There is also an anime this season about fictional Tang dynasty emperor made from Japanese studio , "The Raven of the inner palace''
So the China theme does has appeal,maybe not globally, but at the very least in the sinosphere.
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There is also an anime this season about fictional Tang dynasty emperor made from Japanese studio , "The Raven of the inner palace''
So the China theme does has appeal,maybe not globally, but at the very least in the sinosphere.
well Genshin looks more Japanese, so people might learn Japanese first. Then, from a language point of view, I think it's much easier to learn Chinese->Japanese than Japanese->Chinese.
For instance, characters that make perfect sense in Chinese language make 0 sense in Japanese, like how 踊 (CN: yong3, JP: odo, to dance) doesn't sound anything like similar words 勇 (CN: yong3, JP: yuu) or 通 (CN: tong1, JP: tsu). So even if they learn Japanese, it won't be an easy gateway to Chinese, they won't learn Chinese character logic, they will learn Japanese character logic, which is different.
Genshin's great, people will think of China positively at some point when playing it, but by itself doesn't have a direct path of making them buy more Chinese products, visit China or learn Chinese effectively.
Sex sells. That's why the West, which totally dominates at soft power uses sex appeal to sell constantly in everything - games, movies, tv shows, ads, etc.
You think The Uncharted Series and Tom Raider would sell well if the leads were monkey people like Wukong? Too many Chinese do not get it. Just because it is part of your culture doesn't make it attractive to anyone else. The foreigners that cheer you on and praise the style are doing it for different reasons. Many of them praise it because it is bad soft power. It is non threatening. It is ineffective.
This is an excuse. China already has big budgets and world class effects people. Stories don't need decades to figure out. It is fiction. Something like a Chinese James Bond can be penned in a month or two instead of cringe trash like
The Great Wall 2017 - $150 million usd. box office 335, failed to break even. result? white man worship.
The Flowers of War 2011 - $94 million usd. box office 98 million. giant bomb. result? white man worship and effeminate Asian man who gets sacrificed while Chinese women get "rescued" by a guy from the white enemies who drugged China with opium.
Keep in mind. These are budgets in China where a million goes a long way. China does no lack talent, money, sfx, vfx. They suffer from white worship, self hate, and terrible tastes.
At these giant budgets, you can pay top tier writers to write a script on spec. There's simply no excuse for this level of total incompetence.
You think The Uncharted Series and Tom Raider would sell well if the leads were monkey people like Wukong? Too many Chinese do not get it. Just because it is part of your culture doesn't make it attractive to anyone else. The foreigners that cheer you on and praise the style are doing it for different reasons. Many of them praise it because it is bad soft power. It is non threatening. It is ineffective.
This is an excuse. China already has big budgets and world class effects people. Stories don't need decades to figure out. It is fiction. Something like a Chinese James Bond can be penned in a month or two instead of cringe trash like
Shanghai Fortress - 64 million usd. box office 19 million. Giant bomb. Result? The silver lining is very few people get to see this girly man on screen.
The Great Wall 2017 - $150 million usd. box office 335, failed to break even. result? white man worship.
The Flowers of War 2011 - $94 million usd. box office 98 million. giant bomb. result? white man worship and effeminate Asian man who gets sacrificed while Chinese women get "rescued" by a guy from the white enemies who drugged China with opium.
Keep in mind. These are budgets in China where a million goes a long way. China does no lack talent, money, sfx, vfx. They suffer from white worship, self hate, and terrible tastes.
At these giant budgets, you can pay top tier writers to write a script on spec. There's simply no excuse for this level of total incompetence.
So Singapore employers pay their employees to write anti China stuff and penalize them for writing pro China stuff?
Then the problem is with the employers, right. I mean, Singapore claims its not part of the West and independent, neutral politically.
It's not like she's employed for a Western media organization...
I say this because as Chairman Xi himself said, the support of overseas Chinese is an important base for China to win allies. If your overseas Chinese, in an overseas Chinese-majority country, spills out 95% anti-China and 5% pro-China positions, then I would say this is a cause of concern. There are only two pro-China figures in Singapore I can recall, former foreign minister of Singapore George Yeo (the so-called China whisperer) and Kishore Mahbubani, professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. And then you have a whole raft of anti-China voices. These two sane voices are being drowned in fake news, ain't it?
I think if Lee Kuan Yew were alive, he would call for more pro-China voices to balance out the anti-China voices. Balance is key here. There ain't balance as I see it right now, it's bloody fucking tilted in one direction.
can't believe I have to bring this up again but the west in general has 0 soft power. absolutely 0. It's all US.Sex sells. That's why the West, which totally dominates at soft power uses sex appeal to sell constantly in everything - games, movies, tv shows, ads, etc.
