Dance for me?

Warning, 神話 spoiler ahead.

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I watched 神話 yesterday, the show does not appeal to me personally. The show's storyline revolves around reincarnation, something that i'm not a big fan of. But i'm ok with that, movies are movies after all.

What irks me is that at one part of the show, where Jack (acted by Jackie Chan) is in some place, called Dasar i think, and had to spar with this Dasar student who wielded two light swords. To show that Jack, in his past life, was very proficient in his medium sword, the cinema shows Jack in olden garb and fighting another person, someone who wielded sword and shield.

What's dissapointing here is that the two swords fighting style is being replaced with a sword and shield fighting style, which is vastly different. We don't need to be martial artists to recognise that the difference would result in very different fighting style, for both agressor and defender.

Of course, one could argue that the offhand sword could be used for parrying, but the reason for using a sword instead of shield for parrying is that it gives the capability for nitōichi, think katana and wakizashi.

Then one might argue that the shield could also be used in the offensive, by making a shield bash, turning it into a "sword, shield as one" technique. However, given the size and shape of a shield, it definitely loses in elegance when used in the attack as compared to a second sword.

Plus, Jack managed to disarm the student of both his swords. Disarming a strapped on shield would have been difficult if it didn't involve lobbing the limb off or smashing it into splinters for being a wooden shield.

And for most parts of it, the show displayed the fighting between Jack and a sword and shield wielder. Not a martial artist myself, it looked to me like a less dangerous opponent. I mean, he has less sharp and pointy things, no?

The nice part was when Concubine Li, gosh i love jap girls, danced for Jack. When miss Li said she wanted to dance for Jack, and Jack being only the general in hierarchy, told miss Li that only the emperor himself is fit to look at her dance. Then miss Li said, "這舞我只為你而跳". And then miss Li dance for Jack, not with.

Anyone wanna dance for me?