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Ups_rail posted:gently caress Avatar still kinda haunts me for its creativity and good writing.
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Oct 3, 2021 20:40
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Re: Chinese films/entertainment. A silly question. Is there an actual audience for the bullshit swords and sorcery epics that the Chinese film and TV industry pumps out? As in, do people really like this genre a lot so there are a lot of them, or are there a lot of them because they are easy/cheap to make and won't get in trouble with the censors etc.?
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Oct 4, 2021 03:04
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chinese box office numbers are probably even less reliable than their economic numbers so, who can tell
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Oct 4, 2021 03:22
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hypnophant posted:chinese box office numbers are probably even less reliable than their economic numbers so, who can tell Obviously true, but I just had a moment where I imagined, in a country where information regularly changes retroactively, where there is neither an express nor an implied expectation of transparency or honesty, one organisation stands against the tide of lies, exaggeration, and statistical manipulation: The cinema box office tracking bureau. Steely determination. Iron will. Unbending resolve. Per ardua ad Avenue of Stars.
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Oct 4, 2021 04:06
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Wuxia is pretty cool, imo.
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Oct 4, 2021 04:18
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Grand Fromage posted:Wuxia is pretty cool, imo. It is, also a lot of the classic stuff is pretty anti-authoritarian. So are a lot of the classics like the Water Margin. Xi should just ban books imo. Only way to be safe.
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Oct 4, 2021 09:11
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The classic animated film from the early Mao years, Havoc in Heaven, is entirely about Sun Wukong being s dick to all authority figures and getting away with it, up to and including fighting off all the armies of Heaven at once. I doubt the current party would ever allow something like that to be made again, unless they could recast heaven as THE KUOMINTANG!
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Oct 4, 2021 11:02
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I just can't stop thinking about how great Taiwan is
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Oct 4, 2021 11:28
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SerCypher posted:It is, also a lot of the classic stuff is pretty anti-authoritarian. The whole point of "jianghu" is to be outside official control, heroes and villains navigating the waterways of the hinterlands far away from the prying eyes of the emperor.
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Oct 4, 2021 11:37
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Rabelais D posted:The whole point of "jianghu" is to be outside official control, heroes and villains navigating the waterways of the hinterlands far away from the prying eyes of the emperor. 
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Oct 4, 2021 12:40
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better get some 3d glasses and a blu ray of this before it gets retroactively banned
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Oct 4, 2021 13:36
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SerCypher posted:It is, also a lot of the classic stuff is pretty anti-authoritarian. He should burn some on TV, it would look about right.
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Oct 4, 2021 14:09
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Props if it was a 40 acre wood book.
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Oct 4, 2021 14:10
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WarpedNaba posted:Wait, salt over Zootopia? Some article got posted here. Alot of chinese kids liked the fox character because he was "clever" and made money and I assume being a red fox helped Also The Villain in the story is a government official namely the mayor, something something sheep. Also I was talking about the last air bender. Also I rememebered years ago in one of these threads there was article about "empires of the deep" where a billionaire wanted to make a movie and hired the director of the empire strikes Back. The director would tell the dude "yeah we can do X' just need to do it this way, and face culture would kick in, and he would yell and point to his sports car as proof he was right.
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Oct 4, 2021 17:25
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i mean if the only things kids were getting out of the film was 'yo the hustling life's for me' i'd be worried to. If it wasn't they just liked him because fox
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Oct 4, 2021 17:33
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Didn't they almost make that big eared fox go extinct?
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Oct 4, 2021 17:36
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Collateral posted:Didn't they almost make that big eared fox go extinct? I don’t think the kids did that.
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Oct 4, 2021 17:42
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Request thread title be changed to this picture. Don't say it can't be done, just do it. lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJlPr2KHSFo
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Oct 4, 2021 18:09
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Rabelais D posted:The whole point of "jianghu" is to be outside official control, heroes and villains navigating the waterways of the hinterlands far away from the prying eyes of the emperor. Yeah there seems to be an understanding in some of the earlier stuff I've read, that being a bandit or an outlaw isn't really a moral failing. Often they're depicted as more respectable and moral than government officials, law enforcement (such as it was), etc. If society is all hosed up and you're a cool martial arts fightman (or fightwoman) the only sensible thing to do is to reject it and create a bandit fortress. I haven't watched many of the recent big CG chinese fantasy fight movies, but I wonder if they're going contain less of those themes moving forward.
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Oct 4, 2021 19:33
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SerCypher posted:Yeah there seems to be an understanding in some of the earlier stuff I've read, that being a bandit or an outlaw isn't really a moral failing. It's fine to reject society so long as you're a white man who's not allowed to rape and murder whoever he wants because society is run by fruity liberals who aren't white men.
