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Fubixing
editDavid Stratton speaks with Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien about his film, Flight of the Red Balloon.
"I felt it's something to do with Eastern and Western ways of expressing ideas. In Western novels and drama the storytelling is very strong. This is a long standing tradition. Chinese novels and drama are different. They use a style called "Fubixing", part of which is similar to poetry. They don't purely tell the story, they express the feeling at the same time. The way of expressing is very different from the West. For example, to tell a story you must have a structure of A, B, C. However, in the Chinese way, like poetry, you can leave the B out. It is very difficult to explain the concept well, but I feel they are very different. Just like in symphonic music, the fugue is different from harmonic music. Fugue has different melodies at the same time, it can have 2 or 3. Harmonic music has a main melody, everything goes with this main melody. The fugue is similar to an Eastern way of expression which puts seemingly irrelevant lines together, to mix storytelling, feeling and expression."
From At the Movies, broadcast Wednesday, 4 June 2008. [1]
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