Posted on 03/14/2018 10:01:30 AM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
I thought my last film was hard, Zhao laughs, but for a Chinese woman to try to wrangle a bunch of young cowboys?
Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao is making her second trip to the Cannes Film Festivals Directors Fortnight this year, with sophomore feature The Rider. Born in Beijing, Zhao went to school in the UK and college in the U.S. before settling in Denver, basing her first two feature films on South Dakotas Pine Ridge Reservation.
Zhaos 2015 drama, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, was developed at the Sundance Institute and premiered in Park City that year. It centers on the bond between a Lakota Sioux brother and his younger sister. The Rider focuses on a young cowboy who suffers a near-fatal rodeo injury and undertakes a search for a new identity, and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
Of her decision to seek out such stories, Zhao says she definitely felt stuck creatively in big cities. And, when youre stuck, historically you go west Coming from a country thats rapidly changing, I love the idea of a place like South Dakota where nothing has really changed.
Just dont call the movie a Western. What defines a Western? Zhao says. Ive probably seen three my whole life. The film is really my version of a feminine gaze on one of the most masculine images in American culture.
Although she hasnt yet worked as a filmmaker in China, Zhao says that her desire to do so is growing.
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
“The Rider” Trailer: https://youtu.be/AlrWRttLTkg
Bkmrk.
The Chinese own half of Hollywood now, don’t they?
but for a Chinese woman to try to wrangle a bunch of young cowboys?
We saw a movie like that.
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That is actually a pretty funny line when you think about it. Kind of like you might find an anthropologist saying about primitive people in a remote part of the World.
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Here’s a Western made by South Koreans:
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD - Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tk80iXCspM
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD - Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tk80iXCspM
I loved that movie! I loved it so much I bought myself a copy of it. :)
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that she had stumbled upon the fact that cowboy, redneck and blue collared people are nothing like what modern Hollywood portrays them to be.
me no likey
Instead of Spaghetti Westerns, Rice Noodle Westerns.
Okay, I'm gonna have to watch that. Looks hilarious. "Run to the other side so I can see where they're shooting from."
For your interest.
East Meets West
Yin Yang
as he represents a lot of people in that part of the country which today is demonized for probably voting for Trump, but they are humans...”
Well, gee, thanks little lady. I guess she must have thought us middlers were knuckle-dragging troglodytes before she actually spoke with and observed some of us in the wild. F her.
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