#plus i’ve never seen a pre-1960 wuxia film and i NEED to know what framing/staging/choreo was like back in the shanghai era

[romanceyourdemons]

most fucked up thing in my life is the fact that the burning of the red lotus temple (1928) is lost and i can’t watch it. like i feel like everything cool that could possibly be in london after midnight (1927) already exists in the promo stills, but i absolutely need to see what could have happened in the burning of the red lotus temple (1928) to justify this image

[ID: a lobby card for the burning of the red lotus temple (1928); two men in hanfu shoot lightning at each other with their hands, while a young man and woman stand back and watch /end ID]