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House of Flying Daggers
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House of Flying Daggers (original title: 十面埋伏) is a Wuxia movie directed by Zhang Yimou, with action scenes choreographed by Ching Siu-tung, released in 2004. Zhang had previously directed another Wuxia flick, Hero (2002), and wanted to explore the genre further. He would later direct Curse of the Golden Flower.The story, set in the waning days of the Tang Dynasty (9th century CE), depicts a love triangle between two soldiers and a young woman suspected of being an agent of a secret society, the titular House of Flying Daggers.The film stars Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Andy Lau. | |
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Love Ruins the Realm | |
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Love Ruins the Realm: Referenced in-story by Mei's song. | |
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Senseless Sacrifice | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_1dacdb4f | comment |
Senseless Sacrifice: In the film's closing moments, Mei pulls a knife from her own body, and uses it to block a knife thrown at Jin. However, it's revealed that Leo's knife was never thrown, thus meaning she killed herself for nothing. | |
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Revealing Hug | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_1ed91e2a | comment |
Revealing Hug: Happens when Leo professes his love for Mei. Behind his back, her expression is completely blank. | |
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Holding Hands | |
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Holding Hands: Used thematically to indicate the bond between characters. | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: The House of Flying Daggers. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Rule of Cool: The titular "flying daggers," which at times pull dramatic u-turns in mid-air. | |
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Pinball Projectile | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_3700d6d8 | comment |
Pinball Projectile: This is most notable when a knife can bounce off a shield, fly away, keep spinning, then double back again. Twice. | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Happens at the end of the Echo Dance when Mei turns her sleeves into Combat Tentacles and attacks the Captain. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: Zhang Yimou's signature style is an overload of lush backgrounds, to the point of chromatic saturation. | |
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Impractically Fancy Outfit | |
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Impractically Fancy Outfit: Mei's dancing girl outfits. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Poor, poor Mei... | |
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Wham Shot | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_4e7f703c | comment |
Wham Shot: Happens at the end of the Echo Dance when Mei turns her sleeves into Combat Tentacles and attacks the Captain. And even bigger with Mei pouring tea, revealing that she isn't blind. Mei is riding through the woods; a dagger comes flying out at her and she throws her sword to block it. The camera pans to show that it was actually two daggers thrown in tandem, and her sword only blocked one... The final Arrow Cam is a double, revealing that she didn't try to kill Leo in vengeance, but rather block Leo's knife throw... as well as the fact that Leo didn't even throw the knife, Mei just gave her life to block a harmless droplet of blood, is a Wham Shot designed to be as tragic as possible. | |
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Audible Sharpness | |
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Audible Sharpness: All over the place. | |
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Throwing Your Sword Always Works | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_519f108a | comment |
Mei is riding through the woods; a dagger comes flying out at her and she throws her sword to block it. The camera pans to show that it was actually two daggers thrown in tandem, and her sword only blocked one... | |
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Snow Means Death | |
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Snow Means Death: In the very finale, where the plot has led to a Duel to the Death, it begins snowing. And yes, someone dies. Twice, basically. | |
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The Empire | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_556a4e20 | comment |
The Empire: The Tang Dynasty. | |
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I Am Not Left-Handed | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_56c55ed8 | comment |
I Am Not Left-Handed: Mei is not blind. | |
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Flechette Storm | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_610afe0a | comment |
Flechette Storm: The flying daggers. Also, a bunch of cut bamboo. | |
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Outdoor Bath Peeping | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_615cad18 | comment |
Outdoor Bath Peeping: Jin peeps on Mei as she bathes in a pond. She's aware of it but doesn't mind. | |
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EliteMook | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_6838a3ec | comment |
Elite Mook: Practically everybody is insanely skilled. Even random unnamed soldiers are so good they can build a cage with thrown bamboo rods. | |
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Grey-and-Gray Morality | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_7335ffa9 | comment |
Grey-and-Gray Morality: There isn't much to tell one side from the other in terms of ethics. By the end Leo is certainly on the darker side of the scale, but even then is not entirely unsympathetic. He stayed devoted to Mei through three years of separation, and she fell in love with someone else after three days, despite those being probably being the last days they would have to spend apart if the plan had succeeded. He even says that she could have told him she didn't love him anymore, but her falling for Jin is just too much for him to bear. | |
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Why Did You Make Me Hit You? | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_77e45bb5 | comment |
Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: Slight variant, with Leo yelling at Mei, after throwing a dagger into her chest, claiming flat-out that she made him kill her, due to her new found love for Jin. | |
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Duel to the Death | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_7919a45b | comment |
Duel to the Death: Jin and Leo. Ironically, neither die. | |
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The Ending Changes Everything | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_7d3f1d63 | comment |
The Ending Changes Everything: The last thirty minutes reveals that Mei is not blind, Leo works for the Flying Daggers, and is also in love with Mei. | |
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Tragic Hero | |
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Tragic Hero: All the heroes are this in one way or another. | |
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Cover-Blowing Superpower | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_82d28aa8 | comment |
