Red Cliff Movie Vs Movie

The Battle of Red Cliff: Film vs. Reality In John Woo’s film, Red Cliff, the battle of Red Cliffs, or also known as the Battle of Chibi, is portrayed in it. The film does an adequate job portraying the actual battle considering that it was 50% factual. From the characters, to the story to actual facts, Woo incorporates them smoothly into this movie. Just like every film based on historical events however, there are bound to be differences between the two. The two might be based on the same event, but the differences -both subtle and obvious - are there. The movie was directed by John Woo, a director and producer - along with other things- born in southern China and raised in Hong Kong.# John Woo is credited, along with four others, to be the writer of the screenplay. He was more interested in how the viewer was going to react to the movie than having a lot of facts in the film.

Her mission was to note details in secret and send them to Zhuge Liang, her supervisor. As the movie continues, a plague of typhoid fever spreads in Cao Cao’s army, killing a number of his troops. Although there is no real evidence that Sun Shangxiang infiltrated Cao Cao’s army, there is certainty that Cao Cao’s army was plagued by disease.# Another fictionalized event is that Zhuge Liang was able to make the winds shift to favor Zhou Yu’s navy when they were going to attack Cao Cao.# It was also credited to Zhuge Liang the ruse of using straw ships to get arrows for the soldiers. In reality, the ruse was Zhou Yu’s idea.# Near the end of the movie, Zhou Yu and his army use the change in wind to his favor and they catch Cao Cao’s fleet on fire. They are able to push through and, with reinforcements from Liu Bei, they are able to push Cao Cao back and make him retreat. This part of the film is true, as in the actual battle they use the same technique to win against Cao