Curse of the Golden Flower: Source

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Curse of the Golden Flower: Source

Postby JohnR » Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:26 pm

http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20070910/105204.shtml

It's the grandiose adaptation of "Thunderstorm", one of the greatest stories in Chinese literature.


I had read that this was an adaptation of Shakespeare. Anyone know the real source?
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Postby dleedlee » Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:57 pm

It's based on a play by Cao Yu. There are numerous film versions of it. There's a 1984 (1985, in our database) mainland version that's very good. The 1957 version features Bruce Lee and there at least three others in our db.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cao_Yu
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