solarz
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First, Black Myth Wukong total sales hit $1 billion on a $40 million budget, now Nezha 2 is projected to hit $2 billion on a $80 million budget. Both happen to be re-interpretations of popular cultural characters.
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First, Black Myth Wukong total sales hit $1 billion on a $40 million budget, now Nezha 2 is projected to hit $2 billion on a $80 million budget. Both happen to be re-interpretations of popular cultural characters.
You don't have to tell me that China has a white worship problem especially before 2015 or so. Doesn't mean you should reinforce it as a director. The use of half-white actors and actresses throughout Asia (outside of South Korea, which actually promotes its own people as the superior stock) is historically disappointing and contributes to the blind spot many Asians have towards whites.
solarz
Brigadier
ROFL, do you really have no idea who Fei Xiang is, or are you just trying to be contrarian? The guy is a household name and nobody gives a crap about his genetic heritage. In fact, most people don't even know he's mixed.
Next you're gonna tell me 大山 is also white-worshipping? LMAO!
you know what these two have achieved..
they successfully penetrated into general audience and create a brand value. which is always been the trademark of Hollywood/Japan until now. merchandize sales also broke all time record in mainland. i m tracking city to city box office and reviews of Ne Zha2.. its mind boggling what this movie has achieved. even rural areas people are talking about this.
its looks pretty normal for those who don't follow much box office. but Ne Zha2 is going to achieve 250-300 million cinema ticket sales. which never happened before in last 50 years in any market. means 20 percent of Chinese population will watch this movie in theaters.
New era has begun..
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
He clearly knows who Fei Xiang is; he pointed out the guy's mixed.
That's what he's saying is not good. The director's choice to promote such people in China emphasizes and reinforces white worship, whether subconsciously for people who don't know that he's mixed by promoting Western or Western-influence facial features or directly to people who do know that he's mixed. Honestly I think everyone knows that he's mixed.
I do like the South Korean way here. Promote pure South Koreans, and even when they rarely stray from that with the odd foregn member in a girls' group, they are still always Asian.
You kidding?
The fact that he's mixed is supremely visible on his face.
So much so, that the New York Times ran an article in 1989 titled "A 6-Foot-3, Blue-Eyed Taiwanese-American Is China's Top Rocker".
You think no one recognizes that his eyes are gray-blue? This guy can't pass as a typical Asian - he's one of those unique cases of white-Asian mixing where the recessive white genes for blue-eyes somehow became expressed.
Anyone remotely familiar with Fei Xiang would know he's mixed, and casting the Shang king as a blue-eyed half-white guy plays straight into a particular fringe historical narrative - which funny enough, is quite popular among Central Asians, I wonder why - that China was founded by Central Eurasian nomads.
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solarz
Brigadier
Are you serious?
You're talking about a movie that's supposed to be set in the Bronze Age and yet have heavy cavalry with full mail armor, not to mention the giant blue and red guys, and the guy with three eyes, and you think having blue eyes is historically inaccurate?
It's not about historical accuracy. It's about making sure you provide any fuel to modern narratives that you do not want perpetuated.
solarz
Brigadier
The success of Nezha and Wukong tells me that it's far more useful to focus on creating your own successful narratives than trying to nitpick minor details in fear that others might use it against you.