You think The Uncharted Series and Tom Raider would sell well if the leads were monkey people like Wukong? Too many Chinese do not get it. Just because it is part of your culture doesn't make it attractive to anyone else. The foreigners that cheer you on and praise the style are doing it for different reasons. Many of them praise it because it is bad soft power. It is non threatening. It is ineffective.
This is an excuse. China already has big budgets and world class effects people. Stories don't need decades to figure out. It is fiction. Something like a Chinese James Bond can be penned in a month or two instead of cringe trash like
Shanghai Fortress - 64 million usd. box office 19 million. Giant bomb. Result? The silver lining is very few people get to see this girly man on screen.
The Great Wall 2017 - $150 million usd. box office 335, failed to break even. result? white man worship.
The Flowers of War 2011 - $94 million usd. box office 98 million. giant bomb. result? white man worship and effeminate Asian man who gets sacrificed while Chinese women get "rescued" by a guy from the white enemies who drugged China with opium.
Keep in mind. These are budgets in China where a million goes a long way. China does no lack talent, money, sfx, vfx. They suffer from white worship, self hate, and terrible tastes.
At these giant budgets, you can pay top tier writers to write a script on spec. There's simply no excuse for this level of total incompetence.
ex-US west box office:
Starting with the 0/10s:
: 0/10 top 10 movies are domestic everything is Hollywood
: 0/10 top 10 movies are domestic everything is Hollywood
: 0/10 top 10 movies are domestic everything is Hollywood
: 0/10 top 10 movies are domestic everything is Hollywood
: 0/10 top 10 movies are domestic everything is Hollywood
Then the 1/10s:
: 1/10 top 10 movies is Italian -
: 1/10 top 10 movies is German -
: 1/10 top 10 movies is Dutch -
: 1/10 top 10 movies is Spanish -
: 1/10 top 10 movies is Mexican -
Where is the western soft power? Nowhere. It literally does not exist. It's US soft power.
Even South Korea is a 2/10:
: 2/10 films are Korean, 8/10 are foreign. only Escape from Mogadishu and Sinkhole are Korean. 1/10 is Japanese (Demon Slayer). 7/10 are Hollywood (Spiderman, Eternals, Black Widow, Cruella, Soul, Venom, Shang Chi)
The only countries with box office independence are China and Japan at 2/10 hollywood and 1/10 hollywood:
: 8/10 films are Chinese, only F9 and Godzilla vs Kong are Hollywood (2/10)
9/10 films are Japanese, only F9 is Hollywood (1/10)
Everytime something happens: Myanmar junta kicking out the civilian government, Russia invade Ukraine, North Korea and South Korea trading shots at sea people think China is using them to wage proxy way.
Meanwhile China is like "u wot m8?"
Wow this a joke? Dude is severly overvaluing the worth of one Indian, nevermind against the backdrop of the larger geopolitical context
I forgot to insert the original tweet in the thread. Anyway this Indian logic leaves me wrapped up. Indian students were volunteering on Twitter to fight in Ukraine against 'evil Russia'. Maybe they should restrain their own Indian citizens first...
As Kishore Mahbubani advised to his Indian brethren: to my fellow Indians, don't get emotional, stay detached. Good advice.
It's greedy producers getting what they deserved, logically it makes sense to cast a white guy you get to make money on both Western and Chinese box offices unfortunately for them common Chinese men aren't treated by women like these rich producers get treated so end up underestimating the amount of bs working class men were willing to put up with, it was a good lesson you don't see white men getting casted now expensive lessons were learnedSex sells. That's why the West, which totally dominates at soft power uses sex appeal to sell constantly in everything - games, movies, tv shows, ads, etc.
You think The Uncharted Series and Tom Raider would sell well if the leads were monkey people like Wukong? Too many Chinese do not get it. Just because it is part of your culture doesn't make it attractive to anyone else. The foreigners that cheer you on and praise the style are doing it for different reasons. Many of them praise it because it is bad soft power. It is non threatening. It is ineffective.
This is an excuse. China already has big budgets and world class effects people. Stories don't need decades to figure out. It is fiction. Something like a Chinese James Bond can be penned in a month or two instead of cringe trash like
Shanghai Fortress - 64 million usd. box office 19 million. Giant bomb. Result? The silver lining is very few people get to see this girly man on screen.
The Great Wall 2017 - $150 million usd. box office 335, failed to break even. result? white man worship.
The Flowers of War 2011 - $94 million usd. box office 98 million. giant bomb. result? white man worship and effeminate Asian man who gets sacrificed while Chinese women get "rescued" by a guy from the white enemies who drugged China with opium.
Keep in mind. These are budgets in China where a million goes a long way. China does no lack talent, money, sfx, vfx. They suffer from white worship, self hate, and terrible tastes.
At these giant budgets, you can pay top tier writers to write a script on spec. There's simply no excuse for this level of total incompetence.