The Legend of Lu Ban (1958)
Country: CHI
Technical: bw 84m
Director: Yu Sun
Cast: Lin Er, Heling Wei, Qi Feng, Baoluo Li, Zhi Qiao
Synopsis:
Three stories in which the legendary craftsman solves some building problem.
Review:
Episodic propaganda piece about a legendary master builder, who is credited with devising most of the traditional forms of Chinese architecture. The eponymous master of Chinese architecture is held up, subtly enough, as a historical model for the People's adoption of communist principles of self-advancement: learn more, think more and nothing is impossible, a philosophy as much humanist as communist. Happily, the propaganda is so well disguised in ancient whimsy as to be virtually absent until the end, when the doggedly self-effacing Lu Ban is declared to 'here with us, among the people'! Not too inspiring, with film technique as primitive as some of the structures under improvement here, but at least not too many other people have seen it!
Country: CHI
Technical: bw 84m
Director: Yu Sun
Cast: Lin Er, Heling Wei, Qi Feng, Baoluo Li, Zhi Qiao
Synopsis:
Three stories in which the legendary craftsman solves some building problem.
Review:
Episodic propaganda piece about a legendary master builder, who is credited with devising most of the traditional forms of Chinese architecture. The eponymous master of Chinese architecture is held up, subtly enough, as a historical model for the People's adoption of communist principles of self-advancement: learn more, think more and nothing is impossible, a philosophy as much humanist as communist. Happily, the propaganda is so well disguised in ancient whimsy as to be virtually absent until the end, when the doggedly self-effacing Lu Ban is declared to 'here with us, among the people'! Not too inspiring, with film technique as primitive as some of the structures under improvement here, but at least not too many other people have seen it!
Country: CHI
Technical: bw 84m
Director: Yu Sun
Cast: Lin Er, Heling Wei, Qi Feng, Baoluo Li, Zhi Qiao
Synopsis:
Three stories in which the legendary craftsman solves some building problem.
Review:
Episodic propaganda piece about a legendary master builder, who is credited with devising most of the traditional forms of Chinese architecture. The eponymous master of Chinese architecture is held up, subtly enough, as a historical model for the People's adoption of communist principles of self-advancement: learn more, think more and nothing is impossible, a philosophy as much humanist as communist. Happily, the propaganda is so well disguised in ancient whimsy as to be virtually absent until the end, when the doggedly self-effacing Lu Ban is declared to 'here with us, among the people'! Not too inspiring, with film technique as primitive as some of the structures under improvement here, but at least not too many other people have seen it!