Seven ways to start an online business for 2020. Okay, so you want to start an online business, but you're a little bit nervous. What's the best business for you? Which ones almost guarantee success with a whole lot less effort? Which ones don't require big investments? In this video, I'm going to cover all of those things and we're starting right now. Hey, thanks so much for coming to my channel. Check it out. Lots of videos for you to watch. But do me a favor, subscribe, hit that subscribe button there and all notifications, the bell is meant to be rung. And you need to click it, turn on all notifications, you become part of the Fisher Family, the VIP group that gets notified every single time I do one of these videos. Now, to give you a little bit of background, I started selling online in 2009. I've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products. And this channel here, this channel thing we've got going on is for one purpose. It's to teach you how to start running, grow your online business. So all I do is I share with you the things that I'm doing so that you can use those things and make money for yourself. In this particular video, I want to show you basically how to start a really profitable business in 2020. So let's get started. Oh, I almost forgot, I have a course. Yes, of course I do. I have a $97 course. But guess what? I'm not gonna sell it to you. I want to give it to you. I want to give it to you absolutely free for a limited time. Check down in the description as long as that link works. You got to click it. At some point, I'm not going to be doing it for free, but if you click it and it works, you're good to go. All you have to do is click and learn. $97 course for free, pretty good deal. No credit card required. Check that out. Also, if you've already tried to start a business, you've had some success, you've had some issues, make sure you put those comments below. I'd love to hear about it. Don't forget to give me a thumbs up. Let's get going. Okay, number one, best business to start. What would you think it is?  What? I don't have a clothing business. I can't afford to buy clothing. I don't have any designs. I don't have any of that stuff. Guess what? You don't need to anymore. You can actually design products now, t-shirts, hoodies, cups, mugs, hats for free. You can actually design it for free. Yeah, there's actually sites that you can go to. You can design these things and you can actually print them on t-shirts and sweatshirts and all that and different colors and sizes. And you don't have to invest anything in inventory. Nothing. You can go to Printify. You can go to Printful. And there's a lot more like that, but I'm gonna give you those too, Printify and Printful. And I'll put links below so that you can click and learn. And you can make whatever product you want and put it up for sale. You can put it up for sale on your site. You can put it up for sale on social media. You can put it up for sale on their site. And guess what? Here's the best part. You don't have any inventory. When somebody actually buys the product, you send the order to Printify or Printful, they actually print it up. They box it all up. They put it in the mail, off it goes, and your buyer gets it. And you did nothing. All you did was listed. It's really that simple. Now, if you don't wanna make your own designs, you can hire somebody on Fiverr. You can use Canva for free. You can use Photoshop if you have that. All you can do is come up with a design, upload it to one of these sites. They'll put it on the shirt for you, and boom, you are in business, okay? That's the number one thing to start a clothing line. Number two, start a drop shipping store. Now, I actually have a course on that called Ecom Road. You may wanna check it out. But bottom line is a drop shipping store is where you're gonna list a product on your site. Somebody's gonna come to your site. They're gonna buy it, or you can list it on social media. You can send them an email about the product. Send them to a sales page. Once they buy the product, you're gonna send that order to your drop shipper. Your drop shipper's then gonna send it out to the customer. You're done, okay? You're gonna keep the profit between what you pay your drop shipper and what you sell it to the customer for. So let's say you have a $10 product and you sell it for $25. Your drop shipper sends it out. You pay them $10. You keep $15. You never had to touch the product. Now, this is done through AliExpress or a drop shipper of your choice and usually a Shopify store or your own website. But it's a great business to start. And I gotta tell you, a lot of those ads you see like on Facebook and Twitter and all that, those are all drop shipping items. They're not buying those items. They don't have inventory on those items. They don't keep those items. Those are drop shipped. And you can make money without investing in inventory. Number three, sell art online. What is art? Art could be a picture. Art could be a video. Art could be music. There are so many sites now that charge for pictures and music and videos. And you can actually list them there and get a commission every time somebody buys them. I'll give you an example. The drum broker, which is the largest online drum sampling business in the world. The drum broker, who would have thought, right? There's also fetch app, ship station. If you're an artist, I'm