Weapons, textiles in a movie on Taiwanese aborigines in the 1930s

yuanzhumin · 16th February 2010, 03:46 AM

-This a short movie that was done few years ago when its director, Wei Te-sheng, was then unknown in Taiwan. If i remember well, this trailer was quite confidential at the beginning, and the movie industry/investors did not give much support to this project. Wei Te-sheng had morgaged one piece of property to finance this adventure without any success, few individuals even gave money out of their pocket. Then nothing. At that time, I talked about this short movie to few European people working in the movie industry, one of them being a direct representant of Luc Besson and his Europa movie production house. But nothing. Then, in 2008, the hit 'Cape 7' came on the screens. This movie directed by Wei Te-sheng has been since the biggest commercial success in Taiwan movie industry, receiving prestigious awards. Now, Wei Te-sheng is recognized internationally and intend to shoot the 'Seediq Bale' movie with a big budget, the highest in the history of cinema industry in Taiwan. But there are still big problems : few months ago, he only had one third of the necessary fund totaling 33 millions USD. The movie shooting began at the end of last year, with a lot of technical and financial issues to overcome.
-Just few rectifications on the Takao file concerning the chief Mona Rudao :
--At the beginning of the presentation, it is written "Chief Mona Rudao (also known as Monaludo or Mona Radau) was born as the first son of Rudao Bai, the chief of the Mahebo Community of the Atayal tribe, in 1882." We have to say that the Atayal group is composed of the Atayal, the Taroko/Truku and the Seediq tribes, this last one being recognized as officially distinct from the others only recently. At the time this text on Mona Rudao was written, the Seediq were still included in the Atayal. That's why Mona is presented in the document as an Atayal, when today and in the short film, he is presented as a Seediq.
--At the beginning of the Background part on the same Mona Ludao file, it is written : 'The Atayal were one of the earliest ethnic groups to inhabit the island of Taiwan, most probably coming from today's Philippine Islands. ' There is a double mistake there : first, there was other cultures present in the island much before the Atayal, and second mistake (a big one), they are not coming from the Phillipines but that's the Taiwan Austronesians peoples (the Atayal being included in them) that went to the Philippines and spread to the rest of the Pacific, beginning 6000 years ago.

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16th February 2010, 03:46 AM	#5
yuanzhumin Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ex-Taipei, Taiwan, now in Shanghai, China Posts: 180	-This a short movie that was done few years ago when its director, Wei Te-sheng, was then unknown in Taiwan. If i remember well, this trailer was quite confidential at the beginning, and the movie industry/investors did not give much support to this project. Wei Te-sheng had morgaged one piece of property to finance this adventure without any success, few individuals even gave money out of their pocket. Then nothing. At that time, I talked about this short movie to few European people working in the movie industry, one of them being a direct representant of Luc Besson and his Europa movie production house. But nothing. Then, in 2008, the hit 'Cape 7' came on the screens. This movie directed by Wei Te-sheng has been since the biggest commercial success in Taiwan movie industry, receiving prestigious awards. Now, Wei Te-sheng is recognized internationally and intend to shoot the 'Seediq Bale' movie with a big budget, the highest in the history of cinema industry in Taiwan. But there are still big problems : few months ago, he only had one third of the necessary fund totaling 33 millions USD. The movie shooting began at the end of last year, with a lot of technical and financial issues to overcome. -Just few rectifications on the Takao file concerning the chief Mona Rudao : --At the beginning of the presentation, it is written "Chief Mona Rudao (also known as Monaludo or Mona Radau) was born as the first son of Rudao Bai, the chief of the Mahebo Community of the Atayal tribe, in 1882." We have to say that the Atayal group is composed of the Atayal, the Taroko/Truku and the Seediq tribes, this last one being recognized as officially distinct from the others only recently. At the time this text on Mona Rudao was written, the Seediq were still included in the Atayal. That's why Mona is presented in the document as an Atayal, when today and in the short film, he is presented as a Seediq. --At the beginning of the Background part on the same Mona Ludao file, it is written : 'The Atayal were one of the earliest ethnic groups to inhabit the island of Taiwan, most probably coming from today's Philippine Islands. ' There is a double mistake there : first, there was other cultures present in the island much before the Atayal, and second mistake (a big one), they are not coming from the Phillipines but that's the Taiwan Austronesians peoples (the Atayal being included in them) that went to the Philippines and spread to the rest of the Pacific, beginning 6000 years ago.