On this day in 1894, the anti-colonial Donghak Peasant Rebellion began with the "Gobu Uprising", where 1,000 peasants stormed the county of Gobu, freeing prisoners, occupying government buildings, and causing the county ruler to flee.
The Donghak Peasant Rebellion was an uprising that took place in late Joseon-era Korea during the 1890s. "Donghak" refers to a religious movement, founded in 1860, which preached for social equality and the uplifting of the peasantry. Choe Jeu was executed by the state in 1864.
Amidst a backdrop of growing foreign influence in Korea (which would eventually lead to colonization by Japan), Donghak peasants rebelled against oppression by feudal rulers. The uprising began in the county of Gobu in Jeolla province, where the magistrate had extorted vast amounts of wealth and forced the peasants to build a reservoir.
On January 10th, 1894, approximately 1,000 peasant rebels gathered at an empty horse ranch, from which they split off into two separate armies where they successfully destroyed three of Gobu's four gates, occupied government offices, and set about destroying prisons and freeing the people held in them.
As rebels successfully defeated government forces, unrest would spread across the country, and the panicked Joseon dynasty called for Chinese Qing dynasty for support. Doing this, however, aggrieved the Japanese government, which was competing with China for influence over Korea.
Japan invaded Korea, occupying Seoul, triggering the First Sino-Japanese War. Following a temporary truce, the peasant rebellion would resume in October, this time directed towards the Japanese occupation.
The Japanese proved successful in defeating the uprising, however, continuing to quell rebels through 1895. Korea would become increasingly absorbed into Japan's sphere of influence before official annexation in 1910.
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I was excited for del Toro's Frankenstein but I'm really irritated at the casting of Jacob Elordi as the creature. he's probably a good enough actor but lord knows he was cast just because he's the current hotshot of the month. they're literally casting movies based on who has the biggest instagram following and it makes me sick. the creature is a total outsider, shunned by society due to his grotesque physical appearance... are those feelings of rejection and alienation something that Jacob Fucking Elordi will be able to tap into?
and Oscar Isaac is playing Victor Frankenstein, which makes a little more sense but it still feels like the same type of starfucker casting. god forbid we get someone new in there, Hollywood is such an incestuous little cult
why do we need big names to sell this movie anyway? is fucking Frankenstein not a big enough name already??
Jacob Elordi is like Timothee Chalamet in that I'd never heard of him until annoying people started thirsting over him incessantly and now he's everywhere
He's got the right face shape but I've never heard of him or seen him act.
I will stan Chalamet to the end of days solely because there's a rumor he started a one-man chlamydia outbreak in college and I simply must applaud sluttiness of that level (but also ffs get tested!)
I think taking a conventionally attractive person and making them uncanny via makeup and/or prosthetics would be an interesting way to play on the notion of the creature being almost beautiful, but undone by his abominable nature and damned to be grotesque
Word. this is something del Toro would understand. Dude gets monsters, and The Monster/Adam is supposed to be a tragic, byronic hero rather than a horror movie monster. He's extremely smart, extremely physically capable, basically a prototype ubermensch.
There's a good chance that instagram presence is just as much an act as his movie acting, and god knows social media can be intensely alienating.
Oscar Isaac is a weird choice agewise. I don't remember how much time passes in the book but Frankenstein is a young man when he creates the creature.
I think this here is a part of it, Frankenstein is well-tread territory. You have to do something to set yourself apart from the 50+ other film adaptations of the book, and spark renewed interest in a story we've heard many times before. A relatively low-stakes way to do this is to pull actors that people are already talking about.