Reply #5: Thank you and I agree.

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Not even a mythic legend, but one that is most likely at least partly based on fact.
I also agree with you that it's a great example of the wu xia genre, IMO it is much better than Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

People need to understand that Nameless laid down his weapon at the end not for any personal sacrifice but because he felt that the best way to stop all the little wars was to let this emperor live. And you can't judge a person's actions from the past using a modern North American mindset. Hell, even nowadays people from North America have a hard time understanding East Asian culture, and that's with the globalization/glutting of cultural differences and the spread of English throughout the world. So how the hell are we supposed to judge a person's actions from ancient China?

As to the colours used in the film(from your comments in the other thread), the cinematographer is one Christopher Doyle. He's spent a long time in Asia, and is fluent in Mandarin, but I believe this is the first wu xia film he's ever done (I don't really consider Ashes of Time a wu xia movie). So I don't know what effect the colours would have on adding another level of depth to the film.