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* RemakeCameo: More of a Remake Supporting Role for [[Cre\ator/JimmyWangYu Wang Yu]], the chief of the Guillotines squad.
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* RemakeCameo: More of a Remake Supporting Role for [[Cre\ator/JimmyWangYu [[Creator/JimmyWangYu Wang Yu]], the chief of the Guillotines squad.
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* EvilFormerFriend: Subverted by Haidu, who used to be Leng's sworn brother before he turncoats to lead the Emperor's riflemen legion. [[spoiler:Despite betraying the Guillotines and leading the rifle troops in attacking the village, when Haidu arrests Leng he still somewhat considers Leng as a friend, even stopping Leng from choosing to be executed at the end. He's visibly disturbed when his friend, Leng, prefers to die anyways]].
* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: [[spoiler:Musen charges at the Imperial riflemen squadron holding only her sword. She gets a MultipleGunshotDeath for her troubles]].
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* ThrowTheDogABone: One of the Guillotines gets pickpocketed, and responds violently - until he realizes the bugger has several children to feed, and takes back just his ID, leaving them the money.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: One of the Guillotines gets pickpocketed, and responds violently - until he realizes the bugger has several children to feed, and takes back just his ID, leaving them the money.money.
* UnwillingSuspension: A captured Musen is subjected to some harsh interrogation, including being hung from her wrists while being beaten.
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* UnwillingSuspension: A captured Musen is subjected to some harsh interrogation, including being hung from her wrists while being beaten.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the original ''Film/FlyingGuillotine''. Where the Manchurian Emperor's tyranny and suffering of civilians are shown in full (only hinted in the original, even then not by much), an even more violent opening where the Guillotines slaughtered dozens of people onscreen, captives sentenced to public executions, and more emotional moments between the named characters. The movie's also BloodierAndGorier for good measure.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: One of the Guillotines gets pickpocketed, and responds violently - until he realises realizes the bugger has several children to feed, and takes back just his ID, leaving them the money.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Guillotines can cut down trees when flung.
* AdaptationalBadass: The titular weapon is far deadlier than the original Creator/ShawBrothers incarnation. The original guillotine can sever heads from a distance, like the name implies, but is otherwise just a mundane BladeOnARope and can only target one victim maximum each throw; in the remake the guillotines can be controlled mid-flight, PrecisionGuidedBoomerang-style, decapitates more than one unfortunate victim with a single throw in the opening massacre, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisects a guy by the waist]] and even cuts down a tree!
* AdaptationalBadass: The titular weapon is far deadlier than the original Creator/ShawBrothers incarnation. The original guillotine can sever heads from a distance, like the name implies, but is otherwise just a mundane BladeOnARope and can only target one victim maximum each throw; in the remake the guillotines can be controlled mid-flight, PrecisionGuidedBoomerang-style, decapitates more than one unfortunate victim with a single throw in the opening massacre, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisects a guy by the waist]] and even cuts down a tree!
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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:...sadly it doesn't prevent them from finishing off the Guillotines squad. Leng may have survived, but it's implied he's next.]]
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:One of the Guillotines is sentenced to be ripped apart by five cows. Not whipped or anything, they have to be ''pulled'' in the proper direction by farmers. Possibly the most boring display of LaserGuidedKarma ever.]]
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:One of the Guillotines is sentenced to be ripped apart by five cows. Not whipped or anything, they have to be ''pulled'' in the proper direction by farmers. Possibly the most boring display of LaserGuidedKarma ever.]]
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''The Guillotines'' is a kung fu film released in 2012, loosely based on ''Film/MasterOfTheFlyingGuillotine''. This time there's a whole squad of flying guillotine masters, secretly working for the Qing Empire by killing off dissidents the best way they can. When Tian Lang, The Messiah of La Résistance flees their custody while capturing one of their own, it's up to the Guillotines Squad, led by Nala Leng and followed by Obstructive Bureaucrat Haidu, to track him down to a dirty little village in the barren wasteland, where the truth is waiting for them.
