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For this Friday Movie Night, we’re starting off with the Chinese WW2 drama Devils on the Doorstep (2000), concerning a Chinese peasant who is forced to host a Japanese prisoner and his translator. Will the townspeople tolerate having to care for their enemy, or will they decide enough is enough and kill them? Time to find out. This is one of the highest-rated Chinese films on Letterboxd, and the best-known and best-regarded film of director Jiang Wen. Looks neat; let’s watch. After that is What’s Up, Doc? (1972), a screwball comedy from Peter Bogdanovich (Paper Moon [1973], The Last Picture Show [1971]) starring Ryan O’Neal and Barbra Streisand as a bumbling pair of singles who get their luggage mixed up. Hilarity ensues, along with romance. Excellent reviews everywhere for this one, so let’s give it a whirl.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

  • Devils on the Doorstep: https://letterboxd.com/film/devils-on-the-doorstep/
  • What’s Up, Doc?: https://letterboxd.com/film/whats-up-doc-1972/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

  • Devils on the Doorstep: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245929/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
  • What’s Up, Doc?: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/24875

CWs for Devils on the Doorstep:

  • Nudity.
  • Decapitation.
  • Blood and gore.
  • War crimes.

CWs for What’s Up, Doc?:

  • Stalking.
  • Joke about sexual assault (which is not depicted, but mentioned.)
  • Kidnapping.
  • Bath scene.
  • Car crash.
  • Gun violence.

Links to movies:

  • Devils on the Doorstep: https://vimeo.com/902434651
  • What’s Up, Doc?: https://vimeo.com/902436068
  • oregoncom [he/him]
    ·
    6 months ago

    "The film is inspired by the novel Survival by You Fengwei, and was greatly modified during the process of adaptation. This film shelved the theme of "the brave resistance against Japanese aggression" in the original literature, and focused on the themes of "the ignorance of the peasants" and "the absurdity of the war."[4] Contrary to its title, Devils on the Doorstep is not at its core an anti-Japanese war film. In Jiang's own words, the film shows how Chinese literature and film has perpetuated an attitude of blaming the aggressor and casting the Chinese population as passive victims of aggression. Jiang hoped that the film illuminates this common human psychological trait of blaming others for disaster that goes beyond Chineseness.[5]"

    " Despite its controversies, the film went on to win a couple of minor awards in Japan in 2003. "

    The level of liberalism is too fucking high.

    • wombat [none/use name]
      ·
      6 months ago

      idk it portrayed the japanese army as murderous psychopaths and the chinese nationalists as idiots. It is easily read as a pro-communist movie