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It's over ultrabros, Mao was treatbrained

The man who was Mao's hero - Lifestyle - Chinadaily.com.cn

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2010-12/17/content_11716141.htm

The Bruce Lee legend never fades but it might surprise some to learn that among his legion of fans was Chairman Mao, who called him a hero.

While watching Fist of Fury for the first time, Mao dissolved in tears, Liu recalled, and said "Bruce Lee is a hero!" Mao watched the film twice more. Liu said he did not know of any other movie that Mao viewed three times.

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hexaflexagonbear

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Tapping the sign:

pinguinu

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Does playing Kojima games count as watching movies?

hexaflexagonbear

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Every kojima game is a grey goo of like 400 movies, so it's even better than watching movies.

UlyssesT

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It's movie nanomachines! made-it-the-fuck-up

Mindfury

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you will watch the MGS4 cutscene, you will consume the slop

SpiderFarmer

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I think I've seen 3 movies this year. How much time do I have to cram?

AmericaDeserved711

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according to letterboxd I've seen 183 movies this year... not to brag but that means I'm 60x the leftist you are

sharkfucker420

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I be watching documentaries about prehistory archeology most nights tbh

thelastaxolotl

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Stalin liked cowboy movies and Mao Martial arts movies, They all enjoy treats

Nakoichi

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Remember some of the best westerns were initially hated on because Ameribrains were racist against Italians lol

hexaflexagonbear

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Neither did anything wrong.

UlyssesT

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gulag everyone, including yourself. gulag

Dolores

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Mao was a fucking connessuier denji-just-like-me

Alaskaball

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Stalin literally watched John Wayne movies

UlyssesT

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gulag everyone, including yourself. gulag

Alaskaball

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You can't punish the Marshal for enjoying the Duke sicko-jammin

UlyssesT

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The Duke really fucking sucked off-camera, that said.

https://people.com/movies/sacheen-littlefeather-says-1973-john-wayne-incident-was-most-violent-moment-in-oscars-history/

Alaskaball

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Obviously, lmao. He helped make "The Conqueror"

Nakoichi

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@UlyssesT@hexbear.net We need your expert treatbrain analysis here to determine if Mao is cancelled or not.

UlyssesT

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"Bruce Lee is a hero!"

That's a very concerning, maybe even unserious thing to say after already establishing the whole "no gods, no masters" thing. mao-wtf

Mao dissolved in tears

That said, I've done that before, like decades ago when I saw the very first Land Before Time movie in theaters, so if he should have went to the treat gulag, so should I. gulaged

EDIT: There's a very good reason for Mao to love the moment that put him in tears mentioned in the article. Looking back, I think my shitposting here was in bad taste.

Alaskaball

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That's a very concerning, maybe even unserious thing to say after already establishing the whole "no gods, no masters" thing

Nah dog, Heroic realism was a real agitprop tactic and as far as Mao's concerned, Bruce Lee was a living example of positive heroism for the proletarian masses.

We should be following Mao's stance on enjoying martial arts movies to a T

UlyssesT

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Nah dog, Heroic realism was a real agitprop tactic and as far as Mao's concerned, Bruce Lee was a living example of positive heroism for the proletarian masses.

But it's very, very easy for that agitprop to become counterrevolutionary, both for actual people and for fictional entities, especially when such proletariat heroes shift from examples of what the masses can do to being seen as superior to them instead, like the decay of Superman from a working class hero to a Nolanesque Randian Ubermensch jackoff.

Alaskaball

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The masses can have a little jojos as a treat kitty-cri

UlyssesT

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I am a JoJo enjoyer, but that dynasty itself (and its affluent origins) is kind of sus, says Comrade Amogus. sus-soviet

Alaskaball

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stop-posting-amogus Let a hundred new Jojo families blossom!

