Illustration:
ill. 4.19 (set: 4.18)
Date:
2008
Genre:
poster, film poster, advertising, online advertising
Material:
online advertising, online picture
Source:
DACHS 2008 Foolish Old Man, TV Drama, Images (7), Heidelberg catalogue entry
Keywords:
Mao`s words, Mao´s writing, Lao sanpian, Foolish Old Man, Three Old Articles, Three Constantly Read Articles

Pensive Maoist Hero in the Epic TV Series The Foolish Old Man (Dianshiju Yu gong yi shan 电视剧《愚公移山的故事》)

In the conception and the production of the drama clear moments of “Revolutionary Realism and Revolutionary Romanticism” (i.e., Maoist artistic pathos and style) shine through. One of the film stills that was turned into an advertising poster illustrates this clearly: it shows the Foolish Old Man on the left, in profile, overlooking a plateau with clouds and mountains beyond. The image takes up on a prototype in depictions of Mao, the most prevalent of which is Liu Chunhua’s 1967 oil painting Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan, which became a “model painting” during the Cultural Revolution (see ill. 5.1). Here, as there, the majestic depiction of clouds and nature must be understood as a direct reference to the hero’s sublime disposition.