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BrigadierSensible posted:OK, this may be a cold take, and stupidly naive. But it is Chinese film adjacent, so it fits here. Please tell me if I am wrong. Mostly false, tons of foreign films have been huge hits in the Chinese market, to the point where many western blockbusters made the majority of their total gross in China alone. Star Wars just wasn't one of them, despite the marketing push it didn't click the way Transformers did And ticket sales are skewed because the CCP puts hard limit on the number of foreign films approved to screen in Chinese cinemas, and that has more to do with protecting their homegrown films from being swept away by the competition than any real ideological censorship. Those limitations have only gotten stricter over the past decade. Local regulations also dictate the times and dates foreign films can show, to leave primetimes and holidays monopolized by Chinese war propaganda films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films_in_China As you can see it's mostly domestically-produced films, which mostly came out in 2015 onward. Here's how the list looked in 2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_highest-grossing_films_in_China&oldid=614059993
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Jul 12, 2022 05:31
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I wish I could find the article about it but some chinese billionare wanted to make a movie called empires of the deep. He hired hollywood people to help him and the culture clashes were just epic. He tried to win an arguement by pointing out he owned a sports car. I also saw photo where some property developers were making a chinese hollywood by having their own version of the hollywood sign. And finally I think with chasing chinese producer money it might just be a way for people to get money out of chinese since china does do currency controls.
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Jul 12, 2022 05:34
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Ups_rail posted:He tried to win an arguement by pointing out he owned a sports car. And he didn’t win it? What the hell. He’s got a sports car for christ’s sake!
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Jul 12, 2022 05:37
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remember monster hunt? that was a cool chinese movie that wasnt just 3 kingdoms/wukong again. i heard it got a sequel? was that one any good. are there more than one sequel. idk.
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Jul 12, 2022 05:44
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Paper Lion posted:remember monster hunt? that was a cool chinese movie that wasnt just 3 kingdoms/wukong again. i heard it got a sequel? was that one any good. are there more than one sequel. idk.  I remember this film, (or maybe the first one), from when I lived there. The monster was very cute. BrigadierSensible fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Jul 12, 2022 |
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Jul 12, 2022 07:07
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My man Tony Leong in these poo poo movies, smh.
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Jul 12, 2022 07:11
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je1 healthcare posted:Mostly false, tons of foreign films have been huge hits in the Chinese market, to the point where many western blockbusters made the majority of their total gross in China alone. yah, my mst3k group threw on xXx: Return of Xander Cage and... Budget: $85,000,000 (estimated) Gross US & Canada: $44,898,413 Gross China: $164,066,583 Gross worldwide: $346,118,277 lovely american franchise sequels make BANK in china, comparatively speaking
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Jul 12, 2022 07:26
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were the chinese even familiar with the xXx series at all
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Jul 12, 2022 09:04
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theyre familiar with vin diesel through the fast movies, so some financier probably figured that would be close enough
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Jul 12, 2022 09:26
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Kchama posted:The distinction is between whether you're attempting to achieve political power for someone else, or for yourself directly. A politician is attempting to achieve money for himself, loads of it, always, off the record. That's why he was there.
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Jul 12, 2022 10:25
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Ups_rail posted:I also saw photo where some property developers were making a chinese hollywood by having their own version of the hollywood sign. This seems pretty common for Chinese property developers: Look up Hallstatt China, a Chinese replica of a small Austrian scenic tourist town. Or Tianducheng, with its own Eiffel Tower.
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Jul 12, 2022 11:03
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Re: Chinese cultural exports, gaming seems a bit of a mixed bag - on one hand you get some pretty different and interesting indie titles (Chaos Galaxy, Sands of Salazar, and Amazing Cultivation Simulator for instance), but on the other hand you also get a ton of cheap shovelware (especially porn) titles as well as fancier games whose store page seems to think that “showcasing the 5000 years of rich Chinese culture” is more or less the only unique selling point they need. Also, even the good Chinese games tend to lean more heavily on grinding and blatant “make number bigger” style gameplay than comparable Western games, though in fairness that’s generally true of Japanese games as well, though not I think to the extent that China takes it.
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Jul 12, 2022 11:13
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On the other hand Genshin Impact is absolutely the apotheosis of Japanese videogames that somehow got made in China
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Jul 12, 2022 11:18
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Tomn posted:Re: Chinese cultural exports, gaming seems a bit of a mixed bag - on one hand you get some pretty different and interesting indie titles (Chaos Galaxy, Sands of Salazar, and Amazing Cultivation Simulator for instance), but on the other hand you also get a ton of cheap shovelware (especially porn) titles as well as fancier games whose store page seems to think that “showcasing the 5000 years of rich Chinese culture” is more or less the only unique selling point they need. Also, even the good Chinese games tend to lean more heavily on grinding and blatant “make number bigger” style gameplay than comparable Western games, though in fairness that’s generally true of Japanese games as well, though not I think to the extent that China takes it. There's some pretty good ones, but even they can't avoid censorship completely unless they go fully for the international market (Pathea Games with My Time at Portia). See e.g. Tale of Immortal which forced users to install government spyware until the company relented in the face of abysmally bad Steam review drop. Bunch of them also take place in/are inspired by Xinjiang, in a very "Xinjiang is and always has been China" way. Like Sands of Salzaar, say. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Jul 12, 2022 |
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Jul 12, 2022 11:50
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Vegetable posted:My man Tony Leong in these poo poo movies, smh. I know. Same with Simon Yam. They’ve all been stuck in Mandarin trash purgatory.
