Wednesday, 4 February 2015

The Tales of the Water Margin (Culture/History)

Classic Chinese tales, regarded as dating back to the 14th Century and deemed one of the 'Four Great Classical Chinese Novels', featuring 108 different characters, some of them Robin Hood-style outlaws, others less morally likable. Each usually has an animal associated with them.

A clear influence on Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin. It is also of course an influence whenever there are bandits in a Chinese film, e.g. The One and the Eight, Red Sorghum, etc.

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