All of the chinese movies we've watched are also like that
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Thank God they never made me read chinashit in school
I'd have shot my HS English teacher
I base my entire opinon of chinese storytelling on the movies spooky made us watch, to which I conclude that the chinese cannot tell stories
I've never read any of the Chinese "greats" but it's the same stories over and over again
not that they're all the same, sry
I just mean, a story will "feel" chinese for a bunch of different reasons
I love monkey man
we read a lot of non-chinese foreign books in school
and I remember our teacher warning us how hard it was going to be to keep names straight
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak I love monkey man
jttw is argubly the most unique and seperated from the common tropes
but legit, never had a problem, until I read some chinese shit
Russian, Sri-Lankan, Polish, all fine
china bug people though, miss me
I think the closest we have in the West is the Odyssey
it's one of the only widely shared non-biblical stories
like you said, Shakespere too
but there's a lack of Western myths or ancient history
because.... 200 year old nation lol
A lot of western stuff will pull from roman/greek mythos
that is western Pika
I know that is western
there are a lot of colloquialisms born from them
you're right they're not the same in magnitude though obv
bible + contemporary philosophy (reprinting Greek philosophy) seems to be more colectively notable
The magnitude thing is hard, becase even if you find something in the west that a lot of stuff references, it is hard to compare to china where essentially all of it references the same set of shit
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak The magnitude thing is hard, becase even if you find something in the west that a lot of stuff references, it is hard to compare to china where essentially all of it references the same set of shit
well it doesnt refernece the same set of shit, its pretty diverse
Japan's the same way though, there are a handful of poems/books that define the foundation of their collective culture
they should consider pulling from other things since all of their stuff I have seen is bad
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 Japan's the same way though, there are a handful of poems/books that define the foundation of their collective culture (edited)
japan has the issue of also just stealing from other countries though
Max it's not too late to swap majors and become a literature scholar
lol
because you can have a surface level understanding of most eastern works but just like how we work shakesspereisms and etc. into our works without a thought about it, many eastern works have similar effects or deeper narative references to their mythology or works of writing that perpetuate their culture
Replying to taxes #tzfi because you can have a surface level understanding of most eastern works but just like how we work shakesspereisms and etc. into our works without a thought about it, many eastern works have similar effects or deeper narative references to their mythology or works of writing that perpetuate their culture
okok, but now you have to learn Chinese to go read the original publications to then complain about the translations/localizations
that's how you'll know you've really mastered it
That's the keikaku
Replying to taxes #tzfi because you can have a surface level understanding of most eastern works but just like how we work shakesspereisms and etc. into our works without a thought about it, many eastern works have similar effects or deeper narative references to their mythology or works of writing that perpetuate their culture
except wuxia im not reading some 1950s chinese martial arts novel to understand an entire genre