Oz, The Great And Powerful: A Review

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So, I don’t do this as often as I used to, but this one has really given me some food for thought. Eug and I went to see Oz: The Great and Powerful on Friday night.  And while overall, I liked it, and thought it was a well-made movie, there were a few things about it that distressed me.

Elizabeth Rappe over at Jezebel already wrote quite a lovely article  about this already, but I feel like while she set up the history and talked about Baum’s own political leanings, there’s a lot of individual points about this new movie itself that don’t find their way into her piece.  Which is good: she’s working with a very specific thesis.

The short version: Baum was very much a feminist, his stories all focused on strong female characters and gender identity in a way that we would probably find revolutionary even today.  Oz: The Great and Powerful ignores all of that to make a movie about a man coming into his own in typical hero’s journey fashion, in a quest that requires him to overpower women who are much more powerful than he is.  It’s like the Grendel’s Mother of twee fantasy, here.  The scariest monsters are always ladies, gentlemen.

I mean, now I’m getting off the trajectory of Ms. Rappe’s argument, but that’s fine.  That was my point here.

So, let’s talk about OZ.  And let’s talk about OZ in the context of modern children’s fantasy.

Modern children are more susceptible to gender-specific entertainment than children of the past.

Yup.  I said it.  We hear over and over again that little boys have difficulty identifying with female protagonists in books and movies– and even many adult men do.  Little girls can read books with boy heroes, but little boys get bored reading about girls.  Bookstores and publishers package books for children by gender.  Disney itself has effectively split into two franchises: with Pixar making movies about cars and toy cowboys, and Disney making movies about princesses.

But that’s nothing new.  We KNOW that’s how things are now.  But the pathetic thing is that we’re supposed to be moving forward, and yet– when Baum was writing, in the early 1900s, his books that largely focused on heroines about a world largely ruled by women, were considered a huge critical and popular success across gender lines.  No one questioned whether boys should read these books, or whether they would be bored because the main character was a girl (or transformed into a girl over the course of the story).  I’ve seen lots of contemporary criticism of the Oz books, but never anything saying that boys wouldn’t read them because Dorothy or Ozma were girls.

The makers of Oz: The Great and Powerful cited excitement over finding a “fairy tale” with a male protagonist.  I don’t fault them for this– I’ve heard little boys talk about their dismay over this very “problem.”  It’s something that’s being demanded, and something we’ve socialized ourselves to believe is necessary.  But it does point to a troubling evolution in what we (Americans in general) believe a children’s story should be, or believe our children need.

But even in that, the idea of a story about the Wizard piqued my interest.  The Wizard, in the Oz books, is a fantastic character, and to be completely fair, James Franco does a phenomenal job in the movie, bringing that character to life as a young man.  He’s inept, bumbling, a compulsive liar who preys on women.  He can’t get himself out of even the smallest scrape.  And yet, like in the books, we see that he genuinely means well– he’s just, well, not very good at it, and his mendacious nature often gets the best of him. He uses the same old tricks over and over again, even when he’s seen them fail.

That part of the movie, I loved.  Great character, and certainly a character I enjoyed seeing learn and grow and try so very hard to come into his own in spite his own insecurities.  He’s very much the kind of male character that frequently crops up in the Oz books, and in that regard is very faithful to the original.

(I feel it’s necessary to mention as an aside here that in spite of this one significant failure, I thought Oz: The Great and Powerful much more effectively reveled in the spirit of OZ and really understood the world from which the stories came than Wicked, which as far as I’m concerned is one of the absolute worst “reimaginings” of any fantasy world ever made.  But I’m not talking about Wicked.  Talking about Wicked would take several weeks.)

And for the most part, the makers of this movie got the world spot-on, and somehow were able to magically and seamlessly combine the nature of the original, book-based universe with the world created for the 1939 movie in a way that really impressed me.  The introduction of the Munchkins, when Glinda is rallying her “troops,” is one of the best examples of this: are they the Munchkins from the books, or the Munchkins from the movie?  Answer: a little of both.  In a way that works.  There’s some of the darkness that we’re used to from the books, and  that made Return to Oz so perfectly chilling, but not so much that it overshadows the whimsy the way it does in Return to Oz. You can tell that the people who made this actually read the books.  You can tell that they care about them.

