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Monkey Magic (Journey to the West) - BeTheGoddess - 02-26-2024
In high school we were to bring a story from our childhood for some English assignment. A Malaysian girl in my class brought in the story of The Monkey King...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_King
Little did she know that all us Aussie kids grew up watching Monkey Magic, a dubbed Japanese version of Journey to the West, she was kinda annoyed at us knowing what happenes next. But here for your cheesy viewing, behold the Monkey King. Its good silly fun.
https://archive.org/details/monkeymagic1
RE: Monkey Magic (Journey to the West) - quintessentone - 02-26-2024
What an interesting historical and art history tidbit, one of my interests in life is art history. Also live stage.
The art history part:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_in_Chinese_culture
Fantastic images at this link:
https://gwongzaukungfu.com/en/the-origins-of-sun-wukong/
RE: Monkey Magic (Journey to the West) - Byrd - 02-26-2024
Have you read the Bridge of Birds series of novels? Excellent books, and Number Ten Ox is a favorite character of mine.
RE: Monkey Magic (Journey to the West) - BeTheGoddess - 02-26-2024
(02-26-2024, 09:14 AM)quintessentone Wrote: What an interesting historical and art history tidbit, one of my interests in life is art history. Also live stage.
[Video: https://youtu.be/6oEt6M1kulM?si=ntECYvmpUbkbuq1E]
The art history part:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_in_Chinese_culture
Fantastic images at this link:
https://gwongzaukungfu.com/en/the-origins-of-sun-wukong/
That was kinda her perspective, her history was "entertainment" for us and she knew we didnt get most of the philosophy.
I chose to share it here cos I shared it on my FB and thought here some of you will know the sotroy if not from this series.
(02-26-2024, 10:43 AM)Byrd Wrote: Have you read the Bridge of Birds series of novels? Excellent books, and Number Ten Ox is a favorite character of mine.
I have not, but I'll look it up, I have plenty of reading time. Thanks for the recommendation.
RE: Monkey Magic (Journey to the West) - sprocketuk - 02-26-2024
I think part of Monkey's appeal is that he can be selfish, capricious just down right naughty like the rest of us :)
RE: Monkey Magic (Journey to the West) - BeTheGoddess - 02-26-2024
(02-26-2024, 11:13 AM)sprocketuk Wrote: I think part of Monkey's appeal is that he can be selfish, capricious just down right naughty like the rest of us :)
The rest of us dont have a magic cloud or the staff. but we all have goals, Pigsy was the hedonist many of people are in this modern world.
RE: Monkey Magic (Journey to the West) - sprocketuk - 02-26-2024
Haha yeah.
RE: Monkey Magic (Journey to the West) - Kurokage - 02-27-2024
Best thing on TV growing up was Monkey!!
RE: Monkey Magic (Journey to the West) - BeTheGoddess - 02-28-2024
(02-27-2024, 11:05 AM)Kurokage Wrote: Best thing on TV growing up was Monkey!!
[Video: https://youtu.be/88y4ttqaW6U?si=hFgxl_qkLS79PFMI]
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