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TVB summary in English (From the TVB Webpage): 

TVB brings in yet another of renowned martial arts novelist Louis Cha's best works "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" on screen this August. The story centers on the friendship among three comrades:  martial arts leader Fung (Wong Yat Wah) mistakenly kills his lover Chu (Jay Lau Kam Ling) when he seeks for his real identity;  Yue (Chan Ho Man) is entangled in a complicated love triangle with Yin (Carmen Lee Yeuk Tung) and Fuk (Cheung Kwok Keung); naive monk Hui Chuk (Fan Siu Wong) is chosen to be the son-in-law of an Emperor! 

Brief Summary of “The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils”: 

Since the story is contained in a volume of five books, has 50 chapters, and is 2124 pages long, it would be very difficult to give a comprehensive summary without going on for pages and pages.  Therefore the following is a brief summary of what happens in the story: 

“The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils” is set in the Sung Dynasty around late the 990s or early 1000s AD or so and is about the adventures of three sworn brothers: Kiu Feng, the leader of the Beggar Union; Duen Yu, the nephew of the king of Dai Lei; and Hui Juk, a kind-hearted Shaolin monk. 

Kiu Feng, an orphan raised by a kind family, became the leader of the Beggar Union in his late 20s and was known throughout the “gong wu” as Buk Kiu Feng (North Kiu Feng).  He has a reputation as an excellent fighter and as an honorable man.  However, his life was to take a drastic turn when he is framed for murders he did not commit and when it is exposed that he is the orphan of Khitan parents.  Kiu resigns from his post as leader of the Beggar Union and starts out on a search for his true identity.  Through this search, he comes across the love of his life, Yuen Ah Chu, but circumstances conspire to have him accidentally kill her.  Before she dies, Ah Chu makes Kiu Feng promise to take care of her sister Yuen Ah Chi. 

By this time, Kiu  has come across solid evidence that he is a Khitan person and not Han Chinese.  Kiu’s adventures take him North where he becomes sworn brothers with Ye Luet Hung Gei who turns out to be the Liao Emperor.  Ye Leut makes Kiu Feng the governor of the Southern Province of the Liao Empire.  Kiu accepts that he is a Khitan person and decides to stay in Liao and govern his people well. 

However, the need to keep his promise to Ah Chu forces Kiu Feng to return to the Sung Empire.  After saving Ah Chi from the evil Ding Chun Chau, Kiu discovers that his father is still alive and has been living for years in Shaolin.  Having made peace with his father and learning more about his past, Kiu accompanies his sworn brothers to Sai Ha to take part in the marriage contest of the Sai Ha Princess. 

Summoned back to Liao by the Emperor, Kiu discovers that the Emperor intends to attack the Sung Dynasty.  Wanting no war between Liao and Sung, Kiu tries to warn the Sung Empire but is captured.  After being freed by his sworn brothers, Kiu helps fend off an attack by the Liao army at An Moon Gwan.  During the war, he secures a promise that Liao would not attack Sung from the Liao Emperor but because Kiu has killed many of his Khitan compatriots and attacked the Liao Emperor, Kiu kills himself  to pay for his “crimes.” 

Duen Yu, is the nephew of the Dai Lei Emperor, Duen Jing Ming.  After fleeing Dai Lei because he didn’t want to learn kung fu, Duen Yu stumbles into a cave where he sees a statue of a beautiful woman.  Following the instructions at the feet of the statue, Duen kowtows one hundred times in front of it and discovers a kung fu manual.  Duen learns the kung fu and returns to Dai Lei.  During this time, Duen learns that he has two sisters, Chung Ling and Mook Yuen Ching. 

Later on, Duen learns “luk muk sun gim” (Six arteries magic swords) during an attack on some Dai Lei monks by the evil Kull Mor Chi but because he learned it in a hurry, Duen cannot master it.  Captured by Kull, Duen sets out on another adventure where he meets and falls in love with a woman who looks exactly like the statue in the cave, Wong Yu Yeen.  From then on, Duen is determined to follow Wong wherever she goes even though he knows that she is in love with her cousin, Mo Yung Fuk.  Eventually, Wong falls in love with Duen too and they live, I believe, happily ever after (or else there would be no Duen Chi Hing in Condor Heros!). 

Besides the love story, Duen is also involved in the story involving his “father”, Duen Jing Shun.  Duen Jing Shun loves five women and had children with all of them.  Yuen Ah Chu, Yuen Ah Chi, Wong Yu Yeen, Chung Ling, and Mook Yuen Ching.  Duen Yu is anguised when he finds out that Wong Yu Yeen is actually his sister but he laters discovers that his real father is not Duen Jing Shun but the evil Duen Yin Hing. 

