Fu Manchu
The doctor Fu Manchu is a Personnage of fiction put in scene by Sax Rohmer in a series of Romance. It is about a Génie of the evil of origin Asiatique, and contributed much to this literary stereotype.
Fu Manchu was put in scene in many films and Serial S starting from the Années 1930. Among those, one can quote The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929) and The Return off Dr. Fu Manchu (1930). The Mask off Fu Manchu (1932) with Boris Karloff is regarded as best film of the Entre-deux-guerres based on the Master of the crime. In the Years 1960, a new series of films, with Christopher Lee, was devoted to him: The Face off Fu Manchu (1965), 13 been engaged of Fu Manchu (1966), The Revenge off Fu Manchu (1967) and The Blood off Fu Manchu (1968). The last major appearance of the character took place in The Fiendish Plot off Dr. Fu Manchu (1980).
The novels of Sax Rhomer explicitly did not specify the ethnic origins of Fu Manchu. If the majority of its victims were Chinese and if its Eastern origins were clearly established, of the details in the description of the character - such as his supposed eyes being green - let suppose that the character was not Chinese origin (although there exist ethnicities in China being able to have green eyes). It is only during its first film adaptations that the character became clearly Chinese.
Fu Manchu also appeared in the series of cartoon of Marvel Comics Master off Kung fu and, even if it is not named there (for reasons of royalties), in the League of the extraordinary gentlemen of Alan Moore where it is referred only in " Docteur". He is also parodied in Raoul Fulgurex of Tronchet and Gelli.
One can as consider as Fu Manchu is the prototype of other characters symbolizing the Yellow peril like Ming in the cartoon Flash Gordon , the enemy Mandarin of Iron Man or Yellow Shade in the novels Bob Morane of Henri Vernes.
Catalog of films
- 1929 : The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
- 1930: The Return off Dr. Fu Manchu
- 1931: Daughter off the Dragon , of Lloyd Corrigan
- 1932: the Mask of gold ( The Mask off Fu Manchu ), of Charles Brabin
- 1940: Drums off Fu Manchu , of John English and William Witney
- 1943: Drums off Fu Manchu: The Feature Version
- 1965: the Mask of Fu-Manchu ( The Face off Fu Manchu ), of Gift Sharp
- 1966: 13 been engaged of Fu Manchu ( The Supports off Fu Manchu ), of Gift Sharp
- 1967: the Revenge on Fu Manchu ( The Revenge off Fu Manchu ), on Jeremy Summers
- 1968: The Blood off Fu Manchu , of Jesús Free
- 1969: The Castle off Fu Manchu , of Jesús Free
- 1980: the diabolic Plot of Doctor Fu Manchu ( The Fiendish Stud off Dr. Fu Manchu ), of Piers Haggard
- 2007: the women wolf garous of the S ( Werewolf women off the S false Bande Announces in Grindhouse ), of Rob Zombie
See too
Related articles
- Fu Man Chu (album), album of Robert Charlebois left in 1972.
External bonds
Laurence Motoret: " Fu Manchu: the sulfur of Orient" , Sigila HTTP: /www.sigila.msh-paris.fr/ n° 13
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