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''The Guillotines'' is a kung fu film released in 2012, loosely based on ''Film/MasterOfTheFlyingGuillotine''.''Film/FlyingGuillotine''. This time there's a whole squad of flying guillotine masters, secretly working for the Qing Empire by killing off dissidents the best way they can. When Tian Lang, The Messiah of La Résistance flees their custody while capturing one of their own, it's up to the Guillotines Squad, led by Nala Leng and followed by Obstructive Bureaucrat Haidu, to track him down to a dirty little village in the barren wasteland, where the truth is waiting for them.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: One of the Guillotines gets pickpocketed, and responds violently - until he realises the bugger has several children to feed, and takes back just his ID, leaving them the money.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Tian Lang, claiming to be a MessianicArchetype, has long hair and facial hair that make him look like {{Jesus}}. There's even a robe that may remind some of the poster for ''Film/TheGreatestStoryEverTold''. As if to nail it home, he's shown claiming he will return when they haul him off to be executed. (It's done with a jailbreak, but still.)
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Tian Lang, claiming to be a MessianicArchetype, has long hair and facial hair that make him look like {{Jesus}}. There's even a robe that may remind some of the poster for ''Film/TheGreatestStoryEverTold''. As if to nail it home, he's shown claiming he will return when they haul him off to be executed. (It's done with a jailbreak, but still.)
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* ThrowTheDogABone: One of the Guillotines gets pickpocketed, and responds violently - until he realises the bugger has several children to feed, and takes back just his ID, leaving them the money.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Tian Lang, claiming to be a MessianicArchetype, has long hair and facial hair that make him look like {{Jesus}}. There's even a robe that may remind some of the poster for ''Film/TheGreatestStoryEverTold''. As if to nail it home, he's shown claiming he will return when they haul him off to be executed. (It's done with a jailbreak, but still.)money.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Tian Lang, claiming to be a MessianicArchetype, has long hair and facial hair that make him look like {{Jesus}}. There's even a robe that may remind some of the poster for ''Film/TheGreatestStoryEverTold''. As if to nail it home, he's shown claiming he will return when they haul him off to be executed. (It's done with a jailbreak, but still.)
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* ActorAllusion: Li Yuchun (Musen) played with bladed projectiles in ''Film/FlyingSwordsOfDragonGate''.
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* ShowWithinAShow: The shadow puppet shows about Tian Lang could count.
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* ShowWithinAShow: The shadow puppet shows about Tian Lang could count.Lang.
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'''''The Guillotines''''' is a kung fu film released in 2012, loosely based on ''Film/MasterOfTheFlyingGuillotine''. This time there's a whole squad of flying guillotine masters, secretly working for the Qing Empire by killing off dissidents the best way they can. When Tian Lang, The Messiah of La Résistance flees their custody while capturing one of their own, it's up to the Guillotines Squad, led by Nala Leng and followed by Obstructive Bureaucrat Haidu, to track him down to a dirty little village in the barren wasteland, where the truth is waiting for them.
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* ActorAllusion: Li Yuchun (Musen) played with bladed projectiles in ''FlyingSwordsOfDragonGate''.
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* ActorAllusion: Li Yuchun (Musen) played with bladed projectiles in ''FlyingSwordsOfDragonGate''.''Film/FlyingSwordsOfDragonGate''.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Tian Lang, claiming to be a MessianicArchetype, has long hair and facial hair that make him look like {{Jesus}}. There's even a robe that may remind some of the poster for TheGreatestStoryEverTold. As if to nail it home, he's shown claiming he will return when they haul him off to be executed. (It's done with a jailbreak, but still.)
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Tian Lang, claiming to be a MessianicArchetype, has long hair and facial hair that make him look like {{Jesus}}. There's even a robe that may remind some of the poster for TheGreatestStoryEverTold.''Film/TheGreatestStoryEverTold''. As if to nail it home, he's shown claiming he will return when they haul him off to be executed. (It's done with a jailbreak, but still.)
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Tian Lang, claiming to be TheMessiah, a MessianicArchetype, has long hair and facial hair that make him look like {{Jesus}}. There's even a robe that may remind some of the poster for TheGreatestStoryEverTold. As if to nail it home, he's shown claiming he will return when they haul him off to be executed. (It's done with a jailbreak, but still.)
