BabaSlimes said: Nice! But sadly it seems like most of these aren't viewable in the USA at least. I get an error in Chinese when I try to view the non-youtube links.
Wait 60 seconds or less. That message says the ads didn't load but mine played eventually.
Dude. This is a once a year kinda super find. So awesome. This whole setup is on par with the best we have, imo. To me, it highlights how good a scene can be with quality acting and camera work. It's only 1cake, it's only 1minute, but it's flawless. This is the kind of stuff I was hoping to make when I started wamerica.
Dude. This is a once a year kinda super find. So awesome. This whole setup is on par with the best we have, imo. To me, it highlights how good a scene can be with quality acting and camera work. It's only 1cake, it's only 1minute, but it's flawless. This is the kind of stuff I was hoping to make when I started wamerica.
Thanks. I had no idea (until recently) that messy indignities were so good for web traffic, so I will be shoehorning them in more of my output, when we're allowed to out filming things again.
Great job and thank you for sharing these with us TheKev! I love it when new TV scenes are discovered. And thank you for your translations, these scenes would be hard for most of us to find let alone understand.
caramba said: Is this a new thing for China? I doubt they would have had that sort of slapstick in times when people were starving...
Very much so. But I would be amazed if anything like gunging or sliming took off in China any time soon. During the Cultural Revolution, nationwide terror that is still well within living memory, a common punishment was to pour black ink over political prisoners' heads, so people wouldn't see it as a laughing matter.
I think these cakings owe quite a bit to Japanese influence, via Taiwan.
caramba said: Is this a new thing for China? I doubt they would have had that sort of slapstick in times when people were starving...
I'm not sure there's as much a significance between slapstick and food politics as some may make out. I mean by that standard the heights of American and British slapstick pre and post war were pretty much respectively at times of great economic depression and (in the UK case certainly) food scarcity (and I'm being generous here since my region is these days full of food banks that people have to go to since they can't afford to even purchase food).
I mean obvs Chinese media ain't gonna do mass food fights during the 50's after the war and the sweeping industrial efforts but that was some time ago and things are quite different these days. What might have been more of a stumbling block was the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution which wouldn't of ever looked at western style slapstick comedy as generously as the Avant Garde Soviets did (a bad Western hangover from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion certainly didn't help things).
Regarding the above post, I now have a surreal image of the New Left peasants and students movement in modern China talking up TV gunging as a throwback to what they did to the bosses back in the day. The East Is Red meets Noels House Party essentially.
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