The 14 Amazons
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
Sombre, breathless, extreme wuxia / shaw-brothers, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war General Yang is ambushed and killed. His widow and the entire family set out to avenge his death and defend the country.
Our read · The 14 Amazons (1972) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded wuxia · shaw-brothers · epic entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of The 14 Amazons
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