The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011) poster
2011 · action · fantasy · supernatural

The Sorcerer and the White Snake

Directed by Tony Ching Siu-Tung1h 40m2011
ElsewhereIMDb5.89kRT29%Metacritic41
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • inventive
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Neutral, breathless, extreme action / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The Sorcerer and the White Snake is an ancient Chinese fable about a woman demon who falls in love with a mortal is brought to life through the latest advances in CGI and action techniques.

Our read · The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · fantasy · supernatural 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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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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