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Q: What western movies would translate well as remakes for Chinese cinema?
Did really make that clear in the asking the first time round.
7 years 15 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment - China
Chinese cinema goers are attracted to inane films that, to me, seem best suited to 12 year olds.
That said, I think they should embrace V for Vendetta. Why not? Most ppl I meet here are in desperate need of some cerebral stimuli. Above mentioned flick could well supply them just that. Or not. I'm backing not. But for some...yes indeed.
How about Vinnetou and Old ShutterHand
skunkman:
@mArtiAn:
Here's a few more:
mArtiAn:
Haha, nice.
Show me a home where the buffaloes roam, an' i'll show you a house-full o' s**t.
Chinese cinema goers are attracted to inane films that, to me, seem best suited to 12 year olds.
That said, I think they should embrace V for Vendetta. Why not? Most ppl I meet here are in desperate need of some cerebral stimuli. Above mentioned flick could well supply them just that. Or not. I'm backing not. But for some...yes indeed.
Most western movies seem to be in Chinese cinemas.
Battleship Potempkin. Oh wait, they tried that with Founding of an Army and it flopped.
Aliens and the likes
http://mentalfloss.com/article/56433/7-movie-monsters-allegedly-represent-communism
Samsara:
V for Vendetta has been played, unedited, on Chinese TV.
While V is probably the most overtly, explicitly, obviously anti-authoritarian movie ever made, Chinese people simply do not understand allusion, metaphor or satire. They are not able to draw parallels between the ultra-authoritarian security state in the movie --- "Censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity" --- and their own situation.
Norsefire would have to be called "The Chinese Communist Party" and Adam Sutler renamed "Xi JinPing" before Chinese people realised that this movie applies to them. And then they still wouldn't get it.
Good answer though, Royce.