Tsui Hark was always a master of shooting films that caught the mainstream audience’s attention, and that is exactly what he did with “Green Snake” a film that combines music, magic, action, but most of all, Maggie Cheung in probably her most sensual part.
Based on the homonymous novel by Lilian Lee, which is a variation of the Chinese folk tale “Madame White Snake”, the film tells the story of two sisters, both snakes, who decide to take human forms in order to understand human feelings like love. The elder sister, White Snake, who is better trained in magic, marries the scholar Hsui Xien and manages to hide her identity from him. However, Green Snake, unable to hide her identity due to her inferior magic, eventually draws the attention of an overzealous Buddhist monk named Fa Hai, who is determined to banish both snakes from the earth.
Based on the homonymous novel by Lilian Lee, which is a variation of the Chinese folk tale “Madame White Snake”, the film tells the story of two sisters, both snakes, who decide to take human forms in order to understand human feelings like love. The elder sister, White Snake, who is better trained in magic, marries the scholar Hsui Xien and manages to hide her identity from him. However, Green Snake, unable to hide her identity due to her inferior magic, eventually draws the attention of an overzealous Buddhist monk named Fa Hai, who is determined to banish both snakes from the earth.
- 10/26/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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