Empire of Silver (film)
| Empire of Silver | |
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| Directed by | Christina Yao |
| Written by | Christina Yao |
| Based on | The Silver Valley by Cheng Yi |
| Produced by | Jeremy Thomas Chiao Hsiung Ping Christina Yao |
| Starring | Aaron Kwok Zhang Tielin Hao Lei Jennifer Tilly |
| Cinematography | Anthony Yiu Ming Pun (H.K.S.C.) |
| Edited by | Humphrey Dixon Liao Ching Song ang Hua |
| Music by | Su Cong Seikou Ngaoka Lin Hai |
| Distributed by | Edko Films |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
| Countries | Taiwan Hong Kong China |
| Language | Mandarin |
Empire of Silver (simplified Chinese: 白银帝国; traditional Chinese: 白銀帝國; pinyin: Báiyín Dìguó; Jyutping: Baak6 Ngan4 Dai3 Gwok3) is a 2009 historical epic film written and directed by Christina Yao, based on the novel The Silver Valley by Cheng Yi.[1] It focuses on a wealthy banking clan in Pingyao, Shanxi and its fortunes during the turn-of-the-century Chinese economic and political turmoil. The film stars Aaron Kwok and Jennifer Tilly.
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Wrong cast and many more small goofs
First of all, signing up Aaron Kwok as the third son of the tycoon and the third master of the banking empire was a completely miscast. There were so many Mainland China actors in could play this role, yet the movie production decided to use Kwok was an unforgivable mistake. Not only he didn't look alike a member of the family, and instead of used voice over to replace his real voice in heavy Hong Kong Cantonese dialect accent to speak the goofy Mandarin Chinese was such a stupid arrangement. Then instead of using the traditional Chinese umbrellas, we saw so many modern day western umbrellas being used in this movie. Then again, we heard the Italian tenor singing the opera aria, the young wife hiring a western nanny, and the young wife speaking English with her nanny...Jesus, all of these obvious mess ups shown in the early stage of the movie almost killed me to watch.
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