This guy is crazy good, singing one of the top songs of 2022-2023... and he's Indonesian.
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This guy is crazy good, singing one of the top songs of 2022-2023... and he's Indonesian.
Great show on Chairman Mao and early CCP history.
Not directly related to China, but about the collapse of Korean media since 2019 due to the takeover of the Korean media market by Netflix and US companies. A great warning.
100+ K-dramas since 2021 have been filmed but not released.
In 2019, 227 million audience-screenings for movies occurred in South Korea.
In 2023, 125 million audience-screenings for movies occurred in South Korea.
South Korean movies don't even control their own market.
Box office 2023 is 3/10 Korean (12.12, the Round Up part 2, Concrete Utopia):
Box office 2022 is 1/10 Korean (the Roundup):
Box office 2021 is 2/10 Korean (Escape from Mogadishu, Sinkhole):
So, I wanna talk about Battle At Lake Changjin again. Although people like to talk about how it's a 'propaganda film', I feel like it really failed at being a 'propaganda', ya know. Because for an anti-American propaganda, the film didn't really do much to antagonize the Americans, like how they humanize General Smith as a desperate man who respects his adversaries, and even have scenes where American soldiers talk about how they want to go back home and meet their families again. So I wanna ask you all, if you can rewrite this film's plot, what would its new narrative be? Will it demonize the Americans to really fit the propaganda tag that it waa called by? Or will it be like a campy anti-war film talking about the effects of the American's advance in Yalu river towards the civilians in that area? I wanna hear you guys' thoughts on this.
think about the ancient Assyrians and ancient Romans. They glorified their enemies to make defeating them seem even more badass.
You see that with the US too. They portray Iraqis in 1990 as the "4th best army in the world" to make themselves look even better for crushing them, when Iraq was really a 3rd world country infiltrated by France with <10% the population and <5% the GDP of the US.
only recently have they moved to the "we are the best, always have been" model.
Same shit with athenians, making Atlantis some high tech civilisation but because of Athenian power they could beat back those Atlantis invaders about 9200 years earlier when Plato told this story
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Gotta get with the times. Super old movies used to have the main character capable of no wrong and all his enemies pure evil, shot to death like ants as the hero runs through them with a machine gun, impervious to retaliation. Nowadays, good movies add multidimensionality to their characters. American soldiers are people fighting to expand the rule of their empire under their government mind-control telling them that they are "defending their freedoms." Although their international aggression is detestable to say the least, even these people are not bad in every facet of their behavior; they are still human and capable of humane behavior at times, especially when confronted with their own mortality. If you make a movie in which the Americans are portayed as mindless evil killing machines to be mowed down by the Chinese heros, your movie becomes 2 dimensional and will feel fake, cartoonish, and unrelatable. It can give people goosebumps and make them cringe when good and evil are exaggerated too far, like a godly Wu Jing fighting a band of Americans who are laughing as they torture captured women and children, by dodging their bullets in mid-air while making shots that go through several enemy's heads per shot. That's often the main complaint against Bollywood. To be a movie that seems genuine and one that people can feel attached to, it needs to recognize that our enemies are people too by mixing some humanity in with thier overall evil.
This may not be very interesting. The shooting level of martial arts films in our country has seriously declined.
The promotional video is full of traces of shoddy workmanship, with everyone wearing excessive makeup and no signs of aging in their clothes.
Many actors have not received any martial arts training, so they can only pretend to be strong with slow movements and aerial spinning.
Numerous CG special effects, fake scenery, and poor slow motion shots。Please spare me, I don't want to see this trash.