The Myth (film)
The Myth is a 2005 Chinese film directed by Stanley Tong.
Jackie Chan – Jack/General Meng Yi
Kim Hee-seon – Princess Ok-Soo
Tony Leung Ka Fai – William
Mallika
Sherawat – Indian Princess
Patrick Tam Yiu-Man
Plot
Story of Meng Yi
RUKMAN
On their journey from Korea, she falls into
constant dangers, especially from a Korean general who wants both to save her
from being a concubine and to marry her. Each time, she is rescued from the general
by Meng Yi. Eventually, the two fall in love. However Meng Yi hides his feelings
since he owes his allegiance to the Qin Emperor and Ok-Soo was supposed to be
the Emperor's concubine. Ok-Soo has no such dilemma and openly displays her feelings
for Meng Yi.
Later, the Qin Emperor becomes very ill, but succeeds in finding the immortality elixir. But the guards escorting the elixir are ambushed by rebels. Meng Yi pursues the rebels with his troops and wages a fierce battle. He doesn't know that a conspiracy has already been hatched by the prince and prime minister, followed by a coup d'etat burying the emperor alive. Although slain in battle, Meng Yi manages to hand over the elixir to his deputy, Nangong Yan. Sadly, Nangong Yan and Ok-Soo are accused as rebels by the conspirators. As punishment, they are forced to drink the immortality elixir and are then thrown into the great mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, to live imprisoned forever. The Emperor who wanted to live could not live, and Ok-Soo who wanted to die could never die.
Princess Ok-Soo declares that she would wait for Meng Yi to return from his expedition to retrieve the immortality elixir. She is able to do so after taking the elixir along with Nangong Yan, who protects her while awaiting Meng Yi's return. She waits for over two thousand years, living in a floating palace built by the Qin Emperor, until Meng Yi finally returns. The Mausoleum is raided by Jack's colleagues and is being destroyed when Jack asks Ok-Soo to leave with him but refuses, bound by her promise to await Meng Yi's return.
Story of Jack
Jack is
the reincarnation of Meng Yi and works as a modern day archaeologist. He often
dreams himself as a general, rescuing a far-away princess from danger. One day,
William (Tony Leung Ka Fai), a friend of his who works for a secret foundation,
asks him to find a rare material as a favor. This rare material has the ability
to make a field of zero gravity. His travels take him to the floating tomb of
a Dassar King in India, where he finds a sword related to his past life. Apparently,
in the past life, Jack as Meng Yi fought a Dassar King over the emperor's concubine
Ok-Soo. To honor this fight, the two warriors agree to exchange their swords.
The sword Jack finds floating beside the floating coffin of the Dassar King is
indeed that of Meng Yi. Jack's friend, William causes some trouble in the tomb
by removing a piece of rare material from a statue. This action causes the zero
gravity field inside the tomb to collapse, bringing down the floating coffin and
sword. When the coffin smashes to the ground, its lid opens and a painting of
Ok-Soo is revealed, attached to the lid of the coffin.
Jack is then chased by the sect members and the police. After being left by William, who flees in a helicopter, Jack jumps over a high cliff into a river. He loses consciousness and drifts along the stream until an Indian girl (Mallika Sherawat) rescues him.
The girl takes him to her uncle, a teacher of Indian martial arts, who enlightens him about his past and future. During a sword match with a local warrior, Jack has a vision of the past match between Meng Yi and the Dassar Empire's finest warrior.
After saving Jack from the police, the girl helps him escape back to his home. At home, Jack delivers the sword to China National Museum, as a National Treasure. This angers the leader of secret organization that has been funding Jack and William's adventure in search of the anti-gravitational material. The leader of this shadow organization is the reincarnation of the Korean general, who vowed revenge on Meng Yi.
Conclusion
After extensive research,
it is determined that the anti-gravitational material is actually fragments of
a meteorite that fell to Earth in the time of the Qin Dynasty. Jack and William
also discover the exact location of the legendary emperor's tomb, which is hidden
behind a great waterfall. This massive tomb is believed to contain the largest
fragment of the meteorite, the power of which is great enough to enable the ancient
Chinese to build a floating palace, intended to be the imperial palace for the
Qin emperor in his afterlife.
Using state-of-the-art equipment, Jack is able to reach the location of the emperor's tomb, where he meets Ok-Soo and Nangong Yan. The two immortals believe that Jack is Meng Yi and greet him.
At the same time, the party of intruders led by the leader of the secret organization -- who, years ago, had been Jack's professor and is now his main rival -- enters the tomb. He insists that Ok-Soo relinquish the immortality pill. Yan refuses the demand by stating that nothing will be taken away from the emperor's tomb. A large aerial fight begins, raging between the two parties.
William, trying to collect a sample of the meteorite, pulls out a piece from a statue. His actions break the balance of the zero-gravity field and the emperor's tomb collapses in on itself.
As he heads for the exit of the main chamber, Jack asks Ok-Soo to come with him. Ok-Soo refuses his offer since, having heard William call his true name, she now knows that Jack is not Meng Yi. She then flies back to the crumbling castle, where she holds her promise to await the return of the real Meng Yi. She does not know that Jack is actually the reincarnation of Meng Yi.
Just as the villain approaches the fortress to retrieve the pill, Nangong grabs the leader from under the steps as the staircase collapsed. In the end, they both perish.
William, who was trapped under a statue hurled at him during the fight, begins to drown in the flooding hole of mercury. Jack promises that their friendship is forever before William drowns within the mercury, paying the ultimate price for his previous habits in graverobbing.
At the last moment, Jack escapes through the closing gate, forever leaving his past life. Back at his houseboat, it is revealed that Jack wrote a book out of his experience, which he dedicates to William.
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