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The Myth

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37 feature instances
11 referencing feature instances

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The Myth	label	The Myth
The Myth	page	TheMyth
The Myth	comment	The Myth (Chinese: ç¥žè©±) is a 2005 Jackie Chan Wuxia film featuring an impressively international cast, including Chan himself in dual roles as the heroes Jack/Meng Yi, Korean actress Kim Hee Sun as Ok-Soo, Indian actress Mallika Sherawat as Samantha, frequent Jackie Chan co-star Yu Rong-guang, and Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung Ka-fai as William.Inspired a TV miniseries spinoff on the Mainland China's CCTV-8. This time around, Yi Xiao Chuan and Gao Yao, archeology graduate students, get blasted back to the Qin Dynasty by an Ancient Artifact found in the tomb of an ancient Qin princess.
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The Myth	processingComment	Dropped link to AnAesop: Not a Feature - IGNORE
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The Myth / int_1c7a7a52	type	The Slow Path
The Myth / int_1c7a7a52	comment	The Slow Path: Ok-Soo and General Nangong are rendered immortal and imprisoned for 2,000 years in the Qin Emperor's underground floating tomb.
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The Myth / int_3016de81	type	Reincarnation Romance
The Myth / int_3016de81	comment	Reincarnation Romance: Meng Yi/Jack and Ok-Soo. Except it doesn't work.
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The Myth / int_3ff5e40f	type	First-Person Dying Perspective
The Myth / int_3ff5e40f	comment	First-Person Dying Perspective: General Meng's Last Stand ends with his execution via Off with His Head! by the enemy commandant; as Meng's cranium flies off the audience sees everything from Meng's POV before hitting the floor and closing his eyes while looking at his own headless corpse.
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The Myth / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
The Myth / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Mallika Sherawat, being a huge star in her native India, was prominently featured in promotional materials. She's in the film for a fraction of the runtime and absent outside of the India scenes.
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The Myth / int_4dd42a04	type	Self-Surgery
The Myth / int_4dd42a04	comment	Self-Surgery: In the Ancient China scenes, after General Meng-yi and the princess escapes from enemy raiders with Meng-yi suffering a nasty slash, the princess managed to stitch up his wounds using her hair as improvised threads.
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The Myth / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Myth / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Ok-Soo catches on pretty quick that Jack is not her beloved, and she floats back into the tomb to die. Oh, and Jack's friend gets killed, too.
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The Myth / int_50c23153	type	Cave Behind the Falls
The Myth / int_50c23153	comment	Cave Behind the Falls: Not just a cave, but a massive burial tomb as well.
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The Myth / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
The Myth / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology / No Gravity for You: The anti-gravity field coming from the meteorite the Qin Emperor's floating underground burial tomb was built on.
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The Myth / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
The Myth / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Just how many Mooks the rebel general had to throw at freaking Meng Yi!?
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The Myth / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
The Myth / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: General Meng Yi dies in battle, but he made sure he took at least 40 enemies with him, with his Last Stand have him Atop a Mountain of Corpses.
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The Myth / int_6f3b8432	type	Visions of Another Self
The Myth / int_6f3b8432	comment	Visions of Another Self: Half the movie is Jack flashing back to his previous incarnation as General Meng Yi.
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The Myth / int_70b840b6	type	Giving Them the Strip
The Myth / int_70b840b6	comment	Giving Them the Strip: When Jack and Samantha are pursued by the police during his misadventures in India, they run into a glue factory and got stuck on a conveyor belt of glue. Cue Jack and the police officers removing their shoes just to not get stuck on glue of a conveyor belt heading for a glue cutter, with predictable results for Samantha.
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The Myth / int_743437c4	type	Chroma Key
The Myth / int_743437c4	comment	Chroma Key: The scenes in the Mausoleum are all shot in front of a green screen.
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The Myth / int_796fa10c	type	The Ageless
The Myth / int_796fa10c	comment	The Ageless: Ok-Soo and General Nangong
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The Myth / int_7e3cd89	type	Love Transcends Spacetime
The Myth / int_7e3cd89	comment	Love Transcends Spacetime: Sadly subverted. Jack is not really Meng Yi, and the princess who had been waiting for Meng Yi, floats away from him to die in the tomb.
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The Myth / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Myth / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Meng Yi's final fate.
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The Myth / int_88b1a0cb	type	Atop a Mountain of Corpses
The Myth / int_88b1a0cb	comment	Atop a Mountain of Corpses: The aftermath of Meng Yi's Last Stand has him doing the standing version of this during his You Shall Not Pass! scene. Unfortunately, he goes beyond his limits before he could kill the last of the attacking rebels and he falls unconscious while standing, allowing one of the remaining rebels to climb up the mountain of corpses and cut off his head.
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The Myth / int_8e439940	type	Mystical India
The Myth / int_8e439940	comment	Mystical India: The scenes in India include an elephant, snake-charming, sword-fighting, and levitating holy men.
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The Myth / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
