TAIWAN’S URBANIZATION: 50S TO 60S

1. TAIWAN’S URBANIZATION: 50S TO 60S Group 1

2. Outline • General Introduction • Analysis of 黃春明‘s “The Sandwich Man” -“The Sandwich Man” -“Vicky’s Hat” -“The Taste of Apple” • Conclusion • Works Cited

3. INTRODUCTION Presenters: Ann, Grace

4. About the movie • Time setting: 1960~1970s in Taiwan • The Sandwich Man (1983) Three collections in the movie: • Son’s Big Doll directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢,Taiwan) • Vicky’s HatbyZeng Zhuang-Xiang(曾壯祥,Hong Kong) • The Taste of ApplesbyWan-Ren(萬仁)

5. Importance of the movie • Taiwan’s New Wave cinema movement (1980~1990s) • Realistically, which preserves Taiwanese movie style (寫實傳達台灣記憶的電影風格) • 鄉土性

6. Novel: Son’s Big Doll • Written by Huang Chun Ming(黃春明), first published in 1969 • Representative of 鄉土文學 (rural life) • Realistic, subjective • Use satire to show people’s influence from Japan or America http://album.udn.com/community/img/PSN_PHOTO/abigfish/f_3724171_1.jpg http://a.blog.xuite.net/a/4/5/9/14181769/blog_1592671/txt/25651053/0.jpg

7. Main Themes from the stories • Foreign influences from Japan and America  Culture influence: clown, pot, apple • Pressure from family: support family and to meet family’s expectation  Earn money to raise up children

8. 把歡笑帶給兒子 把眼淚流給自己 THE SANDWICH MANSON’S BIG DOLL http://www.megaton.com.tw/?M=book&P=481

9. Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien侯孝賢 leading figure of Taiwan’s New Wave cinema movement minimalist dramas dealing with the upheavals of the Taiwanese history Style: long takes with minimal camera movement http://www.safariunderground.net/movie_dir/movie_dir_chi/hou-hsiao-hsien/hou-hsiao-hsien.jpg

10. Other Movies by Director Hou A City of Sadness(1989) a family caught in conflicts between the local Taiwanese and the newly arrived Chinese Nationalist government after World War II The Flight of the Red Balloon (2006) his first Western project One Day In Taipei (2010) 6 min short film for Taipei Pavilion in Expo 2010 Shanghai China http://www.yourmoviestuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/flight-of-the-red-balloon.jpg

11. Plot summary In 1961 • Kun-Shu found a job as a sandwich man to promote movies for a movie theater. • He worked hard day after day. His wife said his son didn’t recognize him because of the clown face him had. • One day, he switched job to ride bike to promote movie • He is happy about this; however, when he got home, his son cannot recognize him without clown face.

12. Setting Street Train Station

13. Main Characters Pressure Uncle A-Chu Kun-Shu Money A-Long Theater boss

14. Foreign influences • Western thought: religion (Church) • Birth control: Chinese herbs vs. western medicine樂普 • Japanese influence: advertisement  sandwich man

15. Children’s rhyme “耶穌，耶穌，沒米可以吃。 爬到樹上吃番薯塊 上帝!上帝!賜我們吃、賜我們穿、賜我們放假，賜我們放屎”。

16. Children’s actions Tradition revolution The movie made people burst into tear 顛覆作用, try not to use magic to again the new head master Children simply call for a meal, or even play tricks to these children.

17. The Sandwich ManSon’s Big Doll: Family Pressure

18. Pressure of subsistence Poor family finance condition Lack of work opportunity The birth of son abortion or keep it The idea of sandwich man get a job

19. Pressure of subsistence Scolded by uncle people generally see his job with negative perspective

20. Pressure of subsistence The result of sandwich man promotion was bad 坤樹felt depressed release pressure to his wife

21. Urbanization Influence- Education 坤樹didn‘t know how to write his son’s name didn’t get the chance to be educated Contrast between 坤樹and students

22. Commercialization of human body 坤樹promote movies through played as a clown His body became a commercial tool

23. Commercialization of human body Be controlled by the product ad, system Short term and limited benefit

24. What’s the Ending mean?(clip) • freeze shot • Sandwich man  human commercialized • Physical labor  occupy body and thought • Unhappy and tired but still…

25. 小琪的那一頂帽子VICKY’S HAT Presenters: Sharon & Silvia

26. Director 曾壯祥　(Zeng Zhuang-Xiang) • Born in 1947, Hong Kong • Taiwan New Movie in the 80s • TV series, documentary • 1983年 The Sandwich Man (兒子的大玩偶) • The second segment: Vicky’s Hat (小琪的那頂帽子) • 1984年 Natural is Quiet beautiful (霧裡的笛聲) • 1985年 A Woman of Wrath (殺夫) http://movie.cca.gov.tw/files/15-1000-2646,c179-1.php

