Line #14 Film/BloodOfTheDragon


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2	[[caption-width-right:342:One Hell of a [[CoversAlwaysLie Misleading Poster]]!]]
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4	''Blood of the Dragon'', also known as ''The Desperate Chase'', is a 1971 martial arts film starring Creator/JimmyWangYu.
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6	White Dragon (Jimmy) is a courier with a mission to deliver a scroll containing an important message to the Imperial Court. But crossing the Chinese-Mongolian border in the middle of the war is dangerous, and a Mongolian Minister will stop at nothing to retrieve that scroll. After befriending a young boy pretending to be a beggar, White Dragon takes refuge in an inn belonging to the boy's sister Miss Lian while evading the Mongols.
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9	!!Blood of the Tropers:
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11	* ActionPrologue: The movie begins it's first ''second'' with White Dragon fighting General Tai, with the credits superimposed over their battle.
12	* BadassAndChildDuo: White Dragon and Ni-chiu, after the former asks the latter to be his guide.
13	* BehindAStick: While being pursued by Mongol soldiers, for some reason Ni-chiu tries hiding behind a tree thinner than him.
14	* BloodSplatteredWarrior: White Dragon at the end of his fight against General Tai and Minister Sing's soldiers, where his all-white clothing ends up covered in plenty of blood, both from his enemies and himself.
15	* ConArtist: Ni-chiu likes to pretend being a blind beggar to con for alms, shown in his early scenes.
16	* CoversAlwaysLie: Yes, movie, we know Jimmy Wang Yu have an impressive set of abs, but despite what the above poster implies, at '''NO''' point in the movie did Jimmy strip down to his undies.
17	* EpicFlail: The preferred weapon of Kang Fu, the MookLieutenant, is a spiked ball on a chain.
18	* HumanHammerThrow: [[spoiler: The ultimate fate of BigBad Minister Sing; after White Dragon shoves a spear through Sing's guts, he then twirls his opponent in circles in mid-air before flinging Sing to the corner of the body-strewen courtyard]].
19	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Since White Dragon's main weapon in the whole movie is a gigantic spear, expect this to happen constantly. [[spoiler: Including the BigBad Minister Sing]].
20	* OffhandBackhand: White Dragon, while sipping wine in Miss Yan's tavern, hears an assassin crawling on the rooftop above him. He chucks a knife vertically into the air where the sound is from, and seconds later a dead assassin rolls down the roof.
21	* OneHitPolykill: While facing off against three black-clad assassins, White Dragon managed to skewer all three of them with a single forward thrush.
22	* OneManArmy: It's a movie starring Jimmy Wang-yu. No surprises here. By the climax of the film he had claimed at least 60 lives with that spear of his.
23	* PursuedProtagonist: White Dragon spends most of the movie fleeing from the Mongols after his life because of the all-important scroll he is carrying for the imperial court.
24	* PreAsskickingOneLiner: A beautiful one delivered by White Dragon, before learning he's gonna have to fight Minister Sing and a whole platoon of at least 60 enemies:
25	--> "I don't have time to die right now!"
26	* ShoutOut: At one point, White Dragon reveals his true name to be... Creator/TiLung?
27	* TagalongKid: Ni-chiu, the little brother of Miss Yan, who follows White Dragon plenty of times throughout the film.
28	* WeaponSpecialization: White Dragon's preferred weapon is his spear, whose silver-coated shaft is absolutely ''huge''. He's damn good at using this weapon to take names in the finale.
29	* WhipSword: Minister Sing's second-in-command, General Tai, uses a sword that can split into chained segments to fight White Dragon.
30	* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Played straight with the [[spoiler: white-clad protagonist, White Dragon]]. Take a wild guess if he outlives the credits or not.
31	* {{Wuxia}}: Yeah it's one of these.

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