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Third-World Movie. Children of Heaven Home Run Slumdog Millionaire. Reversion in two Nation-State. Children of Heaven Majid Majidi Iran, 1997----1990s Home Run 梁智强 Jack Neo Singapore, 2003--1965. Similar Structure Children of Heaven Home Run.
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Third-World Movie Children of Heaven Home Run Slumdog Millionaire
Reversion in two Nation-State • Children of Heaven Majid MajidiIran, 1997----1990s Home Run • 梁智强 Jack Neo Singapore, 2003--1965
Similar StructureChildren of Heaven Home Run • Lose ShoesLose Shoes • Change Feet Change Feet (Relay Race between brother and sister) • Punishment of BotherPunishment of Bother Punishment of Sister Helped by fellows • Found the shoe Found the shoe Gave up due to sympathy Broken in the Labor Movement • To buy the shoes To buy the shoes (Failed because of the bike accident) To borrow the shoes (slippers) To win the shoes ( prize of soccer game) • To earn the shoes To earn the shoes (Missed due to getting the gold medal winner) Running without shoes (sister ran for the new birth ) • Open EndingGot shoes from the opponent Tolerance Distracted with shoes but lose the way
Different EmphasisChildren of Heaven Home Run • Religion as the belief Critics of the society The praise about Reconstruct the new nation the ethics of strutting in the society. in the prequel. • Heaven, where is heaven? Home Run, who is running? In which direction do they run?
Slumdog Millionaire • 2008----social reality in the present • Danny Boyle Make great fortune overnight Archetype____ American Dream, Cinderella, To run, a classical posture in the movie of the Third World. Referring to Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism Frederic Jameson 《处于跨国资本主义时代中的第三世界文学 》 《当代电影》,1989年第6期,第45-57页,张京嫒译
National Allegory • The individual and the nation • The particularity and the common • The way for the third-world movie.