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On August 19, 1973, a joint production of Golden Harvest and Warner, the movie "Dragon Fighting Tiger" starring Bruce Lee was released in the United States.
This day, for every yellow race, has a special meaning.
Because before this, there has never been a precedent for a yellow race starring in a Hollywood movie. Even in some stories with a yellow race as the protagonist, American film companies will look for white movie stars to pretend to be.
Let white people play the role of the yellow race. This is as weird as we smeared ink on our bodies and pretended to be black people, but in Hollywood movies, they did it.
In 1944, MGM made a movie set in the rural areas of old southern China. The main actors were all white movie stars, but the story was about a Chinese family. The title was "Dragon Seed". A strong smell of cheap B-level action movies.
Director: Harold S. Barquette/ Jack Conway
Screenplay: Jane Murfin/ Margaret Roberts/ Pearl S. Buck
Starring: Catherine Hepburn/ Walter Houston/ Irene McMagh Hong / Akim Tammirov / Duhen Bey / More...
Genre: Story / History / War
Country/Region: United States
Language: English
Release date: 1944-07-20
Duration: 148 minutes:
, also known as: the descendant of the dragon
. When Pige saw the poster, he thought it was another Cult movie. The beauty's face looked like a V-shaped monster. Later, when I learned about the movie information, I realized that the original actress was Hollywood legend Catherine Hepburn.
She has been nominated for 12 Oscars in her lifetime and won 4 Oscars. She was once named "the greatest actress in a century" by the American Film Institute. She was originally a goddess with a face-defying face. In order to pretend to be a Chinese in the film, she did not hesitate to stick her big eyes with single eyelids.
Originally, in the eyes of Americans, Chinese people have single eyelids, and Liu Simu is still alive with guns...
"Dragon Kind" is of course not a B-level action film that Pico guessed, but an American filmed. A movie with a Chinese-style anti-Japanese war theme, and in terms of production volume, it is still a full-scale American blockbuster
film adapted from the Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning female writer Pearl Buck.
This American writer was originally named Pearl Booker. He was originally born in West Virginia in the southern United States, but was brought to Zhenjiang, China by his parents when he was 4 months old, and grew up there until he was 18.
Therefore, she has a special feeling for our China, calling Chinese the "first language" and Zhenjiang as the "hometown of China".
Pearl Buck is the first writer who translated the fifth talented book "Water Margin" into English, and has written many novels with Chinese as the protagonist of the story. The trilogy of "The Earth" is her masterpiece. The works of a world god like
are naturally favored by Hollywood. "The Earth" was adapted into a movie and released in 1937, and "The Dragon" is a more passionate movie.
In order to restore the scenes and details of life in the rural areas of southern China in the 1930s, the crew did not do much toss. They spent two years building the entire Chinese rural village in California, the United States, with large paddy fields and thatch where farmers lived. house. What the actors eat and wear are all common clothes and daily necessities in rural China, as fine as oil lamps, tableware, bamboo chairs, and smoking guns. In addition, it was originally a black-and-white movie, and the skin color was not visible at all. Without looking at their faces, it was really impossible to recognize a white person.
Although watching a group of white people come to play the Chinese people will inevitably feel that it is against it, but as long as you watch it carefully, you will soon enter the plot. The story of
is about a poor peasant family in the southern countryside who experienced all kinds of turbulence and storms after the Japanese invasion. The head of the
family is Lin Tan (also translated as "Tan Ling"), there is an old mother, three sons and a daughter. The eldest son married a wife and gave birth to a son and a daughter; the second son married a girl named Xiaoyu; the third son was still single; the daughter married a woman named Wu Lian A businessman who runs a grocery store in the city.
Xiaoyu is more ideologically better than ordinary rural women because of reading books. He usually doesn’t want to stay at home and likes to run outside. Although
is an arranged marriage by his parents, the second child is very good to Xiaoyu. She was reluctant to beat and scold her, and was compliant with her.
When the Japanese hit the south, everyone in the village knew that they were going to steal peace, and Lin Tan's family also had different opinions.
, who was already pregnant, realized that she must actively fight the war. So he took his second child out of the village and joined the front-line arsenal to build bullets for the army.
and the Lin Tan couple and the boss and the third child stayed in the village. As a result, after the Japanese came, they confiscated the farmers’ land and forced them to grow food for them. The wife of
and the eldest were both killed by the Japanese, and a pair of children died of hunger and cold.
After experiencing the family changes, the eldest and the eldest all realized that they could no longer stay at home and eat and wait for death, and left the house to invest Anti-Japanese battlefield.
In the most critical period of World War II in 1944, "anti-war" was not the theme of war movies. "Dragon Seed" preached the truth that facing Japanese fascists, Gou An will die, and resist will live.
therefore the whole film They were filled with a kind of excitement of resistance. Even the background music used Nie Er's "Volunteer March", which was not our national anthem at the time. It is said that MGM later turned to Nie Er's mother to pay a sum Copyright fee. If
is just a propaganda film for the War of Resistance against Japan, it is too simple. The characterization and reflection of human nature in the
film, as well as the pursuit and persistence of faith, are the deeper ideological themes that give the film’s style The most three-dimensional character of
is the role of Lin Tan’s son-in-law Wu Lian. He became a Japanese running dog in order to keep his business. Although
nodded and bowed in front of the Japanese Captain Sato, it was only hope. I can live well. When
's cousin's family in Lin Tan came to inform him, Wu Lian was unwilling to betray his father-in-law's family. He just concealed that Lin Tan's three sons and Xiaoyu were anti-Japanese guerrillas.
When faced with the test of life and death, everyone has their own choice. It is difficult for a person like Wu Lian to define good and bad.
and Lin Tan, an old man, is a typical representative of the hardworking people. They are illiterate, narrow-minded, and lack knowledge. They can hardly believe that the earth is round. They are like lambs to be slaughtered when facing Japanese invaders. They dare not resist. They will only be frightened and blamed.
is in Jiang Wen's "The Devil Is Coming" In, we have also seen This kind of ignorant peasant, and therefore lamented that only Jiang Wen could shoot the real war of resistance.
But here, Pico wants to say that "Dragon Seed" is one level higher than "Devil Is Coming" in thought. Lin Tan in the
film also felt desperate and lamented that his third son had become a murderous demon. But in the end, he finally realized that because he didn't want to be a slave to the Japanese army to produce food, he burned the house he had lived in all his life and the land that farmers cherished the most. The ideological awareness of
is so much higher than "The Devil Is Coming", which only talks about national inferiority and does not talk about national spirit! At the end of the
movie, Lin Tan and his wife are going to the liberated area to grow food for the frontline fighters, while the second child and Xiaoyu and his wife entrust their son to them.
, a child born in troubled times, is the "dragon species" mentioned in the movie.
Seeing this, Pi Ge suddenly felt a sense of realization, and at the same time marveled at Pearl Buck's understanding of Chinese culture. Only by bravely facing the baptism of war and living with dignity can we keep the "dragon seed". This child is the hope of a family and the root of the entire nation.
An American writer who grew up in China can write a story like "Dragon Seed", and a Hollywood team can make a movie like "Dragon Seed". Their understanding and interpretation of Chinese culture is better than many of us. high.
We produce so many anti-JapaneseThe drama is full of ugliness, laughs generously, embarrassed and thrown abroad, making Japanese people laugh at it. All the screenwriters and directors of
should come to see this movie and give them lessons so that they can get rid of all the shredded ghosts and thunder hidden in their crotch, and then inject these really tall ideas so that they can also Make such a good film.
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