Red Cliff (2008)
Zhuge Liang: We must fight even if we cannot win.
Zhuge Liang: A clear Milky Way and snaking clouds signal fog is near. If you know how earth, sky, yin and yang change, then the sun, moon and stars, the wind, forest, mountains and fire, become soldiers at your command.
[last lines]
Sun Shangxiang: Kongming, when that pony has grown do not make her a war horse.
Zhuge Liang: Don't worry...
Zhuge Liang: [subtitle version] That's right. To surrender is not so bad. For the cowardly, in fact, the earlier the better. That everyone can stop worrying.
Sun Quan: If that is the case, then why didn't Liu Bei surrender?
Zhuge Liang: Confucius spoke of giving oneself to justice, and Mencius spoke of sacrificing for righteousness, surrendering is not a matter of victory or defeat, but rather one of virture! Cao Cao, the self-proclaimed Prime Minister controls the Han Emperor, and fabricated His Majesty's commands. If he conquers the Southland, he will surely usurp the throne. If we surrender to Cao Cao, then we would be aiding a tyrant. Lord Mayor Liu Bei is of His Majesty's Royal Family. His wisdom is known to the world and respected by the people. If a noble man, who has been loyal to the Han court all his life, failed to succeed, then that is fate. But, how could he surrender to Cao Cao? That would be an unbearable shame
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a popular fictional novel that is said to be written by Luo Guan Zhong at the end of the Yuan Dynasty period (1279-1368). This novel is one of China's four greatest classic novels. Zhuge Liang's character has a prominent role in the book as does Liu Bei and his adversary Cao Cao. In the novel, Zhuge Liang is portrayed as accomplishing exceptionally clever stratagems to stymie or defeat his adversaries. He also has magical powers. For example, in the part of the book about a stone maze, Liu Bei fled his pursuer named Lu Xun. Lu Xun finds scattered piles of stones that Zhuge Liang had constructed there as a trap. When he goes in, there are freakish natural phenomena, and he can't get out. Then an old man appears and leads him out.