![]() ![]() without that, a woman could be considered worthless, and the dichotomy of benevolent saint and malevolent siren reflects on the two major female characters: o-lan, the slavegirl turning to the farmer's wife lotus, the insidious temptress who drains men's wealth. ![]() Mostly it depicts the condescending perspect of man's derogatory viewpoint on women which is actually true in ancient china, and women are merely usable products who help men to plow the rice fields and bring them extensions. they've been thru harvest prosperity, drought, famine and the revolution of republic china as well as wang's illict affair with courtesan lotus. and together they strive for their rocky future with mettle with their conventional chinese virtues. It is a story about wang lung the farmer(paul muni), who marries a slavegirl in the big house named o-lan. and the issue has no relevance of its chinese authenticness but how old america views china. it has great ambition to interpret the national spirit of china, its farming business under a bunch of stagy performances from caucasion yellow-face. "the good earth" is the earliest massive hollywood productions for oriental epic in exclusion of fu manchu series. ![]()
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