Hui Juk, is a kind-hearted monk who since birth lived in Shaolin.  On a mission to pass invitations to a meeting to be held at Shaolin, Hui Juk meets Duen Yu and the two eventually become sworn brothers.  Circumstances lead the two brothers to the home of So Sing Ho who is holding a “go” game contest.  Hui Juk unwittingly wins the contest and, as a result, becomes the leader of Siu Yiu Pai.  Despite becoming leader, Hui Juk is determined to return to Shaolin, on his way there, he comes upon a situation where he has to rescue a young girl from a gang of people.  The young girl turns out to be Tin Shan Tung Lo (Sky Mountain Child Old), another member of Siu Yiu Pai, Tin Shan Tung Lo teaches Hui Juk kung fu and forces him to break all the commandments a monk is supposed to keep: not to drink wine, not to eat meat, and not to have sex.  The woman Tin Shan Tung Lo forces Hui Juk to have sex with turns out to be the Princess of Sai Ha.  Hui Juk and the Princess fall in love and, eventually, get married. 

Reviews of  “The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils”: 
PETER FONG: The casting wasn't very good. Felix Wong Yat Wa doesn't look like a "Tai Hap" = Hero to me. At least not the hero he should be... cool, rude, but with a gentle heart. Chan Ho Man's acting has too many flaws, although he's quite good for a beginner. He is very funny 
though. I like that,but it doesn't suit the character Duen Yu. Duen Yu is a dull, shy and almost boring guy. But Chan Ho Man made him looked like the opposite. The casting I like most is the one of Carmen lee. It's not that she's pretty, but she really suits the part she's playing. Naive, kind, and cheerful. She's the only one that was better compared to the old series. For the other ones.. even if I don't remember the old one, I won't like them anyway. 

Another major flaw of this new version is that it's way to fast (although it's nice to have the 
boring parts skipped). They tried to squeeze a more than 60 episode-series into one of 40-somehing.  Just can't do that... SG&DD is such a complicated story that it really needs a lot of episodes. 

And I don't like the opening theme song and/or soundtrack. it's not that "heroic" as it should 
be, but maybe I'm influenced by the fact that I loved the old soundtrack. But the new one sound too 
happy to me. I'm not saying that I don't like the song itself (in fact I've been listining to that song constantly, because I like it as a song, not as the themesong of SGDD). I just don't like it being used as 
theme song for this series. It should be something that give you a feeling of tension and action. 

SANNEY LEUNG:  At first, I didn’t really like this series but as it went along I grew to like it more and more.  The reason for my initial dislike had a lot to do with the overuse of cheesy special effects in the first episode.  Otherwise, it was all right.  I didn’t mind the deviations the series made from the novel but it might bother some die-hard enthusiasts.  As the series progressed, however, the series deviated less and less from the novel and by the end, things were happening in the series exactly as they happened in the book.  The pacing of the story was good with the only boring parts being around the time of the death of Ah Chu with the obligatory “the hero has to mourn and be in deep anguish scenes.”  I felt the series could have used maybe an extra five episodes to fill in some back stories that are contained in the book but otherwise the forty-five episodes were very satisfactory. 

As for the acting, in my opinion, Wong Yat Wah did a very good job of playing the role of Kiu Feng.  He hit all the right notes and, to me, seemed all right in the part of the hero.  If his performance had one flaw it was his physical appearance isn’t as dominating as Kiu Feng is supposed to be as portrayed in the novel.  But Wong can’t help that.  I doubt anyone else at TVB at the current time could have done a better job of playing Kiu Feng.  Chan Ho Man did rather well for his first acting job but there were times where his inexperience showed: during some scenes with Carman Lee he didn’t look lovestruck enough but the most telling indication of his lack of experience showed through during the scenes where he found out that Duen Yin Hing was his real father and the death of Duen Jing Shun and his lovers.  Chan didn’t have the capacity to show enough emotion in those scenes.  There was nothing really outstanding or glaringly bad in the rest of the casting. 

Finally the theme song, like the series, I didn’t like it at first but after hearing it ninety times (two times each during the beginning and end of each of the forty-five episodes) I grew to like it more and more.  And after deciphering the lyrics, I really thought the melody matched the spirit of the words.  If they went for a tradition mo hup theme song with the heroic sounds, it would not have fit the hopeful but sad sentiments expressed in the song. 

