This is an American film, produced by 20th Century Fox, but from behind the scenes to the main actors are all Asian faces. It was released at the end of 2018. At that time, it won the championship in North America for three consecutive weeks, and the media was also a voice of praise. I can only envy through the screen, after all, there is no official introduction in China.
I don't want "Crazy Rich Asians" to quietly land on the VIP movie library of a certain video in 2019. It is worth seeing the style. After all, such American films are extremely rare (Asian stories, Asian faces).
First of all, this is a story about Cinderella and the prince, but it is replaced with an oriental face. Although the story is old-fashioned, you can guess the end after reading the beginning, but the process is equally important. Everyone loves a beautiful love!
Therefore, from the appearance of the heroine Zhu Ruiqiu, a professor of economics at New York University, to accepting the invitation of her boyfriend Nick Young to return to Singapore to attend the wedding of the best friend, it is simple and clear, and goes straight to the theme.
Next is the time for us to see the pomp and pomp of Asian family-style wealthy people. First, we use his rich imagination to image from Nick Young's description of his family's relatives, and then there is a strong visual impact and spiritual shock: Zhu Ruiqiu's big house, Luxury to the interiors of local tyrants, and then to the single party to take a helicopter, a dance floor transformed by a freighter, and a small island to enjoy high, wow, it is simply three words to describe - "open your eyes", as ignorant as we are, all of the civilian class , This kind of battle, I don't feel like I see it in the movie, it seems that I have no chance in this life!
But in fact, although this film is of Asian descent, it is indeed based on a Singapore novel, but it always makes people feel that white people wearing yellow skins are performing, those Chinese elements, such as lanterns, such as Chinese architecture, such as Chinese clothing , Another example is those old-fashioned Chinese songs, which seem to be very Chinese, but are far away from us.
Maybe it's because the number of times we see lanterns is in years, and it can only be seen during the Spring Festival, while Chinese-style buildings can only be seen in various cultural scenic spots and the former residences of emperors and generals. Chinese clothing, no. Getting married, not having a happy event, it is almost invisible in daily life, and those good Chinese songs are almost all before the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Maybe young people have never heard of these embarrassing existences, I don’t know what they are. We are becoming less and less Chinese, or are their impressions of us still stuck in the past, so this has become a very tangled question, whether we have discarded all the good traditions we need to reflect on ourselves, and have we become Not so traditional, and on the other hand, we despise the ignorance of foreigners, how can our understanding of us stagnate?
The existence of many contradictions is shown here. In a film of contemporary Chinese origin, the interweaving of Eastern and Western cultures allows us to see a traditional and modern Chinese, which should be the appearance of the current overseas Chinese (but not our Mainland of China). I think this is probably the reason why Crazy Rich Asians is cold in China! Can't resonate, it seems that these people and we live in different parallel worlds, but this kind of story of lovers finally getting married, as melon eaters, although rain girls have no melons, but romantic things, everyone is still very excited!
In the end, no matter what, it is not easy to be produced by a mainstream American film production company and succeed in North America. After all, Asian films are not the mainstream of the European and American markets. It is a breakthrough and a recognition. Come on!
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