But, somehow, within that, they missed a couple really crucial  memos.  And they’re things that would have troubled me in any movie, but are particularly troubling in the context of OZ.

So, we all know how OZ works when Dorothy arrives.  You’ve got Glinda, and the two unnamed Wickeds.  The Wizard has control of the Emerald City.  If you’re  a reader of the books, you know that the last member of the royal family has vanished and that Glinda has been searching for her.  If you’ve only seen the movie, this doesn’t matter too much.  All you need to know is that there are four rulers: three witches, and one wizard, and each control a certain piece of the map.

And these witches are POWERFUL.  They’re so powerful that the Munchkins have been living in terror of East for a very long time.  West has enslaved the Winkie Guards and the Monkeys.  And for whatever reason, while Glinda and the Wizard have kept their own people safe, they haven’t done anything to remove the Wickeds themselves.  (We eventually find out that the Wizard isn’t doing it because he’s, well, not a wizard.  But there are loads of theories and questions as to why Glinda doesn’t, when she’s the most powerful witch of all.  This movie actually comes up with a perfectly reasonable explanation as to why no one has killed the Wickeds: good citizens of Oz can’t kill.)

One other thing that I liked about this movie is that it actually sets up Wickedness as a state of being.  It’s like a sickness– West is literally poisoned into Wickedness– and one of the reasons I appreciate this is that it removes the question of a moral dichotomy that is always so tricky in fairy tales and so many other stories for children.  Pure evil is a tough thing to run with: we all know that the vast majority of people aren’t actually pure evil, so dealing with a villain who is is always a bit problematic.  And in the case of OZ, trying to explain West’s Wickedness is probably the biggest failing of Wicked, because Gregory Maguire just doesn’t even bother– he just changes the facts, which is something I can’t get behind in an adaptation.  If a character enslaves other characters, you can’t just decide that she didn’t enslave them for the purposes of your retelling.  You’ve gotta come up with an explanation for why, if you want people to sympathize with her.   So, for me, the idea that Wickedness is a state of broken-ness in Oz, is an absolutely fine and dandy quick and simple way to deal with a sticky question for the purposes of a two hour movie.

The place where I start to have problems with this is just how West arrives at this state of Wickedness.  Because that’s where the movie doesn’t show much respect for the power and self-suffficiency of the women of Oz.

The Wizard meets West in the woods when he first arrives in Oz.  And she is a fresh, young, confused little girl who has no experience with men.  I actually liked this– it worked, in the same way Miranda works in The Tempest.  It could have continued to work.  The Wizard takes advantage of her very very stereotypical doe-eyed innocence while not entirely realizing that she is taking advantage of him in a way, too.

At this point, it’s still working for me.  Although I do want to point out that Baum was adamantly opposed to romantic plots in Oz.  And if my memory of being a child is correct, then I very much agree with his reasoning:  kids get bored of romantic plots.  In the words of Fred Savage in The Princess Bride, “They’re kissing again. Do we have to read the kissing parts?”

If you’re making a movie for adults, then, cool, keep the kissing parts.  Whatever.  But if you’re making a move for adults, don’t try to couch your choice to make a movie about Oz that is All About A Male Lead’s Personal Voyage of Discovery in any explanation about making a film for young boys.  Protip: young boys don’t want to watch kissing parts.  Especially not when the kissing parts become the crux of the entire plot.

They do?

Oh, yeah, they do.

So, let’s take a world ruled by women who have powers beyond your imagination.  What’s going to reduce them to flesh-burning tears and an urge to destroy their lives?  A doofy guy pretending to have magic powers, you say?  Oh, right, that’ll do it. Especially a doofy guy they met yesterday.  Because women, any women, no matter how powerful they are, are completely incapable of reason in the face of love.  Err.  Infatuation.  That has taken place over the course of a DAY.

