True Legend (2010) on Netflix
Su Can has left his army career to teach wushu and raise a family. His sworn brother Yuan Lie returns from war jealous and vengeful, carrying a deadly skill.
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Trailer
Plot summary
Su Can, once a general, has traded military service for wushu and family life. His sworn brother is Yuan Lie, whom Su's father took in after killing Yuan's father, a man who had fallen to evil, and Su's father has never stopped fearing the boy would follow the same road. Tension runs between the two men, and Yuan envies Su. By now Su is married to Yuan's sister, Ying, and their son is named Feng. Yuan comes home to govern, and he takes his revenge by killing Su's father. Su goes to face him, is beaten and wounded, and is thrown into a waterfall. Ying jumps in after him.
Cast
- Ka-Yan Leungas Su Wan-Kun
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about True Legend (2010)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Only about 20 minutes of True Legend was in 3D. Yuen Woo-ping said a full 3D film is too expensive and takes too much manpower, and that up to 100 digital artists spent about six months converting the film's two most important action scenes.
- The set built for the scene in which Su Can saves the prince broke a record as the largest set ever built inside a Chinese filming studio.
- Yuen Woo-ping wanted Feng Xiaogang to portray the Old Sage, but Feng turned the part down over schedule conflicts. Feng instead directed a scene as a pickpocket who teaches Su Can's son to steal, and it was cut from the final film as unnecessary.
- Producer Bill Kong recommended Vincent Zhao for the lead, and to play Beggar Su, Zhao lost up to 9 kg and took breakdancing classes for about two months because Yuen Woo-ping wanted a more rhythmic, modern form of drunken boxing.
- After more than four months scouting locations, Yuen Woo-ping picked Huangshan, the Hukou Waterfalls and traditional Hui-style houses in Anhui, preferring to shoot in the original buildings rather than replicas in sound stages.
- True Legend was shown in both 2D and 3D, and was promoted as the first Chinese 3D film.
