Accented Cinema

Whichever version is convenient for you! I need about 5 minutes of footage, but I don't have a good way to record them.

Does anyone play Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall, and has the capability to record some gameplay footage? Need it for a future video.

YouTube video by Accented Cinema Butterfly Lovers | Chinese Folktales Adaptations

Today, we begin a new video series with a Chinese folktale from a thousand years ago: The Butterfly Lovers. It is the Chinese Romeo and Juliette, but with cross-dressing.

After months of work, I'm excited to begin this new series. Stay tuned for more horror/romance folktales!

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Fans may get angry with my statement.
But I truly believe the two franchises have the same style of writing.

Love it.

Zhu Yingtai proceeds to disguise herself as a boy to attend an all-boys school.

YouTube video by Singapore Symphony Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto - First Movement @ChloeChuaviolinist

Currently working on a video on The Butterfly Lovers, a one thousand year old Chinese folktale. Interestingly, the story's most famous adaptation isn't a movie or a play, but a 1959 Violin Concerto.
It is perhaps my favorite piece of music from China, ever.

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That's how I know Chinese mythology, any more than that and it turns into a religion.

Sounds like it's quite an important part of folk culture still!

It never crossed my mind to ask this, but… how familiar are Nordic people with Norse mythology?

Yeah but the Bermuda Triangle is more universal than both the Cool S and Marilyn Manson sucking his own dong. I find that surreal.

How did the Bermuda Triangle became one of the few shared memories for children around the world?

Also the games surprisingly horny in a French sort of way...

Just finished playing God of War (2018) and Fenyx Rising (2020) back to back, and the experience is hilarious. Not only does Fenyx reference God of War quite a few times, it also tells the exact opposite story. The Greek gods are interesting because they are flawed like us, and that is true.

That one isn't great, either. Wu Ma's Zhongkui turns out to be a side character to the much more popular Lam Ching-ying. And the plot is all over the place.

I'm sad.
I want to talk about the legend of Zhong Kui.

But every single Zhong Kui adaptation sucks ass!

Happy year of the horse!

Xu Jingda aka Ada & Tezuka_1986

Ada & Tezuka. Originally published in the August 1986 issue of Manga World.

Astro Boy wasn't the first Jp anime imported into China because on November 29, 1979, "Taro, the Dragon Boy" (Toei, 1979) was broadcast in China on CCTV, which explains the 2007 Chinese DVD release. Astro Boy only arrived the following year (December 7) on CCTV

YouTube video by Accented Cinema Shanghai: The Birthplace of Chinese Cinema 2 of 2 | Cinematic Landscapes of China

Following his apology, Lloyd's boycott ended, and theaters in Shanghai began showing his films again. Welcome Danger, however, never returned to Shanghai.

But that was the story of China vs. Harold Lloyd. I hope that was a fun read. Check out our video for more film history!
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As for Lloyd, according to Dr. Yiman Wang of the University of California, he initially resisted apologizing, clarifying that he had no ill intention, and that he made fun of everyone equally. But eventually, he changed his mind and apologized officially and publicly.

Interestingly, the film was not officially banned. As most movie theaters were located inside colonial concessions, the Chinese government had limited ability to enact a ban. The film was banned by social pressure. Any theaters that continued to play the film were boycotted or even vandalized.

Indeed, news of the event has spread to the rest of the world, reported by both The New York Times in the US and the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia. It was big.

As Chinese cinema was in the Left-Wing Movement, fuelled by the ongoing scramble for China, Hong's sentiment was shared by many filmmakers in the industry, many of whom came to his support. Hong was released.
By then, the whole thing had blown up into a social event.

Seeing this, the theater managers locked Hong Shen inside an office as intimidation, which turned into a physical altercation, ending with Hong Shen being arrested.
In the station, the police said: "It's just a movie."
To which Hong replied: "How do you think the Brits will react if we mock them?"

Things escalated the next day, when Chinese director and Fudan University Professor Hong Shen saw the movie. He, along with a few other students, felt the film was offensive. So, they began telling filmgoers in the theater to boycott the film and demand a refund.

Even more important, however, is the event surrounding the film.
On the same day it was shown in Shanghai, 35 people wrote to The Republican Daily News to call for a boycott of the movie. As we'll see, the negative sentiment quickly grew among the youths and the intellectuals.

I suspect the movie became a focal point precisely because Lloyd was popular in China. Indeed, being one of the three great comedians of the silent film era, Lloyd was a beloved star. Naturally, seeing him leaning into racial stereotypes hurt the Chinese audience way more.

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Another thing we skimmed over in our last video was China's boycott of Harold Lloyd and Welcome Danger (1930).
In terms of racism, this movie was far from the worst of its time. It's certainly not nice, but the reaction seems a bit excessive... or so it seems.

YouTube video by Accented Cinema Shanghai: The Birthplace of Chinese Cinema 2 of 2 | Cinematic Landscapes of China

With how he is drawn, you can tell how much Tezuka truly looked up to Wan Laiming.

If you are asking "who is this Wan Laiming", well, then you should check out our latest video!
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One last thing: During the editing process, I discovered "Tezuka Osamu Story", an animated biopic about Tezuka's life.
Co-directed by Tezuka, the film dramatized his meeting with Wan Laiming as taking place on the Great Wall. Hilariously, Wan looks like he got isekai'd from a different movie.

By the time Yan Dingxian visited Tezuka the next year, Astro Boy was arguably as famous as the Monkey King in China. That is why this drawing was created.
The characters' poses mirror the photo of the handshake between their respective creators. It's another cute detail I wish I pointed out.