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Abstract
Analysis of the primary allegorical theme in the novel and movie adaptation of the Chinese work To Live (&#;&#;) by Yu Hua (&#;&#;). While there are many differences between book and film, the message is the same. Both express hope in the context of recent Chinese history. Both present the narrative as Chinese versions of a Hans Christian Andersen story, but in reverse. Although this recurring motif appears in the original and all translations, it is used differently and ends differently. The greatest difference is the intra-language translation between the original story and film. Even the Chinese to English translations from book to book and within the film from spoken dialogue to subtitles reveal significant alterations. I examine the meaning of this text within its various contexts.
Differences mostly relate to the media style.
Chinese director Zhang Yimou will be honored twice over at Sunday&#;s Asian Film Awards ceremony.
Zhang will be presented with a lifetime achievement award and a prize for directing the highest-grossing Asian film of , Full River Red.
“These two awards are not only a testament to Zhang’s extraordinary achievements, but also to his continued success, having won the Asian Film Contribution Award at the 4th AFAs in and the Best Director award at the 15th Asian Film Awards in for ‘One Second’,” AFA organizers said.
Zhang also recently received lifetime honors at the Tokyo International Film Festival and a box office achievement award at CineAsia.
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“I consider myself very fortunate to have chosen filmmaking as my lifelong profession. Having been in the industry for over four decades, I am grateful to everyone who appreciates my films [..] I will keep learning and strive to surpass myself. Always having anticipations for the future, I hope that my best film will be my next one,” said Zhang in a statement.
Full River Red is set during the Southern Song Dynasty, balancing mystery and comedy a
What Zhang Yimou’s ‘To Live’ Teaches Us Even Today
In the early s, Zhang Yimou, a fifth-generation Chinese filmmaker, intended to put one of Yu Hua's works to film. Yu Hua is an acclaimed Chinese author. Zhang had initially chosen Mistake at River's Edge, but something about To Live stuck with him through the process of studying Yu's works. His choice to adapt To Live instead gave the world a contemporary masterpiece. I'm grateful for Zhang's decision, and I like to think so is every individual who has watched the movie. To Live is a simple film, before anything. It may cascade through a few complicated decades in Chinese history, but it condenses them down to the story of a family. In keeping the film built around the family, Zhang still manages to illustrate the expanse of the revolution. That is some of the magic in it, perhaps.
To Live
Arguably the most renowned filmmaker of Chinese cinema’s Fifth Generation, Zhang Yimou reached the peak of his cinematic powers in the s with a stable of arthouse dramas, each celebrated by the international film community and nominated for major awards. Although his later work would endeavor to placate the censorship board in the People&#;s Republic of China, delivering politically innocuous and commercially broad products like The Flowers of War () or The Great Wall (), his earlier films quietly challenged the governing Communist Party through historical metaphor and allusion. Among his best films from this period, To Live from , remains an elusive and challenging portrait of China’s emergence into modernity. Based on the novel by Yu Hua, this sweeping human epic spans decades, a period of unrest and revolution in China that includes the pre-Communist era, the early days of the People’s Republic, the Cultural Revolution, and nears the end of Maoism. Zhang’s familiar theme of resilience emerges as a family endures life under the one-party state, accepting even the most miserable conditions as their lot. And though its characters have resigned themselves to being
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