not, but if you're an artist and you're really good at photography, you're really good at shooting them short videos of cities or drone images or whatever you wanna do, you can upload them to these sites and actually earn a commission every time somebody buys them. They drive all the traffic. All you have to do is supply the content, which is pretty easy to do. Number four, become a freelance writer, designer or developer. Now, you can do all kinds of stuff. You can work on websites. You can edit videos. You can build WordPress websites. You can do SEO, you can do SEM, do social media, whatever you're good at, whatever you like doing, go to either Fiverr or Upwork. Fiverr or Upwork. Now, there's a lot more sites. There's Gurru, there's Freelancer.com, but any of these sites, you can actually set up a profile. And once you set up a profile there, people will look for you and hire you for jobs. Now, if you wanna be proactive, which I recommend, I always recommend being proactive, look at some of the jobs being offered, go to some of those jobs in the beginning before anybody contacts you, because you have no testimonials, you have no samples yet, and tell them that you will do their job at a discount because you wanna get some testimonials. So maybe there's a $100 job there, and you say, hey, that job that you're willing to pay $100 for, I'll do it for 50 if you promise to give me a testimonial. Don't tell them if they promise to give you a good testimonial, because I can't do that if you don't do good work. But if you do good work, you're gonna get a good testimonial, especially for somebody that you gave a 50% discount to. Now, some of you will say, well, I don't wanna work for free, I don't wanna do that, I'll just wait. Well, your waiting could cost you a lot of money, because if you do a little free work up front and you get some testimonials, you could immediately start getting jobs. So I highly recommend you do it with my method. Number five, teach an online course. I already do this, okay? I have courses. I have courses on Shopify, I have courses on Facebook ads, I have courses on drop shipping, I have all kinds of different courses, and these courses generate money for me day in and day out. Why not let that work for you too? If you have any skills, maybe it's sales, maybe it's photography, maybe it's editing, maybe it's website design, do a course, put that course online and charge for it. Now, there's plenty of places you could put a course, you could put it on Udemy. But I like actually putting it on my own site and driving traffic to it, that way I have control over it. So all my courses are built in Cartrip, you don't know what Cartrip is. It's a great software program. It will help you do courses, it will help you do emails, it will help you do sales pages and sales funnels. And I'm gonna put a link below. You can actually watch a video on Cartrip and what it does. And if you like it, which I don't know why you wouldn't, if you like it, you can click the link and you can actually get a trial for only $1.00. So check that out. Online courses is a multi-billion dollar business. You might as well take advantage of that. I know I have it, I'm very happy that I have it this morning. Number six is Flip Thrift Store Fines. What do I mean by that? These thrift stores, you can buy some stuff. Cheap guys. Matter of fact, I know Gary Vee actually went around to garage sales one weekend. He's a multi-millionaire and he was trying to say, hey, all you gotta do is go buy some stuff and put it up on eBay and sell it. It's really that easy. And he actually went around to garage sales and did that. I think that's a great video. I'll try to put a link to his video on doing that. But bottom line is, you can go out on the weekends and pick up $100, $200, $300 of the stuff, put it on eBay and turn it into $500 or $1,000. If you're making 500 bucks a weekend or $1,000 a weekend, that's a good supplemental income for most people. Number seven, publish your own book. Now I used to think writing a book, oh my God, that's so much work. That's gonna be so difficult. Well, here's the truth about publishing a book. The shorter it is, the better it is. Hmm, yeah. It takes the heat out of writing a 300-page book. You know what? I've got a book that's 40 pages and 60 pages. And that sells really well because it's an e-book too. Wow. Then I can actually email the book to people. I've sold thousands of these books and I also have published books too and regular softback books. But I tell you, these e-books are great because people don't wanna read a 120-page book. I have a book called The Great American Food Shortage that predicted that a pandemic could come and we could have a food shortage. Hey, what do you know about that? I'll put a link down there. Yeah, they thought I was crazy about that book, but guess what? We live through it or we're living through it. It's not over with yet. Oh my God. By the time you watch this, I hope it's over with. I hope we were okay. I think we will be. Bottom line is publish a book about any subject, about dog training, about artwork, about DIY. It doesn't matter. There's probably an audience for it. Search online now if you find other books that are on that subject. Buy one or two of those books. See what they wrote about. Write the same kind of stuff. Don't copy it. Write the same kind of stuff. If it's already working for somebody else, it'll