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The Bells of Death

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The Bells of Death	comment	The Bells of Death is a 1968 Martial Arts Movie from Shaw Brothers, starring Chang Yi.Wei-fu (Yi) is a simple woodcutter living a quaint, normal life, until a random encounter with a trio of sadistic marauders, led by Bandit Lord Tso, ends with Wei-fu's family being slaughtered by the bandits just for fun. Determined to avenge his family, Wei-fu decides to seek the tutelage of the greatest martial artist from the hills, keeping with him his dead mother's silver bells, to remind him of his vengeance.Five years later, Wei-fu is now a skilled swordsman and ruthless killing machine, who strikes fear in the heart of bandits and evil-doers. Carrying the same silver bells he kept from his mother five years ago, the sound of bells will be an omen of death to villains, fated to fall by Wei-fu's sword, for the silver bells of death are the last thing evil-doers will hear before their deaths!
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The Bells of Death / int_17330d6c	type	Terrible Trio
The Bells of Death / int_17330d6c	comment	Terrible Trio: The cruel and sadistic bandit lord, Tso Ching Lung, and his two Co-Dragons, Ying Tien and Yang Chang, who regularly terrorizes innocent townfolks and massacres villagers For the Evulz, including killing Chang Wei-fu's entire family and abducting his sister in the opening prologue.
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The Bells of Death / int_18ba2fe	type	Sound-Only Death
The Bells of Death / int_18ba2fe	comment	Sound-Only Death: Wei-fu's kid brother early in the film. Thankfully.
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The Bells of Death / int_1cd602ef	type	Calling Card
The Bells of Death / int_1cd602ef	comment	Calling Card: Wei-fu's silver bells. It's a reminder to bandits that they will die in a few minutes for being the villainous scum they are!
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The Bells of Death / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Bells of Death / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Wei-fu, who is nicknamed "The Bells of Death" after having killed dozens and dozens of evil-doers, including both of Lord Tso's followers Yang Chang and Ying Tien. His name strikes fear among villains, and hearing the sound of his silver bells is compared to hearing a funeral bell.
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The Bells of Death / int_31fcc258	type	Training Montage
The Bells of Death / int_31fcc258	comment	Training Montage: Wei-fu training with the hermit warrior to become a skilled swordsman and fighter.
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The Bells of Death / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Bells of Death / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: After asking Wei-fu for directions, Bandit Lord Tso decide to fire arrows at Wei-fu just for the sake of being a dick. In the same scene merely a minute later, Tso actually asks his Co-Dragons where he should put an arrow into Wei-fu's mother, before deciding to arrow the old woman at the back of her head.
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The Bells of Death / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
The Bells of Death / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: Ying Tien, the second of the Co-Dragons, decide to strike after Wei-fu has killed Yang Chang. But as they have not met for five years, Ying Tien kills the wrong swordsman, and incorrectly boasts to his subordinates that he just killed the "Bells of Death".
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The Bells of Death / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Bells of Death / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Yang Chang, who actually "volunteers" to go for the kill when he noticed a little boy - Wei-fu's kid brother - hiding from him. He is in fact gleeful at the prospect of impaling a child!
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The Bells of Death / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Bells of Death / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: At the bandits' banquet, when Wei-fu - and the audience - realizes Lord Tso's personal concubines turns out to be his sister whom he thought had died in the family raid five years ago.
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The Bells of Death / int_559b4bb3	type	Call to Agriculture
The Bells of Death / int_559b4bb3	comment	Call to Agriculture: In the epilogue, after Wei-fu has killed bandit Lord Tso and all his followers, he decides to return to his old home — with his new girlfriend-turned-fiancee Hsiang-hsiang - hang his sword (which had the blood of 60-odd bandits on it) and spend the rest of his life as a farmer.
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The Bells of Death / int_5d310fb8	type	Sword Fight
The Bells of Death / int_5d310fb8	comment	Sword Fight: Wei-fu against Tso Ching-lung and his lesser mooks. The Co-Dragons subverts this by using different weapons other than swords though.
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The Bells of Death / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
The Bells of Death / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: Invoked In-Universe. Bandits and evil-doers, moments before Wei-fu stalks and kils them, will hear the ringing from his silver bells, the same bells he kept from his dead mother.
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The Bells of Death / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
The Bells of Death / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: Some of the bandits killed by Wei-fu's sword gets their face carved like turkeys. Including the second of the Co-Dragons, Ying Tien.
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The Bells of Death / int_6c0e5342	type	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine
The Bells of Death / int_6c0e5342	comment	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: Wei-fu, upon being taken into the bandits' lair at the end of the film, is surprised to see that Bandit Lord Tso has prepared a feast for him, complete with concubines, and offers Wei-fu a We Can Rule Together deal.
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The Bells of Death / int_7e226b8a	type	Orbital Shot
The Bells of Death / int_7e226b8a	comment	Orbital Shot: Used in the final battle, when hordes and hordes of bandit mooks forms a circle around Wei-fu while trying to rush him down.
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The Bells of Death / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Bells of Death / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: In the tavern battle, Wei-fu relieves an Elite Mook bandit of his head via sword.
