From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V5 #175 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Sunday, July 10 2005 Volume 05 : Number 175 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] mulan - michelle yeoh [Lilli Sprintz Subject: [chakram-refugees] mulan - michelle yeoh hi all. i was just reviewing this website from Michelle Yeoh, about the up-coming movie on th Chinese s/hero Mulan. Yeoh starred in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. She also starred in several well known hong kong movies. http://michelleyeoh.info/Movie/huamulan.html this is a good site, her personal site. and though it's unclear if the film will be out this year, i am looking forward to when it does come out. the site gives lots of historical information on Hua Mulan, as well as excerpts from the original poem about her written in China many hundreds of years ago. although i was under the impression that Yeoh was going to be the main star, while i was researching this tonight, i found a Chinese-Forum site which said that she is NOT going to be in the film but that Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is. I can't remember, if she was the second female lead actress in Crouching Tiger. if anyone else has an update on this, i'd love to hear. that site is: http://www.chinese-forums.com/archive/index.php/t-2678.html Lilli http://www.chinese-forums.com/archive/index.php/t-2678.html http://michelleyeoh.info/Movie/huamulan.html ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:11:14 EDT From: Richan@aol.com Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] mulan - michelle yeoh Lilli writes: <<...i am looking forward to when it does come out. the site gives lots of historical information on Hua Mulan, as well as excerpts from the original poem about her written in China many hundreds of years ago.>> I've read Maxine Hong Kingston's "Warrior Woman." I remember a passage in which Fa Mulan has her back carved in curses by her parents in order to become an instrument of revenge. The other thing that impressed me was the passage on dragons. They are so huge that you can never see all of a dragon at one time. For instance while we see a mountain range, it is really the dragon's back. And when Dragons migrate between heaven and earth their passing causes monsoons. I think that Gabrielle's dragon tattoo made her an instrument of revenge. It gave me chills as I connected Kingston's "Warrior Woman" with "A Friend in Need," especially since this happened during a monsoon. I hope the engraving of curses shows up in the movie. In the Disney version instead of curses Mulan copies the answers to a test on to her hand. Cheating as a curse? You are cursed if you cheat? Fa Mulan's parents were cheating by not seeking revenge themselves? That being said I am trying to connect Coolidge's mutts playing poker picture "A Friend in Need" to the "A Friend in Need" Xena episode. In the painting a bull dog passes to another dog an ace of clubs probably making a four of a kind aces. Is this Xena passing the baton, er chakram to Gabrielle? More cheating? _http://gaming.unlv.edu/gallery/a_friend_in_need.htm_ (http://gaming.unlv.edu/gallery/a_friend_in_need.htm) Richan ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V5 #175 **************************************