Yimou Zhang
President Elect Obama named 'Time Person of the Year' for 2008
President elect, Barack Obama has been named as this years Time ‘Person of the year’. Mr. Obama was awarded the coveted title after having the confidence to carve a future for a gloomy American public this year in the Presidential elections. The magazine displayed that he showed the American public that he could change the country for the better.
Recent winners of the title have included Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the average American soldier and the online public. Barack Obama has captured the imagination, dedication and belief of so many Americans which is what makes him such a unique and inspiring person. People from all over the country were watching the inspiring American elections with a close eye and I think I speak for everyone when I say that people were relieved when the republicans were not voted back into office. He hit America with a rigirous storm. He has quashed social pecking order and racial in-equality and shattered decades of conventional wisdom.He gave people the choice to take back the responsibility that was once theirs when voting for their next President.
Mr. Barack Obama has featured in 15 Time covers in total in the past two years which the most for any one individual. His story is truly unique and has captured people’s attention and inspiration from all over the globe. In 2006 the Time magazine donated the award to the vast majority who had created online content that year for the internet which was the first time the magazine had awarded the coveted title not a person yet an achievement instead.
The runners up for this year were newly elected French President, Nicholas Sarkozy, Republican vice-president candidate and Alaskan governor Sarah Palin and Zhang Yimou, creative Director of Augusts’ Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing this year. Each of these candidates are more than capable of clinching the award of ‘Person of the year’ yet when you compare their achievements to Barack Obama it really doesn’t seem to be the same. I’m glad Barack Obama won!
NYTimes.com – Behind the Scenes: Zhang Yimou
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Hero [Blu-ray] $5.99 Director Zhang Yimou brings the sumptuous visual style of his previous films (Raise the Red Lantern, Shanghai Triad) to the high-kicking kung fu genre. A nameless warrior (Jet Li, Romeo Must Die, Once Upon a Time in China) arrives at an emperor’s palace with three weapons, each belonging to a famous assassin who had sworn to kill the emperor. As the nameless man spins out his story–and the empero… |
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Flowers of War [Blu-ray] $21.99 Fans of Chinese-born director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers) know how immersive his films are, how exquisitely, passionately of a place they are. His The Flowers of War is no exception, a deeply moving study of how ordinary people behave in extraordinary–and inhuman–circumstances. The Flowers of War is set during the Rape of Nanking, the epic 1937 battle of the Japa… |
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Curse of the Golden Flower [Blu-ray] $8.76 Curse of the Golden Flower, a fictionalized historical glimpse into the brutally complicated politics of Emperor Ping’s (Chow Yun Fat) reign during the Tang Dynasty, shows the viewer just how far a megalomaniac must go to gain and retain power in medieval China. Lavish sets, massive ceremonial displays, and perversely fascinating battle scenes impress similarly to the special effects Americans hav… |
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Puccini – Turandot at the Forbidden City of Beijing / Mehta, Casolla, Larin, Frittoli, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino $13.29 A landmark event in opera history, as Puccini’s tale of love and devotion in the court of imperial China is performed in and around the actual 400-year-old Ming Dynasty Palace. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Yimou (“Ju Dou”), the production stars Sergej Larin, Barbara Frittoli, and Giovanna Casolla in the title role, with Zubin Mehta conducting the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Widescreen; So… |
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Tan Dun: The First Emperor (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series) $17.11 The First Emperor is one of those spectacular MET stagings, bursting with colorful costumes and striking sets in noted film director Zhang Yimou’s production. It’s been billed as a “global opera” in its mixture of traditional Chinese and Western music written by Tan Dun, who has successfully bridged the two in his compositions, perhaps most effectively in his film music. The opera’s based on suppo… |
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Road Home: Original Motion Picture Score $13.98 … |
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Hero, Vol. 1 (v. 1) $5.67 Hero is the graphic novel adaptation of Zhang Yimou’s breath-taking feature length martial arts movie of the same name but it has a new ending. At the height of China’s Warring States period, the country was splintered into seven kingdoms: Qin, Zhao, Han, Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi. For years, the separate kingdoms fought ruthlessly for supremacy. This brought decades of death and suffering. The soon-to… |
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Zhang Yimou: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers) $8.99 Ranging from 1988 to 1999, this book includes interviews with the acclaimed Chinese director of such films as Red Sorghum (1987), Shanghai Triad (1995), and Not One Less (1999) and the trilogy Ju Dou (1990), Raise the Red Lantern (1992), and The Story of Qiu Ju (1992). Several of these interviews appear in English for the first time. Some come from Chinese-language periodicals, and a few have neve… |