Illustration:
ill. 2.11 c (set: 2.11)
Date:
1970
Genre:
postcard, photograph
Material:
scan, paper, colour; original source: postcard, photograph, colour
Source:
Postcard Collection, 1970, Beijing: Beijing Foreign Languages, 1970.
Keywords:
Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, moedel works, red, red flag, gesture, Cultural Revolution, male, hero, villain, victory

Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (Zhiqu weihushan 智取威虎山)

Tan Dun’s “Red Forecast” ends with idyllic sounds in the woodwinds, and with a stage “washed in red.” Tan Dun thus repeats exactly the typical final apotheosis as found in the model works of the Cultural Revolution: they invariably end with spheric sounds, a tableau of heroes and a stage all washed in red as can be seen here.