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- No. 1. Modern, Mainland China Is Not The Same as Hong Kong
- No. 2. Don’T Take Any Old Script and Set It in China
- No 3. Movies Are About Culture, Not only Entertainment
- No. 4. Avoid Writing About An American Savior Who Goes to China
- No. 5. Keep Your Story Grounded in Reality
- No. 6. There Is No Rating System in China
- No. 7. Overt Sexual Content Is Also A No-No
- No. 8. Forget Ghost Stories and Horror Films with Two Exceptions
- No. 9. Skip The Time-Travel Plots
- No. 10. The Popularity of Sci-Fi Is on The Rise
According to Lin, one of the biggest mistakes writers make when thinking about the Chinese marketplace, is thinking back to movies made in 1990s Hong Kong. “They think of Jackie Chan or Bruce Lee movies,” says Lin, “and those are really kind of dated perspectives. You have to think about modern China – it doesn’t really have a heavy martial arts ci...
“A lot of people take old scripts and just change the location from maybe Chicago to Beijing,” says Lin. The problem? Chinese culture and cinema has its own unique sensibility. To learn about that sensibility, you need to watch current Chinese-made films.
For the Chinese, movies are not just an entertainment enterprise; they are a cultural enterprise. “It’s not about fun or make-believe. That means the values reflected have to be at the high end of the culture,” says Lin. The story should also be threaded through a context of universal humanity. Themes like family and love are popular in Chinese cin...
“It would be great for an American or Western audience to see that character’s perspective, but why would the Chinese audience be interested in watching a movie about their culture from a foreigner’s perspective? The character would be a fish out of water but China is the water,” says Lin. You can certainly have an American and a Chinese character ...
He says the Chinese like to watch movies that feel realistic, not set in a galaxy far, far away. “Star Wars didn’t do exponentially well, but they loved The Martian,” says Lin.
At first glance not having a rating system sounds great! But the reality is that all movies have to good for a general audience. “No ultra-violence, no Scarface, but you can have action. The top-grossing movie in China is a film called Wolf Warrior 2, it made $800 million U.S. dollars in China – that’s how big it is. It’s got gunplay and action but...
“No gore, no ultra-sexuality. Would you want to take an eight-year old to watch Basic Instinct? No. That’s why those restrictions are in place,” he says.
Lin says there are supernatural and horror movies in China but at the end of the movie, it all has to be either the result of a dream, or a figment of psychological imagination. “You look at The Shining and that’s a psychological thing, right? But you probably can’t do The Sixth Sense.” So why can’t Chinese cinema include actual ghost stories or de...
“A few years ago there were a few TV series basically about modern Chinese men going back to some dynasty and romancing the women there.” A Chinese version of Outlander sounds interesting to me, but Lin says but it goes back to the concept of culture. “You don’t want to mess up culture; you don’t want to change history. They want historical things ...
A recent film called The Wandering Earth(which you can watch on Netflix) made almost $700 million and is an excellent example of current Chinese cinema. There are other Chinese films on Netflix to watch if you’re curious about what’s doing well. If all these rules sound like China has too many restrictions, Lin wants you to remember that there are ...
Chinese film ( 2019; original title Liulang Diqiu ). China Film Group Corporation and Netflix presents an Alibaba Pictures, Base FX, Beijing Culture, Beijing Dengfeng International Culture Communications Company and Beijing Jingxi Culture & Tourism Company production in association with Beijing Guoying Zongheng Film, Chao Feng Pictures, China ...
Beijing Dengfeng International Culture Communications Company (CN) 1-10 of 10. Sort by Popularity. 1. The Wandering Earth II. 2023 2h 53m 13+. 6.9 (12K) Rate. 56 Metascore. Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous.
Full credits for The Wandering Earth 2. Present CFC Pictures Limited GiFilm (Beijing) Studio Co., Ltd. Beijing Dengfeng International Culture Communication Co., Ltd. China Film Co., Ltd...
Apr 18, 2024 · Sequel to "The Battle at Lake Changjin " that focuses on the soldiers of the Chinese Army Volunteer Corps on a crucial new mission to defeat American troops in the Korean War conflict.
北京登峰國際代文化傳播有限公司 Beijing Dengfeng International Culture Communication Co., Ltd. Production. Wandering Earth II (2023)