Do I need to say the part about A DAY again? Because I will.  A day is this thing, it is twenty-four hours long.  I have not even seen the most boy-crazy preteen fall into this kind of romantic woe over a boy she met a day ago.  To see a bright, talented idealistic young woman (who, admittedly has some insecurities) become this utterly beside herself over a man she’s known for the space of twenty-four hours honestly made me feel a bit insulted as a woman.  I was once a teenager with horrible crushes.   I do not ever remember behaving this badly– or even feeling this badly– over someone I’d known for the space of a day.  To believe that a single dance, a couple of kisses, a music box, and twenty-four hours in someone’s acquaintance might be the catalyst to transform someone from being an insecure but genuinely kind-hearted person to a literal embodiment of wickedness takes a LOT of suspension of disbelief.  And it’s not really a suspension of disbelief that I’m comfortable with, because of what it says about young women.

East I could be more on board with.  She’s manipulative and wants to rule Oz.  She sort of reminds me of an Ozian Claudius: she poisons the previous Wizard and then pins it on Glinda (the previous Wizard’s daughter…okay, I know this is a major departure from real Ozian mythos, but it’s one of those “for the purposes of a movieverse” things that I’m willing to let slide).  Her ambition, manipulation of her own sister– they’re all perfectly acceptable traits for villains of any gender.  Does she let the Wizard think that she’s also in love with him?  Sure.  Does she do the same to her sister? Sure.  But, hey, if you met this guy, I suspect the best way to handle him is to let him think you’re in love with him, regardless of what gender you are.

So, for the purposes of plot, I’m cool with East.  Not so cool with the whole “oh I lost my power and losing my power also makes me ugly” bit that happens to her at the end, because of COURSE feminine power is tied to beauty, but that’s a tiny nitpick, and hey, they couldn’t seem to make up their minds over whether beauty is tied to feminine power or to goodness.  Woe.  Women are so complicated.

And then there’s Glinda.  Glinda is one of those amazing characters, in Oz, you know the ones, the one who has pretty much limitless power and often acts as a deus ex machina but also is a fascinating character in her own right?  That’s Glinda.

This Glinda has a lot in common with that Glinda.  Personality-wise, she is very much on target.  She goes into hiding rather than confronting East when East takes over the kingdom.  It turns out the bubbles she flies around in are just for show.  She is extraordinarily powerful yet reluctant to use it to harm anyone.  She immediately sees through the Wizard’s ruse.

But she’s also his love interest?  This smacks of one of those “man is rewarded with love of woman who is way out of his league for learning how to be an almost-halfway-decent human being” plots that show up in romantic comedies.   And it definitely doesn’t belong in Oz.  This one takes a leap I’m really not willing to try to figure out or forgive.  In the first place, we never see any sort of suggestion of a romance between these characters in any canonical manifestation of Oz.  Glinda is Glinda the Good.  She’s eons older, incredibly powerful, and even in this movie universe, sees through the Wizard so completely that it simply doesn’t seem believable that she’d fall for him.  The human manifestation of goodness in the universe doesn’t do romantic love for a specific individual– she’s full of unconditional love for everyone.  I suppose that it’s also too easy to read Glinda as a sexless mother figure, so I’m glad they didn’t go in that direction with her, but honestly, Glinda’s too busy being a sorceress and doesn’t need some dude who can’t get his act together.

I would have been a lot more forgiving of that movie if they’d just left out the kissing at the end.  It seemed so forced and perfunctory, to say “oh, I need a present for Glinda…”

YEAH, I CAN TELL YOU YOU’RE NOT A GOOD ENOUGH PRESENT, WIZARD.

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Comments

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I was OK with Wicked changing facts b/c the victors write history, right? So they lied. In fact I thought that was part of the whole underlying point. (So my mileage varies.)

I will probably zee Oz at some point and it will probably be in my living room so I can grouse at it appropriately without bothering too many people around me.

