The Passion of the Mao

[DocBenway]

I have seen this film advertised, and watched the trailer...

http://www.thepassionofthemao.com/movie%20page%201.html

...and it looks interesting. There is a serious derth of documentaries about socialist and communist and anarchist issues, and this one looks like it might be thought provoking, but...

ITS SELLING FOR $400!!!

Come on! We are the working class, with only our labor to sell, I can't afford that s***! I know that's for an "educational" copy but I'm not a teacher, I'm a working class guy who wants to check this film out.

Anyone know where a copy of this may be obtained at a reasonable price, or when it may become available?

[The Grey Blur]

Teacher are working class

I think it's 400 dollars for a set, not for the one film

[DocBenway]

Originally posted by Permanent [email protected] 06, 2006 06:04 pm
Teacher are working class

I think it's 400 dollars for a set, not for the one film
Let me spell this out for you genius, cause I know my post was confusing and all, with all the layers of subtext and obscure references...

I AM WORKING CLASS. Therefore I am poor, therfore I cannot afford $400 for a DVD.

Teachers (who every damn fool knows are working class) get reimbursed by their schools when buying educational materials to show.

Therefore, I am not a teacher (no reimbursment) and I am the working poor, which means...

I can't afford it!

Ya get it now?

Lets move on to the next part...

It is $400 for the documentary. Thats is too expensive...I don't care what's included in the set, they could include 10 documentaries in the set but...

that's right...

its too expensive for me.

So now, lets return to my initial question...

does anyone know where a cheap(er) copy of the documentary The Passion of the Mao may be obtained?

[Red October]

have you tried limewire?

[The Grey Blur]

Originally posted by DocBenway+November 07, 2006 02:47 pm--> (DocBenway @ November 07, 2006 02:47 pm)
Permanent [email protected] 06, 2006 06:04 pm
Teacher are working class

I think it's 400 dollars for a set, not for the one film
Let me spell this out for you genius, cause I know my post was confusing and all, with all the layers of subtext and obscure references...

I AM WORKING CLASS. Therefore I am poor, therfore I cannot afford $400 for a DVD.

Teachers (who every damn fool knows are working class) get reimbursed by their schools when buying educational materials to show.

Therefore, I am not a teacher (no reimbursment) and I am the working poor, which means...

I can't afford it!

Ya get it now?

Lets move on to the next part...

It is $400 for the documentary. Thats is too expensive...I don't care what's included in the set, they could include 10 documentaries in the set but...

that's right...

its too expensive for me.

So now, lets return to my initial question...

does anyone know where a cheap(er) copy of the documentary The Passion of the Mao may be obtained? [/b]
:lol:

I'll buy your Mao movie for Xmas honey, don't cry

[DocBenway]

Originally posted by Permanent Revolution+November 07, 2006 04:53 pm--> (Permanent Revolution @ November 07, 2006 04:53 pm)
Originally posted by [email protected] 07, 2006 02:47 pm

Permanent [email protected] 06, 2006 06:04 pm
Teacher are working class

I think it's 400 dollars for a set, not for the one film
Let me spell this out for you genius, cause I know my post was confusing and all, with all the layers of subtext and obscure references...

I AM WORKING CLASS. Therefore I am poor, therfore I cannot afford $400 for a DVD.

Teachers (who every damn fool knows are working class) get reimbursed by their schools when buying educational materials to show.

Therefore, I am not a teacher (no reimbursment) and I am the working poor, which means...

I can't afford it!

Ya get it now?

Lets move on to the next part...

It is $400 for the documentary. Thats is too expensive...I don't care what's included in the set, they could include 10 documentaries in the set but...

that's right...

its too expensive for me.

So now, lets return to my initial question...

does anyone know where a cheap(er) copy of the documentary The Passion of the Mao may be obtained?
:lol:

I'll buy your Mao movie for Xmas honey, don't cry [/b]
If you did I'd love you forever... :wub:

OK, I was titchy...I can be a real ***** sometimes. I apologize.

