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Some people may think that Zhu Fugui's "Miss San Diego" is too rushed, but in fact, compared with the real "Miss Saigon", it is not rushed at all, and it can even be said to be too bland.
After all, as a descendant of China who has bathed in the light of civilization for 5,000 years, it is difficult for Zhu Fugui to break the psychological shackles and write a work that is completely and without three views.
The later "Miss Saigon" was written by a French writer and first released in the United Kingdom, depicting the hunting of American GIs in East Asia, which eventually swept the entire Western world and became one of the four major musicals.
As a musical and dance drama, "Miss Saigon" opens with a bunch of scantily clad East Asian women and a group of American GIs, all kinds of head-scratching and self-dwarfing performances.
Visually striking.
The heroine of the whole play, Kim, is a Saigon girl whose parents both died in the massacre of Americans.
She has a cousin, Sui, who is also a childhood sweetheart who grew up together, and is also the fiancé assigned to her by her dead father.
In order to resist the "oppression of patriarchy in East Asia", the heroine Kim flees her hometown, but is tricked into working as a prostitute in a nightclub.
Another important supporting character is a French-Vietnamese pimp who does the most vile and dirty things, but haunts the whole play, promoting the so-called American dream.
Kim first sells himself to meet the male protagonist Chris, a white dick who has no merits except for a white skin.
But the heroine, who looks down on her cousin in various ways, is madly in love with this man.
From body to soul, she was hopelessly fallen.
At the same time, he left his dilapidated hometown and went north to join the Viet Cong guerrillas, where he defeated the American invaders again and again on the battlefield.
Step by step, the Viet Cong forces approached Saigon.
At this time, the young cadre, who had grown into a guerrilla force, feared for the safety of his fiancée, and secretly infiltrated Saigon despite the danger, wanting to take her away before the siege began.
What he saw, however, was that Kim and the other Vietnamese girls had elaborately arranged Kim and Chris's wedding.
When he learned that his fiancée, whom he missed day and night, was going to marry an American, he was furious.
Although Chris was beaten by the Orientals on the battlefield, he proudly announced at this time: "This girl is mine".
In despair, his fiancée stood by the side of the American, and all the Vietnamese girls present supported them.
Oriental men are not worthy of Oriental women, even if they can be invincible on the battlefield.
Although the white people killed my father and ravaged my hometown, they gave me love!
For this unreasonable situation, he scolded him, saying that the lives of all Americans and prostitutes would not last long, and that their fate could only be to flee and die.
But Kim said it was a choice he made to honor his heart.
Looking at his fiancée who couldn't change his mind, he had no choice but to leave.
Driving away the flies, Chris hugs Kim and dances to a nightclub vulgar song, "The Last Night in the World."
It was indeed their last night.
After that night of erosion, Chris boarded a helicopter back to the United States.
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Three years have passed.
Saigon has been renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
Crowds took to the streets to celebrate the third anniversary of the defeat of the United States, the Morning of the Dragon.
At this time, the year was already one of the main officials of the Ho Chi Minh City Government.
It took a lot of manpower to finally find the French-Vietnamese pimp from the labor camp.
And through him, he found his longing fiancée.
Kim was not taken back to the Western world by the American GI, but remained in the slums of Vietnam, raising his son alone.
Sui tells the heroine Kim that he misses her day and night, and has been looking for her for three years, hoping to take her home to be his wife.
Even, when he learned that Jin had a child, he also made it clear that he could let the child follow him and declare that it was his own child.
But Kim refused, saying that she had always loved Chris.
She also promised her child that he would live a civilized life as a Westerner and realize the American dream.
Kim insists on keeping her promise to her children and sticking to her promise of love with Chris.
This attitude infuriates Sui, who scolds Kim for being a traitor and that this half-breed bastard is an enemy of the state and wants to put him to death.
With a gunshot, Kim used the pistol left by Chris to kill the man who had lost his mind, or had been dazed by love before, and only then regained his senses.
Amid the lively march outside, Kim and his son began to flee.
This scene in the opera is titled "YouWillNotTouchHim."
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Eventually, Kim and his son made their way to Bangkok with the help of a pimp.
Of course, the reason why the pimp will help them is for a visa to the United States.
There, the pimp went about his job, and Kim became the lowliest speakeasy dancer.
There, they finally reached Chris through an international organization that specializes in helping Southeast Asian women find their children's American fathers.
But Chris already has a wife, Alan.
He couldn't want his wife to know all this.
But in the end, Alan met Kim in Bangkok first.
Wearing the wedding dress she wore that day to Chris, Kim confronts Alan in the tavern.
Somewhat ironically, Kim's wedding dress is called "Sun and Moon......
In short, the two women had a heated argument.
Only then did Kim realize that Chris had betrayed him a long time ago, and that it was impossible for her and her children to travel to the United States.
Alan promised to send a sum of money every year to improve the lives of Kim and her son, but she could never come and ruin her marriage.
Eventually, in the room, Kim said to his son, "Be happy, you've got a dad." And let him not forget himself.
Kim then walked behind the curtain and shot himself, ending his own life.
That's when Chris rushes in, hugging Kim and begging her not to die.
Kim just wants Chris to hug himself again.
It's really "touching"!
As he was dying, King said that it must be God's father who guided the child to appear, and then repeated the love words when the two of them met in a nightclub, and then died.
Then Alan knelt down, opened his arms, and welcomed Kim's child.
The end of the play.
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Needless to say, Zhu Fugui's script is far from this "Miss Saigon" in terms of appeal.
On the one hand, this is because his pen power cannot be compared with that of professional writers, and on the other hand, Zhu Fugui cannot be as shameless as the West.
Because if you depict the Ming soldiers playing wantonly outside the country, it can even be said that they ravaged local women, if nothing else, even the moral concepts within the Ming Dynasty can't get by.
This is one of the reasons why Zhu Fugui does not think that it is a panacea, although he studied "Entering the Customs".
Because China has been in China for 5,000 years, the moral shackles left by the Celestial Empire are deeply engraved in our bone marrow.
It is simple to verbally compare oneself to a barbarian.
However, in terms of concept and morality, in terms of the logic of action, it is really difficult to do barbarian things and adopt barbarian strategies.
The phrase "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is a hurdle that cannot be overcome.
In the contest of shameless behavior, China may only be defeated.
Fortunately, in addition to the moral shackles, what Chinese civilization has left to the Ming Dynasty today is the reputation of the past generations and the magnanimity of the mind.
This is also the reason why only the Ming Dynasty can establish a real East Asian co-prosperity sphere.
This is the legacy of the ancestors, and it is also the historical mission that this generation of Ming descendants must complete.
This is a life-and-death war between civilizations.
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