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

I can buy that if you're saying specific characters lied, and if it's plausible within the universe where the story is being told. But you've got to be able to keep it within the confines of the original universe. In the case of Wicked, the Wizard could totally have lied to Dorothy, but once you have Glinda lying (very very much out of character) and then have to assume that Dorothy isn't just duped, but complicit in the lie, and that Baum himself is lying, when he's the one who created the world, that's taking it a bit too far. To me, Maguire's "it's a lie" is a cheap, easy way out. I'd much rather read the story where someone explains the Wicked Witch as a character while sticking to canonical facts. It's the trickier, and ultimately braver thing to do. "It's all a lie" is like saying "I'm too lazy to do my research."

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I disagree that "it's all a lie" is just laziness. Like I said, the victors write the history, Baum could have been its main chronicler, I am OK with that. It probably helps that I was not a huge fan of the Oz books. They were fun but I was never invested in the world and I do think the Wicked Witches got a raw deal. I am not interested in a story where she is evil, period, no matter the reasoning. I'd rather break the canon. As I said, mileage varies.

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

If it's not laziness, Maguire wouldn't have ignored canon facts that have nothing to do with how someone might present the story, like the fact that Glinda is centuries older than the Witch of the West (that's established in the books) and therefore would never have gone to school with her. A fanfic writer would get laughed off AO3 for that. And that's someone doing it for fun, so I expect much, much more from someone doing it professionally.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

You expect it. I don't. There are many readers. Hooray!

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should expect it? I personally feel a little ripped off when writers try to feed me shit and tell me it's pudding.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I think it's ridiculous to cry "it's not canon!" when I am suggesting that it's perfectly OK to write a fiction where the canon is a lie. You don't have to like the resulting story if fealty to canon is important to you as a reader or think it has any value...to you. But enough of Real History (tm) as taught is exactly a canonical lie that I can't dismiss a similar aesthetic project as lazy rather than as not to one's taste.

IOW, don't tell me it's shit when you just don't like chocolate.

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

Margaret Mitchell never pretended that Scarlett O'Hara didn't own slaves, and yet was totally capable of creating a sympathetic and powerful heroine. Therefore, I feel someone working with another author's canon in which it has been established that a character owns slaves should be able to do the same.

If they can't-- or aren't willing to-- it tells me something about their skill as an author.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Should, yes. Has to, no. *You don't have to have any interest in the resulting story and that's OK.*

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

It doesn't tell you anything about their skill, only their priorities.

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

Which is why you have to sit back and remind yourself that the Fairy Queen Lurline is an Elder God, the Wogglebug is her minion, and it will all make sense when the Great Old Ones leap forward through time to claim the race of new bodies prepared for them.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

:)

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

No. For real. Glinda's Great Book of Records is the Necronomicon. She's been trying to shut down the invasion for centuries.

[pachakuti.livejournal.com]

I never finished Wicked, the book; I just legitimately did not like it at all. I felt like the writer was sneering at everything the whole time; the characters, the plot, the audience, everybody. And, as a fan of the old books, there was just... too much that was entirely wrong.

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

Yeah, to me, this movie actually did quite a lot right by the books (though it did make some mistakes, they were mostly mistakes I could forgive as they were more in line with the 1939 movie). I know I'm being highly critical here, but if there weren't enough things I liked about it, I would have just said it sucked and moved on.

[kid-lit-fan.livejournal.com]

I...liked-is-a-strong-word-ed it, but I had a lot of trouble with one of the main plot drivers being, essentially "Bitches are cray-cray." (Also, the romance felt sour for the same reasons you stated AND that I hate movies where people are in love with someone then fall in love with another person who looks just the same because they are played by the same actor. I GET that they were doing the MGM movie "Counterparts from Kansas thing"--I found the China Girl arc really touching and well done, they caught PTSD without making it REALLY frightening.--but the Oz loves Glinda who looks like Dorothy's Future Mom thing equated a sweet but essentially strong, smart ruler with a simple country girl and huh?

I am so proud that my 15-year-old daughter said "I thought it was...good, I...liked it, but I think the the girl who plays Jackie* should get better parts than that, there should have been something between "I'm stupid and know nothing and now I'm EEEEVIL!!!"

I wish there was a way to show her Ms. Kunis' excellent acting in Black Swan without the whole age-inappropriate movie and the Bitches Are TOTALLY OMG RAMPAGING Cray-Cray thing.

