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Jet Li is bitten but not shy in new film
Updated: 2011-08-02 10:33
(China Daily)
Jet Li will combat a white snake in his latest kungfu film.
In It's Love, a fantasy/kungfu flick, Li plays a monk who masters martial arts.
The film, adapted from a classic Chinese tale, involves the romance between the intellectual Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen, a white-snake-turned woman. Li's Fahai is a monk who tries to separate them, in the belief that people should not fall in love with goblins.
In the trailer, Li uses prayer beads and a wand to fight the white snake goblin, played by young actress Huang Shengyi. He shows up throughout the two-minute-trailer, making the film seem more like a biopic of Fahai instead of a love story between the snake and the intellectual.
The film will premiere at the end of September.

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