The Myth / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Meng-yi takes on an entire army, and holds his own killing one enemy after another. He almost made it too... see Last Stand
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The Myth / int_a4d8473b	type	Stealth Sequel
The Myth / int_a4d8473b	comment	Stealth Sequel: The 2017 movie Kung Fu Yoga is stated by Chan himself to be The Myth 2. A painting of Ok Soo can be seen in the background at some point in Kung Fu Yoga.
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The Myth / int_a588c1cf	type	Cool Horse
The Myth / int_a588c1cf	comment	Cool Horse: Black Wind, Meng Yi's impossibly durable war horse.
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The Myth / int_a8cbf649	type	I Should Write a Book About This
The Myth / int_a8cbf649	comment	I Should Write a Book About This: Jack's character has written a book of the same name at the end of the movie, and it is dedicated to his Dead Sidekick.
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The Myth / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Myth / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Meng Yi falls for Ok-Soo as soon as he lays eyes on her.
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The Myth / int_acd7e590	type	Sticky Situation
The Myth / int_acd7e590	comment	Sticky Situation: This happens when Jack and Samantha are trying to escape from some thugs and end up in a chase sequence in a Rat Glue factory's Conveyor Belt o' Doom that is sticky and gets their clothes stuck in it. A lot of Clothing Damage ensues for everyone via either Giving Them the Strip or Stripping Snag, with poor Samantha ending up having a Naked Freak-Out when she's rendered topless and Jack ending up in in just his boxers.
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The Myth / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Myth / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The rebel general's face while he watches one guy slaughter his army says it all.
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The Myth / int_bae7be59	type	Wire Fu
The Myth / int_bae7be59	comment	Wire Fu: To create the effect of the anti-gravity field. One of the first Jackie Chan movies to feature this technique.
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The Myth / int_bbd8d3f4	type	Adventurer Archaeologist
The Myth / int_bbd8d3f4	comment	Adventurer Archaeologist: Jack is an archaeologist (and he's very insistent that he's not a tomb raider).
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The Myth / int_c8d6d621	type	I Will Wait for You
The Myth / int_c8d6d621	comment	I Will Wait for You: Ok Soo waits for 2200 years for the return of General Meng Yi.
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The Myth / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
The Myth / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Before Professor Koo finishes climbing up the stairs leading to the vault containing the elixir of immortality as the tomb collapses, General Yangong drags his legs down into the void.
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The Myth / int_cc3c365f	type	Goofy Print Underwear
The Myth / int_cc3c365f	comment	Goofy Print Underwear: Jackie wears boxers with a "Have a Nice Day" Smile over the crotch, as seen after losing his trousers in the glue factory struggle.
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The Myth / int_d97f6f0c	type	Musicalis Interruptus
The Myth / int_d97f6f0c	comment	Musicalis Interruptus: The song Endless Love plays as Jack and Ok Soo waltzes through the anti-gravity field, which is abruptly halted as General Nangong suddenly ambushes Jack.
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The Myth / int_da2f3716	type	Intimate Healing
The Myth / int_da2f3716	comment	Intimate Healing: Jack was an Imperial soldier in a past life who nearly drowns, and gets dragged to safety by Ok-Soo, who does this to revive him.
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The Myth / int_e34ada78	type	Authority Equals Asskicking
The Myth / int_e34ada78	comment	Authority Equals Asskicking / Four-Star Badass: Meng Yi, a lone soldier, kills about 100 guys before finally being killed, simply because he wasn't shot full of arrows at the start. Also he puts a spear straight through a guy while flying through the air and pulls it out the other side! And he is defeated only because one of his enemies pretended to be surrendering before swiftly attacking him off guard. His enemy wasn't pretending to surrender. By that time of the battle, Meng Yi was already so battered that he might as well be dead already. The enemy general walked up to him, bow to him as one last gesture of respect as a fellow warrior before killing him. Also the other generals, but not as badass.
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The Myth / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Myth / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Ok-Soo is the emperor's concubine. Meng Yi is the emperor's loyal general. They are in love but are unable to be together, ever.
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The Myth / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
The Myth / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: Meng Yi, the loyal General, and his men are ambushed by an army of rebels. All of his men are killed, leaving Meng Yi as the only survivor. His response is to slaughter dozens of horsemen and probably a hundred infantrymen, before getting shot with an arrow through the knee. He then props himself up with a spear on top of a ten-foot pile of his victims so that he will remain standing, even after being decapitated.
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The Myth / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Myth / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Jack is considerate enough to turn off the conveyor belt of the glue factory to spare the poor police officers from being sliced by the glue cutter.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

The Myth	hasFeature	Cave Behind the Falls / int_bac91c77
The Myth	hasFeature	Conveyor Belt o' Doom / int_bac91c77
The Myth	hasFeature	First-Person Dying Perspective / int_bac91c77
The Myth	hasFeature	Giving Them the Strip / int_bac91c77
The Myth	hasFeature	I Should Write a Book About This / int_bac91c77
The Myth	hasFeature	Immortality Works / int_bac91c77
The Myth	hasFeature	Princess Stories / int_bac91c77
The Myth	hasFeature	Reincarnation Romance / int_bac91c77
The Myth	hasFeature	Sticky Situation / int_bac91c77
The Myth	hasFeature	Stripping Snag / int_bac91c77
The Myth	seeAlso	The Myth

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