Yijing Movies

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Does anyone recall any movies that have a strong influence coming from the Yijing? Or even a mention of the Yijing in the movie that gave you a sense that the director knew something about it? Or a documentary about the subject like Beyond_the_veil's find -http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=13837 I guess I'm just in the mood for a good movie.

 

[answeredquestions]

I'll add to my own post because I found something on the web be it small, it does reference the Yi a little bit.http://www.ubu.com/film/cage_masters.html
Found on this website: http://www.biroco.com/yijing/index.htm

Still hoping for some recommendations.

 

[charly]

Hi, Courtney:

I didn't see any film on the I Ching, neither Wisdom of Change.

But I remember a sequence on the I Ching at the begining of one of my preferred fumetti (comic) authors.

The sequence belongs to Hugo Pratt's «Corte Sconta detta Arcana», also known as Corto Maltese at Syberia:

Corte Sconta detta Arcana is maybe one of the best fumetti from Hugo Pratt and a film was made with its characters and its argument. In the source of the following quote there is embeded a fragment of the film.

Corto Maltese consults the I Ching
[Begining dialog between Corto Maltesse and a chinese sage known as Long-Life]

—Welcome back, Corto Maltese ... smoke with me the air that will prepare your mind and listen to your mouth to ask what you want to know from the Book of Changes— said the old man with a deep voice and gentle , handing the sailor his fragile pipe.

—Thanks, Long-Life, but you know that my mind is always ready to listen to wise counsel coming from the reading of 'I Ching, also without smoking the air that has changed your great country.

—As you like it, Corto. Here —he said, handing him the three coins— Toss out six times and think about what you care about— Corto obeyed. To each of its launches, Long-Life traced on a sheet of paper a continuous or broken line.

The italian surce:
http://www.comecucinarelanostravita.it/corto-maltese-consulta-i-ching/

A sample page from the same source:

More about the Hidden Court:

Source, a blog on Venezia:
http://alloggibarbaria.blogspot.com/2010/12/corte-sconta-detta-arcana.html

All the best,


Charly

 

[pocossin]

An adaptation of The Man in the High Castle is being made for the BBC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle


The TV series Lost featured the ba gua as in the logo for The Dharma Initiative.

The ABC soap opera Dark Shadows featured yarrow sticks and a copy of the I Ching that allowed characters meditating on the hexagrams to astral travel.

The film G.I. Joe uses a red hexagram tattoo on the right forearm for the Storm Shadow ninja clan.

In director Michael Mann's film Collateral, Vincent (Tom Cruise) refers to I Ching as he tries to teach Max (Jamie Foxx) the importance of improvisation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching's_influence

 

[answeredquestions]

Pocossin, my mom used to watch Dark Shadows when it was on TV. It is an odd series and it is pretty comical to me that yarrow and I Ching were featured. I remember one of my guy friends coming over and seeing a hexagram drawn out on my coffee table. He had said it was a tattoo in GI Joe (it is either H64 or H63). I don't want to upset any Cruise lover's but I can't stomach his acting, so I will probably not see Collateral. I am curious as to how he 'teaches Max' improvisation, but maybe I will just read about it instead . The most interesting thing listed in the Wiki IMO is The Man in the High Castle book. From what I gather, he let the I Ching write the book for him. He only started out with a character name which is pretty neat. I believe that is what John Cage was doing with his music in a way. He wanted nature to write it instead of himself.

Charly, in the picture of the Hidden Court, is that a well being featured? In the comic book I think he receives 38 and 54. I wonder if it was 38.6 or 54.6 and if he uses the advice he was given.

Take care everyone,
AQ

 

[charly]

...
Charly, in the picture of the Hidden Court, is that a well being featured? In the comic book I think he receives 38 and 54. I wonder if it was 38.6 or 54.6 and if he uses the advice he was given.
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Courtney:

It's 38.6 → 54 La Ragazza che va Sposa, I have lent my Corto, but I go to look for a copy.

It's believed that the reading acts as a sort of summary of all the story. I'm not sure. But Hugo Partt was inspired by one of the three Sung sisters, the one that that married Sun Yat Sen.

She was Soong Ching-Lin 宋慶齡 (pinyin: Sòng Qìnglíng) later co-chairman of the People's Republic.

Ching-Lin with her sisters:

Source: http://www.gospelherald.com.hk/news/soc-1214/文物展活現宋慶齡生平一生深受基督信仰影響

Source: http://www.stnn.cc:82/reveal/200611/t20061102_380479.html

Here the character inspired by Ching-Lin:

Source: http://ch999.blogspot.com/2010/03/los-miercoles-en-bn-corte-sconta-detta.html

The last meeting between SHANGAI-LIL (1), «La Ragazza che va Sposa», and CORTO MALTESSE. The other male character is the husband. Of course, Corto never got married.

Yours,


Charly

__________________________
(1) Homage to Marlene Dietrich that inspired another character, that of the duchess Marina Seminova.

Source: http://yumclips.com/hd/hugo+pratt
Ch.

 

[answeredquestions]

I like the little fluttering fairy flower things dancing around in the first few frames.

 

[charly]

I like the little fluttering fairy flower things dancing around in the first few frames.

Courtney:

Not only in the first frames also in the last ones.
I wonder if they are BUTTERFLIES but I believe that they represent FEELINGS.

All the best,


Charly

 

[answeredquestions]

Butterflies in the stomach and feelings in the wind. I think you are right Charly.

 

[charly]

Butterflies in the stomach and feelings in the wind. I think you are right Charly.

