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wang baoxiang variant if you squint
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wang baoxiang variant if you squint
Ouyang spent his whole life doing awful things to avenge the death of a father who wasn't dead. Baoxiang did awful things to prove something to Esen's ghost, which turned out not to be there at all. Ouyang is devastated by his father's presence, Baoxiang by his brother's absence.
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Baoxiang: I’m not gay but $20 is $20
Radiant Emperor Characters on the Barbie-Oppenheimer Scale
Zhu: Oppenheimer
Ma: Watched Oppenheimer with Zhu, then went to watch Barbie on her own
Xu Da: Barbie
Yuchun: Barbie
Ouyang: Oppenheimer
Esen: Oppenheimer. Brushed hands with Ouyang by accident in the darkened theatre. Thought nothing of it. Ouyang thought about it for the rest of the movie.
Baoxiang: Gathered his entire household for a public viewing of Barbie, watched Oppenheimer alone in private, then gathered everyone to watch Barbie again just to really drive the point home.
General Zhang: Watched Oppenheimer and then Barbie with Madame Zhang.
Madame Zhang: Watched Oppenheimer and Barbie with General Zhang. Then felt insecure and watched Oppenheimer again, alone.
Rice Bucket Zhang: Oppenheimer
Chen Youliang: Oppenheimer
Lady Ki: Barbie
Third Prince: Wanted to watch Barbie, but watched Oppenheimer with his friends instead.
Baoxiang looked at Ouyang and hated how Ouyang had 'everything', overlooking that Ouyang's mutilation means he's been treated as subhuman. Ouyang meanwhile is jealous of any unmutilated man.
Baoxiang was jealous of Ouyang's performance of masculinity, Ouyang was jealous of Baoxiang's physical masculinity. Each has what the other lacks.
Baoxiang Temple, Shibaoshan, Shaxi Township, Yunnan, China. September 2007.
Baoxiang Temple, Shibaoshan, Shaxi Township, Yunnan, China. September 2007.