China Gate Hindi Movies
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Sergeant Brock (Gene Barry) and Goldie (Nat King Cole) are American Korean War veterans now serving as French Foreign Legion mercenaries in the First Indochina War. Brock's wife is a "half caste" Chinese-European named "Lucky Legs" (Angie Dickinson) who resorts to smuggling to feed her five-year-old son she had with Brock. Brock abandoned her and the baby when he was born with Asian features, feeling a "half breed" would not be welcome in America; an attitude towards miscegenation prevalent at the time. Lucky is recruited by the French high command to use her expertise of the area and her connection to the communist Major Cham (Lee Van Cleef) to get a demolition squad of Legionnaires led by Brock to a vital hidden Viet Minh ammunition dump on the border with Red China. In return for her services, Lucky is promised by the French that they will arrange for her five-year-old son's emigration to America.
In anybody else's filmography China Gate would be dismissed as hysterical political claptrap, a deliriously wrong-headed action thriller that could be re-titled Terry and the Pirates vs. Those Pesky Commies. The difference is that this 1957 20th-Fox distributed feature was written, produced and directed by Sam Fuller. The patriotic Fuller was a WW2 infantryman before becoming a film director; he was also a journalist and novelist committed who expressed his politics in very clear terms. The messages in his movies are not just sincere, they're seared into every scene. Fuller was wrongly called a 'cinema primitive' when he was really a cinema original, covering movie screens with blazing tabloid headlines. His movie pack so much energetic self-expression that the critic-directors of the French New Wave championed him even when they didn't agree with his politics. Jean-Luc Godard even gave Fuller a cameo in one of his films.
I'm too tired to hate anymore. It was all my fault, not yours. I'm really to blame. You knew all about me, but I didn't know all about you. Sure, you'd traveled all over the world, but you hadn't learned anything. Not where it counts. I should have investigated your heart and your brain. Should have seen you weren't adjusted yet. That you couldn't face facts that involve people. Oh, you're tough. You handle explosives, but you're not tough enough to handle life, Brock. That's where I made the mistake.
An interesting war film set in French Indochina that tackles racism head on. While not perfect, it certainly does a good job of making a quiet statement about race via Nat King Cole's character, and a rather resounding commentary via the two leads. In a perfect world, Cole would have headlined a million of his own films, but I digress.
China Gate cast list, listed alphabetically with photos when available. This list of China Gate actors includes any China Gate actresses and all other actors from the film. You can view additional information about each China Gate actor on this list, such as when and where they were born. To find out more about a particular actor or actress, click on their name and you'll be taken to page with even more details about their acting career. The cast members of China Gate have been in many other movies, so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with.
Aja Essex is a film lover and a menace. She plays jazz from time to time but asks you not to hold that against her. Her taste in movies bounces from Speed Racer to The Holy Mountain and everything in between. Since both those films have now been screened at and written about for the IU Cinema, she will probably change this bio soon.
So here's what's right with it. China Gate is one of the finest action movies to come out of Bollywood in the '90s and certainly the best from the Santoshi stable. In a way this saga defies the definition of a unique selling proposition, simply because there are several.
This JP Dutta movie is one of the best war movies Bollywood has ever made, if not the best. Now does anyone remember Suneil Shetty's death scene in the film? Of course, you do...for that is one of the most impactful scenes in the film. After being badly wounded in the final battle and knowing that he won;t live for long, he takes a landmine and carries it across the battlefield to throw it under a Pakistani tank. He gets in the way of gunfire, and even slumps down. However, as the arrogant enemies celebrate, he gets up again and throws the landmine under the tank killing himself as well as destroying the enemy tank. Here's the video...
I've lived in China for more than a decade now, and one of the things that struck me early on was which Western movies are popular, and which ones just really aren't. We all know at this point that Star Wars isn't something many Chinese people care about, perhaps because they mostly bank on nostalgia for films that didn't come out here until decades later than the West. But there's also strange things like The Legend of 1900 - a film it seems in the West only Italians have ever heard of - being an essential beloved classic that everyone has seen. Or how Titanic is somehow even more of a beloved classic here than back in the West. Or Leon being seemingly bigger than Pulp Fiction. Or etc etc.