You´re very kind, Courtney.

Charly

 

[charly]

Butterflies in the stomach and feelings in the wind. I think you are right Charly.

Hi Courtney:

I hope you may check this dear forum from time to time. Portraits of Soong Sisters had dissappeared.

Here a brief biography of Ching-Ling.

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Soong Ching-Ling (1893-1981)
(Madame Sun Yat-Sen)

Honorary President of the People's Republic of China
Leader of the Women's Department of the Kuomintang

Soong Ching-Ling was born in Shanghai on the 27th of January in 1893 to well-educated, Christian parents. Before marrying Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Ching-ling travelled to the United States for her education; she and her three sisters became the first Chinese girls to be educated in the states. At the age of eighteen, Ching-ling began to speak out against the conditions of women in her country in a non-violent manner which expressed her ideals of Liberty and Equality. For the next seven decades, Soong Ching-ling became an active character within both the political and social arenas of Chinese culture. She came to be known as "the Mother of China" by both the main political parties, the Kuomintang and the Communists.

A Brief Timeline of the Life of Soong Ching-Ling
1893 Born.
1915 Marries Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the first Chinese Republic. Together they struggle to bring social and economic order to the chaos of post-Imperial China.
1924 Elected head of the Women's Department of the Kuomintang.
1925 Dr. Sun Yat-sen dies. Soong Ching-Ling devotes the rest of her life to upholding her husband's ideals by becoming the most passionate and prominent opponent of Chiang Kai-shek.
1932 Founds the China League for Civil Rights.
1938 Founds China Defence League.
1949 Offered the leadership position of the Kuomintang, which she turns down.
Becomes the Vice-President of the Central People's Government Council as well as the Honorary President of the All-China Women's Federation.
1950 Creates the China Welfare Institute.
1952 Founds China Reconstructs magazine.
1957 Travels to Moscow with Chairman Mao for the Conference of World Communist Parties.
1981 Named Honorary President of the People's Republic of China.
Dies of Leukaemia in Peking.

Soong Ching-Ling as an early champion of Chinese Women's Liberation

When Soong Ching-Ling was a student in the United States she began to seriously consider the conditions of women in China. The first and foremost Chinese practice that she singled out was the issue of arranged marriages. Through the influences of Western emancipation, Ching-Ling tackled this institution by declaring that the abolition of arranged marriages would further the liberation of both women and men in China.

When she married Sun Yat-sen in 1915 she not only became his wife but a strong political collegue of his. Up until that time women were basically invisible in the eyes of society. Few women would show their faces in public and would rarely accompany their husbands to any social gathering. In a biography of Soong Ching-Ling, Jung Chang writes that Ching-Ling was the first Chinese woman to appear in public with her husband and that she became the first consort of a political leader anywhere in the world to act as "First Lady."

Politically, Ching-Ling was a leading force behind the reorganization of the Kuomintang as well as in the shift away from the western powers towards Russia. Then in 1924 she was made head of the Womens' Department of the Party. She viewed that Chinese Women's Liberation was an inseparable part of the Chinese revolution-her views therefore set the tone for the radical line on the question of women in China.

Early in her career she divided her time between working in the government and working on the affairs of women. One of her major achievements during this time was the founding of the Women's Political Training School in 1927 - here she gave numerous talks on the importance of women joining the revolution as well as on the liberation of women in China. In the 1950s and 1960s she was very active in the official women's movement. Her ideals, along with the creation of the All-China Women's Federation in 1949 helped to shape the policies of China pertaining to women.

Source: Jung Chang - "Mme. Sun Yat-sen". Penguin Books, 1986.

Borrowed from: Profile of Soong Ching-Ling

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All the best, forever,

Charly

 

[moss elk]

In the 2010 movie, Confucius
there is a very brief mention of a reading Confucius did, what it referred to and what he was going to do. He must have got 1.7

The mention scene starts at 48 minutes.

I'll transcribe part of the dialog,
-King, "Can you win this?
If you fail you will unleash chaos everywhere."
-Confucius, "Your humble servant did a fortune reading. The reading was Headless Dragons. That's very auspicious."


Also worth mentioning is:
beginning at 1:19, there is a scene where Confucius meets with a kings concubine
Nan Zi, who typifies the danger in hexagram 44. After leaving her presence,
Confucius says, "We should leave this country, it will descend into Chaos."

 

[IrfanK]

Not movies, no. Bob Dylan songs! On one of his 21st century albums, every second song seems to contain a reference to the Yi. It's most explicit in "Idiot Grins." In the bootleg version, he includes the line "The I Ching told me there's gonna be thunder at the well." In the studio version, he changes I Ching to "fortune teller."

There's a great story about a meeting between the mythologist Joseph Campbell and Bob. Campbell went up to Bob and thanked him for the great support he had provided to the publishing house Campbell was running. Bob looked at him quizzically. How so? Well, in an interview, the journalist had asked Bob what his favorite book was. "The I Ching," he replied. As a result, Campbell's publishing house was inundated with tens of thousands of orders for it, which kept the business alive during a critically difficult period.

 

[IrfanK]

Also, keep your eye out for the forthcoming Netflix or HBO series based on Liu Cixin's excellent novel The Three Body Problem. At least in the book, there's a great chapter where Fu Xi and the Duke of Chou meet to cast the coins to determine how long it will be before the next period of chaos, when the sun boils over and the heat becomes unbearable. The I Ching tells them that there will be many years of calm and peace. Unfortunately, they got the reading wrong. The sun started boiling over again that very afternoon.