Which part of the Movie was False?
I'd like to know which part(s) of the movie was(were) factually or historically inaccurate?
sharethe silence is deafening..
shareHow do you know? U already deaf? :D
sharethe movie was not factually false per se. All the names and places, and events can all be fact checked.
The dramatization and the propaganda of the events is what was fabricated. the film basically only paints the CCP in the most positive light.
Its like making a film of Hitler but only showing him visiting hospitals and playing with his nieces and nephews. And only show Hitler as a painter who looks to take walks in the park.
One would think Adolph Hitler was the most wonderful human being ever lived on earth.
this is what this movie did for Mao and the CCP, they made them seem like complete heroes and save China, when they did no such thing.
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Well, most last-generation Chinese still believe MAO and CPP saved them and the central govenment is good, as they benefit from the new republic.And the new generation who may not like CPP as much as their (grand)parents do still haven't got enough power/resource/time to fight. You like it or not, this' the true reason why CPP govenment hasn't collapsed and will keep going on like this for a while
shareThe fact is that Mao did much good for China -- beginning with kicking out the Western colonists/parasites.
He established the foundation for an independent China which is now on the economic ascendency.
And Thomas Jefferson wrote, "All men are created equal," while owning slaves.
Mao has nothing to do with China's economic rise. It was only after the Gang of Four were ousted in disgrace and Deng Xiaoping game to power and took the country in the exact opposite direction of where Mao was taking it, that China's economy started growing.
The evidence- http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Prc1952-2005gdp.gif
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If one is hell bent on seeing propaganda or comes to the movie with a preformed notion of what it is, it will appear as propaganda.
Movie shows how the party gets formed, depicting CCP's despicable acts in the time line that's in the movie would be stupid to say the least.
Movie is set in a totally different time line of history and China.
As for Hitler example, if the movie concerned Hitler as a soldier in WW1 why should his holocaust acts be laid bare in that movie?
Judge a movie for it rather than subject it to ones own preconceived notions.
Clearly, you're a Red Chinese apologist. The people romanticized in this movie are mass murderers who enslaved and most populous country on Earth. Mao is no more deserving of admiration than his fellow psycho-killers Stalin, Pol Pot and Hitler
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The US was founded upon massive genocide against the native population.
Stating that fact doesn't make me an enemy of the US -- or an "apologist" for any other genocidal leader.
Mao wasn't only that you want to see him as -- as you are thoroughly propagandized yourself. Mao established the foundation for modern China, which, by all accounts, is increasingly capitalist. And that is causing other problems -- fundamentally the huge gap between the few haves and the billions of have-nots.
Mao established the foundation for modern China, which, by all accounts, is increasingly capitalist.
No, that would be Deng Xiaoping. Mao left China almost as a failed state. share