then. 1. I only saw people who were blind but couldn't see myself as dumb.
Many people criticized "The Mummy 3" and criticized other foreign films for describing Chinese film and television works as a form. Suddenly, all of them became members of history study. To defend and hostile to foreigners and distort my Chinese culture like a clean obsession. To put it bluntly, unless the culture of your nation has fallen to the point where no one knows about it, a few unintentional misunderstandings by mere people can really reverse your entire international image? The result of loving and respecting Chinese culture, but it has been criticized by thousands of people. Who will care about your culture again if you have a conscience? Come to your country to shoot the scene and use your country's actors? We are a little too stingy and too serious, which is precisely the performance of a weak culture.
Moreover, an entertainment product is originally intended to entertain you, laughing and laughing is over. After a thousand words, it is fallacious, just like watching Teletubbies criticize Teletubbies for being naive, in the end it is me who is naive. I've identified people who think this way that without a sense of humor or imagination, the Baijia Forum is best for you.
From a biological point of view, people in the world are all the same except for their skin. From a sociological point of view, there are good people and bad people in any region, and every good person also has a bad side, and a bad person has a good side. A bad person in a movie does not mean that all people of the same race are the same. It's bad, and the bad guys in reality are not necessarily as obscene as they are in the movies. Some people say that they steal the pillars and use the dignified and mighty Qin Shi Huang as a villain. Of course, the status of his dynasty in Chinese history is boundless, but from the perspective of millions of ordinary people, Qin Shi Huang's tyranny is really bad, so you don't follow Hollywood's face to put reality. Look simple.
We should face ridicule with a smile and accept criticism with tolerance, so that you can have a vivid Chinese culture and a funny Chinese in front of the world. There are many reasons why foreigners misinterpret Chinese culture. We often show an airtight wall to the outside world, whether it is our film and television works or other art forms. Foreigners don't know about Japan's atrocities in China during the Anti-Japanese War. Jiang Wen filmed "The Devils Are Coming", which showed the devils who had been masked in the past in a form of in-depth excavation and complex depiction, and described the brutality and brutality of the devils to the greatest extent possible. The root, the latter, is so invaluable that such a true description has been stifled. Afraid to face the truth, because the truth is all kinds of sharp, this is not the sharpness of the perspective but the horror of the reality, so we are timid to restore the truth, because it is bloody, dirty and discordant, strangling the truth and the culture attached to the truth. buried together.
Our cultural workers sometimes think people are too simplistic and tend to have no connotation in appearance. How can such a culture not be misunderstood by foreigners? We only see people who are blind and can't see themselves as dumb.
Self-appreciation and smugness are actually self-deception.
2. Commercial films are not atomic bombs
Can some entertainment in a commercial film represent the real China? If you want to think that commercial films must play an important role in promoting Chinese culture, everyone will be very tired. This is not the role of commercial films, and they have neither the obligation nor the ability.
Of course, the success of "Ratatouille" is its interpretation of the French food culture, and the vivid "Kung Fu Panda" is a careful study and excavation of Chinese culture and Hong Kong Kung Fu movies. "The Mummy 3" we can say that it does not use Chinese culture properly, this is only part of the reason for the decline in the quality of the film, but more because its narrative, content, and special effects are outdated and pale, not all because it messes up Chinese culture. Compared with "The Great Sage of Love", which is more outrageous? Imagine that "The Great Sage of Love" was filmed by a Japanese.
The responsibility and purpose of commercial films is to let people go to the cinema to relax and entertain, not to restore history. Sticking to stereotypes and being careful will make the film ugly. If a director doesn’t intend to make fun of other cultures, the lack of proper interpretation of his film will only affect the quality of the film. People don’t like to watch it because it doesn’t interpret the culture, not because it distorts the culture. Movies will not affect the quality of the national culture described, let alone the depth of this culture in human society. If a country's culture counts on commercial movies to set standards, or if this culture is ridiculed by a commercial movie If it's on the shelf, then either the country's culture is as fragile as a cicada's wings, or the director is a fairy, and the film produced by the director is even more powerful than the atomic bomb.
It's like someone's shouting around the world, and even slandering Chinese people with a lifetime of experience, and now they have big braids, but this kind of voice is fragile and will eventually annihilate itself, because it is insignificant in the face of power, if the slandered even this kind of voice If the voices are afraid, then there must be some people in the world who think we have big braids. Cultural insecurities are caused by ourselves, and our slanderers and inexplicable anger make the world think that the fallacy of the slanderers is in place. As if a wise man would care if someone calls him an idiot? Idiots care.
Even more ridiculous is that no one slandered us.
3. Inexplicable nationalism
In fact, I agree with what Jiang Wen said: patriotism does not need to be aroused, you only need to know who you are. Why did Lu Xun never scold the Japanese?
People of a nation are afraid of other people's comments but not introspective, indicating that they are still living in the 19th century.
Take the crowd clamoring for nationalism. To be honest, your anger is inexplicable. I don't know what you are angry about? I don't know what you are trying to evoke? What to advertise? I don't know what practical actions you guys have done for the country besides being an amateur "guardian" online? How good is it to donate a dollar to the One Foundation? And I can't figure out what's wrong with this film to the point where you're going to kill that director.
Zhou Liming said that the images in film and television dramas are not realistic models. How can one image represent the image of your 1.3 billion people? Why do 1.3 billion people care about that imaginary image? That image represents the lifeblood of culture? Chinese people in film and television dramas are always tall and mighty? China has no bad guys? Are all Chinese handsome? Do you think Chinese people are too simplistic? There are tens of thousands of villains in the products of the Hollywood film industry? Is that called self-practice? Chow Yun-fat played a pirate and vilified the Chinese. The pirate, Chow Yun-fat, had to look handsome and would say, to beautify a pirate, Tony Leung played a traitor, and beautified a traitor. Young and Dangerous to vilify heroes or beautify local ruffians? Liangshan heroes glorify robbers or vilify peasants? What is Ximenqing? Beautify hooligans? Quickly go to the grave and have a theory with the ancestors.
