Ha, thanks for the shout out's everyone. Yes, while I'm a bit more composed since this morning, I'm still excited. Watched the trailer several times already and just glad every single time.
Ha, interesting. Yes, I like the rings going over the arms now rather than on the fingers. They feel sleek. And truth be told, I always had issues imagining the Mandarin firing an energy beam from just his pinkie, y'know?
As for what the rings were, I've always gone for mystical or godly. Now, I've always chaffed at Marvel's mystical beings (i.e the Asgardians) as aliens with highly evolved tech. Same thing when I've heard about Fin Fang Foom. But, it depends on how it's presented. If that alien tech looks just so otherworldly and celestial, then maybe I'd accept.
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"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."
Ew.com published an article on the Shang-Chi movie. Here's what directors, actors, and producers had to say about the character and film: https://ew.com/movies/shang-chi-and-...iu-first-look/
How Destin Cretton felt taking up the character:
This is how Simu Liu feels about the character:Destin Daniel Cretton never wanted to make a Marvel movie. The 42-year-old director built his career on quiet, introspective dramas like Short Term 12, The Glass Castle, and Just Mercy — not exactly your typical superhero spectacle. He remembers telling friends that he had no desire to join the world of capes and comic book heroes — until he read a 2018 news report that Marvel was developing Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, its first film with an Asian protagonist.
"When that announcement came out, I just went instantly back to my childhood," Cretton explains. "[Growing up] all I had was Spider-Man. Because he had the mask on, I could dress up like Spider-Man for Halloween. I had a handful of other characters that looked like me on screen, but there were maybe two or three that I could choose from, and superheroes were not a part of that."
"The most exciting thing about stepping into this character was that his backstory has never been told before," Liu says. "We know so many different versions of Batman's origin story, how his parents were murdered when he was very young. We know Peter Parker, who was bitten by a radioactive spider, and he loses his uncle. Shang-Chi's story is very much unknown to most of the world, so we had a lot of freedom and creative liberty to make it the way that we wanted to."
What producers feel is the core of the character:
A more layered approach to the Mandarin:The core of Shang-Chi's arc in the comics is really a family drama," says producer Jonathan Schwartz. "That was something that Destin keyed into really early on in our conversations, the idea of taking this broken family and this really dark, even abusive family background and seeing what that does to a child over time."
Some other great information in the article as well. Check it out!Wenwu is a new character, created entirely for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He has ties to the Ten Rings, the mysterious terrorist organization first name-dropped in 2008's Iron Man. As Schwartz and Feige put it, Wenwu has "gone by many names" throughout the decades — and one of those titles is "the Mandarin," one of Marvel Comics' most infamous villains. That name previously popped up in 2013's Iron Man 3, only for that version of the character (played by Ben Kingsley) to be revealed as a fraud, an out-of-work actor named Trevor Slattery. Leung's Wenwu is something new — and far more dangerous.
"I think people hear 'the Mandarin' and expect a very specific kind of thing, and that may not be the thing they're getting," Schwartz teases. "They're hopefully getting a more complex and layered take on the character than that name would lead you to."
"I am a man of peace."
"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."
So his dad mistreated him?
Also, I wonder how old Wenwu will be
A big budget Shang-Chi movie, my dreams have come true.
I want some sort of Fu Manchu reference...something like the ficitonal Fu Manchu was based on his father.
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Haven't posted in Shang's thread for quite a while, not since the pandemic killed most of the conversation about his film, but that trailer? Oh yeah, had to pop back in again.
This post, brother. I cannot imagine what this is for you, but I am so gods damn happy you have it.
Option B. I enjoy a good giant monster and/or dragon as much as the next guy, but I never really liked the alien thing for the ten rings. Just seemed very out of genre for both Mandarin specifically and Iron Man generally, and not in a good "subverting expectations" kind of way. At least in my limited experience with the villain.
But this is a different kind of ten rings for a different hero, and Shang fighting giant evil space dragons has *all* the appeal, so I could get behind it.
Screw it, I don't care how they handle the rings. I just want a good movie that makes Tien Long cry angel tears of joy.
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Idk how Shang-Chi could beat FFF, assuming he's the dragon