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Oct 4, 2021 19:40
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Chairman yang best chairman
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Oct 4, 2021 20:01
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SerCypher posted:If society is all hosed up and you're a cool martial arts fightman (or fightwoman) the only sensible thing to do is to reject it and create a bandit fortress. don't forget all the beautiful women you'll get by living this jianghu lifestyle though
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Oct 4, 2021 20:30
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Shumagorath posted:Blue Pocahontas wasn't very notable other than for its art direction and use of 3D, if you ask me. It also took its entire premise from the 1990s RPG Albion.
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Oct 5, 2021 03:36
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Was this ever posted in here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHsGO8a8WOE
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Oct 6, 2021 02:37
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Apparently Ian McCollum's most recent book on domestically manufactured Chinese handguns from 1911 - 1949 is running into some issues since the printing is being done in China. The censors don't seem to like the maps that are in the book and was offered alternative, party-approved maps to use instead. Apparently they were so ridiculous that they're being removed from the book entirely and an appendix with the maps will be added once they get their hands on them before shipping. I really want to know what the problem was and what the replacement maps looked like. Given the time period I'm guessing it has to do with regions under whose control at different points leading up to and through the civil war/WWII, and I wonder just how egregious the edits were.
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Oct 6, 2021 11:26
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Coxswain Balls posted:Apparently Ian McCollum's most recent book on domestically manufactured Chinese handguns from 1911 - 1949 is running into some issues since the printing is being done in China. The censors don't seem to like the maps that are in the book and was offered alternative, party-approved maps to use instead. Apparently they were so ridiculous that they're being removed from the book entirely and an appendix with the maps will be added once they get their hands on them before shipping. Makes me think of this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBE7I8QIpw4&t=538s I don't know how good China Uncensored is as a source but MOVA globes were fined in part for having a globe which was based on a 1790 map.
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Oct 6, 2021 13:11
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Broke: 9 Dash Line Woke: 26,400 Dash Line
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Oct 6, 2021 13:17
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freelop posted:Makes me think of this video. I'm pretty sure China Uncensored is a Falun Gong channel.
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Oct 6, 2021 13:37
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:I'm pretty sure China Uncensored is a Falun Gong channel. how many times did they mention Shen Yun?
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Oct 6, 2021 13:45
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AHH F/UGH posted:Was this ever posted in here I posted it as soon as it was uploaded. I used my mouse, it cost forty dollars. *edit I just remembered, I was watching a Rust clip where an admin was banning cheaters, and I fairly certain the same guy in the daniels clip was in it, same voice etc. They are always pretending to be Russian or Japanese.
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Oct 6, 2021 13:55
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I just checked d&d to get their take on the current raised tensions between Taiwan and mainland China and holy poo poo does the d&d China thread suck.
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Oct 6, 2021 14:04
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LIFEHACK: never read D&D
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Oct 6, 2021 14:08
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Pistol_Pete posted:I just checked d&d to get their take on the current raised tensions between Taiwan and mainland China and holy poo poo does the d&d China thread suck. Does it rival ukmt in its broken brains?
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Oct 6, 2021 14:09
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Pistol_Pete posted:I just checked d&d to get their take on the current raised tensions between Taiwan and mainland China and holy poo poo does the d&d China thread suck. I was going to make this exact same post.
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Oct 6, 2021 14:13
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It's three or four die-hard tankies arguing (and being resoundingly chumped on by the rest of the thread) that, if invaded, Taiwan should immediately surrender or else they would be responsible for any deaths as China rightfully reclaims "their" land. Then one of them accused someone of being a CIA asset because they pointed out that "imperialism" doesn't actually mean "anything done by the US" and things went from there. If you manage to ignore the 12 year olds having their first political awaking and swearing undying allegiance to Mao and glorious communism half a century late, there are a lot of good people making really good posts. I cannot recommend anyone actually read the thread though. Digging through a turd to find a bit of carrot is not for the faint-hearted.
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Oct 6, 2021 14:18
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I thought it was all pretty loving funny, personally. Tankies!
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Oct 6, 2021 16:43
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Fart Simpson is a treasure
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Oct 6, 2021 16:45
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Coxswain Balls posted:Apparently Ian McCollum's most recent book on domestically manufactured Chinese handguns from 1911 - 1949 is running into some issues since the printing is being done in China. The censors don't seem to like the maps that are in the book and was offered alternative, party-approved maps to use instead. Apparently they were so ridiculous that they're being removed from the book entirely and an appendix with the maps will be added once they get their hands on them before shipping. This is actually really hosed up on so many levels. I know it comes down to cost but why TF would you even consider having your book printed in a country that can decide to mandate changes to it??
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censors used to turn a blind eye to books published for the western market so a lot of investment was made and productive capacity built up. the interference with maps and politically sensitive stuff is a recent development and the market hasn’t had time to overcome the inertia
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