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Jul 12, 2022 12:37
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is there any awareness of older HK stuff in China? I imagine if you showed Shaw Brothers to the kids they would just be bored
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Jul 12, 2022 13:49
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Alan Smithee posted:is there any awareness of older HK stuff in China? I imagine if you showed Shaw Brothers to the kids they would just be bored Probably a lot of 1980s and 90s stuff, I know I’ve seen HD versions of those pop up, but only with Mandarin dubbing, but they don’t look like old masters in the least, and we’re clearly remastered. Those are the films that most likely made their way into the PRC during the opening up periods I am from General cross border travel and trade.
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Jul 12, 2022 14:49
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Watched "A Chinese Ghost Story" last night as it was mentioned earlier in this thread and is free on Prime video. Loved it, perfect amount of cheese
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Jul 13, 2022 10:23
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freelop posted:"A Chinese Ghost Story" ... free on Prime video. Thanks for the heads up
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Jul 13, 2022 14:10
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freelop posted:Watched "A Chinese Ghost Story" last night as it was mentioned earlier in this thread and is free on Prime video. It’s very heavily indebted, in inspiration, from Evil Dead 1. I can’t remember if Evil Dead 2 predates A Chinese Ghost Story or not.
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Jul 13, 2022 16:03
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eSports Chaebol posted:On the other hand Genshin Impact is absolutely the apotheosis of Japanese videogames that somehow got made in China Didn't they use Japanese VAs over mandarin ones? Paper Lion posted:theyre familiar with vin diesel through the fast movies, so some financier probably figured that would be close enough The film was also co-produced by Huahua Media and co-starred Chris Wu and Donnie Yen, whom were heavily promoted in the Chinese marketing push. je1 healthcare fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jul 13, 2022 |
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Jul 13, 2022 23:37
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Jul 14, 2022 09:21
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Is racoon fur even long enough to spin into fabric? It would be like trying to create rope out of toothpicks.
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Jul 14, 2022 09:43
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"No, they don't suffer while they're being shorn. They're already dead by then."
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Jul 14, 2022 10:23
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Is it bad that I want this?
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Jul 14, 2022 10:31
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Brutal Garcon posted:Is it bad that I want this? It's not bad that you want what that label describes, but I don't think that's what it, or anything else in the world, is.
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Jul 14, 2022 11:03
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sez here peeps in liaoning expecting contagion for banking npl and wealth management shenanigans https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-...ampaign=3185163 bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Jul 14, 2022 |
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Jul 14, 2022 13:58
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Marshal Prolapse posted:It’s very heavily indebted, in inspiration, from Evil Dead 1. I can’t remember if Evil Dead 2 predates A Chinese Ghost Story or not. Both came out in '87.
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Jul 14, 2022 21:45
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Devils Affricate posted:It's not bad that you want what that label describes, but I don't think that's what it, or anything else in the world, is. Apparently it comes from tanukis, not proper raccoons. At least that’s what it said on a website professing to be selling raccoon yarn.
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Jul 14, 2022 22:28
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arent those the extremely large ballsacks on legs?
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Jul 14, 2022 23:03
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Yolomon Wayne posted:arent those the extremely large ballsacks on legs? Yep. They can also turn to stone, rendering them temporarily invulnerable. This makes shaving them difficult.
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Jul 14, 2022 23:55
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tanooki fur would be real expensive and furries would be nutting in/on them all the time
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Kchama posted:Both came out in '87. Thanks, so barring a very early release for evil dead two, that Tsui Hark might’ve seen somewhere, it’s only influenced by evil dead one. That said the idea of Hark seeing it at some sort of special event or screening as part of a film festival wouldn’t be hard to imagine happening. Yes, I’m putting way too much thought into this.
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Jul 15, 2022 01:00
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Alan Smithee posted:tanooki fur would be real expensive and furries would be nutting in/on them all the time I dunno it said the fur comes from “raccoon dogs”, I assume that means tanuki.
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Jul 15, 2022 01:03
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i really wanna see what a shorn raccoon looks like now
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Jul 15, 2022 01:32
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Tanukis do allow the shaving of their testes for cooling. Considering their size, I'd say there's enough there for a garment or two.
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Jul 15, 2022 02:52
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the cops just asked me to send them a bunch of pictures of me doing stuff in each season so that they can photoshop a cop watching me into each picture not sure what to make of it
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Jul 15, 2022 07:27
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quite the opportunity to send the cops dick pics
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BrainDance posted:the cops just asked me to send them a bunch of pictures of me doing stuff in each season so that they can photoshop a cop watching me into each picture Wear your ACAB shirt and gently caress the police hat in each one
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