27. Characters • 小琪(Vicky) • A school girl in 竹圍 who always wears ahat • quiet • 王武雄 • Youngandunsatisfied • longing for abetterjob • 林再發 • Pressurefrom raising a family • Devotedtohisjob

28. Plot • 林再發 and 王武雄 were assigned to sell Japanese pressure cookers in竹圍. • 王武雄 met 小琪 and grew interest in her /wondered why she always wore a hat . • 林再發 was hurt by the exploded pressure cooker and 小琪‘s hat was taken by 王武雄.

29. Vicky’s Hat • The spread of urbanization • Pressure cooker • Japanese influence • People’s movement

30. The Pressure Cooker • 鈴木 Japanese Company • Sign of advancement happiness • Potential danger

31. Vicky • Beautiful • Quiet • Distant • Mysterious • Hidden Scar

32. The Pressure Cooker • People’s reaction • Curious • Not fully accepting

33. Disillusion • Pressure Cooker explosion Vicky’sheaduncovered • Shatteredseashell • 美麗’s letter

34. Urban Citizens

35. Language 再發uses Mandarin to promote the pressure cooker with an elder villager, who answers back in Taiwanese (13:48~14:22) “Mandarin Campaign”: Mandarin: more urbanized? & Taiwanese: dialect? 再發 &the elder have no troubleunderstanding each other

36. 王武雄 Begins to love the countryside as time passes/ meets Vicky 林再發 “Internalize” with the pressure cooker: sincerely considers the cooker as sth practical and useful The Transition

37. City: a place w/ pressure & expectation → be trapped inside a system Countryside: generous & friendly villagers -easy atmosphere/ life in slow motion Regarding Urbanization……

38. Time to think…. • the failure of promoting the pressure cookers = a failure of urbanization? • Is modernization/urbanization necessary?

39. 蘋果的滋味 Presenters: Kenton, Lee

40. Outline • Director • Plot Summary • Background • Main characters • Signs of urbanization • Symbol • Conflict • Conclusion

41. Director – 萬仁 (1950 – ) • Taiwanese director • Born in Taipei City • During 80s, other Taiwan New Movie directors and hefounded 「新浪潮電影公司」 • Now he has his own company: 萬仁電影有限公司 • His movies are focused and criticized of Taiwan politics and society which be seen as one of Taiwan's important New Movie.

42. Plot Summary • 'The Taste of Apples' tells of a worker who is run over by an American colonel and then taken to an American military hospital. His large family visits him there, where they are informed of the generous compensation they are due to receive. Moving to the city was perhaps not such a bad idea after all, especially if you are lucky enough to be run down by an American officer! (IMDB)

43. Main Characters

44. Relationship • Name: 江阿發 (The father) • Intro: supported the family. One day, he was accentually hit by a car driven by an American officer.

45. Name: 阿桂 (The mother) • Intro: worried about her husband as well as the financial support…

46. Important plots shown through clips • 1. The accident happened. • 2. The American officer went to their living place. • 3. 阿發’s wife as well as the family members went to the hospital. • 4. 阿發’s wife was worried about the lose of financial support. • 5. They were very happy when the American officer was willing to compensate their lose and adopt their daughter who was sent to America for study soon. • 6.阿發 seemed to be happy about the situation.

47. Symbol

48. white American hospital vs. 江阿發‘s house the pain of car accident the happiness shows on the family photo the elementary school in countryside the elementary school in city labors nurse American car English (American soldier) Taiwanese (江阿發‘s wife) Conflict don’t know how to open car’s door

49. Sign of Urbanization

50. Sign of Urbanization • 1.『嗨！在這個地方小孩玩捉迷藏最有意思啦！』跟在外事警官後頭的洋人笑著說。 • 2. 雨勢也一下子落得緊密，他們顧不得文明人造訪應有的禮貌，當阿桂母女兩人，從醃菜桶猛抬頭時，已經和這未經請進的外人駭然照個正面。 • 3.『噢！上帝。』洋人又一次輕輕地呼叫起來。 • 4. 你不要以為一站，站到學期結束就可以不繳了。反正你不繳老師還有別的辦法。 • 5. 『……叫我們母女六人怎麼活下去？怎麼活下去？……』 • 6.『你說來北部碰運氣，現在你碰個什麼鬼？』