Chapter 659: Where the Root Knot Is

For Hollywood in his previous life, Yang Ming didn't have such a good impression.

In fact, since the birth of Hollywood, the image of Chinese has appeared in Hollywood movies, but what makes people wonder is that the Chinese in these movies are not played by Chinese, but played by whites.

He remembered that in his previous life, he saw these materials excavated on the forum and was shocked by these contents.

White people play Chinese, which is too nonsensical.

But the truth is that this is indeed the case.

The answer is simple, let the white man paint his face yellow to play the Chinese. This kind of low-level racism was nothing at the time, and even today, it is absolutely taboo to paint your face black to play a black person, but painting your face yellow is still one of the commonly used makeup techniques in Hollywood.

It can be said that this is naked discrimination against the Chinese.

Yang Ming remembered that when he saw this material at that time, he almost blew up his lungs, but at that time, local films were not angry at all, and even hollowed out their minds, squeezing desperately to make a movie that caters to Hollywood's tastes and send it over to participate in some awards.

But will the Hollywood Oscars be awarded to Chinese films?

You must know that the Oscars represent the cake of the American film market, how can the Chinese be allowed to come over to get a piece of the pie?

If you think about it, you know that this is an impossible thing, but what Yang Ming doesn't understand is that those so-called well-known directors, as long as the movies they send are not to mention winning awards, once they are nominated, they will be overjoyed, and those who don't know think that those domestic big-name directors have won the awards!

When Chinese actors are really influential in Hollywood, they should start with Bruce Lee.

Bruce Lee's appearance has indeed given Chinese people face in Hollywood and even the whole United States. He not only broke the traditional Western image of the effeminate Oriental, but also made Hong Kong-style martial arts movies and martial arts popular in the West. It can be said that to this day, the American concept of Chinese martial arts is what Bruce Lee showed.

In fact, to put it bluntly, in Yang Ming's view, Hollywood in the previous life was also a hypocritical, uncivilized, and mercenary place.

Even in the previous life, on the eve of Yang Ming's crossing, more and more Chinese elements were added to Hollywood films?

Although Yang Ming liked to watch Hollywood blockbusters in his previous life, he didn't have a very good impression of Hollywood.

Although Hollywood in this world does not discriminate against Chinese actors as in the previous life as in the previous life, it is certain that it will be excluded.

Of course, the same is true in China.

In Chinese films, most of the white people are also negatively imaged.

Whether it is Huaxia or Hollywood, it is impossible to shoot a movie with the theme of each other's skin color!

But Yang Ming found that the domestic film industry in today's world, in the confrontation with Hollywood, is gradually falling behind like in the previous life, and even has a tendency to collapse, which makes Yang Ming puzzled.

You must know that China in this world is one of the most powerful countries in the world.

Whether it is economic or military, it stands among the world's great powers, and China's culture can be said to be in a strong position by nature.

However, the entertainment industry in China has not grasped this advantage well, and the Greater China cultural circle is currently only radiating to the entire Southeast Asia, and is not like Hollywood, which has gone out of the Americas and affected the whole world.

What is the reason for this?

Yang Ming didn't know what was going on, and had been studying this issue in his office.

After all, he has now set up a branch in Hollywood, and it can be said that he has taken an important step in terms of films, and if he doesn't understand this problem and sort it out, it will have a big factor in the movies he chooses later.

The local movies of the previous life are really not powerful. India has their Bollywood, which still produces films with Indian characteristics in the second largest production in the world. Japanese and Korean films have developed rapidly, not only developing their own film industry, but also the production level has been in line with international standards, and even Korean films have been frequently remade by Hollywood in recent years.

But if you look at the Chinese film industry, which movies have become popular in recent years? "Thai Embarrassment", which has been praised and acclaimed in China, is a second-rate system that copies Hollywood genre films, and in Yang Ming's view, it is not even as good as "Little Soldier Zhang Ga"; "Little Times" is actually a slide-like movie without any level, and the total box office in North America is only 20,000 US dollars......

Chinese filmmakers seem to have long lost their cultural backbone, the ability to think and their sense of social responsibility. On the other hand, the mercenary atmosphere has swept society, and there is no room for art films. As a result of the combined effect of various factors, the international cultural image has never been able to be improved.

In fact, to put it bluntly, on the one hand, the Chinese expect Americans to look up to themselves, but on the other hand, they look down on themselves.

The deeper reason for the Chinese people's self-contempt for their own nation is their self-contempt for their own culture. This is the biggest factor that Yang Ming thinks that the Chinese film industry in his previous life could not do Hollywood.

If even you are alienated from your own culture, who do you expect to propagandize?

Chinese filmmakers seem to be obsessed with making a name for themselves and international awards through the Guò International Film Festival, which also reflects a contempt for their own culture. It is the true and pure national culture that is attractive to foreigners.

Ang Lee's success is due to the fact that his films bring an oriental perspective and the charm of traditional oriental culture, which is exactly what Hollywood needs. The success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" attracted domestic filmmakers to imitate it, and in the following years, costume dramas continued one after another.

If it is said that the self-contempt of Chinese people for their own national culture in the previous life is the most important factor in the lack of core of the local film industry, and it is also the biggest reason why the Chinese film industry was humiliated by Hollywood;

In Yang Ming's view, the excessive self-confidence and stubborn traditional concepts of today's Huaxia are the roadblocks that hinder the further development of the Chinese film industry in today's world.

That's right, a great man who never appeared in the previous life led Huaxia to sweep the whole world in World War I and World War II in this life, turning Huaxia into the most powerful country on the planet.

The self-confidence of the Chinese people has also reached its peak under the guidance of the great man.

It can be said that in this world of China, there will be no phenomenon that the foreign moon will definitely be rounder than the domestic one.

On the other hand, Chonghua is a man!

However, it is this kind of excessive self-confidence, after decades of precipitation, that makes the Chinese film industry like a pool of stagnant water, and any change will attract countless accusations, making the shape of the Chinese film industry worse and worse, so that now in the face of Hollywood blockbusters, it is powerless to fight back.

That's the problem in this world.