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Tango0103 Nov 2014 10:46 p.m. PST

"THE TAKING OF TIGER MOUNTAIN by legendary Tsui Hark! This magnificent 3D epic has the story based on Qu Bo's novel which describes a true event from Chinese history focusing on a communist soldier who went deep undercover amongst a gang of remote bandits in order to take them down from within…"
From Hollywood Spy.

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Armand

MHoxie04 Nov 2014 3:42 a.m. PST

We climbed and we climbed,
Oh, how we climbed.
My, how we climbed
Over the stars to [the] top
[Of] Tiger Mountain.
Forcing the lines through the snow.

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zippyfusenet04 Nov 2014 5:36 a.m. PST

Is this the story I remember as the Red Opera "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy", aka "The Raid on the White Tiger Regiment"?

I guess it's still Socialist Realism, but with a different color palette and sound track.

MHoxie04 Nov 2014 1:41 p.m. PST

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MHoxie04 Nov 2014 1:42 p.m. PST

Oh, how we climbed,

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MHoxie04 Nov 2014 1:43 p.m. PST

And one guy we call Sally,

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MHoxie04 Nov 2014 1:44 p.m. PST

And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'

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Tango0104 Nov 2014 11:22 p.m. PST

About the last picture… the man behind… looks like Asian Hitler! (smile)

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Armand

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