{"id":628,"date":"2010-01-26T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10083047.post-2437477672979572226"},"modified":"2010-01-26T12:27:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T20:27:02","slug":"confucius-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/26\/confucius-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Confucius biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that a new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confucius_(2010_film)\">biopic<\/a> of Confucius just opened in China. It&#8217;s pretty obvious that they &#8220;sexed up&#8221; his life, as you can see in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alltrailers.net\/confucius.html\">trailer<\/a>. In terms of a big-budget biopic it seems to me that the life of Confucius is a very thin source of blockbuster material in relation to other social-religious figures of eminence. Jesus, Moses and Buddha have supernatural aspects to their lives. Muhammad&#8217;s life offers the opportunity for set-piece battles. Confucius was in many ways a failed bureaucrat, a genius unrecognized in his own day. His life can&#8217;t be easily appreciated unless you have the proper context of his impact on Chinese history in mind. Stepping into it without a grand frame can lead one to conclude that he was quite a pedestrian man. Confucius was a man of ideas (though even those ideas can seem somewhat obscure, e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rectification_of_names\">rectification of names<\/a>). You see this in Annping Chin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743246187\/geneexpressio-20\/\">The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics<\/a>; I can&#8217;t imagine <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammad:_A_Biography_of_the_Prophet\">Karen Armstrong<\/a> writing such a dense and slow book.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/10083047-2437477672979572226?l=www.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that a new biopic of Confucius just opened in China. It&#8217;s pretty obvious that they &#8220;sexed up&#8221; his life, as you can see in the trailer. In terms of a big-budget biopic it seems to me that the life of Confucius is a very thin source of blockbus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-confucianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}