{"id":35782,"date":"2024-05-18T07:37:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T11:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35782"},"modified":"2024-05-18T07:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T11:37:39","slug":"the-great-wall-2016-starring-matt-damon-pedro-pascale-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35782","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Great Wall&#8221; (2016) starring Matt Damon &amp; Pedro Pascale \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z051824zview_greatwall.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"758\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Great Wall <\/strong><\/em>(2016)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Yimou Zhang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Tony Gilroy <\/strong>story by <strong>Max Brooks, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau <\/strong>and <strong>Pedro Pascal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>One of mankind&#8217;s greatest wonders. 1700 years to build. 5500 miles long. What were they trying to keep out?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In ancient China, William Garin (Damon) and Pedro Tovar (Pascal) lead a group of mercenaries on a mission to get gunpowder.\u00a0 One night the group is attacked by a strange beast.\u00a0 Only William and Tovar survive.\u00a0 The next day they reach the Great Wall.\u00a0 There they are taken prisoner as spies by the Nameless Order.\u00a0 The Nameless Order are a trained army that stand guard at the Wall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As William and Tovar are being questioned the call to battle is sounded.\u00a0 The Wall is being attacked by thousands of monsters like the one who wiped out William&#8217;s group.\u00a0 Although the Wall is fortified by soldiers using various weapons, several of the creatures make it to the top.\u00a0 William and Tovar join the fight.\u00a0 The monsters are driven back, but at the cost of many lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because of their bravery William and Tovar are no longer prisoners.\u00a0 They are free to leave.\u00a0 As the Nameless Ones prepare for the next monster attack, Tovar steals kegs of gunpowder and makes his escape.\u00a0 Garin is unaware of Tovar&#8217;s actions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the monsters prepare another attack, the Nameless Ones and Garin ready themselves for a fight to the death.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Great Wall<\/em> was an epic production.\u00a0 Over 100 translators were needed to provide instructions to the cast and crew.<\/p>\n<p>Although most of the filming took place in China, they weren&#8217;t allowed to film on the Great Wall.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the inventive machinery and methods used to fight the monsters.<\/p>\n<p>I went in with low expectations for <em>The Great Wall<\/em>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fun movie if you&#8217;re looking for light adventure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>The Great Wall <\/strong><\/em>(2016) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z051824zview_greatwall2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Wall (2016) Director: Yimou Zhang Screenplay: Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Tony Gilroy story by Max Brooks, Edward Zwick,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35783,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35782\/revisions\/35783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}