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What distinguishes Red Cliff from its Hollywood counterparts is its treatment of warfare. In Western cinema, battle is often a clash of bodies and metal. In Red Cliff , battle is a clash of philosophies. The conflict between the megalomaniacal Prime Minister Cao Cao and the underdog alliance of Southern warlords Sun Quan and Liu Bei is portrayed as a high-stakes chess game.

This is the full version of the story. In the West, it was often edited down into a single 2.5-hour movie, but the original Parts I and II together run about 5 hours . It’s much better this way—you get all the strategy, character depth, and the actual build-up to the massive naval battle.

sets the stage. Prime Minister Cao Cao (a wonderfully sinister Zhang Fengyi) has convinced the Han emperor that he must crush the southern warlords. He marches one million men south. Two unlikely foes, rebel general Zhou Yu (Tony Leung) and the strategist Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro), form a fragile alliance to stop him.

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, the version you watched depends entirely on where you live. The Original Epic (Part I & II):

convinces the Emperor to declare war on the southern kingdoms of to "unify" China.

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