probably work for you. All in all guys, those are some of the top ways that you can make money online nowadays. It really is amazing. You know, I think so many people in today's society are really missing the boat. They know that people are making money online, but they haven't investigated it. And that's fine with me because then I make more money. But bottom line is you can too. If you take any one of these suggestions and you apply it, you can make money today. You don't have to go to that job tomorrow. You don't. You just don't, okay? Well, maybe tomorrow you do. But you've got to get started on this first. But once you get started on this, guys, I'm telling you if you apply this, I mean, your whole life could be different. And I want to tell you because of the pandemic, more people want to buy online than ever before. So whatever audience you had pre COVID-19, you have a bigger audience now. You have more people wanting what you've got. I don't care if it's a physical product. I don't care if it's a digital download. I don't care what it is. There's a bigger audience out there.  Who knows how long it'll be here. It's here now. Do it, make money and earn. Quit the job, quit the job, quit the job, okay? Whole lot easier to do this. It's hard work. I'm not gonna tell you it's not hard work, but I'll tell you, it's a whole lot more rewarding. In addition to that, don't forget, I have a $97 course. It is free. Go down in the description, click on the link. As long as it still works, you may want to check it. It's still free. I'm gonna have it free for a limited amount of time. So make sure you click it, get in on that. You don't have to have a credit card or anything like that. 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Also, talking police matters, the police have confirmed that there's four deaths and they're torching of 50 houses in an attack on Cebu in Miango, Basa, local government area of Plateau State. The police say it is the result of renewed clashes between Fulhanese and Ileaguay youths. The recent attack lasted for hours and had to do with the land dispute, according to the police. Now, Plateau State lies in Nigeria's north-central region where raids and locals have become common in the past decade.


Today, welcome to Bootlossophy. And if you haven't been to my channel before, my name is Tech. Now today I'm coming to you from the great southern region of Western Australia, which is known for its logging industry in Australian hardwoods like Jarrah and Marrah and Kerry timbers. And I want to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the peoples whose land, this is their traditional lands of, and that's the Biberman Wadandi people of the Greater Nungar Nation. Now today though, I'm going to be taking a look at these boots coming to you from Bandung in Indonesia, the Fortis Dakar Service Boot. So I'm going to do a short video on the long-term wear of these boots. This is the Dakar Service Boot from the Bandung Bootmaker Fortis Boots Indonesia. I've already done an in-depth review of their construction and I've included notes on what outfits they'd go with as well as giving you my opinion of their fit and sizing. In today's shorter video, I'm going to look at how they've stood up in the last 12 months and how I found their comfort and everyday fit, especially during a longish hike that I've had while on vacation here. So if you did want to look at my original in-depth review, you can check it out up there. Before I start though, for those of you who don't know or who won't bother to take a look at the original video, I'll just quickly tell you about the Bootmaker. Fortis Boots is owned by Sani Ramdani and is based in Bandung Indonesia, which is the quality heritage bootmaking capital of Indonesia and indeed Southeast Asia. Unless you've been living in a desert, you'll have heard about the increasingly numerous good quality bootmakers based in Bandung. Sani started Fortis in 2020 and of course, yeah, was immediately hampered by the Covid epidemic. However, by the time I met him in 2022, he had a few basic styles on his books already. I liked his version of the Boondocker style service boot, particularly in this rounder-toed Dhaka last. I ordered them in this local crazy horse leather because I wanted to allow bootmakers to keep their supply chains short and local and help their own local economies. But you can get his boots in all kinds of Italian and American leathers as well as local Indonesian and Pakistani tanned leathers. When I met Sani, he only had three people working for him in his small workshop and I like the construction of this Dhaka service boot so much that I actually designed and collaborated with him to bring up my version of an upland hunting boot called the Strider. You can see the review of that up there in the corner up there. Since then, Sani and Fortis have gained a big following on Instagram and has moved to bigger workshops so I'm hoping he continues in his success. By the way, if you're new to the world of Indonesian handmade boots, I mentioned Instagram because that's the way to contact most of these Bandung bootmakers. They rarely have a website and all orders and measurements are sent through Instagram direct message. Anyway to the boot. This is a service boot design and looking at the one piece backstay originally designed like the US Marines World War II Boondocker boot. However, forming it around