The Flowers of War 金陵十三钗

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Steven Zeitchik, 'Flowers of War' goes truly global: Hollywood leading man Christian Bale stars in the WWII-set drama 'The Flowers of War,' filmed in mainland China. Will collaboration broaden the film's appeal worldwide? Los Angeles Times, Dec 11, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/entertain ... lowers-war-20111211,0,3981653.story
("The film, the most expensive in China's history, contains dialogue that's about 60% Mandarin, with the rest in English")

Note:
(a) Christian Bale: born in 1974; Welsh
(b) In the cartoon, Bruce Wayne is the secret identity of Batman.
(c) vestments in "priest vestments" (n; Latin Vestire to clothe):
"1a : an outer garment; especially : a robe of ceremony or office
b plural : CLOTHING, GARB"

All English definitions are from www.m-w.com, except otehrwise noted.
(d) Telluride Film Festival
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telluride_Film_Festival
(started in 1974 by Bill and Stella Pence, Tom Luddy and Jim Card in the town of Telluride, Colorado)

* Telluride, Colorado
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telluride,_Colorado
(The town was named after valuable ore compounds of the chemical element tellurium, a metalloid element which forms natural tellurides, the most notable of which are telluride ores of gold and silver. Although gold telluride minerals were never actually found in the mountains near Telluride, the area's mines were rich in zinc, lead, copper, silver, and ores which contained gold in other forms)

* tellurium: Te; atomic number 52; 碲
(e) LIU Heng  刘 恒 (编剧)
(f) YAN Geling  严 歌苓 (born in 1958 in Shanghai, now American)
(g) For schmaltzy, see schmaltz (n; Yiddish shmalts, literally, rendered fat; First Known Use 1935):
"1: sentimental or florid music or art
2: sentimentality"
(h) The "organic" in Director ZHANG Yimou's statement "In none of the other movies is the collaboration as organic" is an adjective that means:
"4a : forming an integral element of a whole : FUNDAMENTAL <incidental music rather than organic parts of the action — Francis Fergusson>
b : having systematic coordination of parts : ORGANIZED <an organic whole>"  
(i) ZHANG Weiping  張 偉平
(j) NI Ni  倪 妮
(k) getting back to anyone
(l) Mr Bale is quoted as saying, "I cultivated a reputation for not getting back to anyone while I'm shooting a movie."

get back (vi): "to come or go again to a person, place, or condition : RETURN, REVERT <getting back to the main topic of the lecture>"

I acknowledge this definition is ambigious--but that is because "get back to somebody" has a few SUBTLE differences in meaning.
* I'll get back to you, in McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc 2002.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/I'll+get+back+to+you
(I'll get back to you (on that). and Let me get back to you (on that).
I will report back later with my decision. (More likely said by a boss to an employee than vice versa.)")
* get back to. Macmillian Dictionary, undated.
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/get-back-to
("PHRASAL VERB; TRANSITIVE; SPOKEN  get back to someone   to phone, write, or speak to someone at a later time because you were busy or could not answer their question earlier")

(m) Regarding the "bomb" in "I thought 'Titanic' was going to bomb."

* bomb (vi): "to fall flat : FAIL"
* bomb (n): "FAILURE, FLOP <the play was a bomb>"