Watching medium: Macbook
a long time ago (probably five or six years ago), there was a very lively post on Maopu.com, discussing if Jet Li and Jackie Chan acted in a movie together If so, whose kung fu will be higher. Of course, such discussions at the time could only be over-the-top, but when Jet Li and Jackie Chan actually appeared in a film a few years later, most people probably didn't expect this to be a horrific meeting.
Objectively speaking, "Kung Fu King" is still a very good film, provided that the audience cannot be Chinese. The two masters Li and Cheng speak much better English than fighting; if you don't want to be influenced by domestic scandals, the two heroines are also good-looking; Ni Xing's smoky makeup should also be very popular with me. Appreciation from some of the more fashionable friends; Hollywood's best special effects have played some role this time, at least the Matte Painting skills in many scenes are not bad (well, I haven't done CG special effects analysis for a long time, and my hands are itching again. ). In fact, as long as you hold a big bucket of popcorn and keep reminding your stomach and brain that this is a Popcorn Movie for adolescent boys in Europe and America, you can take the whole movie lightly. The only thing that makes people want to slap the table and want to refund the ticket and leave is the appearance of the shy Monkey King every time. The Monkey King, the spiritual idol of the Chinese people for thousands of years, has actually become such a dead person who is not a monkey or a human. Our beautiful Monkey King is neither beautiful, nor a monkey, nor has the feeling of a king, one can't help but think, these four people spent more than an hour to rescue such a number one person?
So this time we are joking. Originally, this film was made for everyone except the Chinese to watch. At least in their eyes, this is a conventional "Chinese Kung Fu story". Just like Disney's "Mulan" that year, everyone watched it extremely disgusting, but at least the box office was good. Any story interpreted from another cultural background will be inaccurate and biased against the original culture, and it seems inevitable. Any film made by Hollywood about Islamic cultural background will be strongly protested by countries such as Iran. Not to mention, the company I work for once held a rehearsal of Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice". If anyone from Europe and the United States who loves Shakespeare sees it, they will probably pass out :).
So what is there to be angry about, what is there to make trouble with? A blockbuster is a commercial activity. It is already defined how others want to make it. As long as it conforms to the original market positioning in the world, it can make money, and it can be profitable. It doesn’t matter if there is a little objection, it may also help the box office. . The voice of scolding is like what we heard when "The Lion King" was released. African-American residents protested in the United States. The villain in the film was dubbed by an African actor, which is disrespectful. The meaning under the table is that we are already a vulnerable group, and you are disrespecting us and looking down on us.
So you shouldn't be angry, you should sigh: our big market of more than one billion people is actually a negligible number in terms of the box office positioning of this film.
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