*Mila Kunis, the kiddo sometimes watches reruns of That 70's Show, and we've talked about its sexism, both "look at our funny 70's sexism" and unwitting 90's sexism) and I've told her how Mila Kunis said at her audition "I'll be 18 on my birthday" and didn't mention that that birthday was over 3 years away.

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

Yeah, oh, god, The Black Swan with its message of "lesbian fantasies about your friends will turn you into a murderer." That's one of those movies I just have so many issues with, even though it's beautifully made and acted. I thought we were beyond the virgin/whore dichotomy, you know?

But, yes, that's it entirely. I didn't mind the "in love with the doppelganger" thing soooo much because they were doing the Ozian doppelganger thing, but I did take issue with the "in love at all" part.

[kid-lit-fan.livejournal.com]

I should know better. Whenever I hear that movies are "provocative" and have "strong female characters," I should think "there's(incredibly mild) lesbian sex and/or BD/SM and it really follows the same old tropes about women," then I won't be disappointed.

I'd've loved an Oz: The Great and Powerful with witches who just WERE wicked and powerful (or good and powerful) without getting James Franco's admittedly adorable lips mixed up in it. Of course, I'd like to see a Sixteen Candles with JUST the Molly Ringwald really realistic teenager and none of the horrifying sexism and racism, and also a Black Swan that really was provocative, the fulfilled the brief shining promise of strong women (but the other alternative is Joe Ezstherhas bad, with the women beating their director while topless.).

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

That's why I felt like Evanora/East was the one character of the witches I could stomach-- because she was a character who WAS just wicked and powerful, and used the other characters' weaknesses against each other to her own ends. You never got the feeling that she actually was attracted to Oz, just that she knew he expected it and she could act the part. She worked for me. The fact that it happened to be at the expense of her own younger sister was a bit sad and frustrating because it started to veer into "catty bitch" territory for me. If there's one thing I do appreciate about Wicked (and there isn't much), it's that it's a story about a young woman who is protective and loving toward her sister, and we don't have enough of those-- it's one of the best things for me about The Hunger Games

[kid-lit-fan.livejournal.com]

I agree about the Hunger Games. Overall, it was about responsibility,something women are very rarely allowed (except for their own children, and even then, finding a male breadwinner is often their "reward" for being responsible Katniss marries at the end, but I felt that it made sense with the characters). Also, she was indebted to people not as a helpless girl, but as a responsible adult. Debt and owing were big parts of her life, a VERY realistic part of being poor (people who say "It's only money" have usually always had plenty!).

And yeah, I got irritated when Evanora brought Oz the Cute and Adorable into the conversation.I'd like to see a traditionally attractive woman NOT use her femine wiles.

[gabbygrl.livejournal.com]

So West goes evil and it's all "wickedness is something that happened to you, so if you ever feel good again and want to come back..." What? In the movie I watched, she chose to eat that apple. She asked for it, and she seemed to know it would change her in profound ways.

Also I have need in my life seen a film with more female characters than male ones which failed the Bechdel test so amazingly. East and West have been sisters their whole lives, and they can't find anything to talk about other than this guy who is honestly not all that worthwhile? Not the kingdom? Or... anything? I know it's his movie, but thirty seconds?

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I agree about the apple-eating. She seemed to approach it as if she thought it would help her in some way, or where she needed a drastic change, which is a typical thing to do after a breakup. I mean, I still don't think she should have felt driven to that kind of drastic action after ONE DAY, but she clearly didn't know just what it would do to her until she ate it, and then seemed horrified for the split second between realization and action.

But we also know that she couldn't come back from it, from the events of the original movie, and that made me sad.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm yeah, I think do not want to see this movie. I do however want to go read all the Oz books now!

