Reader Request: You voted on which Jennifer Jones films we had to write about for her centennial and this was your top choice. So it's your fault, then.
One of the tag lines reads...
In each other's arms they found a love that defied 5,000 years of tradition!
'Defying tradition? But what's more traditional than Hollywood casting white stars in Asian roles?' he said sarcastically. Figured we should get this out of the way upfront and then try to ignore it: Jennifer Jones's last Oscar nomination came for playing Han Suyin, a biracial doctor, who falls for Mark Elliott, an American foreign correspondent (William Holden) in Hong Kong...
One of the tag lines reads...
In each other's arms they found a love that defied 5,000 years of tradition!
'Defying tradition? But what's more traditional than Hollywood casting white stars in Asian roles?' he said sarcastically. Figured we should get this out of the way upfront and then try to ignore it: Jennifer Jones's last Oscar nomination came for playing Han Suyin, a biracial doctor, who falls for Mark Elliott, an American foreign correspondent (William Holden) in Hong Kong...
- 3/9/2019
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Chinese-born author best known for her 1952 book A Many-Splendoured Thing
Colonial Hong Kong, a doomed love affair and the echoes of revolution in China were the explosive mixture that made the reputation of the author Han Suyin, who has died aged 95. The film of her 1952 book A Many-Splendoured Thing may have been just a classic weepie, but the original novel shocked Hong Kong with its tale of her love affair with a married man and its sympathy for the appeal of communism to China's downtrodden millions.
She would shock people many times again as she acted out the philosophy expounded in the film by Jennifer Jones, playing a character based on the author: "To go on living, one must be occasionally unwise." Her defence of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, though later recanted, came to overshadow her huge literary talents.
The ambiguities of her identity, as the daughter of a Chinese engineer and his Belgian wife,...
Colonial Hong Kong, a doomed love affair and the echoes of revolution in China were the explosive mixture that made the reputation of the author Han Suyin, who has died aged 95. The film of her 1952 book A Many-Splendoured Thing may have been just a classic weepie, but the original novel shocked Hong Kong with its tale of her love affair with a married man and its sympathy for the appeal of communism to China's downtrodden millions.
She would shock people many times again as she acted out the philosophy expounded in the film by Jennifer Jones, playing a character based on the author: "To go on living, one must be occasionally unwise." Her defence of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, though later recanted, came to overshadow her huge literary talents.
The ambiguities of her identity, as the daughter of a Chinese engineer and his Belgian wife,...
- 11/6/2012
- by John Gittings
- The Guardian - Film News
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I had tickets to Killer Inside Me long before all this crazy media attention it’s gotten over the past few days. Truth be told, I didn’t even know what it was about when I made the purchase. I just decided to tag along with my brother-in-law when he announced he was going. Since the premiere, there’s been all sorts of stuff going around about the violence in it. There’s this article from NYDailyNews.com, which clearly insinuates that Jessica Alba herself was so offended by the violence, she walked out during the premiere. Or there’s this recording of an angry audience, specifically an angry woman, during an Q&A, demanding, of director Michael Winterbottom to know ‘who’s responsible for this?’ Geez! You’d think these people have never been to a film festival before. And you know for certain they’ve never seen something like Antichrist,...
- 1/31/2010
- by blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
- The Movie Fanatic
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I had tickets to Killer Inside Me long before all this crazy media attention it’s gotten over the past few days. Truth be told, I didn’t even know what it was about when I made the purchase. I just decided to tag along with my brother-in-law when he announced he was going. Since the premiere, there’s been all sorts of stuff going around about the violence in it. There’s this article from NYDailyNews.com, which clearly insinuates that Jessica Alba herself was so offended by the violence, she walked out during the premiere. Or there’s this recording of an angry audience, specifically an angry woman, during an Q&A, demanding, of director Michael Winterbottom to know ‘who’s responsible for this?’ Geez! You’d think these people have never been to a film festival before. And you know for certain they’ve never seen something like Antichrist,...