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* ChekovsGun: The papercuts decorating the village turn out to be a cipher - covering the coded letters with them reveals the hidden message.
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'''''The Guillotines''''' is a kung fu film released in 2012, loosely based on ''Film/MasterOfTheFlyingGuillotine''. This time there's a whole squad of flying guillotine masters, secretly working for the Qing Empire by killing off dissidents the best way they can. When Tian Lang, The Messiah of La Résistance flees their custody while capturing one of their own, it's up to the Guillotines Squad, led by Nala Leng and followed by Obstructive Bureaucrat Haidu, to track him down to a dirty little village in the barren wasteland, where the truth is waiting for them.
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'''''The Guillotines''''' is a kung fu film released in 2012, loosely based on ''Film/MasterOfTheFlyingGuillotine''. This time there's a whole squad of flying guillotine masters, secretly working for the Qing Empire by killing off dissidents the best way they can. When Tian Lang, The Messiah of La Résistance flees their custody while capturing one of their own, it's up to the Guillotines Squad, led by Nala Leng and followed by Obstructive Bureaucrat Haidu, to track him down to a dirty little village in the barren wasteland, where the truth is waiting for them.them.
!!This film provides examples of
!! The 2012 {{Remake}}:
* ActorAllusion: Li Yuchun (Musen) played with bladed projectiles in ''FlyingSwordsOfDragonGate''.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:One of the Guillotines is sentenced to be ripped apart by five cows. Not whipped or anything, they have to be ''pulled'' in the proper direction by farmers. Possibly the most boring display of LaserGuidedKarma ever.]]
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe:
--> '''Tian Lang''': For selling that book, the father was sentenced to DeathByAThousandCuts, and his four sons were to be beheaded. Except for the youngest, who was just turned 16, and spared the blade... but how could the boy live on, when all his family was gone? ''And yet, I did''.
* ChekovsGun: The papercuts decorating the village turn out to be a cipher - covering the coded letters with them reveals the hidden message.
* DevilInPlainSight: Leng's childhood friend Haidu, now a regular Imperial officer, assigned to observe the Guillotines on their sortie. They don't trust him for a moment. [[spoiler:And they were right.]]
* TheDungAges: The little village, filled with nothing but Han Chinese refugees forced out of their lands by the Manchurian Empire, is ''particularly'' dingy.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The surviving Guillotines.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Tian Lang believes the Qing army's massacre of refugees can only be appeased with his death.]]
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:...sadly it doesn't prevent them from finishing off the Guillotines squad. Leng may have survived, but it's implied he's next.]]
* MundaneUtility: One of the Guillotines kills time by throwing rocks across water, which ''skip about twenty times.''
* OrphanageOfFear: The Guillotines Squad is chosen from orphans and trained to kill all their lives. In a huge subversion, the Guillotines squad turns out to be anything but apathetic in private (they're still killing machines mind you).
* RemakeCameo: More of a Remake Supporting Role for Wang Yu, the chief of the Guillotines squad.
* ShowWithinAShow: The shadow puppet shows about Tian Lang could count.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The Guillotine squad's token DarkActionGirl Musen.
* SoLastSeason: Invoked as a plot point. The Qing Empire has been planning to phase out the Guillotines and introduce ''firearms.''
* TechnologyPorn: How the flying guillotines work.
* ThrowTheDogABone: One of the Guillotines gets pickpocketed, and responds violently - until he realises the bugger has several children to feed, and takes back just his ID, leaving them the money.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Tian Lang, claiming to be TheMessiah, has long hair and facial hair that make him look like {{Jesus}}. There's even a robe that may remind some of the poster for TheGreatestStoryEverTold. As if to nail it home, he's shown claiming he will return when they haul him off to be executed. (It's done with a jailbreak, but still.)