UlyssesT

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From each according to their stands, to each according to their life energy. menacing

EelBolshevikism

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heroism SHOULD be seen as directly correlated with one's solidarity and self-conception as a member of the proletariat

UlyssesT

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Yes, agreed! And as soon as someone ceases to do that (or in fiction, if they cease to be portrayed that way) it all goes to Great Person Theory shit. Again. kiryu-slam

EelBolshevikism

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Ironically, the more people in actual history seem to consider themselves part of that history rather than exempt from it, the more those people tend to be the ones that are the most influential for wide spread social changes. So-called great men wouldn't be great if they thought of themselves as great men... Because you need to understand you just didn't fall from a coconut tree kamala-coconut-tree if you are going to make change.

You can do as much evil as you want and think of yourself as special though, that seems very doable

GarbageShoot

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Did you not read the article? The scene that Mao was reacting to was one where Lee's character 'kicked and smashed a wooden panel bearing the words: "Chinese and dogs not allowed".' It was a scene of fighting very explicitly not just for yourself or as yourself but fighting for and as the oppressed.

UlyssesT

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I went off into the weeds there when I should have first established that I was wholeheartedly sympathetic of that particular contextual moment of Mao loving that moment and wanting to see it again and again. Sorry.

Nakoichi

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mao-clap This is why I love you lol

MayoPete

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I cried during Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol 3

BobDole

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denji-just-like-me

UlyssesT

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THIS IS MY HOLE! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!

Findom_DeLuise

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While watching Army of Darkness for the first time, Maduro dissolved in tears, Villegas recalled, and said "Bruce Campbell is a hero!" Maduro watched the film twice more. Villegas said he did not know of any other movie that Maduro viewed three times.

maduro-coffee

johnrobbespiere

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Random fun fact Mao's favourite song was either Aawara Hoon (I am a vagabond) or Mera Joota Hai Japani (My shoe is Japanese), both from films made by legendary Indian actor/director Raj Kapoor. Listen to either of these songs on a streaming platform, they are honestly amazing, and try the translated lyrics, you'll see why he liked them

pinguinu

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this is a bit btw

WeedReference420

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I had the same reaction to Equilibrium (2002)

FlakesBongler

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The revolution will have our own Grammaton clerics

Except ours will use hammers and sickles and the muzzle flash will be a big star instead of a cross

WeedReference420

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Hell yeah

CascadeOfLight

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"Through analysis of thousands of recorded transactions, the Marxist has determined that the geometric distribution of linen in any economic system is a dialectically predictable element"

grandepequeno

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Mao would've loved REDLINE

EelBolshevikism

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actually, nerd genuinely being moved by a silly movie is less treatbrained than doing it as a consumption ritual.

UlyssesT

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eric-andre

"I watched that movie ironically because it was a popcorn movie. Heh, nothing matters and nothing ever emotionally affects me." smuglord

"I cried when Atreyu's horse sank in the Swamp of Sadness." soviet-chad

buh

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me watching Tyler Durden get beat up by an italian mob character while doing a joker laugh Brad Pitt is a hero 🥺

MaoTheLawn

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_Dialectics_Break_Bricks%3F

The Fr*nch dubbed Maoist theory over a Kung Fu movie:

"The film utilizes footage from the 1972 martial arts film Crush by Tu Guangqi, which tells the story of anti-colonialist revolt in occupied Korea, which was dubbed over by the filmmakers in an example of détournement. Viénet's intention was to adapt a "spectacular" film typical of the film industry to the purposes of a radical critique of cultural hegemony and thus an expression of subversive revolutionary ideals.

The narrative focuses on a conflict between proletarians and bureaucrats within state capitalism. The proletarians enlist their grasp of dialectics in the fight against their oppressors, while the bureaucrats defend themselves using a combination of co-optation....."

SSJMarx

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I'm assuming without checking that that's the one where Lee plays a Chinese man who fights back against Japanese occupiers in the runup to WW2, not surprising it would really speak to Mao.