- 1/31/2010
- by blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
- The Movie Fanatic
- - -
I had tickets to Killer Inside Me long before all this crazy media attention it’s gotten over the past few days. Truth be told, I didn’t even know what it was about when I made the purchase. I just decided to tag along with my brother-in-law when he announced he was going. Since the premiere, there’s been all sorts of stuff going around about the violence in it. There’s this article from NYDailyNews.com, which clearly insinuates that Jessica Alba herself was so offended by the violence, she walked out during the premiere. Or there’s this recording of an angry audience, specifically an angry woman, during an Q&A, demanding, of director Michael Winterbottom to know ‘who’s responsible for this?’ Geez! You’d think these people have never been to a film festival before. And you know for certain they’ve never seen something like Antichrist,...
- 1/31/2010
- by blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
- The Movie Fanatic
- - -
I had tickets to Killer Inside Me long before all this crazy media attention it’s gotten over the past few days. Truth be told, I didn’t even know what it was about when I made the purchase. I just decided to tag along with my brother-in-law when he announced he was going. Since the premiere, there’s been all sorts of stuff going around about the violence in it. There’s this article from NYDailyNews.com, which clearly insinuates that Jessica Alba herself was so offended by the violence, she walked out during the premiere. Or there’s this recording of an angry audience, specifically an angry woman, during an Q&A, demanding, of director Michael Winterbottom to know ‘who’s responsible for this?’ Geez! You’d think these people have never been to a film festival before. And you know for certain they’ve never seen something like Antichrist,...
- 1/31/2010
- by blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
- The Movie Fanatic
- - -
I had tickets to Killer Inside Me long before all this crazy media attention it’s gotten over the past few days. Truth be told, I didn’t even know what it was about when I made the purchase. I just decided to tag along with my brother-in-law when he announced he was going. Since the premiere, there’s been all sorts of stuff going around about the violence in it. There’s this article from NYDailyNews.com, which clearly insinuates that Jessica Alba herself was so offended by the violence, she walked out during the premiere. Or there’s this recording of an angry audience, specifically an angry woman, during an Q&A, demanding, of director Michael Winterbottom to know ‘who’s responsible for this?’ Geez! You’d think these people have never been to a film festival before. And you know for certain they’ve never seen something like Antichrist,...
- 1/31/2010
- by blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
- The Movie Fanatic
- - -
I had tickets to Killer Inside Me long before all this crazy media attention it’s gotten over the past few days. Truth be told, I didn’t even know what it was about when I made the purchase. I just decided to tag along with my brother-in-law when he announced he was going. Since the premiere, there’s been all sorts of stuff going around about the violence in it. There’s this article from NYDailyNews.com, which clearly insinuates that Jessica Alba herself was so offended by the violence, she walked out during the premiere. Or there’s this recording of an angry audience, specifically an angry woman, during an Q&A, demanding, of director Michael Winterbottom to know ‘who’s responsible for this?’ Geez! You’d think these people have never been to a film festival before. And you know for certain they’ve never seen something like Antichrist,...
- 1/31/2010
- by blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
- The Movie Fanatic
- - -
I had tickets to Killer Inside Me long before all this crazy media attention it’s gotten over the past few days. Truth be told, I didn’t even know what it was about when I made the purchase. I just decided to tag along with my brother-in-law when he announced he was going. Since the premiere, there’s been all sorts of stuff going around about the violence in it. There’s this article from NYDailyNews.com, which clearly insinuates that Jessica Alba herself was so offended by the violence, she walked out during the premiere. Or there’s this recording of an angry audience, specifically an angry woman, during an Q&A, demanding, of director Michael Winterbottom to know ‘who’s responsible for this?’ Geez! You’d think these people have never been to a film festival before. And you know for certain they’ve never seen something like Antichrist,...
- 1/31/2010
- by blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
- The Movie Fanatic
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