Revisiting the Resplendent Mighty Sword Clanging of Hero – Arts & Entertainment

www.adamdanielmezei.com — Okay, so now that we’ve got that windbag blog title out of the way (how did I do, folks?), let’s get down to the brass tacks of the matter: the iconic and often-imitated-rarely-duplicated cinematographic marvel which was once Zhang Yimou’s Hero/Ying xiong, the 2004 swashbuckling flicker picture that dazzled and titillated, yet somehow didn’t intellectually connect.

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Revisiting the Resplendent Mighty Sword Clanging of Hero

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