”. Jet Li plays “Nameless”- with a complex strategy to assassinate the king.

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   What is the historical background of the movie 'hero'?

   • Quick Facts Hero, Chinese name ... The historical background of the film refers to the Warring States Period in ancient China, when China was divided into seven states. In 227–221 BC, the Qin state was about to unify the other six states, assassins from the six states were sent to assassinate the king of Qin.

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   What is a hero based on?

   • Hero is both epic and intimate, with drama on both a national and a personal scale. In the end, these two levels of the national and the individual come together in a way that speaks volumes about the difference between the individualism of much Western thought and more characteristically Eastern collectivism.

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   Is 'hero' a good movie?

   • As a cogent philosophical or moral statement, Hero is less than persuasive; as a kind of mythic ethnography, a storybook compendium of Chinese moral affections and sensibilities, it is masterful, even magisterial. Artistically, Hero warrants comparison with another one of the year’s best foreign-language films, The Passion of the Christ.

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   Is 'hero' a Kieslowski movie?

   • There are many stories of Yimou Zhang’s fastidious detail as he designed the endlessly exquisite production. Hero has stunning action choreography and epic scope (there were reportedly well over 10,000 extras used to give it scale) yet also seems to have the elegance of an art-house color-immersed Kieslowski film.

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5. www.imdb.com › title › tt0299977Hero (2002) - IMDb

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   Hero: Directed by Yimou Zhang. With Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang. A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.

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   Hero (2002) A- SDG. Four years ago, Ang Lee fired Western imaginations but left Asian audiences cool with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a hauntingly poetic ode to martial-arts cinema that softened its Taoist trappings with gently romantic humanism and Western-influenced psychological drama.

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   Hero ( Chinese: 英雄; pinyin: Yīngxióng) is a 2002 wuxia film directed, co-written, and produced by Zhang Yimou, and starring Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen and Chen Daoming. The cinematography was by Christopher Doyle, and the musical score composed by Tan Dun.

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   Oct 17, 2023 · “Hero” is a 2002 Chinese martial arts film directed by Zhang Yimou. Set in ancient China during the Warring States period, the film follows the story of Nameless, a warrior who is summoned by the King of Qin to recount his battles against three legendary assassins: Broken Sword, Flying Snow, and Sky.

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   Serial swindler Bernie Laplante (Dustin Hoffman) makes the first selfless gesture of his life when he helps save injured passengers from a roadside plane crash and then vanishes into the night.

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   • Category: Comedy, Drama

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    Synopsis. 2003 Foreign Language Oscar nominee. At the height of China's Warring States period, the country was divided into seven kingdoms: Qin, Zhao, Han Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi. For years, the separate kingdoms fought ruthlessly for supremacy.