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In the 1930s, when Taiwan was ruled by Japan, a horrifying rebellion happened in Wushe. This history events is called Wushe Incident. This incident was originated by Seediq people who were a Taiwanese aboriginal people, they felt discontented with Japan government's inequality treatment at the time. This movie, Seediq Bale was adapted from a real historical event, and it brought the story about intense conflicts among two different culture. Wushe Incident was an impact in history of Taiwan. Taiwanese Director Te-Sheng Wei brought this story as a movie to show audience this historical event.
Mouna Rudo was chieftain of Seediq, and he was also the haed of the rebellion and the protagonist of the movie. The film started from the time when Mouna Rudo was a teenager, and they lived in the remote mountain. Originally, there were a place which was held by several tribes. They had traditional living ways like hunting for animals, warring with neighboring clans, head-hunting and tattooing their faces as a sign of initiation into manhood. However, after First Sino Japanese war, Taiwan suddenly was ruled by Japan. Japanese entered into their's lives and domicile. The conflict among these two group of people also appeared at the meanwhile. Japanese established schools, post office and police office in their tribes. They thought those people are”savages”; therefore, they wanted to teach them was is civilization. Some Seediq people also have a Japanese name since they were naturalize as a Japanese. However, Japanese's unequal treatment also resulted conflicts at the time. Losing original culture and dignity, Mouna Rudo and Seebiq men felt malcontent, so it triggered them to plan this rebellion.
In Seediq Bale, Mouna Rudo was a character to mold a hero. He is brave and fearless man. When he saw Japanese's action, he decided to rebel against Japan government. He gathered three hundred warriors to join the rebellion. As a surprise, they planed to set out their attack during the school's sport holiday. Seediq people caused a violent massacre, and it strongly damage Japanese Army. Mouna Rudo and worriers said “a blood sacrifice to our ancestors” as the purpose of their rebellion. They uses spears, machetes and guns as weapons, and they had killed a great deal of Japanese even women and children. Until Japanese generals called for help, and a two cultural “war” had started. The most memorable part in Seediq Bale is fighting scenes. Those fearful fighting scenes make people to deliberate again and again why this two group will conflict and through civilization what people earn from it.
The director of Seediq Bale is Te-Sheng Wei. His most popular Taiwanese movie is Cape no.7 which was released in 2008. He is also the first person who used Wushe Incident as material to film an “original” Taiwanese movie. He knew that Taiwanese aboriginal people have a myriad of historical stories, and through this movie he could showed the part of Taiwanese history. Seebiq people and Japanese's situation might be similar to native American and white people. They all wanted to insist their own culture and territory.
The cast of this movie also make the whole movie looks more complete and inspired. Ching -Taiin Lin was the leading role, Mouna Rudo. He was not professional actor; however, he is aboriginal Taiwanese. Director Te-Sheng Wei used a lot of aboriginal Taiwanese as the important characters in this movie. Their special and unique tattoos, clothing and dancing became the significant symbol of this movie. They also different dialogue in the movie too which is Seediq, Japanese and Taiwanese. Seediq was separated in two parts when it shows in theaters in Taiwan.
Venue: Venice Film Festival (competing), Aug 31, 2011.
Production company: ARS Film Production, Central Motion Picture Corporation
Cast: Lin Ching-Tai, Umin Boya, Ando Masanobu, Kawahara Sabu, Vivian Hsu, Lo Mei-Ling, Landy Wen, Da Ching, Pawan Nawi, Yakau Kuhon, Lee Shih-Chia, Lin Yuan-Jie.
Director: Wei Te-Sheng
Screenwriter: Wei Te-Sheng
Producers: John Woo, Terence Chang, Jimmy Huang
Director of photography: Chin Ting-Chang
Production designer: Taneda Yohei
Music: Ricky Ho
Editors: Chen Po-Wen, Milk Su, Cheung Ka-Fai
Visual Effects: Foo Sing-Choong
Action Choreographers: Yang Kil-Yong, Shim Jae Won
Sales Agent: Fortissimo Films
156 minutes.
re-writed from : Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale: Venice Film Review
Trailer of Seediq Bale:
the post looks completely different (in a good way :) )when viewed on paper rather than on blogger. good job!!!
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a thesis for this article, but it does state a clear position.The subject is well discussed
throughout the article with commentary to back it up. There isnt much direct quote from outside sources which i believe could prove to be useful for this type of article. I believe that the organization of the article could be fixed, maybe into different sections that explain the history of the actual battle, and maybe another one for how it happened in the movie. I believe there is bias in this article but it seems intended based on how its written. Much of the paragraphs are choppy in my opinion, and need work with smoothing it
out. Another thing that could help this article out is to fix some of the mechanical errors.
I really liked your articles it was quite informative. In my opinion in your first paragraph you gave a very high detailed description of the subject which gave clarity and aided in your description of the movie. I liked how before you described the movie you gave a good back round information so let us know what exactly you are talking about. Your article is well organized but could be better, and flows very well from paragraph to paragraph. I think you should add more photos as a visual aid for you post, because if you give pictures of the aboriginal people and they’re culture it will help the reader more in understanding and visualizing the overall article and movie. I think you should also give headers for your article because when it jumps from one paragraph to the next it gives the reader a head start for the information, and gives better organization to the whole article, which also aids in a better flow. You should work on making your article more organized by giving a section included with headers which talks about the historical backround of the movie and also give a description of the movie in another section. You could also for another visual aid add a picture of the director and some more of the characters. Another thing is to swich up your word choice to increase the clarity of the text.
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