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Thread: what do u think about shanghai girls?
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[quote=MARRIE,410484]Peng’s films are among the only ones made about Shanghai by a Shanghai-based director. The award-winning Shanghai Story (美丽上海) saw a local family battle old ghosts around the hearth of a typical, muchsubdivided old mansion. “[Shanghai Story] talks pretty much about a house as a living space–it is very important to people’s life in Shanghai. A house is like a stage,” Peng suggests. Her touching Shanghai Women (假装没感觉) saw a Shanghainese mother and daughter pinged around property arrangements by a succession of personal dilemmas. “I explore people’s emotion and relations in the city, and its culture,” Peng says. “My films seem Shanghainese because I am native Shanghainese, and my movies are very low budget films so I can’t afford to pay somebody to write the script, so I write them myself. It is easy for me to write about Shanghai.” Jiang describes Shanghainese contemporary art as, “very independent, and very cool. Their works can be very zhai (Shanghainese for finicky, precise), but their vision is very big.” As for the artists most typically Shanghainese, she lists Xu Zhen, Ding Yi, Song Tao and Yang Fudong. Yang, while a Beijing native, is an aficionado of Old Shanghai film and literature, and his works are more noticeably Haipai than most Shanghai-born artists. “A lot of immigrant artists to Shanghai change into Shanghai artists, and very much assume the Shanghai flavor, which is very sentimental, very introspective.” In indie music as well, Shanghai bands’ styles are deliciously diverse, from pop to hip-hop to some that defy description. The signature sound changes with the band du jour. However, the over 100 original bands here, New Shanghainese included, all retain that meticulousness with quality and precision, plus that sentimental introspectiveness. Favorites like Topfloor Circus and Candy Shop would make Zhou Libo blush with their bawdily comic antics and Wu-singing performances, but musicians like other Shanghainese have gotten adept at expressing their Haipai linglong-ness in Mandarin, English, German, Japanese or whatever as much as in Shanghainese. [/quote]
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