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Was there really a Det Dee, true story??

posted 14 years ago by BronzeKeilani26
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I mean the parts that werent fantasy. Every film I've seen on Empress Wu made her out to be the b-tch of b-tchez, lol ...but I guess thats how she got where she got in land of the living & ended up w/ the short end of the stick in the land that counts(heaven) ...or, she would've been remembered for her greatness & not her wickedness (like Jezebel, when God said ..forever, upon hearing her name ppl will turn away in disgust(sumthin like that))

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[–] TheProjectionista 13 years ago

Here ya go -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Di_Renjie

[–] NY Whovian 13 years ago

This is an excellent article.

If you want to get a taste of what it was really like (as opposed to this 'Matrix'-like movie), I recommend Robert van Gulik's books. Van Gulik was Dutch ambassador to China in the 1950's, and fell in love with Chinese mystery stories. He found the 16th-century novels about Judge Dee, and started translating them before writing his own stories in the Chinese style.

One of them, 'The Haunted Monastery', was made into a TV movie ('Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders') by WABC in the late 1970's/early 1980's, with Khigh Dieh as Judge Dee, with guest star Keye Luke and many other well-known names like Mako, James Hong, and Soon-Tek Oh. If you can find it on late-night television, it's well worth watching, especially as the entire cast is Asian.

[–] crownklown 10 years ago

^Yea but Gulik removed a lot of the supernatural and turned Dee into more of a straight detective, while in the original he dealt with actual supernatural cases.