Movie Essays - Comparing the Novel and Film Version of Joy Luck Club

Joy Luck Club, a novel and movie version of Amy Tan's Joy Club, combines literature and movie equipment by adopting the novel's story technique and enhancing them with images and sounds. This adaptation is not an explanation of the destruction or misuse of Amy Tan's novel, but the emergence of new art works that are not hindered or enhanced by the superiority of its literary pioneer. Amy Tan brings the family's own experience as a Chinese immigrant to the United States and talks about four Chinese mothers (Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, Ying-ying St.).

When comparing 'Happiness Club' and 'Female Warrior', Amy Tan's popular novel 'Happy Luck Club' is exploring the problems faced by first generation and second generation Chinese immigrants, especially mothers and daughters. Tan's book is a novel, but much of the struggle it explains is also reflected in the autobiographical work of Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: The Memorial of The Ghost of the Ghost. Among these two books, both mother and daughter are separated from culture and generation.

Joy Luck Club, a novel and movie version of Amy Tan's Joy Club, combines literature and movie equipment by adopting the novel's story technique and enhancing them with images and sounds. This adaptation is not an explanation of the destruction or misuse of Amy Tan's novel, but the emergence of new art works that are not hindered or enhanced by the superiority of its literary pioneer. Amy Tan brings the family's own experience as a Chinese immigrant to the United States and talks about four Chinese mothers (Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, Ying-ying St.).

Wayne Wang's 1993 film "The Joy Luck Club" may have disappointed most of Tan's readers, like film critics. This theme is so interesting that you can take a movie, but the story's story is sensational and sensational, it becomes an Asian-American soap opera. The last episode (from "ticket pair") has been streamlined and simplified. Hello, this set of tickets is reduced to one paragraph: June fly to China and poor Canning Woo leaves the United States. Still, this movie is useful for students who need visual aid.

When the novel "Happy Luck Club" was released in 1989, King Wayne approached the idea of ​​novelist Amy Tan and turned the novel he praised into a movie. King and Tan are increasingly worried about making it a movie and since Mr. Wang's previous movie was not attractive since "eating a bowl", the king made a movie about Chinese-American I did not want it. A large audience. Back then, there was no Hollywood movie with Almighty actor, and it was dangerous to make a movie with Chinese protagonists, especially since Asian actors were not well known to American audiences. Since the meeting at Bel Air Hotel in January 1990, Wang and Tan analyzed the novel in collaboration with Ronald Bass and explained the outline of how to display it on the screen.