The first Chinese sound film. It tells the story of Hong Pion (Red Peony), a singer-songwriter who, after her marriage to the depraved Faxiang Chen, not only tormented and suffered, but also endured the decline of her artistic career.
If you somehow get the chance to watch Genü hongmudan, do it only if you actually care about how movies learned to talk. Casual viewers will probably turn it off after five minutes because the audio is insanely rough 📻. But for history nerds? This is basically the holy grail of early Chinese cinema. The story is a c...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
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"If you somehow get the chance to watch Genü hongmudan, do it only if you actually care about how movies learned to talk. Casual viewers will probably turn it off after five minutes because the audio is insanely rough 📻. But for history nerds? This is basically the holy grail of early Chinese cinema. The story is a classic melodrama about Hong Peony, a famous singer who marries a complete garbage fire of a man named Faxiang Chen. He spends the entire movie gambling away her hard-earned money a..."
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Shen Hong
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