(See, kiddies, real men CAN say they're sorry).

[Janus]

^Please don't spam.


Anyone know where a copy of this may be obtained at a reasonable price, or when it may become available?
BitTorrent maybe?

[bezdomni]

What is the rationale behind selling a documentary for $400. It seems like they don't have a huge demograph - ie, people who are willing and able to spend $400 on a documentary.

[ahab]

Originally posted by DocBenway+November 07, 2006 02:47 pm--> (DocBenway @ November 07, 2006 02:47 pm)
Permanent [email protected] 06, 2006 06:04 pm
Teacher are working class

I think it's 400 dollars for a set, not for the one film
Let me spell this out for you genius, cause I know my post was confusing and all, with all the layers of subtext and obscure references...

I AM WORKING CLASS. Therefore I am poor, therfore I cannot afford $400 for a DVD.

Teachers (who every damn fool knows are working class) get reimbursed by their schools when buying educational materials to show.

Therefore, I am not a teacher (no reimbursment) and I am the working poor, which means...

I can't afford it!

Ya get it now?

Lets move on to the next part...

It is $400 for the documentary. Thats is too expensive...I don't care what's included in the set, they could include 10 documentaries in the set but...

that's right...

its too expensive for me.

So now, lets return to my initial question...

does anyone know where a cheap(er) copy of the documentary The Passion of the Mao may be obtained? [/b]
maybe if you go to a rich school, most teachers pay for things right out of their pockets especially if its not covered in the district syllabus in which case all supplies would already be available. You cant divide the working class like that, teachers are just as much working class as you are :)

Back to the subject at hand, this film looks lame, like the cartoon version of the october revolution. Why not just make a documentary that doesnt mock other things and keeps to the facts?

[bezdomni]

Yeah, this movie looks pretty crappy.

It seems like bourgeois anti-communist propaganda.

I blame NWOG.

[DocBenway]

Originally posted by [email protected] 10, 2006 02:48 am
Yeah, this movie looks pretty crappy.

It seems like bourgeois anti-communist propaganda.

I blame NWOG.
Ummm....its not anti-communist propaganda.

The film maker (from what I've read on the internet) is extolling the great acheivements of the Chinese Communist Revolution, while at the same time trying to demystify Mao and show his human side.

Did you not see the section in the preview where the women talks about how sexism had been for the most part eliminated? How middle school enrollment had skyrocketed? How the economy boomed? How lifespans practically doubled?

You guys have some weird ideas about what constitutes "anti" propaganda since it seems pretty positive to me.

Oh, Mao was a man...is thats whats bothering you all? Well he was, get over it.

[bezdomni]

I didn't read over the details, but it said it was an "unapologetic documentary about Mao" or something.

I assumed it was an unapologetic criticism, which is usually loaded with bourgeois nonsense.

Why would I be bothered by the fact that Mao was a human being?

Furthermore, why would Maoists make a movie that costs $400?

[bloody_capitalist_sham]

Furthermore, why would Maoists make a movie that costs $400?

the same reason trotskyists sell 8 page newspapers for a quid?

The film looks interesting though, i like stuff like this.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

I blame NWOG

:lol: LOL

[bezdomni]

Furthermore, why would Maoists make a movie that costs $400?

the same reason trotskyists sell 8 page newspapers for a quid?


I'd say there's a bit of a difference. A quid for a poorly written newspaper for your splinter group with 7 people in it is unreasonable and you'll probably not have anybody buying it....

but $400 dollars for a movie? Even petit-bourgeois pseudrevolutionaries will not buy that!

Anyway, it seems to be made for schoolteachers to use in the classroom. I don't know about you, but I have never had a Maoist school teacher with $400 dollars to throw around.

[gilhyle]

In France they got this channel '6' which shows left wing documentaries all the time - saw a good one about the death of Che, one about the anti vietnam war movement, another one about the weathermen.....I only go to France once a year but they seem to show them all the time.