But that led me to realize that we very likely do the same in the West. We've all seen Indian users here posting in confused bemusement about the recent obsession with RRR, when so many Tollywood movies are largely the same thing but have been ignored by the West before and since. So what about Chinese films? The standard recommendations appear to be Crouching Tiger, Hero, Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer (over any other films directed by or starring Stephen Chow), Raise the Red Lantern and Farewell My Concubine, Yi Yi, Infernal Affairs, A Touch of Zen, and some selection of Wong Kar-Wai movies. So I wanted to see how that selection lined up with what Chinese audiences tend to think are their best movies.
For this, I went to the Top 250 movies on Douban - China's rough equivalent to IMDB - and picked out only the Chinese films (here including not just mainland China but also films made in Hong Kong and Taiwan), and compiled the results here - I'll also list them and their positions in the Douban Top 250 in this post below so skip to the bottom if you just want to see the list.
Recency bias hasn't had a huge impact on the list (with only a few films from the 2010s and none from the 2020s), but a millennial user base seems apparent from the vast number of 90s movies here - for although that also coincides with the resurgence in Chinese cinema following the mainland's opening up and reform policy, we also see a lot of 90s Taiwanese and Hong Kong movies, so it can't be entirely put down to that.
By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and South Korea condemned a hacking attack on Sony Pictures that the United States has blamed on North Korea and said they would cooperate in international efforts against cyber-crime as asked for by Washington. The government of China, North Korea's only major ally, has yet to respond to the U.S. call, but a state-run newspaper denounced Sony's comedy woven around a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as senseless and arrogant. The Global Times, a tabloid run by the Chinese Communist Party's official People's Daily, wrote in an editorial published on Saturday that any civilized country would oppose hacker attacks or terror threats. "But a movie like "The Interview"...is nothing to be proud of for Hollywood and U.S. society," it said in its English-language edition, a publication aimed at a global rather than domestic audience. "The vicious mocking of Kim is only a result of senseless cultural arrogance." Sony pulled the movie after hackers broke into its computer network and leaked thousands of documents and unreleased movies on the Internet. The FBI said North Korea was to blame for the devastating strike. U.S. President Barack Obama said North Korea appeared to have acted alone, but Washington has sought help from Japan, China, South Korea and Russia in combating similar attacks. In Tokyo, Japan "strongly condemned" the cyber-attack but a foreign ministry spokeswoman added that it was unlikely to have any direct impact on talks with Pyongyang about Japanese citizens abducted by the North's agents decades ago. "We continue to demand that North Korea conduct its research (on the abductees) rapidly and demand a quick report to Japan of the results of the investigation," she said. A spokesman for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan would be closely coordinating with international society, including the United States, on what action to take on cyber-attacks, but added: "At this moment, we refrain from prejudging further steps." South Korea, which has blamed the North for a series of cyber-attacks on its banks and broadcasters in 2013, said such assaults could not be tolerated. "South Korea will continue to share related information related to the cyber-attack against Sony Pictures," the foreign ministry said in a statement. "We will also continue to cooperate internationally to strengthen deterrence and response towards cyber-attacks." Experts in Tokyo said the U.S. determination that North Korea was behind the cyber-attack would certainly complicate and could well derail Abe's hopes of any breakthrough in the talks over the fate of the Japanese abductees. "It's extremely delicate for Japan in this situation, given how North Korea is vilified as the enemy," said Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University's Japan campus. "It's very difficult to continue dialogue." Abe has made finding out answers to the fate of Japanese citizens abducted to help train North Korean spies a signature issue throughout his political career. In July, Japan eased some sanctions on Pyongyang in return for its promise to reopen a probe into the issue. (Additional reporting by Ben Blanchard in Beijing, Jack Kim in Seoul; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
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