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Thread: Why hasn't any ROCH adaptation done the HSDS epilogue/prologue scene?

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    Default Why hasn't any ROCH adaptation done the HSDS epilogue/prologue scene?

    In final chapter of the original novel for RETURN OF THE CONDOR HEROES, Jin Yong introduced the characters of Cheung Gwun Bo (future Cheung 3 Fung), his Shaolin teacher Gok Yeun, and the concept of the 9 Yeung Jen Ging, which would serve as a foundation for the HEAVEN SWORD AND DRAGON SABRE novel he would write and publish a few years later.

    As many times as ROCH has been adapted for film, television, and comic books, this scene has NEVER been included. On a practical level, I can understand that the people making the film, TV show, or comic book are just looking to end their movie, show, comic, etc., and don't necessarily need or want to bother with setting up HSDS, but still...seldom has a studio or publisher offered an adaptation of ROCH *without* following up with an HSDS project within a few years (or sooner). Might as well do the early marketing as Jin Yong did.

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    The main reason is that it's not really a story about ROCH at all; it's just the teaser for HSDS. Unless you've got an HSDS production scheduled, there'd be no reason to include it. For that matter, most HSDS productions skip the first two chapters of that book because they're about Guo Xiang and Zhang Junbao when it already takes way too long to introduce Zhang Wuji. The only exception that comes to mind is the 1985 TVB version which included it as a flashback much deeper into the story.

    The better question is why Jin Yong felt the need to include that scene, and the obvious answer is that he needed a way to hook readers into his next book, and this was a convenient way to do it. Ming Pao was still an extremely new publication at the time and he couldn't afford to lose any readers.

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    Since the new version of the condor heroes will have a young Zhang San Feng, perhaps you will take interests in watching it?

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    Would love to see a serious where they do the period starting from the fall of GJ to the establishment of wudang.

    LOCH remade for the 10th time and HSDS for the 20th time just bored me.

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