The clown in the dark knight is very evil, a pervert that everyone hates in reality, but no one is impressed by it on the screen. This is not that most people are abnormal, but that normal people will distinguish between reality and fiction, understand The complexity of human nature. The audience is encouraged by the truth of the portrayal, not the perverted place.
That's why I think you sometimes say something like: "Why was the Red Army so stupid back then, knowing that the journey is so long, it doesn't take a few boxes of instant noodles".
Don't always use the flag to cover your shame.
You are so inexplicable and I am amazed. And you are not only inexplicable, but also anonymous
. This kind of person is definitely not a fan.
4. Tolerance and learning in Hollywood To
refute me, let me give you an example. The zombies in "Resident Evil 5" are all Africans. We all think this is a kind of overbearing, but now no one will dare to The Chinese made the zombies in the game, which is indeed a sign of our country's strong national strength. Hollywood borrows the culture of other countries to portray others as beautiful or ugly. To put it bluntly, it is not mainly out of love for foreign cultures, but more out of business considerations. Hollywood's far-reaching influence on the world is not its expansion of American culture, but the centralized packaging, tolerance and learning spirit of world culture. What it promotes is not American culture, but a universal value, a kind of heart that all human beings have. resonance.
The Middle East and Africa have always been turbulent and chaotic areas where terrorists haunt in Hollywood movies. At first glance, everyone there is a scripture. For the sake of faith, they die, and they are surprisingly barbaric. Even a Chinese student like me can see it. Hollywood's hypocritical human rights and discrimination against other countries' cultural beliefs in this regard, but people in Saudi Arabia love to watch American films, and even if they fight against the United States, it is based on practical significance, not from the film and television works of several screenwriters Fight back, not to mention that the Middle East actually has a financial tie with the United States that must not be broken.
So we really look at things a bit single-celled. Hollywood's simplicity is sometimes deliberate, but it's still not so simple to be seen by our netizens. Our culture and arts need the spirit of Hollywood while inheriting the tradition, that is tolerance and learning.
5. The reason why "The Mummy 3" is not good-looking is that
the reason why I left Egypt and came to China is not because of the theme. In fact, the idea of the Terracotta Warriors is very interesting. I even thought about it after watching the first two films. How cool is it to use Terracotta Warriors, but why is it unhappy in the end from the cool expectations? Excluding the huge success of the first two films, the factor of high expectations is actually very simple.
First of all, the script was not good, and then the main creator changed blood, and the actors were left with Brandon Fisher and his wife and brother John Hannah still sticking to their positions. Moreover, due to the constraints of the plot, the performance of the characters is in wax figures, including Brandon. He can't exert himself if he has a lot of blood, and the crazy, silly and cool personality of the first two episodes is suppressed. In fact, the general settings in the film are still very imaginative, but due to the lack of control, the imagination has become far-fetched and outrageous.
The special effects are really third-rate. After so many years, the level of the second episode has not even reached the level of a commercial film that relies on special effects to capture the market. How can it be worthy of the audience who love this series? The fake heart is cold, it doesn't matter if it's fake, I'm afraid there's nothing new.
I used to compare the Mummy series of Pirates of the Caribbean, because they are both adventure stories, one is in the endless desert and the other is in the vast ocean, and there are mummies, and the box office is good, but today Mummy has ended up in the world of Resident Evil . The root lies in the ignorance of the characterization of characters and the all-round three-dimensionalization of details. Pirates of the Caribbean does not even have a majestic mummy series in terms of layout, but it has jaw-dropping details that can make you fine-tune the charm after watching it. In addition, the audience of Captain Jack and the little blacksmith is worth hundreds of millions. Of course, in terms of special effects, Oscar Not to mention the proof. What about The Mummy 3? Only the funds and a few big scenes marked it as a blockbuster, and the rest had to be a piece of cake.
The most frustrating thing is the loss of the unique sense of humor of the "Mummy Series". It is gratifying to congratulate John Hannah, who was quite cute in the first two episodes, and there are still some residual laughs, but basically the paleness of the characters makes the plot difficult to justify, let alone extravagant expectations. Squeeze out such a little joke in the chaotic yellow sand.
There is no beauty, no handsome guy, no Rachel Weisz, and no angular Scorpion King. The flirting of the two protagonists is also a bit bitter, not to mention his son, the longer the child really is. More like his father.
The front laying is still a bit attractive. The car chase was good, but it was scribbled later. Although it was played from the beginning to the end, it was just clumsy and blunt. The terracotta warriors and horses are just like dry clay figurines. They are fragile. Thousands of troops are very cute. They are almost done by a few machine guns from the protagonist. , this episode is really an inferior inheritance that goes back and forth. Even the shattering of the enemy's lair at the end of each episode is gone, replaced by a sandstorm.
If the success of the second episode is due to the upgrade of all aspects of the first episode, then the ugly of the third episode is due to the price drop in all aspects of the entire series.
The director is a big factor. Judging from Rob Cohen's previous achievements, you can imagine what he has.
At the end, it was rumored that a mummy was found in Peru. Recently, it was reported that Rob Cohen really wanted to continue filming the mummy series, claiming that the mummy series finally left Egypt and ran to the world. Watching my favorite series go further and further under the leadership of such a director, I can only reluctantly comfort myself, there are only two Mummy series, and the third one has not yet been filmed.
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