Monday, January 22, 2018

World Literature Resources - Week #3


We are getting just a glimpse of several much larger works. One of them happens to be the opening chapter of an enormously lengthy novel called The Story of the Stone, more commonly known as Dream of the Red Chamber. Over the decades, chinese film makers have attempted to bring this romantic-supernatural-drama to life, but this trailer seems to be the most ambitious of the adaptations:


We are also exploring another Chinese novel, Journey to the West (AKA Monkey). It details the adventures (and misadventures) of a young priest who is traveling to India in search of Buddhist texts. Along the way he is joined by a powerful Monkey, a greedy Pig, and a dragon.

As films often do, this popular Chinese movie takes liberties with the source material:





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