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The Bells of Death / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Bells of Death / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: For the villains... Yang Chang, who killed Wei-fu's brother by impalement, dies when Wei-fu back-flips him front-first into bamboo spikes. Ying Tien often gloats at the prospect of hacking innocent people apart with his heavy sword, only to have his face hacked up by Wei-fu's sword. Lord Tso, in the opening massacre, kills Wei-fu's mother via arrow through her head, and near the end kills Wei-fu's sister using the same weapon. Wei-fu managed to hijack his arrows, and put one of Tso's own arrows through himself in the final battle just as Tso is fleeing.
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The Bells of Death / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
The Bells of Death / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: The film's central theme revolves around this.
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The Bells of Death / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
The Bells of Death / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: The titular bells used to belong to Wei-fu's mother. Now it's a memento and reminder for him to avenge his family's deaths at all costs.
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The Bells of Death / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Bells of Death / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Wei-fu, after spending five years with the hermit warrior, complete with an extensive Training Montage scene, went from a simple woodcutter to a swordsman, fighter and eventual killing machine.
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The Bells of Death / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
The Bells of Death / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Bullet: Wei-fu's sister at the end of the film, taking an arrow fired by Tso meant for her brother.
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The Bells of Death / int_a20ff0b5	type	Bindle Stick
The Bells of Death / int_a20ff0b5	comment	Bindle Stick: Wei-fu is depicted Walking the Earth carrying whatever meagre belongings he has on a sack hanging from a stick after losing his family. Some DVD covers of the movie actually has him travelling in this fashion.
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The Bells of Death / int_a5d78540	type	Petal Power
The Bells of Death / int_a5d78540	comment	Petal Power: A live-action example: When a group of bandits tries to harass Wei-fu, unaware that this simple-looking vagabond is actually a trained expert martial artist, Wei-fu responds by using his qi to absorb handfuls of dead leaves on the floor and hurl them at his opponents. Most of the leaves ends up sticking to the bandits' faces with enough force to rip off their skins.
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The Bells of Death / int_ab5ef919	type	Hermit Guru
The Bells of Death / int_ab5ef919	comment	Hermit Guru: Wei-fu's Old Master, a retired vagabond warrior who spends his days wandering through the mountains. Days after Wei-fu lose his family, he witnessed said master single-handedly beating up a bunch of bandit mooks, at which point Wei-fu decides to seek the old warrior as his teacher.
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The Bells of Death / int_bae7be59	type	Wire Fu
The Bells of Death / int_bae7be59	comment	Wire Fu: Of course.
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The Bells of Death / int_bd50ec63	type	Battle in the Rain
The Bells of Death / int_bd50ec63	comment	Battle in the Rain: Subverted: the confrontation between Wei-fu and Ying Tien takes place in a dark alleyway, but just as both warriors are sizing up each other, it begins to rain. They instead decide to move their battle into a nearby abandoned temple.
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The Bells of Death / int_c3fc812d	type	Wuxia
The Bells of Death / int_c3fc812d	comment	Wuxia: A tale of revenge as old as time.
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The Bells of Death / int_c4286511	type	For Doom the Bell Tolls
The Bells of Death / int_c4286511	comment	For Doom the Bell Tolls: The very premise of the film. The sound of Wei-fu's bells means some evil-doer will die by his sword within minutes, if not seconds.
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The Bells of Death / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
The Bells of Death / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: This is how Yang Chang, one of the Co-Dragons, kill Wei-fu's little brother. Flipped over when in their penultimate confrontation, Wei-fu avenged his brother by impaling Yang Chang on a set of bamboo spikes.
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The Bells of Death / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Bells of Death / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The entire plot of the movie; how Wei-fu, a simple woodcutter, lose his entire family to a bandit assault, where he then seeks the guidance of martial arts masters to train himself into a vengeance-fueled killing machine and avenge his family.
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The Bells of Death / int_d8d22bb0	comment	Dutch Angle: Used occasionally in fight scenes, notably when Wei-fu battles the Terrible Trio of villains, with the camera tilting whenever Wei-fu gets knocked down in combat.
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The Bells of Death / int_e21e21be	type	Red and Black and Evil All Over
The Bells of Death / int_e21e21be	comment	Red and Black and Evil All Over: For the bandits' leader, Lord Tso, whose attire the whole movie consists of black shirts and trousers, and red robes. None of the lesser bandits or his Co-Dragons are depicted wearing red at any point of the film.
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The Bells of Death / int_e250f2af	comment	We Do Not Know Each Other: Sadly, when Wei-fu and his long-lost sister reunite with each other (see one trope below) for the first time in five years, they are forced to pretend they don't know each other, to prevent blowing their covers right in front of Lord Tso and his bandit legions.
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The Bells of Death / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The Bells of Death / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Right at the beginning of the film, Wei-fu gives directions to Bandit Lord Tso and his minions on how to locate the nearest stream. His reward is having the bandits pass by his home, where they kill his mother, younger brother, and abduct his sister.
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The Bells of Death / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: In the opening scene, Wei-fu returns home to find his mother and younger brother dead, and his sister is nowhere to be found, which he assumes her to be dead too. In the final scene, it's revealed that Wei-fu's sister is actually still alive, having spent five years as the bandits' concubine and mistress.
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