The place where the action is placed in is a chess house courtyard which looks surprisingly like a Buddhist temple. Donnie Yen, aka Broken Sword, is armed with a spear whilst Jet Li has a straight broad sword which has a quite surprising shape because it's middle part is missing. Donnie Yen is wearing yellow robes with a tang of orange whilst Jet Li is wearing black breaches and shirt so that we could easily know which is which. The chess courtyard has also a small bench on which the old man musician sits and plays his strange to us and very native Chinese harp/guitar instrument.
The extract has a lot of video editing involved, such as: wires and the fact that the antagonist and the protagonist seem to be flying through the air when they jump. Also when they have the battle of the minds the scene turns monochromatic to indicate that the battle switches from real life to the battle of the minds. Here we see the characters float again through the air and do acrobatic fight moves such as fighting whilst one is hanging upside down from the roof.
In the background we could see the natural sound of water droplets falling into ceramic vases, oriental music which is played by the old man and there is also the sound of clashing steel. The music keeps changing pace and volume which changes the temp of the fight. For example when it gets faster or higher the fighters do some sort of acrobatic trick. When the music comes to loud snapping stop, the fighters begin the real fight because the music was the source of their trans. The silence is also indicated by the fact that we can hear the coins hit the bottom of the old mans bowl to show the surreal silence.
In this extract there are a lot of close ups and extreme close ups. This is done for a number of reasons one of them going for the extreme close up on Donnie's face so that we could see all of its cold and expressionless. Most of the time we have a two shot, starting from the moment when the fighters begin the mind battle with the old man sitting in between them overlooking them. We also have a macro shot of Donnie's spear creating a water cloud so that he can distract his opponent, but then we see Jet's face going through the cloud without even blinking.
The extract has a lot of video editing involved, such as: wires and the fact that the antagonist and the protagonist seem to be flying through the air when they jump. Also when they have the battle of the minds the scene turns monochromatic to indicate that the battle switches from real life to the battle of the minds. Here we see the characters float again through the air and do acrobatic fight moves such as fighting whilst one is hanging upside down from the roof.
In the background we could see the natural sound of water droplets falling into ceramic vases, oriental music which is played by the old man and there is also the sound of clashing steel. The music keeps changing pace and volume which changes the temp of the fight. For example when it gets faster or higher the fighters do some sort of acrobatic trick. When the music comes to loud snapping stop, the fighters begin the real fight because the music was the source of their trans. The silence is also indicated by the fact that we can hear the coins hit the bottom of the old mans bowl to show the surreal silence.
In this extract there are a lot of close ups and extreme close ups. This is done for a number of reasons one of them going for the extreme close up on Donnie's face so that we could see all of its cold and expressionless. Most of the time we have a two shot, starting from the moment when the fighters begin the mind battle with the old man sitting in between them overlooking them. We also have a macro shot of Donnie's spear creating a water cloud so that he can distract his opponent, but then we see Jet's face going through the cloud without even blinking.
