There is a freely available pdf with an english translation:
Download here!
Above is beautiful series of images with what has to be a computer generated voice reading english text. I suggest reading the first part of the pdf text, and then watching this in a full size window with sound turned off.
There are many TV, movie and even manga adaptions and variations of the journey. Below is the first part of a TV series from 1986.
The video quality is quite bad, but if you want a "quick and dirty" update on what we are talking about here, watch this! On YouTube the series continues automatically. Or select "Journey to the West (with English Subtitles) 1-2" and so on when this is finished.
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Hello dear friends!
ReplyDeleteI jst read through your blog! great work, great project and a great way of doing it, I love that others can follow your work, i will definitly copy this method sometime in the future! I do not know this story so I will follow your stopry here and then make sure to see you tell it, in England this summer maybe??
Welcome to the blog Love! :) I'm glad you like the project! I hope to see you again in England too ;) Hopefully we'll have something to present by then!
ReplyDeleteAs for adaptations of our story:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suyf-5RcULo
Japanese animation series called Saiyuki. Puts a weird funky modern spin on the story, but in ints own way its adorable :) Especially after reading the book! Can't be compared to the original, but we enjoyed it a lot :)
Thanks for the Saiyuki link, I have to explore this series! The anime/manga visuals are amazing. It will be fun to continue mapping the adaptions of the story. I read somewhere that there is a 3D animation version scheduled for this summer. Do you think I'm right in thinking that JttW is a literary work using a true historical event and inspired by traditional oral storytelling? Or is there also a folkloristic or mythological oral or theatre tradition with Monkey characters before JttW was written?
ReplyDeleteAnd welcome Love! Someone who is so eminently suited for playing the role of Sun Wukong on stage as you are, simply has to read the story. You spent a week in a cage as a wolverine, which testifies to your shapeshifting abilities, you are a vegetarian like Sun (although he is a bit more liberal, sometimes he allows himself moderate amounts of "vegetarian wine")and you have an energy which is very similar to what I see in the Monkey character.
What do you think, should we design a quiz, "Find out who you are in the Journey to the West"?
Also, Forbidden Kingdom. It was very Hollywood, but it did have the Monkey King in it :)
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