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Some distance away, Ballard betrays and abandons Tovar, but is captured by bandits, who accidentally kill Ballard and themselves after igniting the powder. Garin is arrested by the Nameless Order, and is locked up in the Wall. While Lin investigates, Tovar and Ballard steal a supply of black powder and escape, knocking Garin unconscious for trying to stop them. However, the Imperial envoy claims the monster and takes it to the capital to present to the Emperor.Ī tunnel is discovered at the base of the Wall the previous attacks had been a distraction so that the Tao Tie could dig the tunnel.

They capture a living Tao Tie and prove the theory.

This delays his escape plans, angering Tovar, who nevertheless assists Garin despite Ballard's protests.ĭuring the next attack, the Tao Tie are numerous enough to cause Lin to resort to using arrows equipped with black powder, whose capabilities had been kept secret from the Westerners until now. To test the hypothesis, Garin suggests they capture a Tao Tie alive and agrees to help. Wang believes the stone Garin carries enabled him to slay the Tao Tie he fought at the cave. Around this time, an envoy from the capital arrives with an ancient scroll which suggests that the monsters are pacified by magnets.

General Shao is killed, placing Commander Lin in charge of the Nameless Order. That night, two Tao Tie reach the top of the Wall. The three Europeans secretly plan to steal gunpowder and flee during the next monster attack. Garin and Tovar display amazing battle skills, saving the life of young warrior Peng Yong, then slaying two monsters, earning them the Order's respect. During the battle, Garin and Tovar are freed by Ballard, another European who came east twenty-five years earlier in search of gunpowder detained, he now serves as an English and Latin teacher. Both sides sustain heavy losses before the monsters' queen aborts the attack. Shortly after, a horde of Tao Tie assails the Wall. While examining the severed monster arm, the Order's commanders are surprised by the monsters' first assault, which has come one week early. The Nameless Order exists to combat alien monsters called Tao Tie, which arrived from a meteorite and attack once every sixty years. Upon reaching the Wall, they are taken prisoner by soldiers of the Nameless Order, led by General Shao and Strategist Wang. Only Garin and Tovar survive they sever the monster's arm and bring it with them. A few miles north of the Great Wall, they are attacked by a monster.

6.1 White protagonist in an East Asian settingĮuropean mercenaries, including Irishman William Garin and Spaniard Pero Tovar, travel to China during the reign of the Song dynasty's Renzong Emperor, searching for the secret to gunpowder.

Although it grossed $335 million worldwide, the film was still considered a box office bomb due to its high production and marketing costs, with losses as high as $75 million. The film received negative reviews from critics, with praise for its action sequences, though the plot received criticism. It was released by China Film Group in China on December 16, 2016, and in the United States on Februby Universal Pictures. Principal photography for the film began on March 30, 2015, in Qingdao, China, and it premiered in Beijing on December 6, 2016.

The Great Wall is Zhang's first English-language film. An American and Chinese co-production starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, and Andy Lau, the plot centers around a European mercenary warrior (Matt Damon) imprisoned by imperial Chinese forces within the Great Wall of China after arriving in search of gunpowder, eventually joining forces with the Chinese to help combat an alien threat. The Great Wall ( Chinese: 长城) is a 2016 science fantasy action monster film directed by Zhang Yimou, with a screenplay by Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro and Tony Gilroy, from a story by Max Brooks, Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.