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The Promise (2005)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Promise is a 2005 epic fantasy film with Wuxia elements, directed by Chen Kaige (The Emperor and the Assassin), starring Jang Dong-gun (Taegukgi), Hiroyuki Sanada and Cecelia Cheung, loosely based on The Kunlun Slave, a romance novel written by Pei Xing during the Tang dynasty.Qingcheng, a young orphan alone on a battlefield, makes a wish with the goddess Manshen, where she can escape poverty and grow up in a life of luxury, if she is willing to live the rest of her life without being able to find her true love.Years later, Qingcheng (Cecelia Cheung) grows up into a concubine of the emperor, just as Imperial General Guangming (Hiroyuki Sanada) returns from a campaign warring with barbarian tribes. With the general, is his slave, Kunlun (Jang Dong-gun), who doesn't have any memories of his past and is seeking the memories of his long-forgotten family. At the same time, the traitorous Duke Wuhuan (Nicholas Tse) plans to take over the palace and the land.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Big Badass Battle Sequence: One that kickstarts the film after the opening titles, a battle between the barbarian horde and General Guangming’s army. | |
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Body Double: General Guangming, wanting to be the saviour of the king, but also afraid of facing Duke Wuhuan directly, orders Kunlun to don his crimson armor and golden mask and perform the rescue in his stead. | |
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Book-Ends: The film opens and ends with Qingcheng, as a child, wandering around an open plain where a battle had taken place earlier. | |
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Animal Stampede: The opening of the movie have General Guangming’s men unleashing a buffalo stampede on the barbarian horde, which is Lured into a Trap by Kunlun ands his fellow slaves. | |
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Barbarian Tribe | |
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Barbarian Tribe: The film opens with an epic battle scene between Guangming’s troops against a barbarian army, with Kunlun as the bait to lure the enemy forces into a trap. | |
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