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Giant of the big screen
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-10-20 11:08
Chinese film director Xie Jin [Baidu.com] Remembering Xie Jin His straightforwardness won him respect among filmmakers and cinephiles. When Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower hit theaters in 2006, Xie criticized it for being too remote from real life. "Of course, many people would like to see it, because the actresses are almost half naked," he said on a TV talk show. "China has more than a billion people, and hundreds of millions of peasants have not seen any film for years. Why does nobody care about that but everybody talks about blockbusters like the Golden Flower?"
Xie was also known to break silence and to ignore face-saving civilities at seminars and meetings. "Xie was a person who was never afraid to speak the truth," recalls young director Jia Zhangke. In 2001, he finished Woman Soccer Player No. 9 (Nuzu Jiuhao), a film about China's female soccer players. At 74, he completed a costume drama about the mid-19th century Opium Wars. |