!!This film provides examples of
!! The 2012 {{Remake}}:
* ActorAllusion: Li Yuchun (Musen) played with bladed projectiles in ''FlyingSwordsOfDragonGate''.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:One of the Guillotines is sentenced to be ripped apart by five cows. Not whipped or anything, they have to be ''pulled'' in the proper direction by farmers. Possibly the most boring display of LaserGuidedKarma ever.]]
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe:
--> '''Tian Lang''': For selling that book, the father was sentenced to DeathByAThousandCuts, and his four sons were to be beheaded. Except for the youngest, who was just turned 16, and spared the blade... but how could the boy live on, when all his family was gone? ''And yet, I did''.
* ChekovsGun: The papercuts decorating the village turn out to be a cipher - covering the coded letters with them reveals the hidden message.
* DevilInPlainSight: Leng's childhood friend Haidu, now a regular Imperial officer, assigned to observe the Guillotines on their sortie. They don't trust him for a moment. [[spoiler:And they were right.]]
* TheDungAges: The little village, filled with nothing but Han Chinese refugees forced out of their lands by the Manchurian Empire, is ''particularly'' dingy.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The surviving Guillotines.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Tian Lang believes the Qing army's massacre of refugees can only be appeased with his death.]]
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:...sadly it doesn't prevent them from finishing off the Guillotines squad. Leng may have survived, but it's implied he's next.]]
* MundaneUtility: One of the Guillotines kills time by throwing rocks across water, which ''skip about twenty times.''
* OrphanageOfFear: The Guillotines Squad is chosen from orphans and trained to kill all their lives. In a huge subversion, the Guillotines squad turns out to be anything but apathetic in private (they're still killing machines mind you).
* RemakeCameo: More of a Remake Supporting Role for Wang Yu, the chief of the Guillotines squad.
* ShowWithinAShow: The shadow puppet shows about Tian Lang could count.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The Guillotine squad's token DarkActionGirl Musen.
* SoLastSeason: Invoked as a plot point. The Qing Empire has been planning to phase out the Guillotines and introduce ''firearms.''
* TechnologyPorn: How the flying guillotines work.
* ThrowTheDogABone: One of the Guillotines gets pickpocketed, and responds violently - until he realises the bugger has several children to feed, and takes back just his ID, leaving them the money.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Tian Lang, claiming to be TheMessiah, has long hair and facial hair that make him look like {{Jesus}}. There's even a robe that may remind some of the poster for TheGreatestStoryEverTold. As if to nail it home, he's shown claiming he will return when they haul him off to be executed. (It's done with a jailbreak, but still.)
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'''''The Guillotines''''' is a kung fu film released in 2012, loosely based on ''Film/TheMasterOfTheFlyingGuillotine''. This time there's a whole squad of flying guillotine masters, secretly working for the Qing Empire by killing off dissidents the best way they can. When Tian Lang, The Messiah of La Résistance flees their custody while capturing one of their own, it's up to the Guillotines Squad, led by Nala Leng and followed by Obstructive Bureaucrat Haidu, to track him down to a dirty little village in the barren wasteland, where the truth is waiting for them.
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'''''The Guillotines''''' is a kung fu film released in 2012, loosely based on ''Film/TheMasterOfTheFlyingGuillotine''.''Film/MasterOfTheFlyingGuillotine''. This time there's a whole squad of flying guillotine masters, secretly working for the Qing Empire by killing off dissidents the best way they can. When Tian Lang, The Messiah of La Résistance flees their custody while capturing one of their own, it's up to the Guillotines Squad, led by Nala Leng and followed by Obstructive Bureaucrat Haidu, to track him down to a dirty little village in the barren wasteland, where the truth is waiting for them.
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'''''The Guillotines''''' is a kung fu film released in 2012, loosely based on ''Film/TheMasterOfTheFlyingGuillotine''. This time there's a whole squad of flying guillotine masters, secretly working for the Qing Empire by killing off dissidents the best way they can. When Tian Lang, The Messiah of La Résistance flees their custody while capturing one of their own, it's up to the Guillotines Squad, led by Nala Leng and followed by Obstructive Bureaucrat Haidu, to track him down to a dirty little village in the barren wasteland, where the truth is waiting for them.
