where the PLA runs around killing warlords in the western mountians
Isn't this like a brief soviet wave of film? Like moving from the wild west to civil war era USSR with bandits and white armies as bad guys and red army as good guys?
Edit: Yup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostern
This reminded me of Baron Ungern one of the vilest psychotic villains of the Russian Revolution.
nah they should be making movies about the mountain kung fu masters/bandits who later became communist guerillas
If westerns are so great, why aren't there Easterns? :bean-think:
Samurai movies influencing Cowboy movies influencing Samurai movies influencing Cowboy movies until they generate enough gravity to merge into one of the better Star Wars movies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tk80iXCspM
The film itself is Korean, but it's The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly set in 1930s Manchuria. That's the best spaghetti western I've seen since Leone's films.
Beyond geography, the big distinction for me between a western and a spaghetti western is how they challenge the subject matter of a settler-colonial frontier. A traditional western romanticises settler-colonialism while reducing its enemies to crude caricatures of something opposing the civilised society they're building on indigenous graves. Spaghetti westerns subvert that cowboy worship and frontier idealism to attack the nature of the territorial expansion. In this film, technically the cowboy faction would be the Japanese army. The towns are triad-controlled or represent the remnants of the opium trade. It's very hostile to things changing Manchuria, including the protagonists, in a way that a regular western set in Manchuria wouldn't be.
Is there a good list of like the best Chinese movies ever made that I could watch?
Wow this is great! Thanks so much for all these recos, I really appreciate it. Looking forward to watching A Touch of Sin first I think
PLA didn't fight anti-warlord campaigns, the KMT did. The PLA mostly hid and didn't fight, until the Anti-Japanese War was over. I don't think emphasizing the achievements of the nationalists is going to go over well in China.
Ah, I remember they did in Xinjiang, after the civil war was over. The province was unconquerable due to the fierce horsemen. PLAAF biplanes came in from the air and machine-gunned the men and more importantly the horses. The troops marched in to little resistance. The rich resources of Xinjiang were added to China's strength afterwards.
The Chinese Communists persuaded the KMT provincial and military leadership to surrender. The Soviet Union induced the leaders of the former ETR to accede to the Chinese Communists. In August 1949, four of top ETR leaders, Ehmetjan Qasim's delegation, died in a plane crash en route to Beijing[1][2][3] to attend the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Chinese Communists' united front conference. In December, China's new government incorporated the ETR military into the PLA, which marked the end of the independence of Xinjiang's second East Turkestan Republic. Most of the remaining former ETR leadership, i.e. Burhan Shahidi and others, accepted the absorption of the autonomous Three Districts into the newly founded People's Republic of China. They along with the surrendered KMT officials took senior positions in the PRC government.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_Xinjiang_into_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China
I don't know where the fuck you got that from. Xinjiang was already under joint KMT rule. The PLA got the KMT to surrender and the Soviet Union convinced the local ETR to join the PLA, which they did. There was almost no fighting at all.