This series is worth spending the time and money to watch. 

YUNHE "Gem" I never read the book, so I don't know how the characters are "supposed" to be, but nobody ever said a movie based on a book have to be EXACTLY like the book, so my review will not be linked to the book in anyway.
 

One thing I really liked about this version of Tin Lung Ba Po is the fast moving paste. Stuff are happening so fast it makes you sit at the edge of your seats, and sometimes even forget to breath (a good time to have a friend with you so she can tell you when your face starts turning blue). Towards the later chapters, I can honestly say it was impossible to turn off the TV even if it's 4 AM in the morning. I saw the entire series in two days! No eating no drinking no sleeping...well not really, but it sure felt like it :-)
 

The characters were awesome. I really enjoyed watching Benny Chan's Duen Yu, but that could be because he's the best looking actor in there. Fan Siu Wong's Hoi Chuk was hilarious too, he makes me crack up everytime when he's on screen
with that blank, clueless, chihuahua look. Carman Lee was very pretty in every shot, and Rain Lau did a great job acting as the annoying little brat Ah Ji.
As for Felix Wong Yat Wah's Siu Feng, honestly, he was BORING. When the camera's on him, I felt like sleeping, or fast forwarding. ALthough his story is pretty much center of the movie, but come on, we all know the story
already, either from the book or from the previous version, the least TVB  could have done was give more sparkle to his role. And the scene of him mourning over the death of Ah Chu was way too long and dragged out. Instead of feeling sorry for him, I felt like he should have died with her to end all this unnecessary drama.
 

The kung fu action is okay, not as cool and exciting as some other series, but still rather cool. The computer affects could have been better than just some weird laser beams shooting out, it's so 80's. But I guess the dragons flying around whenever Siu Feng did his Heung Lung 18 Jeung were pretty remarkable.
 

Over all, I rate this movie as one of my all time favorites. If you haven't seen it, you are definitely missing out!

Historical Notes Related to “The Demi-Gods and the Semi-Devils”: 
 

Map of China around the time of Tin Lung (late 900s/early 1000 AD)  This is only an approximate map and is not intended to purport accurate boundaries. 

As with most Gum Yung stories, Tin Lung is based upon actual historical situations, here is some historical information which you might find interesting. 

There isn’t much information on Dai Lei in historical textbooks about China.   All I know that is that it was located mostly where Yuannan (Wun Lam/Cloud South) province is today. 

Tibet also known as To Ba Gwok (To Ba Country) after the main ethnic group.  They were known as To Ba people back then instead of Sai Jong people.  You’ll often hear Kow Mor Chi refer to himself as the “pope of To Ba.”  Tibet was also known as To Fan back then or land of the barbarians (To=land; Fan=barbarian).  Anyway, as you can see, the area that the Tibetans had was quite large back then but mostly it was due to the conditions and the inhospitable land (no one wanted it so no one attacked).  The Tibetans would have been a threat to the Sung Dynasty if their population wasn’t so sparse and if their land had more resources allowing them to raise more of an army. 

Liao Dynasty (Khitans) existed from 904 to 1125.  They took over Peking in 946 and were given 16 states around that area as a peace concession.   That area is called the “Yin Wun 16 Chau,” (sixteen states of Yin/Wun where the former Yin and Wun kingdoms were located) that’s the part the Khitan king gave Kiu/Siu Feng to rule, the part where Han Chinese were predominant.  It was referred to in Tin Lung as Southern Liao.  Kiu/Siu Feng was the Southern Governor.   The Khitans were successful because they learned how to use horses in battle, they invented mounted bowmen in the area and were fierce warriors.  Later the Mongols improved on the Khitan warfare by developing heavier arms, sturdier seats on horses, “armor” for horses, better strategy for the use of horses in war, and “baggage” convoys to supply their armies. 

The Liao Dynasty at its peak had links with the Turks in Western Turkey, the Arabs in Persia (a Khitan princess was married off to an Abassid King in Persia), and the Japanese.  Besides striking into China, the Liao Dynasty also invaded northern Korea and controlled that area for a short period.  In 1004, Liao incursions into China were stopped when an agreement was reached in which the Sung would pay an annual tribute to the Khitans in the treaty known as the Peace of Shan-yuan.  The Sung had to pay 100,000 ounces of silver and 200,000 rolls of silk per year.  The tribute was raised to 200,000 ounces of silver and 300,000 rolls of silk in 1042 after the Khitans helped the Sung fend off an invasion by Sai Ha. 