Cover-Blowing Superpower: Very, very subtle: when Mei is being chased by guards in the forest near the beginning of the movie, notice how close the trees are together. Any blind person would have run into at least several trees—Mei doesn't. This shows that she isn't blind. Mei also visibly slips up once: when she nearly trips and falls onto the sharpened bamboo stakes in the clearing, Jin yanks her back. She takes a rapid glance around the clearing and then goes back to having a blank expression. | |
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Conservation of Ninjutsu | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_82f5ced1 | comment |
Conservation of Ninjutsu: Downplayed. Anybody fighting 4 or more Mooks needs to get bailed out (usually Just in Time). | |
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In Love with Your Carnage | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_85c5db50 | comment |
In Love with Your Carnage: Mei kisses Jin passionately after he kills the government soldiers (as opposed to faking it, earlier). | |
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Arrow Cam | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_8f5247eb | comment |
The final Arrow Cam is a double, revealing that she didn't try to kill Leo in vengeance, but rather block Leo's knife throw... as well as the fact that Leo didn't even throw the knife, Mei just gave her life to block a harmless droplet of blood, is a Wham Shot designed to be as tragic as possible. | |
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Made of Iron | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_9d17b859 | comment |
Made of Iron: The only explanation for the absolutely insane resistance to injury Jin and Leo seem to display: to wit, Leo taking a dagger through the back and the multitude of wounds they inflict on one another during the final fight. | |
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Single Tear | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_a2ff4e6f | comment |
Single Tear: Mei and Leo. Lampshaded and mocked on the director's commentary. | |
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Handicapped Badass | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_a7b324e | comment |
Handicapped Badass: Subverted. Mei is certainly a badass, but it turns out she isn't blind. | |
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Sweet Polly Oliver | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_a8217606 | comment |
Sweet Polly Oliver: Mei dresses up as a boy warrior after her escape from jail. | |
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Obfuscating Disability | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_aa07ca54 | comment |
Obfuscating Disability: While the Flying Dagger's former leader did have a blind daughter, Mei is not her. She was only pretending to be the blind heiress as a cover. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_ad9fbc1e | comment |
Pyrrhic Victory: Leo accomplished his mission to perfection, but still lost everything along the way and wound up killing the person he loved most. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Waif-Fu | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_ba72eebb | comment |
Waif-Fu: Zhang Ziyi has made a good living playing badass chicks while weighing about 95 lbs. Played with somewhat in this film in that she's able to survive hand-to-hand combat, but without a weapon in hand isn't able to actually make much of difference against her opponents. | |
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Wire Fu | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_bae7be59 | comment |
Wire Fu: Every single fight. | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_bcd27e37 | comment |
Improbable Aiming Skills: Jin's archery skills are impressive...if not entirely realistic. | |
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In Love with the Mark | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_bd620d3c | comment |
In Love with the Mark: Jin believes he is leading Mei on to set an ambush for the House of Flying Daggers, but falls for her anyway. In actuality, Mei is misleading Jin for the same purpose on the opposing side, but also falls in love with him. | |
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Blade on a Rope | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_bf2a1181 | comment |
Blade on a Rope: An improvised version is briefly used in the film. During the "echo game" with Leo, one of Mei's long twin scarves whips around the handle of his sword and yanks it out of the sheath. Mei attacks him with it, swinging the sword on the scarf while Leo dodges. | |
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She-Fu | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_c3bdeeda | comment |
She-Fu: Mei is yet another Zhang Ziyi badass. | |
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Wuxia | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_c3fc812d | comment |
Wuxia: Rivals Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_c5b47b36 | comment |
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The final showdown between the army and the rebels remains entirely offscreen. Also, once it's revealed that Mei isn't really blind, we never get to see her cut loose in a fight (since she doesn't need to fake any kind of helplessness anymore). | |
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Action Girl | |
| House of Flying Daggers / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Mei. | |
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Gambit Pileup | |
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Gambit Pile Up: Jin is an officer pretending as a rebel. Mei is an acolyte pretending as her master's blind daughter by pretending as a dancer. Leo is a rebel pretending to be an officer being fooled by Jin's scheme... | |
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Only a Flesh Wound | |
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Only a Flesh Wound: Zig-zagged furiously at the ending. Leo is hit in the back with an non-fatal Flying Dagger, is told to go back to his position as a guard (and that the dagger will make his story more convincing), and it doesn't seem to bother him at all, including when he kills Mei with a dagger to the heart. After Jin returns for her, he finds her just fading away, and Leo attacks him. While they fight and cut each other to ribbons, she wakes up, just when Leo pulls the knife out of his back to throw at Jin. She says that if he does, she'll pull the knife out of her heart to kill Leo. Jin points out that if she does, she'll bleed out and die. Leo pretends to throw his knife, she throws hers to block his, and dies. Leo staggers away while Jin holds her in his arms. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Leo. | |
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The Plan | |
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The Plan: Mei's capture and escape were part of a convoluted plot to bring about a massive showdown between the loyalist forces and those of the House of Flying Daggers. | |
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Snow Means Love | |
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Snow Means Love: At the end, he holds the girl in the snow as she bleeds out (overlaps with Snow Means Death). | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: A drunken Jin attempts to force himself on Mei, but it's an act for the sake of his mission. Leo trying it on Mei, on the other hand... | |
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Talent Double | |
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Talent Double: Zhang Ziyi does much of her own dancing, but all of the leaps and acrobatic stunts in the Echo Dance are performed by a double. | |
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