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...script, by Lu Wei, who also worked on Zhang's To Live and Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, nicely arranges the vectors of comradeship and competition, power and conscience. Zhou Xiaowen's direction is on the stolid side, but his coaxes his lead actors into giving superb performances, full of the intelligent fury the material demands. This is a movie headed for tragedy (the warlord orders Jianli blinded by the fumes of horse urine!), and by the end two of the three are dead. The lieutenant, driven mad with jealousy on hearing of Yueyang's affair with Jianli, murders...
...composer, working with most of the A-list directors. For Zhang Yimou he scored Red Sorghum, Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, Story of Qiu Ju and To Live. For Chen Kaige: Yellow Earth, The Big Parade, Farewell My Concubine, Temptress Moon and The Emperor and the Assassin. For Zhou Xiaowen: No Regrets and The Emperor's Shadow. For Sun Zhou: Heartstrings and Breaking the Silence. Of these 14 films, 10 starred the goddess Gong Li (who was Zhang's one-time mistress). For most of the 90s, she must have heard Zhao's stately music in her sleep...
...Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...David Zhou ’07 is the outgoing Books editor. He reps Nashville despite the fact that he hails from California...