"Red Cliff" has been heavily hyped, and to satisfy my curiosity, I went to the cinema to watch it. Many of the lines that were teased in the media indeed caused bursts of laughter from the audience during the screening. 1. Romance of the Three Kingdoms - What a tough search for you. Perhaps John Woo hasn't read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the most appealing part of the "Three Kingdoms play"...