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My undiscovered Amy Tan film

Posted by Thomas Crampton, September 9, 2008 4:45 PM

Blogger Thomas Crampton posts some of his so-called "work" on Danwei from time-to-time.

Bestselling author Amy Tan this weekend premieres her first opera, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, so I have decided to open the greater public to one of her lesser-known earlier cinematic works (and my film directing debut). Some images were used in her excellent TED talk on Creativity. Enjoy!

Wait! is that Hollywood calling?

 

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Hey the music is distracting but could you credit/acknowledge the pieces?

Posted by: lee | September 9, 2008 6:50 PM

am i the only one who thinks that Amy Tan is kind of sexy now that she's older?

Posted by: slowboat | September 10, 2008 5:21 PM

Slowboat: yes, you are the only one

Posted by: weirenminfubu | September 10, 2008 5:47 PM

This is remarkable...Tom, u r a genius. I love it.

AjS

Posted by: Adam J. Schokora | September 10, 2008 6:48 PM

People trying to hard to be clever and 'hip!'

Posted by: Magic Dragon | September 11, 2008 10:41 AM

@ Magic Dragon, I dont think anyone is trying very hard to do anything in this video other than to have fun, and thats great.

Posted by: Adam J. Schokora | September 12, 2008 11:14 AM

Amy Tan is rightly reviled by Chinese-americans and chinese alike for selling out some weird, chinky image of Chinese culture to push her derivative pulp fiction.

Posted by: tom | September 14, 2008 11:41 PM

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