Chinese Opera - Blog Posts
Five Days of Yam-Pak Movies ～ Day 1: Madam Yun // 芸娘 (dir. Chu Kea / 珠璣, 1960) - starring Yam Kim Fai (任劍輝) and Pak Suet Sin (白雪仙)
Summary and more information under the cut!
Summary Inspired by Shen Fu/沈復's Qing Dynasty autobiography Six Records of a Floating Life/浮生六記. Madam Yun focuses on Shen Fu (Yam Kim Fai) and his wife Yun (Pak Suet Sin), who live in married bliss with their children at the former’s familial home. However, they fall foul of the machinations of Shen Fu’s younger half-brother, who has designs on the inheritance, and are summarily kicked out. The young family struggle to adjust to their poverty, but their plight is worsened by Yun becoming chronically ill; these desperate straits result in Shen Fu having to leave his family behind in search of paying work. Thankfully, after all his efforts he is able to find a benefactor, and the family is reunited under one roof (which is, sadly, not what happened in real life).
Links:
My post about Yam Kim Fai and Pak Suet Sin being queer icons
Full movie on YouTube
there's someone on Wikipedia who writes articles about Cantonese opera but constantly names paragraphs after generic figures of speech. For example, they titled a paragraph about the economic threats facing the opera as "All for Naught."
Here's an example from the article on the actor Yam Kim-fai (who is really good, btw):
I wonder if this is translated from Cantonese... maybe the original sounded very poetic
Esmeralda sheet
once I do more research I'll give her an appropriately fitting Chinese name.
She is based off of Chinese opera and loosely off of the peacock mantis
I gave her purple pearls to represent artistry and cream ones to represent dependence. She will be a important role model for dahmari
Esmerelda
Anyone have refs for opera singers? I feel like she's not detailed enough lol
