On January 7, 2022, Disney's new animation "Full House" was released in China. Nearly 20 days have passed now, but its box office is only nearly 60 million, which is basically one of Disney's most dismal box office animations in China.
So why is this happening? Some of this is because the song and dance form of the work is not pleasing in China, but the more critical reason is a certain "prejudice".
As for what kind of prejudice it is, I will put it aside for the time being, and I will tell you in detail below, before that, let's first look at a face-slapping information about American netizens for "Full House of Magic"-related works.
Not only is it magical and funny, but it also gives us another chance to examine our own behavior.
01. The political correctness of the devil
On January 21, a netizen reprinted an interesting event on Twitter to Weibo, which attracted widespread attention, and the "culprit" that triggered the incident was the following "Magic Full House" fan painting.
As we all know, "Full House of Magic" is a typical Disney 3D painting style, and the above fan painting is a strong Japanese comic texture. Without him, just because it is from the hand of a Japanese painter, it naturally has more healing two-dimensional texture--- the color of the whole painting is very light, but it is also more warm because of the lightness.
But it was such a "transformation", when the fan painting was uploaded to the Internet and seen by netizens from the United States, they actually launched an Internet storm against Japanese painters.
"The skin color of the character is too light, which is simply discrimination against Latin Americans" "This painter is a bad eye, and he arbitrarily changes the skin color of the characters in the original work, which is really disgraceful"...
Similar remarks are popular on Twitter, in the eyes of these American netizens, Japanese painters are simply despicable racists, with discrimination against dark-skinned people in their bones, so they deliberately turn the full characters of "Full House of Magic" into light gray, and even some characters have become white.
And when the Japanese painter was attacked by American netizens, he also immediately deleted the fan painting --- may not be an apology and admit his mistake, at best it is a compromise of bullying in front of him.
But before the matter was over, shortly after the Japanese painter deleted the picture, some real Latin Americans actually jumped out and angrily rebuked American netizens for not having faces: "South American skin color is originally diverse, this painting is very beautiful, we like it very much, but we don't understand why Americans are angry for us."
On the one hand, American netizens angrily accused Japanese painters of discriminating against Latin Americans, on the other hand, Latin Americans themselves angrily rebuked American netizens for being nosy, under this dramatic conflict, the topic was also completely detonated on the external network, and more interestingly, a hot topic also appeared on Twitter on the day: shutupgringo2022 (old American shut up 2022).
At the same time, there are countless jokes of playing terriers.
Of course, if you have always paid attention to the actions of the United States in film and television works, you should know that the above face-rolling is actually an inevitability.
A long time ago, the Support for the "vulnerable groups" in the United States has gone to the point of overcorrection, from the fact that almost every movie must appear black, to the main role (even the protagonist) of the film must be arranged for the black group, otherwise it will be angrily rebuked by local public opinion, and the image of the corresponding film and television company in society will also be satirized.
The most well-known example of this is Disney's The Little Mermaid, as well as Marvel and DC's series of arrangements for new anime and movies. The former resolutely changed the original work, replacing the original white-skinned Princess Ariel with the black actress Harley Bailey;
The latter corresponds to the behavior that DC will introduce a new black superman, the new Iron Man will use black sister actors, and the new comics Captain America will go to LGBT.
Although these examples do not modify the original work, the "desire to survive" is also very explicit, or it has become the wealth code of Western content creation companies in the market.
By the way, this matter must not fail to mention JK Rowling of Harry Potter, the original author who was actually angered by the entire Western public opinion for speaking for women.
Therefore, when the Japanese painter "downplayed" the dark-skinned character of "Full House of Magic", it was impossible for him not to be attacked by public opinion from American netizens, because this was the magic, and the behavior of the magic people was often vulnerable because of the extreme meaning, and it was inevitable to be punched in the face.
In addition, the people who pay attention to this matter are far from only overseas netizens, and when the matter was transmitted back to China, it was also ridiculed by countless netizens.
But what is more intriguing is that in some domestic netizens, things have become more and more magical.
02. You punch in the face, I punch in the face, and everyone punches the face together
In the comment area of this Weibo, in addition to being able to see countless comments that are purely spitting on the devilishness of Americans, there is also this one that is more eye-catching or laughable.
"Just like the fans of "Lion Boy" like to forgive the main creative team instead of Cantonese"
The "Lion Boy" thing I will not be too burdensome here, and the reason why the above netizens will say such remarks is because it picked up the characteristic points of "so-and-so replacing so-and-so speech" in this Twitter incident, and then used this to mock the good teacher of "Lion Boy" fans, and also to argue their brazenness.
But does this feature point really sum up the full house of magic brawl? Or is it at the heart of this quarrel?
The answer is obviously no, far from being a good teacher, but a satire of people who are too attached to an idea to the point of being demonized, and who have lost the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, and even the ability to think rationally normally have completely collapsed.
In the United States, that is the so-called white left, and here we are casually giving the creator of "Lion Boy" and people who like this animation a random hat to the netizens, including the above-mentioned people who ridiculed the fans of "Lion Boy"--- originally wanted to step on a national comic with this, but the result was in turn punched in the face, which is indeed a bit ridiculous.
Of course, "The Lion Boy" is only a small microcosm, and in the entire film and television field, we can see the devil everywhere.
You joke that the live-action casting of "The Little Mermaid" is no problem, after all, this is Disney's magic change of the original novel and its own classic animation. But if you completely cut off your ties with Western films and television because of a series of politically correct behaviors in the West, and completely identify all Western films as useless, then why is this not another kind of "political correctness"?
And this kind of magic thing is also one of the key factors affecting the domestic box office of "Full House of Magic--- because the protagonist group is too dark, and it is a product of political correctness at a glance, so don't watch it!
In the face of this matter, it is not so much that "Full House of Magic" is wronged, but rather that this is the loss of domestic netizens.
After all, this is not a popcorn, but an annual animation that can win the Golden Globe Award, and is likely to win this year's Oscars--- if even such a masterpiece is ignored, then what qualifications do the rest of the works that are not even eligible for nomination have?
Similar things we have also done in Disney masterpieces such as "Dragon Quest" and "Spiritual Journey", some of them only focus on dark-skinned characters in Southeast Asia, and some are direct portrayals of the life of black people, but they are also boycotted by many netizens because the skin color of the characters is too dark, resulting in different degrees of box office losses.
Of course, what is more serious is the loss of the opportunity for domestic netizens to experience the masterpiece, and it is our missing with beautiful things!
Don't black people deserve their own movie stories? Is it because Western film and television companies have become politically correct, can we only choose to kill all Western films in the cradle?
In this matter, it is really called: fifty steps and a hundred steps.
03. Finally
"The essence of human beings is a repeating machine", which is a phrase that has long remained on the Internet in Chinese, and "long-term" also represents its vitality.
But notice that this exuberance does not lie in the accuracy of its portrayal of human nature, but in the strength of its irony. Yes, this is a satire and a warning, not a foothold for those who are politically correct to seek psychological comfort (which is human nature).
Therefore, we should not take the magic of American netizens as a simple joke, but should be the anchor of self-reflection.
Otherwise the world would only be filled with false and distorted laughter.