The Joy Luck Club - Research Paper Example

The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is a movie inspired from a book by the same that was published in the 1989. The movie was later directed andreleased in the year 1993. The movie is based on the lives of four Asian women and their respective daughters. However, we should not concentrate on their ethnicity because the stories of their lives can be found in anyone’s life and it talks about human relationships. This report is a brief research on the movie based on four articles published about the same.

The first article has been written by Wanlin Li and he has made a thematic representation of the characters in the movie. According to him, the ‘matrilineal’ connection between the mother and daughter has not only been portrayed through the stories, but the direction of photography and the visuals scenes are very well organized. Each of the stories have been interlinked very beautifully which makes this movie all the more popular among the viewers. The director chose the actors very carefully because they needed to play the roles and get into the shoes of the characters in order to play their part properly (Li).

The second article was published by John Mullan, who described the narration of the movie in a very interesting way and how the mothers played the most important role in the movie. According to Mullan, the story has been divided into two parts. The first and the last parts are essentially the stories of the four mothers and how they met each other frequently over a card game. The second and third parts in the film depict the lives of the daughters and how they describe their ‘silently soup eating father’ who watch the game of their mothers.

Interestingly, the movie has concentrated upon the lives of the women, but no importance has been given to the men of the society (Mullan). The third article was published on a website called Turner Classic Movies (www.tcm.com) where more importance was given in understanding how the movie was prepared with the help of the earlier published book. According to the website, the project was initially rejected, but as the book started becoming popular and was later translated into 23 languages worldwide after being in the NewYork best seller weeks for 75 weeks, there were second thoughts about directing the movie.

After the popularity of the movie, the Oscar winning director, Ronald Bass also helped Wayne Wang (director) and Amy Tan (author) in writing the screenplay of the movie (Passafiume).The last article in this research study is more like a movie review of the movie. The interesting part of this article is the discussion of the Chinese women during the 1930’s. According to this article, the women in China were not valued very highly. The women who had an independent mindset and wanted to share their own values, were not valued very highly compared to that of the obedient ones in the society.

This hard past of their mothers are being effected in the later generations as well (Ebert). Works CitedEbert, Roger. The Joy Luck Club Movie Review (1993) | Roger Ebert. Rogerebert.com. N.p., 1993. Web. 11 Dec. 2014.Li, Wanlin. Adapting The Joy Luck Club: Thematic Emphasis Through Form. 1st ed. 2010. Web. 11 Dec. 2014.Mullan, John. John Mullan On The Joy Luck Club – Guardian Book Club. the Guardian. N.p., 2013. Web. 11 Dec. 2014.Passafiume, Andrea. The Joy Luck Club. Turner Classic Movies. N.p., 2014. Web. 11 Dec. 2014.