Chen Outraged by Online Bun Parody
February 22nd, 2006 by Andre Soares
"China’s greatest film-maker outraged by ’steamed bun’ parody on internet." Via The Independent - "A young, unemployed film-maker’s 20-minute internet parody of Chen Kaige’s latest movie The Promise has delighted China’s online audiences and raised the hackles of the country’s most prestigious - and pompous - film director.
"Hu Ge, 31, a multimedia editor from Shanghai, said he made a parody of Chen’s £24m fantasy epic ‘just for fun’ because he thought the original was ‘boring and unoriginal’."
Wu ji / The Promise was recently shown out of competition at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Well, he’s right, The Promise IS pretty damned bad, with the silly plot and cartoonishly horrible special effects. Chen Kaige’s been in a slump since Emperor and the Assassin. Too bad it broke box-office records in China.
That’s too bad. I’m not a Chen Kaige fan, but I was hoping that “The Promise” would be a good film. Oh, well. . .