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    Post Estimating the height of each Jin Yong characters

    Let's estimate the height of the main Jin Yong characters...

    For Xiao Feng, he should be at least 1.9m I guess.. He's Khitan and was described to be of large size.

    Duan Yu is also described as tall, so he should be at least 1.8m..

    What about the other character's height? Let's speculate. And could anyone in Jin Yong universe be taller than Xiao Feng?
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    Unfortunately, all other adaptations that I remember has casted a much shorter person for Duan Yu.

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    Same goes to Zhang Wu Ji. Zhang Wu Ji is supposed to be a tall guy too, but we got Tony Leung, Jet Li and Alec Su playing him.

    Shi Po Tian is also a tall guy.
    什麼是朋友?朋友永遠是在你犯下不可原諒錯誤的時候,仍舊站在你那邊的笨蛋。~ 王亞瑟

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    Quote Originally Posted by kidd
    Same goes to Zhang Wu Ji. Zhang Wu Ji is supposed to be a tall guy too, but we got Tony Leung, Jet Li and Alec Su playing him.
    In HSDS '86, I distinctly remember Tony's Cheung Mo Gei being short. The mighty leader of the Ming Cult was always towered over by his subordinates.

    Then again, short men have often been the founders of empires. Julius Caesar and Napoleon were shorties too.

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    Here's how HuangYushi described ZWJ:

    As for the adult Zhang Wuji, he was "large" and "tall" at the age of 20. This description is found in Chapter 16 of HSDS (2nd ed). Later on in the same chapter, Zhu Changling described Zhang Wuji as "a lot bigger and taller than I".
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    和諧唔係一百個人講同一番話,係一百個人有一百句唔同嘅說話,而又互相尊重 ~ - 葉梓恩

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    Quote Originally Posted by kidd
    Here's how HuangYushi described ZWJ:
    Not me-lah. It was Jin Yong's description; I was just quoting his words.
    Jin Yong's Ode to Gallantry [侠客行].
    Quote Originally Posted by atlantean0208
    what about SPT, I need my SPT fix ASAP, pretty pleaseeeee...
    Soon ... SOON!

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    SPT is taller than Xie Yan Ke and Shi Qing. This are some of the description about him:-

    粗壮 (Well-built and sturdy)
    高大 (tall)
    比之谢烟客高了半个头(he stood more than half a head taller than Xie Yanke)
    现今可长得比你爹爹还高了(now you have grown taller than your father)

    Credit: HuangYushi. I leech some of the translation from his OTG translation.
    Last edited by kidd; 08-04-06 at 10:40 PM.
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    和諧唔係一百個人講同一番話,係一百個人有一百句唔同嘅說話,而又互相尊重 ~ - 葉梓恩

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    Agree totally with you, ZWJ in all the adaptations have been short (maybe except for 94 version with steve ma) Yes! Tony and Alec were completely over towered by his subordinates. Alec version--the ladies were about the same height. Luckily Alssya is a short actress.

    What about Yang Gor? I think most of the series did do a good job to cast a fair height actor to be the part. Andy, Louis, Chris, and HXM (except for Richie).

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