his roomy Dhaka last and putting it on a Vibram Montaña Commander Lug Soul, it has the look and appearance of a US Pacific Northwest work boot without the high arch. The Dhaka last has a high volume toe box and if you imagine a toe cap put on this is reminiscent of a bulbous toe box iron ranger type boot. I've always said a service boot and a work boot can sometimes be interchangeable and this boot is a perfect blend of the two in its aesthetic. When you order Indonesian boots, they are true MTO so you can order different outsoles and uppers and different construction techniques. I ordered these in felt shorn construction. That's a Dutch invention and translated from the Dutch felt shorn means field shoe. Bradshaw and Lloyd renowned West Sussex supply of high quality Northampton made shoes and boots says that it was developed to enhance waterproofing in country weight or countryside walking boots and shoes. There are a lot of mistaken myths about what is a felt shorn construction shoe and often when I talk about felt shorn boots in my videos at least one person will comment that it's not real felt shorn or that felt shorn is the same as stitched down construction. I do a hell of a lot of research before I record my findings on video so let's put all that to rest. In felt shorn construction the uppers are flared out just like stitched down construction but instead of being stitched down directly to the midsole is stitched through a welt and the midsole. English Northampton bootmaker Joseph Cheney who they know a thing or two about boot construction say that a felt shorn shoe contains all the same components of a good year welted shoe including the welt that goes all the way around the edge of the shoe either 360 degrees all the way around or 270 degrees around the front three quarters. The difference is that in felt shorn the leather uppers are turned out and stitched above a welt rather than being turned underneath and stitched to the inside edge of the welt as in good year welt construction. In fact there's a really informative article in the stitch down blog and I'll put a link to it down below. So this boot has a welt and if you are sunny for a stitch down construction boot it can make you one without a welt. The stitching at the turned out uppers is an extremely fine double stitch one going through the uppers and the midsole the other going all the way through the uppers midsole and the outsole. The stitch density per inch is very even but it isn't as straight as say the viberg double stitch down. By the way the bottoming including the welt stitching in this boot it's all hand stitched. Being welted this boot also has a cork filler in the footbed a steel shank and a leather insole and a leather midsole. Vegetant on top of the midsole is the hard rubber vibramontania outsole a very aggressively lugged commando outsole inside the boot is a leather comfort insole which is lightly foam padded. The whole inside is lined with a soft leather lining. The uppers leather is locally Indonesian tanned crazy horse leather and it's a draw card in my opinion. Crazy horse is a bovine top grain leather that's been lightly buffed like new buck and then applied with a wax finish either in the tanning or immediately after. Sometimes oil is applied so it's basically a waxed or oiled new buck. It is highly durable and used in horse tackle and saddles and can be broken in to be soft and subtle especially as the waxes and oils move around and I can guarantee it's waterproof as I've proved recently. This local product is maybe not as grainy as the crazy horse on my Chippewa service boots but they're pretty good. When I ordered I asked for white stitching at the welt and a single white stitch at the quarters and backstay. I ordered this configuration of smooth grain leather partly gusseted tongue and five eyelets plus three speed hooks. All in all the look of the leather as it wears in patinas the aggressive lugged sole and the rounded toe box make this a very attractive boot in my eyes. Now let's look at how these have worn in the last year. You know of course I haven't worn these every day. Yes I have a crazy number of boots which means I have a crazy rotation now some boots hardly get worn at all and I am beginning to look to move some on to more loving homes. These boots I haven't worn in a while and I forget how good they feel so I pulled them out to go on vacation out here in the great southern region of WA. No I'm not selling these boots. When I first got them I loved them so much I wore them every chance I got but working in a professional office I couldn't even then wear them every day. As I got more and more boots the frequency dialed down a bit so for this video I tottered up roughly how much I've worn them in the last year not including this week and I think I can come up with a rough estimate of about 90 wares mostly in a bunch up front and then maybe once a month or so recently and of course in this week I've worn the hell out of them. I admit maybe not a year's worth of wear but say in average persons oh look I don't know 20 to 25 to 30 weeks of wearing them around say three or four times a week look I think that's probably enough to count for now. So what's the verdict? Firstly the patina on the leather is fantastic purely from the oils and waxes moving around and hardly from really rough wear. I haven't conditioned these yet and they're starting to feel a bit dry