Word: ju
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leake 2-3 1-2 5; Gilmore 3-7 1-2 10; Morris 2-6 0-1 4; M. Scott 5-8 5-5 17; Snowden 9-14 3-7 21; Grancio 0-3 0-0 0; Kubiak 3-6 0-0 6; Fisher 2-8 2-2 6; Ju White 4-10 4-4 14; Fricka 1-3 3-4 5. TOTALS...
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...Morris 2-8 0-0 4; M. Scott 3-11 2-4 9; Slowden 12-18 0-2 24; Kubiak 1-1 0-0 2; Fisher 2-2 0-2 4; Ja. White 1-4 0-0 2; Fricka 0-1 2-2 2; Ju. White 1-2 0-0 3. TOTALS...
Zhang Yimou is prone to relying on visual gimmicks. Whether it was the wine in "Red Sorghum", the lanterns in "Raise the Red Lantern" or the dyed fabric in "Ju Dou," his cinematic crutch is obvious and sometimes self-defeating--it forces the viewer into visual overload. "To Live" is a happy exception...
This trials-of-Job saga has been told more powerfully in other brave Chinese films (Farewell My Concubine and The Blue Kite), and To Live lacks the surprise and sumptuousness of Zhang's The Story of Qiu Ju and Raise the Red Lantern. But the Chinese censors can still be shocked -- and vindictive. Zhang was recently forced, under the threat of never making another film in his homeland, to write an apology for wanting to promote To Live at Cannes. So one has to ask, How severe is the punishment for the crime of being an honest artist...