Old beauty's dream, made in China

Marcelina 2022-01-26 08:18:44

Bertolucci came to China and wrote down the last emperor of the millennium empire.
Antonioni came to China and wrote down the silent expression and the turquoise blue outfit.
JJ Abs came to China and wrote down the prosperity of Shanghai on the night after the reform and opening up. But the Chinese still don't buy it, saying that, God, there are still advertisements and slums.
It seems that foreigners filming China has never been satisfactory.

Sitting in the bumpy car, little Derry peered worriedly through the window of this new and ancient eastern country. At first, he was forced to.
He saw the tall stone statue of Chairman Mao standing in front of the building with the bright red five-pointed star hanging.
He saw the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube sitting in the Olympic Park vigorously.
He also saw pavilions with melodious ancient charms appearing on the streets, and old people sat around drinking tea and chatting.
Outside the dilapidated board house is a lush garden, and the old ping pong man is a peerless player.
Turn on the TV, and the only SpongeBob without jet-lag speaks weird Chinese.
Every time I try to strike up a conversation with the newly learned Chinese, I often get a fluent English answer.
Derry was completely puzzled.

A Canadian friend of mine said that when she first came to China, she saw the skyscrapers and thought the plane had landed in the wrong country.
In this modern China full of contradictions, it is fortunate that the director made the right choice - he carefully selected the most beautiful Chinese clothes and dressed up as a beautiful American dream.

Panda is very stupid, although he has a good attitude, he won the championship in a confused way through the master's enlightenment.
Xiao Hei is very smart, but his attitude is not good. After the guidance of experts, he also "surprisingly" got the title of champion.
In fact, people all over the world have similar dreams. Guo Jing also has seven strange masters in the south of the Yangtze River, as well as the old man who is a master of the world, and the old urchin who lives and dies. And no matter how powerful the master is, he has to rely on his apprentice to untie the knot in his heart.
The master of the seeded players is not easy to be a good master, and he has to come up with games like grabbing buns and hanging clothes to coax the children.
Of course, there must be a bad, powerful and annoying guy like Cheng.

The casting directors turned out to be two Chinese? But it's clearly still the old beauty's eyes. Our female No. 1 student, Meiying, has two pigtails, a round face, slender eyes, plays a good piano, and can dance in horror. It reminds me of Lu Yan and Qiu Zhang. The family is well-off, the parents are feudal, they drive an Audi, and they live in the mansion...
After all , the 12-year-old baby is a bit small, but it is still necessary to have an American-style puppy love at the shadow puppet stage.

Little Derry began to contact all kinds of people and experienced ups and downs. And the perpetually excited neurotic mom. Sometimes, he is so close to China, close enough to play table tennis with the old men in the community, close enough to have close friends, close enough to touch the city wall that has been imprisoned for thousands of years, and close enough to shuttle between small and medium-sized businesses from all walks of life. In the market of traders and hawkers; sometimes, he is so far away from China, so far that he can't even understand cartoons, so far that he arouses the prejudice of friends and parents, so far that he has to face estrangement and fear, so far that even standing The phalanx who wore the same color clothes and practiced the same kung fu still wanted to escape.

until one day.
Until one day, the jacket was transformed into the prototype of kung fu in the boring repetition of "hanging it up, taking it down, throwing it on the ground, picking it up".
Until one day, imitation is no longer to copy others, but to cultivate the charm of a mirror.
Until one day, the tacit understanding is no longer a bamboo pole by the water or a silhouette on the wall, but a heart-to-heart bond and a lifelong relationship.
Until one day, the arms can be stronger, the legs can kick the copper bell, and the heart can sense the movement of the opponent.

Marco Polo had a dream, facing the direction of the sunrise.
Xiao Derui also has a dream, which condenses the desires of thousands of Westerners for ancient China.

I have a foreign teacher, an Englishman, who quit his job as a university professor and came to China thousands of miles away. He went to visit a kung fu successor in a closed mountain village in Jilin. He studied sticks for three months seriously, and his body was swollen with countless big bags. After that, I went to Dengfeng again, hoping to shave a degree and become a monk. I don't know if he saw the movie or not.

There will never be another black kid in the world who was dragged into an action movie at the age of 12. Standing on the beacon tower of the Great Wall, the helicopter rumbled around him. I am afraid that this battle will envy Simba, who has been raised up and worshipped by everyone. Handsome, uninhibited, humorous, hippie, hip-hop, kung fu, emotional drama. Little Jaden's bright eyes and white teeth are strong and vigorous, shining a new generation of heartthrob Smith. He became the only black man cooler and handsomer than Will.

Bustling alleys, dense mountains. An American child's dream, a vision of a rising Hollywood star. In the stagnant review gap, there is nothing more appetizing than such a commercial film.

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The Karate Kid quotes

  • Dre Parker: [after Mr. Han does a cool move] Whoa...!

    Mr. Han: Focus!

  • Mr. Han: Kung Fu lives in everything we do, Xiao Dre! It lives in how we put on the jacket, how we take off the jacket. It lives in how we treat people! Everything... is Kung Fu.