especially after I've been wearing them this week down here in the rain wet boggy tracks and muddy trails. I think I might condition them when I get home because they have been through hell. You can see from the patina especially in the shaft area where the folds and creases have developed fortress make the back of the boots in a cup shape at the heel rather than the iron ranger up and down shape and these have developed even more as they broke in in order to cup my heel quite nicely. The leather has softened with wear and feels supple on the feet if a little grubby from my walk this morning. Sizing wise these are an European 42 or a US 9 which is normally a size too big for me but Sani built these to my measurements and he tells me that the numbering system he uses may not be compatible with my other shoes. Length wise they fit perfectly but the Dakar last is quite a high volume last and I find it roomy at the top of the vamp about here in my other fortress boots Sani adjusted the last once he knew my issue with a skinny ankle the toe box is generous I wouldn't say loose it's just not snug but it's quite good for getting grip when you're on rocky ground. Some people like snug boots all the way on their feet I have to say I prefer slightly roomy two toe boxes they feel more comfy for me and the comfort of the last and the bottom all leather construct is really quite good especially in rough terrain when you're hiking this does need a bit of building up I did try inserting a thin leather insole to add bulk and wearing thicker socks really ended that dilemma so with thick socks these are really comfortable they're not soft underfoot mine not like my Strider collab with the Vibram 2021 wage sole and the softer local rough out but as firm work boot types go comfortable for a good day on your feet the thick Vibramontania sole on the veg tan leather sole construction took a while to break in but now they're flexing in all the right places and stiff enough to give really good structure and stability on the trail walking through some wet and rough stuff you really feel secure being really hard rubber walking on wet smooth tiles is less secure and can be slippery so be careful on those there are a couple of quality issues both notice when they came the speed hooks are not put on securely and they do show some looseness at the base one corner of the left boot heel wasn't flush however when I wear these boots I nowadays wear them only on rough ground when I'm hiking and under some tough conditions and neither issues have got any worth and both have stayed secure the heel is well glued and nailed on so don't expect that to shift because of one badly sanded corner if the speed hook pulls anymore I'll get my cobbler to whack them in properly so that's not a problem easy fix the stitching under the outsole has worn a bit but I wear these mainly on soft or rocky or sandy unpaved ground so perhaps they wear less than if I were to wear them on hard grainy concrete all day one thing about the stitching I want to point out it's hard to do a good stitch on aggressive commando soles you really have to be very precise to stitch up and down the lugs instead of quickly across them these are really well stitched and probably that has helped the wear so all in all I believe they've worn really well the construction has been tough and durable as I've proved on four hour walks this week the leather looks better now than when new and perhaps after I condition it I put some before and after shots at the end of the video after the credit so watch out for them the leather has been protective and easy to clean I just wipe them down with a wet towel which I should do now and then with a damp microfiber cloth and then dry them and brush them they haven't shown any scratches or scuffs at all except maybe by the way the waxers move in and out of those high stress areas there's a lot of waxiness showing still in the toe box and in the heel area toe box is a bit damp because I went through water today that's where the leather was tightly lasted and it doesn't stretch with wear the cost of 270 US dollars was a steal for handmade boots of this quality now though they would have gone up in this last year I think from just from the rising cost of materials but even at the mid 300s or even high 300s these would be worth it I think if you ask for say Halloween or Badalassi leather they could cost you maybe the 400s but that's imported leather and in the last year I've seen fortress improve more and more so quality would have gone up as well the downside is maybe the ordering process you have to do it through Instagram and I've dealt with that in my overview of Indonesian boots that you can see up there on the plus side comfortable durable handmade boots that would cost you 500 US and above from US bootmakers with arguably similar quality of construction personally I do like and trust Fortes enough to have done a collaboration with them and depending on when this video gets edited and uploaded I should be announcing a new Chelsea boot collaboration with them as well called the Thorin so all in all go and see their account on Instagram and check how they've developed over the last year in styles and quality it's all laid out in the Instagram account so all that remains is for you to click on the like button oh no that's not all check out the end of the video to see the before and after shots of applying conditioner on these boots I'll be applying big four anyway click on like and subscribe and watch to the end so until next time take care and I'll see you soon


