The Making of Your Name Engraved Herein : A Conversation with Patrick Liu
2021; Routledge; Volume: 31; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/09589236.2021.1890004
ISSN1465-3869
Autores Tópico(s)Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
ResumoFor his most recent feature Your Name Engraved Herein (2020 Moon, K. (2020, September 18). The Real Events That Inspired Your Name Engraved Herein, Taiwan’s Highest-Grossing LGBTQ Film of All Time. Time. https://time.com/5922735/your-name-engraved-herein-true-story. [Google Scholar]), Patrick Liu turns to his own biography for inspiration. He recreates the story of his first love and, working with his former schoolmate (and now executive producer) Chu Yu-ning, shows life in a boarding school in Taiwan during the late 1980s. Starring Edward Chen and Tseng Ching-hua, the film takes us to a time when martial law has just been lifted. Chang Jia-han (Chen), nicknamed ‘A-Han’, and Wang Bo-de (Tseng), ‘Birdy,’ find themselves in the repressive environment of a Catholic boarding school, and their romance, however intense, becomes the stuff of missed opportunities. In the following interview, Liu and I explore the film’s autobiographical elements, read the film in the light of Taiwan’s LGBTQ history, and unpack Liu’s project. We begin by looking at the film’s context, before considering how much Taiwan has changed; and we continue by examining how Your Name Engraved Herein variously incorporates and subverts the tropes of American LGBTQ films. This interview contributes to scholarship by celebrating, and by analysing, a film that is important to both Taiwan and Asian LGBTQ cinema.
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