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"2012" allows the world to see more Chinese elements

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"2012" allows the world to see more Chinese elements

Songs with strong classical temperament, such as "Chrysanthemum Stage", "Blue and White Porcelain", "East Wind Broken", "Flower Field Mistake" and so on, have brought a Chinese style to the Chinese music scene, and in the world film world, especially Hollywood, a Chinese wind is also blowing.

"2012" allows the world to see more Chinese elements

See more and more Chinese figures in Hollywood blockbusters. If the portrayal of the nearly small fishing village in Shanghai in 1997 in the 1997 Hollywood disaster film "The End of the World" has the meaning of discriminating against China, then in the 2006 "Spy in The Spy 3" Tom Cruise in the bustling streets of Shanghai can be regarded as a real sense of facing up to China's economic development status. Friends who have watched "Transformers 2" in early 2008 will never forget that the big Chinese characters at the beginning of the film, the King Kong siege and suppression war staged in an abandoned factory in China, made Chinese King Kong fans addicted, but in this film, the Chinese elements can only be regarded as a background and gimmick. In 2008, "Kung Fu Panda", which made a big global box office, played the two completely Chinese elements of "Kung Fu" and "Panda" to tell a Hollywood-style hero story, in the words of many people, "with Chinese things to make Chinese money, we still have to clap our hands."

"2012" allows the world to see more Chinese elements

The disaster film "2012" has let the world see more Chinese elements, and these elements are still very close to the appetite of Chinese: at the beginning of the film, a Chinese officer with a loudspeaker appears on the screen in front of the evacuated compatriots one after another, using standard Mandarin to persuade the victims to move away; when a group of fleeing Americans are forced to land in the snowy mountains of southwest China, it is the Chinese army that descends from the sky to rescue; when the White House experts flee from the United States to China's Noah's Ark to build a base, the leading American sighed, Two years ago, there was nothing wrong with choosing China as the base for the Ark, because "it is impossible to hand it over to other countries"; when the male protagonist Jack and his family were lost in the mountains of Tibet, they were still unknown Chinese took the initiative to return to the rescue after driving a long distance; in the Ark, one of the three languages used in the radio was Mandarin; and at the end of the film, when the American provisional decision-maker in the movie saw that the tsunami was coming and refused to let more people enter the ark, China was one of the first countries to decide to open the locks, because everyone was equal in front of life.

"2012" allows the world to see more Chinese elements

The world film industry frequently blows Chinese wind, this is a warm wind, is the embodiment of China's current international status, is the embodiment of China's huge film consumption market, worthy of our pride and celebration; but this is also a cold wind, Hollywood production companies have been closely focused on the Chinese market, trying to use Chinese packaging to tell a Western-style story, which is to ring a wake-up call for our domestic film industry practitioners, less exaggerated propaganda, less right and wrong gossip, less so-called blockbuster productions, more effort, Learn from each other's strengths, shoot more fine products, attract audiences, and win the market.

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