Hello, welcome to St. Laveau's World Cinema. I'm your hostess, Betty St. Laveau. On this show, we look at international movies. I try not to do too many statistics because I think that sometimes people are a little bit intimidated by subtitles at any rate. So what I'd like to do is just give you some basic information and then check out the movies. Today, I am going in a little bit in depth, though, because as I promised in my last episode, we're going to talk about the Nigerian film industry and Hong Kong filmmaking. And not so much Hong Kong filmmaking, but one movie in particular. Okay, so first, let's get my notes together here. You've got everything right. Okay, so, unbeknownst to American public. The Nigerian film industry is the second largest in the world in volume after Bollywood. And I found this out about 10 years ago. I was watching a great documentary on Nigerian filmmaking and I was just so blown away by the fact that they don't have a lot of money to work with, but they produce zillions and zillions a year, like literally. So let's mention, firstly, living in bondage. It was made with $12,000. I believe it was made in 2007. Kenneth Nunbuy shot the movie and it went straight to video in one month. Pardon me, 1992 in Nigeria. It was directed by Chris Opie Rappu. And I believe that this article was written by Jake Bright, June 24th, 2015. So you ought to check out the article. Now, piracy is a problem in Nigeria. And from what I remember, and I wish I'd watched the documentary before doing the show, but we might talk about it a little bit more next week. From what I remember, there were certain civil wars happening in the country. And people didn't want to go out at night and theaters started to become shut down, abandoned. And so people would stay in a lot and watch movies. And I think that that's how the film industry started booming and why video is such a big thing there. It's a $3.3 billion a year industry in Nigeria, which that might look like small potatoes. I mean, that great superhero movie, it pretty much made a billion dollars. But this is an excellent number when it comes to any type of film industry in any country. Now, as I was trying to flesh out exactly how I wanted to talk about the Nigerian film industry, was it going to be history? Was it going to be through cinematography? Or was it going to be through money? I came across a lady named Nadia Denton. She went to Oxford and she's a member of BAFTA. She studied modern history at St. Hilda's College. And she wrote the Nigerian Filmmaker's Guide to Success. It predicts the future of the industry, pardon me, and it looks beyond Hollywood. So this lady, Nadia, is a curator. And she curated the third edition of Beyond Nollywood for the 47th International Film Festival of Rotterdam.  Okay, so from just reading the description of Nadia's book, I was able to call up some names in Nigerian filmmaking. The father of Nollywood is Chris Opirapu, who directed Living in Bondage. The most expensive picture is called Half a Yellow Sun, and that was produced by B. Bended. The veteran Yoruba language filmmaker Tondi Kalani, documentary filmmaker Tom Fio-Fore, cinema favorite Kunli Alphalion, and directors Chiki Chidi, Chikei, and Obie Emlione are written about in this fantastic book, and I can't wait to read it. So from what I have gleaned when it comes to international movies, I basically just watch a bunch of Europeans movies, most of me adolescents in my 20s. So as I try to explore other countries, and pardon for the pronunciation of these names, I'll try to make a little bit better. As I look at the way other countries make their movies, there are different types of genres to each country. For instance, I don't know if I'm correct, but in Korean filmmaking, there's always ghosts. They're supernatural, all right? Maybe it's because I know that Ringu is Japanese, but there seems to be that the mysticism and devil trio on that side of the world when it comes to film plots, which is not a hard and a fast rule, but someone did mention to me, Korean filmmaking, you're always going to see some ghosts. You're always going to see some demons. In Australian filmmaking, what I find is there's always a mystery to be solved. There's always something going down. Picnic at Hanging Rock, and this other movie I saw as a kid, Last Wave. These movies are imbued with the otherworldly and the mysterious. And I'm sure that, I mean, Crocodile Dundee is a great example of a movie that doesn't have the mysterious whatever, but this is my impressions growing up. So I have never seen a movie made in Nigeria, but I think that they're thrillers and that they're romances. But I'm going to check it out. This lady in Naughty at Denton is an archivist, and if you check out her website, there are all these clips of these movies. So now I'm going to get an education. It's good for me to study stuff that goes coming from the motherland. Okay. So the next movie that we're going to talk about is one that I think that we've talked about on the other show, and it's called Raise the Red Lantern, and the other translation for it is Raise High the Lantern. It stars Gong Li, Jin Shunyan, Kyle Cuffine, He Saffayai, Kong Lin, and Zui Zengeng. Again, I don't know any Chinese, and