Comments on: So THAT’S How The Republic Was Founded http://cupofcha.com/2009/11/26/so-thats-how-the-republic-was-founded.html This is China Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:09:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: steven http://cupofcha.com/2009/11/26/so-thats-how-the-republic-was-founded.html/comment-page-1#comment-3725 steven Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:11:22 +0000 http://cupofcha.com/?p=506#comment-3725 This is the worst film I have ever seen, If I had not seen some of these actors in other films, I would have told them not to quite their day jobs... it was like the actors were reading out of a Comic book, It was horrible... I want my 2 hours of wasted life back... This is the worst film I have ever seen, If I had not seen some of these actors in other films, I would have told them not to quite their day jobs… it was like the actors were reading out of a Comic book, It was horrible… I want my 2 hours of wasted life back…

]]> By: cai http://cupofcha.com/2009/11/26/so-thats-how-the-republic-was-founded.html/comment-page-1#comment-3719 cai Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:52:24 +0000 http://cupofcha.com/?p=506#comment-3719 He who can earn the love & respect of ~600M people (China's population back in 1949) deserves to rule the nation. He who can earn the love & respect of ~600M people (China’s population back in 1949) deserves to rule the nation.

]]> By: Jerry Zhang http://cupofcha.com/2009/11/26/so-thats-how-the-republic-was-founded.html/comment-page-1#comment-3691 Jerry Zhang Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:49:50 +0000 http://cupofcha.com/?p=506#comment-3691 There are too much spin in your review after reading it and you mention too many things that weren't even relevant to the film itself. You bring up the mistakes Mao made after PRC was founded, it would be propaganda if this film glorified the 60s - late 70s, but this film was strictly based on everything that happened before. Mao was truly revered and loved by the peasants and the intellectuals. How do you think Mao - a nobody could accomplish what he did and commanded the loyalty of so many highly educated people that gave up high posts in the KMT to work for him? How could Chiang Kai-shek and his KMT hand over the entire country to a bunch of lowly communists? Of course, CCP took direction for the worse in the 30years after, but again, this film was not about later time. So this film was not exaggerating at all like you so desperately try to convince everyone that it is. I am sure you know what Chiang Kai-shek did to suppress the CCP after he took power. This film didn't even mention too much about that. Also, CCP was the under dog both in man power and technology. Chiang Kai-shek had his chance at ChongQing conference when KMT was the top dog to secure a joint two party government with KMT as the majority. He thought he can just win the war and be a one party dictatorship and he went with it. Lastly, I have a question for you. If you were the director, how would you have made this film showing how PRC was founded? You would have done the exact same thing as the film shown. Even in the film itself, Chiang Kai-shek said at the end; "KMT destroyed itself" not giving CCP too much credit. The facts were, CCP had the peoples' support, they won the war in an overwhelmingly fashion, was relatively democratic, more democratic than Chiang Kai-shek's KMT and its fixed presidential elections and all the dirty politics while the country was at war with itself. I agree that there were scenarios such as the cook running back for the food was pretty stupid. Perhaps the film should have shown the wealthy and the powerful following Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan to compare and contrast exactly which sectors favored who. There are too much spin in your review after reading it and you mention too many things that weren’t even relevant to the film itself. You bring up the mistakes Mao made after PRC was founded, it would be propaganda if this film glorified the 60s – late 70s, but this film was strictly based on everything that happened before. Mao was truly revered and loved by the peasants and the intellectuals. How do you think Mao – a nobody could accomplish what he did and commanded the loyalty of so many highly educated people that gave up high posts in the KMT to work for him? How could Chiang Kai-shek and his KMT hand over the entire country to a bunch of lowly communists? Of course, CCP took direction for the worse in the 30years after, but again, this film was not about later time. So this film was not exaggerating at all like you so desperately try to convince everyone that it is.

I am sure you know what Chiang Kai-shek did to suppress the CCP after he took power. This film didn’t even mention too much about that. Also, CCP was the under dog both in man power and technology. Chiang Kai-shek had his chance at ChongQing conference when KMT was the top dog to secure a joint two party government with KMT as the majority. He thought he can just win the war and be a one party dictatorship and he went with it.

Lastly, I have a question for you. If you were the director, how would you have made this film showing how PRC was founded? You would have done the exact same thing as the film shown. Even in the film itself, Chiang Kai-shek said at the end; “KMT destroyed itself” not giving CCP too much credit. The facts were, CCP had the peoples’ support, they won the war in an overwhelmingly fashion, was relatively democratic, more democratic than Chiang Kai-shek’s KMT and its fixed presidential elections and all the dirty politics while the country was at war with itself.

I agree that there were scenarios such as the cook running back for the food was pretty stupid. Perhaps the film should have shown the wealthy and the powerful following Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan to compare and contrast exactly which sectors favored who.

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