Tan and Wang

A detailed Summary of Tan and Wang

The film and book, The Joy Luck Club, directed by Wayne Wang and written by Amy Tan, respectively, although still depressing at times was a nice departure from the blunt death and destruction featured in the works we discussed the first half of the semester. The stories of the eight women hit very close to home for me because I also have a love and hate relationship with my mother who lived a much different life growing up than I did. The film and book are a beautiful celebration of mother and daughter relationships, the Chinese culture, and the clash between old traditions and generations and new ones.

Many may disagree, but I think that the film did a much better job of developing and presenting the characters and sharing their thoughts than the book did. I have read the book and watched the movie several times and the film gets better each time while the book becomes more boring and harder to read all the way through. It's second nature for me to draw a picture in my head of the world that is presented in books, but it was a very difficult task for me to perform while reading The Joy Luck Club. I attribute this deficit to my lack of knowledge about China and its people's culture. The film showed me t

The first time I read the book it was extremely difficult to keep up with what was going on and who was telling the story. It constantly jumped back and forth between the past and present and between the mothers and daughters. It was very frustrating to try to keep up and it did not become any easier to understand with repeated readings. By putting distinct faces on the characters the film made tracking the timeline simple. I was able to spend less time trying to get the facts straight and more time listening to the important lessons being told and admiring the beauty of the cinematography itself.

I also appreciate the changes that were made in the adaptation of The Joy Luck Club from the paper to the film. The nicest change was Rose getting back together with her husband, Ted, at the end of the film. Their story in the book was left up in the air. There was no confirmation that they got divorced or that they reconciled their differences and stayed in the marriage. Changing this outcome was a good move to make because it tied the ending into a neat little package. Hollywood is very good at ending films on a "happy" note and that is what many people are used to seeing. I think that the film would feel unconcluded if the director left this story hanging because the endings of the tales of the other daughters did not have a very distinct and fulfilling conc

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