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

The Oz books are wonderful. I don't want to completely slam the movie, there was a lot I liked about it. But this frustrated me.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

I get pretty quickly annoyed when movies just do an downright shitty job or portraying female characters and just fall back on romance plots (either instant love or suddenly evil due to 'love') Annoys the fuck out of me and tends to overshadow everything else because it is so stupid and lazy and just fucking insulting

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

Yes, then please don't see this movie. I don't want an angry Becca.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

LOL Okay, crossing it off the list

В качестве опроса:)

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[phuck.livejournal.com]

I just don't understand how you can make a movie with an Oscar winner, an three-time Oscar nominee, and a Golden Globe nominee and have all three of them deliver performances at the level of a high school theater actor. Seriously, it was laughably bad at times. The only one who almost came out unscathed was Rachel Weisz. The real shame is that those characters really could have been something special and interesting, but the writing was so bad. Also, James Franco just wasn't good. I wonder what would have happened if they had a better actor, who was more naturally charming, in that role. He just left me feeling greasy and uneasy, and not at all convinced he was the con artist they portrayed him as. You could see Michelle Williams trying the who movie to have a spark or any sort of chemistry with him, and he would just keep making over the top, goofy faces.

There was such a strong story to tell there, and they missed them mark for me.

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

I really didn't mind James Franco at all-- I liked the way he played the character. But I do agree Rachel Weisz was the only one of the women who managed to come out of that not looking horrible; I think because she was the only one of the women with a role that didn't reduce her to a romantic interest for a character who shouldn't have had any romantic interests *anyway.* It would have been a lot more fun to see Oz go from Kansas where women fell for his dumbass chicanery to Oz and then suddenly have the witches be like "what the fuck is your deal? Why are you so dumb?"

I agree that there was no no no chemistry between his character and Glinda, though. I kind of chalked that up to the nature of the characters making it utterly ridiculous that that would happen, more than a failure on James Franco's part. I kind of liked the hammy thing-- it made sense to me for the character. I just don't know that it made ANY of the character's interactions with anyone else make sense, because everyone else was reacting to him like he wasn't a nimrod.

[henpecked.livejournal.com]

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This year 25 years old, height achieves 2 meters of Gu Wei of 05 this - Wanaduo, big forward of present boss job, 2010 choose beautiful congress to go up, he is in second annulus the 11st suitable by pitch on of showing tremendous enthusiasm. After although be in,entering NBA, gu Wei this - Wanaduo's colourful without Jing making a person expression, when crossing player of this utility man to be in an university, era is a man of the time absolutely. The Gu Wei that is graduated from close cc to establish an university than the city this - Wanaduo is in big 4 all data is 14.1 cent, 11.2 backboard and breathtaking 5.3 close over, the shoot a basket of 62% hits the target rate, the penalty shot of 64% hits the target rate. Additional, he still broke NCAA 2010 the record of total close over before this (535) , became the history with new NCAA to build cap king.
In going two years, the not happy Wanaduo that mixes in NBA chooses to go to Europe developing, he is mixed in Israel league matches respectively the effectiveness in Italian league matches, in effectiveness at Italian Rome team during, much field of made of baked clay accept all comes on the stage 23.4 minutes, can get 6.5 backboard have lid hat 2.1 times 10.4 minutes mixing.
On December 24, 2012, person lot fell Kaierte Wanaduo, going up nevertheless weekday " green unlined upper garment army " announce to cut its into parts. The showing tremendous enthusiasm nowadays, planted agent actual strength still has hidden trouble, besides wave assorted, the champion that defend crown still is lacked think defend bold general, the great stature that this sports season signs pulls Sha De - Liu Yi Si is already successive number field fails to gain a field opportunity, and fill strong one defends the urgent matter that the bold with outstanding ability will become Siboersitela.
According to ball explore report, made of baked clay accept has a place more is he is outstanding undoubtedly defend ability, fitness is good, he close over ability is remarkable, in protection rebound respect also is done well, carry in aggression nevertheless, wanaduo's ability appears not so give prize, the body shows him feeble a bit, ability of shoot a basket is not remarkable, and technology of singles back a body is finite, we are attendant he carry a ball or going up to see him rarely is the long shot in the attempt. And the his finite requirement that carries dozen of technology on the back to get used to NBA very hard, attendant on he can lean only normally most be good at receive teammate to pass a ball, spell the field before grabbing backboard or it is quick attack notchs.
(Responsibility edits: Wang Xupeng)