The first half of the movie doesn't have many fighting highlights, but the rhythm of the movie picks up significantly from the Manchu invasion. For audiences who like action movies, the second half of the game is nothing. The whole film also has a lot of bright spots in details, which makes people feel the attitude of Korean filmmakers to the film's excellence.
There are some small details in the video I don't know if you noticed it. Every time the male protagonist Nan Yi draws a bow, a wrench will appear on the thumb of his right hand. At first, the wrench was not a symbol of power in ancient my country. It is only an auxiliary tool for archers in archery in ancient times to facilitate the archer to pull the string and take the arrow to prevent the thumb from being worn by the bow string. Even in modern times, auxiliary tools similar to the wrench still exist in modern archery.
In the movie, whenever there are scenes of Manchu dialogue, the language used is Manchu, yes, you read it right, it is Manchu. A Korean who plays Manchu in a Korean movie speaks Manchu. There may be fewer than 700 people in South Korea who can speak Manchu, and the crew made the film more convincing by making Manchu speak Manchu (inland Qing palace dramas say "I'm here to make soy sauce").
In the section where the generals of the Qing Dynasty led a group of cavalry archers to fly over the canyon, when they jumped forward and put on their cotton armor, attentive audience members could see that the Manchurian armor was composed of armor and skirts. There are shoulder guards on the shoulders of the armor, and armpits under the armpits. There is a heart guard on the front chest and back. Each part is connected by buttons or belts. The cotton armor wears soft armor similar to the Chinese leather armor to protect the key parts of the human body. The Manchus used cotton armor for a reason:
the Manchus were not productive enough to mass-produce metal armor.
The Manchus fought mainly with cavalry, supplemented by infantry. Too heavy armor was not conducive to the rapid advance of the troops.
(Mainland Qing palace drama represents Yali Shanda)
This is the treatment of several details in the film, basically faithful to the facts. After watching "Bow", it is inevitable to complain about domestic movies. He is not good at handling many details in mainland Chinese movies. For example, the M1 carbine in Yu Chengwan's hand in the previous "Blood and Lonely City" changed from a single shot to a continuous submachine gun; another example is the tank that finally hit the millet in "Assembly", Nima, Does the army have that kind of tank? The turret can't be turned, the whole thing is an assault gun; and in the recently released "Golden Robbery", all the Guizi soldiers used ten-wheel cards of the US military to transport materials, and the submachine guns in the hands of the Guizi soldiers were all US military M3 Grease Gun. It can only be said that history has crossed once. No matter how big or small the mainland movie's budget is, I just hope that mainland filmmakers can do a good job in the details of the props and don't let the props become a flaw in the movie.
PS: In Chinese history, a crown prince did die on North Korean soil. But he is not Manchu, but Han. So this film has a bit of a sticky YY plot, but it's still a good movie.
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