The downfall of the Liao Dynasty began at around this time as the influence of the Sung tribute made the Khitans less aggressive.  The wealth also caused a power struggle in the Khitan nobility.  Moreover, Chinese culture began to spread into the Liao Dynasty from the south and the influence of Buddhism, art, and culture made the Khitans even less aggressive.  The final blow to Liao Dynasty began in around the early 1100s as the Jurchens, (to be known later as the Gum people) a significant ethnic group based in modern day Manchuria (actually the Jurchens/Gum were the direct ancestors of the Manchurians who founded the Ching Dynasty), began nationalistic uprisings.  The Jurchens took over the Liao Dynasty in 1125 and set up their own kingdom (Chin Dynasty) with the capital in Peking.  The Jurchens/Gum people would later show up in The Condor Heros in the form of Yuan Ang Hung Leet and Yeung Hong. 

The Khitan nobility fled to their distant relatives in Western Turkey and established the kingdom of Western Liao just west of Sai Ha in 1141.  They spread Chinese culture to the Seljuk Turks.  Western Liao was destroyed by Genghis Khan in 1218.  Modern day descendants of the Khitans can be found in Western Turkey and in the Uighurs in Northwestern China. 

Sai Ha or the Western Hsia existed from 1038 to 1227.  They were predominantly herdsmen with some agriculture in the their eastern regions.  Being sandwiched by Turks in the West, Tibetans and treacherous territory in the South, and the Mongols to the North, meant that the only way they could expand was eastwards into Sung.  Their initial attacks were beaten back by an alliance of Sung and Liao forces in 1042.  However, their expansion to the East stopped in 1044 when they reached an agreement with the Sung in which Sai Ha would receive a tribute of 135,000 rolls of silk, 72,000 ounces of silver, and 30,000 pounds of tea each year.  Only minor border skirmishes existed after that agreement.  A large attack was launched in 1081 because Sai Ha feared that the Sung army was getting too powerful (I think this was the time of the Yeung Family Women Soldiers) but the Hsia abandoned the attack after they discovered that the Sung army was actually embarassingly weak. 

Why didn’t they attack China then?  Because the Mongols in the north were too much of a threat.  In fact, the Mongols began to attack in the late 1100s and Sai Ha was finally destroyed by a sub-army of Genghis Khan in 1227.  Despite the fact that Sai Ha reached an alliance with the Chin Empire in 1225 to help beat the Mongols back.  However, by this time the Chin Empire itself was weak having lost Manchuria and the Peking area to the Mongols in 1215. 

Like the Khitans, the Hsia people fled to the West.  Hsia people can be found today with the Uighurs in Northwestern China and the Turks of Western Turkey. 

“The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils” FAQ: 

2.  What is the point of the Chinese title “Tin Lung Bat Bo?”  It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the story.

Originally, this story appeared as a newspaper serial, two or three paragraphs a day, as a gimmick 
to increase newspaper sales.  Gum Yong used to own Ming Poa newspapers so he wrote these 
stories to entice people to buy them.  The theory among many mo hup novels enthusiasts is that that he planned the story to be about 8 great fighters each occupying one of the positions in the "bak gwa" (It doesn't mean anything, it has nothing to do with the "bak gwa", it's just a different way of naming a great fighter, he already used North, South, East, and West in Sei Dil, this was supposed to be sort of like the same thing.)  Anyway, he got sick a short little while after he started writing it so he had a "ghost writer" fill in for him at the newspaper for a short while and the "ghost writer" changed the story too much so when Gum got back the story had nothing much to do with the title. 

3.  What is the point of the English title “The Demi-Gods and the Semi-Devils?”

This is only a theory but I think that the point of the English title is to reflect a message that, I believe, Gum was trying to say in the novel.  I think the major theme of the novel is that a person cannot be totally good or totally evil.  Circumstances … life, will force you to be good at times even though you are naturally evil and evil at times even though you are naturally or want to be good.  Therefore, humans cannot be as good as “gods” or as evil as “devils.”  They can only be “demi-gods and semi-devils.” 

