In 1933, when the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles knew that MGM was going to shoot the film, it immediately negotiated with MGM, hoping that the film would not reproduce the unfriendly description of the Chinese in the original work, because the original novel vilified the Xinhai Revolution. The highest body in charge of film censorship in China, the Film Censorship Commission, is also cautious. After a period of mediation, the Film Censorship Committee ordered MGM to submit the script first, and the filming was approved after the review. MGM quickly submitted the script, but the Censorship Committee thought the script slandered the Chinese. In order to pass the script, the central party department, education, internal affairs, and foreign affairs agencies directly sent commissioners to assist MGM in revising the script. After 16 reviews and 16 revisions, the script was finally approved
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The Good Earth screenwriting
2022-01-26 08:43
Extended Reading
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Edgardo 2022-03-19 09:01:09
Louis Rainer, the still-surviving first Lianzhuang actress, you are more like a Chinese peasant woman than a Chinese peasant woman! Great performance! The first appearance, the first look, shocked me
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Monica 2022-01-26 08:43:38
8/10. Pearl is the heroine's simplicity and tolerance. The romantic technique of picking up peach pits on the roadside and burying them in a small courtyard symbolizes the close connection between the earth and destiny. Therefore, I will never sell the land when I meet the land master and teach the children how to beg for food. The master alienates his relatives and friends from the land, and he thinks that the revolution is eating/robbing the rich and the mob executed by the soldiers is ignorant and distressed. Relying on his son's Western knowledge to resist the locust plague (a metaphor for Japan's invasion of China) is full of Western superiority.
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Ching: Hunger makes men mad.
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Wang Lung: [must sell his land to feed his family but the buyers take advantage of him] Thieves ! Thieves ! And well you know I must sell.
O-Lan: No ! Not the land. We'll not sell the land. We'll keep it. We'll go south and when we return, we'll still have the land.
Uncle: But I've arranged it. I brought these men here. You MUST sell !
O-Lan: Is it your land ? Did you buy it bit by bit ? The land is our life... and it's better to go south... or die walking... than to give it to you for nothing.