Re: Download Film Warriors Of The Rainbow Seediq Bale Part 2
Wan Cabiness
When Mona Rudao sees the fight is near the end, he gives leadership to Tado Mona, and returns to his wife and children (the movie implies two versions of the story, one is that Mona Rudao shot his wife, the other is that the wife hanged herself[12]). Some people of the village surrender and survive. Natives present and identify heads of the dead to the Japanese leadership for rewards, and it is shown that in the battle they feud with each other even further. Mahung Mona is resuscitated by the Japanese, and is sent to offer Tado Mona's men wine and a chance to surrender. The men take the wine, and sing and dance with the women, but refuse to surrender. Tado Mona tells Mahung Mona to give birth to and raise offspring, and leads men to hang themselves in woods. Piho Sapo is captured and tortured to death. The war ends, and even Kamada is impressed by his enemy's spirit. The surviving people of the villages that rebel are removed from their homes, and are later attacked by Kojima. Mona Rudao is missing, and a native hunter is led by a bird to find his body. The hunter then sees Mona Rudao and his people following the Seediq legend to cross the rainbow bridge. The film ends with a scene of several natives telling their creation story.
On 2 September 2011, Warriors of the Rainbow had its world premiere at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, but the original two parts are combined into the one cut version and its running time is two and half hours.[32] It also was shown at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival in September. A controversy began when the film was listed as "China, Taiwan",[33] and widened into political arguments when Chinese reporters criticized the film and Taiwanese defended it.[34]
In South Korea, the movies were screened in 5 theaters in 2014. Only about 8000 people saw the part one, and 10 the part two. Lim Dae-Guen noted that the films received relatively high score on portal website Naver. Lim argued that the most Korean audience are unfamiliar with Taiwanese history and ethnic groups, but the few who have seen it rated the movie positively, both for its quality and for their identification with its anti-Japanese theme.[40]
Justin Chang of Variety describes the film as a "wildly ambitious rumble-in-the-jungle battle epic arrives bearing so heavy a burden of industry expectations, one wishes the results were less kitschy and more coherent", but "still, the filmmaking has a raw physicality and crazy conviction it's hard not to admire."[45] Chang also writes "In terms of recent epic cinema, the primitive warfare in Warriors of the Rainbow recalls that of Apocalypto, minus Mel Gibson's sense of pacing and technique" and the "chaotic combo of hard-slamming edits, gory mayhem and Ricky Ho's forever-hemorrhaging score makes the picture simply exhausting to watch over the long haul."[45] On the positive aspects, Chang noted "there's an impressive degree of variation and anthropological detail in the weaponry and fighting techniques, from the numerous implied decapitations (the Seediq's chief m.o.) to the guerrilla assaults in the tropical terrain they know so well."[45] Chang however criticized the film's use of special effects as "generally substandard throughout" and writes the "occasional shots of CGI rainbows -- that title is unfortunately literal -- send the film momentarily spiraling into camp."[45]
The film pits native ferocity (rarely have I seen a film with so many beheadings) and scenes of more peaceful, communal living (the eerily beautiful Seediq songs, part of the tribe's ancestral storytelling, are spellbinding) against this historical event little-known in the West.
The representation of Seediq culture is controversial. A letter to a newspaper expressed concerns about the gore and violence depicted in the movie may hurt the image of Aboriginal people.[62] In a talk show, Dakis Pawan, Shen Mingren (AKA Pawan Tanah, a school principal) and others responded that the movie does not represent Seediq people, and the killings has to be understood in the context of history, national defense and Seediq custom (called "gaga").[63] Iwan Pering, a translator of the film, said many details of customs and history are incorrect,[59] and that Mona Rudao was unlikely to have invaded other group's territory and take the game, since it was forbidden by the rules of his group.[64] Dakis Pawan also said in his book that Seediq rules were strict and group-centered, therefore Seediq people were unlikely to act as freely and self-centered as in the film. In particular, Mona Rudao was unlikely to feud with Temu Walis in the way shown in the film.[53]
Te Sheng Wei's focus was to depict the natives and their culture as realistically as possible, and to accomplish that, he went to a plethora of extremes, particularly in the technical department, which almost resulted in the film not being completed. Furthermore, he cast two local non-actors in the protagonist roles, a model to play young Rudao and a local priest to play the elder. His choice proved quite successful, since both of them gave great performances, essentially justifying the director's approach.
An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag is Part one of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.
After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight for their dignity and honor so that they can truly be "Seediq Bale" or "real men." Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge is Part two of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.
Part 2 makes up for the uneven and dragged out pace of the first part. Starting with a bit of a recap, the film jumps into action and rarely lets up, moving from one battle to the next and often setting up cliffhanger scenarios for our 300 warriors battling an army of 3000.
Honestly surprised to see part 2 to have a higher average rating. I found this one to be a bit to bloated with the action sequences due to a heavy use of CGI that didn't blend in with the environments very well. It really dampened the liveliness of action sequences present in the first part. There was also some horribly oversaturated color grading in certain sequences, which I feel could've been approached differently to more effectively capture what they were going for. With a different approach I could see this film working, it just tries far too hard to fit in as a typical action blockbuster without the resources to successfully craft something of that scale.
It is sad that even with this films perspective, many people still want to judge the characters as good or bad, and their actions as right or wrong. I thought this film is about people after being deprived of tradition, faith and livelihood, sought the only action they know to preserve life or dignity from all parties.
Taiwanese blockbuster Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale is not for the faint-hearted. The two-part, four-and-half hour film is an epic account of a little-known and tragic uprising by Taiwanese aboriginal warriors against their Japanese colonial overlord in the 1930s.
The film's star, Lin, was originally enlisted to help Wei's search party find potential actors in the aboriginal tribal areas. However, Wei was instantly drawn to his chieftain-like qualities - though a Christian pastor and teacher, he walked and talked like Mouna Rudo, the legendary chief of the Seediq people.
A total of 161 films will take part in the 48th annual awards, which were founded in 1962 and are generally considered the top awards for Chinese-language films in Asia, attracting interest from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China. Films from Mainland China were first permitted to take part during the 1990s.
Warriors, billed as the most expensive film ever produced in Taiwan, takes place mainly around 1930 and focuses on Seediq leader Mouna Rudo (Lin Ching-Tai), a charismatic figure in native face paint and a permanent scowl, who united the various tribal factions to take on the interlopers (referred to in history books as the Wushe Incident"). The film pits native ferocity (rarely have I seen a film with so many beheadings) and scenes of more peaceful, communal living (the eerily beautiful Seediq songs, part of the tribe's ancestral storytelling, are spellbinding) against this historical event little-known in the West.
ORIGINAL INT'l VERSION. In the mountains of Taiwan, two races clashed in defense of their faiths. One believed in rainbows, the other believed in the sun. Neither side realized they both believed in the same sky. Wei Te-Sheng's epic film WARRIORS OF THE RAINBOW: SEEDIQ BALE retells an extraordinary episode from 20th-century history which is little-known, even in Taiwan. Between 1895 and 1945, a Japanese colony inhabited the island and subdued the aboriginal tribes who first settled the land. Seediq leader Mouna Rudo (Lin Ching-Tai) forged a coalition with other tribal leaders and plotted a rebellion against their Japanese colonial masters. The initial uprising took the Japanese by surprise, but they soon sent in their army to crush the rebellion, using aircraft and poison gas.
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