I only took Japanese for three months a long time ago to all respect that. I know I'm mangling the language. This movie was shot in Mandarin, which that language always has intrigued me. And it takes place, well, it's shot at the city of Pingyang, Shanzai province in the Kun family compound, and I believe that it takes place, oh, I don't know, I didn't write it down, but I'm pretty sure it takes place in Shanzai province. It was adapted from Wives and Conquerbinds by Su Tong in 1990, and the ballet was also directed by Zeng Yimu, the director, and performed by the National Ballet of China. It won the Silver Line at the 1991 Venice International Film Festival and came to city film Critics London and LA Critics Awards, and the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Picture and Best Actress for Guang Li in 1993. So over a two-year time span, this movie won a slew of awards, and everyone loved it, and I loved it. I saw it around the time that it first came out, I think, at Hopkins Center years ago in Hanover, New Hampshire. So Sun Li arrives as a third concubine of Master Chen, and she is actually fourth mistress because the master has one wife, but then the other three concubines are first concubine, second concubine, third concubine. So she's fourth mistress, and she is a C Tai Tai, all right? There's immense power struggles in the compound. The compound must, I don't know, the size of, hard to say. I mean, it's smaller than the colosseum, I guess, but it's huge, all right? Oh, much smaller than the colosseum, but it's immense. There must be battlements and all types of, it's a magnificent palace, let's just put it like that. So the first wife is resigned to being ignored by Master. The second wife, she's getting on in years, and she has a girl child, but she seems very nice, very soft and loving and trusting. Third wife was an opera singer, third concubine was an opera singer, and her part of the compound is very lavish and dramatic, and masks and fans all over the place. So what our heroine finds out is that what the master says is done, he says goes, basically. So he can sleep with the underservants. He can deny his body to the other concubines if he wants, the ones that he visits at night gets foot massages and rubs and all. It's just crazy patriarchal stuff beyond all-simple-minded Western Ken, right? A critic of Mr. Zengi Mu here said that he only makes movies that appeal to Western minds. I loved Hero. I don't think because I was a Westerner, that turned me on. And it was an all-store class at Jet Li, Maggie Shung, Tony Leong, I think Tony Leong, Xiu Wei, Zeng Zi, Danyi Yan, and House of Flying Daggers, which I think was a love triangle. I don't know if I made it all through that one, but because movies are intense. And again, they deal with human frailties of love, treachery, betrayal. Whenever you see a movie, especially coming out of Britain, I'm going to say it back in the 2000s, a spellbinding erotic thriller. You knew it wasn't spellbinding, you knew you were going to be bored, and it wasn't erotic and it didn't thrill you.  Not a beautiful piece of artwork. And I'd like to say that it wasn't his first movie, but it was his first movie, it was Gong Li. They went on to make seven movies together in a row. And then Red Sorghum was the first one. They won a Golden Bear, Codename Cougar, which is not the director's favorite movie. Judoor, Red Lantern, The Story of Kizhu, To Love, Shanghai Triad. And then they stopped making films together because they ended up finally having a fair after seven movies. I mean, I think that's pretty good for a muse, but they finally had a fair and then they're artistic. Unfortunately, their artistic relationship ended and then they got back together again for Curse of the Golden Flower in 2006. So I'm trying to find the name of the critic, but I guess that's all right. Our filmmaker, I just want to get his name correct, Zhang Yimu. He is considered one of the fifth generation of Chinese filmmakers. Well, Shen Keying, Tian Zheng, Zhu Zheng, Zhang Zhenzhao are the other filmmakers at the forefront of the artistic re-emergence at the end of the Cultural Revolution in China. So when you look at Razor, a Dragon, and as you study the power struggles, one can only be thankful than these days, you can, especially in Western times, not only can you choose your husband, but there are some things worse than loneliness, okay? So I instantly fell in love with Guangli. What a great actress. I know I've seen her in something else, not in any of these, but please check her out, okay? And also, check out that hero with Maggie Zhong, Jet Li, Tony Leong. What a great movie. I mean, fantastic. And that's what I call Pan Asian cast because you have, well, maybe they're all Chinese. I think they're all Chinese, but I think they all grew up in maybe different parts of Asia. All right. So that's about it for me. Thank you for your patience with my pronunciation of these foreign words. I'm your film conversationalist, Betty St. LeVoe. You've been watching St. LeVoe's world cinema here at Orca. I hope you've enjoyed the show today. I don't know what country we'll go to next episode, but we might check out a little bit more Nigerian filmmaking and at least one more Hong Kong movie, Near and Deer to My Heart, Chunking Express, directed by Wong Kar-Wai. Until then, darlings, have a good week and stay away from those bad movies. Ciao.