{"id":687,"date":"2012-02-03T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T02:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2012-02-07T10:48:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T02:48:53","slug":"jia-zhangkes-platform-re-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Jia Zhangke&#8217;s Platform Re-post"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s a re-post from the <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=68\" target=\"_blank\">early days<\/a> of the <em>Notes on the Mosquito<\/em> blog:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to being a poet and essayist, Xi Chuan has also worked as a film actor. In <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Platform_%282000_film%29\" target=\"_blank\">Platform \u7ad9\u53f0<\/a> (2000), directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jia_Zhangke\" target=\"_blank\">Jia Zhangke \u8d3e\u6a1f\u67ef<\/a> about personal and artistic changes in Shanxi \u5c71\u897f province from the &#8217;70s to the &#8217;90s, he plays a theater director from Beijing modeled in part off the poet <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mang_ke\" target=\"_blank\">Mang Ke \u8292\u514b<\/a> (co-founder of the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/jintian.net\/today\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jintian \u4eca\u5929<\/a>, and whose poetry I should be translating soon). Here&#8217;s the English-language trailer:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k8IBnsxB5qU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still looking for an excerpt of one of Xi Chuan&#8217;s scenes with English subtitles, but the entire movie is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/v.youku.com\/v_show\/id_XNzkxODA1ODA=.html\" target=\"_blank\">youku.com<\/a>. Xi Chuan appears at about 3:38, in disbelief that his troupe has never seen a train in person and berating them for unrealistic acting and individualism; at 32:31, interrogating a misbehaving actor about the goals of socialism under <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reform_and_opening_up\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;reform and opening up&#8221; \u6539\u9769\u5f00\u653e<\/a>; and again at 37:13, where his speech indicating the troupe&#8217;s future direction is, tellingly, interrupted by a solo flamenco performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a re-post from the early days of the Notes on the Mosquito blog: In addition to being a poet and essayist, Xi Chuan has also worked as a film actor. In Platform \u7ad9\u53f0 (2000), directed by Jia Zhangke \u8d3e\u6a1f\u67ef &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=687\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,16,11,7],"tags":[43,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-b5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=68","url_meta":{"origin":687,"position":0},"title":"Jia Zhangke&#8217;s Platform","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In addition to being a poet and essayist, Xi Chuan has also worked as a film actor. 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