On October 18, 2021, Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away from complications of COVID-19. Powell's famous scene is holding a tube of white powder to frame Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, and he was ridiculed by Chinese netizens as "the king of washing powder" or similar nicknames.
While the news of his death has attracted attention, there is a very interesting phenomenon, that is, some Chinese have a more explicit evaluation of American politicians and the US military, which may make Americans blush.
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Powell made cameo appearances in American dramas after stepping down as secretary of state, and according to current practice on film and television rating websites, he was also listed as an actor on these websites. To be honest, when I finished reading powell's introduction on a domestic film review website, I simply felt that I was not strange enough and incompatible with some personalities.
Introduction of a domestic film review website
This wording you taste in detail: the American Dream, honesty, hard work, deep understanding of the soldiers' blood and tears, noble character, strategic foresight, high support rate, precious.
Powell's washing powder incident is not to mention the world-famous, he retired from the U.S. Army, participated in the Vietnam War, participated in the command of the invasion of Grenada and the Gulf War in 1991.
Some netizens, as Chinese, do not know how to write this kind of introduction to praise and praise?
Some foreign film and television posters and stills on a domestic film review website are copied and pasted by Chinese netizens from similar foreign websites, so are these introductions also translated from foreign film criticism websites?
With this question in mind, I went to watch the famous IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes.
Introduction on IMDB:
Colin Powell was born on April 5, 1937 in New York, New York, United States, and his full name is Colin Luther Powell. His notable credits include The Secretary of State (2014), The Daily Show (Variety, 1996) and President of the United States (Documentary, 2000). His spouse was Alma Powell. He passed away on October 18, 2021 at Walter Reid Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Introduction to IMDB
What praise, what praise, does not exist.
Obviously not translated from IMDB.
This introduces some basic information about Powell, which is automatically generated by crawling information on the Internet.
Looking at Rotten Tomatoes, it's simpler, only the place of birth and the date of birth.
Introduction to Rotten Tomatoes
Apparently it wasn't translated from the Rotten Tomatoes introduction either.
By the way, the fifth season of this American drama "Lady Secretary of State" made a cameo appearance by Powell has a rating of 8.3 points on a domestic film review website.
IMDB's scoring mechanism is the overall rating of the whole episode and the rating of each episode.
The overall rating of seasons 1-6 of "Ms. Secretary of State" is 7.6, and only the 19th episode of the fifth season has reached 8.3 points, and the other episodes are less than this rating, screenshot is as follows:
Comparison of Chinese and foreign ratings
Rotten Tomatoes' rating is that professional film critics and audiences are separated, this drama has no professional rating, 70% of the audience recommends, it can be seen that the attention is not high, even professional film critics are too lazy to score. And some popular American dramas have high audience recommendation, and it is not surprising that more than 80% or even 90% are recommended.
If Americans see the fictional secretary of state in "Madam Secretary of State" strategizing and "bowing down to lead the world" and are happy, so they score high scores, I wonder why some Chinese audiences scored so much higher than Americans?
Cameo
(From left: Hillary Clinton, Ms. Secretary of State starring Tia Rioney, Powell and Albright, three former U.S. secretaries of state in cameos)
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Because Powell also served as chairman of the U.S. Military Joint Chiefs and U.S. Secretary of State, I went to these two websites to watch.
The introduction of Powell on the website of the American General Staff is mainly his military career. There are no obvious words of praise, but the Massacre of My Lai Village during the Vietnam War is also avoided.
The massacre at My Lai Village was carried out by Company B, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 23rd Infantry Division, and C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment.
According to a later investigation by the U.S. military, the number of Vietnamese civilians slaughtered was 347.
However, it has been calculated that the actual number may be more than 500.
Many of the Vietnamese who were slaughtered were old, weak, women and children, and the U.S. military was tortured and killed.
Powell, who was then the deputy chief of staff in charge of operations of the U.S. 23rd Infantry Division, deliberately did not report to his superiors the revelations of the massacre by a small number of U.S. soldiers during the investigation of the massacre, and claimed that "the soldiers of this division have very good relations with the Vietnamese people." ”
Later, some people criticized that Powell's behavior was actually a whitewash of the My Lai village massacre.
Powell during the Vietnam War (first from right)
It wasn't until Powell was secretary of state that he told the media that some of the things that happened in the Vietnam War were terrible and "deplorable."
This remark was interpreted as Powell's regret over the massacre in My Lai Village.
However, the Americans gave some films and televisions that reflected the massacre in My Lai Village a low score.
As for a domestic film review website, these films and televisions have no ratings.
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Powell's most famous story in China is the laundry detergent incident, which occurred when Powell pulled out a small bottle of white powder at a United Nations meeting on February 5, 2003, claiming that this was evidence that the Saddam regime in Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. It also said that the United States has obtained accurate intelligence and won the support of many countries for the United States invasion of Iraq.
Famous scenes
Of course, the U.S. military did not find any evidence of this after taking Iraq.
To this end, the United States later found many pretexts that the intelligence at that time was obtained from old material (expired intelligence?) obtained from British intelligence archives. And the nature of an expired map? ）
Powell argued that he had only four days to verify whether the intelligence was true.
In September 2005, Powell admitted to the media that this was his "stain" and made him feel painful.
Notice that at this point in time, Powell's term as Secretary of State ends on January 26, 2005, so is he saying this sincerely? Or is it because the Bush Cabinet abandoned him?
To this day, the US State Department still has a sentence on its introduction to Powell:
"In 2004 it was discovered that some of the intelligence Powell brought to the United Nations in 2003 proved to be wrong."
Introduction to the original words
As for a domestic film review website, there is no such sentence in the introduction of Powell.
Moreover, the introduction of Powell on a domestic film review website does not look like it was translated from the character introduction of the US State Department.
In fact, on a domestic film review website, American politicians and THE US military are more sought after than Americans, which is not an isolated case.
For example, another former Secretary of State Albright who made a cameo appearance in the American drama described her as "the greatest secretary of state." This sentence is also not available on similar websites in the United States.
Another example is the movie "Top Gun 2", the release date has been repeatedly postponed, and it is currently tentatively scheduled to be released in 2022, that is to say, it has not yet been released, but someone has announced that the US military has won again in the comment area of a domestic film review website.
In fact, I am quite worried about this movie where the male and female protagonists are more than 100 years old combined.
Initially there were several lines in the comments section shouting that young people were going to join the U.S. Air Force!
Now I don't know if it was reported, or if the website felt it was too explicit, and this kind of statement has been deleted.
"Top Gun", whether 1 or 2, is filmed by the U.S. Navy's flying unit, this kind of person crying grave can find the wrong grave, and do not know how to know a few words of English to become like this.
There is also a kind of person is wolf warrior PTSD, while saying that "Top Gun 2" kills the "Wolf Warrior" series, while cursing and grinning.
I don't know if this kind of person thinks that the level of the US military conscription movie such as "Top Gun" is so high, so what is the fear of wolves?
There is also a kind of person who announces that China will not be able to make a film of the level of "Top Gun" in 100 years. Don't know if such a person can live to be 100 years old? So confident in America?
There are many more remarks of love for the United States, and opinions full of malice toward China, which I do not want to repeat here.
Perhaps for such people, in fact, Powell, who wears a military uniform and actively participates in the US military's foreign war, meets their imagination of the United States.
Four-star Admiral Powell
However, such people may subconsciously feel that Powell's behavior of planting stolen goods for a certain country and then sending troops to fight is more in line with their wishes.
Pay attention to the Guards Infantry Division, pay attention to the military