"The Joy Luck Club"

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This paper reviews the movie adaptation of Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club", produced by Oliver Stone and looks at how it is a almost similar version of the novel, wherein numerous themes are interweaved into the scenes in the movie version. It examines how these themes include conflict between mother-daughter relationships as a result of cultural orientation differences and the theme of the eternal pursuit for luck and happiness among the characters in the novel. In particular, it analyzes the use of the themes of luck and happiness in the movie by focusing on two different scenes.

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"The second scene that is significant to the concept of luck and happiness in he movie was An-Mei Hsu's experience as a daughter of a wealthy Chinese man's concubine. Her mother, as the movie narrated, was raped by a married Chinese man, and made her a concubine ever since An-Mei's mother was banished by her own family. The death of An-Mei's grandmother reunited her once again with her mother, and they lived together in the wealthy Chinese man's house, Wu Ching. Living with her mother, An-Mei described her life to be happy and lucky, stating that she thought she "had become so happy, so important.' Upon Wu Ching and his wives' arrival from a vacation, An-Mei realizes that her and her mother's luck is temporary, since she discovers the lowly status of her mother in Wu Ching's family, further worsened by the fact that Wu Ching's second wife's son is actually her (An-Mei) mother's son."

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