The
Analyzing of Yan Liang’s Paper
Mary
Renee Bisch
Professor
Jenifer Garey
HUMN204-H3WW-F12
December
8, 2013
The
Analyzing of Yan Liang’s Paper
The analyzation of a report by Yan Liang of the four
movie series by the Shaw Brothers called A Myth about the Present: The Shaw Brothers’ The Monkey Goes West Series in the 1960s discusses her impression
of why she likes and dislikes The Monkey
Goes West Series. The other three
movies of the series are “Princess Iron
Fan”, “The Care of the Silken Web”,
and “The Land of Many Perfumes” (pp. 1293-1294, 1297, 1299). Her main points she wanted to discuss were
that movies are effects of novels to movie media, timing of history of novels
to movie media, the effect of government to movies, and that the influence of
the movie series of The Monkey Goes West
was an impact on society.
The novels to movie media were a problem to Yan Liang
mostly because of the history what she saw as best for a story was of ancient
folklore that she enjoyed, not the movie media depicting a less story for the
folklore chosen. The name first existed for
a novel called The Journey to the West, which was “a
one-hundred-chapter novel written in vernacular Chinese first published in
1592” (p. 1289). The novel eventually
became The Monkey Goes West movie
series in the years of 1966 to 1968. The
problem Yan Liang had been that the pureness of a novel for folklore characters
was more of good and evil for the magic of both male and female, yet the movie
series created evil darkness and demoniac’s for The Monkey Goes West series that displayed an atmosphere of timing
of movie creation and release.
The
timing of history of novels to movie media has a vast difference of timing that
gives a reader and viewer culture displacements of what history has done to
cause the story of what was a folklore of 16th century popularity to
the Chinese and Hong Kong into a culture of the 19th century of the
1960’s. This changed values of how
people and government since the premodern Ming Dynasty of the Chinese 16th
century has given the four novel stories a set idea for the Shaw Brothers
Studio of Hong Kong for the 1966 movie first release of four movies that have
given ideology of cultural history of how people and folklore blend in
attitudes of historic and times of currency to adapt to society for what
government is influencing for people to react.
After the Chinese defeat in the “First Opium War (1839-1842)” there was
a “parallel to Hong Kong’s experiences with foreign rule” that the Shaw
Brothers movie gave Yan Liang her ideology of more to a movie for each movie
(p. 1294). She placed her thoughts to
parallelisms of movie making from novels to learn of her culture background
that evidenced her placement in the Chinese society with Hong Kong as a
simulation of what time has done to her cultural background for today’s
society.
Because the movie was dealing with a demonic war of
survival throughout all the series of The
Monkey Goes West movies, there was a parallelism of constancy of the Ming
Dynasty of premodern China folklore to the modernized Hong Kong that moved Yan
Liang to thoughts of history where premodern China and Hong Kong had warred. Since Yan Liang is of the ancient folklore of
wants for good and evil and The Monkey
Goes West series is of more of a government influence of timing for its
release of the 1960’s, then there is all the history of the Hong Kong
establishments of modernization Chinese have built by their culture of Chinese
control that still exists in their movies to influence their patterns of
thoughts to keep an eye on the status of Chinese.
Yan Liang was totally influenced by history of Hong Kong
when she watched The Monkey Goes West
series. This made her report totally a
history lesson with little care for The
Monkey Goes West series. I agree
that her main points exist, and that all compassed events of novels, movies,
governments, and history will affect the populace to cause an influence to the
society they live in. Hong Kong being of
Chinese to China, they have their ties of political that control their political
and land laws that do create riots of history that Hong Kong did modernize from
to establish a more friendlier atmosphere for women to gain social qualities
for a workforce and status of living. The Monkey Goes West movie series did
have a parallel of Chinese folklore to Chinese to keep a view of social events
to what happened to Chinese past and where they were going by how the movies
portrayed the story lines to be more of demonic to darkness of storyline. This made Yen Liang’s report go to history
more than she would of events she’d remember because of her Chinese
decent. She’s more involved with history
to the movies. The article is not important, but important. Not important is that I’m not Chinese. Important is that I can see her wanting a
better movie series to what was a folklore of good and evil of a novel The Journey West that changed to a movie
series of The Monkey Goes West that
changes the folklore to all evil and darkness.
Her total movie view to me was that she felt disgust. She wanted a better movie series to display
folklore she likes from a novel.
References
Liang, Y. (2012). A Myth about the Present: The Shaw Brothers’ The Monkey Goes West
Series
in the 1960’s. The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 45 (No. 6), pp. 1289-1309.
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