The creative team of "Snowflake Secret Fan" is mainly Chinese, but from the core of the creation, it is still dominated by the United States, so it will make many mistakes similar to the movie, the most prominent one is the take for granted of Chinese cultural history and national character. . Of course, Westerners don't care about this. For this land that is still unfamiliar and mysterious to most people, the basic premise of cultural care is still curious, so this movie that Chinese people will be very depressed about is actually not made for Chinese watch.
Wang Ying is a director of Chinese descent in the United States. His "The Joy Luck Club" and "China Box" are all films with Chinese background. The difference between these films and "The Secret Fan of Snowflakes" is that there are more Chinese-style destiny displays in the context of Western humanities, with the help of the collision and fusion of Eastern and Western cultural backgrounds to show universal values. In the context of a purely Chinese story like "Fan", Wang Ying did not successfully complete the change of perspective. In real time and space, the confusion of language makes the audience feel very alienated, and Shanghai is endowed with the narrow regional attributes like Chinatown. If you pay attention, the content involving the in-depth communication between the main characters is all in English. Mandarin and Shanghai dialect are only used as transactional communication and background voices. In addition, there is no basic textual research on the details of the plot. For example, the hospital Why should the contact person to notify the patient by phone use English? How to wear spring and autumn clothes during the college entrance examination? In 1997, why do you still listen to Faye Wong's songs like secretly tasting the forbidden fruit? These detail distortions make the overall story unbelievable, even laughable. In the time and space of novels, more folklore is used to set off the narrative, such as Nvshu, foot binding, folk songs, etc., but there are not many plots that can really strengthen the appeal of the plot and penetrate into the hearts of the characters.
Although there are more and more Chinese elements in American films, looking at the meticulousness and sophistication in the reproduction of important stages in the process of Western civilization such as ancient Greece and ancient Rome in Hollywood films, it can be proved that they have not established a strong understanding of Chinese culture. enough respect. Even now, the Chinese people appearing in some Western film and television works are still in the state of 20 or 30 years ago or even during the Cultural Revolution. This kind of respect cannot be established, and exchanges are bound to be unequal. 【Global Times】
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