Look at some examples of this that are found in the story.  Kiu/Siu Feng is an honorable man who uses his kung fu skills to fight for justice and to protect the Han people.  Without question, Kiu Feng is a good man.  However, circumstances conspire to cause him to do evil things.  In his search for his true identity, Kiu kills many honorable Han men at the meeting at Jeu Yeen Jong and, later, the love of his life, Ah Chu.  Hui Juk is very kind-hearted and obedient to the teachings of Buddha but is forced by Tin Shan Tung Lo to effectively rape a woman and break the commandments of his religion.  Yuen Chi, the head of Shaolin and Hui Juk’s father, is a very religious man who lives according to the teachings of Buddha.  However, he unwittingly caused the slaughter of many innocent Khitan citizens because he believed the lies Mo Yung Bok told him.  Kiu, Hui Juk, and Yuen Chi are all good men but situations arose which forced them all to do evil deeds. 
Not only are there “demi-gods” in the story but there are many “semi-devils” as well.  Yuen Ah Chi does some treacherous acts in the novel, she mistreats Yau Tan Chi (Ironhead), wants to cut out the eyes of Chung Ling to replace her own, practices her poison kung fu on people, and caused the death of Hon Mun by cutting up her face.  Yet, throughout the story, there are glimpses or a good side to Ah Chi, her dedication to Kiu Feng being the best example.  Mo Yung Bok is another good example, he has dedicated his life to reviving the long extinguished Yin Kingdom.  Willing to restore Yin by hook or by crook, Mo Yung causes the slaughter of many innocents, including the mother of Kiu Feng.  However, upon meeting the janitor monk in Shaolin, he is persuaded to abandon his evil ways and dedicate his life to Buddha. 

So as you can see through some of the characters in the story, humans cannot be totally good or totally evil.  Life will force them to be both good and evil. 

4.  What are the lyrics to the theme song? 

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5.  What really happened to … ? 

Generally speaking, the old series is faithful to the novel at the beginning but gradually deviates from it at the end especially after the death of Kiu Feng.  The new series deviates from the novel at the beginning but is faithful to the novel at the end.  In fact, the ending in the new series is exactly the same as the ending of the series in the novel.  Except for the scene where Duen Yu and Hui Juk imagine that the three sworn brothers are drinking together one last time after the death of Kiu Feng. 

a)  Mook Yuen Ching:  In the old series Mook Yuen Ching sacrificed her life for Duen Yu.  In the new series she lives.  In the novel, Mook Yuen Ching lives as the novel ends shortly after the death of Kiu Feng as it does in the new series. 

b)  Mo Yung Fuk:  In the old series, Mo Yung Fuk does not go crazy but kidnaps Wong Yu Yeen set up a trap to kill Duen Yu.  In the novel, as in the new series, Mo Yung Fuk goes crazy shortly after causing the deaths of Duen Jung Shun and Duen’s lovers. 

c)  Mo Yung Bok:  In the old series, Mo Yung Bok kills a monk at Shaolin and is finally killed himself later.  In the novel, like the new series, no mention of Mo Yung Bok is made after he decides to  become a monk. 

d)  Duen Jing Shun:  In the old series, Duen Jing Shun becomes a monk after his five lovers are killed.  In the novel, as in the new series, Duen Jing Shun commits suicide in anguish after seeing four or his five lovers killed in front of his eyes. 

e)  Duen Yin Hing (Duen Yu’s biological father):  In the old series, Duen Yin Hing dies (killed by Mo Yung Bok).  In the novel, as in the new series, no mention is made of what happened to Duen Yin Hing after he discovers that Duen Yu is his son. 

f)  Chung Ling and Kiu Feng:  In the old series, the same actress, Wong Han Sau, played Ah Chu and Chung Ling.  Because they looked alike, in the old series, Kiu Feng paid more attention to Chung Ling because she reminded him of Ah Chu.  In the new series, like the novel, Ah Chu and Chung Ling did not look similar and Kiu Feng does not pay any special attention to her. 

g)  Duen Yu and Wong Yu Yeen:  In the old series, the secret that Duen Yin Hing was the father of Duen Yu made it respectable for Duen Yu to be together with Wong Yu Yeen.  However, this caused tension with Mook Yuen Ching as it was possible now for her to be with Duen Yu.  In the novel, as in the new series, no mention is made of this issue except in a meeting between Duen Jing Man and Duen Yu where Duen Jing Man advises Duen Yu not to mention that Duen Yin Hing is his real father.  Presumably, no one, except for maybe his personal bodyguards and his other lovers, knew that Duen Jing Shun had an affair with Wong Ah Lor (Wong Yu Yeen’s mother). 
 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Thanks to Kenny Wong for some information on about the Chinese title of “The Demi-Gods and the Semi-Devils.”  Historical information taken from Jacques Gernet’s A History of Chinese Civilization.