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I wonder if this is the start of a thriving Chinese movie industry, or an unusually popular one-off like Black Myth: Wukong seems to have been (so far)?

krapp 1y ago
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Telaneo 1y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if this was way past the point of the Chinese film industry thriving, but that the West just hasn't gotten to see the gold it has produced and can produce just yet. It really wouldn't surprise me if China has made many Pixar-level or Oscar-level films, or shows and books for that matter, and we just haven't gotten to properly see them, since they were never officially dubbed and released outside of China, and it takes quite a lot for the noise to make it outside of China, and China's just been assuming that the world just wasn't that interested in Chinese culture (and were probably proven right by western media never really talking about it; when was the last time you heard about any Chinese film/book/tv show other than this one?), and just didn't bother to even try that much to get it out there. But now that it's out there, and people think it's good, we're probably going to get a lot more of it. Even if most of it's just mediocre, it'll be, if not better than, at least different from the Hollywood stagnation.
- diggernet 1y ago
  > when was the last time you heard about any Chinese film/book/tv show other than this one? Three Body Problem
  - trenchpilgrim 1y ago
    Wandering Earth Flavors of Youth House of Flying Daggers Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Quite a lot more if you include Hong Kong, but a lot of those films were developed under British rule.
- mcphage 1y ago
  > It wouldn't surprise me if this was way past the point of the Chinese film industry thriving, but that the West just hasn't gotten to see the gold it has produced and can produce just yet. That’s a good point, I guess by thriving I meant, continuously producing works that are popular outside of the place they were created. > Even if most of it's just mediocre, it'll be, if not better than, at least different from the Hollywood stagnation. That’s what I’m hoping, anyway. Disney and Pixar do best when they’ve got competition.
rurban 1y ago
There was a thriving Chinese movie scene already, based in Hong Kong. Hollywood needed several decades to break that. It was Shrek eventually.

krapp 1y ago

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Telaneo 1y ago

It wouldn't surprise me if this was way past the point of the Chinese film industry thriving, but that the West just hasn't gotten to see the gold it has produced and can produce just yet. It really wouldn't surprise me if China has made many Pixar-level or Oscar-level films, or shows and books for that matter, and we just haven't gotten to properly see them, since they were never officially dubbed and released outside of China, and it takes quite a lot for the noise to make it outside of China, and China's just been assuming that the world just wasn't that interested in Chinese culture (and were probably proven right by western media never really talking about it; when was the last time you heard about any Chinese film/book/tv show other than this one?), and just didn't bother to even try that much to get it out there. But now that it's out there, and people think it's good, we're probably going to get a lot more of it. Even if most of it's just mediocre, it'll be, if not better than, at least different from the Hollywood stagnation.

diggernet 1y ago
> when was the last time you heard about any Chinese film/book/tv show other than this one? Three Body Problem
- trenchpilgrim 1y ago
  Wandering Earth Flavors of Youth House of Flying Daggers Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Quite a lot more if you include Hong Kong, but a lot of those films were developed under British rule.
mcphage 1y ago
> It wouldn't surprise me if this was way past the point of the Chinese film industry thriving, but that the West just hasn't gotten to see the gold it has produced and can produce just yet. That’s a good point, I guess by thriving I meant, continuously producing works that are popular outside of the place they were created. > Even if most of it's just mediocre, it'll be, if not better than, at least different from the Hollywood stagnation. That’s what I’m hoping, anyway. Disney and Pixar do best when they’ve got competition.

rurban 1y ago

There was a thriving Chinese movie scene already, based in Hong Kong. Hollywood needed several decades to break that. It was Shrek eventually.